Teenage Troubles (Prequel for Teenage Baby)

Bonus Chapter | Crossover (Part 1)

Hellooo. Here's a crossover between Teenage Baby and my other books! So basically it's Aaron and Leo interacting with characters from other books i've written :D

Characters and from which book they are:

• Leo, Aaron; Teenage Baby
• Nathan, Adelaide; The Play
• Aurelio (Elio), Leslie, Matt; Aurelio's Dilemma

Also make sure to add this book to your library/reading list so you can get a notification when i upload part 2!

Btw have fun and dont take this too seriously bc realistically all these characters cant actually meet 😅.

Bonus Chapter | Crossover (Part 1)

Nothing blew Aaron's mind more than Leo's fluctuating maturity.

At times Leo held himself together better than Aaron ever could, explained his current love/hate relationship towards the captors in an astonishingly reasonable manner, and handled triggers and anxiety and PTSD surprisingly well (unless related to his BAD scars).

Other times, however, Leo pouted and whined and complained endlessly because Erika got to be in the front seat.

Which was the current situation. 

With his left hand on the steering wheel, Aaron kept throwing glances at Leo through the mirror, and every time, Leo returned him with a glare. Aaron sighed. All the windows in the car were down, and the air blowing into his face pissed him off, but he knew he couldn't ask anyone to close them because it would make Nathan feel suffocated.

Nathan—a fellow kidnapping victim, gone through an entirely different type of pain, an entirely different situation, equally difficult if not more. Aaron knew him from high school, although they hadn't been friends at that time. 

"Erika," Aaron said, pointing to a bag of snacks. Erika understood, grabbed Leo's favorite out of the bag, the handed it to Aaron. Blindly reaching back, Aaron swayed it until someone took it from him. "Pass it to Leo."

Adelaide did—she was another victim in Nathan's case. After a few seconds, she leaned between the front seats and said to Aaron, "He says, 'No, thank you, Aaron,' and he specifically told me to stress your name."

Aaron bit his lip to force the smile off. "Tell him that if he actually had a full name I'd be using that too."

Silence, then, "He says that he doesn't have one, so joke's on you."

Aaron gave up; it was the best option with Leo. He'd cheer up sooner or later, as always. Aaron focused ahead; he drove between two green fields strewn with trees, on a bumpy road he hoped wouldn't destroy the tires. They were headed to a park. It was summer, midday, and there was fog. Aaron frowned at it. It hadn't been there a few minutes ago.

Erika reached over and grabbed his arm, alarmed. "Aaron... this fog..."

The conclusion had already set in for Aaron. "It's not fog. It's smoke," he said as he looked for a spot to park.

"Is it coming out of our car?"

"No, Erika. It's coming out of my ears."

Erika gave him a look. "Sarcasm in deadly situations? Nothing new, Aaron. Nothing new. Will you park now?"

Aaron cursed and swerved the car. Over Nathan and Adelaide's conversation, even Leo hadn't managed to notice the situation. So when Aaron parked by the sidewalk near a line of wooden fence guarding a field several acres wide, the three of them fell silent. Then there was chatter and confusion. Erika told them about the smoke situation and everyone sprang out of the car.