Gregvan {Elementary School AU}

Chapter 11 {Everyone Has A Backstory}

{Image Credit: @Tealvz} 💗💗

It was a nice cloudy Saturday afternoon. The rain poured ever so slightly, falling on the boys out in the backyard. Evan was picking flowers and Gregory held a bucket to put them in. They were making 'potions' together. "Ok! So now that we have all our flowers that we're gonna mash up into the mixture.. we're gonna need a pestle!" Gregory exclaimed as he put the bucket down. Evan tilted his head "what's.. a pestle?" Gregory's eyes went half lidded, unamused. "You don't know what a pestle is..." Evan nodded. The blue shirted boy that currently had a bright orange rain coat on sighed. "A pestle is like a really long rock, and you use it to crush stuff up and make like spices and paint." CC seemed to be following along.

The two boys ventured from the yard and started looking around for a pestle-like rock Gregory could use to crush the flowers. They searched around in rock beds and gardens. That is until Gregory got a message on his watch. "Oh-" he turned his wrist over, it was from a panicked Freddy.
{Gregory?? Where are you?}
"Oh, uh oh- heh we left the yard and didn't tell him.." Evan pouted, starting to get anxious. "Oh no! Are we gonna get in trouble!!" Gregory shook his head as he messaged back. "Nahh he just has to know where we are, then it's ok!"
{We are taking a walk around the neighborhood}
{ah ok, stay safe. And don't cross any streets without holding hands and looking both ways!}
{yeah yeah we know}
{just making sure! 💙🧡}

Evan looked at his friend as he crouched down looking at the different rocks.
"Your dad is very nice.. and calm.." Gregory smiled "yeah he is! I'm glad he decided to take me in" CC tilted his head. "Gregory?" "Mhm.." "what happened to your parents that gave birth to you?" Gregory stopped in his tracks. No one had ever asked that.. he never had to think about it. He took a moment before turned around and looking at the gray coated boy. "Mh.. well.. when I was like, 6. They took me to the mall and.. I got lost" Evan shuddered a little, he hated being alone and couldn't imagine how Gregory felt. Especially since the normally energetic boy had a face of betrayal in his face instead. "I looked for my parents left and right.. I couldn't find them. They were gone.." Gregory frowned. So did CC. "I don't even really remember what they looked like.. but anyway. Eventually the police came and took me away from there and tried to find my parents.." he smiled a little. "And they did! But uhm.. they said they didn't want me anymore.. and that's why they left me there.. I was a mistake.. I found out by listening on the other side of the door.. I guess I wasn't supposed to hear.."
Evan shook his head aggressively. "No! You're not a mistake! You're my best friend!" He slammed his body against Gregory's in an angry hug. Gregory dropped the rock he was holding. "Heh- thanks CC.. you're my best friend too" Evan nodded and smiled at his friend, pulling away and fluffing up his hair. "But how did Freddy get you?" Gregory thought for a moment. "Well, the police put me in the adoption center so a different family could adopt me.. but everyone wanted babies and little kids.. not me. And as I got older, less and less people wanted to take me. So no one wanted me.." Evan almost cried, he was very sensitive and was terribly upset that these things happened to someone he loved so dearly. "But after like.. I don't know.. 3 years? Someone came in and talked to me, it was Freddy! He said he was going to foster me and I didn't know what that meant so I just went with it.. but it turned out to be really super awesome!!"
CC bounced happily and clapped. "He had a room for me and everything!" Gregory smiled happily. "But.. for some reason a random lady at the adoption center said it was only for a little.. it's been a year so far.. and I don't wanna leave.." Evan frowned.. but then remembered something he had heard Freddy say when he was taking care of Gregory when he was sick..

"Im looking after him until someone decides to adopt him. though, it'll probably be me"

Evan smiled. He rubbed Gregory's shoulder. "Don't say that! You'll get to hang out with him for a while!!" Gregory smiled a little. "I sure hope so.." CC didn't want to ruin Freddy's surprise so he kept his mouth shut.

"Here!!" Gregory raised a rock above his head. It was long and round on both sides. Evan clapped "yay! You found one!" Gregory smiled happily and grabbed CC's hand. "Come on let's go back to the yard!" The two ran hand in hand through the rain. The wind wasn't very strong but it sure felt strong with how fast they were going . Evan had asthma so he wasn't doing well keeping up at all. Eventually his hand broke from Gregory's "Ack- CC!"
"I'm...- sorry-.." Evan breathed heavily, his legs felt heavy and his chest and throat hurt a lot. He fell to his knees clutching his little chest. Gregory knelt down to his level.
"Sorry I made you run.. I guess I forgot.." CC couldn't really talk so he just nodded a little. Gregory perked up. "I'll be back!" Gregory started to use his athletic legs to run back into the house and grab Evans little pink bag he brought with him everywhere, maybe there was something in there that would help. He ran back out and to his friend on the ground. "Here!" He handed Evan the bag. CC took it and immediately unzipped it, taking out his inhaler. He put it to his lips and took in a breath. Gregory kinda just sat there worriedly. CC had a lot of problems Gregory was unfamiliar with..

After a couple minutes, Gregory opened his mouth. "Can you uhm.. breathe now?" Evan nodded. "Mhm! I'm ok! I just can't run ok?" Gregory nodded, hopefully understanding this time. He took his shorter friends hand and started to walk normally back to the yard where they had all the 'ingredients.'

Gregory grabbed the bucket full of flowers and started to crush them up. "CC go get the cup that's been filling up!" Evan nodded jogging over to the little plastic cup they had placed under a drippy corner of the roof. It had collected a lot of water since they had left. CC carefully walked over with it and set it down. "Ok! What now!" Gregory took the water and poured a little into the bucket of mush, stirring it with a stick as Evan watched. "It's almost done.. just need the garnish leaves!" Evan ran back over and picked a few leaves off of a bush. The boy in the gray raincoat sprinkled the leaves onto the potion. "Perfect!" Gregory smiled. "Hell yeah!! We made a potion! Now what kind of potion is it?" He looked at Evan. The chubbier boy smiled mischievously. "It's a love potion!" Gregory blushed. "What! Why?!" Evan hugged his friend, surprising him. "Cause we made it with love!" The blue shirted boy did something he never usually did. He hugged back. "Good point, and because.. it's pink.. I guess.."