What a melody ||Vance x Bruce||

The room was fit for two (chapter 3)

"Vance?" Vance sat up from the sound of his name, I followed trying to catch my breath, we were both breathing very heavily. "Oh shit, hey mom...you're home early" she gave him a puzzled look before her eyes met mine, her face soften, "didn't know you had a friend over, why didn't you tell me over the phone?" Vance got off the couch, he cleared his throat "I didn't think it was important, I thought he would gone when you got home" she laughed.

"Wow so you never planned on introducing us, how mean" she smiled putting her bag on the kitchen table, she walked over to vance giving him a hug and kiss, vance tried to push her away. I stood up smiling, "mamma's boy" I whispered, vance glared at me.

"Well since my son decided he wanted to be a dick, I'll introduce myself, Hi honey I'm Danielle" I smiled at her as I shook her hand, vance just stood there acting all grumpy, "nice to meet you, I'm Bruce" her face lit up, she turned around looking at vance, who looked at her wide eyed.

"Ohh you must be Bruce Yamada am I right?" I nodded a bit confused, her smile got even bigger and she hugged me, "oh it's so good to finally meet you!" She finally let me go, I could see vance was visibly uncomfortable, "I have heard so many good things about you from V-"
She looked at vance who looked ill.

"V-from work, yea work i um work with your father he's a nice man" she smiled at me, hugging vance one last time before going into the kitchen, I walked up to vance putting my hand on his forehead, he didn't have a fever but his face was really pale, "so guys what's all this?" Daniella said going threw the shopping bags.

"Oh those, me and Vance are partners for the December project this year" I say walking over to the kitchen table, she looked at me confused "the December project? Vance you never do projects" he walked over to use putting his hands in his pockets, "yeah well this year I am, I don't wanna get held back again and you have to go full Karen mode in the school to let me go into the next year" so that's how her passed last year? I thought it was just dumb luck.

"Hey maybe bruce here can help you do your homework, or at least motivate you to do it, Vance is very smart he's just lazy" Vance groans, I smiled at him "well I already got him to clean his room so I'm sure homework won't be to hard" I say to her, she turned around mouth open in shock.

"His room?!" She basically screamed it, was it that shocking he cleaned his room, she ran back over to me giving me a big hug, "please bruce please never leave" I heard Vance groan 'mom' i laughed a bit patting her on her back.

Vance insisted we do the project in his room so we started to grab the bags, "so what is y'all's topic for the project" Daniella asked putting on a apron, "oh music, random huh?" She laughed, "yes indeed, that is very random, any requirements?" It was weird that she knew so much about the project, like the requirements area of the project "just a poster board and instrument" she nodded

"You play any instruments bruce?" I nodded, grabbing my backpack "yea I play the acoustic guitar and ukulele" she smiled even more "ohh Vance plays the electronic guitar, he also used to play the flute when he was in band one year" I laughed, that actually explained a lot.

She yelled for Vance and he came in angry, basically stomping into the kitchen, "what the fuck you don't have to scream lady!" She gave him that mom look for a second before softening her expression, "Bruce here was telling me all the instrument he plays, and I told him about you-" Vance interrupted her "mom no you didn't" she scoffed at him, "yes I did, what's wrong with playing the flute sweetheart?"

Vance groaned into his hands, I laughed at the interaction, I walked over to Vance rubbing my hand on his bare shoulder, he was quiet warm to the touch "it's ok Vance it actually explains a lot about you" I smiled before walking away into his room to put the stuff up, I guess he was cleaning up some more because it looked a lot nicer, it obviously need to be vacuumed and dusted but other then that it looked like a room.

In the corner was in fact a electric guitar and a big speaker, he had a book shelf that needed organizing, there was just random stuff shoved into it, plus a box of cigarettes. I really do wonder if he taste bad, I mean from what I have heard from my parents is that people who smoke taste awful, I wonder how long he's been smoking or maybe it's just a thing that happens to adults who smoke? God I'm thinking about how he taste what is wrong with me.

I jumped to the sound of the door being slammed, I turned around to see Vance his back holding the door shut, "you okay?" I asked walking over to him, he waved his hand in the air "yeah I'm fine is just, god she's embarrassing" he went and flipped down on his bed, I smiled "does your mom know you smoke" I ask throwing them pack of cigarettes at him.

It hit his head, He screamed sitting up looking over at me, I burst out laughing, it got so bad to the point I had to sit down on the floor, "ok it's not that funny" Vance leaned over the bed to look at me, I was holding my stomach still laughing "yes it is, yo-you should have seen your face" I couldn't breath at this point, I kept having to take big breaths here and there.

We heard a knock on the door, Daniella peaked her head inside "you boys ok?" She asked mainly looking at me on the floor "yeah we're fine, this shithead threw something at my head" I got up looking at vance smiling "it was an accident I'm sorry" he rolled his eyes getting off the bed "well bruce will you be staying for dinner?" Oh crap, I need to get home before my family started dinner.

"Oh no Im sorry I don't think I will, I actually think I need to go" she looked bummed but nodded closing the door, vance stood there watching me get all my stuff on, once I was ready he walked me out to the front door "do you want me to walk you home?" I shook my head. "No it's fine, it's still light out I'll be fine" vance didn't seem to happy with my response but nodded.

"I'll come back tomorrow to actually work on the project" he laughed folding his arms, "yeah ok, we'll goodnight bruce" I waved him goodbye "night vance" and with that I left.

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I finally made it to my house, I stepped I side taking my shoes off and putting my bag against the wall, I looked around to see the living room was empty, I walked over to the kitchen to see my parents and sister sitting at the dinner table, once my mother finally noticed me her face became sour "Bruce, take a seat" I started to sweat, I slowly walked over to my seat standing there for a bit before actually sitting down.

I looked over at my dad who was avoiding my eye contact, my sister was just staring at her plate. "So I went to the general store today" I looked at her confused, she looked up at me absolutely no emotion in her eyes, "you wanna tell me why the cashier saw you with Vance hopper, what's even worse she told me you were wearing his vest" my eyes widened, that's why the cashier looked at me weirdly.

She knew my mother and anyone who knows my mother knows how much she loves to brag about me, "mom- it's not" she slammed her hand on the table "it's not what Bruce? You're hanging out with a criminal, someone who can hurt you" I looked away from her gaze, he wasn't what she thought, he wasn't some monster who hurt anyone who looked at him.

"Mom it's...he's not like that I swear" she groaned, "were you actually at Caleb's house, or were you at.....his?" I didn't want to tell her the truth, if she knew she would ground me, I would be taken out of baseball, I would on full hour watch by her. "I was at Caleb's....I swear it was just, me and vance have a class together so we decided to walk home together.... But I went straight to Caleb's I swear" I was sweating, I felt like throwing up.

"I don't want to see you with him again, am I understood?" I nodded slowly, I decided I wasn't hungry anymore and stood up, I walked up to my room shutting the door quietly. I didn't want her to tell me who I could and couldn't hang out with, it was my choice to do that, to make my own friends. At that moment I decided I wanted to rebel against my mother, she's always controlled my life so now it's my turn to do what I want, starting tomorrow I'm going to start doing whatever I want.

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I'm going to cry they keep getting shorter and shorter, I swear there gonna be a bit longer 😭

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