BRANCE + RINNEY

Rinney - 'Bestfriends'

"I'm just the best friend in Hollywood movies
Who only exist to continue the story
The girl gets the guy while I'm standing off-screen
So I'll wait for my cue to be comedic relief"
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"He'll never like me. Not as long as he likes her."

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Finn had been out sick from school for a week. Except, he wasn't sick. Not the sick you're thinking anyways.

Finn was sick of Robin and his girlfriend.

He had been crying, violently sobbing more like, for the past week. He's isolated himself in his room, only coming out during the late hours of the night. Gwen was worried about him. So was Bruce and Vance.

They decided to try and get the boy to talk.

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Finn was sitting at his desk. A small change from laying down on his messy bed. He was writing in his journal, his head low enough to touch his mechanical pencil.

'I don't know why it's so hard. Getting over Robin I mean. I shouldn't have ever started to like him. I should've known he was straight. I should be happy for him. He has a great, loving girlfriend and here I am, his best friend, upset because he's not with me.'

Finn's eyes grew warm, tears pricking the corners of them, itching to fall down his porcelain skin. He sighed and lowered his head fully on to his desk. His hand released it's grip on the mechanical pencil, instead balling in to a fist and slamming down harshly on the wooden desk underneath it.

Finn wanted to scream. He wanted to scream his heart out. He wanted Robin to know just how much he had hurt him.

But Finn knew that wouldn't be fair. Projecting his problems on to his happy best friend just to make him unhappy.

So instead, Finn cried. He cried until his nose was stuffed and his chest heaved and throbbed, fighting internally against him.

He fell asleep, hugging himself tightly as if that would comfort his hurting heart.
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When Gwen had heard no sound from her brother's room, she picked up the phone and dialed in a number she knew by heart.

Vance Hopper's.

It rang only once before a voice came through from the other side.

"I'm already on my way Gwendolyn."
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Vance arrived with Bruce. Gwen smiled at the two before remembering why she had called. With a newly plastered frown, she led the two boys to her brother's room.
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Finn had just woken up, startled from hearing voices in the same room as him. Voices that hadn't been there when he had fallen asleep.

"Yeah, he's been crying practically every day this week. I don't know how to help him. Not like he'd let me anyways. He's been isolating himself"

Finn blinked, his eyes still slightly watery from crying himself to sleep. He turned his head slightly, unnoticeable from the others in the room.