ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏʙʟᴇᴍꜱ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʙᴇɪɴɢ ᴀ ʜᴏᴘᴘᴇʀ

ᴇᴘɪꜱᴏᴅᴇ 3

‼️heavily hinted brance‼️
(3rd person pov)

Vance hops on his bike with Bruce hopping on the back of it, wrapping his arms around Vance's stomach. Bruce never noticed how muscular Vance was until he finally touches him. He always knew he was muscular just looking at him but man, this beats the cake. Vance starts peddling his bike at a normal yet faster speed. "I never knew how muscular you were Vance." Bruce says. Vance likes getting called muscular. Maybe it's because he feels more like a man whenever someone says this. Either way, it makes Vance more comfortable. "Of course I am." Vance says smirking." Bruce rests his head on Vance back as he notices how Vance's hair is silky. He never noticed how Vance can one second be mean to everyone else and then sweet to only him. Something about that made Bruce warm up inside. He feels more safe with Vance. Nobody can hurt him as long as Vance was here. "You awake Bruce?" Vance says slowing down. "Yeah i'm awake." Bruce was lying. He was starting to get sleepy. He's gotten into a comfortable where he doesn't want to move from. He never wants to move from this position. "Well we're here. If my mom and stepdad is singing and dancing, you speed right past them into my room." Vance says. Bruce stretches his arm and Vance notices how muscular his arm looks. Its obviously from play baseball all the time. Thank god for that. Vance thinks to himself. "Alright" Bruce hops off the bike following Vance into the house. There was music blasting and you could see Vance's mom and stepdad dancing in there. "They've been doing this ever since I left." Vance facepalms. "I think it's sweet." Bruce says looking in Awe. "Of course you do. Let's go." Vance says taking Bruce by the arm.

(Bruce pov)

Vance pulls me inside of his room and as soon as I stepped in, I was in awestruck. It looked like an aracde roomish. It had video games, some tokens on the floor, his walls were dark blue, which matches with the arcade aesthetic. And his bed was pacman themed. It was so cute. It was like seeing a little child's dream room. "Listen. I didn't want my room design like this but it's something I guess." Vance says crossing his arms. I can tell he was embarrassed because he looked away from me. I spot some action figures and I run up to it. "These are so cool!" I say looking around his room even more. "It's not that cool Bruce." Vance says sitting on the bed. "Are you kidding? This room looks like a mixture of Robin's and Finney's dream room. They would've been jealous if they seen this." I say still looking around the room. As I look around the room, I notice a small brown, training bra? Its probably his mothers and got in here by mistake, I think to myself. "Can we lay down and watch tiktok's? I'm bored." Vance says plopping down on the bed.  How can you be bored when you have this many games in your room? "Sure!" I say plopping down next to Vance. At this rate, me and Vance was close by eachother, basically cuddling with eachother while watching tiktok's. A knock comes from Vance door and I sit up fast. Usually in my house, I can't go to sleep or lay down until dinner is over. The only thing I could do is homework and study. I think Vance notices me sitting up fast and looks at me confused. Vance mom then peaks in the door, "Oh my god welcome Bruce! We're ordering some chinese food if you want some." She says walking up giving me a hug. "Sure! I am kinda hungry." Vance mom then lets go of me and looks at Vance. "Are you ready for your birthday sweetie?" She says spinning around. "I guess." He says plopping back down. "Well Ill come back to check up on you guys when the food arrived." She says backing her way outside again. I plop down next to Vance. "What do you mean you guess? You'll be turning 14!" Vance sighs. "It's just tomorrow is going to be a huge day." Vance says making sure to say huff louder. I tilt my head in confusion. "It's nothing." I shrug my shoulders putting my head on Vance's shoulder. Sometimes I lean on Vance on mistake. Its like a habit. I just need to lay on some part of Vance. He has soft skin, like a baby's bottom.! I glance over to Vance to see him starting to fall asleep. I know the only reason he's staying awake is because of me. "We can go to sleep if you want." I say taking the phone out of his hand. "No." He says placing his head on the pillow facing my way. "Im not tired." He mumbles. I can tell he was getting tired so I decided to shut off the lamp next to us. "We gotta stay awake for the food Bruce." Vance says shutting back on the lamp. "I'm sure your mom will understand." I shut back off the light. Vance sighs. "We aren't doing this Rue." He turns back on the light. My cheeks heats up. "Rue?" Vance mouth opens but nothing comes out of it. He then turns the other way looking away from me. "I think it's cute Vance." I say in a jokingly Vance. "I don't care what you think prettyboy." Vance turns off the lamp. "Wow. So it's okay when you turn off the lamp but not me?" I roll my eyes. I noticed Vance got quiet so he probably went to sleep.

(Vance pov)

I don't know why but I couldn't say anything to Bruce. Any word I tried to say just couldn't escape from my mouth. There was many things I wanted to say at that moment but just couldn't. "Fuck." I say under my breath putting in face into the pillow. "Vance?" Bruce says tapping my shoulder. "I'm awake Bruce." I face his way. I'm glad he can't see me staring at him in the dark. I know I can't see him either but me knowing he's right infront of me makes me feel okay. "Why don't you just call me Rue instead of Bruce." Bruce says. "I call you Rue only when I feel like it." I shrug. "Do you feel like it now?" Bruce asks. Bruce then moves a little bit closer to me at the point that I could see his face. I can't help to notice to look at his lips and eyes. Its just a small stupid crush. He isn't gay so there's no way we could ever be a thing. He isn't a freak like you Vance pull it together. I bit my lip, "I dunno." It was silent for a while until Bruce sighs, moving closer to me putting his head underneath my chin. I don't know if he's toying with me at this point. I want to tell him how I feel but there's a chance he's just being friendly. He's probably like this with all of his friends. Especially that girl in science class. She just can't take her eyes off of him and it pisses me off. She needs to find her another- wait. Why am I getting jealous about a girl when me and Bruce isn't even together. Stupid Hopper. I sigh closing my eyes. I'll eat tomorrow. Plus, it's my birthday tomorrow so there's going to be a lot of food.