Friends with "that Niccals kid" | Gorillaz High school AU

Walk me home

"I've been around the block,
and I see you cry a lot
can I walk you home?"
-Sir Chloe, Walk you home

We keep drinking, Murdoc can make me laugh a lot better while drunk, but I can't tell if it's because he's funnier or I'm just drunk. Either way, we keep laughing and talking, before the inevitable extreme nausea catches up to me.

"Murdoc, I don't think I'm too well"

"Have you eaten anything today?" he asks

I shake my head as I hold it up with an arm and look downwards.

"Beatrice! We'd like a bowl of whatever edible you've got!" he immediately yells

"Murdoc, I'm fine, it's not that" I rub my eyes

"It is, trust me" he pats my back as Beatrice places a bowl of crisps onto the bar

I feel him grab me by the back of the head and turn me towards him.

"Say ah" he says, holding a crisp

I open my mouth and he feeds me, it's weird, but we're wasted, come on! After that I just smack his hand away and eat by myself, eventually getting better.

After a couple more hours I look at the time, it was 3:00 AM and I was beginning to get pretty tired, not to mention wasted.

"Murdoc, I think we should be heading home, it's way too late, mum's gonna worry!" I voice my concern

"Eh, don' worry, the night can go on for a while, cannit?" he says, his speech slurred

"But it's late and I'm tired" I whine

"Well then, go home by yourself, you know the way, right? You know, how you know everything?" he responds, cocky

"I-I can't!"

"Why not! If you want to leave then leave!"

"I'm scared! I mean- What if there's creeps out there!? I get robbed!? Or mistaken for a young bird and harassed!?" I yell

That last reasoning made his face go serious, he just grabs my wrist and pulls me out of the bar.

"Thank you for the wonderful time, Beatrice! Tell father he's still a douchebag" he yells as we leave.

As we head home, it gets quiet, he lights a cigarette as I do the same. I feel awkward and don't know how to lighten the situation, so I just lean my head onto his shoulder and bump into him.

"Thank you... for tonight, for taking care of me, for everything..."

"Eh, it's fine, kid, I'm just glad I have someone next to me this time."

"...Do you, uhm, want to talk?"

"About what? Someone at school botherin' ya?"

"Not exactly... I meant your, y'know, home life, how you are, things like that"

"Oh, first you're eavesdropping and now you're trying to figure out the Niccals family secrets, is that it?"

"No, no, I swear! I'm just... erm, concerned, is all"

"Well, you and the whole world"

It gets quiet again, before Murdoc speaks again

"Y'know you still haven't paid for what I told you you'd pay for"

"Oh, the "eavesdropping"?" I do air quotes with my hands

"Yeah, exactly"

"Oh, and how am I meant to pay for something I didn't intentionally do?"

He just puts his cigarette out, stops, looks at me, and, without as much as a warning, grabs my face, pulls me in for a kiss. I also drop my cigarette, step on it, and feel a hand grab my head of hair, another caress my waist. I wrap my hands around his neck as he pushes me up against the fence of the house we are next to, kissing me passionately yet roughly.

He quickly pulls away after a minute or so, time really slowed down, so I don't know how long it actually was. He just looks at me, catching his breath as I do the same.

"...So is my debt clear?" I ask, snickering

"Hmm, maybe"

We keep walking home, I can't shake the thought of his slick, devilishly long tongue in my mouth, it was weird, but internally, I kinda liked it. We arrive home, but mum is still awake, cue my panic mode.

"Chill, she won't catch us if we act sober" he reassures

"How are we meant to do that?"

"We just will" he says

"What if we don't will?" I say as he laughs at my funny wording

"Then we will, uh, we just will"

"I think that Pine Water took a multitude of my IQ points with it..."

"Just act sober, you sexy idiot"

I blush, but brush the remark off. We head inside, mum is relieved, yet upset.

"Murdoc! I told you to have him back by 12! Even that was a stretch for me to allow! What were you two doing?!"

"Well, Mrs. Tusspot, Stuey and I just went down to the local playground, talked about school and stuff, we ended up talking and laughing so much we didn't notice the time! I am very, sincerely sorry, and I'll try my best to not let it happen again, as the older, more responsible one"

"Awwh, sweetie, it's okay, I'm just glad you two have a good influence on each other!"

I snicker a bit but try to suppress it. We go up to my room, Murdoc insists he sees Ace, who is in my old crib in mum's room, and as we enter my room, we see there only being one bed.

"Well, shit, floor or bed?" he turns to me

"I'm not sleeping on the floor!"

"Well me neither! My back could never handle that shit!" he argues back

"Well, desperate times call for desperate measures" I say, nonchalantly

I hop into bed, grabbing my pajamas from the end of my bed, changing into them as Murdoc turns away, occasionally peeking.

"You can take my clothes for the night" I say, taking out some clothes.

He also changes into pajamas, and all my clothes end up loose on him, I laugh at him a bit and he gets into bed next to me.

"See? This isn't the end of the world!"

"Shut up, face ache" he says, wrapping his arm around my waist, I don't question it and put my arm around his shoulders, hugging him tightly to myself.

"Goodnight" I whisper

"Sweet dreams, bluenette" he whispers back "love you"