my "friend"

3

Marco was still asleep in my bed,  I could only sigh sadly. It seems I haven't managed to bring him out of this dark and depressive mindset yet. I gently shook him awake. he was still sleeping. I carried him downstairs and laid him on my couch.

I grabbed a blanket and covered him with it.
Then I went upstairs to my room and changed into some comfortable clothes, I took a shower and changed. I came back downstairs after taking a nap, and Marco was gone.

I knew where to find him though. I went outside and looked for him.
In front of the garden gate was Marco, looking lost and broken. I went and stood by him and waited patiently.

Then I realised something, I'm someone who has zero patience, but something about Marco changed that.  Something about seeing him look like this made me feel sorry. I took his hand in mine. Unfortunately it was still ice cold,  he still wasn't out of that trance. I led him inside the house, he followed without hesitation, which surprised me.

Once I closed the door I said, "let's go upstairs. I'll give you a nice warm bath and then I'll dress you up in some clean clothes."
He shook his head, I asked,  "why not?"
I helped him up the stairs to my bedroom. As soon as we entered, he collapsed on my bed.

I sat down on the bed next to him,  and he grabbed my hand again. I asked softly, "are you sure everything is alright?"
He nodded his head.
He asked softly, "can we sleep together tonight?"
I blushed a little bit and I said, "of course!"
So, Marco and I slept next to each other in my bed.

he curled up into ball and  I held his hand. When I thought I was going to fall asleep, he spoke up.
he whispered, "i like when you hold my hand."
I giggled,  "okay then."
We fell asleep.

when I woke up and again Marco wasn't in bed, but I got up and got ready for school, I wore a black shirt, jeans and Timberland Boots.

I went downstairs to grab my stuff and I already made my way to school.

While walking I saw Marco running up to me, he was wearing short purple overalld with a cresent moon on it and he had a long sleeve pink shirt. he also was wearing black thigh high socks with pink sneakers with purple stars on them.

he immediately wrapped his arms around my arm and nuzzled his face into my arm. I pet his hair and we both walked to school.
The moment we reached school I let go of his hand, he looked like a kicked puppy, but he didn't say anything to me, we walked to my locker.

while Marco and I were at my locker then Mr Smith came walking towards us. Marco hid behind me and started crying.

Mr Smith said in a casual tone, "hey Jean, I changed your partner from Eren to Connie."

I held Marco's hand and said, "thanks sir."

and I pretty much dragged Marco to the toilets.  We locked the stall door.
Marco leaned against my chest and started crying.
I hugged him tightly and rubbed his back. I stroked his hair and whispered sweet words to him, until he calmed down slightly.

I gently pet his face with my hand until my thumb brushed his lips, he immediately started suckle on my thumb, like it was a pacifier.

He sucked on the thumb gently and he sighed in contentment. I thought it was strange that he was sucking my thumb, but at least he started to calm down.

His breathing returned to normal. I took my hand away and asked, "are you alright now?"
"I guess so..."
Marco was quiet again. But that was ok, if we're together then I'll be happy as long as I can be near Marco.

I asked, "do you want to go to the bakery?"

he nodded, we both walked out of the toilets and to the school's bakery. I got Marco a chocolate strawberry martini, Macadamia and strawberry rice pudding, and white chocolate and strawberry mess.

We both walked to a vending machine and I got Marco a strawberry milk. he was completely calm, he cuddled into me.

-time skip-

It was after school and I was taking Marco shopping to the nearest dollar store. while I was looking at some stuff, I went to turn to see Marco, but he wasn't there.

I instantly started to run all over the store looking for him, luckily I found him in the plush section, he was holding a strawberry roll cake pusheen squisheen plush, strawberry milk plush, and a strawberry cow plush.

He looked at me with puppy dog eyes, I smiled and asked, "what you got there?"

He kept looking at me with those puppy eyes. I asked, "do you want me to buy them for you?"

He buried his face into the plushies. I decided buy him the plushies and took him home.

Once we got home, Marco immediately went to my room and layed on my bed. I walked to the bed and sat on it, I noticed something in his pocket. it was pastel pink but it had a bit of a bling, and I saw my melody on it. it also had the words 'needy baby's on it.

I asked softly, "what's that?"
Marco didn't reply, but instead he buried his face deeper into my pillow but it ended up falling out of his pocket... it was a pacifier.