Norman's pov
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Ray grabbed my hand and we walked to the living room where everyone was eating snacks. Once we entered the room Ray was knocked over with a yelp by four teenagers.
"Ray!" they all exclaimed.
Ray sat up and rubbed the back of his head.
"Hi guys." he said to the four, "I brought you guys presents. The presents are in the car though."
Jemima and Chris just hugged him. Everyone in the room smiled as we saw Jemima, Chris, Thoma, and Lannion hug Ray at the same time. I sat down on the couch next to Emma.
When the four of them got off of Ray, Ray walked over to me.
"Oh no," Ray said in a fake voice, "There's no seats left, I guess I'll have to sit on this one." and then he sat on my lap.
I blushed as Ray linked an arm around me, then Don pointed out, "There's a couch right there."
Ray just stuck his tongue out at Don and flipped him off.
"Ray." Isabella said.
Ray looked over at her and asked what, she pointed at him.
"Did you get a tattoo? And more piercings?"
"Uhh yeah." Ray replied, "Actually, I got 7 tattoos. Four of them are inspired by My Chemical Romance and one just says 'Queen' because they're also a great band. The other two, well... they aren't inspired by My Chemical Romance or Queen, but I don't think I can actually show anyone. Unless the person I'm showing is Norman."
My face flushed red when I realized what he meant about the placement of those two other tattoos. I put my hand on the hem of his shirt and pulled it up slightly revealing the Queen tattoo that was very close to the side of his stomach.
Ray smiled, "Jesus Norman, if you want to see the tattoos you'd have to lift my entire shirt up, not just that part. If you don't want me to strip, I have pictures."
He took out his phone and went around the room showing each tattoo he has to everyone. As he walked around in his ripped crop top and very tight black skinny jeans with his black heeled boots excitedly showing everyone his tattoos I realized how happy he seems, the four years he spent away from everyone definitely seemed to have a positive effect on him.
"Have you given up smoking?" Anna asked.
Ray snickered and then burst out laughing. "You thought I'd give up smoking? I may have stopped smoking as much cigarettes as I normally did but I haven't completely stopped."
Anna, Isabella, and Gilda all rolled their eyes.
Ray checked the time, "Oh, it's twelve, I've gotta do something." he looked up from his phone and at Isabella, "Mom, is my room still the same?"
Isabella nodded. Ray smiled slightly, "Thanks, I'll be up there for about an hour maybe an hour an a half, that cool?"
Isabella nodded again, Ray walked over to me and kissed my cheek. Then he ran upstairs.
Judging from the look on everyone's faces when he ran out of the room, we all thought it was a bit weird. We all silently decided to just talk about something different until Ray came back downstairs.
A little over an hour Ray came downstairs and had obviously just finished crying. He walked over to Isabella and laid down resting his head on her lap, he grabbed her arm and wrapped it around himself. Leslie put his hand on Ray's head and started playing with Ray's hair.
While we talked Ray rocked himself in Isabella's lap and no longer seemed very happy, so I stood up and walked over to him, crouching down in front of him.
"You okay?" I asked him.
He slowly opened his eyes and looked up at me, tears already forming in his eyes, "No." he said while tears flowed from his eyes.
He sat up taking in a deep shaky breath as he did, "Sorry, I was on call with my therapist. I'm not feeling too well, I'm... I'm gonna go to my apartment."
"Apartment?" Don asked, sounding like he was mad, understandably too.
Ray nodded before his face was taken over by realization of what he just said, he let out a small nervous chuckle before running towards the door. We all followed after him.
He got to a car and opened the back doors, he grabbed a couple of boxes and gave them to Jemima, Christie, Thoma, and Lannion.
"I hope you guys like them." he said obviously trying to hold back tears.
He turned to get in his car but I grabbed his hand, "It's not safe to drive while crying." I said, "I wouldn't want you to take any risks." I grabbed his keys and then threw mine at Emma.
Ray reluctantly got into the passenger seat and put his address in the GPS. He didn't say anything on the way there, in fact he seemed a little mad, but I didn't push it. I knew I was lucky he didn't grab me by the shoulder and throw me out of his car, because he could've, which means he either wants to talk in private or yell at me.
Once we got there Ray huffed and took his keys from me, I followed him to his apartment, and stopped behind him when he stopped in front of a door and started to unlock it. When we went in there everything looked almost exactly like his room at Isabella's house looked.
He turned to me once we were inside, I braced myself to be yelled at, but instead he leaned his head against me.
"Thank you." he whispered, "I'm gonna go take a nap, you can join me or you can watch TV, I don't care. I sleep naked now by the way."
I perked up at that last sentence and followed him to his room. While in there I was able to see every tattoo he had, including the two he couldn't show anyone else.
As we slept I kept my arm wrapped around him tightly, afraid that if I were to let go or loosen my grip just a little, he'd be gone again.
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I wrote this instead of an essay but don't worry I'm writing the essay right after this.
Anyways, last night before I went to sleep my TV wasn't working so I couldn't watch the Bob Ross channel while I slept like I normally did so I went to youtube. While looking for a nice rug cleaning video I found a video with a girl who had her chest completely exposed on camera. I saw every part of her chest.
Let me make it more clear, I saw a random girls boobs and nipples completely exposed on a youtube thumbnail.
So after that I got off of youtube and cried. When I told my mom and sister about this they said "But you're gay, your supposed to like stuff like that."
Anyways, enough about my life, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.
