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Henry // Torn Part 2

(I know it's only 4 paragraphs long but it's 1194 words so bare with me)

It was early morning and Jojo sat beside Henry on his bed, Jojo laying his head on his friends shoulder as they just talked about life and deep stuff.
"Have you ever felt lost?" Henry asked,
Jojo looked at him,"Lost?"
"Yeah, like, you don't know what you want in life but you know something is missing."
"And sometimes you don't even want the thing that's missing..." Jojo mumbled,
"What do you mean?"
"I think what you're missing is Cybill, but you don't want to forgive her, whatever she did."

Henry sighed, "Her grandma never liked me, she's strict on who Cybill can date and wanted her to date someone who is in school, even though Cybill secretly dropped out when she was 12... anyways, Cybill studies in the library to keep up her educatio, and there she met a guy who's parents aren't too fond of his relationship so they decided to fake date... however some newsies found out about their relationship and thought we broke up, when I confronted her about it she said she didn't think she needed my permission because it wasn't a real relationship. Days later Romeo comes to me saying that he saw them kissing..."
"Aw, Henry, I'm so sorry, that was harsh. So was she cheating?"
"I don't think so, I think she was trying to make the relationship seem real to save her ass but she refused to tell me..."
"Have you been through a break up before?"
Henry nodded, "Yeh."
"Was the other one also painful?" Jojo asked.
Henry shrugged, "Not sure, I was like 13-14, and I think neither of understood what love was and just enjoyed to be around eachother. But we are very different people, which was great for him but it was overwhelming for me, especially so young."
"Who was it?" Jojo knew Henry was dating someone at 13, he knew cause that's actually how Jojo realised Henry was the first person he's met that's into the same gender.
Henry laughed, "No-one, it doesn't matter."
Jojo could tell the answer was interesting but he kept his curiosity to himself.
"You and Mike broke up one, right?" Henry changed the subject.
Jojo nodded, "Yeh...that felt like a knife through my heart..."
"Stop being dramatic, your back together." Henry joked. Jojo laughed and pinched his arm jokingly, "It still really hurt, ok?"
"Ow!-" Henry pinched him back and they went back and forth, play fighting. After a couple seconds and a bunch of bruises later, Jojo notices the time, "We should probably go to the world for the strike now."
Henry shook his head, "You go, I'm staying in today."
"Ok, you want me to stay with you?"
Henry shook his head.
Jojo smiled and hugged him before going to Mike.

Henry stayed laying in bed, alittle too depressed to get up, everyone else left, and he's usually a great support for the strike but he wasn't feeling it that day. A bit later, he got up to get a glass of water when he saw he wasn't the only one there, Sniper was sitting on his top bunk writing in his journal as usual. "Hi?"
Sniper looked up from his book, "Oh hey, sorry, I thought I was alone."
Henry shook his head, "No... you still writing in that journal?"
Sniper chuckled and nodded, "Yeah, I'm almost done with this mornings entry."
"What do you write in it?"
Sniper shrugged, "Abit of everything really, about my day, thoughts and feelings, about other people-"
"Is there anything about me?" Henry asked curious. Sniper laughed, "Yeah?"
Henry smiled, "Can I read what it says?"
"Uh- no, but you can read the rest if you want."
Henry nodded and Sniper signalled him to come up and join him on the bed. Henry climbed up and sat down beside him as Sniper showed him a page of his journal.
Sniper explained his methods of writing things down and Henry honestly found it all genius, he was a very talented writer.
"You should write a novel or something, the detail and your writing method is incredible."
Henry said, reading the page.
Sniper blushed and smiled, "Well, that's the plan, I've always wanted to get my writing publish and become a novelist."

Henry was impressed. They kept on talking and Henry noticed that they were very similar, they liked the same things, they had similar personalities, and Jojo was right, they are both abit nerdy. "You haven't had coffee at all today?" Henry laughed.
Sniper shook his head, "No, and I'm feeling the side effects, I'm exhausted."
"You want to go to Jacobis so I can make you a cup-"
"No!-" Sniper said instantly, alittle irrational. Henry was shocked but kind of understood why, "You really don't want to go back huh?"
Sniper sighed, "I think I'm staying at the lodging house... permanently..."
Henry realised, "You ran away?"
Sniper looked down and nodded, Henry was distraught and happy for him at the same time as he gave him a big hug, "Well, it's good to have you."
Sniper smiled and embraced him back, melting into the comfort, he couldnt help but feel some sort of safety in Henry's arms, he isn't really good at trusting people, and he isn't that fond on making friends either, most newsies stay out of his way because of it and thats the way he likes it. He likes being alone with his journal. But Henry is different. Like, Sniper enjoyed his company more than anyone else's. They pull away and look at eachother for a while, before they both move into a small but pleasant kiss. When they pull away, Henry immediately regrets it, it was inappropriate and too soon for him, "No- sorry..." He said simply. Sniper looked at him confused, "What do you mean?"
"I'm not really in the mood to get into-"
"-a relationship?" Sniper assumed.
Henry sighed and shrugged, "I don't know..."
"It's hard to get into a relationship soon after a break up," Sniper mumbled, revealing he knows about Henry's break up, he takes Henry's hand, "But it's really easy to have fun when you're single."
Henry looked at Sniper, before they both lean in and kiss again, laying down. They start of with small, simple kisses before holding eachother close and making out. Henry held Snipers face, all thoughts about Billie and love and relationships were thrown out the window, all he wanted was to be kissed passionately by someone he cared deeply about. He didn't even know if he had feeling for Sniper, but he knew one thing. He was a great kisser. A minute or so later they stop to take a breather, Henry caressing Snipers cheek with his knuckled, admiring the boy alittle.
"You ok?" Henry asked. Sniper nodded smiling, "You've always looked out for me, haven't you?"
Henry chuckled, "I guess... I care about you."
Sniper held Henry's hand before kissing him once on the lip, "I know, you're so sweet, you care about everyone."
"Yeh, but I don't want to kiss everyone." Henry chuckled, before being interupted by another kiss from Sniper and they started making out again.