Hollow | BxBxBxB

-27- Portioning Trouble

Connor was now sat alone in the lounge, it was the evening after everything had happened yesterday and he still couldn't quite believe it. On one side he felt over the moon. He loved each boy in their own right. He was absolutely obsessed with every little detail of Riccardo from his skinny frame to his shy smile, thick Italian accent and shiny piercings. He loved Alex's humour, plus how cute the boy looked with his glasses on. Then there was his hair, the little pink streaks laced within his delicate blonde curls was so appealing almost like cotten candy. Then there was Liam, with his bulging muscles and his hot tattoos, his hair that was braided to perfection.

There was nothing not to love about his 3 boyfriends, yet on the other side he felt weird. Despite discovering himself being polyamorous and discovering such a thing existed. He was still struggling to come to terms with it. Society had taught boys like Connor that it was a traditional 1 boy, 1 girl relationship. And at the worst a 2 boy relationship. Never in his life had he even heard of more than that. He was scared of the crooked smiles and hostile frowns he might receive if word got out about his relationship status.

He also still had a lot to learn about himself, if he was going to love 3 other boys, he needed to start trying to love himself too, both flaws and perfections.

Sighing Connor picked at his nails nervously. The boys had all gone off to do different things, Alex had gone to shower, Liam had gone to 'do stuff' which Connor was pretty sure meant either watch Alex shower or shower with Alex, and Riccardo had gone out to the courtyard to cool down, Connor didn't want to interrupt the brunettes quiet time so has stayed in the lounge by himself, however he soon regretted that decision when Doctor Mercury walked past.

"Hey Connor, are you free at the moment? It's okay if not we can do this another day?" He asked pausing in his track spinning the kitchen key around his finger absentmindedly.

"Y-yeah, I'm free" Connor replied nervously. He hadn't the faintest idea what 'this' was.

"Great! Come with me, we're going to the kitchen" Doctor Mercury told him as if the key in his hand labelled "KITCHEN" in big block capitals wasn't a big enough clue.

Leading the way Doctor Mercury stalked into the dining room then through the side door into the actual kitchen itself. It wasn't actually that big of a kitchen. It was basically a small corridor lined with cabinets, an oven, dishwasher and other appliances.

Swivelling around the doctor showed Connor the slow cooker, inside it was a load of tomato pasta which looked basically complete. Connor gulped looking at the massive pot of pasta, that was so many calories.

"Could you get me 5 plates out Connor" Doctor Mercury instructed pointing to a small cupboard just above where the slow cooker was positioned. Connor reached up carefully manoeuvring 5 of the shiny white plates down onto the countertop.

"Thank you, okay. Now I want you to put some on this plate, it'll be yours" Doctor Mercury told him, Connor's eyes immediately widened as the kind doctor handed him a silver serving spoon, staring at the big pot of pasta Connor felt sick to his stomach, he didn't know how much he needed? How was he supposed to do this?

He gingerly reached out scooping up some pasta, he then dropped it messily onto the plate sending a bit of sauce spitting around the surface. Glancing at his portion Connor nodded his head, that was more than enough. "S-sorry I think I put too much on" Connor whispered guiltily, he felt so greedy for what he'd just done and was about to take some off when the doctor stopped him gently.

"Connor, that's not even a half portion" Simon informed him softly, Connor stared in shock at the plate again. It seemed like so much... he'd had pasta so often here and this felt like so much more now that he was portioning it himself. Hurriedly wanting to get it over with he scooped another scoop onto it. Doctor Mercury nodded approvingly so Connor thought he might be done, but he was wrong.