// PAPER HOUSES // TBP Modern AU //

7.

"Everybody loves you, but does anybody like you?"

"I completely understand, but are you sure that it is your father at the door?"

"He's not at the door anymore," says Bruce, looking down from his balcony and seeing the front door open. "He's in the house, lock the door."

"VIVI!? I KNOW YOU'RE HERE!"

He walks back into the room just as Billy went to lock the door. Bruce opened his safe, the password being 081805. He pulled out a gun and loaded it, "Finney, can I borrow your phone? I need to call my dad."

"Alright, but I don't think shooting the guy is the right choice," Finney tells him, handing him the phone. "You could get into jail for that."

"I'm not gonna shoot, it's simply a threat if it's fun to break into my house and threaten you friends," he counters, flicking Finney's chin. "Hey dad? There's an intruder in the house, permission to shoot?"

"The intruder?"

"Yes, and also the walls."

"Yeah, go ahead, I'll send units to you."

"Thank you, love you, bye." He hung up and gave the phone back to Finney, he shot the mannequin behind his door, causing a loud noise. "Shit."

"Hang up the call."

"Bruce, you didn't tell us you know how to handle a gun?" Robin questions, tilting his head slightly to the side.

"I didn't invite you guys to the range for nothing, and also you refused," he tells them as the intruder shouts once more.

He smashed the doorknob and sung the door wide open. Finney, Robin, Billy, Griffin, and Vance sat at the very back of the bed as Bruce pointed the gun directly to the man's forehead.

"Who's this, your boyfriend?" The man questions, staring from Vance to Bruce.
"See, you're still a girl, you always will be."
He laughs menacingly.

"Look at me," says Bruce, slightly lowering the gun as he stared at the bat next to him. "You do not talk or look him or even breathe the same air as my friends."

"Oh please, l've seen guns before, the one you're holding is not real."

Bruce gritted his teeth, "Must be nice not being afraid of guns when there is one staring right at your face," he sneers, taking a step back before grabbing the bat and swiftly hitting the man in the face repeatedly.

Albert fell down onto the floor and screamed as he tried to pry the baseball player off him. "I don't really like blood on my hands, it's disgusting," he said as he stood up and kicked the unconscious body out of the room. "This is why I'm a law student."

"Denver Police Department!"

An hour later, they were all questioned by the police and Bruce's family arrived and were glad everybody was safe. Bruce had a few bruises on his hands but nevertheless, nobody was hurt.

"Would you really shoot a guy for me?"
Vance asks him as soon as it was only the two of them in the kitchen.

"Why wouldn't I?" He says, looking at his boyfriend with heart eyes. "Wouldnt you?"

"I'm not good with guns."

"But if you were, would you?"

"Yes."

The two sat on the kitchen counter chatting while they watched the others also get questioned and given stuff like candy or something.

Robin glanced at them as he held a lollipop in his hand, his other hand circling his finger next to his temple signaling crazy as he laughs, giving his lollipop to Griffin, whose hands were filled with candies.

"You're gonna get a cavity from that,"
Finney says as he throws his peppermint at him. "I'll give my aunt a call for you, lol."

"You can tell them if you want," Vance tells Bruce, placing his palm atop of Bruce's hand.

"You're saying it as if you're pregnant."

Vance rolled his eyes, "Nevermind then, it doesn't seem like you want to tell them in any way," he says, slowly taking his hand away.

Bruce reacted quickly and took his hand. "I wanna tell them, who said I didn't?" He says, cupping his hand over his mouth. "Guys!"

"Now?"

"Now, obviously."

"Yes?" Finney hops off the couch and walks towards them in the kitchen. "Woah, holding hands, nice." He gives them two thumbs up.

"Oh shit, 10 dollars, Robin, pay up," Billy looks at a Robin, who had lost a bet and was played by Billy's amazing manifestation skills. "Who confessed to who?"

"Vance did."

"Hehehe, now you pay up," Griffin sneers, laughing as Billy hands the 10 dollars that Robin gave him to Griffin.

"Vance and I are dating."

"Yeah, we got that part, thank you very much," Finney says sarcastically. "But if you're like, adopting a child, I call dibs on godfather."

"What? No! I'm the godfather, obviously," says Robin, staring at his friend.

"Rock paper scissors!"

"No, we're not adopting a child, we're still in high school, what the fuck," Vance tells them, rolling his eyes. "Plus, Bruce is busy with law school."

"But if he wasn't, you'd have a child?"

"We're still in high school?"

"But if you weren't, you'd have a child?"

"Oh for fuck's sake!" Vance says, giving up entirely in countering their questions.

"You know, teenage parents are popular these days," Robin comments, sitting on a stool next to the counter. "You could adopt a baby and I could be the godfather," he added sneakily while watching out for Finney's ears.

"Leave them alone, probably in 4 to 5 years they might get a child and I'll be the godfather, I'm more responsible than any of you shitheads," says Billy, which started a heated argument between the three of them.

Griffin handed the two some goldfish, "It's nice that the two of you decided to start a relationship between the struggles in your own lives, I do hope you won't separate and I'm glad you decided to come out to us," he says, grinning widely.

"Thank you," Bruce says, ruffling Griffin's hair before he backed up.

"Do not touch the hair."

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I wanted to shoot Albert so bad, but I didn't want Bruce to like, go to jail. And it'll probably get all sappy in the following chapters now that the bitch is back in jail.

This is so corny and cheesy but I didn't have any more ideas so uhm it gets better I promise!

Uhm go follow dead.girl.walking8 on tiktok for updates whether I lose my account or not so uhm stay safe!

I just threw my guts out and my throat hurts so bad but I haven't told my parents, lol. Okay, so have a good day! Stay safe!