"You deserve better"| Drew x Jake

Chapter 2: Sick Sterling (rewrite)

Jake's point of view

(English translations at the end!!!)

Jake checked what Drew had send him. Yeah, he totally forgot to tell any of his friends he was sick.. but he did feel happy that his friend seemed to care so much about him. He stared at Drew's messages for a few minutes, cause he didn't knew what to say. Jake proceeded to just strike up a casual conversation with Drew. „Hey Drew! Sorry I wasn't answering", Jake replied. Almost immediately Drew answered, „Geez you worried us asshole. Are u alr tho?"

Jake chuckled to himself. He thought it'd be easier to just make a small voicemessage, though he's gonna kill his voice with that, his lazy ass would rather die than type longer than 30 seconds.
„..So uh. I got sick as you can probably hear. Yeah, I should've maybe just listened to you. I didn't, I know... my karma I guess. Yes I'm an idiot, you don't have to tell me twice. Plus I'm definitely gonna be out for a few more days. Sorry again."

After a minute his phone lit up. Drew had replied to Jake's voicemessages. He was weirdly suprised by what Drew said. „Ah ok. Want me to tell the freaks tomorrow?" Jake's immediate thought was to tell Drew not to call them freaks but still thought the gesture seemed really nice of him. Also he really wasn't in the mood texting other people right now. He told Drew that it'd be really nice of him to do so, and that Jake would really appreciate it. Before they both went offline, Drew replied with a ‚np' and that was it. Jake layed back on his bed and put his phone aside. Though he didn't get a lot of rest. He heard his door open.

It was his younger brother, Milo. „Have you learned about knocking, maybe?", Jake coughed up.
Milo thought, „Yeah, I just didn't want to my caro fratello*."

„Vaffanculo* Milo."

„..Anyway! Jakey, what do you want for dinner? Mom told me to ask you.", Milo told Jake while heading towards Jake's chair. Milo threw some clothes on the floor and sat down. Jake growned, „What do you want from me Milo?"

Milo giggled, „I first wanna know what you want for dinner."
„Spaghetti carbonara."

„Good choice."

Jake looked closer at Milo, „What else do you want?" Milo grinned and crossed his legs. „..uh.. Do you maybe wanna join me and my friends later on Discord? We were gonna play a couple of rounds of Among Us. Since you're sick, I thought it'd maybe cheer you up a bit.."

Jake laughed, „You know what? Sure. Send me the link later"

„Yes! Great! I'll let mom know about dinner and send you the link after it then!", exclaimed Milo happily. And just like that he was gone and actually closed the door behind him too. What a historical moment.

Jake decided to spent the rest of the time listening to music.
He is so ready to devour that spaghetti carbonara.
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Fanculo*. Jake thought to himself. He fell asleep.. and he drooled over his pillow? Guess he really wants that spaghetti carbonara. Jake sat up and looked around his room. God I need to clean it, he thought. He stretched and gently opened the door to the hallway. Jake took a quick wiff and smelled his moms delicious carbonara, it even made his drool slightly. „Buonasera figlio*.", greeted Stephanie, humming along to Viva la Vida by Coldplay. „Ha un profumo delizioso mamma*..", Jake smiled at his mom. „Five more minutes amore*, then its ready."

Jake sat down at the kitchen table. He looked into the hall, Milo's door was open and looked empty. „Mamma? Where's Milo?", asked Jake. Stephanie glanced over at Milo's room, „Ah, giusto*! I forgot. He went out to get something, though I told him to be home before dinner, so he should be here soon."

Just like that, he heard the door open, „Sono a casa*! It took a bit longer, sorry mamma..", Milo screamed from the front door. Stephanie laughed, „At least you're home before you missed out my perfect spaghetti carbonara!"

Milo rushed to the kitchen and quickly sat down at the table. „Oh Jakey..?", Milo asked. Jake frowned, „Yeah..?", Milo paused and started to giggle, „I got something for you later, nothing bad, I promise!"
Jake nodded in confusion, „If you say so..."

„Va bene bambini*! Foods ready! So eat up. And Jake, please take some meds after dinner, okay?", said Stephanie happily.

„Lo farò mamma*..", replied Jake and filled his plate.

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ITALIAN=ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Caro fratello: dear brother
Vaffanculo: Fuck you
Fanculo: Fuck
Buonasera figlio: Good evening son
Amore: Love
Ha un profumo delizioso mamma: It smells delicious mom
Ah, giusto!: Oh, right!
Sono a casa: I am home
Va bene bambini!: Okay kids!
Lo farò mamma: I will do it mom

A/N
RAAAAAH CHAPTER TWOOOOO!!!! You dont know how hard it was to rewrite this chapter, since the old version was only text messages... So I thought it'd be funny to include Milo in here, cause now I know he exists.
I got a random energy boost for this chapter... so yeah. Cant promise regular shit (like always) but im currently getting to my exams phase and I'll be graduating next year. So of course studying comes first for me :)