Stay Away From My Friends (Jenna McDougall and Vic Fuentes)

Chapter 2

Finally, it's lunchtime. I'm free.

For now.

I slip outside to the courtyard and wait for the others to show up. I sit under our tree and start nibbling on an apple. Jaime shows up first, climbing the tree and sitting in the branches. He hangs upside down. I'd tell him to be careful, but he'd just call me a mom.

When I think about it, I kind of am the mom of our friend group. But I'd never admit that out loud, and that's not what I want to be known as.

Tony shows up next, sitting against the trunk. Oli walks out after.

Tony is quiet. He's more of an observer. So he notices Jaime in the tree. Oli does not.

Jaime starts to get sick. I can tell by the look on his face. I'm about to say something, but before I can, he falls. Landing right on Oli.

"Bloody fucking- what the hell?!" Oli is confused and shocked, but I'm just laughing.

Jaime groans, either out of pain or sickness. Tony's cracked a small smile.

Oli pushes Jaime off him, still swearing. Kellin and Mike then walk out of the building, missing all the fun.

Oli sits in the grass, arms crossed. He's pissed.

"What's wrong?" Kellin sits next to him. He was about to call Oli "babe" but he stopped himself.

"Imagine a coconut being dropped on you," Oli mutters. "Now multiply that by one hundred."

"What?" Kellin's confused. Jaime groans again. It clicks. "Oh. Aw." Kellin's trying not to smile, but he wants to.

Like Mike messing up his breakfast, this isn't the first time Jaime's fallen out of this tree. And it won't be the last. At least there were no serious injuries.

This time.

"Haven't you learned your lesson by now?" Tony asks Jaime in his soft voice.

"It's fun," Jaime protests.

"I'm going to punch you in the goddamn face," Oli mutters.

Jaime lets out a high pitched squeal and hides behind Mike, who simply mutters something along the lines of "leave me out of this".

I just sit back and watch everyone. I don't realize there's a small smile on my face for a while.

We all eat our food as we take turns bitching about our classes. Jaime has detention (again) for sleeping in class (again), Tony doesn't have much to say, Mike's talking about some cute girl he was talking to, Oli rants about some teacher that pissed him off, and Kellin had a normal day so far.

Wow. We are in a rut.

"What about you, Vic?" Tony looks at me. Everyone's focus shifts.

I shrug, chewing the last bite of my apple. I swallow. "Same as always. I have no fucking idea what's going on in class, and Ronnie's being an asshole."

"What'd he do this time?" Mike asked.

I told them about him mocking my song lyrics. I don't go too into detail. I don't like to overshare in these settings.

"Dick," Oli says. Everyone nods in agreement.

I shrug again.

"How was Jenna?" Jaime nudges me, wiggling his eyebrows.

"I- shut up," I look away.

They all know I like Jenna. They also know she's dating Ronnie. I can feel the pity radiate off them sometimes when we talk about it.

"She looked nice," I say quietly. "Like always."

"Aww," Jaime pokes me, teasingly.

"I wish I could push you to ask her out," Kellin says. "But that wouldn't end well for anyone."

Tony nods.

"Why's she dating that Ronnie asshole anyway?" Oli asks. "She seems so sweet. And he's... Him."

"Beats me," Mike says.

Ronnie doesn't mess with Oli. Probably because Oli's been to jail more times than Ronnie's been to rehab, and is bigger than half of the guys on the football team. Tattoos on a high school student never seem to fail to scare anyone, either. Mike usually gets left alone too. He's pretty easy going. People can get along with him, or at least tolerate him. Jaime usually only gets punched when he's hitting on the football team's girlfriends, and absolutely no one messes with Tony. He's too shy and quiet. Everyone feels bad for him, so they leave him alone. Even the shittiest bullies back off. It's like an unspoken rule. No one messes with Tony. Like how no one would mess with someone in a wheelchair. I don't know why. There's nothing tragic or sad about Tony. He's just quiet and has mild depression. But hey, if it keeps him out of shit.

Kellin and I are the ones who take most of the shit. Our "girly" hair and "emo" clothes practically paint targets on our backs. But we like looking like this, so we don't change. I think I would hate myself more if I did. But I still fail to see how "girl" is an insult.

Oli would stand up for Kellin, but that would out them. And then everything would get ten times worse for them. People wouldn't leave Oli alone after that.

So this is how it is for us. Pretty sad, I know. But it's life. We'll be out of here soon enough.

AN: Two chapters yay :) I'm going to be doing my best to update, but I have school and other stuff, so updates won't be a routine thing. But just a disclaimer, this fic isn't promoting any self harm, violence, or anything along those lines. I'm an author and like to explore darker themes. And I know the antagonists in this may not be as mean in real life. This is just to create conflict. I mean no harm with anything. The writing and plot belongs to me, but the characters and song lyrics I'll use don't (duh. If I owned Pierce the Veil and Sleeping With Sirens do you really think I'd be writing fanfictions on here? But I digress). I'm not really checking for mistakes since this is just a fun thing to get me to write, so I apologize for the ones there are. Let me know if there are major mistakes and I'll fix them. I'm thinking of writing some Motionless in White fanfictions next, and definitely some Mabbell. Maybe All Time Low, Get Scared, or Asking Alexandria, but that's later on. I'll finish this one first obviously. Wow this was a long authors note. Sorry about that. There won't be too many of these. But yeah, thanks for reading :) Let me know what you think