The Lost Boy and the Starseed ✓ (tronnor)

20.

I was enjoying my coco pops when I heard my phone ring, I picked it up with a mouth full of coco pops.

Hey Lost Boy, do I need to have anything prepped for today's collab? – C

I almost choked on the coco-pops. I started coughing. Fuck, I hadn't even thought about what we were going to do. Kayla came rushing in to check and make sure I wasn't dying. She pat me on my back supportively while I tried to get the one coco pop stuck in my throat out. Eventually it worked and Kayla brought me a glass of water. I took it with both hands and drank it in one sip. 

'What was that about?' Kayla laughed, she was such a sadist though, in a good way, if that's possible. 

'I forgot to think of an idea for today's collab..' I admitted, my eyes aimed at the ground. Kayla shrugged,

 'just do a Q&A then' like it was no big deal. She didn't get that a Q&A meant that you had run out of ideas or were just simply not creative. 

 'But that's boring, I need to make a good impression!' I argued, and I gazed into my bowl of coco pops that almost killed me just a second ago, like I would find the answer there. Then, Kayla's eyes enlightened. 

'Do a love advice video!!!' she exclaimed enthusiastically. My eyes widened, 

'No fucking way, do you want me to die?! The fans will catch up on my feelings towards him like this.' and I snapped my fingers and I shook my head drastically. Kayla sniggered, 

'Like they haven't already' she said as she attempted to walk away. I raised my eyebrows indignantly, 

'Oh come on, I'm not that obvious.' I argued, and I rolled my eyes. 

'Whatever you want Troye' she sighed as she walked out of the kitchen. I sighed as well, I knew somewhere she was right. She caught up on my feelings immediately, but she's my best friend so of course she picked up on it more easily.

 'Oh yeah, by the way, a package came in from your parents yesterday. It's in the hallway' Kayla chanted from wherever she was in the house. My eyes enlightened and I sat straight up, I has missed my family a whole lot. Even though I facetimed them every 2 days and texted my mom 24/7, it was still different than having them around. I had of course, apologized for my shitty behavior the past few weeks and they said they didn't mind and that they were just happy I was having fun again. They didn't know however, that that fun was because of a very special boy. I didn't know if I would tell them, maybe if things worked out. But only if. 

I got up and went to the hallway, there I found a brown package with my address written in my mom's handwriting. I got a pair of scissors from the kitchen and tore the duct tape apart. Inside, I found a note from my mom, 

I found this one while cleaning your room, figured you should have it. You were a funny 14 year old, Troye. ;) -Love, Mom.

 I smiled as I kind of had an idea of what it could be. I took away the note and underneath I found my old diary. I smiled like carzy as I picked it up and felt the soft cover of the pink piece of nostalgia in my hands. Then, an idea for a video popped up. I got my phone out and hastily texted Connor back;

I hope you kept a diary when you were young, because we are going to be reading our diaries on camera. – T

And I put my phone away with a smile and took off to work.

When I walked in, Connor wasn't there yet. Nicola stopped me from going into the dressing rooms, 

'Wait Troye, here's your schedule for next week' she said as she handed me a piece of paper. I looked it over quickly, I noticed that I'd only been planned to work with Connor. Not that I minded, it just felt a little weird, although the tingly feeling in my stomach thought of it as really nice and exciting.

 'Looks like we won't be seeing each other that often' I said to Nicola. She nodded and smiled at me friendly.

 'Yeah, Connor makes these' she explained with a smirk. That came as a surprise, I tilted my head and frowned. 

'He does?..' I asked confusedly.

 'Yeah, and as it seems he really enjoys your company' She added.  My heart dropped, that sentence was equally as exciting as it was terrifying. 

 'What do you mean.,?' I asked her, trying not to sound weird. 

'He has only planned himself with you, and he has been working a lot more lately too. When we started working here Connor initially offered to make the schedules so he could use that to his own advantage. He even has been locking up the place recently, he never did that before!' She remarked, she, herself was even surprised by Connor's investment in the pool recently. I raised my eyebrows, as I slowly thought of some things Connor had said to me while working our shifts. 

'I didn't know that..' I uttered slowly and with that I turned around and walked into the locker room. I was nervously playing with my own hands as I tried to remember the exact things Connor had said to me.

 'I don't really like working here, I just do it to help my dad out' 

 'Locking up the place is what I do most, I like it better when someone's with me though. It can get lonely'

And then it hit me. Like a brick thrown at my head, but it felt like cotton candy once I processed the hit. A million butterflies flying, flopping and dancing around in my stomach. Maybe Connor was enjoying my company as much as I was enjoying his? Maybe, just maybe it wasn't completely hopeless, doomed? I didn't dare to think he felt the same way, but I couldn't stop my mind from going there. 

I thought of how bright his eyes were when I met him, I noticed them instantly. And they seemed to get brighter every time I saw him. I thought that just was my vision, but maybe it was his too? Maybe he was just aiming for a bromance, I couldn't know, and there was only one way to find out. But I had never thought of that, not even in my wildest dreams. He was driving me wild though, he was driving me oh so wild.

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thanks for 1.5 k, and as you can hopefully see the tronnor feels are building up exponentially 

xo -J