Too Cold to Shiver (Trans Petekey)

Part 16

Pete was freaking out.

Mikey wasn't responding to his texts and she always replied super quickly.

Pete decided that she must have lost her phone or maybe she just didn't have wifi, but he couldn't stop the next possibility from getting into his head: what if it was all a joke?
Mikey hadn't replied since they had became an official thing. What if that was Mikey's ultimate goal, to just break his heart?
Pete had to convince himself that that could never happen. There had to be something else.

What aWentz:
MIKEY, Y U NO REPLY

What aWentz:
Babe?

What aWentz:
Oh fuck. Can I call you that?

What aWentz:
I should have asked first. Fuck.

What aWentz:
Sorry.

What aWentz:
Are you mad at me?

What aWentz:
Is it about last night?

What aWentz:
It's only been a day and I'm fucking up this relationship already.

What aWentz:
Can you at least tell me what I did wrong?

What aWentz:
I'm sorry. Please come back?

Pete threw his phone down on his bed in defeat. She wasn't going to text him back anytime soon. Maybe never.

Pete was on the verge of tears.

He knew Mikey. She wouldn't do something jus lead him on. Pete just needed to get out his head and away from his thoughts. 

He picked his phone back up and texted Patrick, asking them to come over. Patrick only lived three houses away so they agreed to it. They knew something was wrong as soon as they saw Pete.

"Pete what's wrong?" Patrick asked.

"What do you mean? Nothing's wrong!" Pete faked a smiled.

Patrick looked at him skeptically. "You look like your going to burst into tears. What's wrong?" Patrick asked again.

Pete sighed, giving up the act. "Mikey isn't texting me back," he mumbled.

"...and?" Patrick asked.

"Oh, right. Context. Last night we kind of became a thing," Pete explained.

"Really? I thought you two were already dating," Patrick stated.

"No. I was too nervous to ask her," Pete explained.

"So she asked you?"

"No, I asked. I mean I accidentally told her I liked her and she said she liked me, too. Maybe it was just been girl code for something. I don't know," Pete shrugged.

"Let me read the text. I like to think I can speak teenage girl pretty well," Patrick offered.

Pete chuckled and tossed his phone to Patrick.

"Oh my god, really? You have her as your fucking lock screen picture?" Patrick asked, unamused.

"Shut up," Pete blushed.

"Wow. You really like her, don't you?"

Pete nodded. "I think I love her. But it doesn't matter because she's never going to text me back."

"You don't know that. Maybe she's just busy. Maybe her parents just took away her phone or something," Patrick shrugged.

"God, I hope not. Her parents would kill her if they read our conversations..."

"Oh fuck! She just texted you!" Patrick exclaimed.

"REALLY??? WHAT DOES IT SAY?? GIVE ME MY PHONE, CHILD!" Pete screamed as he snatched his phone away from Patrick.

Way Bae:
This is Michael's father. If you text this number again I will not hesitate to call the police on you.

"What the actual fuck," Pete muttered out loud.

"What did she say?" Patrick asked, curiously.

"It wasn't her, it was her dad," Pete replied, still in shock. Oh no.

"Her dad? The same dad that you said would kill Mikey if he ever your conversations?"

"Yep," Pete replied.

Pete was freaking out now. Mikey's parents had found out about them. Fuck. She was probably in so much trouble. Mikey always told Pete how mean her parents were so that meant that a number of horrors were in store for Mikey's near future and he didn't want to think of any.

And her dad was going to call the police.
What the fuck were the police going to do to a guy that's all the way in Chicago?

"Oh fuck. This is bad. Really fucking bad," Pete spoke. "Her parents found out about it."

Patrick stole Pete's phone from him and read the text.

"Well Im going to guess that he knows about you two so maybe he doesn't know about the trans thing?" Patrick suggested.

"Either way she's still fucked," Pete stated.

"What do you think they're going to do to her?"

"I don't even want to know," Pete admitted.

He was terrified for her. He couldn't just stand by and let her parents punish Mikey for doing nothing wrong.

--:/::
Who's crying? Is it just me?
Ah yes. And now we've reached the real drama. Just wait till Mikey's next chapter.

I've been updating this way too often but that's for reading it!