Crooked Young.

•eight//simon•

{Simon: Alpha
Jide: Beta
Josh: Delta
Tobi: Echo
Vikk: Gamma
Ethan: Zeta
Harry: Theta
Chris: Eta.}

"Josh you really shouldn't be up." I sighed as I gently pulled the gauze that covered Tobi's wound off. I thew it hastily into the small metal bowl on the night stand  that held water, clean gauzes and tissue.

"Why? I'm fine and I want to keep Tobi company until he can walk about properly again." He gave me a lazy smile, causing my heart to beat faster. Get a grip Simon. Josh kept his tired gaze on me as I cleaned Tobi's stitched up wound and placed fresh gauzes to prevent infection. Tobi was already asleep by the time I was finished, I quickly washed my hands in Tobi's bathroom before collecting the medical instruments and leaving the room. I felt Josh's stare on me at all times I was in the room. He was acting weird, he was becoming clingy but remaining very stubborn. It was becoming a routine that I would have to carry a sleeping Josh back to his room, only to be tugged into bed by him begging me not to leave him. I sighed as I put the dirty bowls into the sink and began washing them.

"You alright Simon?" I didn't even need to look to know it was Vikk. He was the only one out of the boys that wasn't scared to have a normal conversation with me. Do it tell him the truth?

"I dunno Vikk, is Josh acting different to you?" The silence I was met with made me uneasy. Surely if anyone was to notice it would be Vikk, he's like mother hen, making sure all of us was okay. When I finished washing up, I turned to face Vikk and made my way around the breakfast bar and perched myself on the stool opposite him. He carried on crunching on his cereal trying to decide his answer. I could tell that he wanted to tell me something her knew he shouldn't. Vikk just met my eyes and let out a defeated sigh.

"Josh has been acting the same, it's just you've finally noticed his actions. He's always acted this way towards you but you've always been so oblivious because you don't want to believe that you're feeling that way about him too-" Vikk scrunched up his nose and swatted my arm causing me to flinch back in pain, "don't look at me like that, you know it's true. Everyone knew what you and Josh had, but you were always to worried to fully admit that you felt that way. You ran away and became this...this, monster. Pushing us all away." Vikk frowned making his features look more stressed and tired.

"I don't know what you mean Vikk." Lies.

"Simon fucking Minter don't you dare lie to me, I can see these things, I was the one you spoke to about all of this stuff when Jide was uncooperative. Me and Jide know how much Josh means to you and that's why, when Josh was on the verge of dying, you stayed with him. Four fucking days you lived off grapes, water and hour naps because you wanted to make sure he was always breathing. You wanted to make sure you wouldn't lose him even though Chip and Joel said he would more than likely live. You want to know why you did that Simon? Because you have feelings for him, you always have and almost losing him made you realise that you cant act this way with us anymore because we're your friends - scratch that, your family and losing another one of us would hit you so hard. Showing no emotion when Cal died wasn't the right move and you know that, it drove us all away from you because we all thought you didn't give a shit. Simon you need to start being our mate again otherwise you'll lose us. Almost losing Josh has woke you up."  Vikk whisper yelled at me as he stood up took his bowl to the sink. "You need to speak to Josh about this, he's confused to why you've all of a sudden started to care. He thought you'd for sure leave him for dead." Vikk shook his head and made his way back to his room leaving me alone, battling my thoughts. Monster, that's all I was to them now, I've lost them all.

"Fucks sake!" I groaned and pushed up from my seat and strode out of the room, flicking the light off as I left. I made my way to the second floor and gently pushed the door closest on my left open. Tobi was peacefully sleeping, the covers pulled all the way up to his chin. My eyes gazed over the lighter skinned male that was curled up on the chair that was pulled up to Tobi's bedside. I felt myself smile and I make my way round to him and scooped him up into my arms and made my way out of Tobi's room. I paused in the middle of the landing, there was no doubt that Josh would want me to stay with him again. So I slowly made my way down a flight of stairs to the first floor that me and Jide shared, knowing that Josh would have a lot more room in my bed as it was bigger than his.

"Need some help Simon?" Jide smiled as he clambered his way up the rest of the stairs.

"Yeah please, I don't want to wake Josh." I smiled, Jide took out the spare key that I kept in the plant pot near my door and opened the door to my room, pushing it all the way open. "Thanks Jide." I nodded at him, the smile hadn't left my face.

"Any time bro. Good to see you smiling, having my best mate back." Jide smiled back and shut the door to his room as I kicked mine shut. I used my foot to push my quilt back and I gently placed Josh on the bed leaving the quilt off him just while I pulled off my shoes, socks and shirt. I stood for a few moments wondering if I should take the sofa down stairs. I quickly pushed all thoughts to the back of my head and climbed into bed next to Josh, pulling the quilt around us both and throwing an arm around Josh's waist, pulling him against me. This is going to be interesting to explain in the morning.

Josh what are you doing to me?

A/N: shit chapter once again, I apologise. ~ Z.