The Gay Band Book

Storytime! [Ryden]

Babysitter!Brendon and Child!Ryan

"Bren," Ryan yawned, tugging on Brendon's sleeve. "M kinda tired."

Brendon rolled his eyes and picked Ryan up. "Then let's get you to bed."

"But I don't wanna sleep!" Ryan whined.

"But you're tired, and when you're tired, you sleep," Brendon replied, getting slightly annoyed.

Ryan shook his head fiercely. "I wanna stay awake with you, like a big boy!"

"You already are a big boy. And if you start staying up late, it'll be hard to go back to going to bed early again," Brendon responded, his patience waning. "I would know..." he added with a sigh.

Ryan tilted his head to the side in questioning.

"It all started a long time ago, when I was in middle school...." Brendon started, toeing Ryan's door open since Ryan was currently in his arms.

"Yay! Story time!" Ryan clapped as Brendon sat him on the bed. He stared up at Brendon expectantly.

Brendon shook his head and gently pushed Ryan to lay down, which Ryan did. "Um, no, no story time."

Ryan pouted. "Whyyy?"

"Well, that's not a good story. Plus you need to go to sleep, and a story would just keep you up."

"Nuh uh!" Ryan crossed his arms and pouted at Brendon defiantly.

Brendon just sighed and lifted the covers over Ryan. "Fine," he said eventually, giving in to Ryan. "What story do you want?"

Ryan shrugged. "Make one up!"

Brendon pinched the bridge of his nose in aggravation before going and laying down on the edge of Ryan's bed.

Ryan grinned expectantly at him.

"...Well, once there was a prince named George, and he didn't like his name," Brendon started,  but was interrupted by Ryan making grabby hands at a stuffed rabbit at the end of the bed.

Brendon rolled his eyes at the interruption, but sat up and reached for the stuffed toy. Handing it to Ryan, he lay back down next to him. "Now, where was I?"

Ryan rolled onto his side so he was facing Brendon, and he hugged his stuffie.

"Okay, so there was once a prince named George, and he didn't like his name."

Ryan giggled. "Sounds kinda like me!"

A smile tugged at Brendon's lips. "Yeah, it does. Anyways, George wanted a new name. But everyone told him he couldn't have a new name."

Ryan frowned at this. "Why not?" he asked.

"Because," Brendon thought carefully. "Because changing your name wasn't a normal thing to do, and the people didn't like anything that wasn't normal."

"Oh...." Ryan said simply, gazing down at his rabbit before looking up at Brendon again. "Then what was he gonna do?"

"Well, he wasn't gonna live with the name George forever, so he went to the King and asked what he could do. The king said," Brendon continued with a deeper voice, "'You need to go to a far-away land and gain permission from the Great Dragon'."

Ryan giggled at Brendon's weird voice, hiding his face in Brendon's side.

When he looked up again, Brendon was gazing at him with a lopsided grin.

Once Brendon noticed Ryan staring at him, he was quick to wipe the smile off his face and continue the story. "So, George trekked across the land, trying to find this Great Dragon the King talked about."

"Did he ever find the dragon?" Ryan squeaked as he nuzzled his way into Brendon's side.

"Shhh, I'm getting there," Brendon said, trying to keep his voice level. What, it wasn't his fault the kid was being cute.

Ryan quieted down and closed his eyes and listened as Brendon continued the story.

"In order to get to the Great Dragon, George had to pass a few obstacles," Brendon carried on to describe the many obstacles and challenges George had to face.

"And, with permission from the Great Dragon, George was finally able to go home. The King let him change his name to Ryan, and he lived happily ever after...." Brendon finished, only now noticing that Ryan was asleep. And, yep, he was still curled into Brendon's side. He even had a small fistful of Brendon's shirt in his hand. Well, there went Brendon's plans of FaceTiming Gerard after he tucked Ryan into bed.

"Night, Ryan," Brendon whispered, reaching across Ryan's dresser to turn the light off.

Brendon's only response was a small twitch from Ryan.

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I hope this was cute and not creepy at any parts or anything aaaah. Brendon just finds Ryan a cute kid and is like "adrghujki how is he so adorable"

sERIOUSLY I AIN'T HAVING NO PEDOPHILIA