Hopeless Romantic • NoochZahHutt

Chapter 2

Brandon nodded. He knew who Mat was. Of course he did. He had hopeless crush on him so how could he not know.
"Okay," Mat said " We have three options. One, go to the hospital. Two, go to the nurse and get and ice pack that ain't worth two shits. And three, my house." He finished. Brandon thought for a moment. He would love to go to Mat's house but he didn't want to say it out loud.
"Um, I-I don't like h-hospitals..." Brandon tells him. Mat nods and continues to help Brandon to his car. Once they got there, he helped him lay down in the backseat then got in the drivers seat. He drove silently to his house, the only noise to be heard was Brandon's heavy, uneven breathing and the car tires on the road. He worried about the boy. He wanted to protect him with everything, wanted to take his pain away.
A cough broke Mat out of his thoughts. He looked in the rear view mirror and seen Brandon was curled into a ball with his arm over his mouth. His cough was hard and came from deep within his chest and honestly Mat wanted to cry. It sounded like it hurt and Mat didn't doubt that it did.
"Are you okay, princess?" Mat asked. His eyes widened as he realized what he said. He looked in the mirror again and saw Brandon was smiling slightly. Looks like he didn't mind the name.
"Yeah," Brandon whispered "I'm fine"
Mat smiled.
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Twenty minutes later, the two boys arrived at their destination. Mat, once again, helped Brandon out the car but this time he carried him bridal style and sat him on his bed.
"You can lay down, I'm gonna go look for a first aid kit or something" Mat told him. Brandon laid down and as soon as his head hit Mats pillow, he was out.
Mat walked back into his bedroom, having found exactly what he was looking for. He say everything down at the foot of the bed then got a towel out of his bathroom.
"Okay, I'm gonna need you to sit up" he said to Brandon. When he didn't get an answer, he turned and looked at the boy. Brandon was asleep on his side of the bed. His mouth a open a little and his breathing was calm finally. Mat thought he looked beautiful when he was sleeping. Not that he didn't when he was awake but when he was asleep his eyelashes were dark against the pale skin on his face. He looked relaxed and peaceful like nothing ever happened. Mat loved it. He may have just met Brandon but he already knew he had a small crush on him. A crush that would grow.
Mat realized that if he had a crush on Brandon then Brandon might not even like him back. He didn't care, as long as Brandon was happy, Mat was happy.
Mat was just about to start cleaning the boys face when he heard his door open an loud voices enter.
Shit, he thought.
Mat ran down the stairs and quickly tried to shush the boys. Once they were all quiet, he lead them to his room where Brandon slept.
"Dude, what the fuck is he doing here?" Bruce asked. The boys behind him nodded as they wanted to know to.
Mat scoffed "He was hurt, so I helped him" he said.
"He gets hurt on a daily basis, why start helping now?" Bruce asked again. Mat just shook his head.
"If you can't stand him being here then leave." He said. Bruce shrugged and all the boys walked out of his room and out of his house. Mat sighed. Why couldn't they understand that he had feelings? Just because they didn't like showing emotions doesn't mean that he can't. He actually cared. He cared about things that most of them don't.
"Mat?" Brandon's soft voice broke him out of his thoughts. He looked up to see Brandon trying to sit up so he rushed to help him. After he was sitting up, Brandon grabbed Mats pillow and held it in his lap with his arms around it. Mat smiled at the boy. How could one be so adorable? He would never know.
"Do you want anything? I have food and drink but I don't know what you like so-" Brandon cut Mat's rambling off with a quiet giggle. Mat gasped.
"That...was fucking adorable, I can't oh my god" He said. Brandon's smile grew larger and his grip on the pillow tightened.
"Do you have any Dr. Pepper?" Brandon asked.
"I do actually!" Mat said. He rushed down the stairs and grabbed a small bottle of the drink then went back to his bedroom. He handed the drink to Brandon and sat down beside him on the bed. Brandon struggled to open the bottle. He handed it back to Mat.
"My arms hurt" he whispered. Mats heart may have broke again. He gently grabbed the bottle and opened it before handing it back to Brandon. The boy took a small sip and then took another.
"Mmmmm," Brandon moaned "I love Dr. Pepper" he finished. Mat handed the cap to him and Brandon closed it, setting it on the bedside table.
"How bad do your arms hurt?" Mat asked him. Brandon thought for a moment.
"Um, they hurt when I tried to open the bottle and they hurt when I tried to sit up" he said.
Mat nodded "So basically when you try to do anything that involves putting pressure on them" Brandon nodded.
"Right, so I can give you some Tylenol if you think that'll help" Mat said. Brandon shrugged and nodded.
"I mean it couldn't hurt to try" he said. Mat stood up from the bed and walked out the room.
Brandon was freaking out on the inside. He was in his crushes room! He never thought that this would happen but holy shit, it happened! Now what? He asked himself.
Mat walked back into the room with two Tylenol in his hand and gave them to Brandon. He grabbed his drink off the table and opened it for him. Brandon swallowed the pills one by one. After that, he sat the bottle back on the table and waited for Mat to say something.

Is anyone even reading this? I only had two reads on the first chapter but that's okay because I actually enjoy writing this. Anyway, I was gonna update again today but there's a storm heading my way and I don't do anything during them so if it passes soon enough then I'll update.
Thanks!