learning to trust. (scomiche au) // COMPLETED

thirty eight.

Mitch had finally finished his EP and it was due to be released in two weeks. Everybody is excited, and Mitch had even gained a little bit of a following on his social media as he had started a youtube channel a few months ago that was quickly becoming a big thing. He's already got 50,000 subscribers. He's posted two covers so far that everybody seemed to love but he hasn't had time to post anymore.

Scott has learned better not to ask Mitch about the wedding anymore simply because he's been too busy and he's stressed enough about a lot of things. Scott is just simply excited about becoming Mitch's husband but they are still young and have a lot of time to talk about wedding stuff. He just hates waiting, but this does give him a lot of time to practice walking. Scott hasn't walked on his own yet but he is making progress by using walls and walking around the house that way. Slowly, but surely. He'll get there one day.

"Scotty!" Mitch squeals excitedly as he runs into his and Scott's bedroom. He looks up and frowns when he sees Scott sitting in the middle of the bed with tears pouring down his face. He also notices a box in Scott's lap as well as pictures surrounding him. "Scott?"

Scott gasps and quickly tries to grab all of the photos but Mitch rushes over to him and stops him. "Hey, what's going on?" He sits down on the bed next to Scott. "Why are you crying?"

Scott sniffs and looks up at Mitch. "I... I didn't m-mean to. Th-They were there. A-And I..."

Mitch reaches over and takes one of the photos from Scott's hand. He frowns when he sees that it's a photo of Scott with his family from a few years ago. "Scotty, why are you looking at these?"

"Ch-Christmas is coming up..."

"Christmas is two months away still," Mitch says.

"It's still coming up," Scott mumbles, wiping away his tears. "I was just th-thinking about that."

"Why didn't you come talk to me about this? Didn't we agree you'd come talk to me when you thought about your family? I don't want you to be sad alone," Mitch says.

"Didn't want to bother you," Scott mumbles as he looks down at his hands.

"Bother me?" Mitch asks. He shakes his head. "You could never bother me. Why would you think that?"

"Y-You've been busy... I-I didn't want to bother you a-and stress you out even more," Scott says.

"Oh," Mitch is mentally kicking himself for not paying more attention to Scott. He'd been so focused on finishing and perfecting his EP that he forgot to pay attention to Scott. "I'm so sorry..."

Scott shakes his head. "Please, don't..." he sniffs. "D-Don't apologize."

"But I've been barely paying attention to you. We moved to L.A to-"

"We moved to L.A because you wanted to do bigger things and you're doing those bigger things. Y-You've just finished your EP and everybody loves you. You already have fans. You're probably going to be going on tour soon and I'm still going to be there for you. You have other stuff to worry about and I know that,"

"But that doesn't mean that I should just push you aside and forget about our relationship. We've been engaged for seven months now and we haven't gotten a single thing done for wedding," Mitch sighs. "God, we really haven't gotten anything done. We don't even have a fucking wedding planner!"

"Mitch, it's fine..."

"It's not fine!"

Scott flinches at Mitch's raised voice but doesn't bother to argue with him. He's sad and tired and he just can't be bothered to argue with Mitch right now even though he kind of wants to.

"It... It's not fine. Things are going to change. I know I keep saying that but I mean it this time," Mitch takes a deep breath. "I promise after I release this EP we're going to start working on the wedding. I mean... we still don't have to get married right away but you're right... we should get started so we can have at least something to look forward to in the future."

"Promise?" Scott asks, sniffing as he wipes away his tears.

"Of course I promise. Now stop crying," Mitch reaches over and wipes away the rest of Scott's tears with the sleeve of his shirt. "I don't like seeing you so sad like this."

"C-Can we c-cuddle?" Scott asks, looking up at Mitch with sad eyes.

"Of course we can. Lay down, let me clean this up for you first," Mitch says softly.

Scott doesn't hesitate, and lays down, resting his head on one of the pillows.

Mitch starts carefully picking up the pictures and placing them in the box. He has to be careful with these pictures because he knows how important they are to Scott. They're the only memories he has left of his family and if something happened to the pictures then he would be absolutely devastated.

Mitch bites his lip slightly as he stares at a picture of Scott with his two sisters resting in his hands. It's from when he was little kid and he looked so happy being with them. Mitch sighs as he looks over at Scott and then looks back at the picture. There's a big difference between Scott in the picture, and Scott now.

Scott's not been the happiest the past few months, and Mitch is determined to change that.

If Mitch gets to be happy, then so does Scott.