wings // garrance fanfiction

chapter 2

"Laurence. Let's go hang out?" A familiar voice rings through the brunette's ears as he works.

"Not now, Harper. Maybe later."

"Oh come on! I'm bored!" She whines, clutching onto her boyfriend's arm.

"And I'm working! I need money to live you know. I'm struggling and I'm stressed. So please, maybe later," He snaps lightly and his so called girlfriend rolls her eyes.

"Fine. I'll just ask Emanuel to hang out." She mutters bitterly, snatching her purse from the chair next to her and marching out. Laurence sighs and wipes his forehead, leaning down and trying to catch his breath. Emanuel was the boy he caught Harper cheating on him with. She doesn't know, because he just walked away without saying anything. In her mind, Laurence thinks that Emanuel is just a friend. Tears begin to well up in his eyes once more, however, not because of Harper. It's because of Garroth. He couldn't be with Garroth, all because of this cheating girl. When he met his boss, he was practically forced into dating Harper even though he really doesn't want to.

Suddenly a familiar and soft voice rings throughout Laurence's ears. "Is Laurence here?" Laurence's eyes widen as he marches around the corner and out of the kitchen, poking his head out to see the short blonde, also known as Garroth talking to one of the employees. Laurence couldn't help but to smile at that moment, a taffy pink colored blush painting across his face. And at that exact same moment, Garroth happened to look over and make eye contact, a smile spreading across his face. His ocean eyes light up at the sight of Laurence. The blonde runs towards Laurence and throws himself into the brunette's arms, forcing a hug.

Laurence laughs and hugs him tightly, "What're you doing here? Don't you have work?"

"I have the day off." Garroth smiles and Laurence looks at him strangely. Garroth frowns in response to Laurence's expression.

"Don't you have two jobs?" The brunette asks, hugging the blonde a bit tighter.

"Yeah but I already told you I got the day off." Garroth giggles.

"On both jobs?"

"Yeah! On both!"

"So you have off on both jobs?" Laurence questions once more, making Garroth laugh lightly.

"We've established that, yes."

"So you have off today and you came here?! Why? Don't you wanna rest!?" Laurence laughs and tickles Garroth lightly which earns him the view of Garroth burying his face into Laurence's chest and letting out muffled giggles.

"Because Laurence, you're always stressed out. You have four jobs for god sake! I want to help." Garroth says while shyly smiling. Laurence tries to resist the urge to tackle Garroth into a kiss. His heart begins to speed and flip, the feeling of butterflies overcoming his stomach.

"You're a living angel," Laurence whispers while the taffy pink blush on his cheeks slowly fades into a rose color.

Garroth smiles.

The rest of Laurence's shift, Garroth and Laurence continue to fool around, constantly giggling and tossing salt and sugar at each other. At one point Laurence put frosting in Garroth's hair. When his shift ends, they walk out of Olive Garden and into Laurence's car, beginning to drive off to Laurence's second job. While they drive, the song 'I hate you I love you' by Gnash and Olivia O'brien comes on.

Garroth frowns.

Laurence sighs and looks over at Garroth before looking back at the road, "You okay?"

"I really want you to be mine.." Garroth whispers with few tears brushing his eyes and gliding down his face. However, he quickly wipes them away without Laurence knowing.

"I know, Gar. I want you to be mine too, but you have to understand that I cant right now. I cant lose this job because then everything I've worked for, for both of our families will just disappear into thin air."

"Then tell your boss about the incident! Im sure he'll understand!"

"You don't think I tried!? Garroth I'm doing this for both of our families! Don't you think I wanna be yours? Don't you think I wish that I could get at least 5 hours of sleep every night?" Laurence snaps and Garroth begins crying. Laurence sighs and quickly pulls into the McDonalds parking lot so he could talk to Garroth. After he parks, he quickly turns to the crying blonde.

"Garroth... please don't cry."

"I-I'm s-sorry... I-I know t-that your j-just doing this f-for m-me and for y-you," He stutters, wiping his tears with his sleeve.

"Garroth. If I don't do this, who else is gonna help us?" Laurence whispers, slowly rubbing his hand up Garroth's arm to his shoulder.

"Kiss me."

"W-What?" Laurence stutters, surprised by Garroth's sudden demand.

"Kiss me, please."

"Garroth, I cant."

"Why not?!" He screams, bursting into more tears. Laurence hated seeing him like this.

"Because what if we get caught?!"

"Laurence! Please! We both know Harper is out with Emanuel and cheating on you right now! She's not going to come to McDonalds!" He shrieks, a red blush swiping across his face.

Laurence goes silent.
He wants to kiss Garroth. He really really wants to.

And so he does.