"they needed the comfort only found when tangled in the sheets"
it was always them. the trio. to the three of them, they were the sun, the stars and the moon. just luke, thomas and apple.
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started & finished ; 2017
mature themes and language
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While at school the trio seemed happy enough but it was what happened behind closed doors that really mattered.
When Apple recieved her acceptance letter to the National School of Science when she was eleven, she knew that this would be her fresh start she had been wishing for for her entire existence.
She didn't expect that it would just be the start of more bullying.
She had sat alone on the shuttle that took new students to the main campus and dining hall. She had been alone for the first couple of weeks at the prestigious school and she didn't mind it. She liked the quiet. It was a change from the taunting and teasing she had experienced at elementary school in America.
But that all changed when Brodie Magers discovered she wasn't a natural genius. He seemed to hate her more than anyone.
He didn't pick on her the way he picked on Morgan- the teasing that was so clearly hiding a disgraceful crush.
Brodie picked on Apple with pure hatred. The racial slurs quickly changed to intelligence slurs, with Draco's clique shouting about her and why she deserved to die across the halls.
Even her own house wouldn't stand up for her.
A couple of weeks later, Thomas and Luke saw it happening and Thomas marched up to Brodie and punched him in the nose, while Luke yelled at him.
That was the day that Apple made her first friends.
But while the public bullying had stopped, Brodie still had the nerve to pull Apple aside occasionally to hiss racial slurs and threats into her ear.
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A short while after Luke's death, the two decided that the temporary distraction wasn't enough to drown out Luke's screams the two of them heard at night.
They used all their saving to buy a one room apartment in the city, and soon moved in together.
Each night Thomas would caress Apple's skin while Apple kissed him over and over again.
They would merge into one, becoming one and together they would drown out the screams, the pain and the nightmares for that night.
Sometimes, Apple would see Brodie at the grocery store and he would glare at her as she mouthed several dirty words at him.
