Boyf Riends

Vacuum

(months later)

(probably April)

(Jeremy's POV)

"Yellow."

"Hey, can you hang out today?" I asked into the phone.

"Agh, sorry Jer, I can't," Michael replied. "Maybe another time?"

"It's Saturday!" I said, incredulous. "I know how limited your social life is, what the heck can you possibly be doing without me?"

"Ouch. Way to put me down, Heere." I could hear the smile in his voice as he teased me. "I just got things to do. Try not to die without me."

"Is that a reference..?"

"Absolutely not," he said with a laugh.

"Suuuure." I laughed with him.

"I gotta go. See ya!"

"Bye." My smile quickly faded when he hung up.

I flopped onto a beanbag. Michael's never busy. Even when he was, he would usually just be spending time with Rich and I could go over and join them.

I picked up my phone again.

I_Can't_Heere_You: hey rich

ICHY: you there?

Legitimately2Hot4You: maybe

L2H4Y: whatchu want

ICHY: can you hang today?

L2H4Y: lmao no you loser

L2H4Y: hey but if you want I can hit you up with some games you can play for free

L2H4Y: and/or illegally

ICHY: I'm good

ICHY: thanks though

L2H4Y: k np

L2H4Y: byeeee

ICHY: Bye

I groaned in frustration. Were they hanging out without me? There's no way Michael would do that, but I couldn't shake the idea that it's possible.

After texting pretty much everyone else in our friend group, I gave up. Whatever the hell they're all doing, I was not gonna stop them. If they were too busy spending time without me, I wouldn't force myself on them. I didn't care. Definitely not.

(skip to another month later, just because otherwise this chapter would be way too short)

(May)

(Still Jeremy's POV)

"Sorry, but I'll see you tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah, of course."

As April went by, my friends had less and less time to spend doing legitimately anything.

"I'm just really tied up right now. Sorry!"

"It's fine. Don't worry about it."

I checked all forms of social media I knew they had to see if I could gain any clues.

"I have to go! Talk to you later!"

"Bye."

Nothing. Not even Jenna. Not only did they not have anything about whatever was going on, they weren't posting at all.

"Can't talk, Jeremy! Please don't call me at all in the next 3 hours!! Sorry!!"

"Um, okay. Bye."

It was as if all of them were sucked into a vacuum and weren't planning on finding a way out.

I guess I just had to wait for June.

Only a few painful weeks.

C'mon, Jer.