Ryden Hell: The Sequel

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Ryan tries to fall asleep, but it doesn't exactly go well for him. After about two hours of barely being able to close his eyes, he decides to just give up. He goes into the living room, where Brendon is sat on the couch staring at his phone. Brendon looks up at Ryan upon hearing his footsteps.

"Why are you up?" He asks, dropping his phone into his lap.

"Forgot to turn off my alarm," Ryan lies, exhaustion evident in his voice as he sits next to Brendon.

"Idiot," Brendon laughs. "You should go back to sleep, though. Barely three hours is no where near enough."

"I don't know, man. I've ran for two days on half an hour before."

"Yeah, and then you passed out, right?"

"Okay, but that's a minor detail. It doesn't matter."

"If you wanna believe that, go right on ahead, Ross."

"Why are you complaining that I'm not sleeping? You haven't either. You've probably been up longer."

"Yeah, but I didn't just fly across multiple time zones."

"You know, technically flying is time travel, just very minor. I went back in time three hours."

Brendon takes a deep breath. "Jesus christ, you need to go back to sleep," he says, letting out that breath.

"I will if you will."

"Deal. Now go back to your room."

"Come with me," Ryan says, getting off of the couch.

Brendon just stares at him, confusion written all over his face. "Are you deaf?" Ryan asks, grabbing Brendons hands and beginning to pull him up. "I'm tired and I need to cuddle, so come with me, Bren."

"Ryan, are you feeling alright?"

"I'm just feeling really, really needy right now." He starts dragging Brendon towards his room, and doesn't stop until he's right by his bed. Ryan lies down first, motioning for Brendon to follow.

"He's actually lost his god damn mind," Brendon says under his breath. "Ryan, are you feeling okay?" He asks, audible this time.

"Why do you ask?"

"Just two days ago you wouldn't have given a shit if I died, and now you're literally asking me to get in bed with you."

"You make it sound sexual, all I want is to cuddle. Please?" He asks, giving Brendon puppy dog eyes.

"God damn you and your fucking cute ass face," Brendon says, finally doing as Ryan asked. Ryan wastes no time in curling up to Brendon, burying his face in Brendons chest. Brendon wraps an arm around him and begins tracing small patterns on his back.

"Hey Bren?" Ryan asks after a few minutes of silence. Brendon hums in response. "Were you in here before?"

"No, why?"

Ryan has to stop for a second to think, that definitely wasn't the response he expected. "I don't know, thought I you. Guess I'm just going insane."

"I mean, I looked in for like a second, just to make sure you actually went to sleep instead of just browsing the ruins of MySpace. That was it, though. Didn't actually come in."

"Oh, okay... G'night, Bren."

"Night, Ry."

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My mom showed me some baby pictures and I look pissed off for so much of my childhood god damn

I was so cute, don't know what happened there
Damn you, puberty

Also, a short story told in pictures

Translation: "living the dream, regretting the dream"

I went to see my schools spring musical and damn it was good
I didn't know so many people in my school could act
They did Funny Girl and like I was lowkey disappointed in the ending (spoiler??? Idk if people are still actually watching this)
Like I could tell at the end of tbe first act that fanny and nick were gonna break up but like
I was really hoping fanny and Eddie would end up together in the end
Like that's how it always plays out and I was highkey shipping it and then they didn't and I was highkey sad

Y'all I really fucking hate that its Monday already
This weekend seemed way too short
But like who decided that we go to school/work for five days, and then have off for two
Like that's just dumb
I'm really hoping for a snow day tomorrow tho and I actually hate that there's a chance of it happening
Like its gonna snow tonight
We're fucking half way through April mother nature can you not