Short Stories - A Collection of Achievement

Fighting and Its Problems

A/N: So I know I said I was working on The Project and all that stuff buuuut, Freewood caught my attention thanks to a certain friend of mine. This is just a short little thing because I haven't posted anything in a long time. Enjoy!

Fighting and Its Problems

High school AU

Pairing: Freewood

Characters: Bully!Caleb, Freshman Ray and Michael, Sophomore Gavin and Ryan (and Caleb), Junior Joel.

As if Ryan wasn't worried enough when Gavin didn't answer a damn one of his texts and his call went straight to voicemail. Now he gets to school to find his boyfriend with a swollen black eye.

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"Gavin, what the hell?" Ryan questioned him as Gavin dug around in his backpack, "Why weren't you answering your phone?"

"My phone's broken. I dropped it in some rainwater yesterday." Gavin grumbled, still rummaging.

"You still could've called me to tell me."

"I was a little busy." Gavin's voice strained the tiniest bit; his telltale sign that he was upset.

Ryan ran his fingers along Gavin's spine, speaking softly.

"What happened, Gav?"

"Promise you won't get mad?" He nearly whispered, and in the gymnasium, it was almost impossible to hear.

"Promise."

Gavin nodded, still glaring into his bag before turning to him. He looked half raccoon, the bruise was so dark. His cheek looked like it was lightly bruised due to the fact that it was already yellowing, same with his nose..

But someone punched his boyfriend in the eye. That's something to be mad about.

"Who hit you?" Ryan hissed, turning Gavin's head at different angles to assess just how bad it really was.

"It doesn't matter, Ry.. I just got into a little scuffle." Gavin grumbled, trying to pull away from Ryan's surveillance.

"It does matter! You have a fucking black eye!" He growled, looking furious and dangerous.

"You promised." Gavin murmured, unable to meet his eyes.

"That was before I knew you were hurt." Ryan frowned heavily before his phone vibrated in his pocket.

/Kerry: Hey have u been on FB?/

[Me: No.. Why? What's on Facebook?]

/Kerry: im tagn u on this vid. watch it rn./

Ryan sighed, glancing to his saddened boyfriend. He leaned forward and swiped a quick kiss from his lips.

"I'm not mad at you. I don't like seeing you hurt, that's all."

Gavin nodded a little with a half smile.

Ryan's phone vibrated again.

"You're awfully popular today." Gavin joked softly.

"It's just Kerry. He wants me to watch a video on Facebook." Ryan sighed once more, clicking on his app and plugging in his headphones he fished from his pocket.

"Could I watch?" Gavin questioned.

"Of course." Ryan replied, handing him an earbud before tapping the video he was tagged into.

/"Hey, you bloody moron! He didn't do anything!"/

Ryan felt Gavin tense against his shoulder.

/"Yeah? What are you going to do about it, queer?" Caleb shot back, shoving the freshman into the lockers again, knocking his glasses askew./