Patrick quickly ran from the bedroom and to the living room. Pete was sitting on the couch, eating cereal and watching Friends.
"PetePetePetePetePete." Patrick whines, throwing himself on the couch next to Pete.
"What?What?What?What?What?" Pete looks at the smaller boy curling up next to him.
"I'm cold." Patrick mumbles.
Pete had on some thin flannel pants but he could feel the icy feet sliding under his thighs, not to mention Patrick's arms flying around him with his chilled hands resting on Pete's shoulders.
"Why are you so cold?" Pete sets down the bowl, grabs a blanket off the top of the couch, and swings it around Patrick.
"I dunno." Patrick curls impossibly closer to Pete.
Pete holds the blanket in place against Patrick with an arm around his waist. Patrick's eyes close and for a while he continues the small shivers. Soon though, Pete cannot feel them. He looks over at and sees Patrick asleep against his chest. He's almost to scared to move, not wanting to wake Patrick.
"This is my roaring, roaring 20s, I don't even know-" Pete's phone starts to ring and Patrick grumbles unhappily.
"Sorry." Pete mumbles sheepishly and grabs his phone. "Hello?"
"Pete!" Andy cries happily.
"What?"
"I found a new vegan place!"
"That's cool." Pete looks down to Patrick who has burrowed beneath the blanket in an attempt to fall back asleep.
"Yeah, we should go tonight! It'd be fun! Joe is gonna invite Brendon and Ryan. You and Patrick in?"
"Let me ask him." Pete says and then turns back down to the lump of blanket clinging to his side. "Patrick?"
"Hm?"
"Want to go out to dinner with the guys?"
"Yes."
Pete puts the phone back to him. "Yes."
"YAY!" Andy jumps happily.
"Brendon and Ryan are in too." Joe says from the background.
"Okay great, this is going to be wonderful! The first time we've all been together since..." Andy's voice falters at the end.
"Since the first breakup." Pete finishes.
Patrick pokes his head out from the blanket.
"Yeah..." Andy mumbles.
It's awkwardly silent.
Patrick crawls out of the blanket and Pete's arms. He reaches and snatches the phone from Pete's ear. "HI ANDY."
"HI PATRICK." Andy matches his volume.
"WHERE ARE WE EATING?" Patrick continues the yelling.
"UM." Andy yells. "JOE WHERE ARE WE EATING?"
"Dear god, voice control Andy." Joe mumbles. "It's called The Bite."
"IT'S CALLED THE BITE." Andy parrots.
"OKAY! SOUNDS GREAT."
"WHY ARE YOU YELLING!?" Joe cries from the background.
"ARE WE YELLING?"Pete asks.
"SOMEONE GET BRENDON UP IN HERE."
"NO! YOU'RE ASKING FOR EAR DAMAGE."
"I THINK IVE ALREADY GOT SOME BUT IT'S OKAY."
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The Storm Comes Before The Rainbow
Fanfiction•••Sequel to Rain••• Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump are high school sweethearts. Correction: were Pete and Wentz and Patrick Stump were high school sweethearts up until their unwanted-but necessary-break up in college. 6 years later and they've move o...
