Shipwrecked (Lawlorff)

XXVII

(Kian’s POV)

“Connor?” We ask, running towards his car. We haven’t seen him in awhile. Although we all remained friends after he left o2l, he hangs out with Troye and Tyler, and his girlfriend Bethany more than us. 

I click stop on the camera and it pops up a loading bar. Then, a notification states: upload complete. Looks like the whole world knows what happened now. 

He smiles and runs towards us, picking Jc up and hugging him. 

“CON!” Jc screams as Connor lifts him into the air, “What are you doing here?!” 

He laughs and turns to give Matt a quick little hug. He doesn’t know him as well, so he doesn’t feel the need to hug him as much. Matt limps over to Jc again and Jc helps him cut off the bleeding from his wound by tearing his shirt up and tying it around Matt’s leg.

“I’m here in the Bahamas to join the tour as a VIP guest at the next boarding! I wanted to keep it as a surprise from you guys, but when I saw Jenn leading them into the snack bar, I was suspicious. I mean, I was just gonna do some tanning before we all got on the boat for today’s meet and greet. But something looked off, and so I waited in the car for a few minutes. You guys weren’t coming back, so I assumed something was wrong.”

 He picks Sam up and hugged him tight. He frowns. 

“Sam.. you’re getting awfully thin…” he says, looking down at Sam’s tiny stomach and prominent ribcage. 

Sam’s face drops as he notices Connor looking at his cuts. 

Connor gives him another hug, and gestures for me to join in. I do, and then both Connor and Sam are hugging me tightly. 

I hold Sam’s hand and pull him into my chest. 

Connor continues. “So I called you guys to see if you were okay, and you two didn’t answer. Immediately, my thought was to call the cops. So I did. They’re on the way. I was waiting for Jenn to come by my car so I could hit her, and I didn’t exactly intend on killing her, but I guess that’s how it played out..” 

“It’s okay, Con. We’ll make sure you don’t get punished for this. We have it on camera. It should be uploaded to her channel right now, anyway.” 

Connor nods and he opens up the back of his car and Matt sits in it as we all try and clean up his wound. He’s wincing in pain and Jc’s holding his hand tight. 

“So, what’s been going on, here? I heard you two were dating..” Connor says, gesturing at Sam and I, holding hands. 

He nods and so do I. “Yeah, we’re dating.” 

“I ship it.” Connor replies, and Sam laughs. I look at Sam in admiration. His laugh is so calming, it makes me feel like I’ve already been to heaven. 

“How’d this all happen?” he asks us, raising up an eyebrow.  

“I’ve been in love with Kian for years… ever since him and Andrea broke up, things have been getting better.. but, I still didn’t have the courage to tell him.” 

I nod. “I’ve had a puppy dog crush thing going on with Sammy ever since Andrea and I broke up.. I flirted with him like crazy to see if he liked me back, but I still didn’t know for sure. That is, until yesterday..” 

“Kian came to pick me up at my house to go to the tour, and he flirted with me again until we got there. I guess I may have flirted back, a little. I almost fell off the boat, but he caught me, and for me, that’s when things became clear..” Sam adds