Anxious Boy

6

The next interviewer came in and sat down on the chair and I braced myself for the hurtful questions.

"Leo always wears long sleeves. He loves to wear your flannel. Why is that exactly?" He was holding back the tears knowing a lot about me.

"Cause he feels like it." He answered coldly.

"Well-" Cal cut him off.

"No more questions about Leo. All you guys are planning on saying hurtful things, but you should know that he's watching at this very moment." Cal has had enough as well. They look at the camera in shock. 

"Fuckin dumbass." Mikey finally says something.

"We're on live tv." The interviewer says as if they weren't asking hurtful questions about me.

"Wow. You're asking hurtful questions about Leo and it's not right. This should be questions about the band, not really people associated with us." Mikey stands up for me. Everyone is shocked and I don't even know I'm crying until Garrett says something.

"Hey, don't listen to those hurtful questions and comments. Do you want to come over or do you want me to come over? Or do you just wanna be alone?" He asks me.

"Alone." He nods as we continue to Facetime and focus on the interviews again. The interviewer is trying to trick Luke into revealing something about me, but he's not having it. He legit stands up and starts walking away.

"Get back here! We're not finished!" They yell at him.

"Keep asking questions about Leo, yeah we are!" Luke yells back his voice shaky. Ash quickly gets up and hurries towards Luke. They embrace and that's the moment Luke starts to cry burying his face into Ash's shoulder.

"One more damn question about Leo and we're done." Cal hisses a warning. Ash and Luke walk off frame probably to the bathroom to calm down. 

"Wait, why's he crying? What does he know about you that the rest of us don't?" Garrett asks trying not to pry.

"You'll find out in the future." Tell him as he nods. Focus on the interviews again even though I wanna continue to cry and probably hurt myself, but that would be letting them win.

"Leo should probably just kill himself." The interviewer says as Luke and Ash are walking back onstage. Luke loses it and lunges for him.

"Luke, no!" Ash says quickly grabbing him and holding him back.

"No! I don't wanna lose him! You don't know him like I do!" Luke's knees give out as he slowly falls to the floor crying.

"That's absolutely disgusting. Gross and toxic." Mikey says as him and Cal stand up. Cal helps Ash lift Luke up and they leave the building.

"Wait, do you self harm?" Forgot Garrett and I were on Facetime together as even more tears stream down my cheeks.

"Yes, but please don't tell anyone." Now I'm full on sobbing.

"I gotta go." End the Facetime and cry into a pillow as Petunia sits nearby. Luke walks in and holds me close as we both cry.

"I'm so sorry you had to see and hear that." Luke tells me as he continues to hold me close not wanting to let go.