Highschool ~ zonah

chapter 10

-third person pov

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after a few hours of being held by jonah and sleeping, zach was much better. he wasn't very shaky anymore and he was hungry, he was laughing and talking. he was okay, thanks to jonah.

"why should we eat?"

jonah asked, getting up off the bed with zach and grabbing his hand.

"i want spaghetti."

zach said, walking down the stairs with zach's hand in his. it wasn't too late to order postmates so they did.

"do you wanna stay tonight?"

jonah asked, handing zach a water bottle as they sat in the couch.

"do you want me to?"

zach asked, hoping jonah would say yes.

"i mean, there's no school tomorrow of course so, why not?"

jonah smiled, making an excuse just so he could spend time with zach. but zach, on the other hand, he was thinking about a lot. there would be no school for a week or so, right? they had to clean up and investigate.

"sure. i'll stay."

zach smiled, a kiss was placed on his cheek.

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the boys had eaten their postmates, and were now sitting on jonah's bed, talking.

for some reason, zach couldn't stop thinking about today. his breath got shaky, he felt like he was reliving those two hours where he had absolutely no idea what was happening and if he would be okay.

"zach? zach what's wrong??"

jonah said, pulling zach into a hug when he saw two tears slip from zach's eyes.

"two hours, two hours, jonah. i-i thought you were gone. i was sitting in absolute terror praying that he wouldn't come upstairs and murder me. and i was praying to fucking jesus that you were fine and nothing happened to you. j-jonah all those people, kids, teachers, innocent fucking people. it's so messed up."

zach said, his voice shaky and cracking. jonah wiped his tears and pulled him into a tight hug.

"listen to me, look where we are right now. we're fine. we lived through the terror. we made it. it's over. we're alive, love."

zach nodded, his last tear was wiped by jonah. jonah made him feel so safe, even when he felt like he'd never feel safe again.

"it's just, it's one of those things that, you'll never think would ever happen to you, until it does. until it really does happen and it's the worst thing."

zach said, his voice soft. jonah nodded.

"but it's over now. we survived it. and i'm so glad we did, i-i love you."

jonah said, placing a soft kiss on zach's forehead.

"i love you, too jo."

zach said, hugging jonah back. jonah pulled the boy into his lap, pulling him into a hug after. he ran his fingers through zach's hair lightly.

"thank you for doing this for me. it's probably annoying and i'm overreacting. i'm sorry."

zach said, looking up. jonah immediately shook his head at zach. he looked into zach's eyes.

"you are not annoying and you definitely aren't overreacting. don't be sorry. i'm here because i love you and because i want you to be okay. so come here, i'm here all night."

jonah said, opening his arms and welcoming zach in them. zach smiled, as he leaned into jonah's chest.

no matter what it was, jonah always seemed to make zach feel better, no matter what it was, he could always help.

jonah knew what had happened was bad, he was still traumatized himself, but he had to be strong. he had to be strong for zach, for everyone. he had to make sure zach was okay.

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that night was short, zach fell asleep in jonah's arms very quickly. something about jonah's arms just puts zach right to sleep.

jonah fell asleep soon after, holding someone also helps him fall asleep. they didn't sleep in too late, since they went to bed quite early.

it was around 9:30 a.m when they woke up. zach woke up first, he moved a little, looking up at jonah. jonah is a light sleeper, so he woke up from that. he woke up to a kiss on the cheek, which made him smile.

"goodmorning, z."

jonah said, his voice raspy and deep from just waking up. zach smiled.

"goodmorning , jo."

"how'd you sleep?"

jonah asked, bringing his hand up to zach's hair and running his fingers through it.

"good, actually. how did you sleep?"

jonah smiled.

"i slept great. what should we do today?"

zach asked, all the thoughts of yesterday had disappeared from his mind. he was better now that he'd slept.

"i was thinking...we have dinner, with our parents."

jonah said, grabbing zach's hand.

"for what? we only have dinner together on special occasions."

zach said, confused.

"i wanna tell our parents about us. about us being a thing."

he said, leaving zach shocked.

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a/n- tea teaaaa