The New Guy//roadtrip bxb

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there will be cursing in this story from here on out. consider this your warning, I guess😂

so before we start this whole thing, please note that this is my first fan fic. I'm probably not the best, and it took a lot for me to post this, but yeah. here we go, I guess.

Mikey's POV
I started trialing for Roadtrip around the same time as Brooklyn. We both ended up joining around the same time, too. So me and Brook were always really close.

Rye and I had known each other for years before Roadtrip had started. I'd known him before either of us had known any of the other boys, so he and I had always been close in that way.

Andy ended up becoming my best friend. Whenever anything was happening in my life, band related or not, he was there to talk to, and vice versa. So, yeah, we were close, too.

We continued trialing people. The band was always meant to be a 5 piece. We had trialist after trialist come in and try to earn their spot in the band. But none of them ever felt like the right fit for the band. That was, until Jack came along.

Typical Brook had to be left behind because he'd lost his passport. Of course, the show he missed was the show we'd found the perfect trialist at. We'd found him at the show, brought him back to trial, and, after a long trialing process, he ended up making it into the band.

It was great for us. The roadies loved him, and all of us boys loved him. He got on well with all of us, not to mention his voice meshed and fit into the band really well.

Jacklyn became an ever-popular ship with the roadies. Almost, if not, more, popular than Randy, I would say.

Things were going really well for the band. We were finally able to move into our own flat so that there wasn't 5 of us sharing one room anymore. Considering Jack and Brook were the youngest, and to be fair, really good friends, they were put together to share a room. Jack pretended to be mad about it at first, but everyone knew he really did love Brook.

Me, Rye, Harvey, and Andy had a harder time deciding who was going to bunk with who. At first we thought me and Rye would bunk together and Andy and Harvey would, considering that was who'd known each other longest, but that's not how it ended up.

To be perfectly fair, I was completely fine. Andy was pretty much my best mate. We grew a lot closer in that flat. So did Rye and Harvey. Brook and Jack, mate, that's a completely different story. To say they were closer was a huge understatement.

Not long after we'd moved in, Jack and Brook sat us all down, and told us they were dating. Of course, no one thought any different of them. All four of us loved the two of them like little brothers. Nothing could've ever changed that.

Jacklyn being real seemed to give Rye ideas, though. After awhile, he told me he thought he was bisexual. Soon after that, he said that he wasn't quite sure what he was, gay bi or anything else. It didn't take long for him to finally admit what I knew he was hiding. He liked Andy. Obviously.

I didn't think much of it when he first told me. I mean, I knew already. He was really bad at hiding things. What caught me off guard was when him, Andy, Harvey, me and Blair had a sit down to discuss "living circumstances".

Apparently Randy somehow ended up dating, and Andy wanted to switch rooms with Harvey so that they could share. This was news to everyone except Rye. Blair told them they couldn't because then the roadies would suspect something if they just switched rooms for no reason. Not that they weren't suspecting things anyways.

But that didn't stop Rye. He worked his butt off trying to find a house for us. Hogwarts. He did work really hard to get the band that house. But also to make it easier for him and Andy to have alone time.

The thing is, I'd seen what the roadies were saying. Randy forever. Jacklyn forever. They'd catch the ship moments for both Randy and Jacklyn and make edits and make fan accounts dedicated solely to them. I knew no one wanted me to be in any of the ships. And a lot of the time that just felt like they didn't want me in the band at all. Part of me knew it wasn't true, but the other part of me knew that, to some extent, it was.

I took the smallest room at Hogwarts because at that point, I'd known I was leaving the boys. I just couldn't take it anymore. It was only a matter of telling the boys and the roadies. I'd had a talk with Blair earlier about my family problems. It's not that I made it up to cover up feeling left out. They were both reasons impacting my decision. I just felt like feeling left out wasn't a good enough reason to put my career in jeopardy. My family would always be the most important thing to me, and honestly, I couldn't stand missing out on that part of my life anymore.

Blair had told me to tough it out awhile longer to see if I felt better, but that if I didn't, it was totally my choice to leave. He said he would always be there for me. That he would support my decision no matter what.

Eventually, I'd worked up the courage to tell the boys. They were all supportive. I think for most of them, it wasn't real yet. And it wouldn't be until I left for good. I loved the boys. So much. They were my band mates, my best mates, and my brothers. I was going to miss them, but I knew it was going to be best for all of us.

All that was left to do was tell the roadies.

983 words (without a/n)
quick disclaimer: any negative thoughts or opinions the boys have about themselves aren't my thoughts or opinions. they are solely for the sake of the story.
~Soph