Homestuck One-Shots |EN| ✓

Stand By Me [Tavros]

Throwing down my backpack on the floor and not even bothering to take off my coat and shoes I ran to the bathroom. I banged the bathroom door shut and locked it, letting out every emotion that has been collecting in me the whole day. Everyday was getting worse and worse. Even though none of them had a good reason for it, they kept looking at me as if I was trash, as if I was different. 
I know I shouldn't let those words punch and stab me, yet somehow I did, and I started to think about myself the same way. It must be true if a lot of people tend to act like that to me, right? I must be something that doesn't have any worth and I'm just taking up a place, someone more worthy would deserve.

Sliding down against the bathtub, I put the hood on my head and hugged my knees, trying to choke the sobs into my legs. 
A small, quiet knock on the door made me look up. 

"(Y/N), what happened?" 

Tavros was a friend. He was a Troll from Alternia and I was somehow able to connect to him through Pesterchum. I still have no idea how a creature from another planet could know about such a small platform Pesterchum was. But I didn't regret meeting him, he was nice and friendly, maybe a little bit shy, but that's totally okay. A small smile curved itself onto my lips and as I realized it, I wiped away my tears and got up from the floor. I kept the smile on my face, even though now, it was more fake than the whole butt of Kim K. 
After unlocking and opening the door I saw a boy, probably my age and a little bit taller than me, with a sorrowful look plastered on his face. Resolving that I shouldn't pretend to my only and close friend, I let the fake smile fall and sighed. He knew everything anyway.

"It's just the same as always." 

"You know you shouldn't let those words get to you when you know they're not true." 

"I can't. It pains me that they are insulting me every single day, without me knowing why." 

"Some people are just like that, they have a lot of self-hatred in them, and they don't know how to deal with it." 

"I know Tavros...." I sighed taking off my coat and taking it to the hall, where I hanged it on it's place.

"But only if I knew what is wrong with me, I would want to change it so much. I don't want to deal with this for the whole life." 

"You don't need to change anything about you. You're good the way you are." his sentece made me look at him. It sounded like a proposal, but apparently it wasn't judging by him starting to blush madly and starting to wave his hands in front of himself. 

"I-I MEAN- No, I-I didn't mean it a-as it sounded. You-You are good as a person, and I think it's better than being bad. NO WELL I-" 

I started giggling like a small child on his flustered situation and it interrupted his rambling. As I put my shoes away, I walked to him and patted him on his head.

"I know how you meant it, don't worry." I smiled at him. I couldn't imagine living anywhere without him now, he was like my partner in crime, like the Sherlock to my Holmes. 

"Thank you..." I whispered while I still kept looking at him. 

"F-for what?" 

"For you being here for me whenever I need it." I hugged him. I heard his breath catch in his throat, but he slowly snaked his arms around me. 
The hug felt good and calming. 
Just like I did, everytime I was with Tavros.