(A/N so in this, after the fire, Rich lost his memory for a month or two. Also, he be trans in this.)
"How is he, Jerry?" Brooke ran up to her friend, concerned.
"Rich or Jake?"
"Both."
"Rich is fine, just hasn't woken up yet. As for Jake," Jeremy paused, pointing over to Jake, who was sitting hunched over in a chair, "he's... Like that."
"Oh..." At that moment, the doctor, a young lady by the name of Marina, came into the room.
"I've got good news! And bad news... Which do you want first?" She said soft-spoken. Jake's head shot up.
"Good. Good news, please." The young woman was startled by Jake but eventually answered his question.
"Well, the good news is that your friend's awake-" Jake jumped up, which made Marina gasp sharply. "Dude, you've gotta stop that."
"Can I see him?"
"Yes. But you might wanna hear the bad news-" He ignored Marina and ran into the room, seeing his crush sitting up and eating cereal.
"Richie!" He hugged Rich, who had a really confused look on his face. "How's it going? You alright?" Jake said when he pulled away and sat down on one of the chairs.
"I guethth I'm alright but... I'm thorry, who are you again?" Jake's heart sank in his chest.
"W-wait, what?" Jake asked when Marina and the rest came back in.
"That's... The bad news. He's temporarily lost his memory. At the worst, it'll last a few months, but he'll be OK."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
Marina mentally facepalmed. "I was going to, but you ran in here before I could."
"Ah, yeah. That's on me."
"Can thomeone pleathe fill me in?"
"Well... Rich, do you remember anything?"
"I do know that'th not my name. It'th Rachael," everyone was silent, but Rich spoke up, "w-what did I thay?"
"Was... Was that inadvertently his way of coming out to us?" Jeremy questioned, everyone obviously still in shock that Rich outed himself.
"I guess. I mean, I already knew but..." Jake commented. "Alright, Rich. I know you don't remember me, but I'm your best friend, Jake. These others are Jeremy, Michael, Jenna, Christine, Brooke, Chloe, Madeline, Dustin, and Nick. Your friends. I'm first on your emergency contacts, too. So that's why we're here." He pointed to everyone as he said their names.
"Oh. Nice to... Re-meet you all, I guethth." Rich put his cereal back onto the nightstand. "Marina, are they telling the truth?"
Marina looked at her clipboard. "Yep. Jake Dillinger is first on emergency contacts, followed by Jeremy Heere, Dustin Kropp, and finally Nick Ling."
"Not my mom?" Jake pet Rich's hair.
"Sorry, bud. She's..." Jake put his head down next to Rich's arm.
"Oh..." Rich's eyes were quickly welling with tears, Jake immediately wiping them off.
"It's alright."
"Your nameth... They all thound familiar."
"What's the last thing you remember?" Jake asked Rich, the smol boy raising his eyebrow as he thought.
"I-I remember... A woman! Actually, it wath Marilyn Monroe. But thhe wath kinda green? Thhe wath yelling at me about how thtupid I am and how thomeone will never like me. Then thcreamth and warmth and... That'th about it."
Jeremy spoke up. "I remember he said something about his S.Q.U.I.P being Marilyn when he invited me over that one time."
"What'th a... TH.Q.U.I.P?"
"I'm gotta go..." Marina said, leaving the room.
Jake hugged Rich. "I'm so fucking sorry, Richie."
Rich blushed and felt something familiar about this. He hugged Jake back.
"What are you even apologizing for?" Jake looked up when Rich asked this.
"I dunno... Someone get Marina and ask when he's leaving." Jeremy shot up and did the hunger games thing.
"I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!" Michael whistled Rue's melody and everyone laughed when Jeremy ran out immediately.
A few minutes later, Jeremy was back with Zebra Cakes for some reason. "She says that they only have a few more tests, so it'll be tomorrow." He said, throwing all but one of the Zebra Cakes to Dustin, Nick and Michael.
Jake let out a relieved sigh. "Alrighty..." He looked back at Rich, who had fallen asleep in his arms. "God damn it."
Nick awed. "Jake, you sure you're straight? Cuz' you're blushing an awful lot." Jake seemed to blush harder at this question.
"You already know I'm not." Nick gave a confused look.
"Wait, really?"
"Yeah. You didn't notice the Pan pin I've had on ALL YEAR?" Jake pointed out the pin and Nick groaned.
"Hnnnngggggg... Yep, I'm an idiot."
Dustin laughed at his boyfriend. "Yes, babe. Yes, you are." He kissed Nick's temple, who just ended up groaning in embarrassment again.
"Stooooooopp." Dustin put his arm around Nick and nodded.
Jake chuckled. "So, Nick. Wanna make more fun of me for not being straight. You fucking hypocrite."
Nick paused, holding up one of his fingers. "Not wrong."
(A/N I shall teach you the calling of the A1C. Ready? AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaA. That's it.)
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BMC And DEH One-Shots
FanfictionI have way too many Boyf Reinds, RichJake, etc in my normal one-shots, so from now on they'll be on here. Also placeholder cover of Evil Callie because yes.
