Ej x Ricky one shots

Never alone

platform: archiveofourourown
author: izzybizzyfrizzydizzy or
MissMeow72

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For the past couple of days, Ricky's been noticing a certain change in E.J. For starters, he hasn't been keeping up with his schoolwork, even though he's a straight-A student. He's more irritable and angry at basically everyone, in a way that Ricky hadn't seen since he had been chosen for the lead over him. When Ricky had texted E.J, he rarely get a response back, when usually, E.J would reply within the minute. Something was wrong with E.J, and it didn't sit well with Ricky at all.

     Ricky sat in the theater, his legs kicked up over the chair in front of him, hands in his pockets. This was the usual meeting place for their friend group before school started, and it was Friday, meaning that it had been a whole two weeks since E.J had last been at school. His friends were chatting and laughing loudly across the room from him, but Ricky just couldn't get his mind off of E.J. Ricky had tried calling, texting, everything he could think of, but E.J never responded back. What had happened to E.J?

     Ricky was interrupted from his thoughts by a loud, familiar vice trying to get his attention.

     "Hey! He-llo! Ricky!" Nini snapped her fingers in front of Ricky's face a couple of times, the third snap seeming to do the trick.

     "Huh? What? Oh, hey Nins," Ricky said, snapping back to reality. "What's up?"

     "What's up is that we've been here for twenty minutes and all you've been doing is sitting here sulking or something!" Nini said, exasperatedly. "What's wrong?" Nini said, lowering her voice just a bit, looking directly at Ricky with sympathy in her eyes.

     Ricky inhaled a deep breath and let his head fall to the back of his chair. "E.J hasn't been at school for two whole weeks. I try texting him, nothing. I try calling him, nothing. I try dm-ing him, also nothing! Even though I did send some pretty cute pics along with the dm...Did he just fall off the face of the Earth?! I know I'm probably just over-reacting, but I'm worried, Nins." Ricky sighed again, before mumbling, "And I miss him."

     Nini gave Ricky a warm smile, before gently hugging him. "It's probably nothing, maybe E.J just came down with the flu or something. If you're really that worried, why don't you drive to his house after school?"

     Ricky's eyes instantly lit up when Nini mentioned checking up on E.J after school. That was a great idea! He was still nervous about E.J, so actually seeing him would probably help Ricky feel better. Just then, the bell for homeroom rang, and Ricky quickly thanked Nini and left for his first class.

     Nini grinned from ear-to-ear. "And I'll

bet that your boyfriend probably misses you too!" She shouted out after Ricky.

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     E.J was laying in his bed, the lights off and the curtains drawn. His door was shut, refusing to accept any light coming from outside. His phone buzzed time after time again in a worrying melody, but he didn't bother to check it. What was the point?

    

     He didn't have to look at the calendar to know that it had been two weeks since he last showed up to school. He had spent  those entire two weeks cooped up in his house. The sound of the buzzing on his phone gave some sort of comfort, because he knew damn well that his parents didn't care about him at all, and he hadn't heard anything from them since he stopped showing up to school.