Unleash The Wolf || Tommy/Lori/Merton ✔

Chapter 5

Once Tommy and Lori reach the hearse, they spot Merton in the driver's seat curled in on himself.

Tommy had suspected that Merton would have gone straight to his hearse. He usually does when he needs some time alone during school. It's the only place he can lock himself away from everyone.

"Well at least we don't have to walk all the way to the lair." Lori says, glad of the fact that they don't have to walk anywhere else to find Merton.

Tommy just nods in agreement. He didn't particularly fancy walking all the way from school to Merton's place, so it's a good thing Merton hasn't left the school grounds.

As Merton makes no indication that he's noticed Tommy and Lori standing next to the hearse, Lori knocks on the window in an attempt to get his attention.

Fortunately it works, and they've now got his attention. But not without him letting out a scream and falling back across the front seats in fright. But he quickly calms down as he sees who's standing outside. Though he appears to be a little on edge.

"Merton, unlock the door." Lori says, trying to open the door, but it won't budge.

Merton stares at them, slightly annoyed that they scared him like that, and because he had told them to leave him alone but they've completely ignored him.

He's not entirely sure if he wants to even unlock the door now and let them in. He wanted some time alone, but they've chosen to ignore that, and come find him anyway.

"I told you to leave me alone." He says, opting to wind down the window instead.

"Well we decided that we don't want you to be alone right now." Tommy says. "Now unlock the door so we can get in."

Merton narrows his eyes at them. He knows that if he unlocks the door, that they're going to continue to berate him on the way he's acting towards the bullying. So he's not going to unlock it. Even if he finds that he wants Tommy and Lori in the hearse with him right now.

Sighing, Lori moves away from Tommy, and reaches into the hearse and unlocks it herself, pushing Merton back out the way before he even has time to react.

"Ow, Lori!" Merton yelps as Lori accidently knees him in the groin as she climbs over him to get to the other side of the front seat once she's got the door open.

"Sorry!" Lori says as she sits down, pulling Merton close to her side as Tommy climbs in beside them, choosing to sit very close to Merton.

Merton freezes, unsure of why the hell Lori and Tommy are sitting so close to him. Though he can't deny that he likes this, and wishes that he could have this every day. But usually when Lori in particular is this close to him, usually it ends with him getting hit.

With Tommy on the other hand, well... he's always gotten a little close to him. But never as much as he is right now though.... It's always been nothing but platonic.

"What... what's this about?" Merton asks, his cheeks heating up a little as Tommy pulls him and Lori close to him, and Lori rests her head on his shoulder.

Having his best friends this close to him... it's been something he's wanted since the day Lori first joined his and Tommy's little duo. And he won't admit it out loud to either of them, but he's in love with both of them. Madly in love....

But he knows he can't have either of them. They don't think of him that way, no matter how much he hopes that they do. They probably don't even care for him as much as they say they do....

Well, obviously they do care about him. He knows that they do. But not in the way that Merton wants them to.

"We don't want you to be alone right now." Tommy says.

"And we don't like seeing you hurt." Lori adds, leaning up to kiss his cheek - which catches Merton even more off guard.

Especially so when he finds that Tommy has taken a hold of his hand in his own, squeezing it gently, as he... kisses his forehead?

What the fuck?

Merton feels like he's in a dream. That's the only explanation he has for this. Why else would Tommy and Lori be this affectionate to him?

"Th-that's not what I mean." He shakes his head, his cheeks turning redder than they were before. "I mean... what's this about?" He gestures between the three of them. "Why are you guys sitting so close to me? Why are you both being so affectionate?"

He may like it very much and never want them to stop, but he doesn't understand why they're doing it. No one has ever shown this much affection to him, or any kind of affection whatsoever. Not even his own parents or his sister.

Tommy looks down at him, frowning. "We care about you a lot, Merton. More than you think we do." He says. "Would you rather we treat you the same way as everyone else does?"

Of course he'd rather they not treat him just like everyone else does. But as much as he's been craving this sort of affection from Tommy and Lori, it's not something he ever expected that he'd get to have from them. So excuse him if he's a little taken aback and confused at all this.

"N-no. Of course not." He says. "But why?"

There's got to be some reasonable explanation for this. Maybe they've been put under some weird trance.... Has he been reading any sort of spell book lately and has somehow cast a spell on them to make them both act like this towards him without realizing? He's pretty sure he hasn't... he'd remember if he's read anything that would cause something like this.

Or is this just a dream? Or has he died and gone to heaven? In a coma? Maybe TnT have beaten him into a coma and all this is just in his head. That could very likely be exactly what's happened.

Yeah... that sounds about right.

"Because we love and care about you a lot." Lori says. "And you deserve all the love in the world."

Do they really? He knows that they do care about him, but do they really care about him more than they say they do? As much as he wants this to be true... he craves for this to be true... he rather doubts it. It's likely they're just saying things to make him feel better.

"TnT have beaten me into a coma haven't they?" He asks.

It's the most logical reason he can come up with, and one of the only reasons that makes the most sense. TnT have beaten him into a coma, and all of this is just mind showing him what he wants most but can never have.

Yes. That's exactly what's going on.

Although, if you're in a coma, are you usually self aware that you're in one? Merton wouldn't know. He's not had any experiences with being in a coma before....

"If they have, then they'd already be dead by now." Tommy says, and Merton only just notices the low growl coming from Tommy at the mention of Tim and Travis.

"Hey, why don't we get out of here somewhere more private?" Lori suggests. "There's some things we need to talk about, and it might be better if we're not on school grounds."

"I think so too." Tommy says, agreeing with her, as he pulls away from them to start up Merton's hearse and drive out of the school parking lot.

It'll be best they talk about all of this in private away from school grounds. They don't want anyone to come along and disturb them, even if all they'll be doing is talking and nothing else. At least for now.

Merton looks between Lori and Tommy. Not quite liking the fact that there's things they need to talk about. And he knows exactly what these things are that they need to talk about.

Talk about what the hell is going on between them right now, and that Tommy and Lori are going to once again rant about how he's been acting towards the way the entire school treats him.

And he doesn't have a shred of doubt that Tommy is going to try and convince him to let him do something about TnT....