𝚂𝚎𝚒𝚣𝚎 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚢 [Varian x Reader] ✔️

𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑉𝐼𝐼

𝚂𝙴𝙸𝚉𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚈

Louis sat atop a bunk bed at the orphanage. He couldn't fall asleep. He had been beaten up really badly by Snyder and the Delanceys.

   He was holding a blank piece of paper and a pen. He began to write a letter, singing softly aloud as he wrote. "Dear (Y/N), How are you?
I'm ok
Guess I wasn't much help yesterday
Snyder sulked me real good with my crutch
Oh yeah (Y/N), this is Louis by the way
These here guards
They is rude
They say 'jump'
Boy, you jump or your screwed
But the food ain't so bad, least so far
'Cause so far they ain't brung us no food~."

   Louis bit his lip. "Ha ha," he wrote. "I miss the rooftop,"

   He looked up out the window, remembering all the good times he had with his best friend. "Sleepin' right out in the open
In your penthouse in the sky
There's a cool breeze blowin'
Even in July~"

   He looked back down at his paper. "Anyways," he continued, "yeah, so, guess what
There's a secret escape plan I got
Tie a sheet to the bed
Toss the end out the window
Climb down then take off like a shot!"

   Louis furrowed his eyebrows. He let out a deep sigh. "Maybe though, not tonight
I ain't slept
And my leg still ain't right."

   He looked down at his busted legs. Dried up blood was stained on his white pants. Snyder had also given him a black eye.

   "Hey but the king, he's going down~
And then girl, I was thinkin' we might just go
Like you were saying~
Where it's clean, and green, and pretty
With no buildings in your way
And you're ridin' palominos everyday~
Once that train makes—"

   "Shhhh!" another boy said. Louis' singing had woken him up.

   Louis looked at him as the boy placed his head back on his pillow and closed his eyes. "Damn this place," he muttered. He continued to write. "I'll be fine, good as new
But there's one thing I need you to do
On the rooftop you said that a family looks out for each other
So you tell all the fellas for me to protect one another~
The end
Your friend."

   He scratched the last line out. "Your best friend," he wrote underneath it. He crossed that out too. "Your brother, Louis~."

   "All right, enough already!" someone else cried. Louis folded up the letter and blew out the candle that was seated on the fence of his top bunk.