Face it Together

1:sleepover

What happens when you're scared, when you feel lost like you have no goal in life? What happens when you die? Do you go to heaven or hell? Does heaven and hell even exist? These were questions Henry asked himself often. He thought about death plenty of times. His biggest fear was his cancer coming back and causing him his inevitable demise.

 "Henry." 

MOTHER?

 "Excuse me No! It's Grayson you stupid!" Henry snapped back to reality.

 "Oh sorry Grayson." Henry looked at his best friend of eleven years, Grayson. "What's bothering you man." Grayson looked at Henry skeptically. "Nothing." Grayson hit the back of Henry's head. "Ow, what the hell man?!" Henry yelled out in pain. "Tell me what's wrong dickhead." Grayson said to Henry. "It's stupid but I just keep thinking about random shit like 'What happens when you die?'." Henry told him. Grayson laughed. 

"Bro what? That's so stupid!" Grayson was laughing his ass off. "I've been having a hard time breathing lately. It feels the same way it did when we found out about 'it'." Grayson stopped laughing. "What? Henry you're just being paranoid." Grayson said. "I don't know man, I got a really bad feeling about it."

 Henry started to tear up.

 "I hate this shit dude. It just isn't fair." Henry looked at Grayson, his vision blurring up from tears. "Hey bro, don't cry!" Grayson wiped Henry's tears away with his thumb. Henry swatted his hand away. "Stop it, don't treat me like a baby man." Grayson looked at him. "But you are a baby. You're my baby!" Henry blushed at this comment. Grayson just laughed again. "Bro! You should have seen your face just then!" Henry pouted at Grayson.

 "Boys! We're here, get inside!" "Coming mom!" Grayson yelled to his mom who was parked outside of the school, Grayson's father in the passenger seat. "Hey Mr and Mrs. Robert." Henry greeted Grayson's parents as he got in the van. "Hi Henry, how is Nancy doin'?" Mrs. Robert asked Henry as she drove off. "Oh, mama is alright!" Henry responded as he looked out the window, admiring the beautiful area of the country. "Grayson, how was school?" Grayson's father asked him. "Just wonderful, Steve." Grayson responded with sarcasm. Grayson was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Robert. Mrs. Robert (whose first name is Barbara) was the one who wanted to adopt a child but Steve didn't want one so he doesn't quite care for Grayson. "Don't use that tone with me, young man." Steve warned Grayson. "I'll use whatever damn tone i want to use." "Now now boys, you know our lord doesn't like families to fight."

 Oh yeah, their christians. 

"He isn't part of our damn family if we adopted him." Steve said bitterly. "Oh yeah? Well fuck you Steve, I'm happy I'm not part of your family and you know  what else? I hope you go to hell!" Grayson yelled at Steve.

 Barbara's eyes widened as he slammed on the brakes. "Grayson James Robert! Do not use the f word or the h word especially towards your father!" Barbara yelled at Grayson. Henry just sat there doodling in his notebook as he felt this was a family matter. "He is not my father. He is your husband and the man I hate." Grayson said as he looked at Steve and Steve looked back. They looked like they were going to kill each other.

 "Hey guys, look it's an ice cream parlor! Heh isn't that cool?" Henry said to try and brighten the mood. "That is a great idea Henry! Let's go get some ice cream and cool down!" Barbara said, patting Henry's head. "Yeah sure, whatever" Grayson said as he rolled his eyes.

The group sat at a table and ate their ice cream. Henry got Rocky Road, Grayson got Chocolate, Steve got Vanilla, and Barbara got Cookies 'n' cream. "Now," Barbara began. "I don't want to hear you two get in anymore fights. You hear me?" Barbara looked at Grayson and her husband sternly. "Yes ma'am." They both responded. Henry started to laugh as he found Steve saying yes ma'am funny but he quickly stopped when the mentioned man looked at him angrily.

 "So, Henry. How are your folks doing?" Steve asked Henry, taking a bite of his vanilla ice cream. "Oh, well their good. Papa is still paying the hospital bills from you know what." Henry told Steve as he avoided eye contact with the stern man. "Oh my, if your parents need any help, tell them they can contact us and we'll help in any way possible." Barbara told Henry. "I will, thank you Mrs. Robert." Henry ate his ice cream as he sat next to Grayson. 

Grayson climbed into the van, Henry soon following after him. "Now, Henry. Do you want to stay over at our house? Don't worry me and Steve are going out for date night so you boys will have privacy! It'll be like your old Saturday sleepover nights!" Barbara offered Henry. Henry looked over to Grayson who nodded rapidly with a big grin on his face. "Uh, yeah sure but I need to call my mom and tell her." Henry told Barbara who in return nodded and lowered the volume of the stereo. Henry called his mother. 

"Hello? Who is it?" The familiar southern sounding voice came on.

 "Hey mama, it's me." Henry told his mother.

 "Oh! Hey Henry, are you almost home?" "Yeah well I wanted to ask you if I could stay over at Grayson's for the night?" 

"Of course you can! As long as ya'll don't get freaky with each other." Henry's mother joked.

"Mama! Of course we won't. I love you, bye!" Henry hurried to hang up the phone.

"Wait! I wanna talk with Barbara! Put her on the phone boy!" Henry's mother told Henry.

Henry passed the phone to Barbara. "She wants to talk to ya." 

Barbara took the phone and put it to her ear. "Hey girl!" Barbara greeted Nancy.

Henry looked at Grayson and gave him a thumbs up as a way of saying 'She said yes!'. 

Barbara got off the phone and handed it back to Henry. "Alright well, we're here!" Barbara announced as she shut the car off. Henry stepped out of the car with Grayson following in pursuit. 

Barbara opened the door and put her coat up on the coat hanger. "Just put your shoes anywhere Henry hon!" Barbara told him as she went upstairs to get ready. Steve went upstairs as well. Grayson turned to Henry.

"What do you wanna do when they leave?" Grayson asked Henry as they sat down in front of the tv. Henry thought for a bit until finally deciding.

"Sleep."

"Booooring! Lets do something fun man." Grayson said as Henry looked at him. 

"What do you wanna do then?" Henry asked Grayson. Grayson turned around and looked at him with a devilish smirk and a glint of mischief in his eyes. Henry's eyebrows furrowed as he knew that whatever Grayson wanted to do was gonna be bad.

"Alright boys, we'll be back at around 9! Behave, okay?" Barbara kissed Grayson and Henry on their cheeks. "Yes ma'am!" They responded. "Bye!" Barbara and Steve walked out the door and walked down to the car.

"Now, ready to have some fun?" Grayson turned around to Henry. Henry looked over to him and groaned. "Yeah, whatever."

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oh my god. I DIDNT THINK I WOULD BE ABLE TO FINISH THE FIRST CHAPTER SO SOOOOOOON AHH! i hope you liked this! and please tell me if you would want me to make a book giving details about the life of henry and grayson and what the characters look like and other stuff! anyways hope you enjoyed this and please add this to your library if you enjoyed it. bye!