Blood and Brushes(shinkami)

God He's Good at That

⚠️⚠️ the chapter lengths might start varying in sizes a lot more than usual. So I can push more chapters out and make the story flow a bit more. ❌❌

Shinso pov))

Denki shifts in my arms for the 6th time in the past minute.

"You uncomfortable?" He freezes. "You don't have to tough it out. Just tell me."

"I'm just kinda restless." I sit up and take him with me.

"Well we can just sit and talk. My insomnia makes it pretty easy to stay up." He shuffles to sit in front of me sitting criss-cross.

"What should we talk about?" I shrug.

"You can talk pretty much endlessly about anything. And you know I could listen for hours." He smiles and grabs my hand.

"I could tell you all the tea I know. Wanna know it?"

"Tea? Like the drink?" He gasps.

"You seriously don't know? It's like drama, gossip. Stuff like that. My god you're a 65 y/o trapped in a 18 y/o body." I smile lightly.

"At least I have you. So what's the tea?" He giggles and plays with my fingers. Bending them lightly and sometimes rolling them.

"You're such a dork."

He launches into a bunch of different stories.

Some girl from his hometown sleeping with the entire baseball team.

3 guys let 100,000 flies into the school.

Two girls getting together then splitting again and again and again.

A teacher forcing her kids to write their phone numbers on the bored.

A really racist teacher telling a African American kid 'This isn't black church you can't show up whenever you want.'
(This literally happened at my school yall, he got his teaching license taken away)

Some random guy posting a bunch of girls nudes on a Instagram page.

My favorite story doesn't count as tea, I feel at least. Kids building a safe house in the forest.

"So word gor around town a bunch of kids were getting abused and ridiculed by their parents. And all the other kids felt back, me being one of them. So I finally asked my parents for some allowance and bought a lot of stuff along with a bunch of other rich kids. We got the word around we were building something in the woods. A really nice place for a brake from it all." He smiles lightly. "Except it wasn't in the woods. There was an old abandoned church on top of a hill 10 minutes away from the farm house. No one ever went there and the police had far since busted down on that place. It used to be a hotspot but the criminals using it spilt ans left quickly after they realized the cops were suspicious."

"How did they know it wasn't on the woods if that's what you told them?" He looks up.

"If you were actually talking about the forest on the outskirts of town you would say forest. Not woods. Adults never caught on. They just didn't I guess. Woods is the nickname we gave the church so we could talk about it freely." I nod as he continues. "Anyway so we fixed the place up and hid blankets and food and water. Kids could go if they just needed a break and rest for a bit. From what I know no adults know yet."

"That sounds cool. My old town was so boring. The orphanage though had some badass stories." He immediately sits up.

"Like what?" I think for a moment.

"The craziest one is that the lunch lady and a volunteer used to screw in the broken freezer in the kitchen." He gasps.

"Really?! Gross!" I nod and smile lightly.