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It was only a few days until the fall fair. Father Markus felt that all the choir had been ready for it and was positive that they will win first place. But he knew there was one person who had not been ready, Mischa Bachinski. "Okay everyone, urgent meeting," he looked around for Mischa, "dear lord help me. Does anyone know where Mischa is?" He asked the choir but received 'no' from most of them. 

"He's probably skipping again like usual Father," Ocean said with a smug look on her face.

"Thank you for always pointing out the obvious Ocean." Noel said while rolling his eyes at her.

While the two were about to start fighting, they stopped as soon as Father Markus had glared at them, "You two done?" They nodded, "Good, so I believe we are all ready for this concert. But we need Mischa for it to be complete. The reason I called you all for this meeting is because I need one of you to help that boy. So, any volunteers?" He looked around to see if anyone wanted to help. No one did, "If none of you don't want to help you know I have to choose right," the choir all looked at each other hoping that it just ends up in Father Markus helping the boy one on one. "No one? Fine, Noel how about you help him," when Noel had heard his name he widened his eyes. "Father, why me?" He asked while still being shocked.

"Don't try questioning me, Gruber, meeting dismissed. The rest of you can go back to practicing, except for you Noel. Meet me in my office." Father Markus said while walking away from the choir. As they all disbanded, Noel walked to Father Markus' office annoyed.

"You wanted to see me Father," Noel said standing at the doorway of his office.

"Good you're here, now look, I know it may not sound the nicest having to help him if it seems that he doesn't want it but I can tell deep down that kid is a good boy. You all have just not given him the chance," he told the boy who had been standing in front of him. 

"With all due respect Father, what makes you think I have the ability to help him?" Noel had asked trying not to seem rude.

"I think it'd be a good challenge for you and for you to get to know the boy instead of judging him." Right before Noel was going to speak again Father Markus had started up again, "And before you complain why the others aren't doing this, I'll tell them to get to know him too, also who knows maybe something good can come out of the friendship you make with him." The student who was in his office just scoffed at him.

"How do I start something with him if no one knows where he is half the time," he asked with an annoyed tone in his voice.

"Well is he in some of your other classes?" Father Markus asked.

"He was in my math class earlier, the last time I seen him was after lunch but he was walking alone somewhere." Noel really didn't want to do this but he did realize he should at least give Mischa a chance.

"So you'll agree to do it?" Noel nodded, "Good, you're free to leave now Noel." With that being said Noel bolted out of the office as quickly as he could.

Once he had returned to where the other choir members were, they were very quick to bombard him questions. He dodged all of them of course and just asked his choir mates if they had any idea of where Mischa could be. "It's no luck to continue asking where he is Noel, we really don't know where he is," being unsatisfied with all the answers he had received from them he excused himself out of the classroom to go on the hunt for the boy. From what he remembered from the last time seeing Mischa around was him walking outside of the school towards the parking lot, so that's where he looked first. As soon as he got outside he had smelt the strong scent of weed coming from around the corner and as he walked over there, he had instantly spotted Mischa sitting on the sidewalk on his phone. Being annoyed with having to find him and having to be the one to get him to participate in choir activities, he angrily walked up towards him. Mischa had taken notice that he was walking up to him and just stared for a second before he started talking, "Yo, Noel is that you?" By the time Noel was next to him he was already about to burst out in anger ending up in yelling at Mischa. But he didn't do any of those, he simply kept his peace.

"Yes, it is me Mischa. Where have you been?" He asked while nudging the boy who had a faint scent of weed on him. 

"I've been here, I did not want to go to choir," he just shrugged after saying that.

"Mischa, we literally have the fall fair in a month and we need you to contribute for it because unlike the last few years, we're actually going up against other schools. And we need to win this according to Father Markus" Noel said with slight anger in his voice.

"What do you want me to do then," Mischa questioned. "I want you to work on your parts in our songs, I will even help you with it," the other boy instantly shot down Noel's request. "Yo, I can't do any of that, plus I lost my part of music," he said with a slightly saddened tone of voice.

Noel wanted to scream at Mischa but since he wanted to convince the boy to start participating in choir he started to reassure him. "Well that's what I'm here for, I can help you as long as you start to try in choir, okay?" Hearing Noel speak in a comforting tone made Mischa agree to start helping. Soon after Mischa had agreed the two of them had started to head back towards the choir room. As they stepped into the classroom together the choir and Father Markus had been shocked that Noel could even find Mischa and that he could even convince him to attend choir. 

Ocean immediately ran up to him to start criticizing him and yelling at him for being absent, "Mischa we need to be perfect for this concert and if we lose it, your lead singer won't be happy." She said while looking up at him trying to seem intimidating, ending up in her getting laughed at by not just Mischa, but all of the choir. 

Noel walked to where Mischa was being ‘interrogated’ by Ocean. “Just saying, this would probably be a good time to tell her what happened with your music sheet.” He whispered towards the tall boy. “You sure? She will kill me no?" He said while looking down at Noel who was behind him.

"What do you mean 'kill you', what could you possibly have done to anger me even more Mischa!" He had forgotten that she was still in front of him and giving him a nasty stare.

"I lost my music piece," he said in a low, whisper like tone. He thought if he said it that way Ocean wouldn't hear him, but oh. She definitely did.

"I'm sorry you what? You lost it? Mischa, that is so careless and irresponsible," she then went on to lecture Mischa on why he was imprudent for losing his piece in the song.

Noel watched while all this went down and honestly it made him giggle a bit. The way Mischa was just ignoring half of what Ocean said while she yelled at him made him think the whole situation was very humorous. As Ocean calmed down a bit she stopped yelling and started talking like normal, "Well lucky you mister, I made sure we have lots of extra sheets of music for each individual part, I'm sure you can just ask Father Markus. So go do that now!" She said while shooing him away. As he walked away he went up towards Noel.

"How do you deal with that little ginger," he said while plopping down next to sit next to him.

"It's a hard task, you'll get used to it once you're around her more. Also while you were getting yelled at I went and grabbed an extra sheet of your music for you," he said while handing the boy who was next to him the paper. "You're welcome," Noel said while shooting a smile towards him. 

Mischa didn't know why but something about Noel's smile warmed him up, "Thanks Gruber."

He skimmed over the piece of music that Noel gave him, he was a bit familiar with it since he actually did attend choir most of the time and did not skip choir as much as the other members make it seem. There were a few parts that he did not understand in it but he was very confident in himself maybe a bit too confident. "Yo this looks super easy, I can do it on my own yeah?" He told Noel, Noel didn't believe him one bit.

"Oh really? I'd like you to sing it all right now in front of me then," Mischa accepted the challenge from him and started to sing it. Now, his voice was naturally pretty low and as he sang it was in the right pitch but he just sounded like he was talking rather than singing. 

Noel giggled at him, "Yeah you're definitely going to need my help."

"What you think my singing is bad?" He said while trying to sound offended in a joking way.

"Not bad, just not good either!" Noel told him in a teasing manor receiving a playful push from the other, "I can help you after school if you'd like me to and of course if you're free." He told him while slowly getting up from where they were sitting.

"Can I drive us to your place after school and we will work together from there?" He asked while following Noel as he got up. Noel nodded and as the bell rang they grabbed their stuff and started heading out of class towards Mischa's car. Sure his car was a bit run down but Noel decided to ignore that. When they go closer to the car Mischa had opened up the passenger side door for Noel.

"You're such gentleman Mischa," he said in a flattered way while hopping into his car. Soon after Mischa got in on the drivers side they started heading to Noel's place.

"Noel, how do I get to you place?" He asked the boy who was in the passenger seat.

He looked up at the other, "Don't worry I'll lead you there." 

The drive there was quite nice to Noel actually, aside from listening to rap the whole way, but the scenery of driving home always made him feel relaxed. Once they go there he realized he had forgotten that his mother was home and as they pulled into the driveway Mischa could tell there was something going on with the change in Noel's facial expression. 

"Is everything okay with you?" He asked a bit worried.

"Nothing, it's just I forgot my mother was here." He told Mischa.

"What is wrong with that," he said curiously, "Well it's just that, the times I've brought a boy home she assumed that they were my boyfriends and scared them off." Noel said a bit embarrassed admitting that to Mischa.

"What if I pretend to be your boyfriend and fool your mother?" That question made Noel's eyes widen and he thought about it for a bit. The thought of getting a rise out of his mother from bringing a boy like Mischa home was very funny to him so he agreed to it.

"Sure, but you need to behave yourself around my mom you got that." He said trying to be slightly threatening but Mischa just laughed and nodded. As they got up to the front door, Noel had a feeling that this was going to be a very interesting night.

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Before Noel had opened his door to let both himself and Mischa inside he felt a pair of arms wrap around his waist. Looking down he had questioned why the other boy was doing that, "What are you doing?"

"I want your mother to be convinced I'm all over you." he said whispering in Noel's neck.

"That's a very interesting thing to want to do but I guess it'll look more convincing," Once they got inside they were quickly greeted by his mother. "Noel! Welcome back from," right as his mom was going to hug him, she noticed that there was a boy behind him and already hugging him. "

"Sweetheart who is this?" Mischa got up from being behind Noel to greet his mom, "Hello, mrs. Gruber!" He said very enthusiastically while shaking her hand.

As his mother stood there very surprised that her son had brought some boy home. "Mommy this is Mischa," he said as he grabbed onto the arm of the boy who was next to him. "My boyfriend," Mischa couldn't lie he felt like a young boy who had found his first love when he was called 'boyfriend'.

"Oh my well it's very nice to meet you Mischa," she said while giving the random kid in her house a warm welcoming smile. 

"We'll just be up on our way to my room now mama if that's okay," he said while slowly leading Mischa towards the stairs.

"That's fine sweet pea, just don't do anything I'd do!" She joked with the two boys and let them head upstairs into Noel's room.

Knowing that Noel's mom was still watching as they go up Mischa smacked Noel's ass receiving a yelp from Noel and a gasp from his mother. Soon after they were inside the boys room he received a death glare from Noel, "Why would you do that!" He said while pushing the tall kid a bit as he laughed at him.

"Hey you are blushing," he teased causing Noel to actually start burning up.

"No I am not Mischa Bachinski," he said while pulling the other down so that they were face to face with each other. As they were close to each others faces Noel could see how wide eyed and red the other had gotten. Noel smiled and winked at him while he quickly moved back from his face.

"Clearly you're the one who's all red."

"Little asshole."

"Speak up I didn't hear that babe," Noel could see how much this was making Mischa go wild and bring him to a loss of words, which he didn't quite understand why it was.

To break the awkward silence he decided to speak again, "You know we should really start working on your piece of the song."

"Oh. Yes, yes let me grab sheet out," the other said while ransacking through his backpack, once he finally took it out he gave it to Noel.

"Hmm, okay so what you need to do is follow the vocal exercises I do okay?" The other nodded and followed his lead in exercises.

"Very good so far, now I need you to sing this all for me," Mischa got a bit embarrassed to do so once he had asked but Noel reassured him that he would not laugh or be judgmental so he went on with singing.

"Not bad but you see this?" Noel pointed at a specific part in the piece, "You need to go lower than you already are," Mischa nodded and attempted to sing octaves lower than he usually does.

"Is that good?" he questioned.

"It could flow easier, here do it again and I'll help you." As the other sang it again Noel grabbed his hands, "First you should feel your voice here in your chest and as you decrescendo, you should feel it here," Noel said as he dragged his hands down near Mischa's diaphragm.

Mischa reattempted this part again and again until he got it perfect. Once he finally got it all down he was congratulated by the cute boy who had been helping him the whole time. "You finally got it down Mischa!"

"Could not have been done without help of you Gruber," he said while winking at Noel making him roll his eyes while smiling a bit.

The two decided to take a little break and grab some snacks downstairs. When Mischa had walked up to Noel's room door to get some Noel had stopped him very quickly. "Wait let me give you kiss marks on your face so it looks like we've been kissing." He told Mischa while putting on dark red and very pigmented lipstick.

"Is this okay with you?" He asked before going in to give him a bunch of fake kisses.

"Feel free to give as many as you want," and with that response he was attacked with lots of kisses (none on the lips though) which were marked all over his face. Mischa had to admit this was making him feel lots of feelings at once, but he wasn't going to openly admit that to Noel.

"One more quick thing," Noel messed with the other boys hair to make it look messy, once he finished doing that they headed downstairs. Mischa clung onto Noel so by the time they were in front of his mother it looked more convincing, even though there was a part of him that wanted to do that. It was perfect that Noel's mother had been in the kitchen as they got down so they put on a big performance. "Mon amour, I was all over you earlier you don't have to be clingy like this," Noel said holding onto the arms Mischa had wrapped around his waist.

"I cannot stand being away from sweet touch of you," Mischa said as he squeezed the other a bit tighter and put his head in the crook of his neck.

"Aww you want me that much," he felt the other nod in the crook of his neck, "You are very flattering mon chéri." Once Mischa finally let go of Noel and faced him so that they were looking at each other. He glanced over to his mother who was just looking at them strangely but not saying anything. Wanting a reaction out of his mom, he took the face of the boy who was looking down at him and brought it closer to his face so that he could give him a fake kiss on the top of his head. 

"Noel, you and your little lovebird forgot I'm here haven't you?" She said in a jokingly annoyed tone.

"Sorry mama, he's just too cute for me not to show affection," he said as he squished Mischas face causing the boy to burn up. Noel didn't think too much about this and thought it was funny that he had burnt up.

Mischa had remained silent until they walked back up into Noel's room. Once they got in there he was interrogated on why he was being so silent, "What happened to all your confidence back there?" He said with a stupid smile on his face.

"How was I supposed to focus if you kiss my head," he earned a blank stare from Noel.

"You made me lose guard is what I am saying," Noel raised his eyebrow.

"So I made you flustered is what you're saying?"

"No, I did not turn flustered, just lost guard."

"Mhm. Well anyways, I need to clean your face." As Noel went to grab makeup removers he seen that Mischa had taken a photo of himself.

"Did you just take a picture of yourself," he asked as he laughed a little.

"I was checking myself out Gruber, this lipstick all over face makes me look hot," he said in a very bold tone.

"True I guess, you do look hot." Mischa quickly darted his eyes over to Noel who had covered his mouth from being embarrassed to what he had confessed.

"You think I look hot?" He said while cheesing very hard at the boy standing in front of him.

Noel gave him a tiny punch to the arm, "You know I didn't mean it like that."

"You still find me attractive yes?"

"Just shut up and let me take off all that lipstick," as the other boy was going to give another snarky remark, he was quickly shut up by his face being wiped with makeup remover. After the many times of being wiped with what felt like multiple wet rags, Mischa's face had finally been clean again.

"Look at you, you're all cleaned up now."

"Do I look hotter now?"

"Hm, I mean my lipstick did look pretty hot on you I'll admit." Noel said as he held Mischas face causing the other boy to give a blank stare.

"You get flustered so easily Mischa," he looked up at Mischa as he just stared at him. "Why do you keep," he was quickly caught off guard by getting tackled onto his bed by Mischa. As he was pinned down to his bed by the tight squeeze of Mischa he started squirming around and play fighting with the other boy who had been laughing at him.

"At least take me out to dinner before you want to do something like this Mischa," Noel joked and was soon met with the confused face of Mischa's right in front of his.

"Did you just use flirting on me Gruber?" He asked while laughing at Noel.

"No, you didn't hear that."

"I heard that clearly and loud."

Noel pushed his face away and looked over to his clock. It read 10:01, "Don't you think it's getting pretty late?" The other looked at the time for himself and shook his head.

"This is not late at all for me. Plus I have no time to be home," he said as he shrugged.

"Well you can't sleep late tonight, choir is at 7:50."

"Do I need to go?"

"Yes, you do." Mischa had tried to protest but Noel would not let him, "We need you there and it's going to finally sound all together now that we have you." He heard a groan come from the boy lying down next to him.

"I am going to make you go Mischa, I will even make you sleep and make sure you stay asleep."

"That does not make no sense yo. You want to sleep with me?"

"That...that's not what I meant at all," Noel said sighing at the question he had been asked. "I meant I am going to make sure you're there on time and that you sleep early enough to get up on time."

"I would not mind sleeping with you I am just saying," he winked at Noel.

"You are so dumb Mischa." 

They heard a knock from the door, it was Noel's mom. "You two boys okay in there?" Mischa immediately pulled Noel on top of him and whispered to him. 

"Pretend you are making out with me on lap." Before Noel could whisper anything back he heard his mother talk again. "I'm coming in boys!" She yelled out loudly.

As she walked in she seen her son sitting in his 'boyfriends' lap making out, well at least that's what she thought they were doing. Noel quickly got off of Mischa as she entered the room. "Oh, hi momma," he said as he smiled awkwardly at his mother.

"Baby I didn't mean to interrupt anything I just, um, came to drop off your laundry."

"Thank you mom." He said while he watched her with an embarrassed look on his face as she walked out. He heard laughter come from the side of him, "You know my mom probably thinks we've done stuff right?" 

The others stupid laughter quickly stopped, "I did not think of that."

"I could tell you didn't," he said as he poked Mischa on the nose.

"Okay but seriously Mischa you should go home soon, it's getting late."

"Why can't I sleep here?" He asked Noel in a somewhat flirtatious way. The other just raised an eyebrow.

"Probably because I don't need you to bother me while I sleep," he heard a whine come from Mischa. "Don't worry you little flirter, I'll see you at school tomorrow."

"I will go home then," he said pretending to be sad.

"Come on let's go," he gestured his head towards his rooms door as he went to grab Mischa's stuff. Once the other boy had all his stuff they started to head downstairs.

"Before we go down, when you leave can I give you a kiss on the cheek?" Noel asked and Mischa just nodded.

"Momma, Mischa's leaving now," he said while calling out to his mother. When she heard him she had gotten up to say goodbye to her son's 'boyfriend'.

"Goodbye dear," she said as she shook Mischa's hand.

"Bye Mrs. Gruber," he said back and smiled at her. When Noel turned to lead him out the door he planted a big kiss on the others cheek causing both Noel's mother and the boy who had received a kiss to go wide eyed. There was a little faint kiss mark since Noel had still been wearing lipstick and that him laugh a bit. As he walked out with Mischa to his car he said his goodbye and threatened him to go to sleep as soon as he got home.

On the drive back to his home Mischa thought about Noel and was very confused to why he liked every fake romantic gesture he had done towards him. He decided to try and stop thinking about Noel but he couldn't. By the time he had gotten home, he threw himself onto his bed and thought about Noel Gruber for the whole night.

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That morning Mischa had gotten up at 5:30 in the morning. The night before Noel had texted Mischa as a reminder to get up early, Noel didn't believe the other was telling the truth but he was very wrong. When he had awoken he got ready very quickly and had texted Noel asking if he needed a ride. By the time the other had awoken (it had been around six in the morning) he was very surprised to see a text come from Mischa so early. Just to make sure that he wasn't dreaming, he called Mischa, and to his surprise the other answered super fast.

"Hello Noel!" the other boy had sounded very overjoyed to talk to him.

"Hey Misch," since Noel had literally just gotten up he was still tired.

"How did sleep go sleepy beauty?"

"Did you just call me sleeping beauty?"

"Yes, sorry was that bad complement," he had asked very embarrassed if he had made Noel annoyed.

"No, no, it was cute," he had to ignore the fact that being called that had made him feel butterflies in his stomach. "Anyways could you pick me up before we head to school?"

"For sure bae," Noel cringed at that and laughed a bit.

"Do not call me bae."

"Whatever you want shawty," Mischa was cheesing being able to call Noel all of these silly romantic things, even if it really meant nothing to the other.

"That's somehow worse, but pick me up in thirty okay?"

"Will be there right away!"

And just like that their little call had ended, as Noel was getting ready Mischa had been very impatient to pick him up and constantly checked the clock to see if thirty minutes had already passed. Once thirty minutes had eventually passed he was quick to be at Noel's house. When he had arrived he waited about fifteen more minutes until Noel had come out. Noel had been taking his time getting ready since it was only 6:50. As he exited out of his house he was stunned on how early Mischa had been doing things. Mischa caught the sight of Noel walking up towards his car and stood there in awe for a second because he thought Noel looked amazing, even if he was just in his regular clothes. The other hopped into Mischa's car very drowsy. "Why are you looking at me like that?" The other questioned as the boy next to him looked at him as he just hung up all the stars in the sky.

"You look amazing, Gruber."

"Flattered but we're not around anyone right now, you don't need to pretend," he said as he laid his head back into the passenger seat of Mischa's car. 

"Could I flirt to you more when we are with choir?" He asked.

"I guess you could," he said while looking out the window. He had checked the time and noticed it was still early so he decided to ask Mischa if they could get some snacks before school started. Mischa, being head over heels for Noel, agreed to go stop for some. They stopped at a 7-Eleven, Mischa kept insisting to pay for everything but Noel would not let him so they just paid for their own stuff. After getting some snacks they headed on over to school. When they arrived they went to the choir room and as they got there everyone was shocked that the 'rebel' had come early. Ocean instantly ran up to him filled with joy.

"Mischa is that really you?" She joked.

'As much as I hate to say the same things as Ocean, is that really you?' Signed Ricky.

"Yes little ginger and Ricky, it is me, I have only come early since my shawty made me." He tried to keep himself from laughing after calling Noel that.

"What have I told you about calling me that," he said as he glared at his 'boyfriend'.

"You get so angry over it, it is very cute."

"Shawty? Cute? Noel are you guys not telling us something?" Constance asked.

"Sorry, he just loves to call me dumb pet names." As he said that Mischa started to wrap an arm around Noel's waist.

"Is it bad to call boyfriend nice name?" Ocean gasped loudly and gagged loudly from hearing that.

"BOYFRIEND? You two are dating?!" She said while still making weird gagging noises.

"Ocean, don't be homophobic." Noel scoffed at her in a joking way.

"I am not! I support as long as this thing does not interfere with choir!" She said as she huffed and walked away. After that the two boys starting receiving tiny 'congrats', from the rest of the choir. To Noel, this whole thing was very funny. He thought the idea of him being able to make the so-called angriest boy in town go to choir early and even get him to show up made him laugh, but he was still very confused on why Mischa was so quick to give in to him. He had no clue that the mysterious boy has been pining over him for a while. Mischa liked that Noel stood out from everyone in school, he liked Noel's attitude, he liked being treated normally from Noel, even if they only had some small talk in choir and other classes, he loved Noel. But, Mischa also had no idea why Noel was suddenly getting closer to him out of nowhere, he just shrugged that off though. He got to be closer and flirt with Noel and that was okay with him. It had been a while that Mischa had zoned out to think about Noel Gruber and when he was, that boy who was on his mind had quickly snapped him back to reality. "Mischa? Hellooo?" He said while waving an arm in his face.

"Yes my poet?" The nickname made Noel blush a bit, yet also cringe.

"You okay? You seem distracted."

"I am just thinking, no need to have worry."

"Alright, I hate to say this but we, specifically you, need to focus on what Ocean is talking about for the fall fair," he said as he turned Mischa's face to focus on Ocean.

"I will listen, only because you say."

"Good." The other said while letting go of Mischa's face and sitting back in his chair.

After their early before school meeting had ended they all headed off to their classes. While in each of their classes Noel couldn't help but feel a pair of eyes on him every second. Whenever he looked over it would be Mischa either winking at him or blowing a kiss towards him, he thought it was quite cute but also very dumb. As soon as choir had started, Noel, and the choir of course, did not have to stress out about finding Mischa because surprisingly he was one of the first ones there. Choir was very strange to everyone that day but Ocean had been so overjoyed this day that she was being nice to everyone and helping Mischa work hard on his parts. After the school day had finally ended Mischa waited for Noel so they could leave together. Mischa waited patiently for the other, even though he did take incredibly long to leave the choir room. When they had gotten to the car Noel noticed Mischa staring at him. "You've been staring at me all day you know." He said looking deeply at the boy who had been standing across from him.

"What? I cannot take my eye off beauty as great as yours Gruber." He said receiving a smile from the other.

"You're so cliché it's adorable Misch. Anyways lets head home okay?" And with that being said they were off to Noel's house once again. Once they got to the house they noticed the other boys mother had not been home so they had the whole house to theirselves. Noel guided Mischa upstairs towards his room again and right as they entered Mischa rushed over to Noel's bed to lay down on it.

The other boy had lots to ask the one who had just plopped down onto his bed. “Hey Mischa?” He heard a low ‘hm?’ come from the boy. 

“Why did you give in to me telling you what to do so quickly?”

It went quiet between the two for a second. Noel just stood there waiting for an answer but he just heard mumbling from the other. "Misch, I cannot hear you darling, speak up. Please?" He asked the other.

"I want to be better for school is why." Before Noel could shoot an answer back, he started talking again. "All of the other classmates just think I am angry and rude foreigner, that is why I did not try asking for help. When you came, it made me very happy for some help finally."

"Oh you poor thing," Noel said as he sat next to the other.

"Why couldn't you have asked the choir? I am sure they would not have judged, well some at least."

"Yeah right, I overhear all of you call me, 'rebel', 'quitter', and other shit. I did not think you would like to help a loser like me."

"Mischa, you aren't a loser. I'm sorry you haven't had the warmest welcome coming here," he laid down and turned his head to look the other directly in they eyes. "Since you haven't had the best time, I want to make sure I do all I can to make this final year good okay?" Mischa couldn't form words so he just nodded. He finally felt like he truly had a friend and someone to help guide him through school finally. Thinking of that it started to make him tear up. Eventually he started bawling his eyes out.

"Mischa? Are you," before he could even finish, he was pulled into a tight embrace by the other. Noel didn't question it, he did not want to be rude so he let the tall boy hug him and in all honesty he thought that it felt very nice to be squeezed by a sweet boy like Mischa.

"Apologies for my crying on you." The other said as he slowly pulled away from the tight embrace he had put Noel into.

"Aww, it's alright Misch, we all have those moments," he said as he smiled at the boy who had been sitting next to him. They sat there for a while not knowing what to say to each other. "So, how about we keep on practicing that part of yours?" Noel asked as he gave a tiny wink to the other.

"Yes please," Mischa said with a stupid grin projected onto his face.

"Well let's get to it then!"

As the time for Mischa to return home came up Noel realized he was very hesitant to going back. When Noel had asked why he had learned about his life with his adopted parents, or keepers, how the other boy had liked to put it. He had learned about the not-so-great life he had been movie since he had moved here so Noel had decided to suggest that he stay the nigh with him and his mother. For him, staying over at the house of the boy he had been pining over ever since he had moved to Canada was a really big thing for him. Especially since they'd be together in each others embrace the whole night, or at least that's what Mischa hoped it would be like. Noel had been oblivious to everything, he liked Mischa, but only as a friend. So whatever Mischa had hoped to happen would not happen at all since the other hadn't felt the same way. The only mutual feelings they had for each other is they both though the other was very good-looking. Noel hadn't thought anything else of Mischa, just as a really good-looking friend. The whole night they had ahead of them would be a very awkward one.

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HI EVERYONE!!! I am very sorry to say that I do not know if I will continue this fic since I'm fixated onto something else currently...BUT I will still be making fics just not about rtc anymore.

Thank you all for reading this and liking it :)