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It was the last day of summer, which meant it was the day of the Ways annual summer party. It wasn’t even a party per say, it was just them getting together and getting drunk on whatever booze they could scrounge from their houses, get high off the weed Frank and Louis had and have a sleepover in the Ways basement, which also just so happened to be Gerard’s room. The sleepover was the best option for them all, they would climb into Gee’s van the next morning all hungover and a little tipsy from the remaining liquor that they would use to pregame the first day of school. But this one was a big deal, it was Lily’s first time being allowed to attend her older brother’s parties, she was never allowed beforehand because she was “too young”, but tomorrow was her first day of freshman year, and it was Gee and Ray’s last first day. Ray was the first one to arrive, he brought a small amount of booze, a few minutes later Gee was helping Ray find a place to put his stuff and set up his area for the night. Next to arrive was Louis, even though she was there throughout the day, she left an hour or so prior to get as much cheap booze a 17-year-old could get and whatever weed she could afford afterwards. After Louis set her stuff down, she immediately jumped onto Mikey and the two started play fighting, Lily sat amused looking at her older brother and their childhood best friend, who he totally wasn’t in love with, act like idiots. Frank was the second to last to show up, and not to the surprise to anyone he somehow managed to bring the most booze and drugs. The minute he got down the stairs to the basement he saw Lily sitting on the couch in the middle of the room and shot her smirk, causing her to blush. Lily had been harboring a crush on the slightly older boy all summer, she had a small hope he liked her back, since he was always flirting with her and invading her personal space more than anyone else's. He sat right next to her on the couch, even though there was more than enough room on the couch, Frank put his arm around her, making Lily blush even worse. “You ready to get fucked up tonight?” he asked, Lily nodded, she’s smoke weed before, kind of hard not too when half your friends and older brothers are stoners, Frank gave her a smile, “Good, you’re gonna need it to get through the hell that’s the first day of freshman year.” That made Lily laugh, she heard all about the horrors of freshman year from all of them; Gee and Ray’s contained them getting detention because Gee got into a fight and Ray had to break it up; Mikey and Louis’s contained them both making out with random people at party’s freshman weren’t supposed to be at; Frank’s included him becoming known around the school immediately due to his tattoos, piercings and his prohibitory stay in detention. But the one thing that they all included was they were all bullied by the popular kids, now that’s what scared Lily. But she set that thought aside and instead focused on the boy sitting next to her who was staring at her with a look she couldn’t pinpoint, “God why does he have such pretty eyes” she thought, she was going to continue thinking about how gorgeous Frank was and continue staring right back at him until their stare off was broken by a shout from Mikey. “YOU FUCKING BIT ME” Mikey sat up holding his arm while straddling Louis, all the while Louis was laying under him cackling like a mad man and smiling like one too, “Your fault for putting your arm in my face Mikes” Louis responded, “IT WASN’T EVEN IN YOUR FACE YOU HAD TO LEAN OVER TO BITE ME” Mikey yelled back, which just caused Louis to laugh her ass off again. Gerard was giggling while simultaneously having a look of disgust on his face at the sight of his best friend and little brother in such a weird position, Lily was pretty sure the giggles were from the shots he had pregamed throughout the day, leaving him tipsy already, and Ray just looked and shook his head at their idiotic antics. Holly showed up last but made up for it with two bottles of liquor, a bottle of black cherry Smirnoff and a bottle of Everclear that they knew they would have to keep away from Louis due to the fact she would finish it in the span of 15 minutes. “Well look at what the cat dragged in! I would’ve thought you wanted to hang with Patrick and them tonight instead of us” Gee said taking the bottles from Holly while she replied, “Nah, I was hanging with them all day, and besides its tradition and we gotta celebrate you three” she said while motioning to Ray, Gee and Lily. Mikey had gotten up from Louis’s lap to go grab a cup and make him a drink, leaving Louis lying on the ground. Louis had noticed the hand off of Holly’s alcohol and noticed the bottle of Everclear and made immediate grabby hands for it, Holly batted her hands away, causing Louis to whine and mumble something about Holly being a meanie.
It was few hours after the party began, they were all already tipsy as hell and then Gerard had to go and bust out the tequila, they were so fucking done for. About an hour after the tequila had come out everyone was drunk, and it was getting close to 1 am, the imposed bedtime Lily had begged Gee and Mikey for, they all had school tomorrow and she was dead set on being early or on time on the first day. Lily loved her brothers, God she did, but she had to be better than them, had to not be a disappointment to their parents, even though they would never admit it, Lily saw it in their eyes, the way they made her feel like she needed to have good grades and not like her hanging with her friends because of their tendencies towards to lunacy. That all being said, she didn’t need to be late on the first day of school, even though she was most definitely both high and drunk, she wasn’t as bad off as the others. Mikey was lying on the ground, and Louis was passed out on top of him holding the bottle of Everclear, Mikey was just petting her head and tangling his hands through her hair and slowly dozing off. Ray was trying his best to clean up but failing miserably by knocking everything over and just decided to lay down in his designated floor area. Holly was passed out face down in Gerard’s bed, the boy whose bed she was in was currently puking his guts out in the connecting basement bathroom, he’d probably end up sleeping there for the night. Frank was the only one who was as awake as Lily was, which wasn’t very much, he was laying on the couch and held out his arms and made grabby hands at her, “Lily, c’mere” he slurred, Lily giggled at his state and went to lay with him, her back pressed against his front. Frank wrapped his arms around her, causing her to snuggle back against him and let out a small sigh when he buried his face in her neck, “You smell like weed” Frank pointed out, Lily just went into a fit of giggles “We all smell like weed Frankie”, Frank groaned in response “You don’t need to be smelling like weed, they’re used to us”, Lily just sighed and shifted closer “They’ll see my last name and not be surprised”, Frank just hummed in response and then fell asleep, Lily followed soon after.
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The alarm at 5 am woke them all up, the chorus of groans from the teens filled the basement. Lily and Mikey bolted to their rooms to go change, Louis following Mikey up to borrow some clothes since they were basically the same size, and half his clothes were hers anyways. Lily was thankful that no one caught her snuggling with Frank on the couch, it just would’ve started a whole thing with her brothers and Louis, who had claimed herself to be Lily’s older sister, which she kinda was. Lily didn’t want to change, sure she smelled like booze and weed but she smelled like Frank, God she needed to hurry it up, because if everyone else had their way they wouldn’t even show up to first period.
Mikey needed to get his shit together now, it wasn’t like him and Louis haven’t changed in front of each other before, but maybe it’s the lingering high and the hangover that’s making him think and look at her the way he was, totally, not his long standing crush on her. Louis was pulling her shirt, which Mikey was pretty sure was his, over her head, revealing her chest, and he was staring. “Why did she always have to wear those thin ass bras” Mikey thought, he was still steadily staring, it was a little cold in his room causing Louis’s nipples to perk a bit, Mikey felt his dick twitch and immediately averted his eyes, he so didn’t need a boner at this very moment. Yeah, sure if she noticed he could blame it on morning wood, every guy his age gets it, but that would also lead to her making fun of him, and yeah, Louis has seen him with a boner before but that was because she walked in on him, never when they were in the same room. He decided to distract himself by looking through the piles of clothes on his floor trying to find something clean. Louis took Mikey’s distraction as an opportunity to take a good look at him, she felt his stare and felt it was only fair to gawk back, Mikey had taken his shirt off in his pursuit for a clean shirt, and in his shirtless state Louis could see the tiny bits of muscle that was hidden in his arms, and God his spine was visible and it took everything in Louis to not run her fingers over it. They really both needed to hurry up and get ready, Louis could hear Lily running down the stairs, causing her to hastily grab a random shirt from a pile on the floor and it just so happened to be one of hers that she’d been missing for about two months, and then grabbed a random pair of Mikey’s jeans, and prayed either were clean. Mikey finally found a shirt and looked for a second at Louis catching a glimpse of her tugging her pants down to put on a pair of his jeans, fuck that’s gotta be the hottest thing he’s ever seen. Louis felt him staring again and mentally said “Fuck it” and locked eyes with him, and “Shit why does he gotta look hot like that”, they were broken out their trance by a yell from downstairs for them to hurry the fuck up.
Holly woke up to the sound of the younger Way siblings and Louis bolting up the stairs to their respective rooms to get dressed. Sitting up was not the best idea because the minute she did the splitting headache she knew was coming did, “Fucking tequila” Holly mumbled to herself, she needed to use the bathroom and get ready in there, but of course Gerard was in there passed out on the floor, he smelt like absolute hell. “Gee, get the fuck up, I gotta piss and get ready”, he just replied with a groan, annoying the shit out of Holly, “C’mon man, you know Lily’s gonna be pissed if she doesn’t get there on time, it is her very first day”, that seemed to get him up and going, Holly called after him when he was leaving “YOU BETTER BRUSH YOUR TEETH, YOU SMELL LIKE PUKE”. Holly proceeded to brush her teeth and get dress, applying the little bit of makeup she brought, she could hear the guys grumbling about outside the door, when she got out Gee had changed his shirt, “Probably because it had puke on it” Holly thought, Ray and Frank had changed from what they were wearing yesterday into somewhat cleanish clothes, because none of them cared enough to do laundry on a weekly basis.
The guys had taken turns brushing their teeth in the bathroom, Frank was just coming out when Lily almost flew down the stairs, he took a good look at her, looking up and down and drinking her outfit in, she blushed again, he liked seeing her blush. Frank knew he was a fucking idiot for falling for his best buds’ baby sister, he knew both Mikey and Gee would beat his ass if they found out, but he really, really, wanted to risk it all just to see how far that blush goes. Lily looked at him for a second before going, “Is everyone ready to go?”, everyone nodded, and Frank added in “We’re just waiting on Mikey and Louis, they’re probably fucking” he and Holly snickered while Lily and Gerard made a look of disgust, Ray was just tired and didn’t want to deal with their bullshit at nearly 6 in the morning. Lily let out small gag at what Frank said and proceeded to run back up the stairs, the others following, and yelled at the set of stairs that led up “HEY, HURRY THE FUCK UP WE GOTTA GO!!” Mikey and Louis came down a few minutes later both looking a little flustered and not meeting each other's eyes. Frank and Holly continued snickering, while Lily had just simply stated “I don’t give a fuck what you two did, let’s go.”
“I’m driving” Ray had stated stealing the keys to the van from Gerard, “Come on Ray, it’s my van!!” Gee whined back, Ray just gave Gerard a look and said, “I would rather not die in that van on the first day of senior year.” Ray had a point, Gee wasn’t the best driver, he tended to drive very slowly and was a very distracted driver also, always talking everyone’s head off and not paying attention to the road. Out of them all Ray was the best driver; Mikey was the second best but could be a little reckless and had a small lead foot; Frank while not even holding a driver’s license still knew how to drive and had penchant of driving like a speed demon and playing slot cars; Louis was similar to Frank except she didn’t play slot cars and actually had a license; Holly had the tendency to cut people off because they were going “to slow” in her opinion; and Lily couldn’t even drive, all in all they were pretty shitty. So, all seven of them piled into Gerards shitty van: Ray and Gee in the front, Frank, Lily and Holly in the middle, and in the very back Louis and Mikey. The car ride was what you would expect of seven delinquents all piled up together, absolute chaos. Louis had brought the rest of the bottle of leftover vodka that Holly brought and was passing it around so everyone could take a swig, including Ray who was driving. While that was getting passed around, Frank rolled and lit up a large blunt so that everyone could toke it a little bit. By the time they got to school they were all a little a buzzed and had basically hotboxed the van with only the front windows being cracked a tiny bit.
Ray pulled into the parking lot, into a spot that was a bit farther away from the school so the smoke billowing out the small cracks was less noticeable. Another van pulled up in a parking space by them, they all recognized it as Andy’s. Holly damn near ripped the van door off so she could get out and tackle Patrick who was climbing out of his friend’s van, it seemed that everyone with two eyes, except for those two, could see that they were in love with each other, they were hugging like they hadn’t seen each other nearly 24 hours beforehand. The rest of the guys who rode with Andy climbed out of the van, all of them, excluding Andy, looked hung over, Andy just seemed tired and done with their bullshit. “Let’s get this shit over with” Frank had spoken up, walking away towards the building, Lily skipping along behind him, Pete gave a weird look to the others, “Who’s that?” he said as he pointed to Lily, “That’s Mikey and Gee’s baby sister, she’s a freshman Peter” Holly said giving him a disapproving look, he shot back a look that conveyed “I wasn’t thinking what you thought I was”.
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Andy had gone through his day smoothly somewhat, he thankfully didn’t have any classes with a lot of preps so far, but his luck would only go so far, because of course his last class of the day, chemistry, was full of jocks and cheerleaders. He sat near the back of the classroom as far away from those fuckers as he could get. He wasn’t paying attention when the teacher was calling role until, she got to his name, he stated he was there and went back to disassociating. That only lasted a little while longer till the teacher handed out a paper that was a basically a “get to know me”, he really hated ice breakers, the only somewhat interesting things about him were: 1) he’s straight edge, so he’s constantly the designated driver, 2) he’s a vegan, which people have given him weird looks for, his explanation always being he stands for animal rights, and 3) he’s the drummer in his friend’s band, Fall Out Boy, besides that there’s nothing more to know about him. Sure, he had a shit ton of tattoos for a 17-year-old, but that was no one’s business, and he wasn’t gonna explain why he had his lip pierced, he thought that would’ve been common sense, he thought it looked cool.
Beth had noticed him as she walked in, he was sitting in the back in a grey hoodie and a mop of red hair on top of his head, “He’s cute” she thought. Beth went and sat down with her so called friends, in reality they were just a bunch of assholes and bitches with egos that need to be knocked down by 20 million precent, she was only “friends” with these people because she knew them from their parents, hell Beth was only on the cheer team because of her mother. Cheer was the only reason her parents cared about her grades, because if she failed, she couldn’t participate, and she learnt the hard way what would happen if she failed on purpose. Beth was intently listening to the roll call waiting to hear the redheaded boy’s name, his was only a few after hers. She heard him call out a “Here” to the teacher when she said “Andrew Hurley?”, “Andrew, huh. I wonder if he goes by Andy” Beth thought, she got a good look at him when she looked over at him when he spoke, he had glasses and a lip piercing, oh now she was wondering what it would feel like against her lips and maybe down low- “What a fucking nerd”, and now her thought process was interrupted by her fucking asshole boyfriend Bryan, God she hated his guts, they were only together because their parents made them get together. She glared at him hoping he got the message to shut the fuck up, he probably didn’t. Beth really wished she wasn’t only two shots in from her dad’s good vodka she pregamed this morning, she honestly could take a swig from the small bottle of Fireball she had in her bag, but she was saving that for practice later, because she really needed to be buzzed to deal with those bitches.
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Lily would say she had good first day of high school, she didn’t mind any of her teachers, though her English teacher had a look of horror on her face when she saw her last name and asked if she was “Micheal and Gerard’s sister” her answer was obviously yes, and the teacher prayed that she was a better student than her brothers, that admission didn’t surprise her, they weren’t the best, the only class Gerard passed with flying colors was art, and Mikey barely passed anything. She waited outside the van for the others to show up, Mikey and Louis showed up first, Ray and Gee followed a few minutes later, Frank though wasn’t in sight, “Where’s Frank?” Lily asked, Louis let out a chuckle and spoke, “The dumbass got himself in detention on the first day, apparently, he called one of the jocks a fag”, “Dude probably deserved it” Mikey mumbled next to Louis, which made her cackle again. Lily looked around, “So, are we gonna go home and come back and get him or are we gonna wait?” Lily didn’t know their plan for when one of them got detention. Gee spoke up, “We’ll wait here, hot box whatever weeds left and drink whatever booze is left unless Holly took it.” Everyone hummed in agreement and proceeded to climb in the van to smoke it up. Frank showed up an hour later, immediately he climbed in the van and took a spot right next to Lily, in the middle like that morning, stealing the blunt out of her hand, Frank responded to the huff Lily had let out “Calm down sweetheart, you’ll get it right back.” Sweetheart, he had never called her sweetheart before, it seemed Frank noticed the surprise on her face and just smirked at her, she was gonna strangle him.
They had all decided that in their blazed haze that they were all gonna talk about how their first days went. Lily stated that she didn’t mind her teachers but scared the shit out her English teacher, Mrs. Roschield, which earned both a groan from Mikey and Gerard, with Mikey adding on “She was a bitch”, “Maybe that was because you didn’t do shit in her class” Lily shot back, which just earned her brother flipping her the bird. It was Frank’s turn to talk, and he proceeded to say “It was funny, I walked into my math class today and this dude I knew from last year saw me and immediately said ‘thank God you don’t have those fucking dreads anymore’”, Louis spoke up from the back seat by Mikey, “We all told you no one liked them.” Frank looked slightly offended “The people I went down on never minded” that led to Mikey to snort out a laugh “That was because they were more focused on getting head than your shitty dreads.” Frank got a mischievous look on his face “That’s just because you two are jealous”, Mikey shot Frank a look “Jealous of what?”, Frank had an evil grin “That even though both of you have made out with 100s of people, you’re both still virgins” he said motioning between Mikey and Louis, Mikey shot a “Suck my dick Iero” and to which Frank shot back with “Nah, that’s Louis’s job.” Mikey smacked the shit out of Frank for that comment, which led to the two boys to wrestling, Louis climbed over into the middle seat to get away and Frank climbed over into the back to get a better leverage to hit Mikey. Gee and Ray just looked on in disinterest, Ray let out a grumble that sounded something like “Fucking idiots” and Gerard hummed in agreement. Lily just looked on in shock not expecting this to happen and was most definitely not expecting the comment Frank made, Lily looked at Louis who was now sitting across from her, Louis looked both flustered and fucking done with their antics.
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When they finally decided to leave the parking lot, they went back to the Way house to just chill in the basement and nap. While everyone else went downstairs Mikey and Louis went up to Mikey’s room. As they sat on his bed Mikey was the first to speak up, “Do you wanna talk about what happened this morning?” Louis immediately replied with “Nope”, Mikey just hummed and said, “Me neither”, they sat in silence for a minute Louis spoke up again, “You have a really bony back”, Mikey let out a giggle at her comment, “So I’ve been told.” They ended up sitting in silence again after their small giggle fit, this time it was comfortable one, Louis ended up laying her head in Mikey’s lap, she smiled when she heard his breath hitched, she started to doze when she felt him run his hand through her hair. Mikey wasn’t expecting Louis to put her head on his lap, his breath hitched at the action, he saw her smile, “Bastard” he thought, he hesitantly put one of his hands in her hair, slightly carding his fingers through the dark brown strands, he kept his other hand to his side and watched as she dozed off. He must have fallen asleep because the next thing he knew Lily was banging on his door telling him dinner was ready; he checked the time on the alarm clock on his nightstand “Shit, it's almost 7, how long have I been out?” he thought, he completely forgot Louis was laying in his lap until she shifted closer to him, she had originally been facing away from him when she laid down, but sometime during their nap she turned and faced him, so her shifting closer to him ended up in her accidentally nuzzling his crotch. Mikey tensed up, and pushed her away when Lily banged on the door again, “Hey, we gotta get up, dinner’s ready” he whispered to her, she looked so peaceful it hurt him to push her away, Louis pouted and whined trying to snuggle closer, “Louis” Mikey warned, “Fine” she mumbled back finally getting up and pushing herself away, “Despite your bony stature, you make a good pillow” Louis giggled, Mikey felt his stomach flip at the sound, he was screwed big time.
Lily had decided to follow the others downstairs to the basement instead of going up to her room, she really didn’t want to hear whatever Mikey and Louis might’ve gotten up to. Frank had once again taken up the couch, beckoning Lily to come sit beside him, ignoring the weird look Gee shot their way, he just went and face planted into his bed. Lily sat beside Frank, leaving a little room between them, Frank didn’t seem to like that and practically dragged her into his lap when they both heard Gee faintly snoring, “Out like a light per usual” Lily thought, that was disrupted when Frank shifted trying to get more comfortable with Lily on his lap, “Was that boner!?” Lily thought, “No, it couldn’t be” she shifted again just to see what would happen, her shifting caused Frank to tense and hide his face in her back, and yup, that was a boner, Lily flushed at the realization and had a small smile on her face at the thought that she probably did that to him. “Let’s take a nap” Frank mumbled, it was even more muffled by the fact he said it with his face still in Lily’s back, “Ok Frankie” Lily said back, he shifted them, so they were laying instead of sitting on the couch. Ray walked out of the bathroom and saw the two passed out, he just shook his head and went back to his spot from the previous night. Lily woke up maybe an hour later, it was hard to tell when Gerard’s clock was on the other side of the room, she was awoken by their mother yelling down the stairs asking if the guys and Louis were still there and if they would be staying for dinner. Lily scrambled off Frank’s lap and answered yes, she so didn’t need to get caught asleep on him. And thankfully she did move because Gerard groaned also being woken up by their mom’s yelling. But in her haste to move, Frank woke up and groggily tried to grab Lily back, but she persisted in wiggling away from him, Frank heard the groan coming from her brother’s bed and immediately woke up, becoming hyper aware of his hard on and grabbed the nearest pillow to hide it. He shot Lily a glare and looked down at the pillow that basically said, “This is your fault”, Lily just bit her lip to contain a smile, she was failing miserably.
30 minutes later they were called up for dinner, Donna Way looked at the gaggle of teens in her kitchen and noticed her youngest son and his best friend weren’t down, “Where’s your brother and Louis?” she asked her other two kids, “They went up to his room, I’ll go get them” Lily replied. Lily ran up the stairs and banged on Mikey’s door, “MIKEY, LOUIS, WAKE UP, DINNER’S READY”, she heard something that sounded like Mikey waking up, she banged on the door again as a final warning and then left to head back downstairs to eat. Mikey and Louis headed down a few minutes later, Frank gave them a knowing look, Gee gave them a weird one, and Ray gave them a questioning one. Mikey was confused on why everyone was looking at them weird, “Why are you guys looking at me weird” he asked, Frank let out a snicker and said, “Maybe it’s because of the half chub you got going in those skinny jeans.” Mikey had a horrified look on his face, Louis’s reaction wasn’t much better, Lily just let out a small gag at them, Louis made herself a bowl of pasta and flipped them all off and went down to the basement to eat. The rest made the trek down a few minutes later, all of them still dogging on Mikey, especially Frank. Mikey snapped finally, “Like you’re one to talk, you had more than a half out there earlier” Frank gave him a surprised look but quickly schooled it into a mischievous one, “Why were you looking down there Way?”, Mikey shot back immediately “Why were you looking at mine”, “Touche” Frank replied. Lily flushed at hearing Mikey’s comment, hopefully he didn’t ask how Frank acquired it because that conversation would be hell on Earth, if it even would be a conversation and not Mikey immediately decking Frank. She sat down besides Louis who was silently eating her food, “We didn’t do anything” Louis whispered, Lily looked at her for a second, she never heard Louis sound so small and embarrassed, “I believe you, Lou” Lily whispered back, Louis hummed in acknowledgement and ate silently again. The guys had sat down on the couch, Gee had pushed Louis’s head forward, which caused her to glare at him and hit him back. Frank had chosen to sit behind Lily; he made it known by lightly kicking her in her back, she shot him a playful glare, he just smirked at her. Mikey had turn the tv on and put on Dawn of The Dead, a mutually loved movie amongst the group, before sitting down behind Louis. Everyone ate in complete, content, silence.
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Holly had left after school with Patrick and his friends instead of staying with the others, mostly due to the fact she was with them all last night and that morning. They were chilling at Pete’s house and talking about their days, Holly’s wasn’t eventful, she had history with cheer captain and major bitch, Mackenzie Meckleroth, which gained a chorus of groans from everyone, and stated the fact that she hid in the bathroom throughout the rest of that period drinking the rest of her vodka, which Andy scrunched his nose at. Patrick's wasn’t super eventful either, he got called a nerd once in his math class, and dealt with the same idiots he always dealt with in band, the trumpets, which were his section, did not sound the greatest so far, which would lead to them getting chewed out by their director. Pete and Joe’s were both fine, but they had three classes together and everyone felt bad for those teachers. Then it was Andy’s turn to talk, “Everything was good until chemistry, there’s gotta be at least ten preps in there and one of them is Bryan Goddard, AND he called me a nerd in the first 20 minutes of class.” “Shit” Holly mumbled, Bryan was one of the bigger bullies in the school, thankfully by himself he was more prone to just verbal assault, but when he was around the others that was a different story, he would get into to the physical assaults also.
It was a few hours later and Patrick had to go home, he left his car at Pete’s overnight, them having a similar idea to the Ways, Patrick took Holly back with him. She lived right down the street from him. The car ride was mostly silent besides for the radio playing in the background, Holly broke the silence “Do you think I could stay the night” she asked softly looking down at her lap and picking her nails, “Yeah, you’re always welcomed over Holls, you know that” Patrick looked over and smiled at her, Holly smiled back. She knew her father wouldn’t be home for a couple more hours, so she could grab a few more clothes as the bag she brought with her to the Ways last night was her book bag, Holly hated being in that house more than she had to be, she made Patrick wait in the car, she so didn’t need him to see the amount of beer cans that littered the house. Holly’s dad was an absolute prick, and Patrick hated that man, and Patrick didn’t really hate people all that often, he only knew about the abuse going on in that house when Holly came over one night with a bruise on her cheek, CPS would’ve been called if it wasn’t for Holly vehemently denying it and saying it would only make things worse. The school knew of course, it’s why they never called home when she got in trouble, but they would never report it because the last time they did Holly didn’t show up for the rest of the week. Besides that, Holly got away with too much shit, she could take as much money she could for drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. She’d deal with the consequences of not being there when her father got home in the morning, if or when he called to yell at her and ask where the hell she was and maybe smack her around depending on how mad he was. It was a 50/50 with him, either he would call and yell if he remembered, or he wouldn’t even remember, and that was always the best option. Holly would’ve given anything to have been allowed to live with her mother and brother after the divorce, but the court deemed her as unfit to raise two kids, but found her father fit to raise one child, she called shenanigans. Getting back into Patrick’s car, they headed off on the very short drive to his house, “Thanks again” Holly said breaking the silence once again, “No need to thank me, you practically live at my house already” Patrick let out a small chuckle, Holly couldn’t help but smile and giggle a little at what he said, he definitely had a point, she did practically live at his house, even when she was little she would always go and sleepover there. When they got older Pat’s parents were concerned about them sharing a bed, which they both denied that anything would happen between them, they totally didn’t see each other like that, Holly totally didn’t have a huge crush on Patrick and thought of him in ways that you probably shouldn’t think about your best friend. But it was completely one sided, Patrick didn’t like her back, definitely didn’t, sure he only put his hats on her head, but that meant nothing, right? Patrick broke Holly out of her thoughts, “Mom’s making soup tonight”, “What kind?” Holly questioned back, “Potato of course” Patrick gave Holly a smile, Holly almost moaned at that “I fucking love her potato soup”, Patrick just laughed at her dramatics.
Patrick had heard and seen Holly do a lot of weird shit, but her almost moaning over something as simple as his mom’s potato soup had him reacting in a way he shouldn’t, so he just laughed it off. Pat probably had the hugest crush on Holly, had it since 8th grade when she thought it would be ok to try on her swimsuit in front of him, she went in the closet to do it of course, but still, it would be a source of many boners for the foreseeable future. The thing that sucked about having a crush on your best friend is that it’s your best friend, the girl who would probably never see him like that, he ignored Pete when he said that she liked him back, there was no way she’d want him, she could have anyone, Holly was gorgeous and Pat was, well, Pat was just Pat. Patrick pulled into his driveway and turned the car off and looked over at Holly, “Whatcha waiting for?” Holly questioned with a raised eyebrow, Patrick just huffed out a laugh and got out of the car. “MOM, I’M HOME, I ALSO BROUGHT HOLLY” Pat called out to his mom who he could hear rummaging around in the kitchen, “Why am I not surprised you came” Patricia walked out of the kitchen smiling at Holly, “I got told you were making potato soup, I have to show up for that” Holly replied, Patricia just let out a small laugh and pinched her cheeks. Patrick looked on with adoration, he was always thankful for how caring his parents were, they didn’t have to take Holly in and treat her as their own, but they did.
They went into Patrick’s room to eat, Holly taking a spot in the middle of the bed and sitting crisscross, Pat took a seat next to her near the head of his bed. “What do you wanna watch?” Pat asked, “How about House of 1000 Corpses?” Holly answered, Patrick wasn’t particularly fond of horror movies, but Holly loved them, and Pat would put his own discomfort aside just so he could see Holly happy, “Yea sure” Pat finally answered back. They had finished eating halfway through the movie, Pat put their bowls on the desk next to his bed, Holly took that chance to tackle him when he sat back on the bed, Patrick made an undistinguishable noise, Holly just giggled. They ended up cuddling for the rest of the movie, when it ended Patrick made a move to sit up, Holly whined and doubled down, and dead weighted onto him, “Holly, I gotta go put the bowls in the sink, you know my mom hates me leaving dishes in here” Pat told her, Holly just made a dramatic sound flopping herself off of him, Pat just chuckled at her while getting up and grabbing the bowels to take them downstairs to the sink. When he returned Holly was still laying on his bed, she perked up at him when he shuffled back in, “I was thinking, I should dress up as Baby Firefly someday” Holly said. Patrick tried his best to repress a shudder of pleasure at the thought of Holly in that revealing of clothing, but instead he laughed and took his hat off and put it on her head, “I think you look better in trucker rather than cowboy” he stated, Holly just smiled at him and giggled, “Also, would you wear a wig or bleach your hair?” Pat added on taking a seat beside her near the edge of the bed, that comment made Holly laughed, “I said dress up as not become Trick.” Patrick flushed at the nickname; Holly didn’t call him that really, maybe once in a while, but she mostly just called him by his name or Pat, the occasional Patty if she was feeling teasing or mocking him. Holly noticed the flushed look on his face and smirked, she was still wearing his hat that was crooked on her head, titled down so the bill was covering her eyes, Patrick needed to leave the room before he did something stupid, “I need a shower, I smell like booze and sweat”, and like you Pat thought after his statement, Holly just hummed in response and rolled over so she was laying on her back, Pat could see the steady rise of her chest while she breathed, fuck he was staring, he had to get out now, he grabbed his night clothes and practically ran out the room.
Holly blushed when Pat threw his hat on her head and said she looked better in those, God this boy was gonna be the death of her. She also noticed his flustered look when she called him “Trick”, “Keep that in mind for later” Holly thought to herself while giving him a smirk while looking at him from under the brim of his hat. Holly rolled over onto her back still looking at him even with her vision obscured by the hat when he got up to shower, he was staring, she followed to where his eyes were looking, “Shit” she thought, he was staring at her chest, she needed him to leave for the shower right now before she said fuck it and jump him and ruin their already a little to close friendship, and thankfully he grabbed his night clothes and left. “I should get changed” Holly thought, she got off the bed and adjusted Pat’s hat, she contemplated taking it off for a second but decided against it, she went grabbed her bag off the floor and rummaged through to grab her night clothes, and of course she didn’t bring any. “Shit” she muttered to herself, “I think you have some in the second drawer” Pat’s sudden appearance made Holly jump, his hair was still damp, dripping onto his neck, he looked good, “Get yourself together” Holly thought to herself, she finally said something back “Happen to have a pair of spare undies in there?”, Pat shrugged “Probably you leave a lot of shit here”, he had a point and oh God the thought of him finding and keeping a pair of her underwear made Holly wanna freak out. Holly went and checked the second drawer, and just as Pat said, there was a set of old night clothes in there, and a spare pair of chick boxers, Holly was gonna die from embarrassment. She turned from her slightly bent position and held up the clothes with an awkward smile, she knew Patrick was staring, which made her want the floor to swallow her whole. Patrick knew he seemed kind of a perv for keeping a pair of Holly’s underwear, he meant to give it back, he really did, he just kept forgetting to... He also knew he was kind of a perv for staring at Holly’s ass while she was grabbing the clothes, and he noticed her embarrassed expression when she turned to show that she found them. Holly scrambled off to the bathroom to put on the outfit, and of course it had to be one from 8th grade when she was somewhat skinnier than she is now. Holly’s always been a big girl, no denying it, but now staring at herself in the mirror of Patrick’s bathroom in the slightly too tight shorts and tank she could really tell how much weight she had gained, “Hey, at least my ass and tits look good” Holly thought. Holly put the trucker hat back on since she had to take it off to put her tank on and walked out of the bathroom back into Patrick’s room. When she walked into the room Pat was laying on his side in bed, he looked up when he heard Holly come back in and had to force himself not to gasp, fuck the swimsuit, this was ten times better in Pat’s opinion, there Holly was standing in his room in too tight clothing, showing off curves in all the right places, and still wearing his hat, yeah he had enough jerk off material for years. Holly climbed into the bed next to Patrick facing him, she heard his breath hitch slightly when he realized she wasn’t wearing a bra, it wasn’t like he hadn’t seen her without one before, just the year before when Pat was dealing with his own self-image issues, Holly showed him her chest through the baggy shirt she was wearing at the time to show him that it was ok and that “Bad bitches love chubby people” Holly had told him at the time with a confident smile on her face, she always had the ways of making him feel better. Patrick tentatively wrapped his arms around Holly, taking off the hat on her head and placing it on the desk, “Goodnight Holly” he whispered to her, “Night Patty” she replied.
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It was late, the movie had ended and everyone had finished dinner. Ray and Frank were getting ready to head out, Louis was also when she got a phone call, it was her mom, “Uh-oh” Louis thought, “Hello” she answered the call, “Hey, are you gonna stay over there or come home tonight?” her mom replied, Louis thought for a second, she really did want to stay the night again, some of the most peaceful sleep she’s ever gotten was while cuddled up with Mikey Way. “Is it ok if I stay over?” Louis asked, her mom answered her question with “Yeah, that’s fine, but you’re staying home tomorrow, you practically live over there and your dad misses seeing you, you also need to do your laundry”, Louis laughed at that “I have a bunch of clothes over here mom”, her mom let out a faint laugh “That’s exactly why, you need to give Mikey some peace and quiet and give him back the clothes you’ve stolen.” “Where’s the fun in that?” Louis replied, “Yeah yeah, don’t do anything more stupid than what you usually do” her mom just chuckled back and hung up. They were all walking up the stairs to the main floor to walk Ray and Frank out, “Louis, are you staying the night?” asked Don, “Yup” Louis replied with a nod, and he nodded back. After Frank and Ray left the siblings plus Louis went to their respective rooms, Louis following Mikey up to his. Louis did genuinely get better sleep when she was around Mikey, Louis was prone to nighttime paranoia and Mikey to nightmares, most of the time they both had peaceful sleep, but there were times where Louis’s paranoia would be so bad she couldn’t sleep, and Mikey would wake from a particularly bad nightmare, and they would just sit there in silence usually with Mikey’s bedside lamp on, Louis liked having a night light, she could see everything that way and Mikey never minded. Even though Louis didn’t have any night clothes, she would steal a pair of Mikey’s shorts and a shirt that was a 50/50 chance if it was hers or not. Louis did in fact grab a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, Mikey turned away when she was taking her bra off, not like there wasn’t much left to see since her bras were so flimsy, but he still wanted to give her a little bit of privacy, he was also trying to make up for perving that morning. Louis was thankful that Mikey turned away, but she also wanted him to look, she really wanted him to look, to actually make a fucking move, but maybe it was for the better he didn’t. When they climbed into bed together, Louis turned off the big light in the fan and basked into the dark for a second, Mikey turned on the bedside lamp right after, “Get your ass in bed” Mikey grumbled, Louis complied, climbing in and immediately situated herself into their normal position; Mikey curled up with his arms wrapped around her waist and his head laid upon her chest, Louis had her arms wrapped around him, a hand running through his hair and took his glasses off for him, putting them on the nightstand. So, there they lied, content and with their legs tangled together, “Night Mikes” “Night Louis” ended by quiet exchanges of love you’s.