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Shane was having quite the peaceful morning going on his morning run, last night everything was perfect he got to spend the night with his handsome boyfriend and then fall asleep in his arm's and today they get to spend together uninterrupted.

Because ilya doesn't have to fly home to Boston until tomorrow morning.
He left when ilya was asleep, and as per usual turned his phone of for his run so no one would interrupt him. And he planing on leaving it off all day. Because it is rare to have days like this during the season.

When shane arrived home ilya was up now making them breakfast well making himself eggs and bacon and shane his morning smoothie.

Ilya turned to speak to him "good morning my shanya, how was your run" he asked while shane walked over to him
"It was great, very peaceful, I can't wait to spend all day with you. I'm not leaving the house again" he replied while ilya gave him a peck to his forehead.

"Yes I know you can't resist me im surprised you even left this morning" ilya said while going to sit down to eat his breakfast "also I made gross smoothie I put in fridge for you" he said whilst putting a mouthful of scrambled eggs in his mouth.

"It is not gross it's good for you perfect way to start your morning and thank you for putting it up because i have to go shower first." Shane replied while walking to his en suite bathroom. Little did either of them now their perfect Little bubble was about to be popped. Starting with the fact that Shane's phone was going off, but of course he set it down on his nightstand stand to on do not disturb not planning on changing that or looking at his notifications.

Things have definitely escalated, but not just online or in text messages.

Also in shane apartment, where ilya is currently hiding away in shane bedroom while shane is going to answer the door that his mother is banging on.

Shane is very confused as to why his mother would be banging on his door at this time of day, or at all she never has before. But he is also scared because ilya is currently also here and he hasn't told his perants he was gay or that he had a boyfriend. So by the time he frantically went to go open the door he was almost given whiplash by how fast his mother pushed her way into the house with his fathef following behind her.

"Care to explain yourself shane"his mother said in a tone she has never used on him before, a tone he honestly didn't think she was capable of. He stood there stunned with her screaming at him and confused on what he would need to explain, she continues "I mean shane I really can't believe you would something this horrible, I mean how could you"

Now shane was really stunned, what could he have done that was horrible and warranted this reaction. And then it hit him, he must of been outed and unlike he previously thought his perants weren't okay with it.

Shane felt like he was going to be sick his thoughts were running a million miles a second, his perants are here and they hate him for being gay a thing that even sometimes shane hated about himself to. But it's not like he chose this if he could choose he would choose to be straight. No he shouldn't think like that it's not fair to ilya.

Ilya wait if I was outed that means ilya must have been outed aswel. He could feel that he was on the verge of tears and shaking visibly. He tried to meet his father's eyes to see if he was also as disgusting with him as his mother seemed to be, but he wouldn't even meet his eyes immediately looking away. And that told him all he needed to know they both were disgusted by him. "P-please mom, dad i... don't understand." It's all he could get out in the moment.

He could see his mom's eyes for a split second softened, she quickly blinked it away and the softness was replaced by rage. "You don't understand.... shane I don't understand how could you do this, this isn't like you.... maybe we never knew the real you to begin with."

That hit shane hard he started crying now, he couldn't believe it his perants hated him for lying for being gay for loving ilya. But this only made him angry aswel, it wasn't his fault he was gay and maybe it was a little bit his fault he loved ilya. But that doesn't matter just because he's gay that doesn't make him horrible or disgusting, and he wasn't going to stand there and take this.

"There is N-nothing wrong with what I'm doing and I'm not gonna S-stand here and take this." He said while gesturing for them to leave " if you really think im so horrible for being who I am then you can leave." He said trying to hold his ground while sobbing and stuttering.

This only seemed to make his mother more furious and for the first time since he walked though the door david spoke up "Shane hollander how dare you. You say there is nothing wrong with hitting a woman and forcing yourself onto her, i never thought I could be disappointed in you. But today you have proven me wrong."
Wait what? Before he could speak his mother beat him to it.

"Well if you thinks it's so okay to hit woman why don't you hit me. Huh now you refrain, I don't know where we went wrong with you shane." Shane didn't know what to say to this just because he was gay didn't mean he thought hitting woman or forcing yourself onto them was okay, he thought those were disgusted things to do and he would never do them. "W-what are you guys talking about"

"Shane don't try to act coy now, when a second ago you were ready to defend your disgusting actions." His mother yelled at him. "I don't know what you are talking about i never said hitting woman was okay and never will.... where is this coming from."

His mother looked baffled, she quickly pulled out her phone showing him the now viral tmz post. Shane eyes darted around the screen shocked at the accusations. " T-this.. is out of context.... you don't understand.. I-i don't even have a... girlfriend." He didn't know how to defend himself from such false claims.

But he could see where they were coming from out of context this does look really bad. If only they knew the "girlfriend" was ilya rozanov and the "friend" was hayden pike, who only hit ilya becuase during the whole game ilya was chirping him saying Jackie was better off without him.

This was alot to take in, because his perants weren't disgusted with him because they thought he was gay they were disgusted with him because they thought he was some horrible woman abuser. It was a relief but now he didn't know how to defend himself without outing himself and ilya, because he can't just say it wasn't a girl it was a guy. That wouldn't work without the full context of the situation this would always look bad on him.

"Oh so that's how you defend yourself, just by saying lily isn't your girlfriend. Like that makes it even better.... wait didn't you say in your texts she was going to come here.... is she here LILY." his mother screamed her name at the tops of her lungs. Shane knew he had to act fast as his mother was already trying to hunt lily down. "No mom she's not here.... well she doesn't actually exist... well I mean she exists...but she isnt...well."

He couldn't get the words out, he had come up with a whole plan with ilya to come out to them and tell them he was dating ilya rozanov, and this is not the plan.
And before he could stop her she was going to his bedroom. Where ilya was he reached out to try to stop her but his father grabbed him in a way he never had before with a very firm grip on his upper arm firm enough to bruise.

And then there he was ilya rozanov walking out of Shane's bedroom door wide open from where yuna had bursted into it. Everything felt like it stopped his mother just stood there and his father let go of his arm.

"Hello I didn't to eve drop but I did and I just want to say shane is not abusing anybody." Ilya was the first one to speak and shane had to bite his tongue because he had almost helped ilya with his English and fix eavesdrop but he didn't.

"And yes I have seen tmz post and yes shane was truthful in saying text was out of context. Shane would never abuse m..someone." ilya almost slipped up and said Shane wouldn't abuse him but cuaght himself and fixed it.

"What is rozanov doing here Shane. And how do you know if Shane is abusive or not." His dad spoke up and said, followed by his mom "wait are you the friend that hit lily. If not why are you here are you to friends what rozanov picks them up and then you both hurt them."

This accusation stunned both ilya and shane. Because now they thought ilya and shane were picking up woman beating them up and forcing themselves on to them. So before anymore wild claims were spoken shane just blurted it out.

"I'm gay" now all eyes were on him "umm and.... well me and rozanov... well.... there isn't really a woman.... In the mix....if you get what I mean." Shans fumbled out stupidly. He thought he he was going to die from embarrassment from the stupid explanation he just gave.

Ilya could see that shane had been crying even though it had mostly stopped now, he had to fight the urge to go over to him and comfort him.
"Umm yes what shane means is that im well im lily and we are dating. And shane Is not abusing me."

Both of his perants just stood there for awhile until ilya had gestured over to the dining table in shanes apartment. Where they all slowly walked to and just say down.

"Mom, dad I know this is probably alot and it's not how we had planned telling you guys, that we are together but we are and those texts were out of context i would never do those things to a woman or a man." Shane rambled out.

"Wait so if rozanov is lily then who is the friend you let hit him." He dad asked while his mom still sat wide eyed. "That was during last night's game where Hayden had hit ilya after ilya had kept chirping him."

His perants face lit up with realization." Okay we need to do something right now shane everyone thinks you are some horrible abuser this will ruin your brand, we need to think of ways to fix this."

His mother said and shane was so relieved she no longer thought what everyone else did.
"Well we were thinking of coming out so maybe this is the perfect time." Shane said while glancing over to ilya to see if that would be okay with him. Ilya gave him a approving nop.

"Well okay that's perfect becuase if you just said you weren't gay people would still think you were abusing your boyfriend, they would need to know the full context of the situation." His mother seemed to like this plan and so did ilya so shane felt relieved that he didn't have to pretend he was abusing someone not to out ilya, because he truly saw no other was out of this mess.

His perants, him, and ilya talked for a few hours about what to do next and they decided that ilya and shane would both post that they were in a relationship and the full context of the messages.