The Move In ~~Travis X Reader~~

Part 11: Ups and downs

5 Months Have Passed

So far things are getting easier in life. I'm getting by on my own, not that Travis isnt helping but that hes been upset lately. His mom is sick and he is taking it hard, but I understand. Things are rough with us, but I have to be here for him. Over time things will be easier, his mom just needs to heal. Anyways I'm happy, but I'm sick too.

Travis just needs time to get over the shock of it, he will be fine. He needs to heal with her. He has hard hard days at work. I woke up to a note from him saying he will be home late and that his phone is broke. I yawned and hopped out of bed.

"God this back pain is starting to become killer." I stand up and walk to the closet.

I picked out a green/blue/violet/ black)  romper. I'm sore, stressed, but I need to calm down. I wobbled down to the kitchen and made some breakfast, I had to get up when I heard a knock on the door.

"Hell-" I was cut off by a hug.

"Hey girl!!! God its becoming so hard to do that!" Aphmau screamed.

"Yeah I know, with me being sick and everything else. How have you been?"

"I've been great, Dante sent me over, we havent seen you leave the house in a while.." She half smirked for me.

"I was actually gonna go to the market today and see if anyone wanted to go with." I huffed.

"I'm busy with some stuff with the big bad wolf today, but Garroth might be interested?" She suggested.

"Ill go ask him." I nodded

She left and I was left alone, I really did plan on going to the market, along with the department store for some paint for the new rooms. Only thing is I wanted to do it alone. I paced back to my kitchen and finished eating.

"Hello Meek!" Garroth boomed as he leaned through my window.

So that nickname really is still around.. I rolled my eyes playfully.

"Helloo Garroth, any particular reason you blessed me with your presence?"

"Well besides I felt someone needed to enjoy my awesomeness, I heard you needed a market buddy!" I sighed and nodded my head. "Well then let's go!!"

I grabbed my purse and strolled out the door to my car. Garroth grabbed my keys out of my hand.

"Garroth, I can drive!"

"Not in your conditiiooon" he said in a sing song voice.

"You're overplaying this, I'm fine, just a common cold" I puffed out.

"Yes but it effects more than just you. So I shall drive." he said with his chest out and hands on his hips.

We rode to the market and I got some peaches and some plums, Garroth bought himself pears, didnt think he liked them. We then went to the department store. I picked out some blue and black paint while Garroth wasnt looking, and loaded it into my car. I beat him out there and he was shocked by that. We drive in near silence on the way home, until..

"So how have you and Travis been?"

The question shocked me...since he found out the news he hasnt been home until late, has been almost ignoring me, wont even touch me in the bed,. He is almost disgusted with me and blames it on his moms sickness.

"We've been great actually, just loads of joy!" I lied.

"Well y'all should be, I'm sorry about his mom though. We've been friends for ages and he has never reacted like this to her sickness."

"What do you mean, shes been like this before?" I got a pit in my stomach.

"Yes several times, he has never been how he is now though. But maybe it's just because if the other stuff going on ya know?"

He could see the strain in my eyes. We pulled up to my house, I took my paint inside. Apparently Garroth followed me up because he danced when he saw it. I gave him a stern look.

"Dont worry I wont tell anyone about the color palette, but I do like it!" He squealed.

He helped me open it and we slimed at each other. Before I could ask he booked it out the door and ran back in with a radio blaring 'Party in the USA' by Miley Sirus. I put my hair back and he put a bandana on and we got to it. Painting the walls and doing the trim. We stood proud, staring at our handy work. We high-fived.

"Hey Garroth, about what you asked earlier..we arent..doing okay. Things are rough and obviously he ain't being this way because of his mom. M-maybe me?" I struggled.

He hugged me tight and consoled me saying how 'its wasnt your fault, honest' and how 'it's just the stress' but I knew better. He was only trying to cheer me up. Hours passed and I had since calmed down, Garroth said he had work and left about an hour ago.

It was now 11 O'Clock and this was more than late for Travis. I began to become worried, but I ignored it and got on snapchat. I got a notification from Aphmau, she had shared her location with me, with the caption "we are going to dinner here one day!"

I clicked on the map to zoom in and see the area and get a feel for it. It was a 24 hour steak house. I noticed the head next to hers for swiping was Travis'. The time since active was on, and it said '3'. I figured it was '3 days' or something, I swiped over, it said '3 seconds' and I dropped my phone. I covered my mouth in shock. He had left a note saying his phone was broken.

I heard my front door open, I looked at the clock and it said 1 AM. I must have been dazed off for longer than I  thought... He walked up the steps and into the room. He stopped smiling once he saw me, he flipped onto the bed and rolled over. I had enough and went to say something.

"Before you say anything I have had a long night and I wanna sleep, if you dont want me to you can go sleep on the couch." He sounded venomous.

I was shocked, I took my pride and went downstairs. I cried myself to sleep.

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Hey guys I'm sorry for the absence of me. I got logged out of my account and I have had some shit going on and I'm so so sorry.