Zak's Pov
My eyes fluttered open only to see nothing but a pajama shirt extremely close to my face. I could feel some weight on my body as I realized I was snuggled up in Bad's chest with one of his arms wrapping around my torso and a leg wedged in between mine. I could feel my face and ears burn from being in the position we were in.
How did we even get in this position?! I slowly move my head from his chest to look at his face. He looked so peaceful. This feels nice... I kinda don't want him to let go. Maybe I can stay like this for a little while. As if Bad could read my mind he pulled me even closer than I originally was and moved his hand away from my back to the side of my head. My heart pounded in my chest. I was so close to his face now. I could feel his soft breathing on my skin making me more nervous to even breathe. I glanced at his lips, they looked so soft and beautiful and kissable. I wasn't going to kiss him though, I wouldn't take advantage of him, that would be messed up. That, however, didn't stop my heart from running like a track horse trying to get to the finish line. This good feeling of being in his arms didn't last long because that familiar feeling came crawling back up. Shit! Why?! I cursed at myself. I gently pulled his hand away from my head and replaced it with a pillow and proceed to quietly cough in my arm as I tried to get off the bed.
My attempt to keep him asleep was a fail when I hear his voice behind me, "Are you ok Skeppy?" I froze for a second panicking before I quickly grabbed some clothing from my closet and my own voice croaking, "Uh- yeah I'm fine. J-Just going to take a shower. You should go back to sleep." and I speed-walked out of the room but still able to hear Bad mumble an 'oh ok'. once I was in the hall I ran to the bathroom trying not to cough up blood anywhere before I made it to the toilet. Racco started to run seeing me run thinking it was some sort of game. When I manage to reach the door I swung it open and closed it behind me leaving Rocco on the other side. He scratches at the door and I feel bad for shutting him out too but I don't want him to see me like this.
I hunched over the toilet coughing up and vomiting petals, flower buds, thorns, and my own blood. I tried my best to stay quiet. I found it hard to breathe as some leftover buds found home in my throat. I banged against my own chest as I coughed and thankfully it unlodged my throat. I panted trying to catch my breath again. I looked into the bloody and flowery toilet and sighed as I was on the verge of tears but I wasn't going to let myself cry. I get up and flush the toilet watching as the red water turn clear, I go to the shower turning it on and stripping my clothes off and stepping in when it was warm enough. I let the warm water patter against my face feeling there was no hope for me.
Darryl's Pov
I sat on the edge of Skeppy's bed scrolling through Twitter looking at fanart the art always looked so cool. I saw Rocco come into the room looking a little bummed out. "What's wrong Rocco?" He came closer and I gave him some nice pets. I assume that he was probably hungry or wants to take a walk. I got up and went to get the doggo some food.
I poured the food into the bowl and Rocco happily ate. I heard the bathroom door open and close, I looked up to see Skeppy walking out with a pink oversize hoodie and grey sweat pants on and a towel over his shoulder. His hair was wet and messy, I chuckled because of how cute it was. "Skeppy, dry off your hair or you'll get yourself sicker you muffin." I giggled out. He sighed, "I'm fine Bad I let it air dry all the time." I rolled my eyes, "Skeppy if you don't dry it I'll dry it myself." He looked like he was thinking about it for a second before speaking, "Maybe I wouldn't mind you doing that." He gave me a smug look and crossed his arms. I walked up to him and snatched the towel from his shoulder and put it on his head. "You're impossible," I mumbled to him as I began shaking it back and forth drying it as best I could, He stared giggling and so did I until we just started laughing as I shook the towel on his head. I pulled it off and laughed at his puffy messy hair. He shook his head and ran his figures through his hair. "That was fun you should do that more." He smiled at me and I sucked my teeth throwing the towel at him. "Muffin head", I chuckled.
"Can I take Rocco for a walk?" I asked "Yea, I'll go with."He walks to the hallway closet and grabbed a leash and doggy bags. "How far you wanna go?" he said as he walked back and tossed me the bags and hooks the leash on Rocco. "Uh, I don't know... how are you feeling today?" He sighed, "I'm fine Bad don't worry about me." I rolled my eyes at him. "Skeppy that's why I'm here to begin with, to worry about you, you potato." "Whatever man" I did a dramatic gasp and clutched where my heart was as if I was hurt, "Do you not want me here, Geppy?!" I cracked my voice to give more effect. "What? No! I'm glad you're here finally... I just wish it wasn't like.. this.." He started to get quiet. "What?!"I cried and looked away pretending to wipe tears away, "I came here just for you.." I heard him wince from behind and I started to feel bad now. I felt his hand on my shoulder as he turned me around, "No Bad it's not like that! I just wish I wasn't sick when we meet up for the first time, ya know?" I looked into his lovely gentle but strong dark brown eyes, he looked saddened and it made me feel like it was time to stop. "Yeah I guess.. do you just want to go around the block?" I gave a soft smile to try and treasure him. He returned the smile and nodded giving me a soft yeah. I can tell Rocco was getting impatient too, he was pulling on the leash to go to the door the whole time we were talking.
Zaks Pov
We walked for a bit after down the sidewalk. It was a peaceful silence, cars passed by with a quiet wush, birds would sing in their hiding places. We had small conversations as we walked. I liked doing this with him, it feels so warm. Rocco did his doggy business and I cleaned it up. I was happy. "Hey Bad.." He looks at me but quickly looks away to his phone buzzing in his pocket. "Yeah?" he says to me as he grabbed his phone and looked at it. I didn't continue, I just watched as he typed and his phone buzzing again and him texting again and I watched as his cheeks became a soft pink color. A small distaste came in my mouth."Who's that?" I asked. He finally looked at me again and turned off his phone. "It's someone." everything was silent for a second. "Like who," I asked pushing the question, "Was it your mom? or a friend? or maybe a girlfriend?" He stopped walking for a second before proceeding. "N-no Skeppy, it's just your sister." His phone buzzes again. My sister? "Why are you texting my sister?! Don't tell me you guys like each other!" Bads face flooded with red as he choked on air. "N-NO!! SKEPPY, I don't like her like that! She was just asking if you were ok!" "Yeah, sure I saw you blush I'm not an idot!" "What does it even matter?!" he squeaked. "What do you mean dude that's my sister!!" I lied.
"Well, I don't like her like that!" "Let me see then!" I crossed my arms like a toddler. "What?" He laughed awkwardly. I crossed my arms like a toddler, "Prove to me you don't like my sister!" I went to grab his phone but he lifted his arm above his head and I was leaned against his chest. "Skeppy!" I jumped and managed to actually grab it and pull it out of his grip. I smile victoriously as I went to unlock his phone. he didn't even have a password so I was able to just swipe but before I could even get a glance Bad swung his hand over my eyes and snatched the phone back. "What the hell?" I said taking a few steps back.
"You don't just do that, Skeppy!" I got closer to his face. "You're hiding something from me Bad~" I coed. He looked away, "You h-had a question earlier r-right? What did you want?" "Changing subjects now huh." He stayed silent. "Fine, I wanted to ask you earlier is, can I call you by your real name?" I shuffled my foot a little. "I mean you can always call me Zak if you want but is it ok if I called you Darryl." He stared out for a bit probably thinking. "Why would you want to call me that?" "What do you mean? We've been friends for so long and we only refer to each other as our online selves, but if you're not comfortable with that it's fine but you can still call me by my real name." Rocco started to pull more on the leash as he saw we were getting closer to home. "Uhm... I.. I guess if it's you it's alright." He said shyly.
"Are you sure?" I asked. "Yeah." He fumbled with his sleave. "You don't sound sure Bad." I opened the door and let Rocco in and threw away the bags in the trash and looked at Bad. He made eye contact that made butterflies swarm my stomach. "No no yeah, I'm sure." He smiled softly which made me smile back. "Ok," I said just loud enough for him to hear as we both went in. I took off the leash on Rocco and put it back in the closet. "So!" I said, "What do you want to do now?"
"Well, we didn't eat breakfast so I'm hoping we could eat something," Darryl said. I laughed awkwardly forgetting that we hadn't eaten yet, "Heh, oh yeah. Do you want to go out to eat today?" He thought for a second before responding, "Yeah but take some medicine first and some pills if you're in pain." I definitely didn't want to do that. I began to wine, "But I don't want to take thaaaat. It tastes nastyyyy. Bad it poison! You're poisoning MEeeeEee!" I bumped my head on his chest and continued to make obnoxious winning noises. I felt as his chest rose and fell as he sighed. "Oh my goodness Skeppy, I am not poisoning you! I'm trying to make you feel better."
"But you already make me feel better." I winced after saying that mentally regretting letting that slip pasts my lips. I stood there staring at the ground with no response from my friend. I soon heard him chuckled and felt a hand softly push my chin up so I was now looking at his face. He smiled and his face glowed. "I'm glad I can make you feel better but I want to make you physically better, I want to see you at your best. Then I will be happy." My stomach fluttered but that was short-lived, I quickly pushed away from Darryl coughing in my elbow away from his sight. I covered my mouth and raised my hand to signal for him to wait before running back in the bathroom where I started the day and locked the door. I did the routine: open the toilet seat, cough till I gaged, throw up the roses and blood, and cry.
But this time I didn't even get to cry. Darryl knocked on the door from the other side, "Zak are you alright?" He sounds concerned, It broke my heart. I was wheezing trying to get air to answer, "Y-yeah I'm *wheeze* fine." I coughed more before throwing up again. "Can I come in?" He asked and I could hear him put his hand on the knob, it made my heart sink even tho I knew I locked it. "N-No!" I yelled weakly but sternly. I winced at the pain it gave me and how I just yelled at Bad. "I-I'm fine I swear I'm coming out now." I stood up feeling light-headed and almost falling over but I caught myself on the sink. I pulled myself up and flushed the toilet and washed my face off and opened the door. He was standing on the other side with his brows scrunched up in sadness. He grabbed my face again and he checked my temperature with the back of his palm and his face turned to confusion. "Skeppy, I don't think we should go out to eat. I-" "No! no. I'm fine, lets just go." I cut him off. "Bu- but-" "No buts! Where do you want to go?" I said grabbing my wallet.
"Zak, I'm serious."
I looked back at him where his emerald green meets my chestnut brown, "I am too." And smiled grabbing his arm pulling him out to the car. I pushed him into the passengers' side and went to the other side. "Where to?" I asked while starting the car. "Zak-" "Uhpapa," I interrupted him, "Unless what you're gonna say is a place we're gonna eat at I don't want to hear it." I was not in the best shape to actually go out right now but I want to do stuff with Bad, I don't want to be stuck at home for how many days I have left with my best friend I was able to meet for the first time ever.
He signed, "There's a nice bakery a few streets away. We can get some muffins and come back." "I don't want to come back right away let's eat there or nearby," I told him, he growled but didn't say anything, " Alright, let's go." I took the car off of park and started driving. It's hard trying to be the optimistic one when the other is being such a, in Bads words, 'a muffinhead'. Once again we were in silence for the most part but this silence was not as comforting as the other times. Darryl just looked out the window humming to a song. "What you humming?" I asked him which got his attention. He looked at me, "uhm, just a Starset song." He softly said. "Which one?"
He had a small pause fumbling with his sleeves again before answering, "My demons." I nodded my head, "I should listen to it sometime." I could see his face become embarrassed and pink. "W-why?" I laughed, "Why not? I want to listen to what you like, maybe I'll like it too." We arrived and I parked the car. "Well, what kind of music do you listen to?"He asked. I gave a small chuckle, "You wouldn't like my music. You'd say 'language every few seconds." He just gave me a simple 'oh' before we got out of the car and walked into the building. Once you walk into the place the smell of pastries engulfed us and my stomach quickly became eager to try something.
We walked up to the counter and Bad looked through the glass with awe. "Get whatever you want, I'll pay." He averted his eyes away from all the baked goods with a questionable look. "Are you sure?" "Yeah. Take it as a thank you for taking care of me while I'm sick." "mmk...do you just want to get a muffin?" he asked. "Whatever you want," I repeated. He huffed and stood up straight making eye contact with the cashier. She was a small girl with red hair pulled into a ponytail pale skin with light freckles across her face. "Can I get two blueberry muffins, please?" I chimed in, "And can you add two slices of chocolate cake?" "Zak it's too early for sweets." I giggled, "I'm paying I should get what I want too." He mumbled under his breath something I couldn't hear. "Will that be it sirs?" the cashier asked. I nodded my head. "That will be 14.20." she packed the food and I gave her the money and a tip just for her. I dragged Darryl to a table so we can eat. We sat across from each other, He gave me a muffin and I gave him a chocolate cake. It was like a little trade, it was cute. We ate and chatted about life and random stuff. Bad said he'll save the cake for later but we'll see if it'll be there by then. I drove us back home and we decided to watch a movie together after I finally take the medicine. I grabbed a bunch of pillows and threw them on the couch. I scrolled down the options that we could both agree on. It was a movie about a zombie that fell in love with a girl and eats brains to see memories or whatever I didn't really pay attention I fell asleep somewhere while we watched.
Darryls Pov
The movie was interesting, I liked it for the most part. I had to use the bathroom though. I got up to go but went I went in I found something odd. Right next to the toilet there was a petal, more specific a rose petal my favorite. I thought it was strange because I've never seen any flowers in the bathroom or anywhere in the house. I dismissed it though it probably didn't mean much. when I went back I found Zak sleeping. I sat next to him and gently laid his head on my thy and threw a blanket over him, I then turned the tv off and proceeded to comb my finger through his soft hair. He seemed to enjoy it, he looked peaceful. I don't know when but I too dozed off on the couch.
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sorry this took so long to write I had writers block for a while. I hope you enjoy this chapter I tried to make it more longer. I'll try to update more. I do read your comments and some of them give me ideas so some of your comments are incorporated I'm the story :D. I'm also working on another story you guys might like, hope I can publish it soon. Have a nice day/night.