4 AM

That's what the red numbers of the alarm clock read as Ryan pried his eyes open. Yawning he stretched his arms and jumped when he found the bed empty.
'That's odd' Ryan thought 'Where's Troy?'
With a groan he got up, found a pair of boxers, that he wasn't really sure were his, they could have been troys, and left troys room. Rubbing his eyes, he checked the bathroom on the second floor, empty. So he headed towards the top of the stairs. When he got there he heard something strange. It sounded like little kid voices going "Woo"
'What the hell is that?' Ryan asked himself, as he made his way down the stairs soundlessly.
He found out the noise was coming from the living room. He crept that way trying to figure out what the noise was. When he got there he saw troy watching something on TV and there was a look of pure terror on his face. Looking at the screen to figure out what was making his basket ball star so scared, he almost laughed.
"Hey" Ryan said, in a semi quiet voice. As soon as he did, Troy jumped about a foot in the air.
"Ryan" Troy gasped "Don't do that" He said, holding his chest.
"Sorry i didn't mean to scare you"
"Its not you, its this stupid show" Troy said, motioning for Ryan to sit down by him. Ryan sat down by him, cross legged on the couch.
"Isn't this that kid show, uh..."
"Boohbah" Troy finished.
"And your afraid of it?"
"YES, those things are creepy, the way they pop their heads out at the beginning, then they dance and jiggle their fat, then the evil farting noises" He was visibly shaking.
"Aww, come here" And Ryan pulled the dark haired boy on to his lap, and put his arms around him.
"I hate those things"
"How did this all start?"
"Well, the first time I saw one it was in a store. They were a little creepy so I avoided them, but then one day it was on so I was gonna see what it was all about"
"mmhmm"
"Well I watched it and was terified of them, I even have nightmares about them killing me with their fat"
"Does this have anything to do with that pillow incident?"

FLASHBACK

Ryan and troy were walking through a department store. They passed be this clearence shelf and on it was this pink fluffy looking round thing,
"Hey, look at that thing" Ryan said, pointing to it.
"What the heck is it?" Troy asked, grabing it, it was really soft.
"Hmmm" Troy hummed and tossed it up in the air. When it came back down he bounced it with his palms. As soon as he did so it made this laugh/giggle noise. Troys eyes got real wide and he threw the thing back on the shelf and backed away.
"What's the matter?" Ryan questioned, picking the thing up and looking at it "Its a sound pillow"
"Whatever just put it down" and he grabbed the thing, put in on the shelf and took hold of Ryan's hand and walked away from the shelf.

END FLASHBACK

"Yes"
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know, but then why are you watching it now?"
"I couldn't sleep so I came down here and I turned the TV on and there it was. Then you came in the room a few minutes later"
"I see, well come back to bed and I'll keep away the nightmares" And with that Ryan picked Troy up and carried him to Troy's room. For the rest of the night Ryan kept his arms around Troy and he felt safe. And whenever he was in Ryan's arms he never had the nightmares about the boohbahs.