A/N: Thank you everyone for reading! Thank you reviewers too (: The comments always make my day! There's some drama going down in this chapter and the next one so get ready!
Erik woke up around 11 am the following Saturday morning and slumped into the shower. Getting changed for the day, he still felt extremely tired. He had stayed up last night; replaying the night in his head over and over again. Edie had already had her breakfast and covered Erik's with foil. Erik sat down at the table to eat his now cold food. He grabbed a cent coins from his nightstand and headed out the door.
On his way to the lobby, Erik was pleased to see no one was on the phone. Putting the coins in the machine, he dialed Charles' number. Unfortunately Raven picked up.
"Hello?" Raven said from the other side.
"Raven? This is Erik; I'm looking for Charles." Erik looked over his shoulder to see if anyone was eavesdropping in on him; for some reason that was everyone's favorite thing to do here.
There was a pause before Raven answered. "He's in the library. I'll get him in a second. First, I want to talk to you. You have a good time last night?"
Erik looked at the phone in confusion. "Why are you asking me this? Didn't Charles come home extremely happy? He was when he left. Yes, I had the best time of my life if you must know."
"Oh, just wanted to make sure that you had a goodtime and weren't just acting like you liked him."
Erik gave a snicker. "Really? You think I'd do that? We're dating now, just so you know." Erik was getting annoyed and just wanted to talk to Charles.
"Alright but remember: you hurt him and I hurt you. Got it?" Erik could imagine her sticking her pointer finger in his face and giving a menacing face.
"Got it. Now can I please talk to Charles?" Erik could hear Raven shouting out Charles' name. She didn't move her phone away so she just shouted right into the phone, nearly making Erik deaf.
"Hello?" Erik recognized Charles' voice. He did sound different over the phone though.
"Charles, how are you?" Erik smiled, realizing he could call Charles whenever he wanted to now because they were dating. Not that he was going to; the phone costed money to use and Erik wasn't doing too well in that department. Plus he didn't want to be that annoying and nagging boyfriend.
"Now I'm doing great!" Erik could almost feel Charles' smile through the phone. He could also imagine Charles was fiddling with the phone cord by twisting in around his finger.
"Are you free? I'm bored to tears and wanted to know if you wanted to hang out or something?" Erik asked.
Charles paused, thinking. "Yeah, I'm free. What did you want to do?"
Erik took a minute to answer that question correctly without seeming like a creep. He shrugged and said, "Maybe we go to the park? We could always just go to your house. I'd offer mine but there's not much you can do in a 4 room house." Oh god, that sounded dirty. Let's hope he doesn't notice it.
Charles snorted with laughter. "Sounds like someone's getting frisky. What exactly do you have in mind that we do at my house?"
Crap, he thinks I'm a pervert.
"Sorry, that did sound wrong. We could just-I dunno-hangout?" Erik wasn't sure which shocked him more: the fact that he had said something extremely perverted to Charles or the fact that Charles said he was 'frisky'.
Charles smiled. "Sounds good to me. Do you want a ride?"
"Nah, I'll just take the bus. If you want to meet me at the closest bus stop and we can walk from there."
"Erik, that's like a 10 minute walk."
Erik smiled. "Perfect. See you then." He hung up the phone and walked back upstairs to get his bus pass. Slipping on his tan jacket, he said goodbye to Edie and left for the bus spot. It was about 4 blocks away with the next bus boarding in 10 minutes. Erik got there just in time. Taking a seat in the middle aisles, Erik sat by himself quietly, listening to an old Jewish lady talking on the phone.
At the next stop a short girl with a curly brown hair and silver-white highlights got on and sat in the aisle next to Erik. He stared at him, a smile on her face. She slipped off her jacket and licked her lips. Is she trying to seduce me? Erik thought, staring straight ahead.
"I like you jacket, big boy." Big boy? Erik tried not to laugh and just smiled slightly.
"Thanks." He continued to stare out the window. She seemed angered that he wasn't looking at her.
"My name's Anna Marie. How about yourself?" The girl asked, running a hand through her brown hair. Erik kept looking out the window.
"Erik."
"You single, Erik? Lonely?" Anna Marie asked, sliding closer to him and leaning forward slightly.
"No, I'm sorry. I have a boyfriend." Erik said, flashing an apologetic smile and focused his attention on the window; looking for Charles just over the hill.
Anna Marie just shifted her weight in her chair. "Well me too but they don't have to know." Her voice was husky as if it was her seducing voice.
"Oh, I didn't think you were that dumb. I'm gay. Even if I was single I wouldn't be much of a date. Unless you grew a penis." Erik's voice was monotone and bored. He didn't even know this chick and frankly, he was glad he didn't. His comment shut her up and she didn't talk to Erik for the rest of the bus ride.
Finally they reached Erik's stop and he got off, expecting to see a joyful Charles but was quick to find that he was alone. He waited a few minutes before he started to get worried. Am I at the right bus stop? Is Charles okay? What if he's hurt? Erik face was grave and he decided to run in a full sprint to Charles' house. Luckily for him, he only ran a block before he saw Charles. He was being followed by three people who were following him hastily. Erik ran over to him, only to see that it was Shaw, Azazel and Janos picking on Charles.
Charles gave Erik a look of 'save me!' and 'Run before they make fun of you!' but Erik remained where he was. Shaw saw him and gave that evil smirk.
"Well looks like he have a double package deal here today. How are you two doing? Working on that art project?" Shaw asked while he and the other two circled Erik and Charles like hyenas. Erik grabbed Charles' hand.
"Leave us alone, Shaw." Erik said; his voice lower and stronger than normal. Shaw's eyes trailed off to Erik's hand and noticed that they were holding hands now.
"Oh gosh, don't tell me it's true! You two are dating now aren't you?" Erik squeezed Charles' hand tighter and pulled him a litter closer to him, as if he was marking Charles as his possession.
"Fuck off, Shaw." Erik growled at him. Janos and Azazel exchanged a look with Shaw. Azazel and Janos grabbed Charles and dragged him away from Erik and Shaw. Charles gave Erik a helpless sheep look.
"Erik, I thought we were friends. You know how I feel about faggots." Shaw gave a disgusted look and spit the word out like it was venom to him. Erik's eyes narrowed.
"We were never friends." Erik took one step closer to him, fists clenched at his sides.
Shaw smirked. "Erik, I made you the guy you are today."
"So you made me gay? Sorry but the only one you can thank for that is my boyfriend, Charles." Erik was beaming with confidence. He smiled and hardened his gaze.
Shaw nodded to Azazel and Janos. They had Charles by his arms and threw him onto the ground. Janos pinned him down while Azazel started kicking him.
Erik became enraged. "You Assholes!" Erik threw a punch hard at Shaw's face, most likely broke his nose in the process. He then ran over and punched the daylights out of Azazel. Erik was hit once or twice in the gut and face. Kicking Janos away in the face, Erik kneeled down beside Charles. Charles was breathing heavily and his nose was bleeding rapidly. Erik picked him up in his arms and started to run to Charles' house.
"Fags always run away, Erik!" Shaw yelled after Erik, wiping the blood from his broken nose on his sleeve. Erik paused briefly to flick him off before continuing to carry Charles. Charles was crying slightly, holding his rib cage in pain.
"That's why I didn't want to walk." Charles said, groaning in pain from talking. Erik looked at him with regret in his eyes.
"I'm so sorry, Charles." Erik leaned forward and kissed the top of Charles' head. Charles closed his eyes, letting his tears run down his face.
They finally made it to Charles' house. Erik rushed inside and set Charles down on the nearest sofa. He went into the kitchen to get a wet paper towel for Charles' bloody nose. He came back to see a scared Raven talking to Erik.
"Oh my god! What happened?" Raven gasped, seeing how bloody he was. She looked up to Erik and gasped again. Erik guessed he has a black eye and was bleeding from getting hit too. Erik put the paper towel on Charles' nose and rubbed away the dried blood.
"Shaw. Charles was walking and I guess they saw him and followed. They corned us and started attacking him. So I fought back and got him away from their as soon as I could." Erik said, still cleaning Charles' face. Raven nodded and wen to get more paper towels to help.
Charles smiled at Erik. "Thank you for that. I could hear Shaw's nose breaking from where I was. I bet that felt good."
Erik frowned at Charles. "It was but I wish it wasn't because they were hurting you. This is my fault. I should have just walked by myself. This is just turning out to be a rather shitting day for me. First that awkward bus ride and now this-. "
Charles looked intrigued. "What happened on the bus?" His eyebrow was raised slightly.
"Nothing; just got hit on by a girl. I told her I was with someone and gay so don't worry. It just made the whole ride extremely awkward. "Erik said, finally done with cleaning Charles' face. The blood flow had stopped. Charles was frowning.
"I bet she was beautiful." Charles said with a hurt tone. Erik looked at him with the most bewildered look Charles had ever seen.
"What are you talking about? I'm dating you. I'm gay. Besides, did you see me punching people to save her? No, I was saving you. Besides, the only one beautiful that I know is you." Erik leaned over and kissed Charles softly. Mushy romance stuff made Erik sick to his stomach but he knew Charles liked it so he gave up his man card to make him happy. Charles smiled, blushing bright pink.
"Thank you, Erik. I'm sorry this had kinda ruined our day." Charles frowned, grabbing Erik's hand. Erik let out a chuckle.
"I know how he could make this day better." Erik smirked, and practically jumped on Charles, kissing him on the sofa. Erik's kisses were fast and sloppy but full of emotion. Charles reached his hands around Erik's neck and pulled him in closer. Charles ran his fingers through Erik's perfect hair. They only parted when they needed air. It wasn't long until Erik's tongue was involved in the action. Everything was great until they heard a shriek. The pulled away and looked up to see a very frightened Raven.
"Could you guys wait until you're in your room before you drive into your hot make-outs sessions? I don't need to see it. "Raven shook her head violently, shaking all the sight of her brother making out with his boyfriend from her head. She turned to go back into the kitchen. Erik looked down at Charles with a devious look.
"Why don't we bring it upstairs then?" Erik licked his lips and kissed Charles once more.
"Hate to be a downer but you're not getting lucky on the second day of our relationship, buddy. Besides, my rib cage hurts and having you sitting on top of it didn't really help the pain." Charles said, rubbing his ribs. Erik sighed.
"I know that. But if you want to kiss without screaming little sisters ruining it I suggest we got upstairs."
Charles pouted. "My ribs hurt, Erik. Carry me?"
Erik sighed. "Again? You've got legs!" That only seemed to upset Charles so Erik picked him up wedding style again and carried him upstairs where he lightly set him on the corner of the bed. Erik lied down next to him, close as he possibly could.
Out of the corner of his eye, Erik could see Charles was frowning.
"You know this means Shaw is going to tell everyone at school and you're going to get picked on too, right?"
Erik nodded. "I know. But I promise I won't let them pick on you anymore. Besides, I'm a thug. I think they will be too scared to mess with me. I can handle Shaw and his gang. Don't worry." Erik leaned over and kissed Charles slowly. "No one's going to hurt you from now one. "
Charles was tearing up now and smiled at Erik with thanks. The smile was gone in a second though. "The only person I care about not hurting me is you, Erik. I mean it when I say this….I-I love you." Charles was bright red.
Erik, he's laying his heart on his sleeve for you. He means it, you can feel it. Charles, I would never hurt you.
Erik kissed Charles again, softly and put his forehead against Charles'.
"I love you too."
A/N: The drama is beginning! Kinda, the whole fight was the drama. Next chapter is gonna have more drama, just you wait. Anna Marie is Rogue in case you didn't know (that rhymed!) I'm sorry she's really OOC but I needed someone to flirt with Erik so we see a little jealous Charles and she was the first person I thought of . Sorry this one isn't as long as the last one but that took me ALL DAY to write O_O. Anyway, I'm ranting now. Thanks for reading and reviewing! New chapter up tomorrow.