Chapter 5

Well this sucked. They were ignoring him. Crutchie knew it. It just seemed like they would find any excuse not to be with him. Right now, Davey was with Jack and Race, but not him. The only reason he knew about it was because it was on their snapchat stories.

Did he do something wrong? He couldn't think of anything. Was it because of his disability? No, that never affected anything before. Then what was it? Was he just that annoying and worthless?

He decided to call Romeo to try and cheer himself him up, he was always close with him. Obviously not as close as him and Race, but still.

"Hey Romeo." Crutchie said once he picked up.

"Hey Crutch, you okay?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"

"I dunno, you just don't sound as enthusiastic as you usually do."

"I mean… I guess but it's so stupid!"

He could hear Romeo sigh through the phone, "I'm sure it isn't."

"You probably saw on Jack's story that he's with Davey and Race right now."

"Aww Crutchie you know that has nothing to do with you. Come on, Jack cares more about you than any of us. So he invited Davey over, but it could've been Race and he just joined them too."

"You're right."

"Of course I am. Now wanna hang out?"

Crutchie smiled, "Sure, movie at my place? I don't really like driving."

"I know Crutch, I'll be there in an hour."

*Saturday 1:53 P.M*

Crutchie to Jack

Crutchie: Hey Jack! Wanna see a movie tomorrow?

Jack: i can't Kath wanted to hang out tomorrow

Crutchie: ok sorry

Everything should've been fine. Crutchie felt fine after being with Romeo, but then this happened. Jack never turned him down because he was with someone else- unless it was a group project. Whenever he was hanging out with someone else and Crutchie asked, he always invited him to make sure he was included.

It was senior year; he just didn't want to spend his last year in high school with memories of unnecessary drama. He didn't want to start anything either.

But keeping quiet just made him irritated and irrational.

He was mental filtering, thinking about how everything could go wrong, and ignoring all of the positives.

Now that Jack's crush on Davey was all too obvious, it was clear he would be spending a lot of time trying to impress him. Crutchie could only imagine what would happen if they actually became a couple. Jack would abandon him.

No, he wasn't going to think like that. This was Jack, his brother. He wouldn't leave him.

And Crutchie was right. He wasn't ignoring him on Monday, he was treating him like he always had. Crutchie was just being paranoid.

Yeah, everything was fine.

SO SO SO SO SORRY FOR THE WAIT AND SHORT CHAPTER!

I'm about halfway through chapter 6, so that should be up soon! Hopefully the wait won't be this long in the future, thanks for reading!