Ooh ominous title...-

Sally woke up still wrapped in Larry's arms, neither of them had moved in their sleep. He tried to wriggle out of Larry's grip but he was holding on too tightly, He kicked Larry's leg to wake him up,

"Larry, move. I need a piss" Sal wasn't a morning person, and was particularly grumpy because of the lack of sleep. Larry still didn't stir, so he kicked him harder.

"Larry! Come on dude"

Larry's eyes flickered open and shut again, he groaned,

"Hmm...I don't wanna move, man, I need a smoke and some painkillers!" Larry woke up with a splitting headache from the lack of alcohol in his system. Sally was growing impatient,

" Well I'll go get you some painkillers if you let me go! It's either that or I piss in your bed, now let me out" Sal elbowed Larry in the stomach, he crumpled and let Sal go. Larry turned over and Sal practically jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom. Larry quickly changed his shirt while Sal went to the bathroom.

Sal started to feel sick, while washing his face, he quickly turned and collapsed to his knees, dangling his head over the toilet bowl. He loudly threw up in the toilet, his stomach in so much pain because of the bruising. Larry heard Sal wrenching in the bathroom and stumbled out of bed, "Sal? You ok?" He made his way to the bathroom and knocked on the door. "Hey, Sal?"

When Sal finished throwing up, he shouted to Larry "I'm fine! Don't come in!". He stood up and cleaned himself, brushed his teeth and stumbled back to Larry's room. Larry was already back in bed, Sal shoved him, "Hey, Lar? Don't we have school today?" He reached for his jeans and put on one of Larry's sanity's fall shirts, his top was all dirty and didn't want to go home for a new shirt.

Larry sprung out of bed, "Oh shit!" He scrambled around gathering clothes and ran to the bathroom to get changed and wash up. "Oi! Is that my t-shirt?" Larry called from the bathroom, fastening his jeans.

Sal blushed, while fixing his hair, and called back, "Y-yeah, I cant be arsed to get another from my place. " He put his sneakers on, being careful not to bend his stomach too much otherwise it would hurt, and then put his prosthetic on. Larry chuckled to himself and emerged from the bathroom.

"Come on dude, we need to go" Larry opened the front door, "Little blue first" he smiled. Sal skipped happily out the door, though he bitterly regretted it, since his legs still hurt. Larry and Sal walked to school, continually talking about this and that. Neither of them brought up what happened the night before.

They reached the school gates, and Larry was greeted by some of this school friends; Ashely, Todd and Neil. Ashley ran and hugged Larry. He was totally taken aback, Ashley wasn't usually this affectionate...

Larry pushed Ash away after a little while, he said a general hi to her and the others. "Uh...Hey guys, this is Sally, he's a cool dude, just moved into my apartments."

Everyone awkwardly waved at Sal, not knowing quite what to say. Todd spoke up "402 right? We met briefly, this is Ashley, and this is Neil" Todd looked lovingly at Neil when he said his name.

Sally awkwardly shuffled and waved to them. He looked at Larry, "Do you know my classes?" he looked at his phone, it was almost time for school.

"Yeah, not to worry little dude, you're in most my classes, you're in Todd's from the rest." Larry patted Sal's back, and smiled. "Come on, we all have form together, and we need to get your locker anyway" As one large group, they shielded Sally in the middle walking down the corridors, hiding him from others, avoiding odd stares and snide comments in his first few minutes at school.

They went to the office to get Sal's locker number, luckily, his locker was just a couple away from Larry's, with some luck he could probably trade it for the one directly next to Larry's.

After disposing Sal's extra books in his new locker, the group set off for the form room. A blonde boy shoved his way through the group to reach Sal in the centre of the crowd, "Oi! Who let this freak in the school?" Sal recoiled back, expecting him to go on, Larry put his hand on the blonde's shoulder,

"Fuck off Travis, no one is in the mood for your bullshit" Larry walked around to he was infront of Sal, he pushed Travis to emphasise his point. Travis laughed,

"Oh yeah? What you gonna do fag?" He looked at how defensive Larry was being, "Ooh, protecting our little boyfriend are we?" Ash turned around, trying to come to the boys rescue,

"Come on Travis, you know that's not fair, its his first day. And you of all people should know its ok to be gay" Ash folded her arms, raising her eyebrows at Travis, secretly warning him. Travis laughed,

"What do you know bitch? Gays are sinners" Travis got a lump in this throat just by saying it. He got all embarrassed, "whatever, not wasting my time on you losers anyway..." with that remark he skulked away.

Larry turned to face Sal, "Don't take any notice of him, he's just a dick." Sal smiled and nodded,

"T-thanks for sticking up for me, you too Ashley" He smiled in Ash's direction, she couldn't see it of course but she knew somehow he was.

They went through the day, going to various classes, all the strange looks and whispering as Sal walked past got less as the day went on. At lunch they all sat in the canteen, after they had all eaten, Sal whispered to Larry "Where are the toilets?" he was slightly embarrassed about having to ask, Larry got up from the table,

"come on, I'll show you" he smiled. Ash also got up, she walked off to the girls toilets in the opposite direction that Larry and Sal went.

The pair walked to the toilets, Sal went inside but Larry decided to wait outside. Sal went about his business, the started thinking to himself. "should I pretend like nothing happened between us? I mean...we haven't spoken properly all day..."

He walked out of the bathroom and his blood instantly started to boil, stood in the corner of the hallway was Larry being pinned to the wall by Ashley, her tongue down his throat, her hands wandering all over his body. Larry was backed into the corner with nowhere to go, he wanted to make her stop but he was stuck.

Sal didn't see it like that, he thought Larry was interested in him, Sal risked what little he knew about himself to allow himself to like Larry, and he felt like it had all been thrown back in his face, and his heart had been torn in two... His eyes filled with tears as he ran from the scene, "How could Larry do this to me! I thought he liked me...did yesterday not matter to him?" He ran back to table to collect his belongings and went to his next class early.

Larry saw Sally run off, he pushed Ashley away and she fell to the floor, shooting daggers at Larry. "What the hell Larry! Don't deny it, you loved it!" Ashley shouted to Larry. Larry towered over her,

"No Ash, I didn't, don't you dare attack me like that again, even worse, Sal saw that!" Larry shouted at her in a fit of rage, pissed that Sal saw what Ash was doing after Sal was so trusting of Larry. Larry ran in the direction of the cafeteria, looking everywhere for Sally, he needed to explain himself before Sal was set on hating Larry.

Larry looked everywhere for Sally, but didn't find him, he resolved to find him in the apartments after school.

Sal sat crying all through the lesson, hidden by his mask, It wasn't too noticeable, but occasionally little muffled sniffs came from under his prosthetic. Larry sat at the back of the class, but he didn't dare try and talk to him during the lesson, knowing that the needed to have a real discussion, which would end up being an argument.

The hour dragged on but school finally ended, Sally ran home, not even taking time for anyone to talk to him, he got in the lift. As the doors closed, he unclipped half his mask and wiped the tears from his face, making sure to clip it back on before he went past his dad.

Sal walked through the door, the room stank of open beer cans, luckily, his father was passed out on the sofa. He crept to his room and locked the door; Sal unclipped his mask, putting it on his bedside table, he flung himself onto his bed. Sally grabbed a few tissues from his packet, curled up on his bed, and cried himself to sleep...

Larry made his way to the apartments, he got in the lift to the 4th floor and knocked on Sal's door. Henry answered "What do you want kid?" he slurred. Larry stood tall, telling himself he wasn't scared of him.

"Umm... I'm sorry to bother you sir...Is Sally home?" Larry fidgeted. Henry squared up and towered over Larry,

"I don't know kid, but even if he is, you ain't seeing him!" Henry slammed the door in Larry's face. Larry stumbled backwards in shock. Defeated, he sulked home, falling on his bed, beating his cushions in anger...

OOH, plot-twist? No? Ok. :)