"What about this one?" Troy asked pointing to a sports clothes shop that was advertising jobs. Ryan frowned; he knew nothing of sports. "Okay," Troy laughed looking at his boyfriend's face. "Come on, the mall is a pretty big place, we'll find some where."

"Maybe I'm not supposed to work." Ryan huffed.

"Evans weren't born to work." Troy reminded him. "I know this is hard for you, but I want you to know that I'm proud of you."

"You are?" Ryan blushed.

"Very much so." Troy smiled. "Come on, I'm sure there were jobs going in the clothes store." Troy squeezed Ryan's hands and then pulled him to the discount clothing store.

Troy waited outside the store as Ryan spoke to the manager who was in the shop; the manager seemed rather excited that someone had wanted the job; apparently it bad been in the window two weeks and no one had come asking. Ryan skipped out of the shop smiling.

"So?" Troy smiled.

"I'm a working boy." Ryan declared. "They get really busy so he's taking me on even though I have no experience. But he said I look like I know how to dress, so yeah I got the job. And not to mention the uniform really isn't that bad, and I get discount on discount clothes!" Ryan grinned excitedly.

"That's great babe," Troy grinned, he kissed Ryan on the lips. "I'll buy you a cup cake to celebrate."

"Oh a kiss and a cupcake." Ryan chuckled. "You spoil me." Troy laughed, he loved it when Ryan was in a good mood. They headed to the cake stand and Troy brought a box of cupcakes so he had some more at home as well.

"So when do you start?" Troy asked, he linked an arm around Ryan's waist and they walked out of the mall.

"Next Saturday," Ryan smiled. "Nine till two."

"What am I going to do?" Troy pouted, he had gotten used to hanging around with Ryan all the time.

"Call Chad? Get a game going?" Ryan suggested. "What ever you did before I came a knocking." Ryan said in a sing song voice.

"It's going to be weird." Troy mused as he started his truck.

"I know, we've not been apart for five hours in like three weeks." Ryan laughed.

"Not complaining are you?" Troy asked.

"Definitely not." Ryan smiled. "But you get that I have to do this right?"

"Yeah I get it. And I'm glad you're happy."

"I am too." Ryan smiled. "You're parents don't mind me staying do they?"

"No, they love having you with us." Troy promised. "You're like the polite son my mum's always wanted."

"And instead she got a ill mannered jock." Ryan chirped. Troy rolled his eyes as he laughed and they drove home.

When they arrived home, Mr and Mrs Bolton were sat in the living room. "Where did you two go?" Troy's mum asked curiously.

"Ryan went to get a job." Troy smiled.

"A job?" Mr Bolton asked a little shocked.

"I got one too!" Ryan grinned.

"Oh that's great, where is it?" Troy's mum asked, she patted the sofa for Ryan to sit down which he did.

"See Troy that's how you were meant to react," Ryan laughed.

"I was shocked." Troy sighed.

"So, where is it?" Troy's mum asked again.

"The discount clothing store in the mall." Ryan shrugged. "I just... I wanted to get money to do something nice for you all."

"Oh Ryan, you really didn't need to." Troy's mum said straight away. "We love having you here."

"Of course we do." Jack chimed in.

"I know, and I'm grateful like really grateful." Ryan smiled. "I just... it's something I just got to do I guess."

"We wont stand in your way, son." Troy's dad smiled and Ryan couldn't help but grin. Troy's dad called him son!

"So do we get a discount?" His mum chuckled, pulling Ryan closer to her under her arm, something she hadn't been able to do when she first met him.

"Course. That was the first question I asked." Ryan grinned.

Troy sat with Ryan on the bed, they were both doing their homework and talking amongst each other. "This is way too hard." Ryan sighed, he and Troy were doing their maths work together.

"I know but the sooner we get it done the quicker we can sleep." Troy offered Ryan a smile.

"Hmm." Ryan sighed. It took them another twenty minutes to finish the work, and then Ryan smiled proudly and leaned against Troy.

"Well that's that." Troy grinned throwing his book on the floor causing Ryan to tut.

"You're so messy." Ryan smiled, Troy simply shrugged. "So we should watch a film or something."

"Yeah. You can choose." Troy smiled, Ryan headed over to the films as Troy cleared his bed, he made sure to put Ryan's book neatly on his side.

"This one!" Ryan grinned and grabbed the Simpsons movie. Troy gave him a funny look to which Ryan replied "Dude it's your dvd!"

"Actually it's Chad's." Troy laughed but grabbed the film and put it on, during the adverts they got changed for bed and then under the covers.

As they watched the film Ryan snuggled close to Troy who held him tight as he played with his hair. "Thank you." Ryan whispered.

"For what?" Troy asked staring down at Ryan who was looking up at him with something close to awe in his eyes. Ryan just shrugged he leant up and kissed Troy softly on the lips.

"Just being you." Ryan smiled kissing him again.