A/N: So guys since the reviews I received so far (I really thank you for them, they are so nice) encouraged me to write more, heres another chapter. It is a little bit longer hopefully not full of mistakes. It took me a while to write it, so.. yeah I hope you enjoy it. Please review to tell me what you like/dislike.

See you in the next chapter ;)

-Thaye

„Oh darling, why won't you take off that awful mask for once? At least at the dinner table." My mother watched me disapprovingly as I stuffed baked potatoes in my mouth. I had pushed up the mask slightly so I could eat, but otherwise it covered my face as always. Since that one day in spring when my father left us I had worn it almost constantly. Only sometimes when I was alone and no one could see me, I took it off. Over the months I had gotten so used to the mask that my own face already seemed almost alien and kind of weird to me. My mother, as you can imagine, didn't like me wearing it and always protested against it. One day I caught her trying to take it away from me as I had fallen asleep on the couch in the evening. Since then I've made it a habit to hide it before I went to bed. Thinking of it now it was a miracle that the mask was still intact then.

I glanced at my mother through the eye holes but didn't say anything. I wasn't an overly talkative kid and rather liked to be left alone with my thoughts for they were the only things that I knew wouldn't harm me. As a response to her appeal I simply shook my head and shoved another spoonful in my mouth. My mother rested her head in one hand and sighed heavily. My brother just gazed at me with an unreadable expression but made no effort to interfere. I shrugged my shoulders and finished my meal. I dind't realize the exhaustion and helplessness on my mothers features.

Cry's POV

We were driving for almost three minutes when Pewds finally decided to quit staring out of the window like a dog and talk to me instead.

"Man, this is going to be an awesome time!" He nudged me and I jumped slightly at his sudden unexpected enthusiasm for I had been once again too absorbed in thought. I chuckled.

"What are you so excited about?" He threw me a glance that seemed to say 'are you kidding me?' and pouted fot I-have-no-fucking-clue what reason.

"You know. It's just you and me hanging out. Doing funny things, playing games..." he trailed off staring at me with a frozen smile on his face waiting for a reaction. I had to hold back my laughter very hard as I purposefully refused to reply and made him become all fidgety. At some point my composure cracked and my lips twitched upwards into a grin. That was when Pewds had enough.

"God damnit Cry!" he shouted out and I lost it. I loughed so hard that I almost got the car off track. I know that many of my fans love my voice and even more when I laugh. Seriously, I don't understand them. It's just me laughing, nothing special. I would even say that I sound rather annoying when bursting into a fit of laughter. Once I calmed down and wiped a single tear from the corner of my eye I threw a quick glance at Pewds. It was just then that I noticed him staring at me with a fascinated expression on his face. He smiled as he noticed my confusion.

"You're not disappointing me Cry." I blushed slightly at his comment glad that the mask concealed it. Soe Pewds was also one of the people that thought I had an amazing laughter. Goddamnit!

"So, how was your flight?" I quickly changed the subject not liking to talk about me. I hated being the focus. He shifted his position, resting his head against the window.

"Tiresome. Too long and the guy next to me just wouldn't stop talking to his sandwich."

"He talked to his sandwich?" I looked at him unbeliebingly before concentrating on the street again.

"Yeah, I think they were having some sort of argument about the flavor"

"But not like... all the time? He didn't argue the whole flight long, did he?"

"Well, at some point he ended the conversation by eating it. That might be his way to deal with problems I guess."

Okay, Pewds had been with me for only a couple of minutes and we were already talking about something like that. I had a feeling that this was going to be an interesting time.

Pewds' POV

After the first minutes of awkward silence we managed to put up a conversation. The most things we talked about were rahter pointless but it felt good like all the times I had talked to Cry via Skype. Just that now I was sitting beside him in his car not seperated from him by a computer screen and miles over miles of distance between us. Maybe the reason why it didn't feel much different was because I wasn't able to see his face. At first I had been surprised. I hadn't expected him to actually wear a mask but I was okay with it. Maybe he was just shy. If he didn't want to show me his face I wouldn't force him to.

After some more minutes of joking and story-exchaning we reached our destination. The house was rather big and held about twelve to fifteen apartments. Cry exited the car opening the trunk and loading my bags onto the walkway shooing me away as I tried to help him.

"I got it, you go ahead and fetch the elevator." I shook my head at his stubbornness entering the building as a woman stepped out of the door holding it open for me. I smiled thankfully at her and went to perform Cry's instruction. As the elevator arrived at the ground floor Cry came stumbling through the door loaded with my luggage.

"Come on, dude!" I ignored his protests and took the heavy bags from him.

"Let's share the load" I grinned at him.

"For once I try to be social and you don't let me." He pouted playfully and I couldn't help but think that he looked adorable. We entered the elevator and Cry pressed the button for the third floor.

When I was younger I had a little fear of elevators. Every time I entered one I was afraid it might get stuck and I would never come out again. I still didn't feel very comfortable in elevators but I wouldn't call it a fear anymore. Maybe just a little concern.

"Welcome to my kingdom!" Cry threw his hands in the air once he had placed the bag he was carrying on the couch in the living room.

"Take your time, look around, make yourself comfortable." He stood there for a couple of seconds before wandering off into what I thought would be the kitchen. I quickly scanned the room. It was quite spacious with some cupboards covering the walls, a big dark couch in the middle of the room and a flat screen television with various consoles placed in front of it. I whistled appreciative, to be honest I hadn't expected Cry to be the tidy kind of person.

Cry's POV

It had taken me quite a lot of courage to let someone into my home. I had been living alone for almost four years and didn't had many visitors until now. To be precise Pewds was the third person to ever come to my flat. The first one had been a former friend of mine. He hadn't stayed long saying he felt uncomfortable. The second one to visit was my mother two years ago when my brother...

"Oh my god!" Felix' sudden scream interrupted my thoughts and I hurriedly rushed back into the living room. I couldn't even remember why I headed for the kitchen in first place.

Entering the room, I saw Felix crouched in front of my aquarium pressing his nose against the glass making it mist over with his breath.

"Cry, you didn't mention that you have an aquarium. That's so cool!" I couldn't help but laugh although Pewds face through the glass might have caused my fishes to die from a heart attack. Fishes were the only pets I could live with. They didn't make any sound or cause any trouble. They were just there swimming around and looking funny. Perfect.

"Man, you're like a little kid. Could you step back a little? You are frightening the poor things to death."

"Sorry." He stepped back a bit still watching this one fish sucking on the glass. He chuckled.

"That look hilarious, seems like he's having a real good time. I should try this some time!"

"Yeah Pewds, I know you like to suck" I commented casually holding back another fit of laughter. It made him blush with embarrassment.

"Don't say that!" He protested and nudged me in the side.

"Oops sorry, almost forgot... How's Marzia doin?" I thought that the connection between this particular verb and his girlfriend would be kind of funny but against my expectations, Pewds went silent.

"She's... doin well I guess" he answered. I frowned at his reaction. Felix and Marzia had been together for almost three years now. I hadn't heard anything about troubles in there relationship. Well, it also hadn't really interest me until now because I had never liked Marzia much.

"Is... everything okay?" I asked him a little concerned but he just nodded and smiled at me.

"Yeah, everything is juuust cool." He had regained his composure and locked whatever troubled him inside his mind. No way I was going to believe him about that.

After we had stored Felix' stuff in an empty cupboard and I had shown him around we went to play some games because we fucking love to play games! My playstation was running constantly until around 7pm. That was when my stomach began to rumble and Pewds admitted that he was just as hungry as I was. Since with all my preparations for his stay I forgot to buy some decent food we decided to go and eat somewhere in town.

Pewds' POV

We decided to go to a chinese restaurant a few blocks away. While Cry went to the bathroom I searched my bag for my favorite hoodie. A fan had sent it to me and I had seen Cry wearing almost the same one when he picked me up from the airport. He had gotten rid of it once we entered the apartment because it was too warm inside to wear it but since we were going to go outside again we could maybe go in partnerlook. I know that it was kind of childish but that's how I am... deal with it!

I finally found the red garment with the ears attached to the hood and pulled it out of the bag. Foodsteps were approaching as Cry made his way back from the bathroom and I hurriedly pulled it on and turned around to face him. A grin immediatly lightened his (unseen) face.

"Hey, I have the same! Well, almost the same." He went to the couch where he left his hoodie and picked it up.

"Mine is green!"

"Yeah, I know that, you wore it before" I answered and he chuckled softly, rubbing his neck.

"Yes sir, that is possible."

"So we do partnerlook?" I asked hopefully giving him the puppy-look. He sighed.

"Aren't we a little too old-"

"No we're not!" I cut him off before he could finish his sentence. Too old... pfff. You're never to old to do anything, at least in my opinion.

"Geez, man. Okay we're doing partnerlook but stop shouting all the time, my ears hurt already." Victory.

We left the house and made our way to the restaurant. It wasn't that far away but considering that it was already dark outside the streets seemed to stretch endlessly. I was just telling a story about Puga-Chan as we turned around the last corner and Cry bumped into someone standing behind it. I stopped as Cry muttered an apology and we were about to continue our way as the one guy – there were actually two of them – layed his hand on Cry's shoulder and hold him back, forcing him to turn around. He flinched at the touch for it seemed to be rather forcfull and wanted to protest as the guys cut him off.

"You're Ryan, Right? I know this shitty mask of yours!" I frowned, reached out for Cry's arm and pulled him a little closer to me.

"Who are you and what do you want from him?" Why did they know Cry's real name? Who were these guys?

"It's okay Felix, I know them." Cry's voice sounded unnatural as he gently pushed my hand away and it sent shivers down my spine.

"Yeah, you better know us you little fucker!" The other man replied and spat on the ground. Cry slightly shook his head and sighed. My concerns grew even bigger at Cry's placidity before I noticed that he was trmblins slightly. I wanted to reach out for him once again and pull him away from there strange guys, but I knew he wouldn't let me.

"What do you want Dan?" Cry asked. The guys chuckled humorlessly.

"You know exactly what we want. It's been two years and you still don't want to confess?" Now I was getting really puzzled. What the hell was going on here? I looked from Cry to the guys and back to Cry, certainly looking like an idiot.

"I have nothing to confess Nic, I already told you, so just piss off!" I couldn't believe he really just said that. I expected the guys to totally flip out but for some reason they remained silent as Cry turned around and pulled me further away from them. I just heard the one guy – Dan I guess – whisper to the other somethin like 'It's not worth it' and when I turned around one last time I could see them walk away.

Well, that was weird.

Cry had picked up a quick pace and I had fallen behind a little bit.

"Cry, wait a sec!" I shouted as I caught up with him.

"It's getting cold, we better hurry up and get to the restaurant." He replied but didn't look at me. He was acting completely out of it.

"But Cry!" I finally managed to run pass him and block his way.

"I'm very hungry, aren't you?"

"God damnit, fucking listen!" I hadn't planned to yell at him but I couldn't get his attention otherwise.

"Could you please explain to me what the fuck just happened?" I just now took in his appereance. His lips were pressed together and he was trembling even more. When he finally spoke his voice was a little bit shaky.

"It's nothing Felix. Please don't ask me about it. Just forget it."

"But..."

"Please!" The urgency in his shaky voice let my resistance melt. I shut my still opened mouth and nodded heavy-heartedly.

„Okay."

We finally arrived at the restaurand and ordered our food. It was a quiet meal. Cry wasn't very talkative but I tried to loosen up the stmosphere a little bit. By the time we finished eating he was his old cheerful self again.

But I just couldn't forget about what happened.