(Trigger warning: Suicide ideation)

It's been a couple of days since Cyrus had been living with Jonah. Jonah had been taking care of both Cyrus and his mom as they recovered from their injuries. Cyrus's face was healing up, the bruising was almost faded away and the cuts were healing too but the damage done to his body would take more time to heal. Whereas for Jonah's mom she was almost recovered and ready to start walking.

Jonah sat wide awake next Cyrus who was asleep. Still, Jonah hadn't any sleep since both Cyrus and his mom got hurt. He couldn't go to sleep with those memories and thoughts in his head. It's like he was drowning in his thoughts. All he wanted was to sleep and forget everything.

Jonah's focus turned to Cyrus who was turning back and forth in his sleep. His breathing was getting louder. Jonah could hear Cyrus crying out in fear. He was having another nightmare of his stepdad again. Jonah gently shook Cyrus to wake him up, telling him "It's not real" over and over again until Cyrus sprinted up screaming in terror.

Jonah held onto Cyrus, calming him down. He wrapped his arms around him, comforting him. But even that didn't calm down Cyrus. Cyrus was hyperventilating. The blood pounded in his ears. His heart thudded in his chest. His hands shook. His feet tingled. He felt the walls closing in on him. The room was spinning. He could imagine the yells of his stepfather kicking down the door.

Shaking Cyrus wasn't working, Jonah had to try something else. He leaned in towards Cyrus's face and connected his lips upon Cyrus's lips. The shaking stopped and Jonah felt Cyrus kissing back. Before Cyrus felt as if he was dying, now he feels as if he's safe. All of his worries and panics had vanished. He finally felt safe enough to open his eyes. The two teens pulled apart to catch their breaths.

"You're safe now." Jonah said as he cupped his hands around Cyrus's face, looking into his eyes.

"You kissed me, why?" Cyrus asked.

"I saw you having a panic attack, I had to calm you down somehow..." Jonah started, he then took a deep breathe for what he was about to say next.

"-and because I like you," Jonah said. Jonah felt his heartbeat stop as he waited for Cyrus's response.

"You do?" was all Cyrus could say. He always thought that his feelings for Jonah were one sided.

"The day of the baseball game, I didn't kiss you out of peer pressure. I did it because I wanted to. Cyrus, I like you."

This was too much for Cyrus to process. Learning that the guy he's liked since the first day of middle school likes him back. Cyrus was always use to bad things happening to him. Now that Jonah likes him, he didn't know what to say. For the first time, Cyrus had finally had a win for once.

Jonah was starting to regret he ever said that since Cyrus didn't respond. He felt ashamed to confess that to Cyrus who he thought was probably upset with him. Jonah looked down in shame.

"Just forget I ever said anything. I'm sorry I even said that," Jonah said. He began to get off the bed, but felt pressure of his arm. Cyrus held onto Jonah's arm, hinting for him to stay.

"Of course I like you." Cyrus said back.

"Really?"

"Just kiss me, you dummy." Cyrus said this time being the one to kiss Jonah. With that the two teens kissed.

As the two two teens kissed, the door opened. It was Jonah's mom who had painfully crawled out of bed and tried as best she could to get to her son after hearing screaming.

"Oh my, " Mrs. Beck still on the floor. The two boys pulled apart quickly, now both turning bright red.

"Mom, what are you doing out of bed?" Jonah asked as he helped his mom up.

"Forget about me, what's going on here. You didn't tell me you had guest over," Mrs. Beck said looking at guest in her son's bed.

"Is this Cyrus? How long has he been here? Oh my, what happened to him?" Mrs. Beck asked seeing Cyrus all beat up. She then almost fell back since she was still weak from the accident.

"Let's you to bed mom, you still need to recover. I'll tell you everything." Jonah said as he helped guided his mom back to her bed. He wrapped a blanket around his mom and took a deep breath before telling her about everything.

After last night, Cyrus felt a hundred times better, he was even up and out of bed. The same energy he felt during the baseball game was back. Cyrus walk out of the room and found Jonah sitting at the table. He seemed to be in a deep thought.

"Jonah," Cyrus called out. Jonah snapped out of his thoughts and saw that he was sitting at his kitchen table. He must have sat here after telling his mom about everything. She took the news surprising well.

"Are you ok? You look like you haven't slept." Cyrus asked.

"I'm fine, are you hungry?" Jonah asked trying to change the subject.

"Starving." Cyrus said hearing his stomach growl.

"We still have a lot of muffins leftover that my mom made," Jonah said remembering the tons of muffins his mom made during her manic episode.

"No offense but you've given me so many muffins since I've been here.I'm kinda tired of them." Cyrus confessed.

"Yeah, me too. You want pancakes?"

"Sounds great." Cyrus said. Jonah went into the kitchen and started to take out all of the ingredients. Cyrus came and watched.

"What's wrong?" Jonah asked seeing Cyrus watching over him.

"Nothing, I just never really cooked before," Cyrus said looking intrigued my Jonah's cooking skills.

"You want to try?" Jonah asked handing Cyrus an egg.

"Oh, I don't know how."

"It's easy. I'll show you." Jonah said demonstrating how to crack an egg. Cyrus took the egg and observed it. He never held an egg before, he looked at it and shook it.

"Don't shake the egg, do what I just showed you," Jonah said stopping Cyrus who was vigorously shaking the egg. Cyrus cracked the egg on the sided of the bowl like Jonah showed him and immediately dropped the egg as the egg yolk spilled onto his hand.

"Eww, it's so slimy," Cyrus said in disgust as he washed his hands.

"Ok, so, eggs aren't your thing, that's ok. Why don't you mix all the ingredients together." Jonah said handing Cyrus a whisk. Jonah watch as Cyrus whisked the ingredients very slowly.

"You have to mix faster and harder, like this," Jonah said as he placed his arm around Cyrus's and help him mix.

Then Jonah heated up the pan and poured in the pancake batter. He showed Cyrus how to flip the pancake and then handed him the spatula.

"You can do it Cyrus, I believe in you," Jonah cheered.

"You're right, I got this," Cyrus smiled as he began to scoop up the pancake. With Cyrus being too excited he flipped the pancake too high and it landed on the ceiling.

"Pooh" Cyrus frowned looking at the pancake on the ceiling.

"Ok, why don't I take it from here," Jonah said carefully taking the spatula away from Cyrus.

Jonah had now flipped the last of the pancakes and served Cyrus and himself. They both sat next to each other starting at their plate of pancakes.

"Bon appetit." Jonah joked as he and Cyrus both took a bite of their pancakes.

"Eww, I think we forgot to add sugar." Cyrus said immediately spitting it out into his napkin.

"You're right, these are docious atrocious. Guess we're having muffins again." Jonah said as Cyrus sighed.

Later on, two teens had cleaned up their mess and had laid on the couch while cuddling and watching a movie.

"Hey, about last night," Jonah brought up.

"Yeah?"

"Did you call me a dummy?" Jonah questioned.

"I had to when you thought I didn't like you," Cyrus explained.

Then the doorbell rang. The two boys groaned, neither of them wanted to get up. After playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, Cyrus lost and had to open the door. When he opened the door, he was shocked to see his mom.

"Mom?" Cyrus asked, scared that his stepfather might be with her.

"Cyrus! You're alive! I tracked your phone here." Mrs. Goodman said in relief. Then Jonah went to see who was at the door with his mom following right behind.

"Who's at the door?" Jonahs mom asked as she walked up to the door.

"YOU! What are you doing with my son! Cyrus get out of there, she's the crazy lady that attacked me during work!" Cyrus's mom shouted as she pointed at . She then went up to her son and grabbed his hand.

"We're leaving!" she shouted.

"No!" Cyrus said pulling away from his mother's grip.

"But Cyrus, that woman is crazy. She's a horrible mother. I don't trust her around you."

"I'm sorry for what I did." Mrs. Beck said repeatedly. She felt so much guilt. She had always tried to be a good person but her mental illness gets in her way. She didn't mean to hurt Cyrus's mom. Hearing say those awful things about her was too much for her so she left the scene.

"Hey, my mom is a great mother. She's just sick but that's not her fault," Jonah argued. Yeah his mom can be a pain when she doesn't want to take her medicine but to Jonah he saw his mom as a good person.

"Nothing about that women is normal. She attacked me the other day by throwing dishes at me, one cutting my face. I don't want her to be near my son and hurt him. Cyrus, come back home with me." Mrs. Goodman asked her son one last time.

"No! Not until that monster and his son moves out. He almost killed me mom and you don't even care," Cyrus argued back.

"But I do care." said back.

"Then leave him, mom," Cyrus said. If his mom truly cared for him then she would leave her new husband who was abusing her son.

"You know I can't, he'll hit me too if I don't listen to him," Mrs. Goodman explained.

"All you care about is yourself. That's not what a mom is supposed to be like. You are not my mom, your just a coward." Cyrus said finally standing up to his mom. Even he realised what he said was over the line but he was telling the truth. Mrs. Goodman took the hint and left, obviously she wasn't wanted here.

Tears streamed down Cyrus's face as he watched his mom leave. Jonah closed the door and hugged him because he knows what's it's like for family to walk out on you.

"It'll be alright." Jonah said as he hugged Cyrus.

"How do you know?"

" Because last year, my dad walked out that door and never came back," Jonah revealed. He doesn't like talking about his dad but it seemed like Cyrus was in the position he was when his family left him. He wanted to make Cyrus feel better.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know," Cyrus said. This was the first time he had ever heard Jonah talk about his family.

"It's fine, I mean it hurts at first but it gets easier over time," Jonah reassured Cyrus. He then put the movie back on to help clear Cyrus's mind. While watching the movie, Jonah realized his mom wasn't in the room.

Jonah got up and went to go find her. He knew she must have felt awful after hearing what Mrs. Goodman said about her. He checked her room but she wasn't there. The sound of faint crying caught his attention. It was coming from the bathroom.

-TRIGGER WARNING-

"Mom are you ok? The lady left, she won't bother us again. You can come out now." Jonah said as he knocked on the door. Jonah was growing more worried when he couldn't hear any more crying.

"Mom?" Jonah called out again. Jonah slowly opened the bathroom door and saw a huge mess. All of his mom's pills were scattered all over the floor and everything was pushed off the counters. It was like a tornado had struck his bathroom. Then in the corner, Jonah could see the back of his mom.

He then walked up to his mom and gave her a comforting hug. Then he felt cold liquid cover his hands, he looked at his hands to see blood. Jonah panicked seeing all the blood on his hands, it was his mom's blood. He looked at his mom to see that she had slit her wrists. Blood was spilling everywhere.

"No, no, no! Mom, stay with me." Jonah said as he held onto his shaking mom. He wrapped his hands around her slit wrist trying to stop the bleeding but it was too much blood.

"Mommy's fine," Mrs. Beck mumble out softly. Everything was getting blurry for Jonah's vision as tears filled his eyes. He cried out for help as he wrapped a towel around his moms wrist.

"HELP!" Jonah cried out as he held on to his moms bleeding body. He saw his mom's eyes slowly closing. Cyrus had now came to the scene. He screamed seeing all the blood. Jonah yelled at him to call the ambulance. Cyrus quickly ran to the phone and called the paramedics.

"No, mom. Don't leave me. Not you too." Jonah cried but it was too late his mom had closed her eyes.

Authors note- wow what a plot twist. I'm sorry please don't hate me for this chapter.