I just want to say right here and right now, there is a part of the story (You'll know when it comes) that may be a little tough to read. I'd understand if you don't but either way, I hope you enjoy. :)
Lucas stands in front of the rather large and loud house. He is thinking about entering the house, but then a toilet gets thrown out of the window. Lucas can't help but just stare at the falling toilet. "They hell?" he asks himself. The person who somehow tossed the toilet out of the window stands at the broken window. Lucas doesn't recognize him.
"Ah shit, not again," he says casually.
"...Again!?" Seeing this toilet fly out of the window makes Lucas's decision clear. Lucas starts to walk away, but then the door opens and someone calls Lucas's name. Lucas sighs, knowing who it is. He turns to see his brother, Claus, standing in the doorway. Claus smirks and runs over. He grabs Lucas's arm and forces him toward the door. "Why do I have to be here?" Lucas whines. Claus stops at the doorway. He looks at the toilet.
"Oh, don't mind the falling toilets, just watch your head," Claus says. Claus hears Lucas's silence, so he turns his head toward Lucas.
"I'm not sure what type of weather you be in, but raining toilets ain't normal." Claus shrugs and forces Lucas into the house. Lucas groans but seems to calm slightly hearing faint music. He looks around and sees that most people are pretty normal. There are people drinking alcohol, but they all seem to be responsible with it.
"Popo can go a little overboard so just ignore him." Claus walks forward, leaving Lucas to himself. Lucas doesn't know what to do, so he decides to simply walk to the side. He sees a large bowl of fruit punch and some red solo cups. He shakes his head as he pours some fruit punch into his cup. He sips some before seeing someone walking to his side to get himself some punch. Lucas tries to catch a better look at him, but when he does he sees that the boy is already looking at him.
"H-hey," Lucas nervously says.
"Wassup," he says. He drinks some punch. Lucas drinks some of his punch, trying to think of something to say.
"Well, name's Lucas," Lucas says, extending his left arm. The boy grins. He grabs Lucas's hand.
"Ness," he says as they shake their hands. They let go of each other. Lucas looks around at the party. Ness can see he's bored, and he can't blame him. Ness is bored himself. Ness looks down at the solo cup of fruit punch. He taps the top of the cup as he thinks. An idea pops into his head. Ness looks up at Lucas, who looks like he can fall asleep at any time. "Lucas?" Lucas looks at him.
"Yup?"
"Wanna make this party a little more lively?"
"How?" Lucas asks, fully turning to him. Ness can now tell he's got Lucas's attention. He knows that this is his chance to show him the truth. He knows this is the best night to do it. Ness smirks.
"Stay here, I need to set things up." Ness runs off but spills some punch. Lucas chuckles to himself.
"I wish I had his excitement." He puts the cup on the table and grabs two sheets of the nearby paper towel roll. He kneels down and cleans up the spilled punch. He balls up the wet sheet and tries to throw it into a small bucket being used as a garbage can, but misses horribly. "Dammit," he groans. He walks forward to put it inside directly. He turns around to see Ness happily walking back. Lucas is able to make it to his cup of fruit punch before Ness makes it back to the table. "Already?" Ness nods.
"I have the host wrapped around my little finger."
"Uh-huh." Lucas finishes his cup of punch then tosses the cup into the garbage, this time actually making it. He tries to hide how hype he got out of making it in, but it fails to stay hidden for long. He jumps slightly and the hype is visible in his eyes, which Ness happens to be looking in. He giggles.
"You're just like a kid."
"Shuddup." Ness turns around and sees the circle he set up already forming.
"Well, you coming?" Lucas takes a second look around the party and sees that nothing else catches his eye so he nods. Ness leads him to the circle where they fit perfectly, almost as if the others knew only two were coming in. They sit down and Lucas looks around at the circle. He doesn't recognize anyone, but two. One is the boy who threw the toilet out of the window. The other is a boy that isn't very nice to him. Lucas tries to look away from him, but he knows the boy is glaring at him. The boy is Porky...his bully. No one knows he has a bully. Lucas constantly gets bruises from Porky, but they're all on his chest...and below. Lucas clenches his fists at the thought of him. If it wasn't for Claus calling Lucas's phone, Lucas would've lost something he shouldn't lose in this manner. His virginity. Ness notices Lucas's terror. "Is something wrong?" Lucas can tell his worry is overflowing. He can also tell-from this worry-this isn't the first time he wanted to ask that question.
"Um,"—Lucas looks up at Porky, who's holding a sly grin—"don't worry about it." Porky chuckles to himself, earning some glances from the other members of the circle. He clears his throat.
"I just remembered what Picky told me." Porky lies. Lucas shakes his head and looks up at Ness.
"What, um, what're we doing?" Ness looks at Popo who was finishing up a bottle of Bud Light. He then places the bottle in the middle of the circle. Lucas knows what this is, Spin the Bottle. He's played before, but the last thing he wants is to play with Porky as a possibility to kiss. He was forced to kiss Porky too many times, he hates it.
"Spin the bottle," Ness announces. He looks at Lucas. "You ever played?" Lucas nods. "Alrighty then, who's first?" Porky instantly jumps to the occasion. He stares at Lucas as he spins the bottle. Lucas gulps, so Ness can see they know each other. He can also tell it's not in a good way. He knows Porky can be a bit much at times, but he's never shown that side of him to Ness. The bottle doesn't stop on Lucas, however, which allows him to give a breath of relief. The turns go on until it's Lucas's. Ness-who's next to Lucas-put his hand on Lucas's shoulder; sensing his worry. Lucas's nerves are able to strangely calm down after Ness puts his hand on him. He reaches for the bottle and spins it. Lucas watches as it spins, nervous because he's either kissing a stranger or Porky. That's when he thinks to himself. Why is he doing this? It's only a double-edged sword, so why? Before he can get any answers the bottle abruptly stops, almost like someone forced it to stop.
Lucas follows the cap of the bottle and sees it's pointing at Ness. Lucas's eyes widen. He gulps. "If you don't want to, um,"—Lucas rubs the back of his neck—"You know, kiss. I'd understa—" Before Lucas can finish his sentence Ness collides his lips into Lucas's, not at all scared. Unlike the kisses Porky has forced him into, he enjoys this one. He doesn't know if it's because of hidden feelings he never knew he felt, or something about Ness. He wraps his arms around Ness, but not for long since right after doing so the kiss ends. Due to Lucas's arms around Ness's neck, he can't move back, so they glare into each others' eyes. Ness grows a smile that Lucas sees; bringing a smile to his face as well. Lucas moves his arms down and scratches his neck. "I'm sorry, I kinda got too into it?" Lucas nervously chuckles. Ness shakes his head.
"It's all cool, always good to have passion," Ness winks. This wink brings a blush to his face. There is soon an obviously fake cough from Porky. Lucas looks at him. He has a scowl, clearly jealous. He tries to motion for Lucas to come over to him. Lucas looks down as he clenches his fist. He just ignores what Porky did. It's Ness's turn. He spins the bottle. One of the members of the group-that Ness had previously introduced as Paula-points at something. Lucas turns to look at what she is pointing at, but he doesn't see anything. Lucas looks back at the game where the bottle is facing him.
"NO, y-you gotta respin," Porky erupts, almost like he's scared. Paula shakes her head.
"I saw it spin and stop on Lucas," she defends. Porky looks panicked but quickly calms himself down with a huff. "Why do you care anyway?" Porky stays silent. Lucas looks down but feels Ness's hand on his shoulder. Lucas looks up at him.
"If you don't want to, it's fine," Ness says. Lucas shakes his head.
"No, I...I'd like to." Ness grins. The two of them lean into each other for a kiss passionate enough to rival couples. Lucas wraps his arms around Ness and Ness's arms around Lucas.
"DAAMMNN Kill 'em, Ness," one of Ness's friends-who he introduced as Young Link, or YL-says. Ness stops the kiss and looks at him.
"Fuck you," Ness spits. Young Link giggles. Ness removes his arms and rubs his neck in a similar manner to when Lucas did it. "Guess I got a little too carried away too."
"OK, let's move on," Porky rushes. Ness begrudgingly passes the bottle to the person next to him. The game continues and it's Porky's second turn. Lucas flinches once Porky grabs the bottle. He prays-and he's not a believer-that Porky doesn't land on him. He forces an eye open to see the bottle had already been spun. The bottle starts to slow down...then stops. The bottle is pointing at Lucas. Lucas's heart drops. He sees a sly grin on Porky's face. "Well, shall we get this started?" He stands up to start walking toward Lucas. Lucas wants to just run away, but he can't. His legs are frozen. Porky kneels in front of Lucas, his grin still plastered on his face. Porky touches Lucas's cheek, making him flinch. "It sure has been a while," he whispers. What he doesn't know, however, is that Ness heard him. Lucas shakily looks at Ness, who holds a face of concern. Seeing this concern on his face seems to bring some strength into his legs. Lucas shoots up, hitting his head into Porky's chin and knocking him over, and he runs away. Ness watches where Lucas runs to. Ness glares at Porky before following him.
Ness runs up the stairs to the second floor. His parents told him to keep the party on the first floor, he's not supposed to allow anyone up here, and he knows Lucas can probably tell no one is up here. Just as Ness thought, he finds Lucas up there. Lucas is on a balcony that overlooks the back living room. Not many people are in this living room, so Lucas feels calmer here. Lucas is standing at the railing, with his arms extended past it. Lucas has his forehead on the top of the railing. Ness shakes his head. He walks right next to Lucas and allows his arms to extend past the railing much like Lucas. "My mom's gonna kill me if she saw you up here," Ness chuckles. He doesn't get a response from Lucas. "Do you and Porky have history together?" The only response Lucas gives are some grunts and groans. These sounds turn to tears. "I'll take that as a yes." Ness pats Lucas's back. "I'll be back, wait here for me." Lucas still doesn't say anything.
Ness soon comes back with two bottles of Bud Light and a bottle opener. He walks next to Lucas once more and holds one bottle toward Lucas's extended hands. To Ness's relief, Lucas grabs it. He finally stands up and looks at Ness. "Thanks," Lucas half-heartedly says. Ness gives a quick nod. He tries to open his bottle with the bottle opener but just ends up scratching the cap. He tries multiple more times, but he's still not opening it. Lucas giggles to himself. Lucas puts his bottle on the floor and steps forward. He takes the bottle opener and Ness's bottle. He flawlessly opens the bottle and hands it to Ness with a smug smile. Ness takes it, mostly relieved Lucas is smiling.
"Woah, how'd you—"
"I have a few hidden talents." Lucas grabs his bottle and opens his without a hitch. "Drinking's one of them." Lucas drinks some and gives a satisfied sigh. Lucas sees Ness drink some of his bottle. Lucas shakes his head. "I'm sorry." Ness swallows the beer and leans his back against the railing to look at the wall of a room. Against this wall is a small table, and there is a picture hanging from the wall. Lucas copies the same stance Ness is doing. "Yea, Porky and I know each other...in a way." Ness hears Lucas take a loud drink.
"What are you guys, like friends?" Ness asks, turning his head toward Lucas. Lucas is looking at the picture, which he can tell is Ness as a younger kid.
"You were an ugly kid," Lucas points out. Ness looks at the picture and chuckles.
"You're telling me, I'm surprised my damn mirrors haven't broken so far." Both of them take a drink at the same time. Lucas looks down, closing his eyes; thinking. He doesn't know if he wants to tell Ness. He doesn't want to ruin a friendship. Lucas sighs with indecisiveness. He drowns this feeling down with the rest of the beer. He gives a half satisfied and half disgusting burp.
"'Scuse me."
"Man did the lord die when he made that burp, god damn." This brings Lucas some laughter. Lucas looks over at Ness, who is currently drinking some more. When Ness swallows he smiles at Lucas. That's it, that's what he's been waiting for; confirmation.
"Porky, he—" Lucas abruptly stops. He shakes his head, remembering all of the things Porky has done to him. He shakes his head violently, which causes Ness to jump into action. After safely putting his bottle down he holds Lucas to calm him down. This shaking makes him drop his bottle and a rather large glass shard is able to puncture through Ness's shoe and into his foot. He doesn't flinch though, he just focuses on holding Lucas tight. The shaking slows down, and so does his breathing. Lucas notices the lack of a bottle in his hand, and when he looks down he sees the accident. His eyes widen. "N-Ness! I'm so sorry...I didn't mean to." Ness shakes his head.
"What're you talking about,"—Ness gives a painful grunt—"I feel nothing."
"No need to act tough." Lucas carefully walks Ness to the small table against the wall. Lucas puts his hands on Ness's waist-causing both to give a small blush-and he picks him up. Ness is surprised by his odd amount of strength. Lucas gently places Ness onto the table. Lucas kneels down to see the glass shard on eye level.
"If you're gonna suck my toes, at least lemme clean them first." This sudden comment brings a single chuckle out of Lucas. Lucas looks up at him.
"Do you ever take things seriously?"
"Not unless you want me to," Ness winks. Lucas playfully rolls his eyes. He stands up.
"Where's the bathroom?" Ness points back with his thumb. Lucas nods before walking away. Ness bends his knee to put his injured foot onto the table. He wraps his hands around the glass shard. He tries to pull it out, but the pain is too immense. He lets go, giving painful breaths. He puts his head back and looks at the roof. He sucks his teeth as to suck the pain away. He goes back to putting his hands around the glass shard. He pulls more on it, bringing even more pain to him.
"Dammit," he says to himself. He lets go, unable to bear the pain for much longer. "Just...just be tough. It's not too bad, just a big ass piece of glass in your foot, no biggy, right?" He shakes his head, making sure new thoughts can flood his head. "For Lucas, show him you're no bitch." He puts his hands around the glass once more. This time, he bites into his upper arm to grab some of his shirt's sleeve. He prepares his mind for the impending pain. He pulls and the pain is somehow even worse. He bites down hard with a loud muffled scream. His muffled screams get loud as the glass shard finally starts to move. With one more surge of pain, he takes the shard out. When he does, Ness's foot shakes. He lets go of his sleeve with his breath shaky. He places the shard next to him and closes his eyes. Tears are running down his face from the pain.
Lucas soon comes back with a few things. He sees the tears and Ness's bloody hands. He put some stuff on the table before grabbing some tissues. He cleans up the blood on his hands. "You took it out?" Ness gulps and nods his head. "Aren't you tough." Ness grins, accomplishing the point of pulling out the shard. Lucas makes sure Ness has no blood on his hands before turning his attention to his right foot. Lucas takes off his shoe to expose a grey sock that is stained in red. Lucas looks up at Ness for consent to take his sock off. Ness nods. Lucas takes the sock off and the scope of the wound shows its ugly face. Lucas grabs the alcohol and pours it into the wound. Ness gives a muted shriek. "Sorry, I should've warned you."
"N-no, it's fine...just...just keep doing what you're doing." Lucas nods and pours more in. More of his muted shrieks exit his mouth. Lucas stops and grabs the adhesive band-aids. Lucas starts to wrap the band-aid around his foot. Once the wound is covered in a second layer of the band-aid, Lucas cuts the band-aid and sticks the remaining part on his foot. Lucas stands, proud of his medical work.
"It may hurt to walk a bit, but you should be fine." Lucas pats Ness's side. Ness stands up but a shooting pain forces Ness back onto the table.
"I'll just stay up here for a little while." Lucas is able to quickly clean up the remnants of the glass. When he finishes he sits with his back against the railing to look at Ness.
"Ya know, I was gonna try to search for some needle and thread for some stitches," Lucas says with his eyes closed.
"How come you didn't?" Lucas chuckles.
"The last time I tried to look through someone else's stuff I ended up finding a foot-long dildo."
"What? Whose was it?"
"...My brother's."
"Well shit, that must've been one hell of a discovery."
"It definitely was." Lucas chuckles to himself. He nervously rubs his right wrist. Ness sees this, and a feeling comes over him. He wants to make Lucas feel better. Ness stands up, fights through the pain, and sits next to Lucas in the same way. "Man, you're a tough cookie...I can never handle injuries." Ness sees Lucas's eyes were barely open, so he tries to cheer him up with his famous smile. Ness smiles with a bit of his tongue sticking out. Lucas giggles as he actually closes his eyes. "Tough and cute...what'd I do to be something like that." Ness looks down, realizing his smile backfired. "Porky…"
"Huh?"
"He...he's been hurting me for a long time." Ness shoots his entire body to look at him.
"He...he what?" Lucas shakes his head. His hands start to shake violently, but Ness puts his own hands on Lucas's. This instantly calms him down. "What'd he do?" Lucas gets scared to answer. Ness sits back closer to Lucas, keeping his hands on Lucas's. Ness's left foot and Lucas's right foot connect at the tips of their shoes.
"...I don't know how to say it." Lucas breathes in heavily. When he breathes out he feels Ness's hand tighten a bit. Feeling his hands make Lucas more comfortable. Lucas scoots forward, this makes their hands separate. Lucas proceeds to take off his shirt to show loads of scars running across his chest and stomach. Ness covers his mouth. He counts how many there are. He sees 20 different scars. Lucas scoots back and puts his shirt on his lap. "I would show you the others, but they are a little closer to my...my dick." Ness is struggling to find words. He reaches forward to try and touch one of the scars. He hesitates, but Lucas nods. Ness feels one that was located just under Lucas's right nipple. Ness can feel that the scar is recent." Ness looks up.
"Porky did all this?"
"I guess you can say I was just his scratching post," he tries to laugh his pain away.
"Why haven't your family done anything?" Lucas grabs Ness's hand and lowers both. Ness knows why he grabbed it. Ness starts to massage the back of Lucas's palm with his thumb.
"They don't know, no one does, except me and him."
"But then how'd—"
"I stitched myself up. Every scar, I had to stitch myself." Ness looks at the 20 scars. He can't imagine all the pain he's been in. Despite all the pain, he's here, and he's able to make jokes as if it never happened. "He'd also kiss me without telling me...the last time he did it he tried to take it further than a kiss." Ness shakes his head, realizing that's what he did. Ness kissed Lucas without telling him. Did that kiss hurt him? Ness's thoughts are quickly proven wrong. "But, when you did it, it felt different."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I'd rather kiss a stud than a piece of trash a stray cat wouldn't even go near."
"Is it good to be a stud?" Lucas grins.
"Like I'd have the guts to make fun of you." Lucas looks up and only then does Ness see his tears. Ness's heart drops. This entire time he's been crying, and Ness has been just allowing it.
"I didn't know Porky was such a bad guy."
"This is all in a week."
"A WEEK!" Lucas nods. Lucas's hand starts to shake slightly. Ness is able to calm it with his thumb once more. Ness turns Lucas's hand onto its other side. When he does he sees the 21st scar that reaches from the one side of the wrist to the other. Ness knows what this is from. Ness uses his other hand to massage the scar. "Lucas," he softly says.
"I need help," Lucas cries into his other arm. Ness lets go of Lucas's hand and stands up. Lucas looks up, confused. "What're you—" Before he can finish Ness storms off. Lucas decides to follow. Ness makes it to the main living room. He sees Porky casually playing the Playstation with the others. Seeing Porky play like he's normal sickens Ness. Lucas catches up to Ness. "Ness?" Ness shoots his head to Lucas, who still has his shirt off. His massive amount of scars catches the eye of his brother, Claus. Claus runs over,
"LUCAS, THE FUCK HAPPENED?" Claus screams. Lucas looks confused for a bit, but then he looks down to see that he still has his shirt off.
"Shit." Lucas looks up and sees that Claus's screaming catches the eyes of everyone around them. Porky's eyes widen. He rushes over as if he's worried.
"What happened?" he asks. Lucas flinches back. This confirms what Ness came down there to do.
"Porky?" Ness questions. Porky looks at him. Without a single hesitation, Ness slams his fist into Porky's face. Porky falls down and looks up, confused.
"The hell was that for?"
"Ness…" Lucas tries to get through to an anger-filled Ness.
"You sick pathetic fat bastard, you think you can do all that shit to Lucas and get away with it?!" Ness screams.
"What?" Claus asks. He growls and clenches his fist. He walks to a now floored Porky. There he kicks Porky square in the gut. Porky spits up some blood, but Claus doesn't stop. Ness makes sure to not be left out, so he gives Porky a powerful kick to the crotch.
"Guys…? Lucas tries to get through them once more. It still isn't working. They both are still too focused on beating the ever-living shit out of Porky. Ness gives a second powerful punch to Porky's head. "GUYS!" Both of the boys stop and look at Lucas. "Get away from him." Ness and Claus hesitantly back away. Lucas walks to a bloody Porky. He coughs up some more blood. He glares up at Lucas with an evil grin. Lucas extends an arm to help him up. Porky's face grows shocked. Porky takes the hand and Lucas helps him up. Before Porky can say anything Lucas brings his face closer to his own. "Go suck a dick asshole." Lucas slams his forehead into Porky's head. He falls back down and Lucas stands victoriously above him. He suddenly feels guilty. Lucas decides to run out of the house. Ness chases after him. Claus spits down at Porky and follows.
The two of them make it out and see Lucas is walking back and forth. "Hey, Lucas?" Claus asks. Lucas stops and looks at him. He has his shirt in his hands. "At least put it on." Lucas nods and does what Claus said. "Good. Now, what's wrong?" Lucas rubs his wrist and looks down. Ness walks forward. He puts his hands on Lucas's, which calms him down. Claus witnesses this with a raised eyebrow.
"Come on, Lucas, calm down." Lucas looks into Ness's eyes.
"...My head hurts," Lucas says. Ness chuckles.
"Well, of course, you slammed it in his piss poor head." Lucas copies Ness's chuckles. Claus grows amazed. He's noticed Lucas was getting sadder. This is the reason Claus persuaded Lucas into coming to the party. He was lucky they gave Claus both of their invitations, Lucas would've thrown it away. Ness looks up at Lucas's head and sees a small red mark in the middle of his forehead. Ness lets go of Lucas's left hand to touch the mark. "Yikes, I can tell you got that fucker good."
"I'll call the cops," Claus says, bringing up his phone. Lucas reaches up to grab Ness's hand. Lucas looks at Claus as he lowers Ness's hand.
"Don't...just don't," Lucas tries to convince.
"But why?" Ness asks. Lucas pulls his hands away from Ness's. He doesn't give an answer before walking away. Ness and Claus just watch as Lucas gets further from them. Claus looks at the phone, which he's already dialed 91. He turns the phone off and puts it in his pocket. Ness walks forward while grabbing something from his pocket. "Lucas!" Lucas stops and turns his head. He sees Ness running toward him. When Ness stops directly behind him, Lucas fully turns around. Ness grabs Lucas's right hand and places a piece of paper in it. "Call me, will you?" Lucas looks down at a definitely premade piece of paper with Ness's phone number written on it. Lucas flips the paper over and sees Lucas's name in a heart. "Oh,"— Ness nervously chuckles—"I forgot about that." Lucas pockets the paper and resumes his glance into Ness's purple eyes.
"Don't be ashamed...You can take my heart any time you'd like," Lucas grins.
"I-is that a joke?" Ness asks. He doesn't want to seem too desperate for the boy he's been crushing on for months. He invited Lucas to his party in hopes of finding out if Lucas would like someone like him. All Lucas gives to Ness as an answer is a wink. He backs up and finally turns to walk away. Ness giggles to himself. Claus runs up and stops next to Ness. Claus turns his head.
"Nice ass kicking back there," Claus compliments.
"You too."
"Ness, right?" Ness nods.
"Claus, Lucas's brother?" Claus nods. Claus looks out to Lucas.
"Even as his twin I can never get him to spill his guts out without paying him fifty bucks….I've lost a thousand bucks at this point." Ness smirks, realizing all the work he's done without meaning to. "I have to thank you."
"Are you really keeping this from the cops?"
"As much as I want to report him, it's not my choice. It's all him." Ness nods. That's when his phone rings. Ness brings it up and sees it's a number he doesn't recognize. "Hello?"
"Hey, Ness," Lucas's voice comes onto the phone. Ness beams.
"Oh? Lucas, wassup."
"The sky."
"...really?" Ness hears Lucas's cute laughs. "Anyhow, can you tell Claus to get his ass over here, he has the keys."
"Alright."
"'K, thanks Boo."
"No problem Boo"—before Ness can absorb what they just said to each other, Lucas hangs up—"Wait...BOO!" Claus chuckles.
"Well, see ya later Nutcracker." Ness rolls his eyes as he pats Claus's back. Claus walks off and Ness looks down at Lucas's number. He can't help a smile that forms on his face.
"He called me Boo...I'm his Boo."
A few months pass. Lucas and Ness have only gotten closer. This day Ness had invited Lucas to a theater disguising it as a simple "bro-out" but Lucas could tell it was just a date. Lucas makes it home from the date. He walks in and his phone rings. Lucas kicks the door closed and picks it up after seeing it's Claus. "Yo?" Claus says.
"Hey, what's up?"
"I just needed to tell ya mom, dad, and I decided to go downtown to get some games. But a damn freight train is being a two-timing bitch, so now we're stuck."
"Tell him dinner is in the fridge," Flint-their dad-says with a clearly annoyed voice.
"Dad, you're loud as hell, so I'm sure he heard. Anyway, I just wanted to tell ya, yet I didn't want to ruin your date night. Be sure to tell me 'bout it."
"Of course, and thanks, Claus." They hang up and Lucas realizes he's in his room. He's the type of person to walk and talk at the same time, so he didn't know he was even moving. Lucas shrugs and crawls into bed, surprising himself with how tired he is. He yawns, but the yawn quickly breaks away when his phone rings and shows Ness is calling. Lucas shoots up, with some newfound energy. He answers the phone. "Hey, big guy." Ness giggles a little.
"I'm just making sure you got home safe, it is rather late. No hoodlum jumped you or anything, right?"
"No, I'm fine. Although, if you want to jump on me, just ask."
"Oooh, someone's feeling a little frisky, wanna get down and dirty, huh?" Ness laughs.
"I was talking about playing chicken in your pool, what were you talking about?"
"...nothing." Lucas's laughs are cut off by hearing the front door creak open. That's when it dawns on him, due to answering the phone, he forgot to lock the door. "Anyway, so I was thinki—"
"Shh." Ness shuts up. Lucas tries to listen to whatever might be in his house. He soon hears footsteps coming up the stairs. Lucas's eyes start to shake. Ness gets worried about Lucas's sudden silence.
"Lucas?" Lucas puts the phone down, screen first, on the nightstand. Lucas looks at the door, hearing that the intruder is searching the nearby rooms.
"W-who's there?" Lucas stupidly calls out.
"LUCAS!" Ness screams. Lucas stands up and grabs a bat from his closet-it's a bat Ness gave him a while ago-and walks toward the door. Before getting much closer the door shoots open to reveal Porky standing in the doorway. Seeing Porky scares Lucas. The only reason he had the strength to defend himself last time was because of Ness and Claus. Lucas drops the bat and backs up. Porky grins as he steps in.
"Hey, Lucas," he says.
"P-Porky, what're you doing here?" Porky walks up to Lucas. He grabs Lucas's shirt and pulls him closer.
"I have unfinished business." Porky forces Lucas onto his bed and sits on his chest. Porky chuckles. "You ready"—Porky leans forward and licks Lucas's cheek—"Because I am very ready." Porky starts to force Lucas's shirt off, but because he was sitting on him it was tough. Lucas turns his head to the phone and sees the slight light coming off of it, it's still on. Seeing this brings some courage into Lucas. Lucas tries to push Porky off, but all he gets in return is a strong fist in his face. Porky gets annoyed and rips the shirt off, ripping it in two. Porky sees the scars on his body, and his evil grin grows. "Don't you love what I've done, you're my precious little canvas, you best be grateful." Before Lucas can struggle more, Porky gives an even more powerful punch to Lucas's side. Lucas shrieks in pain, only earning a hand over his mouth. Porky gives another powerful punch. Porky lets go of his mouth to sit lower on Lucas. He puts his hands inside Lucas's shorts. For some reason, Lucas is paralyzed. He can't move, even if Ness and Claus were here. He doesn't know if it's fear, or if he's already dead. Porky-with a little struggle-is able to pull off his pants.
"N-Ness...p-p-please…" Porky chuckles. He crawls up to his face and gives his lips a lick.
"Fuck that Ness...you're mine. I don't give two shitty fucks what you or he says, you belong to me. And so, I get to do whatever I want."
"..." Lucas's eyes lower. They now show no emotion. He doesn't care what happens to him anymore, 'cause he knows what the outcome will be. He nearly falls limp, which seems to only please Porky. Porky goes lower on Lucas's body.
Ness hurries his mom up. "HURRY THE HELL UP!" Ness yells, hearing Porky's voice on his phone.
"I'M GOING, JUST QUIET DOWN BEFORE HE REALIZES WE'RE LISTENING." Ness looks down at the phone. Lucas's voice comes up.
"N-Ness...p-p-please." Ness's heart drops. Ness's mom sees a tear fall from his face which makes her speed the car up. When he hears Porky calling Lucas his, he loses it. He looks up and sees Lucas's house in the distance. Ness's breathing turns livid. Ness's mom pulls into the driveway, but before she stops Ness jumps out of the car. Ness runs into the house and up to his room. He bursts into the room and see's Porky undressing on top of Lucas's teary body. Ness picks the bat up and slams it into Porky's head, knocking him off. He gives Porky another strike with the bat before stomping his head. Ness looks at Lucas and sees bruises on his face and body.
"Lucas…" Ness cautiously says. Ness's mom rushes in, in her uniform, and sees Porky bleeding slightly from his mouth. Porky opens his eyes and tries to stand to attack Ness, but Ness's mom grabs him.
"Porky Minch, you are under arrest," she says, holding his hands behind his back.
"WHAT, He's the one who assaulted me," Porky blames Ness, who can't take his eyes off of Lucas's vegetable self. Ness's mom reaches into her pocket to show the phone still connected to Lucas's. She hangs up.
"The audio has already been sent to the higher-ups, there's no slithering out of this. "Lucas…" When Ness's mom looks at Lucas's unresponsive self, she changes her mind. "I'll save that for later." She starts reading off Porky's rights as she walks Porky out. Ness walks closer to Lucas.
"Lucas?" Ness grabs a blanket to cover Lucas's lower body. He grabs Lucas's hand. "Lucas, please," Ness starts to cry. Lucas moves his head to look at Ness. When Ness sees Lucas's lifeless eyes, his tears fall faster.
"N-Ness?" Lucas asks in his dead voice.
"What is it?"
"Why is this happening to me?" This question brings cold tears to his eyes. Lucas's tears fall to the bed and Ness can tell how cold they are.
"I-I don't know...I don't know."
"I want it to stop...why can't it stop?" Lucas's tears start to fall faster. Ness rubs Lucas's hand, trying his best to comfort him.
"It will, I promise it will."
"How can you be sure?"
"I'm your boo, remember? I stay with you forever, people will have to kill me to even remotely hurt you."
"You'll protect me?" Lucas starts to sit up, and his eyes are slightly less dead.
"Yes...Always. No matter who tries to hurt you, I'll hurt them back twice as hard."
"Won't you get hurt?"
"I don't care, I just need you to be safe...I-I love you." Ness's eyes are glued to Lucas's. He sees a small glimmer form, and his dead eyes get resurrected. Lucas puts his hand on Ness's hand, which is already holding Lucas's other hand.
"Ness, you're crying."
"I'm only crying 'cause your bitch ass is crying." Ness sniffs, which makes Lucas giggle.
"You're not as tough as I thought you were...that's good." Ness wipes his eyes with his bicep, giving a sadly happy chuckle.
"You're tougher than I thought." After this, Ness's mom walks in. She gets relieved when she sees Lucas is smiling and both boys' tears start to dry up.
"Hey, Lucas. I just go off the phone with your parents, they're on their way home. They sounded rather annoyed at first," she says.
"Freight train, they must've just got past," Lucas explains.
"Oof," Ness and his mom say together.
"Makes sense, anyway, that's not entirely why I came up here. I need to ask you something." Lucas sits up and Ness tightens his grip on Lucas's wrist. Lucas sinks in the comfort of his hand. "Are you pressing charges on Porky?" Lucas looks down. Despite all Porky has done to him, he doesn't want to ruin Porky's life. Lucas looks at Ness, who's worried.
"It's your choice, boo," he says. Despite trying to be optimistic, Lucas can tell what answer he wants. He is about to say the opposite, but then he thinks. If Porky is doing this to him, it's very likely he'll do this to someone else. He looks at Ness's mom.
"I will." Ness's mom smiles and nods.
"Good choice, I'll contact your parents and tell them." Ness's mom walks out, leaving the two boys by themselves. Lucas turns to Ness. He sees that he had a blanket on which he knows he didn't have on before.
"You saw...my thing I suppose."
"Technically, yea," Ness nods. Lucas grows a smile.
"How is it?" The question surprises Ness. He starts mumbling and jumping over his nondescript words.
"I didn't really see it, it just sorta entered my eyesight. You know what I mean?" Lucas nods.
"Well,"—Lucas scooches forward and wraps his arms around Ness's neck—"I know you'll get to actually see it soon."
"Oooh, now you're frisky." Lucas giggles. He kisses Ness's nose before playfully sticking his tongue out with a wink.
"You said you loved me earlier, right?"
"Yea."
"I never said it before but, I love you too." Ness pecks Lucas's lips and looks into his eyes. Lucas's eyes-once full of death-is now full of life. A life that Ness is proudly going to be in. A life that has and will continue to toughen them up.