HC and TC Oneshots - A Little Bit Of Everything

Merome - It Hurts But I Don't Care - Us AU- Part 1

Jerome wasn't exactly sure what to do. The boy in front of him looked friendly, so he told him his name.

"I'm Jason, you're new right?" The boy-Jason- asked again. He nodded, and wanted to turn to Mitch to check on him.

"My friends-" Jason pointed behind him to a boy with similar curly hair, a boy with earphones on and a boy in a hoodie with a mass amount of books. "-forced me to come greet you, cus well, someone was too scared too,"

Jerome laughed. Their behavior somehow reminded him of his and Mitch's group of friends from before.

Mitch heard the laughter and looked up again. Immediately he felt every happy feeling drained out of him, seeing how they're interacting made it feel they were naturally born best friends.

It felt like Jason had already replaced him.

"So uh. If you need help, just come talk to us okay?" Jason ended and shuffled off, looking very awkward. The guy in the curly hair said somethings, before starting to scream and block attacks from Jason, the other two just shaking their heads.

Jerome smiled, before getting up from his seats and approaching Mitch again. He had his head down, presumably playing his phone but raised his head as soon as he heard him approach him.

"Hey Jerome,"

"Hey Mitch!" He greeted, grinning adorably. Mitch flushed, and looked away.

"What do you want?"

"I just wanted to tell you I care about you, and no cutting!"

Mitch softly laughed and nodded.

*Lunch Time*

Mitch was just waiting for his best friend when Benjamin, Ian and Quentin showed up. Immediately he flinched and backed away the slightest when Benjamin walked up to him.

"Hi Mitchell!"

"Hey."

Ian whispered something into his ears, something like:

'Dude, you're actually serious?!'

"Uh, we just wanted to ask you some questions about Jerome,"

His heart dropped again.

"Y-yeah?"

"Is he gay?"

Quentin snorted and laughed.

Mitch didn't know how to respond. He wished he knew this information so that he can figure out if he should even be crushing on Jerome.

"Uh... I don't know, I don't think so,"

"Oh," Benjamin sounded disappointed.

Quentin snorted again.

"Well, see ya,"

The three of them walked away quickly, with Benjamin making obvious disappointed noises sounding like a dolphin dying.

"Mitch!" Jerome called and said boy turned to him, a bit down. "You okay?"

He smiled in response.

"I'm hungry,"

Jerome laughed.

And in the next 15 minutes, everything felt fine. They talked about everything they missed out in the last 5 months, weird teachers and classmates and ow they felt about different female classmates. They both had the same opinion:

Most of the cheerleaders looked really slutty as expected.

"Jerome!" Jerome stopped mid-bite and turned behind him, before smiling.

"Hey Adam!"

Adam's name just made Mitch's heart stop. The most popular kid in school, although not for very good reasons.

"Ben asked Ty who asked Jason to ask you to come with us to the park after school to catch birds," He said cooly. Jerome laughed and looked over to their table to see Jason glaring Adam down.

"Well, sur-" He cut himself off to turn to Mitch, who flinched. "Can Mitch come too?"

Adam was silent and looked back at he table, the other two also following his gaze. Benjamin nodded.

"Yeah sure!"

"You guys are hilarious!" Jerome laughed and Mitch's mood dropped. Adam laughed as well before ruffling Jerome's head.

'I can't stop him from making new friends," Mitch thought. 'And I can't stop him from replacing me,'

*After School at the Park*

Benjamin and Mitch were the only ones not running around the park screaming and trying to catch birds. It was pretty embarrassing.

Mitch turned to the other boy, who immediately turned away as if he was staring at him for the past few minutes.

"Hey, uh... why did you ask about Jerome's sexuality," He asked shyly.

"No reason, I just want to which gender he prefers to be shipped with," He shrugged. Mitch let out a sound of understanding, and looked down at the stone path again.

"Hey Ben! Come one! Join us!" Adam's voice yelled to him. The boy beside him let out a laugh and stood up and Mitch blurted out:

"Tell Jerome I'm leaving early!"

"What? Why?" Ben asked when Mitch stood up as well and grabbed his bag.

"I- I just, uh... n-no reason," He stuttered, and started swiftly walking away with a sickly feeling in his stomach.

"Jerome," Adam called. The boy looked up from the birds he was stalking, but before Adam could say anything, he spotted his best friend walking away from Ben.

"Where's Mitch going?"

"I thought you would know,"

Jerome immediately turned to Ben, who was slowly scaling up the hill they were standing on. Anger boiled in him. If Ben had said anything unnecessary to Mitch, he's not afraid to hurt.

"Jerome! Mitchell told me to tell you he was leaving early!"

"Why?" Jerome asked when the anger went away. "Did you say anything wrong?"

"No! He just all of a sudden wanted to leave," He defended himself. "I think you should go talk to him, he didn't look very happy,"

"You are his best friend," Adam reminded. Jerome nodded. "Oh yeah, uh, do you want to eat with us tomorrow lunch time?"

Ben, behind Jerome, started silently swearing at Adam.

"Yeah sure!" He smiled, and grabbed his bag. "See you guys!"

"ADAM YOU IDIOT!" Ben yelled at him as soon as Jerome left.

"What? I was being friendly!"

"You're gonna make Mitchell lonely again!"

"Oh, shit,"

Jerome was almost out the park when he heard a distant Adam yell:

"BRING MITCHELL TO LUNCH TOO!"

Hopefully Mitch was willing to.