The pact

“Hey Luna, are you okay?” Tony says as he stands up from his seat in the bag of the garage to give me a hug. I gladly put my arms around him to hug him. I lay down my head on his chest. Tony always gives the best hugs. He is like a fluffy teddy bear. “Yeah I’m alright.” I say against his shirt. “But I guess the fact that you ask means that the rumour of me crying in class has already spread.”
He let go of me but held his hands on my shoulders. “Yeah…It’s kinda hard to keep it a secret if Jessie is in that same class.”
I sighed. I Should’ve known. This was great. I made an even bigger fool out of myself.
“It’s gonna be okay, Luun. Fuck them.” Said Jaime who dragged me into a hug. “Well not literally of course, that would be weird.”
I chuckled at him. Only Jaime could make a joke out of these kind of things. I loved that about him.
I smiled at them, but I didn’t really wanted to continue talking about it. “Okay let’s make music! Well not me, you guys. I’m an untalented mess.” I said and they all laughed.
Vic walked past me to get his guitar out of the back of the garage. He had left him here too, because here was were Jaime and Tony mostly gave him lessons.
I watched them as they played several songs. One of the songs I recognized was ‘dammit’ by blink-182. Tony had said that it was one of the first songs he had learned to play on the guitar.
I didn’t really mind watching them play. Normal people would get bored, but I could look and listen to people making music for hours. It got me thinking a lot about what I wanted to do after graduation. Maybe being a producer would make a good job for me. I never got excited about the ending school, mostly because I never knew what to do. But this gave me a purpose. Something to hold on to.
“What would you guys think of me being a music producer after graduation?” I asked. I just really wanted to know what they thought of it.
They all looked up to me at the same time. A bit taken back by my sudden statement.
Then a smile grew on Tony’s face. “That would be so cool!” he said.
“Oh my god!” Jaime suddenly shouted and me and Vic jump scared. “Then you could record us! We could record an album and then become famous and if we would win an award and then during our speech we would say: this is all thanks to our amazing producer.” His words came out rushed. He put a fist in the air for the effect.
Tony, Vic and I laughed. But secretly all of us kind of hoped it happened, I think.
“We don’t even got a drummer though.” Vic said. Our excitement faded a bit, except for Jaime’s of course. That boy’s middle name was excited. Jaime excited Preciado.
“Mike will turn around again.” Jaime said and he shrugged. “I mean, he has to forgive you sometime. You’re his brother and we are his friends and we are friends with you.”
Vic turned suddenly very pale. He looked down at his guitar again and shrugged. “We’ll see”
“I know you think that you deserve him to be mad at you, but in all honesty, I don’t think he is mad anymore.” Tony said.
Vic looked up from his guitar again with a confused look on his face.
I also didn’t understand this statement. “What do you mean?” I ask. “Wouldn’t he be here if he wasn’t mad?”
Tony chuckled a little. “I know Mike for a long time and I can tell you that he is not mad anymore. He is just the most stubborn person on this earth.” He said rolling his eyes. “He doesn’t wanted to admit that he has been wrong too.”
Jaime chuckled too. “Yeah that sounds like Mike. Coolest dude ever, but stubborn as fuck.
“yeah…” Vic said smiling, to my surprise. “I remember one time when he was in second grade and he didn’t want to go to school so he locked himself up in the cupboard. Me and my parents spent an hour trying to get him out.”
My mouth fell open a little bit. Vic barely talked about the memories he had of the time when Mike and him were still talking. I wasn’t the only one being surprised, Tony and Jaime also had surprised looks on their faces as they looked at Vic.
“What?” Vic said, shrugging it off. “I knew the guy too.”
Jaime chuckled. “We are aware, Vic. Thank you.”
Vic tried to hold it in, but eventually ended up grinning. “Yeah…I also have a lot embarrassing childhood stories about him, but I guess I won’t make it better for myself if I’d tell you.”
Tony leaned in interested and put his thumb and index finger on both sides of his chin. “no, tell us! That means we tease him with it! Are there any fart stories?”
“Lots of fart stories.” Vic said laughing.
“Dude you need to make things right with him, so you can tell us those stories!” Jaime said.
Vic smiled to the ground. He seemed to consider something. “Okay. I will try to talk to him the next time I see him okay?”
“Really?” I asked. It was weird how much happier and stronger he seemed since the day I had met him. He didn’t seem as afraid anymore.
He looked at me and shrugged. “Yeah. I think I have just made too big of a deal out of it and I also kinda miss him. Three years is a long time.”
I smiled widely, flashing almost all of my teeth. “Would it be very weird if I’d tell you that I’m proud of you?”
He chuckled and smiled back at me. “You would definitely sound like my mom and that would be weird given the fact that I’m older than you.”
I rolled my eyes. “You are only a month and two days older. Get over it, dude.” The word ‘dude’ sounded weird out of my mouth due to my British accent.
“Dude? Did you suddenly turn into an American rapper?” He said.
Jaime and Tony chuckled and imitated me saying ‘dude’. I couldn’t help but laugh at it. I normally hated people making fun of my accent, but I knew it wasn’t their intention to be mean.
I looked at Vic and he was smiling apologetically at me. I laughed at him and then our eyes locked. My laugh faded into a smile and I couldn’t help but feel all the butterflies race inside my stomach.

Mike’s POV
I was at school leaning against my locker. Jaime and Tony stood in front of me and we were talking small talk. School was actually already done, but we always hung out by my locker for half an hour. Mostly because neither of us felt like going home and making homework.
“Mike, how did you understand anything from that math test? I thought he might have wrote it in Chinese, because I didn’t understand a thing of the questions.” Jaime said.
I grinned. Although I didn’t really do anything for school, I had always been good in math. For some reason, I didn’t really need to work hard to understand it. “Come on man, it was unbelievably easy.” I said.
Jaime raised an eyebrow. “Dude, you need to borrow me your notes. I think I’m failing math.”
Suddenly Tony broke down in laughter and me and Jaime looked confused at him. When he stopped laughing he looked up to me and then to Jaime, to see we didn’t understand what was so funny. He blushed, looked down and then up to Jaime again. “Dude…” he just said and he started laughing again.
Jaime seemed to get the joke now too and started laughing out loud too. They kept on saying “dude” in a weird British accent.
I looked around. I was never someone to feel embarrassed fast, Tony, Jaime and me were always acting weird. But it must’ve looked kind of stupid that Tony and Jaime were laughing, almost literally on the floor and I just stood there being stupid.
It took a while for them to calm down, but as they did I said: “What’s so funny?”
The smiles on their faces suddenly faded and they looked at each other, silently discussing whether to tell me or not. What was going on that they found the need to hide from me?
I impatiently waved my hands. Jaime was opening up his mouth to say something, but he was interrupted by the sound of Ryan yelling through the hall: “YO! FUENTES!”
I sighed. What did the dude want? Why did he always needed to be such a pain in the ass?
I turned around to tell him to fuck of, but as I did, I saw he wasn’t looking at me. He said my name right? Accept if…
I followed his gaze to see an evenly surprised Vic, standing next to his locker. I held my breath this wasn’t going to be good. If Ryan was breaking the pact, it wasn’t going to be to ask him about the weather.
“Yeah you!” Ryan yelled walking towards vic. “How are you today? What’s your midget ass up to?” he swung an arm around Vic, whose face had lost all colour.
I looked around and saw people standing still to stare at what happened. Some people where whispering quietly into each other’s ears.
Vic threw Ryan’s arm away and started to walk away. “Can’t you just continue ignoring me? I liked that a whole lot better.”
He had only made two steps when Peter and Justin, another guy of Ryan’s group, stopped in front of him to block the way. The watching crowd had made it hard for him to walk away too. He sighed, stood still and turned around to face Ryan.
“That’s the whole point, Fuentes.” Ryan said. “You don’t mind the ignoring anymore. Do you know why? Because of that British bitch. If only one person breaks the pact, the effect of the pact will be gone. Only one friend can make you feel not isolated anymore. And I also believe, you have made more friends now.” He looked over at our group and I felt a shiver go through my spine. He looked back to Vic again. “You’re punishment is not over yet. We just need to figure out a different way to make your life a living hell.”
I looked over at Vic. He didn’t even seem mad. He just kept staring in front of him, emotionless, like he knew that this was going to happen sometime.
Where was Luna? If she was here she could’ve stood up for him like I used to do. I wasn’t going to do it now, and I knew none of the other people here was going to, but Luna had nothing to lose. I really hoped she would come, because no matter what happened, I didn’t want my brother to get hurt. I had a feeling this was going to be something really bad.
Ryan walked towards Vic again and pushed him away from him, Vic’s back hit the lockers with a loud bang. It surprised me that he didn’t even looked hurt. He just stood up and kept on staring emotionless to some point in front of him.
“You know you deserve this, Victor.” Ryan said and I heard Peter, Justin and Jessie laugh. I wanted to kill them. “I know you do.” Ryan continued. “You hate yourself just as much as everyone at this school does. I bet you thought things were going to be better right? Now that little slutty girlfriend of you is in the picture. Well you’re wrong, Fuentes! You made my life a living hell, so I’ll make your life a living hell!” He yelled at the last few sentences.
Vic didn’t flinch, but I knew it hurt him. I had seen that look in his eyes before, back when he was still bullied. It took everything in me not to stand up for him right now. I knew that I wasn’t really mad at him anymore, it just hurt too much to own up to it. He had come to my room yesterday, to talk things out, but I pushed him away and slammed the door in his face.
I regretted that decision now.
“You’re a pathetic little shit, you know that right?” Ryan said coming a little closer to Vic. He was a lot taller than Vic, so he was looking down on him now. “Expecting to be set free of your punishment, after all that you did. I thought we understood each other, Vicky. You punched me into the hospital, you deserved to feel horrible the next five years of school. It’s only been three and a half years!” he pushed him against the locker again and this time a flash of pain covered Vic’s face.
Ryan’s group started laughing, but there were also people looking shocked at each other. Some even seemed to want to do something. One of those people was Jaime: “Mike we need to do something! You know he is going to hurt him!”
I brought up my hand to silence Jaime and I know he trusted me enough to not do anything. I know it sounds weird, but I wanted to know what Ryan had to say about Vic.
Vic stood up and the flash of pain disappeared from his face. He started to stare again. It was like he didn’t want to let Ryan know how much what he did and said affected him.
“Where’s your girlfriend now, huh?” Ryan said looking around and putting his hands up in the air. He let down his hands and a smile grew on his face. “Oh wait, she is not your girlfriend.” Vic suddenly looked up at him and I was sure I saw a bit of pain in his eyes. “aww, does that hurt you, Victor?” Ryan said coming a little closer to him. “You didn’t really think you had a change with her, right? I mean she’s way out of your league. Even with the whole school hating her, she could still get way better than you.” He kept grinning.
Vic tried to start staring again, but it was visible on his face that Ryan had pulled a sensitive string. I wanted to push Ryan away from him, but at the other hand I was intrigued by the topic the ‘conversation’ had turned into. Was he in love with Luna? I mean I couldn’t blame the guy, she was incredibly beautiful. If she wasn’t my friend, I would’ve tried to make out with her. My heart sank, she wasn’t my friend anymore, I had pushed her away. And again I had been too stubborn to try and make it up to her.
“I mean come on!” Ryan yelled. “Why would she want to be with you?! Not even your ‘friends’ want to stand up for you. Hell, not even your own brother wants to stand up for you!” He pointed at us. I saw Vic look at us too and he tried to tell with his eyes to stay there and do nothing. The stubborn person I was, the urge to do something became bigger.
Ryan was now getting annoyed, I could see that by the way he was twitching his fingers. “Don’t you dare ignore me, Fuentes! I want a reaction from you! You have no fucking right to ignore me!” He yelled so loud now, that it made the tension that was in the hall even thicker. I didn’t even need a knife to cut it.
Ryan let out a loud groan as he pushed Vic another time. Vic fell to the ground this time. His sleeves had come up a little and he pulled them down fast. Ryan must’ve seen the action too, because as soon as Vic stood up again, he put his hands on Vic’s shoulders and held him against the lockers. His head was near to Vic’s.
“Why do you even wear long sleeves, Vic?” he asked and it suddenly made me realise too that he was always wearing long sleeves. “It’s not snowing outside, just for your information.”
He put Vic down again and his hands went to Vic’s sleeve. “Let’s see what we got here. I think I already know what it is.”
Vic suddenly reacted and tried to move away from Ryan. “No!” he screamed and the fright in his voice pierced through my heart.
Ryan was stronger and eventually managed to push Vic against the lockers again. Vic was still moving trying to get out of Ryan’s grip, but Ryan was too strong.
Should I do something? I knew I had to, but I needed to know why he was wearing these sweaters too.
Ryan pulled down Vic’s sleeve and what I saw shocked me. His arm was completely covered in deep cuts. They were still red and swollen, like they were recent. People around me gasped.
Suddenly I realised something. Ryan said he already knew what it was…Could he have done it to him?
That was the last drop for me. I couldn’t let him cut my brother with a knife! Were they insane?! Without realising what I was doing I walked towards Ryan and Vic.
“Hey! Let go of my brother you fucking douchebag!” I yelled at him. Ryan turned around and looked between me and Vic. “It looks like you’ve got your puppy back.” He grinned.
Anger was now boiling inside of me and I walked up to Ryan to push him against the locker. “Yeah, but this puppy grew up and I’m not afraid of you.” I said.
I walked over to Vic, who had fallen on the ground as soon as Ryan let go of him. I handed out my hand to him. “Are you okay, man?”
He looked up to me with a surprised look, but took my hand and smiled.

Luna’s POV
I was walking through the locker halls after school. I had to stay a little longer in Spanish class, because I had fucked up my test and Mr. Posey wanted to talk to me about it.
I couldn’t help but feel a certain tension in these hall, while they were almost empty. The people that were still there was a little group of freshmen girls, excitedly gossiping about something. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, because they immediately stopped talking as I walked by and stared at me.
What had happened here?
As I walked on I suddenly heard voices come out of a classroom. I thought classes were over by now? I walked to the classroom and looked through the window in the door.
Jaime, Tony and Mike were sitting on tables next to each other. Across from them sat Vic. They seemed to be talking about something serious. The sight of it confused me.
I opened the door. All of the boys looked up as I showed up on the doorstep.
“Hey where have you been the past hour?” Jaime asked. He seemed to say with that question that something had happened within the last hour.
“I had to stay a little while longer in Spanish class.” I said slowly and still a bit confused. “What happened?”
Tony let out a sigh. “Ryan decided that the pact should be broken, because you had already broken it. He started saying all these things to Vic and I’m pretty sure he was about to beat him up, but then Mike got mixed up in it and started an argument with Ryan and now were here.” He shrugged.
Damn it. Me and Vic were always together. And just now, the moment I had to stay longer, he chooses to do something. Now I was thinking about it, it seemed obvious he chose this moment on purpose. Ryan is in my Spanish class and he must’ve noticed me staying behind in class.
“Wait…Mike, you stood up for him?” I asked. “Your stubborn disease got cured or something?”
Mike tried to look at me annoyed but then started laughing. “Yeah, I guess so.” He shrugged and his face turned serious again. “You should’ve seen it, Luna. I think no one could be that stubborn.” He turned to Vic. “Why didn’t you stand up for yourself?”
Vic seemed to stare off in nothing. “I’m known at this school as the kid that punched him in the hospital. The last few weeks that reputation has faded a little. I don’t want it back again.”
I walked over to Vic and sat down next to him. I laid my hand on his shoulder as reassurance. He looked up to me and smiled.
As I looked up to the other boys they were all smiling like crazy. “What?” I said.
“Nothing” Mike said and he waved it away smiling.
I let down my hand again.
“Where those things true?” Tony asked to Vic and a thick tension filled the room. “The things Ryan said about you?”
Vic shrugged. “He has said a lot of things.”
“What kind of things?” I asked although I could think of a few things he could’ve said. Probably things that hurt him, and I knew exactly what things hurt him.
Vic shrugged and looked out of the window. It was obvious that he wasn’t going to answer. Ugh stubbornness was in the family I guess.
Eventually Mike spoke up. “Well he started off by telling him that he needed a new punishment, because the ignoring didn’t hurt him as much anymore, because you don’t ignore him anymore.”
“It broke the isolation” I stated. I should’ve seen this coming. I could’ve prevented this.
“Yeah” Mike continued. “then he stated that Vic thinks he deserves what happened to him, and agrees with Ryan about that he deserves a punishment.”
I looked over to Vic. “You don’t think that anymore right?”
He looked away from the window and looked to me again. “No, but at that moment it was really hard not to, because he was practically getting inside my mind.”
I nodded and shot him a reassuring smile. “And then?” I asked Mike.
“Uhm” Mike seemed to be a little uncomfortable with this part. “I don’t know if I should tell you…” He looked from me to Vic and back
I raised an eyebrow. “Why not? Was it about me?”
Mike nodded. I looked over to Vic and he turned red. Huh?
“Tell me Mike. I want to know.” I said. “whatever Ryan said about me, I think I can handle it.”
An uncomfortable smile grew on Mike’s face. “Well, Ryan kind of stated that Vic has a crush on you. Don’t know if it’s true, but that’s what Ryan said. And then he kinda said that you were out of his league and would never love him.”
I don’t know what I was expecting, but definitely not this. I felt my cheeks become burning red. A happy feeling filled me up. Okay Luna, calm down. This doesn’t mean it’s actually true. Lots of people thought me and Vic were together. It doesn’t mean he actually has feelings for me.
“Oh” I just said. Then I turned to Vic who was also really red. “Is that true?” I asked a bit awkwardly.
He let out a breath that he was holding in. Then he just nodded without looking at me.
I knew I probably should’ve told him that I also had a crush on him, but this was the first time I had ever had feelings for someone and I didn’t really know what to do. I knew Vic had never had a relationship before either. So it was probably going to be really awkward, because neither of us knew what to do.
Why couldn’t I just tell him? It was like something was blocking my throat. Maybe it was the fact that Mike, Tony and Jaime were in the same room, but I knew that wasn’t the real reason. I was just afraid to tell him and afraid to lose him.
Suddenly I had the urge to flee out of the room. I was desperately looking for something I could tell to run away from here without it being weird. Then I remembered something.
“I gotta go” I said as I stood up. “I promised to call Casey when I got home. She’s probably wondering why I haven’t called yet.” It wasn’t even a lie.
Vic looked up to me and he send me a smile, but there was hurt visible in his eyes. I hated it, why couldn’t I just stop being a fucking pussy and tell him how I felt?
“I see you later” He said.
“Yeah bye” I said looking at all of them.
I walked towards the exit of the room, but stopped just in front of the door. I didn’t really need to tell him right? There was a thing I could do to let him know how I felt without telling him.
But what if it didn’t work out? What if he thinks it’s weird? What if the others think it was weird? What if it turned out my feelings towards were not real, like the other crushes I have had?
My mind was racing and I couldn’t keep up. Then I remembered something that Jaime had said to me in one of my first weeks in San Diego: ‘Thinking is dangerous. Just do things.’
“Oh well fuck it.” I said out loud on accident. I turned around, almost running back to the table Vic was sitting. I completely shut of my thoughts as I took his face inside my hands and crashed my lips on his. As soon as I kissed him, I knew what I did was right. Nothing seemed to matter except us two. It only took a couple of seconds, but it seemed to stretch on forever.
I pulled back, my eyes still closed and my hands still on his face. As I opened my eyes I saw Vic’s surprised eyes. Slowly a smile crept on his face, it was the cutest thing ever.
I let go of his face. “Okay, see you later.” I said a bit too enthusiastic. I looked over to Mike, Jaime and Tony who were all looking at me with open mouths. I let out a giggle and walked, almost ran, out of the room.

Notes

HEEEYY

WHY THE FUCK IS CAPSLOCK ON NOW IT SEEMS LIKE I'M SCREAMING, okay i'm sorry.

So yeah. They're sorta gonna be together now. I didn't want to be obvious with this story and let them be together right away. I wanted to build up a tension and I guess I did. But I couldn't wait anymore, so yeah it took me 20 chapters but they're finally together, well sort of. YAY THAT DESERVES A CAPSLOCK

Okay I'm also kind of excited to write my other three stories, but I'm also too excited about this story so yeah struggles. I want more free time!! but I think, now they're finally together I will start writing my Mike fanfiction so yeah.

#vuna or #lunic?

xxxxx

Nicky

ps. I just wanted to give a little shoutout to my 13 subscribers! You guys are so amazing and sweet and I want to be friends with you. (it's okay if you guys don't want to, I know I'm weird)