"YO WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?" I heard Cole yell from his room. "ZOOM MY FUCKING ASS I WANNA DIE!"

It is currently eight in the morning, Cole is seated in his room behind his desk, Blake's also in his room behind his desk, and I'm at the kitchen table with my laptop screen in front of me.

We were introduced to the application "Zoom" yesterday afternoon and now all we have to do is press one button to enter the online meeting. We all agreed to do it together. Cole's being a little b-word though.

"FUCK THIS SHIT! I SHOULD BE FUCKING SLEEPING MY ASS OF-"

"COLE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND PRESS THE MOTHERFUCKING BUTTON YOU LITTLE BITCH!" Blake yelled out from his room.

"FUCK YOU- AND ZOOM! AND FUCKING ROB!" Poor Mr. Edwins.

"WHO THE FUCK IS ROB?"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

"GUYS!" I yelled out. "THE THREE OF US ARE ALREADY FOUR MINUTES LATE TO OUR CLASSES. JUST PRESS THE BUTTON FOR PETE'S SAKE!"

"NO!"

"YES" Blake yelled.

"FUCK YOU!"

"SURE... AFTER YOU CLICK THE MOTHERFUCKING BUTTON."

"Bitchass," We heard Cole say from his room before we all clicked together.

I was graced with Mr. Edwins' beautiful face the second I got into the meeting and I heard Cole curse... from my device.

He was unmuted.

My eyes widened when he kept swearing, "Motherfucking zoom, fucking ass shaped chee..."

I quickly got up from my seat and ran to Cole's room. I rushed to his side and he didn't have time to say anything to me before I muted him and turned my head towards him.

He looked at me and stared. I glared at him. "You're such an idiot, you know you were unmuted?"

He broke out into a grin and pinched my chubby cheeks, "I know, Ollie..." He let my cheeks go and tapped them.

I slapped the back of his head and went back to the kitchen. I sat down on the kitchen island the same minute Mr. Edwins started talking about the rules.

Cole screamed. Literally screamed, when Mr. Edwins said, "You are all required to keep the camera's on at all time throughout all the classes, especially mine, unless you have a certain good excuse."

"MOTHERFUCKING FUCKER FUCK THIS FUCKING SHIT I'M SO FUCKIN..." He went on before I heard him suddenly stop.

"Excuse me, Rob- Good morning, by the way." Cole's voice was collected as he spoke through his mic. All the students were turning their cameras on and showing their faces like they were asked.

Cole faked a cough but it sounded really real. My eyes widened.

"My-" he coughed. "-uh throat is kinda sore at the moment and I'm sick as fu- really, truly, and genuinely sick. I don't think I can turn on my camera because I look... well I'm sick bro- sir." He unmuted himself and I heard him say "little bitch." from his room.

I watched Mr. Edwins make a certain skeptical face before he nodded his head. "This will only be allowed for today, Mr. Anderson. You will still follow up on everything in class and I will ask you questions throughout the class to make sure you're still with us."

"Fuck you, motherfucker, imma play fucking GT-"

"OH MY FUCKING GOD!" Blake yelled. "JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND PLAY GTA."

"Ms. Peterson, Mr. Tuffin, and Ms. Davis, turn your cams on or you'll be kicked out of the class."

My heart stopped.

Did he say Mr. Tuffin?

As in Ashton Tuffin?

My heart raced and I quickly brought my now shaky hand to the laptop's touchpad and clicked on the "participants" list. I searched for his name and my whole body froze when I found it.

I saw the camera symbol switch from off to on next to his name and a tear slipped past my eye. I didn't close the list as my brain didn't allow me to move my fingers; I didn't wanna see his face. I couldn't. My body was still frozen.

"Olivia Davis ple..." Mr. Edwins's words were no longer audible as I sat there with my heart racing, body frozen but shaky at the same time, eyes teary, and memories of that day came crashing into my head.

I heard one of the boys' running footsteps approach and Cole was crouched down in front of me before I knew it.

He eyed my teary face and shocked state and quickly pulled me to a hug, stuffing my face into his chest and running his fingers through my hair at the back of my head. "Shh, shh, Ollie it's okay. He's fucking beaten up, can barely open his eyes from the injuries. I'm so sorry, please please don't cry." I heard him shut my laptop's screen. "Here, look, we closed it. You won't see him."

I shook harder against him and turned my face to look at the laptop. Tears poured out of my eyes and dampened his shirt.

"What's going o- Livi?" Blake rushed beside us and I rested my cheek on Cole's shoulder as I clutched his shirt and shook harder. The memories kept flashing in my head.

Blake turned my face towards him and frowned when he saw my face. My lips kept trembling and he looked so confused and worried at the same time. He wiped the few tears that had escaped my eyes with his fingers and hugged me with Cole.

"Breathe, sweetheart," Blake whispered lowly into my ear and I just realized that I was barely letting any air enter through my mouth or nose this whole time.

Blake held me tighter and I stuffed my face into his neck as he continued to whisper into my ear, "Come on, Livi, deep breaths- just how I told you last time and the time before. You think you can do that, beautiful?"

I nodded my head against his neck and took deep breaths while Cole kept rubbing the back of my head and Blake calmed me down with both his voice and touch.

My body stopped shaking a few minutes later but Cole and Blake kept hugging me, our online classes were forgotten. "What happened?" Blake whispered softly, brushing my hair to the side as I pulled away to look at him.

I sniffled and looked at my laptop. Cole answered Blake's question for me, "Fucking Ashtin Tuffin."

Blake's whole facial expression changed the second his name came out of Cole's mouth and I saw a single muscle twitch in his jaw, he was grinding his teeth. "He showed up in the meeting..." Cole continued.

My body shook slightly and Blake looked at me, his hard expression changed to a soft one and he held my hand, squeezing it far from Cole's eye level.

Blake gave me a certain look and I immediately knew what he was trying to tell me. I took a deep breath and he smiled at me, brushing his thumb over my knuckles. "You don't have to attend this class if you want," Blake said. "We can all skip and watch a movie or something."

Cole nodded from beside him and I shook my head, "No- no it's fine. I already missed so many classes and I might be able to see Andres in one of my classes today." I was now calm and my heart was back to beating at a perfect pace.

Cole's face scrunched up, "The fuck's Andres?"

I laughed at his facial expression and both boys smiled when they saw me do that. "Childhood friend."

"Is he gay?" Cole asked.

"Why? Are you interested?" I teased.

"Maybe," He winked and got up. "You sure you alright?" He asked with a smile.

I nodded my head and he ruffled my hair before beginning to walk out of the room. "Should I tell Rob that you have an emergency and can't attend the class?"

I thought about it Blake looked at me, I shook my head no and they furrowed their brows. "I- I'll keep the participants list closed along with the faces. I can't skip this class." I told them.

Cole nodded his head and gave me another smile before walking out. I locked gazes with Blake a second later and his lips tugged upward gently. "You sure you don't wanna see how badly the motherfucker was beaten up?" He played with my hair.

Butterflies erupted in my stomach and I could feel elephants twerking in there from the simple gesture. I loved it when he played with my hair.

I shook my head at him and he squeezed my hand. "You know you don't have to attend the stupid meeting. It'll probably all be a joke since it's the first day and the teachers are trying to figure shit out with the application,"

I shook my head again and he sighed, "Okay then- I'm bringing my laptop and earphones here though." He gave my hair one last stroke and rushed to get his stuff.

I watched as he walked in less than a minute later with his stuff in hand. He winked at me when our eyes locked and I quickly looked away as he set his stuff on the other side of the table, to my right.

I took a deep breath and opened my laptop's screen. I gulped and looked at Blake as I internally debated whether to click the button or not. Blake gave me a soft and encouraging smile and reached out for my hand underneath the table. I took his hand and he interlocked our fingers together.

Blake gave me a soft squeeze that encouraged me to click on the touch bar and I quickly closed the participants' list when I entered and opened my camera.

Blake and I kept our fingers interlocked as we continued watching our lessons. It didn't go unnoticed by me how he would steal a few glances every few minutes before going back to focusing on his lesson. I was doing the same.

There were about fifteen minutes left for the chemistry lesson when Cole suddenly decided to grace us with his presence and entered the kitchen, shirtless. He walked right to the cabinets behind me and rummaged through them as he looked for a snack and sang some rock and roll song underneath his breath in an almost high-pitched voice.

My eyes widened when I remembered my camera was on and I didn't have time to tell Cole to get the frick out before Mr. Edwins talked. "Mr. Anderson?" He was glaring directly into his camera and I'm guessing his eyes had caught the sight of Cole behind me.

Cole stopped singing and turned to face my camera. He walked closer to me and bent down so he could see the screen. I heard a few of the unmutes girls let out a few sounds that showed shock and surprise at the view of Cole's washboard stomach and he smiled directly at the camera, looking at Mr. Edwins's face.

He clicked unmute and kept smiling, "Hey Rob," He let out a fake cough afterward.

I saw Blake grin and watch us in amusement at the corner of my eye and I looked down, scared of what Mr. Edwins's next words might be.

"Aren't you supposed to be elsewhere? In your home and room maybe? listening intently to today's lesson because you'll be having a quiz next week?"

Cole didn't drop his smile, "Not that it's any of your business, Rob. But I am in my home and I wanted to fetch some fucking snacks because I'm hungry and again... I'm in my home. Is there a problem with that, Mr. Edwins?"

Here we go...

♛

"Okay guys, when are we starting?" Cole asked as he took a seat at the kitchen table. We were all done with our online classes now and we had chores that needed to be done.

"Firstly, someone has to cook..." Blake said.

"Fuck dusting I'm making scallops. Cooking's on me," Cole was quick to say.

Blake and I nodded our heads, "Then you'll have to clean the kitchen too." Blake said.

Cole groaned but Blake gave him a certain look that made him stop complaining and Cole just banged his head against the table.

"That leaves the dusting, vacuuming, and mopping to us Muffin." Blake turned to me. A certain happy emotion ran through my body at the thought of spending time with him and I could feel my organs dancing inside me.

I nodded my head at him and he stared at me for a few seconds before shaking his head and continuing to talk, "Everyone will clean their own bathroom tomorrow since we can't do that shit today. Good?"

Cole and I agreed and nodded our heads. Blake straightened his posture and clapped his hands together, "Great, let's get this shit started. Come on, bunny." Blake gestured for me to follow him to the storage room since it had all the cleaning supplies in it.

I grunted as I followed him, "Stop calling me that. It's cringeworthy."

Blake smirked as he turned his head around to shoot me a look, "Cringeworthy is sexy."

How did I not see that coming?

I bit back a chuckle and we both grabbed the cleaning supplies before taking them to the living room. "Vacuum or wiping shit?" Blake asked.

I didn't even have to think a second time before I answered, "Wiping crap."

I saw Blake hide a small cute smile before he handed me the spray bottle and cloth. "Go ahead, Coniglietta." (Little Bunny)

Ovaries: The accent~ We like that. Keep calling us that. And Leprotto.

I turned around with a blush and started with the first glass surface in front of me while Blake plugged the vacuum. We both started cleaning peacefully while Cole cooked scallops in the kitchen.

I moved to the other rooms and wiped the windows and everything else while Blake continued vacuuming. I was done with the last surface that needed wiping a few minutes later and I let out a huge breath and smiled.

I took the spray bottle and cloth back to the storage room and grabbed the dust cleaner from there. I crossed paths with Blake in the hallway and my eyes widened when I saw him standing there. He was still vacuuming but he had changed into a pair of comfortable grey sweatpants and had taken his shirt off.

Every single muscle of his was flexing as he efficiently cleaned the place. His brown hair was messy and he kept shaking his head and running his hands through the soft locks in an attempt to move them away from his face.

He turned around and grinned when he saw me. I tried my best to keep my eyes glued to his gorgeous face instead of his chest and I watched as he eyed the dust cleaner in amusement. "Done with wiping shit already?"

I nodded my head and he gave me an amused and approving look. I quickly turned to walk away before he could spot the tint of red in my cheeks.

I placed the dust cleaner on the coffee table and made my way to the kitchen to grab a glass of water before I start dusting. I stopped when I was at the entrance and my eyebrows knit at Cole's sleeping face. His head was resting on the clean kitchen table as he slept peacefully and lightly snored.

The kitchen was spotless and way cleaner than when Blake and I left Cole in it to cook. The raw scallops were neatly set on a plate over the kitchen Island and everything looked ready, they just needed to be cooked.

I walked over to Cole and rested my hand on his shoulder, I lightly shook him and his ocean blue eyes shot open. He looked at me sleepily and I smiled at him. "Do you wanna take a quick nap in your room while Blake and I finish cleaning?"

He winced a little for some reason after nodding his head and I frowned. "Are you alright?"

He didn't reply and just smiled weakly. I helped him up and made sure he made his way to his room without collapsing to the floor and falling asleep there. I closed the room's door after taking a glance at Cole's sleeping figure and sighing.

He's been really exhausted lately. I made a mental note to ask him about his sleeping schedule later.

I heard the vacuum cleaner's noise come from Blake's room and I'm guessing he's almost done. I walked back to the kitchen, placed the scallops in the fridge, drank some water, and headed back to the living room to start dusting it.

I was dusting the shelves when I heard the noise of the vacuum cleaner stop and heard shuffling from Blake's room. I blew out a lock from in front of my eye and tried my best to get rid of the other annoying ones... I didn't wanna tie my hair up but at the same time, it was annoying as hell.

I continued dusting the shelves and started humming softly to myself as I thought about random things. I held a book up in the air to dust it and the shelf it was placed on. I continued humming to myself and made a move to put the book back in its place but jumped in my place when I felt someone's hot breath on my ear.

"Boo,"

I let out a scream and dropped the book down on the floor along with the dust cleaner. I quickly turned my body around and shrieked again when I found Blake's grinning face inches away from me.

I clutched my chest and breathed as Blake broke into laughs in front of me. I punched and slapped his chest in annoyance but my eyes widened when I felt his smooth skin underneath my palm instead of the material of a shirt and I was reminded that he was currently half-naked.

I looked up at him and glared so hard that if looks could kill, his body would have dropped dead a second ago. He tried to contain his laughter and pursed his lips but his face got red and he breathed quickly through his nose. He looked like he was suffering.

"Jerk," I hit the back of his head and he couldn't control his laughter anymore. He crouched down and started struggling to breathe as loud and uncontrollable laughter escaped through his perfect lips. His face was red.

I got pissed off even more and kicked him multiple times until he collapsed to the ground. He didn't stop laughing though- in fact, he threw his head back, bashing it against the ground, and laughed like a freaking idiot.

A cute, shirtless, messy-haired, freaking idiot.

He opened his eyes and looked at me, pursing his lips again, and I kept glaring. I probably looked stupid but I was still pissed and my heart was still slightly racing from the startlement.

I narrowed my eyes and made a move to kick his legs but he was quick to move one of his legs, hook it around one of mine, and take me down. I found myself pressed up over him in a matter of seconds with his grinning face inches away again. His eyes were slightly teary from how hard he laughed at my animal-like shriek.

A few locks of hair landed on my fuming face and I huffed them away as I tried to get up, failing, of course... because of my noodle arms.

Blake laughed softly, "Fottutamente carino,"

That got me even angrier. "What are you saying?"

Brain: Broomstick. I'm telling ya.

Blake hummed with a smile and I just couldn't stop glaring. I think my face is stuck.

"I'll tell you if you drop the angry kitten face, you wouldn't hurt a fly, Muffin." I kept trying to move but Blake kind of made it difficult for me to do so since his leg was still hooked around the back of mine.

"Drop the face, Bunnyyy," He knew what he was doing, calling me that stupid god awful nickname, it was just boiling my blood even more.

"Shut up," I grunted.

Blake laughed again, "You should really see your face now, you l-" I kicked his ankle since that was literally the only thing I was able to do now, other than glare.

He groaned and laughed. He lifted his head up and brought his mouth close to my ear, "Drop the face, Livi..."

"No," I sounded like a child.

He sighed against my ear, sending shivers up my spine from the feeling of his hot breath. "I guess I'll just have to make you then..."

I knit my brows the same second he brought his fingers to my waist, "Wha-" He started tickling the living hell out of me.

I bit my lip and squirmed against him, trying my best not to laugh. He leaned his head back against the floor as he continued tickling me and he smiled. "S-stop- HAH- Blake n-" I pressed my lips together and kept squirming and internally laughing.

I couldn't keep my laughs in anymore as he continued to torture me and he grinned widely. "There's that smile..."

He flipped us over and I laughed uncontrollably as he tickled me everywhere. "Blake I- swear to go- NO-" I laughed harder. "STOP!"

"Shh, Livi." He brought his lips back to my ear as his fingers continued tickling me, "We don't wanna wake Cole now, do we?"