Isaac had gone from being the happiest person in the world to the saddest in the span of fifteen minutes. He hadn't seen Freddy for a week, he hadn't seen any of his friends in a week really, expect for Kaya who checked up on him at school. She told him that they knew that he wanted space, and when he was ready they were waiting. If he wanted to talk to someone, they were always there, Kaya reminded him. Isaac was thankful that Kaya did that, he wanted to wallow for a while, he also wanted to talk to Freddy, but they were both too stubborn to say anything to each other. Isaac knew eventually one of them would cave. Isaac hadn't seen Jake either in a week. They had been messaging each other, Jake telling him he had practice a lot this week, something about a big game coming up soon for rugby. Isaac was just happy, Jake still wanted to talk to him.

Isaac knew it was a bad idea, he knew it was the worst of the worst ideas, yet here he was at Elliot Johnan's fucking party. He knew he'd probably get his arse kicked, at least once, but he didn't care he wanted to get drunk and he wanted to forget everything. Isaac had, had a terrible day, he got detention again, the threat of suspension and an argument with his dad, who the school had called. The fucking idiots. His dad was drunk and yelled, called him a disappointment, said he was the reason his mum left, called him a faggot he should have aborted. Nothing new, but it still pissed him off.

Isaac was halfway through his fifth drink when Elliot finally found him, just another person to add to the list of annoyance's in Isaac's life.

"I didn't expect you to be here Houton." Elliot slurred, obviously way to drunk, he swayed as spoke, Isaac resisted the urge to actually hit Elliot.

Isaac shrugged, "Came for the free booze."

Elliot threw his head back laughing, he patted Isaac on the shoulder, "You are a brave boy. Julian is gonna kick your arse when he sees you. Still pissed that Harden saved you."

Isaac froze, so the knucklehead was at the party too. He knew that Julian probably would be, but it was another thing knowing it. If knucklehead wanted a fight, Isaac would give him one.

Elliot handed Isaac another drink, "You have fun now and no fucking Jake in my bed. Parents is fine just not mine. Peace out."

Isaac watched as Elliot stumbled out of the kitchen, he jaw hanging open, did Elliot fucking Johnan know about Isaac and Jake because if he did, Jake might actually die. Isaac had to find him and warn him, because if Elliot knew that meant the whole football team knew. That meant Julian the knucklehead knew, and he would definitely hurt Jake. Isaac stumbled as he frantically left the kitchen, even if Jake didn't know he was here, Isaac knew Jake was.

Of course, Isaac wasn't one for luck and he run straight into Julian the knucklehead.

"Great! The fairy is here." Isaac just smiled, he was going to have so much fun with this fuck.

Isaac cocked his head, "You know all you have to do is ask and I'll suck your dick. I won't say no, even if you aren't my type."

Julian growled, like actually growled, "Shut the fuck up." He pushed Isaac, who luckily didn't lose his balance.

"Or what? You'll shut me up? How?" Isaac asked, knowing exactly what buttons to push, all homophobes were the same. Can't handle the fact that maybe they aren't the strongest person in the room.

Isaac saw the punch coming, he ducked out the way, narrowly missing it as it sailed past his head. Isaac retaliated before Julian could recover and throw another hit, Isaac threw a punch landing square on Julian's nose. Julian fell backwards, his back hitting the floor hard enough for him to groan in pain. Julian kicked his foot out, it connected with Isaac's leg, making him fall to the floor. It was a scramble, both of them wanting to get to each other first. Isaac was quicker than Julian, he punched Julian in the face again, Julian grabbed Isaac by the collar pulling him on top of him. Julian flipped them over, he was on top and he was punching Isaac again and again in his face. Isaac kicked his knee up, kneeing Julian in the balls. Julian doubled over in pain, he kneeled over Isaac, panting in pain.

Isaac couldn't help himself, "Knew you wanted me." He coughed out, through the pain.

Suddenly the weight of Julian left his body and he was being pulled up. Isaac stumbled a bit before arms came to hold him up. The pain along with the alcohol in his system, was making it hard for Isaac concentrate, his head was spinning, his face was throbbing, and he knew he was bleeding. Isaac could hear someone calling his name, it took him a second to realise that it was Elliot standing in front of him, holding Isaac up. If Isaac was sober or not in pain he would have pushed Elliot it, he tried to, but only nearly fell over as he shuffled away from Elliot. Someone else caught him though, a tanned arm wrapped its way around Isaac's waist and Isaac knew straight away that it was Jake.

Isaac leaned backwards into Jake's embrace, he far preferred Jake to Elliot any day. Jake's grip tightened on his waist, he could see that Elliot was talking to him and he was starting to think that he may have gone deaf, because all he could hear was ringing in his ears. Isaac let out a groan of pain, when a sharp stabbing shot through his head, his hand moving to clutch his forehead. He could see Jake's other hand pat Elliot on the shoulder, then Jake was pushing Isaac out and through the crowd. Isaac stumbled a few times, but Jake always kept him up on his feet. Isaac's head was really starting to hurt, not that it wasn't hurting before. The ringing in Isaac's ears starting to quiet down, it was now just a loud annoying humming. Jake was talking to him, asking him questions, but Isaac didn't care right now at all. He just wanted to lie down and sleep.

Before he knew it, Isaac was being shuffled into a car, a car that was not his. Once he was seated, Jake got into the other side, his hands resting on the wheel, he was taking in Isaac's appearance. He looked angry and tired.

"Should I be taking you to a hospital?" Jake asked, finally breaking the silence.

Isaac sighed, his head dropping to lean against the window, "No. Want to go home." Isaac was pretty sure it was slurred, but he couldn't be sure. Everything was hurting, and he wanted to sleep.

Jake sighed, Isaac had closed his eyes and he didn't know what to do, he was stressed out. Isaac was an idiot and Jake was an idiot for worrying about him, "Isaac, where do you live?" Jake asked shaking Isaac, trying to get him to pay attention. Isaac mumbled something that sounded like him cursing his dad, bitterly reminding Jake about Isaac's shitty dad.

Grumbling to himself, Jake leaned over his hand slipping into Isaac's pockets trying to find Isaac's phone. Jake knew that the only person who could help in this situation would probably be Freddy. Isaac angrily muttered as Jake moved him around trying to find Isaac's phone. Jake found Isaac's phone, he was practically in Isaac's lap once he found it. Using Isaac's more than willing thumb, he was able to unlock Isaac's phone. Jake sort of found it depressing that Isaac had eight numbers saved in his phone, not including Jake's number. Jake pressed Freddy's number and hoped that he would pick up. After what felt like forever, Freddy answered, and Jake almost cried in relief.

"Thought you weren't talking to me dickhead?" Freddy grumbled down the phone, obviously just woken up. Jake shot Isaac a look, that answered the question of why Isaac was alone and at Elliot's.

"Freddy, it's Jake. I'm with Isaac, he's in a bad way and got into a fight. I'm not sure what to do with him, I don't want to take him home like this."

Jake winced at the cursing Freddy muttered down the phone towards Isaac. Jake sat patiently as he listened to Freddy complain about Isaac. He couldn't help but think that this was not what he had expected, but whatever had happened between the two friends was fine enough that Freddy was telling Jake his address, so he could bring Isaac to his house.

Jake was surprised to see Freddy standing outside his front door waiting for them. Freddy didn't say a word to him, just helped Jake get Isaac out of the car and motioned Jake to help him get Isaac up the stairs and into Freddy's room. As they half walked half dragged Isaac up the stairs, Jake could feel the irritation seeping off of Freddy. The two of them dropped Isaac onto Freddy's bed and Freddy finally turned to face Jake. His arms crossed with a furious look on his face.

"What the fuck did you do to him?" Freddy spat out venomously at Jake.

Jake tried his hardest not to flinch at Freddy's tone, "Nothing! I didn't even know he was there until someone told me Julian and Isaac were fighting again."

Freddy let out a pained laugh, rubbing his temples, "I told him to stay away from that lot. Fucking hell. You stopped the fight, right?"

"No, Elliot pulled Julian off of him, and got him up. I took him from there." Jake explained, turning to look at Isaac who mumbled something.

Freddy threw a glare at him, "No, you fucktard. You're the dickhead. Thanks for getting him out of there and not taking him to his dads, you can stay if you want?"

Jake shook his head, "No thanks, I've got to get home, or my parents will freak out. Just look after him."

Freddy nodded his head. Jake was about to leave, but leaned down to kiss Isaac of the forehead.