My eyes widened as I heard Sal spill the truth.

"Oh my god..."

I muttered under my breath quietly.

Oh gosh. I just wanted to have a relaxing day! Is that too much to ask, god?

'God is really not fond of me, is he?'

Not only did Sal tell Larry we kissed, but Larry doesn't seem to have taken the news too well. I can not believe Sal just said that!

Larry then flicks his gaze over to me. I almost flinched at the harsh glare controlling his features.

"Hey...guys,"

I give a nervous smile.

I look over to Sal and give him an exact stare that says 'what the fuck, dude?'. He sends an apologetic look back as I tear my gaze away from his and back to Larry's.

"Come in?"

I ask with a skittish stance. I open the front door for them, gesturing for the two boys to come inside.

Larry stomps in with an angry deep breath, whilst Sal just shuffles shyly in after him. Sal pats my shoulder to bring me slight reassurance, though, it did little to calm me down.

I turn around and shut the front door before walking into the living room behind the two. Sal sits on the couch while Larry stood firmly, staring through to my soul. I sigh, I really hoped this wouldn't affect my friendship with Sal and Larry - unless it was a good change; like a relationship instead of friendship.

"Okay..."

I let out a deep breath.

"Larry-"

On cue, Larry interrupted me. That wasn't what surprised me - but his soft tone, as he smoothly spoke, was.

"When was this?"

He says; referring to the kiss.

My gaze finally drifts up from the wooden floor to meet Larry's own.

"...Christmas,"

Larry sighs and looks away from me; over to Sal then brings it back to me.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner? Not just you but Sal too,"

"We're sorry Larry, we just didn't want to hurt your feelings,"

Sal said.

"It's true, we both really care about you and we- I felt bad, I didn't want you to be hurt nor did I want you to feel that I favored Sal over you. Cause I don't. I love you both equally,"

I give Larry a slight (but sincere) smile.

Sal's head turns over to me and Larry's eyes seemed to widen for a second before sharing a look with Sal.

"I get it,"

Larry shrugs.

"You didn't want me to be upset and I respect that."

I nod. Wow, I was expecting more drama. Thank you god, you finally have shown me some mercy.

"Yeah, see I knew you'd understand,"

I say. Sal snickers then shakes his head at me.

"No you didn't,"

He laughs. Larry breaths out a laugh with him then crosses his arms, his stance was still firm; like when an adult is about to lecture you about something.

I roll my eyes and scoff with a smile.

"Oh, shut up,"

"Besides, either way, we got to hear you say you loooved us,"

Larry cooed. My face flushes slightly. Right...I was just speaking truth and spilling feelings in the heat of the moment; I hadn't even realised I said that.

"I did say that...didn't I?"

I laugh nervously. I shift in place, I'm going to just change the topic now.

"Anyway, so why did you two decide to come over here? Before Sal's little...slip up,"

I glare at Sal for a split second as I said the last part.

"We were going to check on you, we didn't see you at lunch and we got worried,"

Larry says with a small grin.

"You guys actually went to school?"

I ask in a joking manner, but at the same time I could definitely say I am shocked.

"No."

Sal says blandly.

"We just showed up to school at lunch to see you,"

"Awe, that's sweet...and also, kind of worrying,"

I said with a slight laugh. It was nice of them to want to visit me during lunch but also worrying that they didn't attend their class'. If they didn't attend them then they wouldn't pass and if they didn't pass; they wouldn't graduate. Maybe I should tutor them?

"Thanks,"

Sal thanks with a smile, even though it wasn't really something to be proud of.

"I am always going to bring up the fact that you said you loved us,"

Larry smirks, to which Sal does as well.

"Seems we've grown on you a bit."

Sal says, looking into my E/C eyes.

"Oh hush, if anything I've grown on you two."

I huff. For some weird reason I was offended..?

Sal stands and walks over to me, I take an instinctive step backwards at his closeness. Sal grabs my waist to stop me from moving any farther away from him.

"You're not wrong,"

He winks at me. My face flushes even more and my gaze leaves his own.

I suddenly, I feel a presence behind me and gasp in shock as a deep voice whispers in my ear,

"You've grown quite a lot on us,"

My breath hitched and I felt my heart beat quicken, butterfly's flutter around in my gut as Larry places his hands on my hips. Their proximity was making me nervous.

I tried to think of words to say but all I could focus on was the embarassing situation I was in.

I open my mouth to speak but all I can let out is stutters.

"I- uh-hm..."

I whimper under my breath. Oh my god, I'm freaking out; my brain is not working right now.

I can just sense the smirks on their faces while my eyes are staring intensely at the floor. Sal's hands squeeze my waist as if to tease me - and boy does it work. I gulp whilst I let out shaky breaths.

Unexpectedly, I'm whipped around to face Larry instead of Sal. He smirks down at me as my eyes meet his own. He leans in slightly closer to me but stops just inches from my face.

Was he going to kiss me? It just felt like that was the direction that this was going in.

"Would you mind if maybe you, I don't know, kiss me?"

Larry stated boldly, shifting his gaze from my eyes to my lips. My eyes widened slightly at his daring request.

"It would only be fair to make it even, wouldn't it?"

He stared back into my eyes, his gaze shifted back and forth between orbs.

Larry's smirk was extremely prominent as he moved slightly closer to my lips. My gaze then shifted to his lips also, before nodding in consent. I did not trust myself enough right now to form a whole sentence with words - it would only be incoherent if I even tried.

Sal stood behind us and I could feel slight jealously radiating off of him, but Larry is right. It was fair.

Besides, it gave me an excuse to finally have a chance to kiss both of these very charming boys.

Larry leaned in slowly before I got impatient and slammed my lips onto his quite soft ones. The kiss was nice, it was gentle and sweet but also rough and needy. As If he (and I) had been waiting forever to do this. Which I can say for myself, is exactly what it felt like for me - eternity.

It went on for a few more long seconds before we both had to pull away to take a breather. I felt a soft peck on my neck; given by Sal and Larry spoke in a fake smart voice whilst placing his forehead against mine in a loving manner.

"Now its even, glad we could come to an accord,"

12/26/23

AKA : January, 26th/2023