Cherry Tree: Three's Company

Requested by: BlackJackShips

A/N: College AU. Also contains Sage x Scarlet x Nolan

Sage isn't happy...not happy at all. Lately, he'd been feeling a little left out in his relationship with Scarlet and Nolan. He feels like a bit of a third wheel, that soon...Scarlet and Nolan will realize he isn't worth keeping around and just leave him behind. Sage knows that he should just probably talk to them, but...he's never been good at talking about his feelings.

"Sage? Hey, man, are you alright?" Sun asked trying to get his attention.

The young man had zoned out while he and Sun were working on a group project.

"Huh? Oh...sorry....I'm fine, really." Sage replied.

"Ya sure, man?" Sun asked.

"Yep...totally fine." Sage replied with a fake smile and a thumbs up.

"Dude, that fake a** smile ain't fooling me. What's wrong?" Sun asked closing the textbook they were using.

"I don't wanna talk about it." Sage said closing himself off.

"Come on, Sage, I'm your pal, you can talk to me." Sun said.

"Not about this...you wouldn't understand." Sage sighed.

"Sage, you gotta talk to somebody. You look like you're starting to lose sleep over this." Sun suggested.

"I'm gonna head back to my place. Let's work on this project some other time." Sage said standing up and walking away.

"B-but it's due this Friday! Sage get back here and help me with this project!" Sun called out as his friend left him.

Sage gets back to his apartment that he shared with his boyfriends. When he walks in, he sees Scarlet and Nolan cuddled on the couch asleep. 

"They don't need you." a small voice in the back of Sage's head said.

Sage grips the strap to his backpack tightly.

"Just look at them, they look so much better together than all three of you do. They have way more in common with each other than they do with you. Also, look at how comfortable they are without you...just admit it already! You. Are. A. Burden!" the voice said, louder.

Tears streaming down his face, Sage leaves the apartment, leaving behind his cellphone, and takes a bus to town. An hour later, Scarlet and Nolan wake up and saw Sage's cellphone on the coffee table, but saw no sign of Sage himself.

"This is odd...Sage wouldn't go anywhere without his phone." Scarlet said picking up Sage's phone.

He saw several missed calls from Sun on Sage's phone.

"Nolan...I have a bad feeling..." Scarlet told him.

"Don't worry, Scar, I'll call Sun and see what's up." Nolan said taking out his own phone.

Nolan calls Sun and finds out about how Sage had been acting that day. Now both of them were worried; Sage is off somewhere without his phone while upset about something. 

"What are we gonna do?! How are we gonna find him?" Scarlet said worriedly pacing the living room.

"I'm just trying to figure out what we did to make Sage think he couldn't come to us and talk about what's bothering him." Nolan sighed slumping on the couch.

"What do you think's bothering him?" Scarlet asked.

"Don't know, but when we find him, we're talking this out." Nolan said texting Sun and Neptune.

The four of them look all over town for Sage and finally find him late at night in a bar....extremely drunk. He passes out in the car, so the other four had to drag him into the apartment and lay him on the couch.

"Thanks for your help, guys." Scarlet told Sun and Neptune.

"No problem." Neptune replied.

"Just make sure he's okay before Friday...we still have a project to finish." Sun told Nolan.

The next day, Sage had a massive hangover and was sick as a dog. 

"Darling, what's going on with you?" Scarlet asked him.

"Yeah, you really scared us last night." Nolan said.

"I don't wanna talk about it...it's dumb..." Sage replied burying his face into a pillow.

"Sage, if it's gotten you this upset, then it's not nothing." Nolan said putting his hand on Sage's shoulder.

"Okay, fine...I...sometimes I feel...I feel like I'm being left out. I feel like that you guys would prefer it if it was just the two of you rather than the three of us." Sage mumbled.

"What? W-what would make you think that?" Scarlet asked sitting beside Sage.

"You have a lot more in common with each other...you've known each other longer...and I'm just new to all this and not sure how it all works. I care about the both of you a lot...but I'm not sure if you two feel the same." Sage explained.

Frowning, Scarlet wraps his arms around Sage and hugs him tightly. Then Nolan hugs him on his other side and kisses his head.

"Sage, we're so sorry we made you feel this way." Scarlet apologized.

"We love you so much, we're sorry we haven't been showing it lately." Nolan added.

Scarlet and Nolan each kiss Sage's cheeks and hold his hands.

"So...you guys aren't gonna leave me behind?" Sage asked.

"No." Scarlet answered.

"Never." Nolan replied.

Throughout his hangover, Sage was taken care of by his amazing boyfriends. From then on, Scarlet and Nolan made sure Sage never felt left out ever again.

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