Mike opened the door for John, but nobody else as they all piled in. Yet another fantastic night in their weirdly ghost's house. "So are we like spending every night here? Because we start school like tomorrow I think" John said and looked at everyone. Max shrugged and sat down on the newly made sofa. "WELLLLLL this is pretty comfortable~ We basically created our own house" He said smugly and made himself comfortable. Tyler popped out of god know's where and poked Max lightly on the cheek. "But um.. it's my house. It's my mansion?" He said timidly and shrank back down when Max raised an eyebrow at hum. "Well duh" He replied. Jerry took a photo of them and floated around. He never ran out of film huh?

"Well actually, we didn't clean everything" Mike piped up. Everyone turned and looked at him, Mike's face flushed a little out of embarrassment. "Ah.. well we still didn't clean the basement" He told them. Faz laughed nervously, "oh yeah! The basement... we were gonna come back to it huh?" He turned towards Alex. Alex raised his hands, "Woah! Don't look at me. I was unconscious the whole time. I never suffered a blow that hard before" He rubbed his head to emphasize the pain. Brody looked away guiltily, "ah well if it's any consolation, I'm glad you're okay. You gave me a fright" Alex looked at him and smiled softly. "Thanks" he replied and Jerry seized his moment to take another photo. "Perfect! Felt like a real love scene guys!" He piped up and Brody's face flushed along with Alex's.

Jamey cleared his throat and everyone turned to look at him now. "So are you gonna clean it? I've heard about some dark secrets about that there cave" He grinned darkly. "I know for a fact that our bodies are down there. All of them. It was so easy to just, toss our bodies in there and lock it up." Faz shuddered and held onto Alex's hand. "How do you know?" Max huffed. "You guys are too chicken to go down there!" He sat up and crossed his arms. Jamey growled and moved right in front of his face. "You calling me a chicken?" Max smirked. "What was your first clue?" That pissed off Jamey more then ever and he grabbed Max by his sweater and started pulling him towards the door. "Chicken, huh? I'll show you who's chicken." He got closer and closer with Max, who was getting nervous with each step. "H-hey, I was kidding. Alright?" Faz ran over and went in front of Jamey, "Please don't!! He may be in asshole, but he's my brother!!" Jamey stopped and growled, letting him go. Max sighed in relief. "Thank you"

Felix who was uncomfortably silent watches the series unfold and snapped his fingers. "John! Mike!" You guys go down there!" John, who was showing something cool on his flip phone to Mike, jumped, turning towards Felix. "N-no way!! I am not going down there!" Felix rolled his eyes and pushed them towards the door. "You guys make a great team! Plus you guys have some problems to take care of" Nat floated towards the basement door and opened it. Mike held onto the doorframe, "Everyone is okay with this?!" He yelled out and everyone just shrugged. Max yawned, "scream if anything happens" John deadpanned or well at least I think he did, "Jee don't worry"

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John turned on his flashlight and shined his light down the stairs. "Do you uh... wanna hold hands?" he turned towards Mike who flushed lightly. "N-no" John shrugged and went down the steps. "I wish we came in the morning" Mike nodded in agreement before realizing John couldn't see him. "Ah yeah, I wish we did" He shined his light towards the cracking old walls. They got to the bottom and John looked around. Nothing, there was nothing! Only a couple of boxes and a couple of old furniture. "That good for nothing Jamey" John muttered and put on his gloves. Mike muttered something unintelligible and put on his gloves too.

As they began cleaning, Mike was deep in thought. He was thinking about the boy cleaning next to him. He did have a tiny crush on the poor boy and not as in pity, he means literal poor. He wasn't that bad of a looker, who desperately needed a haircut and acne medication, and he was one of the very lucky ones to see a bit of his eyes. "-don't you agree Mike?" John snapped him out of this thoughts. "H-huh? I-I'm sorry, c-could you repeat that?" He stuttered a bit and looked at John a bit embarrassed. John laughed and god how he loved it, it was so pure and full of kindness. "I was just talking about our asshole friends" Mike scrunches up his face. "Ugh, they're dicks, but hey, not all of them are" He smiled softly and John smiled back. "I appreciate it, but I'm a bit of an asshole too" Mike snorted and sat down in a now clean rocking chair. "Yeah right, you wouldn't hurt a butterfly" John sat down on the floor next to him, criss-crossing his legs. "Well okay true" and they both laughed.

Mike really wanted to ask him, wanted to tell him how much he liked him, he was building up the courage to do so... but then he heard this simple sentence, "Man, I bet my girlfriend would love to come here" Mike froze still and it was like the words were replaying in his head, 'Girlfriend? Girlfriend?! He has a girlfriend?!' Mike swallowed and said, "you uh... you have a girlfriend?" John looked at him. "Yeah! Her name is Linda! You wanna meet her? She's pretty great!" He chuckled. "But don't fall in love with her!" Mike nodded and felt tears swell up in his eyes. "U-um" he cleared his throat. "W-we should go" He stood up and grabbed his standing flashlight. John tilted his head and got up, "why? We're having so much fun!" He took his flashlight and looked at Mike. Mike swallowed, rubbing the tears threatening to fall.

"L-let's just go" He stuttered softly. John grabbed his hand. "Hey... are you okay? What happened? What did I say?" Mike looked at him and saw his frown look. "I... I can't tell you" John frowned more. "Mike, if I made you upset, you can tell me. I didn't mean to make you upset" His tears started to fall. "Look. It's nothing John. Can you please drop it?!" He basically snapped and covered his mouth. "I-I'm sorry" He said and ran back up the stairs, ignoring his name being called from John.

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Mike managed to hide in one of the mansions room and he let his tears flow freely, sobbing into the bed. "G-god! Why d-do I always fall in love with the straight taken guys?!" He hiccuped and buried himself into the pillow. Nat, who quietly entered the room, floated slowly towards the bed, "I know how you feel" He said quietly and put his hand on Mike's head. Mike looked up at him, with puffy eyes, "H-how?" He managed to say. "I fell in love with someone and that someone was married, but I was blinded by love that he would one day like me more, but.. it never showed" He smiled sadly at Mike and stroked his hair. "It hurts doesn't it?" Mike started sobbing harder, "y-yes it does!! I-it hurts s-so much!!" Nat wrapped his arms around him and nuzzled into his neck. "You're okay, You're okay" He murmured softly in his ear.

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I'll write more l8ter