"Ugh, I hate Mondays!" 2d groaned, dragging his feet along the school hallway. "Why can't I just go home?? I don't want to have an extra bloody lesson of maths on a Monday." He pouted.

"Even if you didn't have a lesson, you'd still end up coming to band practice instead of going home, so quit complaining." Murdoc stated, not in the best of moods. 2d looked at him, wondering what caused this.

"Yeah, but at least I'd be spending more time with you, which I don't mind." 2d replied, trying to lighten the mood.

"Don't forget Russel and Noodle." Murdoc reminded, unconsciously bringing the mood back down.

"They're not a problem." 2d quickly retorted.

"I swear you don't like them." 2d gave Murdoc a weird look. "Yet." He swiftly added on.

"Yet, Mudz, is a big word." 2d sighed, looking up at the ceiling dreamily as they walked. "I'm going to get comfortable around them some day."

"I guess..." Murdoc looked down.

"Ok, what's up with you?" 2d finally addressed the matter. "Why are you acting all emotionless and shit? This can't be about you not wanting me to get close to Russel and Noodle, so what is it?" Murdoc groaned.

"It's just, they're going to be bothering me the entire damn band practice." Murdoc exclaimed, not pleased.

"How so?" 2d looked over curiously.

"I promised them they'd meet the singer on Monday, but I completely forgot you've got a maths lesson." Murdoc rubbed the bridge of his nose and sighed.

"So? Tell them that they'll meet me tomorrow." 2d shrugged. By then they both arrived at the door to the music room, and just stood there chatting.

"No, you don't get it. They've been bothering me for a full two weeks about meeting you. They won't just calmly wait out another day."

"Then cancel band practice." 2d suggested, immediately seeing Murdoc's disapproval on his face.

"Yeah, and what am I going to do while waiting for you to get out of lesson?" Murdoc asked rhetorically.

"Write some lyrics." 2d casually replied. "You haven't had much time to do that recently, have you? Besides, you told me that you've been recording the music you guys made so what's the harm in skipping one practice? You've done a lot of work, get some rest."

"I guess you're right." Murdoc sighed, making 2d smile. "I guess the thing that's worrying me the most, though, is that when they find out you're the singer they're immediately going to think that I forced you into a relationship."

"It's going to be ok, Mudz." 2d continued smiling. "Everything's going to fall right into place tomorrow."

"HERRO!" The two suddenly heard a yell coming from down the hall. They turned and looked to see Noodle skipping along next to Russel. Murdoc wasn't bothered to yell back, so he waited until the two got within hearing distance to reply.

"Hey guys." He sighed. Noodle immediately run up to 2d, grinning.

"H-Hi.." 2d smiled awkwardly, making Noodle happy.

"Hey 2d." Russel greeted him, ignoring Murdoc for now. "What'cha doing here?" He asked curiously.

"Ah! Um, I was just dropping Murdoc off. I'm going to be heading to my maths lesson now." 2d rubbed his arm trying to avoid eye contact.

"Oh, so you've got maths with the singer?" Russel asked. 2d looked over at Murdoc with disapproval, but was ultimately forced to join the lie once again.

"Yeah... I guess..." He looked down.

"Wait a minute..." Noodle suddenly said, stopping smiling.

"Oh here we go." Murdoc mumbled under his breath. 2d looked over at him, concerned.

"You said we can meet singer today!" She exclaimed, making Russel realise the same thing.

"Yeah, I know." Murdoc rolled his eyes. "I forgot he's got maths today, ok?"

"That's not fair!" Noodle argued, but Russel stayed silent. He kept thinking how odd it was that they've never met the singer, although Murdoc keeps claiming they're so close.

"Noodle stop it." Murdoc sighed. "There's no practice today anyway; I want some alone time to work on something." Noodle pouted.

"You know what? Why not." Russel smiled lightly. "We could do with being home early for once. Maybe we could go get some ice cream?" He suggested, patting Noodle's shoulder.

"Hmm." She thought. Ice cream sounded a lot better than band practice with a grumpy Murdoc and no singer. "Ok!" She jumped up cheerfully. 

"Alright, then that's a plan." Russel grinned. "Bye guys." Murdoc and 2d waved goodbye as the two left. Murdoc looked over at 2d, who was making puppy dog eyes.

"What? Why are you making that face for?" He asked.

"Now I want to go get ice cream with you too!" 2d wallowed.

"Is that all?" Murdoc laughed, approaching 2d. "Don't worry, when we get home I'll give you something else to suck on..." He smirked.

"But you don't suck ice cream, Mudz..." 2d murmured, intimidated. Murdoc pinned him against the closed music room doors, and pressed their bodies together.

"How about a-" Murdoc leaned in to whisper into 2d's ear in a low, lustful voice. "-nice thick, hard, cum-dripping cock, huh?" 2d shivered, wide eyed and blushing wildly. "Would you like me to fuck your mouth, 2d? Mmm, I bet that gap between your teeth would feel heavenly on my dick as you suck it." 2d bit his lip as he was starting to get goosebumps all over his body. "Oh yes, I'll fuck you long and hard, you'll come begging for more later. I bet you're simply craving the feeling of me cumming all over your face, huh? You little cockslut."

"Mmgh ~." Murdoc licked 2d's earlobe and then bit his ear, making the boy whimper and gasp in pleasure.

"Heh, just look at you." Murdoc moved away to admire what he's just done to 2d. "You're all red, almost drooling and-" Murdoc rolled his hips into 2d's. "-definitely turned on." 2d looked away from embarrassment, causing Murdoc to smirk more. "Every time I touch you, you completely melt like butter. What am I supposed to do with you?"

"Touch me more..." 2d suggested, doing his best to conceal a smile. Murdoc just sighed.

"Come on, you're 10 minutes late to lesson." He moved away and pat 2d's head.

"Awe..." 2d complained.

"Off you go." Murdoc laughed. "Good luck with that boner in class." 2d didn't reply. Instead, he quickly leaned in and kissed Murdoc on the cheek.

"Bye Mudz!" 2d grinned proudly, almost immediately after running off to lesson. Murdoc sighed, watching him run off.

"Ain't I lucky that the one person I actually like, genuinely likes me back?" He murmured to himself as he walked into the music room. It was dim and cold, just the way he liked it, but with 2d it was different. 2d seemed to be carrying around with him this weird brightness everywhere he went. Murdoc didn't mind that, he liked it too.

The chair creaked as Murdoc dumped his entire body weight onto it and sighed. No, this was different. With the lights off and the corridor completely silent, everything felt different. It was always like this before Murdoc met 2d, so what was the problem now? Did he get accustomed to being around other, noisy people?

Although Murdoc was used to the darkness, it continued to bother him. It didn't take him long to figure out what this uncomfortable feeling in his chest was; loneliness.

The door slid open so quietly that the only reason Murdoc noticed that it opened was because light from the corridor flooded the dark room. He looked other, and standing in the light was a tall figure, smiling down at him.

"2d?" Murdoc sat up. "What are you doing here? What about your maths lesson?"

"It got cancelled because the teacher didn't show up." 2d chirped before looking around. "Why are you sitting in the dark?" He pressed the light switch, returning light into Murdoc's life. "That's better." 2d nodded to himself, and approached Murdoc, who smiled up at him. "What's wrong Mudz? Why are you smiling? I mean, I don't mean that there has to be something wrong for you to be smiling. It's just that you've barely spoken to me. What's up?"

"I'm just happy you're here." Murdoc guided 2d by the hips to straddle his lap. 2d held Murdoc's face in both his hands and smiled down at him, feeling Murdoc's hands on his butt. "You know 2d, before I met you I kinda lived my life alone and in the dark, but then you appeared, and brought life into my life. I never would've admitted it, but I liked this light. I liked not being alone in band practice, even if the only thing you did was sit with your head on the table, and I liked having a reason to come to school."

"Mudz..." 2d murmured, looking into Murdoc's glistening eyes. "Why are you telling me this?"

"Because I never want you to leave me." 2d smiled brightly. "You're the light of my life."

"I'm a lightbulb!" 2d suddenly exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air.

"You what?" Murdoc chuckled.

"Y'know Mudz, if we ever become famous I want to make a music video where my eyes glow like lightbulbs!" 2d smiled excitedly.

"Over my dead body." Murdoc laughed.

"Whaaaaaat? But you just said I'm the light of your life!!" 2d argued, swinging his legs on either side of Murdoc.

"Yeah, light. Not a fucking lightbulb! The only way you're ever making a music video like that is if I'm not there." Murdoc stated.

"But that's not fair! You're always going to be there!" 2d complained.

"How do you know?" Murdoc laughed.

"Because that's just who you are. Believe me when I say I've wished countless times that you were gone, but you never left, and now we're a thing!" Murdoc chuckled.

"Still unofficial though."

"Eh, shut it." 2d dismisses him.

"Hey, you're starting to talk like me!" They both laughed.

"So, what are we waiting for?" 2d asked, starting to twirl a piece of Murdoc's hair around his finger.

"Huh?"

"You cancelled band practice, so we're free to go home and do whatever the hell we want." 2d smirked lightly, exciting Murdoc.

"But why wait until we get home when we've got a convenient bathroom right around the corner?" Murdoc suddenly stood up, lifting 2d up by the butt.

"Ew, Mudz! I don't want to do that in the filthy bathroom!" 2d clung onto Murdoc's shoulders for dear life and laughed.

"Aww, you're such a tease." Murdoc chuckled and rubbed their noses together while 2d continued laughing cutely. "Fine, we can go home, I guess." Murdoc put 2d down and they gathered their stuff. "Come on!" Murdoc smirked and grabbed 2d by the wrist, quickly running out of the class just seconds later.

"Mudz, wait!" 2d laughed as he got pulled along the corridor. They ran along so freely, like they hadn't had a care or worry in the world. It was a nice feeling.

Mere seconds after they disappeared behind a corner at the end of the corridor, Russel and Noodle emerged from the opposite side and stormed up to the music room.

"MURDOC!" Russel boomed as he kicked open the door to the music room. It hit the wall loudly, startling Noodle, and almost bounced back to hit Russel. Pissed, he looked around the empty classroom. "Where the fuck is he?!" Noodle hesitated to reply.

"Bathroom...?" Upon hearing the suggestion Russel stomped out of the room, past Noodle, and into the nearest bathroom, and then proceeded to aggressively kick open each stall door. In that moment, 2d was very lucky that he didn't agree to have sex with Murdoc in that bathroom...

Noodle sighed, standing alone in the empty classroom. She felt angry too, but more shocked and sad. Everyone warned them that Murdoc was a dangerous bastard, so they really shouldn't have been surprised.

"His bag's gone." Russel noticed after re-emerging from the bathroom. He sighed too as he saw Noodle standing with her arms folded, holding her forearms. This really did come as a surprise to her, and Russel regretted ever getting involved with Murdoc. "We'll find him tomorrow." He reassured her, petting her on the back. Noodle looked down sadly. "It's ok..."

"No it's not..." Noodle murmured. "He hurt Touchie..."

"I know, Noods, I know." Russel tried to comfort her. "But there's nothing we can do about what happened. All we can do, is at least attempt to save him from that demon bastard."

"We'll save him." Noodle looked up, determined. "And we'll find him a different boyfriend!!" Russel almost chocked on thin air.

"NOODLE STOP IT." He sighed in frustration. "For the last time, him and Murdoc are NOT dating, and he already has an unofficial boyfriend! Stop these gay fantasies, they're unhealthy! And 2d's going to think you're weird!"

"But he'd look so cute in Murdoc's arms!" Noodle whined.

"NOODLE." Russel looked at her sternly. "Murdoc is the enemy, remember? He hurt 2d, so they can't be together. Enough."

"But Touchie looks happy with Murdoc!" Noodle was clearly still in denial about this whole situation; she didn't want to believe what sorts of horrible things Murdoc did to 2d.

"Noodle, we'll talk it out with him tomorrow, ok? Let's go home for now." He smiled weakly, and Noodle sighed, absolutely not excited for tomorrow.

"Ok..." Noodle sadly trotted out of the room, the empty corridor reminding her of what just happened...

- - -

[15 minutes ago]

Noodle jumped excitedly along the corridor, thinking of all the wonderful flavours of ice cream she could get. Russel silently followed, smiling. They were both in very good moods thanks to Murdoc cancelling band practice.

However, this changed when they approached a corner, and Noodle suddenly stopped, beckoning Russel to silently come over. Without questioning, Russel did as he was told, and soon realised that Noodle was in fact eavesdropping on two girls gossiping right around the corner.

"Have you heard?" One of the girls said. "Those two new kids joined Murdoc's band." The other gasped.

"What? No way!" She replied. "Are they insane??" They both giggled lightly.

"Out of their minds!" The first girl exclaimed.

"I mean, I understand why 2d would want to spend time with Murdoc, since he's brain dead, but them???" The second girl questioned. This annoyed Russel, so he did the only reasonable thing he could think of, and stepped in.

"Oy!" Russel appeared out of the corner, making Noodle gasp. That's not how you're supposed to eavesdrop!! She thought, but ultimately had no choice but to follow him. "What did you say about 2d??" Russel startled the two girls, as he was much bigger than them and very scary looking. Noodle appeared beside him, sporting a static face expression. "How dare you call him brain dead, he might be quirky but he's a good kid!" Russel was pissed.

"N-No, you don't get it, he's literally brain dead!" The first girl tried to defend the two, while being petrified of looking into Russel's white, cold eyes.

"This isn't funny." Russel warned in an angry voice, loosing patience. Even though he wasn't officially friends with 2d yet, he felt the need of defending the boy, as his life was already hard enough with Murdoc.

"No, you'd understand if you knew him before the accident, he's completely different now!" Russel and Noodle exchanged worried glances.

"What happened..?" Noodle wearily asked.

"Murdoc happened. 2d used to be social and outgoing, and even had a girlfriend! But ever since Murdoc came into his life, things started crumbling for him and now he's... well, he's just Murdoc's property." The second girl elaborated, a sad tone in her voice.

"Wait, but what accident??" Russel pressed on.

"Didn't you hear?" The first girl asked. "Murdoc crushed his car straight into 2d's face, and knocked his eyes out, turning them completely black!"

"Those aren't contacts??" Russel asked in shock, up until now he thought it was just a weird fashion statement.

"Nope. Two car crushes. Two black eyes. One poor 2d who was hospitalised and in a coma." The girls over exaggerated the story.

"Wait, two car crushes??" Russel stared at the girls in bewilderment, while Noodle remained speechless.

"Yeah, the second one woke him up. Or at least that's how Murdoc bragged about it." The second girl explained.

"What the fuck, he ruined his life!" Russel exclaimed, suddenly remembering how Murdoc actually admitted to ruining the boys life. It all made sense now.

"Absolutely, and still continues to. Poor 2d is all alone."

"Wait, didn't you say he had a girlfriend?" Russel furrowed his eyebrows.

"Yeah, Murdoc fucked her in the school bathroom and they broke up."

"That's messed up..." Russel looked down at Noodle, a newfound rage within him. They both knew that they had to confront Murdoc, since what he did was unacceptable. So the two set out to find Murdoc, ready to fight for 2d's freedom...

Trust me it pains me just as much to write this.

WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY MEAN "UNLOCK STORIES"?!

ARE YOU TELLING ME I WON'T BE ABLE TO READ CERTAIN BOOKS WITHOUT PAYING??

NAH MATE. THAT'S MESSED UP.

I UNDERSTAND IF THEY'D WANT TO ADD IN AN EXTRA FEATURE THAT WOULD ACT LIKE PATREON, BUT THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.

do not be afraid, for as long as I'm alive, I vow to you that this story will be forever free, and I forbid any of my works to be "locked" or required to be paid for.