a/n: hey guys!! I made a new short story book called car's short stories so i decided to hold a contest for a cover!! To enter just make a cover for that book and tag me : ) it's multifandom so like,, it doesnt have to be bmc or anything for the cover. Anyways, contest ends a week from whenever this is uploaded!! So assuming since i'm writing this at midnight on nov. 19th, prolly a week from now on nov. 26th. You have a week! Just tag me in whatever you leave the cover in. thanks!! -car

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"I don't know what to think, Rich." Michael said honestly, letting a heavy sigh leave his lips, "Jeremy is just. . . I don't even know! He's confusing and a lot to deal with. Apparently he likes me or something? He said he's been having wet dreams about me which is really weird!"

Rich tried to hold it in, but he couldn't. He bursted out into laughter, cackling hysterically for a good few seconds. He continued to laugh and laugh until Michael hit him in the arm. The Filipino had a stern look on his face as he hit his brother, lips puckering into a strained frown. He sat up, arms crossed.

"You're so uptight, hard ass." Rich said, his laughter dying down and expression hardening, "You need to loosen up a bit. Maybe in Jeremy's arms." He wiggled his brows.

"Rich!" Michael punched his shoulder, "Shut up! You're so annoying." The Filipino continued with an eye roll.

"Ow!" The blonde rubbed his arm where Michael had punched it before raising his arms in surrender, "I'll back off, I'll back off." He said before letting his arms fall, "I can only handle so much abuse."

Michael gave the blonde another eye roll, "Whatever. But I'm serious!" His demeanor changed, "This thing with Jeremy is stressing me out!"

"You told me a few weeks ago that your life didn't revolve around Jeremy," Rich's arms crossed, "are you having second thoughts on that statement?"

"Your life can't revolve around Jeremy. I get it, he's your best friend, but Jake isn't the center of my world."

"My life doesn't revolve around Jeremy!" Michael exclaimed defensively.

"No!" Michael exclaimed almost a little too quickly, "My life does NOT revolve around Jeremy." He snapped, "Just because I stress over him some doesn't mean he's my whole world, okay?"

"Okay, okay," Rich sighed heavily, "you can't get so worked up over every little thing, Mike."

The Filipino flopped his head back onto the blondes lap. He threw his arms up just to let them fall again (and nearly hit Rich in the face on their way up and down), "What else do you expect me to do, man?"

"Uh, not get mad? It's not a big deal." He said.

"It's not a big deal to you because Jake doesn't have any wet dreams about you!" Michael said, body stiffening.

"Yo, calm down." Rich countered, "With all the shit we face throughout the day, we can't be mad at each other. Got that?"

Michael let out a long breath and let his eyes close as his chest descended, "You're right." He said before letting his eyes flutter open.

"I know," the blonde grinned softly.

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It was around 1am at this point. Michael was driving around in his PT Cruiser since he'd had an eventful night with his father and siblings during dinner and was trying to clear his head with slushies, 90's music and empty highways. Things were calm until his phone started buzzing.

(1:16am) Rich: FUEGKUFUIGBFSUI

(1:16am) Rich: that's a bi way of saying omg

(1:16am) Michael: go to bed wtf

(1:17am) Rich: lmao dont @ me mr. i take weird car rides at 1am

(1:17am) Michael: very funny

(1:17am) Rich: anyways LOOK NKIOBEFYFB

Michael cocked a brow and tapped on the picture Rich sent him. It was a screenshot of a text conversation he had with Jenna Rolan. Inside of the text conversation, this was its contents. Also author speaking i'm half tempted to make a text conversation with one of my friends and change the name to Jenna Rolan just for the hell of it but meh

(2:29pm) Jenna: jeremy heere has a crush on his best friend michael mell ad gets raging boners!!!! Spread the word!

(2:30pm) Rich: lmao new phone who dis

(3:16pm) Jenna: rich wtf

Exit photo, Rich was blowing up he and Michael's text chain.

(1:19am) Rich: YO THAT SHITS HILARIOUS WYDT

(1:19am) Michael: what does that mean

(1:19am) Rich: wow your old it means what do you think

(1:19am) Michael: thats not a real abbreviation

(1:20am) Rich: and neither is your face suck my toe michael

(1:20am) Rich: angry devil emoji

(1:20am) Michael: and uh,, abt jenna,, wtf do you think started my thing w jeremy??

(1:20am) Rich: uh sexual tension duh

(1:20am) Michael: nO

(1:20am) Michael: it was that dumb ass txt jenna shot out

(1:21am) Rich: oh

(1:21am) Rich: well come home

(1:21am) Michael: why

(1:21am) Rich: you and i both know why

Michael let out a heavy sigh and looked for the next exit to turn off of so he could do a u-turn.

(1:22am) Michael: omw home

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Michael got home, quietly tiptoeing into he and Rich's room. He slowly cracked the door open, seeing his brother curled up in his bed, phone light on his face. Rich's eyes traveled to the door as he heard the door slowly close.

"You know I can't fall asleep in here alone." Rich said, lips pursing.

"But you have these guys!" He motioned to their younger siblings at the other side of the room.

Rich gave Michael a look, "You know what I mean."

The Filipino sighed heavily, "I get it." He shrugged his shoulders and put his cassette tape on the floor near his bed.

Rich sighed softly and rolled over, eyes closing.

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The next day came around, Jeremy walking down the halls with more crippling anxiety than he'd had in a long time. His fingers swung up and down his backpack straps, biting the inside of his cheek softly. He hadn't talked to Michael since the night before and was really nervous about their next interaction (they had first period together so their interaction was kind of inevitable). Jeremy was just walking down the halls, doing his thing before he felt his back hit the wall.

Jeremy's eyes widened as he looked down at the person pinning him to the locker, "Hey tall ass, we're going to have to have a talk." A familiar voice growled.

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a/n: sorry if this is a shitty chapter im super stuffy and tired WAIT WTF I JUST REALIZED ITS ALMOST 1AM LMAO but i wanted to get something out there for you guys and i thought this was an okay way to end! Update by the time I finished and uploaded this it's approx 1:05am nov. 19th lol fml Gn guys I'm not even tired but I'm going to bed