Tye began to stir, gripping jace's shirt and nuzzleing into the fabric that smelled of his best friend. Jace sighed, hand resting on the younger boy's hair. Tye opened his golden eyes and let them fall to the hideout they were evidently camped out in. There was a cool breeze floating in from the opening, and birds were chirping happily. Tye's eyes felt crust from the tears that we're dried up underneath them.

He looked to Jace, whose eyes were already trained on him worriedly. The teen looked awful. The bags under his eyes we're especially dark, and his lips we're turned down in exaugstion and worry. The two began to sit up, and Jace situated himself to face Tyler.

He sighed again, looking at him with a silent question. This time, it was tye who sighed. He knew her have to talk about it with him. He wanted to dwell on it as little as possible, though, so he kept it simple.

"Dad found out." Jace closed his eyes and his grip on tyes legs tightened slightly. "I thought so. " Exaughstion was rich in his vocals an tye felt bad.

Jace gripped tye's thighs. "That bastard hurt you. That fucki-" Tye grabbed jace's face in both hands and put his forehead against his friend's. "I'm okay jace I'm here look" He forced jace to look at him. He put his hands in the air, pat-down style. He lifed his chin. "I am not letting that homophobic bastard keep me down cause I. LIKE DICKS! " Jace doubled over and reached across tye, hand covering his mouth.

"Shit up!!!" He whisper-shouted. He couldn't help but laugh loudly, though, when tye flipped them over, straddling jace and letting his fingertips dance clumsily across jace's sides. "S-ST-O-OOPAHHAHAHAHA" Tears were squeezing out of his eyes and he was begging for the sensation to stop, as his stomach was hurting from laughing so hard.

"Say it. SAY IT! " tye's legs tigtened around Jace and finally he gave in. "Tye is the hot one, I am his bitch! " He shouted the phrase agreed upon when the two were younger, replacing "uncle" Or "mercy". Whoever gave up had to " Admit" The other was better, and the attacker gets to call them their bitch for the rest of the day.

Finally, the blonde boy let his hands fall to the side, placing one on either side of jace's head and holding his weight above him. They were both out of breath, panting and laughing, faces close. Jace's blue eyes shone with happiness, rather than worry, and he giggled once more before locking them with tye's.

"Haha! " Said tye triumphantly. "You're my bitch now"

"Yeah and you're a dick" Snapped jace, despite still having a shit eating grin plastered on his face.

Tye put on fake offence, gasping dramatically. "Am not! "

"Are too! " They biciered childishly.

"I might not be a dick, but I do have one... Wanna suck it? "

"Oh fuck off! " Jace bit, pushing tye lightly and letting him roll off of him, now laying next to him. The pair stared at the rickety blanket draped over the hideout. It was a shock the thing was still intact.