.....If We Have Each Other..... — Alec Benjamin 

 "Why...no. You aren't going home..they won't come back and get you. This is your new life"

Samuel threw his hands up in the air. "Jess! We're supposed to make them welcomed! Not terrified!"

Jesse gave him him a stern look. "I was making them feel welcomed, sweetheart"

Samuel huffed and rolled his eyes. "Jesse , I swear I'm going to choke you"

Jesse grinned. "Kinky, go ahead"

For a split second, Samuel Looked confused. "Wait what? What do- ..JESSE!"

Aspen began the laughter, and then Kyle, Drake and Eli began to laugh too. Soon enough, everyone was laughing. Cory wanted to laugh. Badly. But something about Jesse's words, really did scare him. What if what he was saying was true? What if his parents never came to get him? The thought of that really did make him wanna cry. .

"Oh be quiet!" Samuel whined. "Ignore him and his childish behavior. Follow me and I'll show you where you can unpack"

Samuel gave Jesse a light smack on the head as he guided the boys to two bunk beds in the corner of the room. "Go ahead and pick which one you want and unpack. Afterwards we can pull out the board games and play some games until we go to bed"

Cory and Aspen shared a look before they began to unpack their things.

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"So, are you enjoying it so far?" Cyrus asked Liam as they turned down a hall.

"I guess I am" Liam said sheepishly "not super excited but It's fine"

Cyrus chuckled , putting his hand on his shoulder just like he had done early, still walking. "Don't worry, as long as you follow the rules and are respectful towards the teachers you'll be fine"

Liam blushes at Cyrus. "I think I can do that"

"Good" Cyrus told him, stopping in front of a door. "Here is your room! Another one of my sota close friends is here, so if you like me, you'll

like them"

Liam's breath hitched. "If I-I I liked you??"

"As a friend, silly" Cyrus said with a smile.

Liam felt a wave of relief and sadness pass over him. "Oh yeah of course!"

Cyrus patted his back before he took a key out from his pocket and inserted into the keyhole, opening the door.

The minute the door opened, Liam and Cyrus were met with two shirtless boys kissing. "The hell?" Lían said.

One of the boys quickly pulled away from the other, probably incomplete shock that their cover was blown. "Yeah, sorry. I'm out" the boy said, quickly putting his shirt on and grabbing his things, running back the two boys and out of the room. The other boy glared at Liam and Cyrus.

"Kenneth? Seriously" Cyrus said, mentally face palming himself.

"You just had to interrupt?" Kenneth asked, sitting back on the couch, crossing his arms.

"Hey, we didn't no. Plus, you shouldn't have been doing that"

"W-What do you mean?" Lían nervously asked.

"It's against the rules to have any physical contact with another person. The teachers are also super anti-gay, so having physical contact with a boy is a super no no" Cyrus replied.

"And that is bullshit! Not my fault there's a lot of hot guys here!" Kenneth replied angrily.

Cyrus mentally face palmed himself. "We can talk about this later. This is way more important. I would like you to meet , Liam" Cyrus announces

Kenneth looked Liam up and down. "Mhm, I'm Kenneth, as you already know," he said "Elias, the loud one is somewhere in the bathroom and Lukas and Gram are somewhere else"

"Oh alright...well hi" Liam replied shyly.

"Who the Fuck is here?!" A boy yelled from the direction of the bathroom.

"How about you stop yelling, get your lazy butt over here and come see for yourself!" Jesse exclaimed.

"You're yelling too!" The boy replied, stepping out of the Bathroom. "Uh?? Who is this??"

Liam smiled at the other boy. "Im Liam, you are..?"

"Elias" He replied, running his fingers through his dyed hair.

"It's really nice to meet you" Liam told him, glancing at his hair.

Cyrus clapped his hands. "Looks like my work here is done"

Liam turned around. "You're leaving?"

Cyrus nodded. "I have to get to my dorm. But I'll see you at dinner and then tomorrow morning. You'll have to go to the front office to pick up your schedule"

"Sounds like a plan," Liam said.

Cyrus smiled sweetly at Liam, making his heart flutter. "I'll see you?"

Cyrus adjusted his shirt. "You'll see me"

Liam waved goodbye as Cyrus left, turning to look at the two boys. "Well??"

Elias pointed to a bunk bed. "You'll Hunk there with me. I already called top"

"Okay, I'll just unpack" Liam replied, looking over to where he was pointing; and then walked over to the bunk bed to unpack.

After about 10 minutes of Liam unpacking his things, his other two roommates had arrived. Liam had seemed to be on a pretty good "level" with the boys, which was good because he needed all the friends he could get.

"Dinner starts at 7:30 and it's 7:12" Elias said "they probably don't want to see you in your regular clothes, would you like to borrow my spare uniform until you get yours?"

"Well..i dunno..." Liam trailed off.

"This is a one time deal. I'm usually not this nice" Elias said sharply.

"Fine fine, where are they?" Liam asked.

"In the tiny store closer to your left" Elias replied "we'll meet you downstairs?"

Liam nodded, walking over to the closet. "Yeah, I'd like you to sit with some of my friends"

"Yeah sure, why the hell not. Just hurry, I'm hungry" Kenneth grumbled before they both left the dorm.

Liam opened the closet door, taking out a dusty uniform from the lower shelf. Liam dusted the clothing off before going to the bathroom to change.

After changing, Liam looked at himself in the mirror. He surely didn't like it. Not one bit. How did Cyrus get his uniform to look so nice? The guy must've been a wizard.

Liam spent at least five minutes trying to fix his collar, but eventually gave up. Liam quickly put on his original sneakers and sprinted towards the door.

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Liam wandered the dining hall, trying to find someone he knew. Liam pushed his way through the crowd as he lucky spotted Aspen. "Aspennnnnn" Liam whisper-yelled towards him.

Aspen looked towards Liam's direction, his eyes lighting up. "You're aliveeee"

Liam ran towards him. "Im aliveeeeee"

Aspen laughed. "I'm glad, how is your dorm?" Aspen asked.

"It's fine. How's your dorm?"

 "Bit weird but Cory and I are enjoying it. Wish you were there"

Liam looked around. "Speaking of Cory, where is he?"

"With his little boyfriend" Aspen replied with an eye roll.

"Boyfriend???" Liam has a confused expression. "What did I even miss???"

Aspen looked over to a table where Cory was with their newly made friends. "There's this dude who's grossly attractive yet an asshole that's in our dorm. Cory is totally crushing on him even though he probably shouldn't"

"Oh yeah?" Liam asked.

"Yeah" Aspen replied. "The dude totally scared him about his parents. Took me forever to reassure him they would come back"

Liam looked at him nervously as the two of them walked over to the table "This shall be fun.."

Liam and Aspen approached the table, and said hello to everyone. "I really missed you, Li" Cory pouted "Aspen and I were worried about you"

Liam chuckled. "I missed you too. My dorm is great and the people in my dorm are, well, fine. Speaking of them, I invited two of them to come sit with us if you don't mind"

"No, not at all! The more the merrier!" Samuel exclaimed happily as he sat himself down between Jesse and Cory.

Aspen and Liam took a seat as well. "Are you gonna introduce us to your new friend??" Liam asked.

Jesse pointed his butter knife towards Liam. "I am not a friend, they forced me to sit here"

"Please, You love us, don't act like you don't" Samuel said with a sly smile.

"I definitely don't love you, pain in the ass" Jesse replied. "Though I will say, you definitely are a daddy"

"Excuse me? I swear I'm gonna stra- murder you. Stop being flirty" Samuel said with some sass.

Jesse dramatically, and mockingly threw his hands up in the air. "Oh, I'm sorry your majesty!"

Samuel bit his cheek, starting to Ignore him. Just as the two stopped bickering, Cyrus approached their table with Kenneth and Elias following.

"Aye, who is this?" Jesse said, referring to Elias.

Liam's eyes lit up. "The one on the right is Kenneth and the one on the left is Elias"

Jesse licked his lips. "Single?"

"Straight, thank you very much" Elias lied as he sat down with Kenneth.

"That's what they all say and then they're calling me daddy and sucking my di-"

Cyrus choked on his spit. "Jessie, I think that's enough details"

"I already fucking hate you all. Let's eat" Kenneth said, before he started eating. 

They may not be accurate, but they were fun.