Ross’ POV:

Robert continued to cry into my shirt for a good while, it’s probably soaked at this point. His nose was running like crazy and I could hear him quietly wailing and gasping from how hard he was crying. I rubbed his back and gave him positive affirmations to try and comfort him. This lasted for about five minutes before he unclenched my back and layed back down on his pillow. His face was a mess so I offered to bring a rag to clean his face, to which he agreed.

I walked into the bathroom of the room and took a rag from a shelf then wet it with warm water. I took a few tissues so that he could blow his nose as well and walked back to Robert. I sat on the side of the bed and handed him the tissues while I brought the trash can to my lap so he could easily throw them away when he's done. He blows his nose two times before throwing away the tissues. I put the trash can back on the floor and tell him to relax so I could wipe his face. He nods and closes his eyes. I begin wiping down his face with the rag gently. When I felt his face was clean I set the rag to the side and told Robert he was good.

“Thank you Ross.” he says, opening his eyes.

“No problem. I’m gonna go tell the nurses your awake-” 

Before I could walk away Robert grabs my wrist. “You’re such a… good friend Ross. You’re so caring and sweet, I don’t know what I’d do without you. I’m seriously so thankful for everything you’ve done for me.”

That caught me off guard, he always manages to get me flustered at the most random moments. I still managed to turn around and give him a smile.

“I’d do anything for you.” I say, not really thinking about what I let just slip out my mouth.

He smiles back and slowly gets up from the bed. “I wanna go see Radford, you gonna come?” he asks.

“Of course, they told me I should monitor you anyways.” I answer.

I went to open the door for Robert but when I did I was met with a bunch of faces. My mom, a woman that I would assume is Robert's mom, Carmen, her husband Richard, and Roy. They immediately rushed inside and the woman gave Robert a hug. 

“My baby… are you okay?” she asks him.

"I'm fine mom, just a bruised arm." he answers.

His mom immediately rolls up his sleeve to look at his bruise. When she saw it she frowned and hugged him again.

"I'm so sorry. When I saw he was leaving every night I didn't know he was coming here." she says.

"Mom, don't be sorry, it's not your fault."

Robert's mom breaks the hug and gives him a kiss on the cheek before walking back to the adults to discuss what to do.

Roy then walks over and also gives Robert a hug, a quick one though. 

"Are you okay?" he asks.

"I'm okay now. How come you're here?" Robert also asks.

"My dads a lawyer, I convinced my mom to convince him to help your mom with a divorce and stuff. My mom said she owes you." he answers.

Robert looked at Carmen for a second, he was stunned but happy that she came around. 

"Did you guys see Radford?" Robert asks.

"Yeah, he went to sleep though so best not to bother him right now." Roy answers.

Robert nods and walks to the bed to sit down. Me and Roy sit next to him.

"I wanna leave." Robert complains.

"The nurses are gonna want to check you and we're all gonna be questioned about what happened, we're probably gonna be here for another hour." I respond. 

Robert sighs. "This sucks."

Eventually the nurses came in and made all of us leave so they could check Robert. We all sat on the chairs outside of his room while we waited.

"I know you didn't get hurt, but are you okay?" Roy asks.

"I'm fine, just worried. I can't believe all that just happened. His dad was going to kill me!" I answer, thinking back to how horrified I was when he started chasing me. 

"At least he's gone for good now. My dad's a good lawyer so even if he gets out of jail somehow he won't be allowed near them." Roy says.

I nod in response and slouch into my seat. I also really want to leave, I'm annoyed and I'm actually exhausted for once. 

After ten minutes the nurses came out and told us Robert is okay to go home but he should be careful with his arm. They said they want to monitor Radford more so he has to stay. So we all made our way to the waiting room and if things couldn't get even more annoying, there were two cops there. I was gonna groan but I saw Robert run to one of the cops with brown curly hair like his and give him a hug. The other one walked over to us and said me and Robert needed to be questioned and they would question Radford tomorrow.

"How long will that take? It's one in the morning and they have school tomorrow! Or today? I don't know but they need to go home!" my mom complains, mumbling the last bit.

"It shouldn't be too long. We don't have to take them down to the station, we'll just do it here." the officer, who's name was Jack, says.

My mom frowned but she complied. Jack led me to an empty room and the cop that Robert hugged led him to another room for questioning.

-

After lots of talking, we were all finally outside in the parking lot getting ready to go home. Roy said bye to us before he and his family got in their car and drove off. My mom and Robert's mom had come together in mom's car so we got in there and drove off as well.

"Robert, are you going to go with your mom or are you going to come back to ours?" Jaune asks.

Robert looks at his mom then at Jaune. "Just two more nights, if that's okay with you guys."

"That's fine with me hon." Robert's mom says.

Robert smiles and leans back into the car seat. I looked outside the window in boredom, watching the trees, buildings, and traffic signs pass by tiredly. I lean my head against the car door and yawn. I shut my eyes and let myself drift off to sleep, Robert was holding my hand.

Robert's POV:

"I'll see you Wednesday afternoon then, okay Rob?" My mom says as she exits the car.

I lowered my window so she could close her door and talk to me. "Okay mom." I answer.

She gave me a smile and was about to leave but I wanted to say something else to her. I quickly open my door and eun after her to give her a hug.

"I've missed you." I say to her.

She chuckles and hugs me back. "I've missed you too. When you come back I'll have a nice dinner ready for you and we'll spend the afternoon teogether, okay?" 

I break the hug and give her a smile. "That sounds good."

She smiles back and ruffles my hair. "I love you. Be careful with your arm."

"I will! I love you too."

She kisses me on the cheek before unlocking the door and walking inside. I wave at her before she closes the door and walk back to the car.

I get inside, buckle my seatbelt, and lean back into the chair as Jaune starts driving again.

"Thank you for all your help Jaune." I say.

She looks at me through the car mirror and smiles. "No problem, hon. You're welcome in our house anytime, okay?"

I smile back. "Okay."

She turns her attention back to the road and I scroll through my phone for the rest of the ride to their house.

-

Jaune pulls the car into her garage then stretches before exiting.

"Hm, Ross looks like he's knocked out." she says with a chuckle.

I look over at Ross and also chuckle. "I could carry him inside if you want." I offer.

"Hah, I feel bad making you carry him but that sounds good. Thanks!"

"Don't feel bad, I really don't mind!" I say exiting the car and walking to the side of the car Ross is on.

"I appreciate it. Are you hungry? I could fix something up really quick." she asks as she unlocks the door.

"Not really. I'm also really tired." I answer.

"Okay, well I'll be in my room. If I don't see you again goodnight!"

"Goodnight!"

And with that she steps into the house.

I look down at the car and slowly open it. Once its open I kneel down and wrap one of Ross' arms around my neck before putting one arm under his knees and the other under his arm. It hurt my bruised arm a bit but it wasn't too bad. I carefully lifted him out of the car and shut the door with my foot. Jaune had left the door open so I easily walked inside and shut it behind me with my foot again. 

I started making my way upstairs to his room and noticed his eyes slowly opening halfway through.

"...What?" he says groggily.

I laugh at him. "I didn't say anything silly." I tell him.

"What are you.. doing?" he asks, dragging out his words.

"I'm just carrying you to your room. Go back to sleep if you want." I answer.

I finally made it upstairs and thankfully his door was already open so I walked inside and gently laid him down in his bed.

"Thank you." he says, now more awake.

"No problemo." I respond, grabbing my pajamas from his closet.

"I had fun at that spot."

I smile to myself, thinking back to what we did at the spot. "So did I. We could go again tomorrow." 

"That sounds good."

Once I had all my pajamas I turned around to start walking to the bathroom but tripped on my bag. Ross noticed and sat up on the bed to grab the sleeve of my sweater and pull me towards him before I could hit the floor.

Except what happened instead of hitting the floor is more awkward. When he pulled me towards him it changed the direction of the way I was falling and I ended up almost falling on the bed. I used my hands to stop myself from going face first in the bed and since Ross was still on the bed, my hands went on each side of him and I was practically hovering over him. His hand was still gripping on my sleeve and he was looking up at me. 

And I don't know why but none of us moved. Maybe it was because everything happened so suddenly, or because it was too awkward. Or maybe because we didn't want to.