"You listen here, I know what you did to Brendon and that you had the audacity to call the hotline." He threatens. My heart flutters at the way he protects me, but I also fear of him getting hurt because of me. "You would not like for me to make a scene and inform your parents about what you've been doing, would you? Because I can make that happen in the blink of an eye. Right now." 
                          
Dallon twists his lips up as he watches Ryan yell at him, like Ryan is speaking in a tounge that he can't understand, or cares to learn. It makes my blood boil just looking at his face.
                          
"You stay away from Brendon and we won't have any problems, is that a deal?" Ryan says firmly. Dallon's facial expression never changes. The side of his cheek sinks in, as if he's biting it.
                          
"Sounds good to me." He finally speaks and I let out a breath I had been holding the entire time that the silence ran through the room. 
                          
It felt like a bully in a high school movie, it didn't seem like Dallon had any motive to why he wanted to bother me so much. Maybe he was just extremely homophobic or he was afraid that I had a crush on him, either way I was glad that it was over. I was assured that it was over the moment he walked out of my room and shut the door behind him. 
                          
I see Ryan let his game down and plop onto my bed. 
                          
"Thank you, Ryan." I look into his eyes with seriousness. 
                          
"I love youuu." He says with a grin and I blush.
                          
"I love you too. A lot. I really love you." I stutter out with a laugh. Ryan sits up to kiss my cheek and I sigh in relief. 
                          
***
                          
There's only two more weeks left of school and I've never been more ready. I decided to apply to schools that were a nice distance away from home, just in case my parents wanted to hunt me down after I came out. 
                          
I applied to UCLA and Sacramento State. Just before sending in my applications, my parents reminded me about BYU. I really didn't want to go to BYU, especially not with my boyfriend coming along with me. I regrettably sent in an application anyways, although I knew it was relatively tough to get in. On the other hand, it was relatively tough to get into UCLA. But I'm taking my chances. 
                          
"If I don't get into any of my choices, I'll just wait a year and I can move in with you." I tell Ryan as he drives me to school. 
                          
"I'm sure you'll get into one of them, Bren. You have pretty good grades." If he calls a 2.9 GPA "pretty good", I would hate to see his report cards from high school. 
                          
"Well as long as I don't get into BYU, I'll be fine." I shrug. 
                          
"Why did you even apply?" He asks as his eyes stay on the road.
                          
"My parents made me. I really can't come out there." I say knowingly. Do not get me wrong, Utah is a beautiful place. It's very clean and the people are very friendly, but I know that California will be an entirely different community for me, and that's what I want. I'm sure there are homophobic people in California, but there's just so many new people that it won't even matter to me. 
                          
"I've been to California once," Ryan starts. "I went after I came out and my dad moved. I just drove all the way to San Francisco. If you think you know what gay is, you haven't been there." He says with a small laugh.
                          
"Sounds cool." I laugh. "We're either going to live in LA or Sacramento, but we should visit there one day." He nods and squeezes my hand. When we pull up to the front of my school and move over the center console to peck Ryan's lips. 
                          
"Love you, I'll see you later." He says as I unbuckle my seat belt. I can't help but smile every time he says that he loves me. It's cheesy, I know, but I just love the way he says it. 
                          
"I love you too." I say as I get out of the car and walk through the front gate. I walk over to my friends who are easily recognizable by Josh's blue hair.
                          
"So guess who isn't gonna bother me anymore." I say with pride to my friends. Hayley smiles and jumps in excitement.
                          
"Did Ryan fight him or something? That is so cute." She laughs. Spencer rolls his eyes as he watches her enthusiasm. 
                          
"So he's just going to leave you alone now? That's great." Josh says in disbelief. Debby seems confused but still smiles. Tyler hadn't gotten to school yet, he was probably still used to being able to sleep in. The only person who wasn't genuinely smiling was Spencer, who was biting his lip and looking at the ground sadly. 
                          
I wanted to ask him what was wrong but Hayley pulls me to the side before I can speak.
                          
"He's happy for you, don't worry. He just gets reminiscent of his ex boyfriend sometimes." I raise my eyebrows in surprise.
                          
"Spencer's gay?" I say in confusion.
                          
"Well he's only had one boyfriend. I'm pretty sure he's bisexual, but he had this one boyfriend back before he moved. They had to break up when he moved. They were really cute together, too. Their parents were both accepting and they were always happy when they were together. He just misses him, that's all." As she talks about him, I look over and see him still looking down longingly. 
                          
"That sucks." I simply respond. Spencer never talked about relationships and I could now see why. 
                          
-A/N: okay first of all, could you tell I was watching Live in Denver while writing the first part of this chapter lmao (no but if you want to get an idea of how they sound when they ha   rmonize, look up Lying is the Most Fun from live in denver, the beginning is heaven) anyways, I have an announcement. I wanted something new and to test out a method of writing, so I've been working on a new fic. all I really want to give away is that it's different from this fic, way different. not in my writing style nor the aesthetic of it all, but the entire purpose. if that doesnt give it away I dont know what will, but I hope you guys will still enjoy it because I've been pushing myself for this. I will make an announcement about it when it's out so please don't be annoyed when you see a false update. thank you guys for reading and I hope you enjoyed