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The Flower Garden pt2

Anthony and Mark tend to take in many lost souls,

By Alex helmPublished 3 years ago 7 min read
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“Anthony, dear, It's 3 am why are you up?”

“Markus, hun, It's 3am, why are you still awake?”

“Touché, I have no excuse.” Mark hid his face in mock shame being alluminated only by the video on his computer screen. Anthony walked over to kiss his forehead before heading toward the kitchen. “No wait, why are you awake?” Anthony paused looking over his shoulder.

“I got a call from Cody and Leo, they need me at ‘The Summit‘.” Anthony started making himself a travel mug of coffee.

“Thats, that's a nightclub? If you're gonna go party I don’t mind, you can just tell me.” Mark stood walking over, wathcing his boyfriend with mock disaproval. Anthony smiled back as he finished filling up his mug.

“No, no, they got a call from the owner. Apparently a group of underage teenagers were there with fake IDs.” He sighed, shouldering on his jacket and pausing at the door to look at back at his boyfriend for a responce.

“Tell your students I said hi?” Mark offered, an awkward smile on his face. Anthony chuckled, threading his hand through his hair.

“Yeah, will do. Get some sleep, feather.” He closed the door behind him. The smile dropped as he unlocked his car, and drove deeper into the city.

He arrived at the nightclub not too soon after, seeing three teens sitting on the ground outside, two police officers and a social worker standing next to them.

“Hey, Leo, hey Cody.” Anthony addresses the social worker and the nicer of the two police officers. The other officer scoffs rolling his eyes.

“I'm going to sit in the car, be there in five or I'm leaving without you.” He all but storms off, slamming the car door on his way. Cody sighs rolling his eyes.

“Yep. Ryans just a d*ck sometimes, don't mind him. How've you been Anthony? How's the boyfriend?” He asks, shrugging off his partner's attitude.

“Mark's good, was still awake when I got your call but that's not too new. What about you two?” Anthony asked, deciding to finally pull his hair back into a ponytail the best he could.

“I'm alright, kinda hoping to get this sorting out soon.” Cody, commented, glancing at the kids, earning him a myriad of reactions from them.

“Hey be nice, this is my every day, so toughen up buttercup.” Leo remarked, smirking. One of the kids laughed, poking at the other two, who looked either very anxious, or very angry.

“Ok, you two, easy, everyone knows about your bromance.” Anthony said, poking fun at his friends. He brushed his hair back looking between the three kids. “So, I'm assuming there's a reason they needed to call the school counselor at three am?”

“Well, its funny story doc, ya see-” the other two covered his mouth, shushing him nearly immediately. The three whispered amongst themselves, much to Cody and Sebastiens dismay.

“Technically, Cody called me because Sebastien’s in the system, and I called you because I figured you would know who his angry accomplice is.”

“Hey what about Carlos? He's my accomplice too! Y-you can't leave him out like that I- what what is it what I’d do Carmine- oh I said your names! Oh right yeah, my bad my bad, see I know we said we weren’t gonna do that and not trust them but I just went and spilled the beans!” Sebastien laughed nervously, starting to ramble.

“Seb, shut up.” Carmie said annoyed, setting her chin in the palm of her hand.

“Nice to see you're just as happy as ever, Carmine. How's Dr.Hernandez's project coming along?” Anthony teased, smiling at his students. Carmine rolled her eyes, a smile tugging at the corners of her lips.

“Finished it. Just gotta turn it in.” She bragged, attempting and failing to hide her pride in herself. Anthony smiled glancing over at cody.

“Come on, Copper, they’re good kids. You can give them a warning or something right?” he said, wiggling his eyebrows at Cody’s stoic face. They stared at each other before Anthony rolled his eyes. “You're not scary, Co-dak, not even a bit.” He flicked Cody's hat back off his head, his hair falling out and down his back. “Oh wow your hairs looking nice, really shiny.” Cody finally broke and smiled, picking his hat back up.

“Thank you, it's soft too. Now with all of the familiarities out of the way, someone needs to take these three somewhere they won't cause trouble.” He gestured between Leo, Anthony, Sebastion, Carlos, and Carmine.

“With that said,and i'm assuming the three of you don't want to face you respective guardians at this hour, Anthony, Wanna play a game?” Leo asked Anthony, with a smirk on his face. Anthony rolled his eyes, placing a fist on his palm out in front of him.

“Wait, you, are you two gonna rock, paper, scissors? Over who gets to take us home? Like a candy-prize-slot machine type thingy?” Sebastian's thick Brooklyn accent was strung through everything he said.

“Seb, please, for the love god, shut up.” Carmine threw a crumpled up napkin at her friend, who then moved, causing the projectile to him carlos. “Sorry Carlos” she said, smiling softly at Carlos’ over exaggerated frown.

“Dammit! I lost! You get the children.” Leo said dejectedly, fixing his braids and shaking his head disappointedly.

“Wait, we‘re the prize? Not the like, losing punishment?” Carmine asked, looking almost genuinely confused. Leo frowned. “Yeah, of course guys, you aren’t a punishment.” Carmine rolled her eyes leaning back, quickly shrugging off any shred of emotion.

“Carmey, you think we’re punishments?” Sebastian asked, concerned for his friend.

“No, I think you're a punishment.” She glared. He feigned offence and threw himself across Carlos, who smiled awkwardly down at his boyfriend. Anthony rolled his eyes and grabbed his phone.

“Alright, let me call my boyfriend and make sure he’s aware that I’m kidnapping three Highschoolers for a secret government experiment.” Sebastian laughed before getting elbowed in the ribs by Carmine. “And you three are gonna be alright with guest room? Its a queen with a couch in the room, and theres the blow up matress- any of you have dietary restrictions? I dont remember-”

“Yes im vegen.” Anthony glared at his phone.

“No, Mark not you, the children im kidnapping-”

“Anthony! We made a plan and youre just gonna kidnap children without me!” Marks shocked voice could be heard over the phone, earning a playfully suspicious look from Cody as he untied and retied his hair. Carmine smirked and glamced up. “Me and Carlos are Vegetarian, and Sebastian eats anything that looks like trash.” Seb gasped looking over at her.

“I do not only eat trash!”

“Oh yes you do!” The two quickly devolved into friendly bickering. Anthony quietly continued his conversation before hanging up and looking betwenn Cody and Leo. “Alright well, theyve got a place to stay tonight, theyll be safe I’ll make sure they get to school alright, all that important adult stuff. Come on hoodlums, in the big white van.”

“Uh actually thats slate van.” Sebastian corrected.

“Concrete trailbraver seb.” Carmine re-corrected.

“What?”

“Concrete 2015 trailblazer, new tires and wrap.” he blinked staring over his shoulder at her.

“Yknow, Carmine, Sometimes, youre really freaking weird.” He jumped into the back of the car and sat in the last row. “Carlos sit in the back with me!” Carmine rolled her eyes and jumped in the middle row, Carlos climbing in behind her and sitting next to Sebastian.

“You’re so much Sebby.” Carlos said quietly as his boyfriend wrapin gboth his arms around his neck, pulling him close. Anthony got into the drivers seat, as Leo and Cody also went back to their respetive vehicles.

Anthony pulled into his driveway and turned aorund in his seat. “Carmine, catch.” He tossed the apartment key over to the more responsible of the three teenagers. “Apartment 3H, 3rd floor, go left second door on the left alright?” Carmine and Carlos nodded while seb looked between them.

“Yeah we got it!” he said, lunching forward to grab the key from Carmine. Unfortunalty for Seb, Carmine dodged out the door, landing him on the floor, nearly hitting his face on the center councel. “Hey!” he ran out after her, carlos following closely to attempt and corral his energetic boyfriend. Anthony climbed out after them and walked into the building, hearing the rumble from a running elevator and footsteps on the stair from at least one running teenager. Anthony sighed. By the time he got up to his apartment Mark, Carmine, Sebastian, and Carlos were all arguing over who won the race to the apartment with varying levels of enthusiasm

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