Band imagines

Brotherly love- Vinny Mauro

Tw// homophobia and being outed

I walked home flicking out my cigarette before I walk inside, if my parents found out I'd be killed. They didn't flip out like I thought they would when they found out Vinny smoked weed and occasionally cigarettes but I was different.

I can't begin to imagine what they would do to me if they found out I smoked myself, I noticed a van parked outside of our house. Is Vinny home?!

I shoved my packet of cigarettes in my bag as fast as and ran inside, my excitement to see my older brother growing inside of me. I swing the door open and drop my school bag onto the floor, "Y/N!"

"VINNY!" I run towards him and hug him tightly. God I've missed him so much. We FaceTimed every chance we get but that isn't enough, me and Vinny were really close and we tell each other everything.

"Hey there little sport, how's it going?" He asks when we finally pull away from each other. "Good, how long are you and the guys staying here for?" When they visited they usually stayed in the loft above the garage where Vinny kept his drum stuff that I occasionally would find myself sneaking in there to play. "A week, we got a week to kill." I nodded happily, a week is better than nothing.

"Are the guys here?" I ask walking into the kitchen with Vinny following close behind me, I open the fridge grabbing a  few bottles of water and handing them to vin behind me. I grab one for myself and the others for the guys along with a few snacks from the cupboard.

These are mum and dad's snack but I'll replace them, I'm sure they wouldn't mind. We walked upstairs giving each other the occasional shove, Vin dropped one of the water bottles making him sigh and pick it up. "I'm such an idiot, what the fuck. What am I doing man?" I laugh and open the door to the attic.

"Heyy! It's y/n!" Justin yells happily, they cheer at my arrival making me giggle. In all honesty they were like my brothers as well, when they visited they usually spent all their time with me and taking me out for day trips with them.

"Update-"

"No Ricky!" I yell jumping on him and taking his camera. "Hey!" He laughs holding his hands out for he to give him the camera back. I shake my head quickly snapping a picture of his disapproving look and put it on the drums. "You get no snack. You've lost your snack privileges, Richolas." The band laughs but Ricky throws his head back and whines.

"Don't call me thattt" I giggle and throw a bag of crisps at him, he catches them happily and rips open the bag. I hand everyone their requested snack of choice and Chris puts on some music, it turned into us throwing food at each other and screaming the lyrics to fall out boy's album from under the cork tree since it was Vin's request. 

"Ryan give me your best twerk" Ricky tells him with his camera out only Ryan didn't realise he was being filmed and twerked until he turned around seeing Rick filming him. "Rick!" I laugh so hard my stomach hurt.

The door swings open revealing my mum holding a pack of cigarettes. "Y/n, what is this!" I feel the colour drain from my face and the room goes silent. They must have fell out my bag when I threw it down, I'm so dead.

"Those aren't mine, they're my fr-" she didn't let me explain myself and continues to scream at me. "First you tell us you're gay and now this?! You're so selfish! How do you think this makes me feel?!"

I feel a lot of eyes on me and it was uncomfortable, it's unwanted attention. "How you feel? What about me?" Tears were already becoming present in my eyes, I stand up from my seat and pick up the cigarettes she threw on the floor, I shove her out of the way and run downstairs.

My father throwing a disappointing look as I come into his view, he was going to yell at me but I was too far gone out the front door to hear him. I ran as fast as I could into the woods behind our house. 

Vinny's POV

I watched y/n run out of the door, none of us knew what to say. We are completely speechless and I'm pissed.

"That kid has done nothing but disappoint this family" my mother scoffed. I stood up from my seat quickly to defend my sibling.

"How dare you? You just outed them before they were comfortable. Do you have any idea how vile that is? They would have told us when they were ready!" I yelled, the guys were still sitting in shock at the scene playing out in front of them. Mum on the other hand seems to think she has done nothing wrong.

"As for the smoking you didn't care when I started smoking so why is it different for them? You can't treat them differently. How long have you known?" I ask, i'm furious. Y/n has always had problems with our parents but I never realised how bad it really is. I never thought my parents could stoop this low.

"Almost a year-"

"And you used something that is out of their control against them?" I chuckled in disbelief. "They're staying with me. End of." I walk out of the room going to look for y/n.

Y/n's POV

I can't believe she outed me. 

The only reason she knew about it was because she saw the pride flag I had hidden under my bed, she was scoping out my room like the invasive mother she is and found it.

She cut it up in front of me. 

She yelled at me for being selfish, how much I was a disappointment to the family. I can't help how I feel. I just want to be myself and my parents have made it impossible for me to do so.

I sat against the tree me and Vinny used to sit to have our late night talks before he went with the band. I lit up a cigarette and inhaled the smoke it gave off. I find this is the only thing able to keep my anxiety at bay.

I was brought out of my thoughts by someone running up beside me, I didn't bother looking. They would just walk past and leave me to smoke my last cigarette. My cheeks were stiff from all the dried tears sticking to them.

Though they didn't leave they sat next to me with their back against the tree. "I thought I'd find you here.." Vinny broke the silence. I can't believe I've disappointed my family, Vinny even.

"I'm not mad you know," he takes the cigarette from my hand and takes a drag as well, never did I think I'd be sharing a smoke with my brother.

"I still love you the same, if not even more." He tells me softly, I sniffle taking the cigarette back. "Am I selfish? What did I do wrong?"

"Nothing at all. You're far from selfish, you're just the way you are. You can't help who you're attracted to, and as far as the smoking part. You've grown up with the band, a lot of us smoke. It was bound to happen." I sigh when the cigarette finished and flicked the butt on the floor. "I think you need just need to be told it's going to be okay."

I looked at him meeting his gaze. "you're gonna be okay, I'll make sure of it." That's all it took for me to start crying again. He pulls me in for a hug and kisses the top of my head.

"I think it's best for you to come live with me, you can drop out of school and work as motionless crew that way you'll get paid. I can't leave your dumbass here" I laugh wiping my tears away.

"You don't deserve them. Fuck them, we've got this. Us Mauro's aren't wusses. We make a mean pasta" I laugh once more and shove him playfully.

"You're an idiot, Vinchenzo."

"That I am, now I don't think mum wants us back in the house since I yelled at her so I think we'll pay for a hotel."

"I'm sorry I ruined this for you." I said but he shook his head as we walked back towards the house. "Stupid."

"Jackass."

"Butthead."

"Shithead." This went on until we got back to the house, everyone was stood outside. I took a deep breath, I wouldn't be able to handle them not liking me. It would ruin me, my parents is one thing but the band is something else.

"Don't look so worried, y/n. We support you no matter what, you're still just as annoying." Rick says with a smile to which Ryan punched him in the arm.

"Ow!"

My stupid band.