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School rolled around again, the past few weeks of school Four and X were closer than ever. They were inseparable, apart for the times they didn’t have class together.
They played games, talked, called, sat together and everything two best friends could do.
After around a month of them making up, Four decided it was time to invite X over to his place again. He thought it would be awkward to ask him to come over after they made up, so he decided to wait a while. Now, he felt like it felt right again.
It was the last lesson of the week, Four’s class was excused a bit earlier than usual. So he decided to head over to X’s class. He waited a few minutes for X, when the bell rang. Multiple students walked out from their classes, minding their own businesses. He then spotted X in the wave of students. X took notice of him too. X smiled wide. Four smiled back. Fours face heating up just at the sight of X.
“Hi!” X greeted. Four greeted back. They both walked side by side to the bus, they were really close because of the amount of students pushing into them, Four and X’s arms brushing against each other. This made Four blush even more.
They walked down the hallway and outside to where the busses were parked. They both made it onto their bus and sat down next to each other.
The bus’s engine turned on and they left the school campus. Four and X were chatting about something, when Four decided to ask a question.
“Sooo.. Do you want to come over to my place today?” Four asked.
X looked at him and smiled with glee. “Yes!!”
Four smiled back.
The entire ride home they were laughing and giggling about stupid things. They finally made it to Four’s place, Four and X got off the bus and Two soon followed behind. Two waved at X and X waved back.
Two opened the door for all 3 of them and they all headed in. Four and X headed up to Fours room to play some games while Two stayed in the living room and watched TV.
Four turned on his tv and booted up his gaming system. He grabbed 2 controllers for him and X and they played a few games together. They laughed and had fun together.
They played shooting games, chill games, horror games and more.
They were having fun playing, giving each other some usual playful banter during these games, when X asked if they could do something else.
Four agreed and they decided to do some homework together. They decided to do math first.
Four loved math. He excelled in this subject, but X not so much. He didn’t enjoy math as much as the other, and he struggled a bit more in it. Four was humming to himself while doing his homework, he was resting on his stomach with his legs up in the air on the floor. X was right beside him, laying down on his back staring up at the math book in his hands.
X groaned. Four looked over at the variable.
“You alright there?” Four chuckled. X dropped the math book on his face and dropped his arms beside him dramatically.
A quiet “no” came from under the book. He lifted the book from X’s face, smiling at the other. X smiled back.
“What are you struggling with?” Four asked.
“Erm.. This exercise.” X answered as he pointed to the book. Four chuckled. “Oh, I could help you!”
Four then proceeded to explain the questions to X, who had some struggle with understanding but once Four physically showed him how to do the equation X finally understood. X let out an “ohhh!” and Four chuckled.
X started working on the rest of his math homework, while Four was getting his english book.
As time went by, Four finished both his math and english homework while X only finished math and some language homework. It was now 5pm, they were getting tired of the work they were assigned so they decided to rest on Fours bed.
Fours bed wasn’t a king sized bed, but it was slightly big enough to fit two 15 year olds.
X was closer to the wall, while Four was beside him, laying down.
To pass the time, they both told each other funny stories from their past trips with family.
“Yeah, and then Two slipped and fell into the mud! It was the funniest thing to five year old me, I couldn’t stop laughing, even on the way back!” Four chuckled. But X didn’t chuckle back.
This confused Four, for the past 20 minutes they’ve been laughing at each other’s stories and expressing their thoughts, but now X was sound asleep. Four worried that he somehow offended X, but when he turned his head to the side he saw a yellow variable resting his eyes and slowly breathing.
Four felt his face heat up. X looked so peaceful. He didn’t want to admit this but he even found it cute.
Four turned his whole body to face X, and noticed X was slightly shivering. Four would’ve put the blankets over him but they were both on top of the blankets, and he didn’t want to wake X up so he decided to wrap his arm around the sleeping variable.
Fours inner thoughts were screaming at him. He was panicking, he was flustered, he wanted to scream. His heart was pounding. He was scared of waking X up and him finding them like this, but he didn’t move his arm.
He slightly pulled X towards him, and closed his eyes. His heavy breaths slowly turning into slow, deep breaths.
Some time passed, when Two realized it was time for X to go home. They wondered why it was so quiet upstairs, so they got up from the couch and headed upstairs.
They knocked on Fours door, expecting a reply. But nothing came from behind the door. This confused Two. They slowly creaked the door open, to find a blue figure breathing slowly.
Two quietly stepped foot into their siblings room and walked towards the bed. To their surprise, Fours arms were completely wrapped around X. They were both sleeping soundly.
Two smiled, and tried to cover their chuckles with their palms. They then quickly opened Fours phone and set up an alarm to 5 minutes from now. They slowly walked out of the room, still quietly chuckling to themselves.
Two slowly shut the door and went back downstairs.
Four and X were suddenly awoken by the alarm. They both jumped, causing Four to let go of X.
X was confused on where he was, while Four rubbed his eyes and grabbed his phone to turn off the alarm.
“Why did I set an alarm up?” Four asked themselves.
Four turned his head over to X, who was hunched over with his head in his hands.
“You okay?” Four asked.
“Yeah, yeah. Just adjusting to the light.” X chuckled. Four chuckled with him.
X looked at Fours phone and caught the time. 6:32pm.
“Oh crap, I have to go now.” X mentioned. They got out of Fours bed and started packing their stuff.
Four stayed on his bed. He looked sad X was leaving. He really enjoyed X’s company. He watched with sorrow in his eyes as X was getting ready to leave.
X was done and Four got out of bed, they both headed out of Fours room and started walking down the stairs.
Four opened the door for X and offered to walk him home, but X politely declined.
“Thanks for having me over, Four. I really enjoyed today.” X smiled.
Four loved seeing X smile. He smiled back, blush rushing to his cheeks.
“Anytime, X. Thanks for coming over.” They embraced in a hug.
X rubbed Fours back, Four did the same. They hugged for a good while.
X then let go of Four and said bye. Four waved and watched X walk out the door and onto the sidewalk.
He closed the door and sat down on the couch near Two. Four was looking at the TV, uninterested in what was being shown, when they noticed Two was glancing at them.
Four looked over at Two, who seemed to be grinning. Four got slightly uncomfortable.
“Um.. Are you okay?” Four asked, nervously.
“How was your little sleepover with X?” Two teased. Fours face immediately flushed with embarrassment.
“Gah- Um- What?” Four stumbled on his words. Two laughed.
“I saw you and X sleeping.” Two smiled.
Fours face dropped. Their heart started racing.
Four resorted to anger and started to weakly punch Two. Two kept on giggling, but once they noticed how furious Four looked they toned it down.
“Hey! Hey, look, I’m only teasing you. What’s up with you and X anyway?” Two asked.
Four was thinking about this moment for a while, and he decided it was finally time to tell them.
Four took a deep breath. Heart racing.
“Two?” Four called. Two responded with a hum.
“I think I like X.”
Four looked away from Two, face warm. Two didn’t respond for a few seconds. This worried Four, they thought they disappointed their older sibling, then Two pulled them into a hug.
“Awwhh I’m so happy for you, Four!” Four was startled, but he was glad their sibling supported him.
“You’re.. You’re not mad I have a crush on X?”
Two looked at their younger sibling. “What? Of course not! I’m really happy for you, I want you to be happy. Thats all that matters to me.”
Four looked up at Two. They’ve been keeping this in for so long, they couldn’t hold it anymore. He just started crying. He grabbed Two and started sobbing in their arms. Two grabbed onto Four, and pat his back.
“It’s okay, Four. I love you for who you are.” Two whispered.
This made Four cry harder. He barely managed to get out “Thank you.” from under his breath, but Two still heard it.
After another minute of sniffles and small sobs, Four pulled away from Two.
Two put their hand on Fours shoulder. “You feeling better?”
Four nodded.
“Hey, Two?” Four called out.
Two tilted their head in response.
“How come you’ve never told me if you liked someone?”
Two stayed silent for a second, then started giggling. Four was confused, what was so funny?
“Four, I never had a crush.” Two replied. This confused Four even more.
“What?” Four asked.
“Well, growing up I never really had crushes on anyone. Seeing my peers fall into relationships and romance seemed really off to me. But I still wondered why I never experienced that. But after some research, I found out multiple people also have never developed a crush. It’s just something people experience, I personally don’t get crushes and thats okay.”
Four understood now. They never heard about this, but the more they thought about it the more worried they got.
“You okay?” Two asked.
“What if X doesn’t develop crushes?!” Four panicked.
Two giggled. Four looked at them.
“Trust me mate, X definitely likes you back.”
This calmed Four down a little. They both spent the next few minutes talking about this, before Four decided to head back upstairs and wait for dinner.
They realized they left their phone on the table, and when he opened it he saw a few missed messages. They were from X.
“Thanks for letting me stay over!!! had lots of fun today <3” was the message X sent.
Four smiled. He noticed the little heart emoticon too, which gave him slight hope.
A few hours go by, dinner was over and Four was in his room scrolling on his phone. Then he got a text. It was from X. Four quickly opened it to read,
“Hey, do you like anyone?”
This confused Four. What made X ask this? They hesitated for a little before responding.
“yeah,,”
Four hit the send button and shut his phone off, heart racing.
After a minute, Fours phone dinged. He opened the message from X to read,
“i do too”
Four stared at this message. Was Two right? Does X like him back? As he was thinking, another message popped up.
“Who do you like?”
Why was X asking these. Four wanted to confess so badly, but he was so scared. He spent some time thinking about it, when he responded.
“you”
Four shut his phone off and threw it across his bed. He held his head in his hands, when he heard a ding.
He waited a moment before looking at it. He then grabbed his phone, to find that X responded.
“i like you too”