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Tuesday at 3:37 am
Will awoke to nothing in particular; come to think of it, he was hungry…
However, he really didn't want to wake anyone up by heading to the kitchen. When his stomach loudly growled, it felt like the decision was made for him. So he started heading down to the kitchen. After he was in the kitchen, he just grabbed simple leftovers out of the fridge and started to microwave them. so after he got leftovers he sat down and ate them while watching a dumb video on his phone that he wasn't even really paying attention to then out of the corner of his eye he saw Coys door open so he looked over there and saw Anthony coming out of Coy's room with deshevaled clothes hanging Loosely off of his body and immediately thought of the worst as Anthony ducked into his own room. Will was really mad because they kept this a secret from him and Hanbon. Will thought they were friends and they would tell each other everything, and the fact that this could ruin the channel, and Will couldn't even think right now because he was so mad. He quickly washed his bowl and walked back to his room, where he made a plan to talk to Hanbon in the morning to see how they should approach this.
Tuesday at 10:17 am
Hanbon is sitting in her room editing this week's video when she hears a knock, unlike the usual one from her best friends, Coy or Anthony. Which means it must be Will, which is weird since she and Will don't normally talk one on one. Of course, they are friends, just not like that- Hannah snaps herself out of it and quickly responds.
“Come in”
Will walks in and shuts the door. When he sees Hanbon looking at him expectantly, he smiles and gives a little wave. Not unkindly, but also not kindly, Hanbon asks.
“And why are you here, Will?”
“Oh yeah, of course, uh, have you noticed anything weird between Coy and Anthony lately?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, I figured since you're close to them, you would maybe see it too.”
“I guess Coy's been acting a little off as of late why?”
Will sighs and takes a deep breath before telling Bon what he knows.
“I saw Anthony coming out of Coy's room looking messy, like they had sex- or at least made out and I noticed a while ago Coy had on Ants hoodie. Y'know the one he like loves.”
“Oh shit, you meant romantically. Yes, of course I noticed. Coy has been more touchy with Anthony, like during our movie night, I swear Coy was leaning on Anthony.”
“Yes! It's things like that! It's weird, right?”
“Yeah, like I totally don't care; it's just they didn't tell us, and it could affect the channel, so I feel like we should know.”
“Let's bring it up tonight because, honestly, Bon, im really mad and I don't think I'll be able to film or have a normal conversation knowing this.”
“Good plan. I feel the same, so let's meet tonight”
Tuesday at 7:42 pm
Coy is sitting in his room when he gets a text on his phone from the heavily used bunch of friends' group chat. He suspects it's a meme or someone shooting out a possible video idea. When he opens his phone to check its not at all what he thought.
And Im Will: he guys, can you all come to the goffice? We need to talk.
Coy responds, saying he will be there soon. Coy gets up and walks over to Anthony's room.
“Hey, did you get this text?”
“Yeah im just about to head down. What do you think it's about?”
“No clue, let's go, I guess.”
The moment Coy and Anthony walk into the goffice they are greeted by a pretty angry looking will and a semi concerned looking hanbon.
“Hey, guys, what did you need?” Anthony responded easily. Either not noticing the tone in the room or not caring. Coy, on the other hand, was really concerned.
“We know your secret,” Will responds ominously.
“Which one I have tons” Anthony replies sarcastically, while Coy stresses
“Anthony, now is not the time to be joking. We know that you two are having sex behind our backs.”
“Wha - will we are NOT having sex? What the fuck?”
“Yeah, okay, coy, y'know, we are all fine with you being gay, but really, you just couldn't control yourself, could you?”
Anthony quickly jumps in, standing in front of Coy.
“Whoa, there is no need for that. Will, what are you on about?”
“You know what im on about. We are your best friends, and you didn't even bother telling us? I mean, I guess we get it if you don't want to come out to the internet as dating, but us, really? And coy, you can't stop yourself from having a crush on any boy who's slightly nice to you, are you kidding me?”
Anthony is not above punching Will in the face at this moment. Hanbon feels this is getting out of hand, so she steps in
“Enough, will your saying really hurtful things. Let's all take a few minutes to recollect ourselves. Coy and Anthony, can you please leave, and I will come get you when we are ready.”
Anthony was still very mad, so Coy grabbed his wrist and led him to his room. Will and Hanbon watch them walk off, presumably to Coy's room.
Once they reach Coy's room, Coy lets go of Anthony's wrist, and Anthony kind of plops down on the bed while Coy paces around.
“This is so stupid I don't even know where he got this idea, and Hannah is just going with it ugh…”
“Hey, Coy, just calm down,” Anthony says in his same tired voice that he uses when Coy
is crying hysterically.
“Do not tell me to calm down! Did you hear what Will was saying?”
“Yes, I did, coy, and I will punch him if you want, but I don't think you want that, so stop panicking.”
“It's just so insane. He probably saw you leaving my room at some point. You should've been more careful. But even then he knows your strait.”
The next thing Coy knows, there are lips on his, and he quickly kisses back until Anthony pulls back.
“You okay now, princess?”
“Yeah im good now.”
Coy takes a kind of awkward step back, and just as Anthony is about to apologize for kissing him, Hanbon just opens the door.
“You can come back now,” she says in a calm voice, not knowing she just walked in on Coy having a crisis.
Coy and Anthony follow after her. Quickly, and as they walk into the goffice they see Will is still mad, but now he's silent.
“First, Will and I would like to apologize for jumping in so fast we are willing to hear your side”
“Thank you, uh me and coy arent dating at all were just friends.”
“That doesn't explain what Will and I have been noticing”
Anthony looks at Coy with a silent question in his eyes. Coy hesitates for a moment, looks at Bon and Will, and nods silently at Anthony.
“So Coy gets really bad nightmares. And I help. At the start of the year, he was having panic attacks every night”
Coy looks down at his lap because this is embarrassing as hell.
“My room is next to his, so I can hear when he needs help and walk over. We sort of got into a routine. And this morning… it was bad to say the least. Coy stared at the ceiling for hours on end, and this time there really was nothing I could do. Until I panicked a little and took a chance, the chance worked. But anyhow, that's why I was in his room”
“And why I was wearing his sweater.”
“They knew about that?”
“Yeah, Will saw me”
“Oh, my god.” Hanbon cut off this little conversation Anthony and Coy were having, her tearful, cracked voice in her voice. Coy can assume she feels like a shitty friend. And from Will's face, he feels no different than bon. “Coy im so so sorry for blowing up. Oh my gosh, I can't even imagine dealing with that, and then when you get help, your closest friends blow up at you, I would cry like a lot.” Will rambles uselessly, trying to get Coy to forgive him
“It's fine, guys, I would get mad if I thought you guys were dating…”
“No, coy its not okay me and will shouldve talked to you guys privately first im so sorry for judging you guys- even if you were dating. And we jumped to conclusions way too quickly.”
“Yeah, guys, we are so so so sorry”
With a look at Coy and both of them silently confirming with eachother anthony responds for both of them.
“It's okay, guys, we forgive you. We understand how you guys felt, and it's understandable for you two to blow up, but in the future, if you guys can just ask first and not jump to random conclusions, I think we would like that.
They all chuckle at that and quickly decide to sleep it off and revisit how they can avoid it in the future in the morning.
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Little did they know that, that night, Coy, for the first time, went to Anthony's room and kissed him back.