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Chapter 2
It was October 2018 now. Eliott had just gotten home from school and texted Lucas to ask him if he wanted to hang out. They hadn’t hung out in 2 weeks, and Eliott didn’t want to sound clingy but he missed Lucas. They were both very busy though. Eliott had just gotten back from his friend’s house, Idriss. They were working together on a project called polaris and Eliott was really proud of it. He had to leave Idriss’s early though because Imane (Idriss’s younger sister) had come in and told them that she needed to shower but he had to go first. So Eliott left and here he was.
Lucas was on his way back from a Halloween party. Lucas was always getting invited to parties and people really liked him even though he was a freshman. Eliott understood though, he always wanted to be around Lucas so he could see why everyone else did too.
From My Best Hedgehog
I’m just leaving now. Please have some water for me, I tried to get a glass of water here but turns out Basile gave me some clear champagne by accident… so that was fun :(
To My Best Hedgehog
I worry about your choice of friends Lucas…
From My Best Hedgehog
Me too, Especially since you’re my friend. ;) See you soon!
Eliott smiled at his phone. He was glad that his parents couldn’t walk in on him smiling at his phone, they were constantly bugging him about a girl named Lucille who apparently really liked him. She was really pretty and nice but she was fairly pushy, and Eliott didn’t really care about her. His parents would probably assume he was texting her. They really liked her, and Eliott wished he would have liked her as much as they did. He wished he liked her like he liked a certain blue eyed bo- wait no. He just wished that he got butterflies in his stomach around her and wanted to be around her. But he couldn’t. Eliott scrolled through his phone absentmindedly. He noticed Imane started following him. But he didn’t follow her back, he only followed Lucas, Idriss and Soifiane. Other than that he wasn’t too concerned about who he followed. He watched Lucas’s story of him hanging out with Yann before the party. Eliott could hear Lucas’s laugh in the background and it made him smile.
The doorbell rang, it was probably Lucas. He rushed to let him in and there he was.. Lucas looked up and he gave Eliott the smallest smile. He had paint stripes on his cheeks that were so cute Eliott had to take a deep breath. His hair was ruffled and he looked cold probably because he didn't have his sweater on. Eliott motioned for him to come in,
“Where are your parents?” Lucas asked stepping in and using his hands to warm up his arms. Eliott wanted to hug him and warm him up but he pushed it down. He made his way to Elliot's bedroom as habit. Eliott followed him up, hoping to give him his sweater or blanket because he was still shivering.
“They’re on a movie date.” Eliott said wiggling his eyebrows.
Lucas snorted. As soon as Lucas saw his bed he plopped down and curled himself up in the blankets. Eliott smiled, and something fluttered in his chest.
“Fuck, now I have to go get out of this blanket burrito and get that water. I swear Basile is going to kill me one day. The champagne he gave me was awful!.” Lucas said pouting.
“I’ll get it, but I better get the best friend award.” Eliott said cringing at the word ‘bestfriend’. He realized how much he liked Lucas last month and now he couldn’t stop friendzoning him for no reason. Almost like he was validating his feelings by denying them.
Lucas saluted and mouthed a ‘thank you’. God he was such a dork.
When Eliott got back upstairs Lucas was smiling at his phone and blushing and Elliott's heart did a flip. Did he ever look at his phone like that when Eliott texted him? Eliott knew that he definitely did whenever he was texting Lucas.
“Who are you texting?” Eliott said teasingly trying to stay subtle.
Lucas glanced up at Eliott from within his blanket burrito and smiled mischievously. “No one…”
Eliott let out a groan of annoyance. “Lucas!”
Lucas laughed, and smiled back at his phone. “Are you feeling threatened?”
Eliott smiled back. “Very. You’re beautiful and I’m not the only one who thinks that, so surely some girl is trying to get with you or something.” Wait did he really just say that? He felt his ears heaten up. Lucas laughed apparently not taking what he was saying seriously even though Eliott couldn’t have been more serious.
“God Eliott. Are you always this sappy or did you have some alcohol tonight?” Lucas rolled his eyes.
Eliott plopped down by Lucas and tried to look at his phone. Lucas made sure that Eliott couldn’t get a peep.
“Lucas! I just want to seeee…” Eliott said frowning.
Lucas laughed again. “Fine, I’ll show you. Her name’s Chloe, we met at the party tonight, and she’s clearly way too into me it’s the most amusing thing. I walked over to her at the party because the boys told me she was sneaking glances at me the whole night. You should’ve seen her reaction at me when I was walking over, because she completely panicked and accidently spilled her drink on her friend.” Lucas covered his face with his hands laughing. “I felt so bad. I don’t see what she sees in me but it was really endearing. Anyways she dmed me just now and said that she was sorry and that I made her nervous. It’s flattering I suppose, but am I really intimidating?”
Lucas was rambling but Eliott smiled and then frowned. Wait did he actually like this girl? Elliott's heart dropped to his stomach.
“No you’re the least intimidating person I know, have you seen how short you are?” he retorted trying to change the subject.
Lucas wacked him in the head with a pillow causing a yelp from Eliott.
“Did you just fucking yelp?” Lucas said laughing again.
Eliott wouldn’t mind being the reason for the lil’ ones smile everyday, but he couldn’t bring himself to smile back. He understood that the only thing he was going to be was a bestfriend to Lucas but it hurt anyways to think of him with someone else. Lucas had always been attractive and girls had always looked at him appreciately but...
“I’ve been thinking, I know you believe that you’re a raccoon and all, but I’m starting to think you fit the description of a puppy more.” Lucas said grinning at him. Eliott frowned, slightly offended.
“Absolutely not. I am not a puppy, an intimidating dog perhaps, but a puppy?” he scoffed.
“Whatever you say, but you love it when I cook for you. You whine like a puppy when you don’t get your way. I literally just heard you yelp, and you always want to hug me. See? A puppy.” Lucas said smiling.
“Whatever…” Eliott didn’t actually mind being Lucas’s puppy but racoons were still cooler. “Like you’re one to talk. You always whine when you don’t get your way. Actually more like pout.”
“I do not.” Lucas said pouting.
“I rest my case.”
They spent the rest of the night together, Eliott doing his best to ignore the sinking feeling in his stomach and his repressed jealousy at this Chloe girl. He could accept Lucas’s happiness in place of his own if he had to. Maybe.