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When Steve wakes it's to the soft warm breathing of Apollo against the back of his neck and the weight of an arm thrown over his waist. It throws for him for a second until the memory of last night comes back and he finds himself smiling into the pillow. He wants to roll over and face Apollo but doesn't want to accidentally wake him. Spotting his phone and glasses on the night stand, he carefully reaches for them, slipping his glasses on and unlocking his phone.
There's an unread message from Janet and he clicks it to see a blurry image of the crew all squished together on the same couch in Hafu's house. Attached is a message 'you and Apollo r missing outttt', and it's from late last night. He scrolls through his camera roll and finds a picture he took last week of a hotdog on the sidewalk that someone had stuck a cocktail umbrella into and he sends it to her with the caption 'yumm'.
He had briefly thought about sending a 'no we're not' selfie of him and Apollo but immediately disregarded the thought considering how new their relationship is. Plus he's absolutely positive that Apollo isn't comfortable talking about new relationships so he might not appreciate Steve sending a picture of them both to Janet.
But, he decides, there's no harm in him taking the picture anyway if it's just going to stay in his camera roll. He opens the phones camera and holds it up just enough that he can get a bit of Apollo's face in it and the arm hanging loosely over his waist. He takes the photo and stares at it for a bit before opening up Apollo's messages and sending him the photo, hearing the the soft buzz of his phone from across the room.
He considers setting the picture as his wallpaper but the photo was slightly blurred from the lack of lighting in the hotel room, the soft orange glow from the slightly open curtain being the only source of light. Besides, it's too personal of a photo to be set as the background of his phone.
He turns his phones sound down to nearly completely off and opens up YouTube, browsing through his recommended. After a few minutes he feels Apollo stir slightly from behind him, the arm over his waist tightening slightly and a little sleep sigh against the back of his neck.
Steve's halfway through a video about how dolphins mate when Apollo presses a soft kiss against the back of his neck. "Well hey there." Steve says, "I'm watching dolphins fuck."
"Good morning to you too." Apollo replies sleepily, pressing another kiss to Steve's neck before shifting to prop himself up on his elbows to look over Steve's shoulder, Steve reaches back over to the night stand and grabs Apollo's glasses for him.
"It is a good morning." Steve says, half watching the video and half concentrating on the warm feeling of Apollo pressed against his back and leaning on his shoulder.
"Oh wow you actually are watching exactly that." Apollo says after slipping his glasses on.
"Why on Earth would I lie about that?" Steve snorts.
"It could be anything with you." Apollo grins as he smooshes his face into Steve's shoulder and watches the rest of the video with him.
"Did you know dolphins use pufferfish to get high?" Steve says, "If we did that we'd die, I'm pretty sure."
"How do the dolphins not die from it?" Apollo asks, he pulls his arm back from over Steve's waist but lets his hand sit gently on his hip. He presses small light kisses along Steve's shoulder.
"I think it's just from getting spiked on the pufferfish, but I'm pretty sure if they ate it or something the dolphin would die." Steve says, he hums as Apollo kisses his neck again.
"You don't sound sure." Apollo mumbles against Steve's neck.
"I'm not sure." Steve says, "This video is about them screwing, not getting high."
The video ends and he closes out of YouTube, dropping his phone onto the mattress as he rolls over to face Apollo, slipping his hands up to cup Apollo's cheeks and pull him down to kiss him properly. Apollo makes a surprised noise but kisses back immediately, the hand on Steve's hip pulling him closer.
Steve pulls back an inch and says, "You know, we're supposed to be spending the night at Hafu's with everyone today."
Apollo pauses for a moment, "Wait. I am not going to sleep in a turtleneck. I refuse."
"So what do we do here? It looks like we simply just can't get out of this one." Steve says, he's absentmindedly stroking Apollo's cheeks with his thumbs for a second before slipping his arms behind Apollo's neck and resting them there gently.
"Lets just see how it goes." Apollo says, "I'm not opposed to them knowing, but I'll leave it up to you since this is . . . new."
"Wow, so different from yesterday." Steve grins, "Admittedly it is weirdly soon to tell people, but they'll figure it out anyway. It's not like we can just play dead in this room all through Hafu's birthday."
"We couldn't do that to her." Apollo agrees.
"She'd understand if we did though." Steve says, "But we already ditched them all last night."
Steve feels his phone vibrate on the mattress behind him and Apollo reaches over him and grabs it. "It's Janet." Apollo says.
"She's probably confused at the hotdog photo." Steve says with a grin, grabbing the phone from Apollo and unlocking it to see Janet's message.
Wtf is that Steve why do you always send me the weirdest shit
He snorts and shows the conversation to Apollo who laughs until his face is red. "What the hell even is that picture!?"
"Saw it on my walk last week, when I came back past it someone had shoved a cocktail umbrella onto it." Steve grins.
"Reply to her with a pun or something." Apollo grins.
"Let me think of think of something." Steve says, he doesn't need to think too hard before something comes to mind. He grins and types his answer.
That's my bf
Apollo snorts, "What does that mean?"
"Hotdog." Steve says, his phone buzzes with Janet's fast reply.
You need therapy Steve, you can't date a hotdog!!!! >:(
bet?
NO!!
Steve and Apollo are laughing hard about the conversation with Janet when Steve gets another message, but from Hafu this time. He clicks it.
Are you and Dumbdog dating?????? if not then LOL ignore this and hurry up and come over :D
"How the fuck does she know these things all the time?" Apollo says.
"Janet must have shown her our conversation." Steve huffs, "She's so smart."
"Gonna reply to her?" Apollo says, and Steve shrugs and goes to reply to Hafu.
What makes you say that? Also pls don't say anything to Janet she has to figure it out on her own or not at all, Kimi too
O H MY GOD wait really???
You haven't said anything to Kimi or Janet right??
No like what if I was right and you didn't want us knowing? Also that was a funny hotdog pun
It's no biggie, everyone was going to find out today anyway. Not to take the spotlight from your bday (happy birthday our beloved queen or whatever) but we literally are covered in hickeys and hid it so well yesterday but we're sleeping at your place tonight and that's just not going to be possible so...
Ok ok o k! So when did all this happen?
Literally yesterday. Sort of
Sort of?? only yesterday???
wait
You
the turtlenecks?? That's what you used? and the makeup? But even 5up wore one?
WAIT
Does 5up know??? He has to, right, he came prepared and played it all off as a joke with both of you. 'Turtleneck Gang' and all.
But if you were comfortable with telling us about it and joking to Janet about it why bother hiding it yesterday
unless
OH wait
Hafu
OH
Wait wait wait
Did you hook up before.... or after the hickeys
It had to be after!!!!
Right??
Hafu pls
I mean it had to be, right???
Drunk sex hafu get OVER IT
Right right sorry. Now hurry up come overrr
"Wow." Steve laughs, "How does her brain work that fast? Mine goes at like, at least 2 fps."
Apollo grins, "At least we don't need to worry about telling anyone, I guess. If we're simply just not telling Kimi and Janet."
"It'd be so funny to just let them be confused." Steve says, "Can you imagine? Kimi and Janet will see the hickeys and be all 'oh my god you two got laidddd!!' and they'll be asking us who the girls were!" He's cackling as he imagines Kimi's confused face.
"You just know Janet will say to you 'so what'd she look like, huh? what's your type?' and she'll tease you about it all night until you give her an answer." Apollo laughs.
"If she says that I'll just tell her Tall." Steve grins, "I just slowly start describing you through the night until she puts it together. "
"If she asks me then I can say 'shorter than me' or 'curly hair' and she'll simply not put it together." Apollo says.
They continue to chuckle about it for a bit before deciding they should probably leave for Hafu's as it was getting later in the day. Steve untangles himself from Apollo and sits up, stretching his muscles and popping joints to get them to unstiffen. He looks back down at Apollo and smiles. Apollo smiles back and Steve knows in that moment that everything will be fine, and it's a comforting feeling. The inherent knowledge that they can only grow closer from here on has Steve leaning back down to kiss the life out of a smiling Apollo.