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It’s rather a quiet affair. Jannik is so concentrated on alternating between looking at the sky and the screen that Carlos doesn’t even feel awkward for the silence that settles between them. He lays down, puts a hand under his head and stares up at the sky, at the stars, and tries to let the moment seep into his skin, get branded deep in his memory — Jannik’s huffs of breath, the way he clicks his tongue when the thinks, his earthy scent.
Carlos wishes he could touch him.
“What do you usually do in your free time?”
As soon as the sentence leaves Carlos’ mouth, he cringes.
Jannik gives him a strange look. “I look for extraterrestrial life. But you know that.”
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He only realizes he’s doing it when it’s too late to stop.
He’s standing in the drink aisle of the grocery store, checking the expiration dates on the cans of Coke, mentally cross-checking them with Boston’s away game schedule, and the reality hits him like someone shook one of those cans and popped it open. A snap. A fizz. A mess.
Shane is making space for Ilya.
(or, lessons in budget-friendly shopping, home decor, and resisting the urge to neatly combine all your situationship’s shit into a drawer in your bedroom because you might be falling in love with him: a seven-ish step guide by shane hollander, who is so, so fucked)
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“Liam needs to let go of me first,” Theo says, like that’s even slightly addressing his entire laundry list of issues that Melissa has just aired.
Melissa’s amusement grows. “Liam, let go of Theo.”
“Not my mom,” Liam mumbles into Theo’s shoulder.
Melissa raises her voice and calls without turning her head, “Scott? Get your beta to let go of Theo!”
Scott’s voice drifts into the kitchen, muffled by the material of the couch he’s slouched in against Malia. “Is he murdering Theo?”
“No,” says Melissa.
“That’s debatable,” Theo mutters.
“Then he’s fine,” says Scott in response to his mother.
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Liam informs Theo that the human body needs an average of eight hugs a day to develop a healthy sense of self-esteem and empathy. Theo thinks that’s just excessive.
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- Part 5 of Christmas in Beacon Hills
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It is Christmas Eve, and Theo Raeken is seated across from the boy he loves and his boyfriend. His heart is a stone and his tongue is glued to the roof of his mouth, and he has no one else to blame but himself for missing his chance.
Because he knows every step of the way that led him to this point.
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- Part 11 of Christmas in Beacon Hills
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“Well if you hate lacrosse so much, then why did you even join the team?”
Rather than quipping another comeback, Theo aimed his silence at Liam with a burning look, his scent unreadable but there was an intensity behind his gaze begging Liam to understand this.
“Theo?”
Something on the edge of desperation surged in his eyes, making Liam’s chest cave with his stubbornly soft plea.
“Don’t make me say it.”
- Or, it really shouldn’t have taken Liam this long to realize, “Oh… he loves me.”
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- Part 2 of Wordless Ways To Say I Love You
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And maybe that’s why Theo doesn’t think twice before saying it.
The moment itself is nothing big or cinematic. Liam has ketchup smeared on his cheek, grinning as he tries to wrestle the fries back, his laugh echoing through the quiet apartment. Theo looks at him. At this boy he crawls into bed with every night, the boy whose closet is half-empty because his clothes live with Theo’s now, the boy he’s already given everything to without even thinking about it. And so the words slip free.
“I love you.”
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or: theo is happy in his relationship with liam. but his love confession reveals a harsh truth.Series
- Part 36 of The Wolf and the Chimera