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Carlos paced around the living room waiting for his boyfriend. TK was rarely on time, but today he was running later than usual.
“TK come on babe! I saw you 20 minutes ago, and you looked great. What is taking this long?” Carlos called up, he was starting to get annoyed listening to TK constantly opening and closing dresser drawers.
“Ouch, damn it!” TK cursed from upstairs before calling back down, “Just need a minute Los, just can’t find my, umm, wallet.”
Carlos flopped onto the couch and glanced around the living room. TK’s wallet was sitting on the table, along with his keys and phone, right where TK had put them 20 minutes ago before sprinting up to the bedroom. Shortly after that was when Carlos began to hear the consistent sound of slamming drawers.
Carlos could feel his frustration growing because his boyfriend had been acting strangely for the last few days. He took a moment to take a deep breath before shouting back up the stairs, “Your wallet is down here Ty.”
“Oh.” He could hear TK mumble from upstairs before he shuffled out of the bedroom and down the stairs.
Carlos glanced at his boyfriend, who looked a little defeated, but at that moment he was too stressed about how late they were to ask TK what was wrong, Carlos hated being late. “Ok, can we go, we’re so late, we have probably missed the reservation, I’m not sure if they’ll still be holding our table.” He said standing up and grabbing TK’s belongings so he could pass them to him on his way to the door.
“Well let’s just not even bother going then.” TK huffed as he grabbed his items and turned back around to head upstairs.
“Babe…” Carlos started calling to him but stopped because he knew TK was not going to be turning around. Carlos didn’t know what he would have said anyway, he knew even if they left right now, their table would likely be gone by the time they got to the restaurant, and they would end up trying to find somewhere else to eat last minute. What he couldn’t figure out was what was going on with his boyfriend.
Three days ago, TK asked if Carlos had any plans for Friday night and double-checked that he had Saturday off, which was weird itself because TK wasn’t much of a planner, but Carlos let it pass and confirmed that he was free both Friday and Saturday. TK had given Carlos a quick kiss and bounced away, before reappearing a few minutes later telling him that he had made reservations at Carlos’ favourite restaurant. When Carlos asked what the occasion was TK suddenly looked nervous and quickly blurted out something about them not having a lot of the same days off lately and wasn’t he allowed to want to treat his man. Not wanted to push any further Carlos had dropped the subject with a quick thank you and pulled TK onto the couch where they proceeded to snuggle and watch a movie.
Over the next few days, they had fairly opposite shifts but for the few hours they did spend together, TK seemed to act strangely, which Carlos tried to ignore as he wanted to enjoy his time with his favourite person. Now that Friday was finally here TK had seemed completely off the entire day and had even ended up being the one to bug his partner about to start getting ready so they wouldn’t miss dinner, a job usually reserved for Carlos.
Carlos had no idea what was going on with TK but knew him well enough to know that he would probably want to be alone and felt a bit embarrassed about his behaviour. Carlos decided to head to the kitchen to start making a simple dinner since they weren’t going out anymore.