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The end of the day was still busy at Space Force, as you could expect from a military station with it’s budget cut in half and it’s people working their ass off just in the hope to keep their jobs. The usual Thursday in a way.
Tony was watching the sun setting while standing up in the middle of the hallway, lost in thought, he felt like he was taking as much time as he could just to breath. Yeah maybe the work was a little stressful right now, but not like nothing he never knew. ‘There is something else’ he thought, feeling his stomach squeeze, not knowing why.
“On your left sailor” a voice said gently behind him, taking him back where he was.
“Oop, sorry!” Tony scooped himself next to the window to let Brad pass with a cart full of boxes that were probably themselves full of administrative papers.
“Ahah, thank you Tony” he answered him joyfully. While passing next to him, Brad looked into his eyes and his smile faded a little, a concerned look taking over “Are you okay? You seem a little tired kid…”
The attention brought him back entirely from his thought now, kind of touched in a way “Well thank you for worrying” he said snickering “I guess I do feel a little tired, heh what do you want, Thursday, Am I right?”. He didn’t had in plan to talk about his feelings to Brad, so that was the best answer he could think of.
The other man seemed pleased with that, “you know, I actually lost my virginity a Thursday! It was really romantic, we were outside in a garden when–“
Tony chuckled nervously very loudly “Oh My God… Would you look at the time, I would love to hear how you lost your flower Brad, really do, but I have somewhere to be in two minutes, so.. Til next time!” He said has he fled rapidly towards the staircase.
Still his phone in hand, he looked at the time, almost seven PM, time to go home. Even thought he had a nice meal in head and good wine to go with it, he couldn’t help but wonder why he felt so alone. He loved to be alone! Especially on good nights like those, with sweet music and a window open to let the wind in and out of his small but cozy apartment. He couldn’t help but feel that something was missing. ‘Or someone.’ Nope! No. He would not let his thoughts bring him somewhere he did not want.
Still processing his… whatever… he found himself already in the hall, looking threw the glass to where the scientists where working. He wasn’t even looking at this point, he was scrutinizing to get a glimpse of just one person. Which was dumb, first because he didn’t even realized he was standing in the middle of the hall, again, then because he was one hundred percent lying to himself by trying to find dome dumb excuse if this person ‘or anyone else’ came to find him.
“Huh, can you move?” ‘FUCK’. It was him, fucking Chan…
“Ha yeah sure, sorry, didn’t see you here, you’re sneaky, real sneaky, even when you have your squeaky shoes” He never wished to scream more.
“Ho man, Dr Mallory told me it wasn’t that bad…” And here it was again, that tight feeling in his chest.
“No sorry buddy, I like it, no I love it! I look forward to see you when I hear it!” he said with two thumbs up as his palms began to sweat.
Chan side looked at him with a smile that was obviously saying him to calm down. “Yeah so, I was actually searching for you.”
Tony actually felt his heart drop so low it could have been in hell “Ouuh, you were looking for me?” he faked surprise “but why.” His conscience was begging him to stop acting like that as he looked at his friend his nose crouching and exaggeratedly faking the cliche of a teenager talking to their crush. He will think about the tragic irony of this later.
Chan’s eyebrows rose as he let a sight of caring exaggeration. “Some of the other scientific – not that you know their names – and myself are going for drinks right now, you want to come?” he said with the nicest and prettiest smile on his face, at least that what Tony thought. And it’s at this moment that he told himself that he day just got a whole lot better.
“Yeah sure! I had nothing planed, so that’s perfect for me.” The idea of finally accepting and being at peace with his sentiments for his friend started to sounds like a good idea. The best actually. He could use this little “going out” as an opportunity to get closer, or at least spend nice time with him.
“Great! Did you see Angela by the way, we wanted to invite her too but I can’t find her anywhere.”
And here comes back the bitter feeling. “No… I can’t say that I have, sorry.” His smiley face must have dropped more than he wanted because Chan apparently noticed it.
“Hey, if you want talk about anything, I’m here, I can buy you a drink later if that could help.” He was too fucking nice, and cute, Tony thought.
He chuckled, “Yeah, that’ll be nice”.
“Good! We say we meet in ten minutes in front of the building?” He said starting to go his way.
“You got it baby!”
Chan stopped, looking back, a smile on his face “did you just called me baby?”
Tony was already almost at the front door, “I can’t hear you!” he said jokingly, gesturing to his hears.
Coming out, he felt the light spring wind gently brush his cheeks. The air had a particular smell to it, that he couldn’t describe other than with the word “hope”, even if “love” wasn’t that far on his mind.