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It was August, Jack and Davey were up late as they often were because school was over. It was approaching the end of summer and Davey’s birthday was creeping up.
“So. Your birthday.” Jack began. “What do you want?” He looked at Davey intensely as if the fate of the world depended on his answer. “Jack, you don’t need to get me-“
“Shhh.” Jack interrupted, wiggling his finger in a jokingly disapproving way. “I want to. What do you want?”
Davey pondered for a second. “There’s really nothing I need.”
“It ain’t really about what you need. Whaddya want?” Davey could tell from Jack’s glances he wasn’t going to give up.
“Nothing’s really coming to mind.” Davey admitted. His answer was a bit of truth and a bit of him not wanting to put Jack under any pressure to get him anything.
Jack sighed exasperatedly. “Fine. I’ll just have to figure something out.”
“Jack-“ Davey tried to argue, but Jack threw a cocky smile as if to say ‘you can’t stop me’ and Davey knew any protest was hopeless.
“What are you doing for your birthday anyway?” Jack inquired. Davey’s eyebrows furrowed as he was deep in thought again. “I don’t really know.”
“You gotta be kidding me. Ain’t ya thought about it?” Jack shook his head. “I mean I never really celebrate it.” Davey responded. “Well, we’re celebrating it. If you could go anywhere- anywhere you want for one day, where would you go?”
“Well, I’d like to go ice skating again someday soon.” Davey admitted after a few seconds of thought. Jack’s face dropped immediately. “Ice skating?” He asked, with a haunted look on his face “What’s wrong? You don’t like ice skating?”
Jack looked as if his life was flashing before his eyes. He was silent for a minute, then spoke as if he was breaking from a trance. “Uh- no. Yeah- Well, ice skating’s fine. Fine by me.”
“Jack, we don’t have to go if you don’t want to.”
“Nonono. I wanna.” Jack intercepted. It wasn’t exactly a lie. Ice skating was not his idea of a nice day, but he’d do anything for Davey, so if ice skating would make Davey happy, he’d spend the rest of eternity in a rink with him.
“I mean really. If you don’t want to go-“
Jack cut Davey off a third time. “C’mon. It’ll be fun. Let’s get it organised.”
They proceeded to plan their trip, and Jack tried to seem as enthusiastic as possible, though it was clear he was hiding a dark secret…
Jack Kelly could not fucking ice skate for the life of him.
He tried once. He couldn’t stay on his feet for two minutes. He got frustrated and give up early, escaping the rink early only having gotten a cold ass from the countless times it made contact with the freezing ice.
It was an understatement to say Jack was anything but optimistic about this trip. That didn’t stop him from helping plan it. And he knew it wouldn’t stop him from going on it too.
He’d do things like that for Davey. He wouldn’t put himself through that bother for anyone else. He knew he was going to make a complete and utter fool out of himself but none of that mattered. He’d allow the whole world to watch him fuck up and embarrass himself just to keep Davey happy.
Jack Kelly was so deeply in love with David Jacobs.
His heart was reminded of him every time that it beat. He’d do anything for him. Absolutely anything. Ice skating would be easy.
Easy to handle, not to do.
But it was pretty much set in stone. Too late to turn back now. All Jack had to do was pray.