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Dating Michael wasn’t anything Jeremy had ever expected. Not only because he was convinced they were fully platonic, but also because growing up, he had a really specific expectation of relationships that they didn’t fit… at all.
Not that that’s a bad thing! It’s just… Jeremy’s been planning this picture perfect relationship in his head for years. Nervous first dates at a coffee shop, slowly getting to know each other, cheesy and sappy text messages, first kisses under sparkling fireworks…
Dating Michael wasn’t any of that.
Dating Michael was sloppy and tear filled first kisses in his bed at midnight. Dating Michael was being so physically tactile from twelve years of it that nothing changes between platonic and romantic. Dating Michael was getting sent memes saying ‘every moment is a gamer moment when I’m with you’ at exactly 4:20am. Dating Michael was dates at the arcade or eating Cheetos in his basement and knowing each other better than they knew themselves.
It wasn’t anything he expected.
He could never have predicted how the warmest grin could make butterflies dance in his stomach, red filling his face from quick yet loving kisses and hugs. How his entire body relaxed from a single touch from his favourite person, how just being close to him made him feel so cherished.
It wasn’t anything he had been dreaming of, it was far from the fantasy he had longed for.
It’s better.
And it’s something he wouldn’t trade for the world. Not again.