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It was a Saturday afternoon, and Raj was stressed.
Normally, he wouldn't be so stressed on a Saturday. It was supposed to be a chill day! He would have hockey practice, hang out with Wayne, and forget about his responsibilities. But this Saturday was different. He was behind on a lot of assignments. Like, a lot. Hockey, his forgetfulness, and talking to Wayne and Bowie made him push his work back for two whole weeks. Now he was facing the consequences. But his amazing and smart boyfriend was on his way to help him get through the mountain of missing work he had. He was excited to see his boyfriend, but was also nervous about the amount of work to do and Bowie’s reaction to it all. He said he didn’t mind, but was that true? He probably thought Raj was lazy and stupid.
Just as Raj began to get into his own head, the doorbell rang. He immediately snapped out of his nervous spiraling and raced down the stairs, nearly falling in front of the door. When he opened it, Bowie stood in front of him.
“Hi Bowie!” He cheerfully greeted.
“Hi, babe. You okay? It sounded like you fell.”
Raj grinned sheepishly. “Yeah, I ran downstairs when I heard you.”
Bowie just chuckled and gave his boyfriend a quick peck on the cheek. “You’re so cute. So, what subjects are you behind in?”
Raj sighed. “Nearly all of them. Here, I’ll show you.”
Raj lead Bowie to his room, where he had his laptop open and multiple papers scattered across the floor. A few folders rested on his bed and he had a stack of books next to his nightstand.
“Wow. This is quite the setup you got there.” Bowie chuckled.
Raj just looked away embarassed. “Whatever, man. I just don’t really know where to start.”
“Hey, no big deal. I was just making a joke. We’ll look through what you have and we’ll go from there. Sound good?”
Raj’s face lit up and he smiled. “Yeah! Great idea, Bows.”
Bowie just chuckled as he sat down on the floor. “I’m full of them.” He winked at Raj, which made the hockey player blush.
Raj sat next to Bowie and looked through the myriad of papers strewn across the floor while Bowie looked through the arrangement of assignments Raj had to do that were listed on his computer. After talking for a few minutes, they formed a plan; They would work on his chemistry assignment and then take a small break before working on his history project.
Raj and Bowie had been working on this chemistry assignment for nearly thirty minutes, finding the properties and chemical makeup of all sorts of elements and compounds. Eventually, Raj threw his paper to the ground out of frustration and laid on his back, groaning.
“This is so dumb,” The boy whined. “When am I ever going to use this in real life?”
Bowie just chuckled. “Hey, you never know. You might become a scientist if hockey doesn’t work out for you.”
Raj just glared at Bowie.
“Okay, okay. Fine.” Bowie concided.
Raj groaned again. “Even if I didn’t go pro, which I totally will, but IF I didn’t, I wouldn’t become a scientist. I’m not smart enough to do that, eh. Besides, it seems boring.”
Bowie shrugged. “Alright, fair. But you still need to do this.”
Raj sighed. “Come onnn, we’ve been doing chemistry work for hours.”
“It’s been thirty minutes.”
“Same thing.”
Bowie giggled. “Okay, we can take a break.”
Raj sat up and hugged Bowie. “Yay! Thank you!”
Bowie smiled. “No problem, hun.” He placed a kiss on Raj’s head.
Suddenly, a thought entered his brain and he smiled deviously.
“You know..” He began.
Raj looked up at him, curious.
“You should be passing chemistry, because there’s so much between us.”
Raj looked confused for a moment, before blushing. “Oh. Yeah.”
Bowie took Raj’s chin in his hand. “Come on, you don’t feel it?” he teased.
Raj blushed even deeper. He stared at Bowie, his eyes not-so-subtly lingering at his lips.
Noticing Raj’s eyes and red face, Bowie grinned and leaned in to kiss him. Raj immediately fell into the kiss, deepening it and wrapping his arms around Bowie’s neck. Bowie held Raj’s head up with his hands as he continued to kiss him deeply. Eventually, he pulled away. Raj looked up at his boyfriend, his eyes shining with love.
“Thanks.” Was all he was able to say.
Bowie burst into a fit of laughter, as Raj remained flustered but laughed as well. After a moment, he calmed down.
“You’re welcome. Want to get back to work?”
Raj nodded. “Sure. But you owe me another kiss afterwards.”
Bowie smiled. “I’m fine with that.