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Oliver and Cooper lie in their shared room. Cooper is laying right beside Oliver on his side, the slightest bit higher up on the bed. Oliver is laying on his back one arm behind his head, the other laying freely.
The two lay in comfortable silence as they have been for a while. Oliver has his arm resting on Coopers leg as Cooper lightly and gently traces Olivers healed scars. Its warm, a comforting type of warm. Oliver and Cooper feel stiff, the comfortable kind of stiff.
"So.." Cooper says almost breathlessly, basically whispering.
"So..?" Oliver says back in the same tone.
"You been okay ?" Cooper aks Oliver, now whispering.
"yeah, you?" Oliver hesitates before saying, also whispering.
"yeah."
"cool" Oliver responds.
"cool"
They both sit in silence for a few moments more before Cooper interrupts.
"Hows ballet been? That Andrew kid still there?"
Oliver thinks for a moment.
"Its been okay. He's still there..I've gotten slightly more okay with his presence." Oliver chuckles softly along with Cooper.
after a moment Cooper clears his throat.
"You- you've been eating okay though, right?"
Oliver slightly tenses up and Cooper can feel it.
"Its okay." Cooper says in a whisper, resting his forehead on Oliver shoulder as he messes with the end of Olivers short sleeve shirt.
They both know this is more than just friends being there for each other. Way more than just that. Yet, they both choose to move on.
"Ill try..to stop." Oliver states, body less tense than before but still tense at the subject.
"Piece by piece, step by step, right?" Cooper says, smiling a soft smile.
"Piece by piece. Step by Step." Oliver repeats back.
"𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶" Cooper says, just barley even a whisper.
He hopes and prays Oliver doesn't hear it. He wants him to, but it'd do too much damage. But then again Coopers head is resting on Oliver shoulder, right beside his ear- how could he not hear him?
"𝘐..𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰𝘰" Cooper hears Oliver say in a whisper, a bit louder than Oliver had intended.
Coopers eyes drift upwards towards Olivers face. Olivers face is painted with a pink flush atop his cheeks, but he's still looking at the ceiling.
"..as in..a not so friend way?" Cooper hesitantly asked.
"Whichever way you meant it.." Oliver responds, clearly nervous if he made the wrong assumption of Coopers words.
"So I can kiss you..?" Cooper whispers, getting closer to Oliver, his hot breath slightly brushing against Oliver.
"Id like that." Oliver responds, finally turning his head to look at Cooper.
Cooper drifts closer, connecting his lips with Olivers as they both close their eyes and melt into what feels like forever. Their lips slowly break apart. Cooper wraps his arm around Oliver and kisses him one more time. They sit in another comfortable silence before Cooper asks: "do you want me to move ?" "no..lets just..stay like this for a little while more." Oliver responds in a whisper, not breaking eye contact with Cooper. "Cool" Cooper responds, softly rubbing his thumb against Oliver left shoulder that he's clinging onto. "Cool" Oliver says back, the tenseness completely gone and his heart beating in a sweet, familiar melody he's felt with Cooper times before.