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X was sat on a purple couch with the glow of the TV screen infront of them falling on the couch and them and their best friend, Four. He was in the middle of rewatching the 1st bfbdi season for the fourth time this week with Four, despite not being that invested in the show at all. They only really wanted to because they wanted to hang out with Four as much as possible and make them happy. X still wasn’t paying any attention to whatever was happening on the bright screen in front of them, they had actually began to zone out.
“Why do they like this show so much? I guess it’s kinda interesting sometimes but he treats it like it was blessed by infinity themself. I wish he didn’t watch this show so much so that we could do other stuff more often… At least they’re happy,”
X’s mind began to wander.
“I wish that they’d let me hug them more. I know we’re not together or anything but I still wish they wouldn’t act like they’re a cactus or something… What if we were together? I kinda like the idea of that, is that weird? Maybe then they’d be a bit more clingy. Or maybe we could do the face touching thing the objects d-“
“X!”, Four exclaimed slightly angrily. “Were you zoning out or something?”, Four leaned a bit forward with their hands on their hips.
“I-ah-y-er-…yeeeeaaaahhh…”, X admitted, feeling their face get a bit warm from embarrassment and…what they were thinking about.
“Well pay attention, you’re missing the important parts! If you zone out again… nnnI’ll have to scan your brain!”, They laughed a bit after finishing that second sentence. X wasn’t sure if that was a joke though, could Four actually do that? I mean they did have half the power of the giant yoylelite so it is possible. X didn’t want to find that out, so they’d have to be a bit less obvious. This time they would try not to get so lost in their daydreaming so he didn’t have to try to explain their thoughts to Four. He could just not daydream and pay attention, but they do not want to have to rewatch the same episodes they’ve seen so many times before. Now back to whatever he was thinking about.
“I’m pretty sure I know how they do that face touching thing- or mouth touching thing- whatever it’s called, but what would it be like?”
They tried to imagine what that’d feel like, but just thinking about doing it with Four made their face burn and made them squirm a little. Oh right! They should make sure that Four hadn’t caught on to what they were thinking. X glanced o-
Shoot.
Shoot.
Shoot.
SHOOT.
He was looking straight at them with their eyebrows scrunched and their mouth frowning forming an angry face that X did NOT want to see right now.
“Wai-“
Lasers from Four’s eyes formed a glowing line, kind of similar to lightning. Is this the brain scanning that they mean’t? The few agonizing seconds basically felt like forever with their face being so hot that you could probably roast marshmallows on it. The moment the lasers faded X saw Four’s face shift from angry to a blank, (shocked maybe?) wide eyed stare and they saw as their pose stiffened and their face somehow finding more ways to turn a deeper color of blue. There was silence for a few seconds as they just stared at each other awkwardly with the only noise being whatever was happening on the bfbdfi show thing. Four looked away after some time and began to slightly rock back and forth probably trying to find the words to say. X was slightly surprised they weren’t dead, or injured, or anything by now.
“You-was-wha-nndo you actually…mmthink-feel that way about… me…?” Their voice got quieter as they attempted to finish their sentence. Four’s arms were put in a position similar to a t-rex’s and his hands were flapping as their face felt like it was melting off from how hot and sweaty it was.
“…yes…” X said barely above a whisper. X had also glanced away when saying that.
The room fell silent- well other than the show still playing in the background that for whatever reason they kept unpaused- and it felt extremely awkward once again. Both of them had no idea what to because one, they are both pretty bad at making things feel less awkward and two, they’re both still processing whatever just happened.
Four stopped rocking when they quickly thought about something that they could try to use to make the situation a bit better. He glanced back over to X, “Well I…” they immediately felt that melting feeling come back when X looked back over at them. They need to get this over with before they basically melt into a puddle or explode or whatever. They quickly leaned in and did the mouth-touching thing before quickly moving back to their spot. They were literally quivering and drenched in sweat at this point, and just looking at X for any longer made it worse and made their face as hot as the sun. “nnn-That’s how I feel..” they muttered quickly. Maybe they could ask to finish talking about this la-
Squeak!
X was clinging on to them causing them to freeze in place. They shakily reciprocated the action. “Can we stay like this for a little while?” Four heard them request despite their voice being muffled. They nodded in response, he’d like that.
So they did.