[ ✓ ] ❝I want all of it. I'm saying I want us to be friends...with benefits.❞
RICKY BOWEN x EJ CASWELL.
HSMTMTS (SEASON 2-3) AU!
+ slight canonical references
CASWEN FANFIC.
EXTENDED DESC INSIDE.
**REPOSTED/EDITED
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THE NEXT MORNING, RICKY Bowen crept out of his bed, out of The Yurtle, and across the grass to The Yurt Locker. He used the same stealth to click open the door to the yurt and look around the room. Everyone was still sleeping. He flashed his torch onto the beds, but EJ was nowhere to be found.
Ricky was about to leave when the door closed, and a flashlight pointed in his direction. He almost jumped out of his skin when he saw his carrot-top friend smiling at him.
"Red!" Ricky grabbed his chest, whisper-shouting, "you almost gave me a heart attack! I thought you were an intruder."
"Sorry but, dude, you're the one who's intruding. It's not even wake-up time yet. Is everything alright? Anyone homesick? Eaten by bears?"
"No. Yeah, everything's pretty great...what about you?" Ricky asked, holding his friend's shoulders. "Are you alright over here? No one's giving you any trouble, everything's okay with the...." He pointed to his eyes and his nose, and Big Red shook his head.
"No, no. Everyone's being really nice about it."
"Really?"
"Yeah, well, EJ's here and he's a CIT..."
After Ricky and EJ started dating, Big Red had gotten to know the senior a lot better. A series of double dates and a couple of conversations later, he was calling him Biggie and he was laughing at his dumb jokes the same way Ricky or Ashlyn would. So, when he told him he couldn't go to camp because he was going to work in Slices all summer, EJ had gotten to the bottom of it. The real reason he couldn't go was his CPAP machine. Big Red had expected him to laugh, which he did, but he also expected him to forget it all.
