Black And White

Hundred Sixty Three

They'd had such a good time bonding together, that the group decided to all spend the night at Scott's. 

They'd all fallen asleep scattered around his living room with Scott and Mitch asleep on the floor beside the couch that Avi had decided to sleep on. 

While everyone else had gone to bed, Scott stayed up with one arm around Mitch and the other holding his camera to go through all the pictures he'd gotten that day.

He couldn't help but smile as he went through them, and wonder how he could be blessed with such great people in his life. 

Of course Avi was Scott's own contribution to the friend group, but the others were all brought in by Mitch. 

Scott passed by Alex in the hallway every so often, and Avi had that occasional crush on Kirstie, but... They hadn't really gotten to know either of them until Mitch came along and introduced them all. 

Scott remembers that he didn't think he'd get along with any of them, because Mitch made them sound like absolute nerds. 'Kirstie from physics, Alex from AP science and math, and Kevin from last year's calculus.' 

Mitch suddenly stirred beside him, humming softly as he slid his hand along Scott's stomach, setting his head on Scott's chest. "Babe..?"

"Hmm?"

"What... Why are you still up?"

"Just filtering through all my pictures. Go back to bed, babe. You sound exhausted."

"I am. But I don't wanna sleep unless you sleep too."

Scott kissed the top of his head. "I'm almost done."

"Liar..." Mitch turned to lay on his stomach, before propping himself up with his elbows. "Show me."

Scott hesitated, but turned over as well, copying Mitch's position as he held the camera in between them. "I'm close to the end, but this is what I have."

Mitch took the camera from him, glancing over as he pointed to a button. "This one to go forward?"

"Mhmm." Scott moved a little closer, putting his hand on Mitch's back as he peeked over Mitch's shoulder at the screen. 

Mitch giggled a little at the next picture of Kirstie and Alex laughing. "These goofs."

Scott chuckled lowly, kissing Mitch's shoulder. "Keep going."

The next one was even funnier, because Kirstie laughed so hard that something had come out of her mouth, which only made them laugh harder. Mitch couldn't help but giggle at it. 

Mitch suddenly turned. "Where are the ones of you?"

"I deleted them."

"What? No you didn't." Mitch's eyes were almost sad. "Please tell me you didn't."

Scott shrugged. "The ones of us making out are still in there."

Mitch pouted at him, and then turned back to the camera. "I hate you."

"No you don't."

Mitch clicked through until he found the pictures of them kissing, and he sighed a little. "No... I guess I don't. Still unhappy though. Why would you delete those?"

"Didn't like them. Not that I don't admire your handiwork, um... You took one of Kevin, and I kept that, if you wanna look at--"

"You didn't like it because it was of you. That's what makes me sad."

Scott didn't answer, just kept looking over Mitch's shoulder. He took a breath, and spoke softly. "I'm sorry, Angel."

Mitch only shrugged. "It's fine. I still have the one of you from the hotel, so... I guess nothing tops that."