^Vices and Virtues^Tordtom^Biblical au^

Episode 8: Bonding Moment

Fifteen minutes had passed, and they hadn't gone that far. Tom looked back at Tord and noticed him staring intensely somewhere.

"why are you driving so slow? It's okay to go over five kilometers"

"bah, I'm just nervous"

After having a ten minute long conversation convincing Tord to go a bit faster, they were finally going somewhere. It was silent, Tord's knuckles were white with how tight he was gripping the steering wheel, Tom looked at his phone and still saw nothing from Matt. Should Tom do something? He really isn't experienced in comforting others but it was worth to trying.

Tom crawled between the space and was now laying on the backseat, he leaned forward and wrapped his arm around Tord's shoulders and massaged him. Tord tensed in surprise and hit the brakes of the car causing for Tom to hit his face on the backside of the headrest.

"ouch"

Tom rubbed his forehead to ease the pain. Tord parked the car on a stop and looked at his phone, he slumped in his seat and hit his head on the steering wheel.

"hey Tord?"

"what"

"It's 3'o clock, the club wouldn't be opened for another 5 hours, maybe we should go back"

Tord slicked his hair back and looked at his phone again, his scowl deepened, Tom crawled back to the passenger seat and looked at Tord.

"I actually came prepared, but someone took our spot, this was a terrible idea"

"no! It really isn't! The days not over yet, we can just chill over here if you want"

Tord smiled softly at Tom, it was small and genuine yet it made Tom feel something he couldn't understand yet. Tord left the car and opened Tom's door as well signaling for him to get outside with him.

"There's an ice cream parlor right there, are you in the mood for ice cream?"

Tom bit onto his popsicle and licked his lips afterwards, He looked back at Tord who was staring at him as he ate. He raised his eyebrow causing for Tord to revert his eyes and look somewhere else.

Tord scratched the back of his neck and spoke to break the silence,

"so where are you from Tom?"

"Rather not tell"

"Let me guess"

"shoot your shot then"

Tom gnawed on the popsicle stick as he waited Tord's response.

"Tennessee because you're the only Ten-I-see"

Tom choked on his own spit and accidentally swallowed the popsicle stick in surprise, Tord's eyes widened as a faint blush appeared on his cheeks as well.

"What?"

Tord buried his face in his hands, steam appeared on the top of his head.

"sorry, I just learned that from an ice breaker book"

Tom smiled before deciding to laugh it off, Tord smiled a bit and laughed alongside him. They were finally making progress, Tord watched as Tom wiped a tear behind his glasses. Tom's glasses always intrigued him, he often imagine himself prying it off to see what tom was hiding underneath it and debunk whether Tom was really a demon. But now that he was seeing Tom in a new light made him believe otherwise.

"so how did you become friends with Matt?"

"we're more than friends but we aren't dating per say, we're just best friends who have casual kinky sex"