Song recomendation for the chapter: End Game. - Reputation. - Taylor Swift.
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The sun came through the window faster than Charlie would have liked.
Slowly he was able to open his eyes, and noticed how Nick was sleeping on his stomach, snoring softly, while one of his arms still embraced him... he kept his body close to his own... and his fingers were still caressing Ben's back, who was still on his stomach looking across the bed.
Charlie's heart skipped a beat as if for a second he had forgotten everything. The three of them were still naked.
Instinctively Charlie reached for the blankets to cover his body now exposed by the morning light, and memories of the night before came flooding back like distant music. A mixture of jealousy, desire, exhaustion, pleasure and all at the same time filled his insides, and he couldn't help but smile and blush at the memory. He let out a small laugh and held his forehead.
"Good morning handsome." Nick's voice startled him, and when he turned he met his deep sleepy gaze. Between yawns he gave him a beautiful, deep gaze...and though he held him to the side he felt an immense desire for possession.
He couldn't hide that he was a little jealous.
In a lapse of doubt his eyes became anchors of peace and certainty
"How did you sleep?" Nick continued.
"Fine... and you beautiful?" Charlie settled down to face him.
"Well... Aren't you dying of heat?" Nick noticed as he covered his body.
"Between the two of us... yeah, a little." Nick noticed that Charlie was spiraling, and instinctively pulled him closer to him. "Yesterday was..."
"Crazy." Nick settled in to hug him even closer, letting Ben sleep on. "How are you feeling?"
"Weird... I think good. A little hyped up still...you?"
"I think i feel the same way." Nick's gaze traveled all over his face. Charlie could tell that like him he was feeling a strange mix of emotions, but he knew this wasn't the time to dig into them.
"I'd like to talk about everything in depth...later, wouldn't you?" Charlie pointed his gaze to the still sleeping Ben, and Nick just nodded smiling.
"You're not as quiet as you think." Ben's voice startled them as he rolled over and smiled at them. Sleep still showed on his features, but the deep, bright green of his eyes shone as brightly as ever. "Good morning."
Charlie felt his heart go full circle at the sight of that image, and his jealousy turned to desire and affection again. "Good morning." Charlie turned away from shutting him out and sought to hold his arm lovingly under the sheets...but felt Ben begin to pull away, looking to sit up.
"I understand you'll want to... talk and be alone... I..."
"I hope you're not planning on leaving without breakfast." Nick just frowned.
"Emmm... am not? I don't know..." Ben sat up in the bed and turned his back on them, letting out an uncomfortable laugh. "I don't want to emmm... make things awkward. I heard what you were saying, I don't want to..."
"Ben." Charlie and Nick joined in with him, and immediately felt guilty. "There's nothing to run from, take it easy."
"Just because we want to talk about all this later doesn't mean we want you to leave yet." Nick assured him.
"Not that we didn't have the night of our lives yesterday." Charlie included to that comment a light caress down Ben's back, which made him turn and smile hopefully at them.
"Really?"
"You didn't?" Nick asked, surprised.
"Sure... you were amazing... I just don't know if... maybe you weren't... you were drunk or..."
"Ben..." Nick stopped him with his hand on the back of his neck, pulling him close to Charlie for a kiss on the cheek. Slow and loving. Charlie felt Nick tense at the sight, but they both knew it was what they wanted. "We don't regret anything. We may have drank but we were fully aware of everything we did."
"Everything?" Ben covered his face and stifled a laugh as he blushed.
"Sure...Ben you don't make us uncomfortable...but if you are..." Charlie tried to figure out what he was feeling. "And you'd rather leave, we don't want to hold you back either."
"No... no, no." Ben reassured them, and a little more peacefully kissed them both back on the cheek, which made them both smile. "It's not that at all... I'm so happy it happened, and that we're okay."
"Me too." Nick smiled. "If I didn't hate my breath in the morning I'd... kiss you both."
"Same here." Charlie added. "I really wouldn't like that...we couldn't really be friends after this."
Friends. That word felt like a knife in Ben's heart, and Charlie noticed it... but he knew it needed to be said sooner rather than later. Charlie remembered the conversation he'd had with Nick in the shower before he went to sleep.
The steamy room manipulated the dim warm light they had decided to put in the bathroom so as not to wake Ben. They both felt drunk with emotions and happy, sleepy and tired. Like the steam in the room their perception of reality was still a bit altered. "Can I say something intense?" Nick added, as he ran the water through his hair.
"Always." Charlie couldn't help but look at him like an idiot as he bathed.
"Everything...everything stays the same right handsome?" Nick held him close under the hot water and looked down his body. "I mean... I had an amazing time, and I really liked Ben... but, for now, it's still just you and me right?"
"That's just what I was thinking." Charlie hung on his neck hesitantly. "I know that Ben...was getting closer to you in more ways than just physical and that you were starting to feel... something... and I don't know...having him like that. I was afraid you'd...fall in love."
He spat the last word as a secret. Charlie tried not to say that with so much anxiety and pain... but he hadn't succeeded, and Nick just kissed him on the forehead.
"You think falling in love is that simple?" Nick smiled.
"I don't know..." Charlie looked down and Nick cupped his face again with his hand.
"Regardless what I feel for Ben...like you with Matias...this..." Nick brought his boyfriend's hand up to his own heart, and Charlie smiled, "...will always, always, always...be yours first."
Charlie was grateful for the water in the room, as he hid a small tear that fell down his face thanks to the sweetness of the moment.
"So cringy Nelson."
"Sure. You cry for the cringe." Nick teased him.
Charlie let out a laugh before kissing him. "Shut up... Sharing you was... complicated." Charlie sighed.
"Same here."
"I love you, so much."
"I love you." Nick ran the soap down his back. "So... You're mine first, too?"
"I thought it was obvious." Charlie teased him.
"I still like to hear it."
"I'm yours Nick Nelson."
"I didn't hear you, sorry, the water." Nick made the gesture of uncovering his ear to hear him better, as if the water would prevent it, and they both just laughed under the steam.
Friends.
Ben kept turning the sentiment over.
"Sure...friends... we're not going to stop being friends." Ben blurted out, hiding something.
Nick noticed Ben was running away from them with his eyes, and feared he had hurt him. "Did we say something wrong?"
"No... no, not at all."
"Remember, you can tell us anything." Charlie stroked his back again.
"I know...I just don't want to scare you away."
"We're not scared of you Ben." Charlie nudged him amicably as he said that with a laugh.
"Nor your emotions either." Nick added, thinking what was coming.
Ben sighed and let it all out as he closed his eyes. "Yesterday...while you were taking a bath...I couldn't help but think..." Charlie felt a pang of guilt in his heart, he hadn't thought about that he might have heard them. "...To think about what it would be like to feel what you guys have. To be so in love and committed to each other that we could do what we did yesterday. I thought...for a moment...that maybe there could be room for me too...between you. That I could fall in love, and fall in love with you in the process, I don't know... just be happy."
"Ben..." Charlie and Nick looked at each other as it all came crashing down. The last thing they wanted was to generate another story in his head of something that wasn't going to happen... like Matias had done.
"No no... I get it, since I explained to you yesterday about the unicorns, I understood that's not what you're looking for, and I thought I was... I thought that's what I was looking for when I came here yesterday." Ben didn't look hurt, or heartbroken, just very confused. "And I think I could be happy like that, in an alternate universe to this one... I would surely insist, I would... romance you." The laugh. "...and taking yesterday into account... I think you could be just as happy with me..." Memories of the night flashed through both of their heads, and even Nick and Charlie accepted that happy they had been. "But... I understood something else."
"What?" Charlie felt Nick tense beside him, and from under the blanket he held his hand through his nerves.
"That..." letting out a sigh, and closing his eyes he continued. "...That unfortunately... I'm really falling in love with Matias, a lot. More than I want to accept or more than I would like to. I... I didn't... I didn't stop thinking about him."
"Oh..." Neither of them had expected that. Relieved, they looked at each other searching for what to say. Charlie saw in Nick's eyes as for a moment, in that alternate world, Ben woke up with the intention of making them fall in love... and he succeeded. He managed to open them and they both fell for him as much as for each other.
But they weren't in that universe, and yet, when they saw each other, they only saw the other.
Nick smiled as he realized they were thinking the same thing, and thankfully continued. "And why do you say that like it's the end of the world?"
"Because it is...I can't be falling in love like this with any fool who gives me a shred of attention."
"Why not?" Nick asked him. "There's nothing wrong with feeling so many things. I agree that Matias is... complicated. But if you and Charlie see so many things in him... he's clearly not a fool. He just made a terrible mistake, and he needs to fix it."
"That's the problem." Ben turned to them. "Even though I know I'm feeling all of this... I can't forgive him yet. What's worse... I think it hurts even deeper now."
"I understand." Nick looked to his boyfriend to continue.
Charlie felt Matias' weight on his heart...it was true that his bullshit hurt even more when you loved him so much. "You're not a fool for falling for him, and I don't think what he gave you was a shred of attention. He's just as much in this as you are." Charlie reassured him.
"So what's the next step then? I can't forgive him yet... So what, I swallow this whole thing? I wait for it to go away? I wait for him forever?"
Seeing that no one really had the answer Nick opted to lighten the mood "The next step is breakfast." Nick sat on the bed and picked up his underwear from the floor to get dressed. "I lied, the next step is to get dressed, then have breakfast, and the rest will come little by little...okay? Don't overwhelm yourself with it. Feel reassured that you know how you feel, at least. It's one more certainty than you had yesterday."
"At least we helped with that." Charlie joked.
"You did...a lot more than help." Ben blushed again.
The three of them got dressed trying not to make it so obvious that they were dying to stay naked staring at each other. Nick took over, as one might imagine, the cooking, while Charlie and Ben set the table and made coffee. Breakfast flowed quickly and quietly, and Ben didn't bring up the subject of Matias again. Charlie didn't know if that was a good thing or bad thing, but he knew he had to trust that the two of them could get back together in the best way for both of them. They couldn't intrude even if they wanted to.
Eventually Sara came home, and with a smile she greeted the three of them... she wasn't so good at hiding how surprised she was to see Ben there, but luckily it wasn't awkward.
Eventually both Ben and Charlie had to leave, and the three of them headed out the door. Luckily Nick would be walking Nellie to Charlie's house and they wouldn't have to say goodbye yet. They strolled for a few seconds in the direction that suited the three of them, and when Ben had to go somewhere else, he stopped them.
"Then... we'll remain friends." Ben sought reassurance in their gazes.
"That's the plan."
"I feel you more like my friend than before actually" Charlie blurted out smiling.
"I'd love to... hang out more with you guys, and everyone else." Ben revealed. "I really feel more like myself with you guys."
"I don't think you have any escape anymore even if you wanted to." Charlie held his hand affectionately.
"Isaac said he wanted you to join the group more, so when the boss says so the rest of us just follow orders."
"I'm glad I made it through the major filter..." Ben's face lit up brighter than ever, and Nick understood what Elle had told him so long ago...he really was just trying to recapture his community. "Well then, remember to make that group...to exchange notes and ideas."
"Sounds good." Nick hugged him and as Charlie did the same he noticed Ben's reluctance to let go. "See you at my welcome party at the apartment."
"I'll be there." Ben blushed one last time and turned away...but a few steps away he turned back. "Are you sure I didn't scare you off with my whole unicorns and parallel universes story?"
"Ben you're talking to the most ridiculously cheesy couple in the world." Nick assured, mocking himself.
"I feel like I was too intense." Ben looked chagrined as he continued to take steps to walk away.
"You were, and how nice...I don't like them any other way." Charlie assured him.
Ben laughed again at the situation and nodded. "See ya handsome." then he walked away towards his house, leaving them alone at last.
Charlie and Nick let out a huge sigh that neither of them knew they were holding in until that moment...and as they started walking toward Charlie's house they couldn't contain their laughter.
"That was truly bizarre." Nick began.
"Strange good or strange bad?"
"Good. I think it went amazing." Nick shot him a leering look, and Charlie detected that he was trying to decipher if something had bothered him. "For a moment there I was afraid we'd ruined everything this morning... with all the unicorns and alternate universes as he so aptly called them...but luckily it seems we haven't."
"I felt the same..." Charlie hesitated whether to say the following but couldn't stop himself. "...I feared he would fall in love."
"Why? Because we are so irresistible?." Nick nudged him with his shoulder affectionately, and Charlie laughed for a second.
"Partly...but mostly because we let him in, showed him how we treat each other."
"That makes anyone fall in love."
"Well, it worked well with us."
"More than well I'd say" Nick held his hand tightly as he urged Nellie to keep walking. "But I understand what you're saying, I was scared too. I don't want to hurt him, and I know we can't give him that for now..."
"For now huh?" Charlie teased him.
"Every time I feel like our relationship can't surprise me anymore... it does it again. I don't know, things change so fast."
Charlie knew Nick hadn't said that with the intention of making him feel bad, but he couldn't help but feel confused by his choice of words.
"Everything went well didn't it?" Nick looked to his boyfriend for reassurance, and Charlie tried to get out of his head and respond.
"Of all the ways it could have gone wrong...I think we avoided all of them. I don't know, I'm pretty surprised at how we handled it."
"Me too...we deserve a 10 for communication and effort." Charlie smiled at how proud Nick was of them, and hung on his arm to be a little closer to him.
For a moment silence reigned, and Charlie pondered how to continue. Doubts began to creep over him, as was normal, and the thought of having hurt Nick without realizing it haunted him.
"At some point...did you feel jealous or do you think I didn't handle something right?"
"I think you handled everything well...of course I felt jealous at different times...didn't you?"
"Sure...me too." Charlie remembered the eagerness with which Ben and Nick had kissed at first and felt a twinge of pain in his stomach. "The first time you kissed him was... quite an experience."
"I figured that was going to make you more uncomfortable than anything. You're such a romantic." Nick gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Should I have done something different?"
"Not at all...it was just intense."
"I think we built something for a while and we hadn't been able to consummate it. That's why it felt so desperate."
"So it's not because you have feelings for him?" Charlie teased him. He was joking, but secretly hoping he'd say that wasn't the case.
"That's part of it... but I think it was more the expectation."
Charlie was a little disappointed by his response...but he remembered all the times Nick had been supportive of him with Matias and tried to give him the same if only with his silence. "I've never felt so possessive of you before. Did you feel anything like that?" Charlie was transparent, and Nick noticed how eager he was to hear the same.
"Of course I did, when he told you Char I almost lost it."
"I noticed, I like that that's just your thing."
"Me too... but I think I felt even more jealous when you knelt between the two of us. I don't know... watching you go first with him..." Nick hid his possessive self between smiles and turning away, and Charlie noticed it crystal clear.
"I'm sorry. I..." Charlie rushed on.
"Hey hey hey," Nick stopped him for a second so he wouldn't let his anxiety control him. "There's nothing to apologize for. Like you say I just felt possessive and that's it."
As they continued to move forward Charlie understood that he couldn't pretend to hide what he was feeling from him. "I just... I'm afraid I did something wrong and didn't realize it."
"I'd tell you love, we're under that understanding aren't we?"
"Sure."
"Then you have nothing to worry about." Nick smiled at him again and Charlie calmed down a little...but Nick's words still floated in his head. "I didn't think watching you be dominant was going to make me jealous. I didn't realize how important that was to me until now."
"I get it, I think if you had been in my position and acted like that I wouldn't have been able to handle it as well as you did." Charlie assured him, and Nick felt strangely satisfied and happy with that answer. "I also owe you thanks for how you handled my insecurity about my body."
"What am I for if not to make you feel loved and comfortable baby." Nick tossed a small stick at Nellie, who chased it slowly. "I was surprised how well Ben handled it."
"Me too...it was a pleasant surprise. I felt very confident."
"He was... pretty good wasn't he?" Charlie noticed Nick was chagrined to acknowledge how good Ben had been...which made him laugh.
"Why are you embarrassed to admit that Ben is good at sex?" Charlie teased him.
"Shhhh." Nick turned paranoid sideways as he laughed. "I just didn't want you to think that... I don't know..."
"That you think he's better than me maybe?" Charlie teased him, crossing his arms and pretending to be angry.
"THAT'S JUST WHAT I WANTED TO AVOID" Nick smiled as he hugs him. "You know better than that."
"Well you rightly said... things change too fast." Charlie tried to make it sound like a joke, but clearly Nick noticed how annoyed his tone was.
"Hey no, sorry, that's not what I meant... I just meant that a few months ago I didn't even think I'd have you back, and now we can do this and be happy."
"I understand what you meant... sorry for taking it out of context." Charlie shook his mind for a second, trying to leave his insecurities out of the discussion.
"Besides... I just can't think of how anyone could be better than you."
"That feels good... Ben's good, and I had an amazing time, but you..." Charlie blushed and stopped talking just thinking about it.
"I... what?..." Nick teased him.
"I think you can complete that sentence with your imagination."
"Of course not, now you say it." Nick sentenced.
"Let's just say I didn't know how lucky I was to have a boyfriend with your gifts and your... dimensions." Charlie winked at him.
Nick turned a thousand colors as he smiled. "You're just now realizing it?"
"Let's just say I reassure it again."
"You're amazing."
"So I'm better than Ben at sucking it."
"CHARLIE" Nick scolded him again as he looked to the side in embarrassment. Charlie's laughter drowned out Nick's sorrow, and as he blushed he just nodded and whispered to him. "You know you are."
They walked on as the day settled down even more, and Charlie thought about the rehearsal he would have later.
...And that reminded him that he still hadn't talked to Nick about the possibility of the tour in January.
Guilt went through his body, and he knew that if this wasn't the time, it would never come.
"This...yesterday...how does it make you feel about our future?" Charlie introduced the subject.
"Well... fine. Very happy. Stable... Why?"
"You've... thought about how we would handle these things... from a distance?"
"Are you planning on going somewhere?" Nick said it sarcastically, as he kept walking... but Charlie's silence worried him. When he turned to see him he saw that he was looking at him expectantly. "Oh... wait, where to? When?"
"Not sure yet... but we've been approached about a tour in London."
"Really?" Nick smiled, and excitedly hugged him gladly. "That's amazing love, congratulations."
"Doesn't it make you mad?"
"Why would it make me mad that my sexy musician boyfriend is successful in his career?" Nick held him close.
"Because it means we could be separated for a month...maybe longer."
"A month is nothing love. We were apart for five years." Nick said it as if it had been nothing...and he understood when he let it out of his head that that hadn't quite sat well with Charlie.
"Exactly Nick" Charlie said seriously and crossing his arms.
"No no, that didn't sound like I wanted it to sound." Nick held his arm affectionately. "I meant if we survive that...I don't know, i trust us. Love...I'm not going anywhere." Nick assured him.
"Me neither...I swear. I know what you meant..." Charlie couldn't hide how worried he was. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner."
"Sooner?" Nick looked at him confused. "How long have you known?"
Charlie took a deep breath before confessing to him. "Since my last day of school."
"That was a while ago love." Nick lowered his arms and stopped hugging him. "Why didn't you tell me before?"
"I panicked."
Nick smiled incredulously and crossed his arms. "That's no excuse love..." he probed a second into his gaze, and thinking about the green-eyed boy things fell into place "It was because of Ben wasn't it?"
"I panicked to confess to you that I would leave before I knew how we would react to this" Charlie covered his face in despair. "I'm a fool... I'm really sorry Nick."
"No..." Nick was going to scold him again for apologizing, but Charlie continued.
"It's just... yesterday we took a step towards being with more people and not losing each other... and it gives me a lot of peace and happiness how well we handled it, but... it scares me to leave you with... with Ben here and..."
"...and you leaving with Matias." Nick understood. "That's why you didn't want to confess to me. Are you...are you worried about what might happen between you?"
"I'm worried that...this is the start of something that could lead to us falling apart." Charlie agreed, his eyes a little teary. "I know I sound old-fashioned and silly but..."
"You don't sound that way at all. We've been told all our lives that monogamy is the ultimate display of affection... when it's not."
"Isn't it?" Charlie looked unsure.
"Is it to you? Didn't you feel loved by me yesterday?" Nick tensed, doubting himself.
"Of course I did." Charlie reassured him with a kiss on the cheek, and Nick could breathe. "Very much...but...so what was it what we promised each other in the shower?"
Nick understood that somewhere in Charlie's insecure, pressured head, having promised each other monogamy again meant a step backwards... when they both knew better. "I think you have to bear with us love. We're not hypocrites for wanting to take it one step at a time."
"Yeah...you're right." Charlie held him by the collar tightly as he slowly let go of his anxiety. Nick noticed he gripped him as if he was afraid he would run away. "Did you...did you feel loved by me yesterday?" asked Charlie almost whispering.
"Sure precious. Very much so." Nick hugged him tighter. Charlie's house was already close by so he didn't bother to stop a little longer. "Look...it's not that I'm not a little scared of the idea of you leaving with Matias for who knows how long, or me staying here with Ben. Obviously I have insecurities like you...but I think I'm willing to handle anything, anything that comes our way, as long as we're being honest and forthcoming...okay?"
"Yeah... you're right. That's the most important thing. Sorry I didn't tell you about this before."
"I understand that you were scared...I understand that you wanted to see how we reacted...or how I reacted...to all of this before you told me that we might spend time apart again...but that's just why I would have liked to know, to give you peace." Nick hesitated at his next words, he didn't want to hide how he felt from him. "I don't like to think that yesterday... you were testing me." Charlie noticed the doubt Nick felt, as if Charlie really doubted his commitment to him.
"No no, it wasn't that at all... It wasn't a way of testing you... it was myself I wanted to challenge. I wanted to know we were capable of facing those desires... before we faced the challenge that ended up destroying us last time."
"The distance... I understand that, but I still think the choice is communication. Always."
"I know... I was a fool."
"Don't talk to yourself like that beautiful." Nick pressed a kiss to heis forehead. "I don't want to overreact either, you didn't keep anything serious from me. What happened yesterday doesn't imply that I'm going to run with Ben when you're not around... Okay? Sorry if I made you feel like that might happen."
"You didn't, not at all. Don't apologize. It's my fears and insecurities talking. I'm not going to run Matias off just because you're not there either."
"And even if you were... even if you wanted to... Or I wanted to... as long as I don't feel left out of your life or you lie to me... everything will be fine."
Charlie hugged him so tightly that Nick thought he'd suck the air out of him. "Likewise... How do you manage to convey so much peace to me?"
"That's just what I mean." Nick enjoyed every second of the hug "I just do what you do to me but in return."
"I don't feel like I'm as good as you."
Nick knew Charlie didn't see himself in the same light he saw him "You're not your boyfriend, I am." Nick teased him. "Besides, the distance will be hard...but we'll get a little taste of what it will be like when I leave for my championship in Rien."
"It'll have to be our training." Charlie grinned. "Could be fun, lovers dramatically separated by time and space."
"That's my writer." Nick gave him a kiss on the cheek as he pulled him closer to his door. "Besides...we've never...I don't know...sent each other pictures or anything like that."
Charlie looked at him in amazement. "Would you like to?"
"Sure... wouldn't you?"
The thought of having Nick like that on his cell phone drove him crazy. "Sure..." He replied gawking at his gaze, as he stole a slow, loving kiss. They had a hard time parting their lips from each other. Nick held Charlie's waist affectionately as Charlie lost himself in his gaze.
"So you're not mad that I didn't tell you sooner?"
"I don't love it...but I'm not mad, I understand the fear you felt...but I do wish we'd tell each other that kind of things sooner. okay?"
"Okay... I promise. I'm sorry." Charlie didn't let him scold him again because he snatched his lips away with another kiss.
Eventually Nick feared Jane would see them through the window, so he unwillingly let go and pointed to the door. "We arrived at your door your majesty."
"Unfortunately."
"Remember you're going to help me move in these days eh?"
"How could i forget you're going to make me carry your stuff all afternoon." Charlie pulled away from him and immediately felt the energy surrounding them pull him back, like magnets.
"Perks of you loving me so much."
"So much that I'm going to pack and unpack so many things you insist on not throwing away."
Charlie noticed Nick looked at him like he was hiding something, he was too bad at hiding things from him, but he decided not to say anything...eventually he would find out. "The truck arrives after lunch." Nick added with his hands behind his back.
"I'll be there." Charlie smiled at him as he kissed him again and ran back to the door. "I love you."
"I love you more."
When Charlie closed the door behind him and saw his silent house he felt an immense emptiness. He walked around a few times asking if anyone was home... and when no one answered, and he remembered they would be spending the day with his grandmother, he regretted leaving Nick so early in the day.
He hesitated his next move... but couldn't help but pull out his cell phone and type a message.
"Do you have much left to pack?"
"Not much. They're taking the furniture tomorrow, and I think just a couple of boxes... Why?"
"Would you be willing to come back to my place later?"
"Your parents aren't there, are they?"
"No...;)"
"I'm back in a couple of hours <3"
"Sorry for making you come back."
"Oh yeah, what a pain to go see my boyfriend who only lives a few blocks away from me, I don't know what I'll do, my legs will fall off for sure."
"No :( I like your legs."
"You should have thought of that before."
"Are you sure you don't mind if I make you come back?"
"As long as I get there and there's popcorn, a blanket, a movie and my boyfriend waiting for me to cuddle with, I'm the happiest."
"I have the best boyfriend in the world."
"Impossible. That's mine."
His first, Charlie repeated to himself holding his cell phone close to his heart as he blushed and laughed. He was undoubtedly his first.