When springtime arrives
Premise Tags: College/University,
Friendship, Misunderstandings,
Confession, Hurt/Comfort for a Cold.
Content Warnings: n/a.
Kyle shivered. Even though it was already spring it was still cold at night. He should have worn more clothes, if only he hadn’t forgotten his coat, but it wasn’t like he could go back there again.
Walking along the street in a dark and cold spring night, Kyle thought about how things ended up like this. He really couldn’t tell, was it all his fault just because he had to run his mouth and confessed to Aaron?
Kyle sighed, he should simply go home and sleep it out, maybe tomorrow Aaron had forgotten about it and the two could go back to being best friends.
The next day Kyle didn’t find out if Aaron had forgotten about it or not, since he could only lie in bed and cure his cold. Inwardly he cursed while sending Troy a message that he couldn’t attend the seminar and that he should take notes for him. Normally he would have send it to Aaron, but after yesterday he really didn’t have the courage to do something like this.
Kyle sighed, put away his phone and curled up in bed. He should sleep and simply forget it all, tomorrow the world would look completely different.
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“Kyle isn’t here yet.”
Aaron sat in his seat grumpily.
“You don’t know that he called in sick today?” asked Troy surprised as he put down his bag.
Aaron’s brows furrowed in anger. He didn’t know. Normally he was the one who was the closest to Kyle and he would tell him if he couldn’t make it to his lessons.
“How unusual, did something happen?”
“No, nothing. Even if something happened, it’s none of your business.”
“Hm~”
Troy grinned inwardly. Something must have happened since Aaron was even grumpier than usual. Ah, he really wanted to know what it was, he should visit Kyle after classes were over.
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“You look like shit.”
“A nice day to you too. What are you doing here? Cough, cough.”
Kyle stepped aside to let Troy in. Even if he didn’t know why he was here he didn’t have to let him stay outside, that guy would ring his doorbell until the neighbors got angry enough to call the police. It wouldn’t be the first time.
“Since you couldn’t make it I’m generous enough to visit you, to bring you your notes.”
“That’s so nice of you, and do you plan on telling me why you are really here?”
“Of course it’s because of Aaron. You have to tell me what happened between you two. He was even grumpier than usual today.”
Kyle’s face crunched up. He really didn’t want to talk about it.
“Didn’t you two go drinking yesterday?”
“No, we didn’t meet yesterday. Didn’t you say a few days ago that you have a date today? You should hurry up or you will be late.”
Troy pouted, he knew that those two had met yesterday. Even if he was a bit late to his date, he wanted to know what happened.
“You don’t have to worry about me, just tell me what happened, maybe I can help. Ah, hey, what are you doing?”
Kyle simply ignored Troy and shoved him back to the door. He would never tell him what happened. Without waiting for Troy to react, Kyle opened the door and pushed him out.
“I will come back to school when I’m alright, until then you don’t have to visit me again. Please go away!”
BAMM.
The door was closed right in front of Troy’s face and he could only say that he was lucky and didn’t try to put his foot in between the door and the door frame, that would have hurt.
Troy sighed, he couldn’t do anything about it when the two of them didn’t want to talk about it. As he turned around he bumped into a tall wall, that one wasn’t there when he went in.
“What are you doing here, don’t you have a date?”
Aaron wasn’t happy to see Troy here, he should be the only one to visit Kyle if he was sick.
“I came to give Kyle his notes. Did you come to make up with him?”
“There is nothing to make up since we didn’t fight in the first place.”
“If you say that. I really have to go, my boyfriend won’t wait for eternity for me to come to him.”
Troy smiled slyly before he walked around Aaron and happily skipping away.
“Yes, it’s best if you go. Wait, what boyfriend, since when have you been gay?”
But Troy was already gone. Aaron scratched his head. Though Troy was a good friend, he simply loved making one speechless sometimes. Aaron decided to ignore Troy, since it had nothing to do with him if he was gay or not, and knocked onto the door.
“I told you to go away!”
Kyle’s voice came muffled trough the door, with a hint of hoarseness. Aaron wrinkled his brows, was he crying?
“It’s me.”
After a moment of silence, the door opened.
“What are you doing here?”
“You forgot your coat, and I want to talk about yesterday.”
“T-there is nothing to talk about, you made yourself clear. Go home!”
Just as Kyle wanted to close his door Aaron put his hand on the door and pushed it open. Hanging the coat on the rag he didn’t give Kyle any time to prepare, he simply strode into the room and sat down.
“Even if you don’t want to talk to me, I won’t go until we clarified whatever it is you misunderstood.”
“Cough, there is nothing to clarify, you were pretty clear about it. Cough.”
“You are my best friend and I don’t want to lose you, so tell me what made you so angry.”
“Best friends, cough cough, I don’t want to be your friend, cough, I told you yesterday that I’m in love with you. I want you to be my boyfriend, cough cough cough….”
Kyle toppled over because of his coughing, he felt like he couldn’t breath. Aaron was shocked, he took him into his arms and patted his back.
“Are you alright?”
After he stopped coughing, Kyle nodded his head.
“When did you tell me that you love me?”
“I said it yesterday.”
“No, you didn’t.”
“Of course I did, are you saying that I’m lying?”
“You told me that I’m important to you, and I told you that it is only natural that you feel like this because we are friends. And then you just ran away.”
“Why would I say something like this if it wasn’t to tell you that I love you. Can’t you read between the lines?”
“If you had told me that you love me then I would have told you the same.”
Kyle’s eyes widened as he starred at Aaron. Aaron simply smiled at him before he lowered his head and their lips meet.
End.
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Author's Account:
BennyBenteLaGrouw (SH).
this was a nice little slice-of-life vignette~
my sympathies are with aaron on this one—kyle did the vaguest non-confession confession ever. thank goodness he had enough EQ to figure out what kyle actually meant and tracked him down all the way home to sort things out.
y'know, these two remind me of that one meme. here's my prediction of their relationship 10 years later:
aaron: and this is my ex-boyfriend.
kyle: you need to stop introducing me like that
kyle: i'm his hUSBAND
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fluffiness aside i can also predict Pt. 2 of this whirlwind romance: kyle makes aaron sick with the cold because of their kiss, though this was all part of aaron's Master Plan so kyle to take care of his ill self. unexpectedly, kyle takes longer to get better than expected so that in the end poor troy is stuck bringing notes for them both. hahahaha!
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Happy you liked it so much. I also can see all of those happening. hahaha.
Bet Troy will be so annoyed that he begins to tease them with things like: "When is the wedding?" and "You pretending to have a cold to get him to take care of you, again?"
While the fist sentence will only make them blush, the second sentence will make Aaron feel guilty(he actually did that before) and leave Kyle confused.
Let's just hope that he doesn't tease them too much, now that they finally are together.
*slaps table* Best pseudo-confession I've ever seen! He managed to say absolutely nothing and something very important at the exact same time.
Very impressive.
Overall, this sweet snack of an entry was nice to munch on while I procrastinate.
A Yay for procrastination snacks.
Thanks for reading.
Thanks for the chapter~
Ah~ such a nice fluffy story~ I wish the two of them happiness. Also, I hope Aaron doesn't catch Kyle's cold lol, but ayy then Kyle can be the one tending to him.
By the way, I need to know how Troy's date went
I can imagine Troy dramatically complaining to his date about "When will the two of them confess already?" haha
Thanks for reading~
Let's hope for a wedding soon.
Dankyuu for the story! I haven't been able to read the rest of the anthologies cause my wifi is barely available
The story was immensely cute and fluffy. Just enough sweetness to bring a smile to ones face
Thank you for reading! Since my wifi also goes constantly offline, I hope yours gets better soon.
Short but sweet! I like it! I really like how random Troy was. He's like this one friend I know. I also like and hate how Kyle went home and cried after the misunderstanding that is half-confessing his feelings. He's probably the future me. A handkerchief to both Kyle and myself for all the misunderstandings we'll be involved in in the near future.
thanks for reading! thanks for liking it, I'm very happy!
@BennyBenteLaGrouw I'm happy if it makes you happy
I love this, it's very cute, sweet and to the point.
thanks for reading.
Alas, another meal from the anthology, a snack but fulfilling. It's cute how the ending goes. I can feel some sentimental when Kyle said that he doesn't want to be friends with Aaron, rather that he wants more than just that. And it's relatable that Kyle ran away as he was trying to confess. Both because it hurts and the nervousness likely overcame him that it made him sick.
Boy can I just imagine if I was in his shoes, anyways, cute short story! Thanks for the entry!
thanks for reading.
Let's hope that kyle can speak his mind in the future or there will be a lot of room for more misunderstandings.
Aaron is a little possessive, eh? Poor Troy, being stuck between these two blockheads. At least they have one good, loyal friend to cheer them on~! (Sort of? Maybe he just wants to watch the world burn.)
Overall... Very cute! Thanks for the meal.
thanks for reading.
I have the feeling Troy will have a lot of fun teasing those two blockheads in the future, at least until he gets too annoyed with them and locks them both in a room to let them talk out some kind of strange misunderstanding they have.
Thoughts on Troy:
I found this character to be quite fun to read. I know he wasn't the main character, nor the male lead, but he had a certain gravitas and an air of charisma about him. He seemed like the kind of guy who was laid back but also hardworking when he needed to be.
He came off as a good friend who was willing to help out if something had gone wrong. In the case of this story, he made notes for Kyle while also taking the time to visit him afterwards. Troy clearly pays attention to the moods of his friends, and cares about how they're feeling, since he noticed straight away that something was up when he found out Kyle hadn't told Aaron he was sick. He also detected the bad mood Aaron was in and wondered if it had something to do with Kyle.
In a way, you could say he was the most perceptive of the three characters. I guess one way of putting it would be that he took the place of the reader and helped guide the couple to get together. As for other things, I loved the fact that Troy just came out with his nonchalant reveal of having a boyfriend. I almost wonder if this was his way of showing he had realised the two guys were in love with one another and he wanted to give them a final nudge to show he was going to be comfortable about them being gay.
All in all, I think Troy is my favourite character in this story - weirdly enough. Don't know if that's a good thing, or not, in the grand scheme of things.
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I personally also like troy the most. You could say he is the best friend everyone wishes to have, because he would always take care of you if you need it the most. I'm having a bad case of second-male -lead-syndrome every time I think of him.
@BennyBenteLaGrouw Haha, yeah, I can see that.
He had the potential of being the second male lead if he wasn't already with someone.
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Thoughts on Kyle:
Well, we weren't given a description on how he looked so I can't really comment on that.
Personality-wise, I think he was very relatable. He had said something ambiguously while thinking he had been crystal clear with his intentions behind it, only to completely misunderstand the recipient's reaction. We've all been there, I imagine - or at least some of us have. What we were shown of his personality was a young man who makes assumptions but isn't afraid to say what's on his mind. Yes, he kind of bottled up after the misunderstanding but he did it because he was feeling raw from the 'negative' response.
As for his lifestyle, he seems to be the kind of guy who gets sick often since the other characters - as well as himself - mentioned previous times he got them to take notes for him. With the snippet we're shown at the beginning of him walking outside in the cold at night without a coat, one has to wonder if he gets sick due to negligence connected to the weather and other things. In other words, a bit of an idiot in that regard, maybe?
From what we're shown of him, he seems to be well off enough to afford a place on his own while at uni, as well as not needing to worry about attendance for scholarships, or anything like that. As for other things, he seems to be personable with others since he has friends who care about him. He also appears to be a caring person himself since he remembered about Troy having a date.
Other than that, there isn't much more to say about him since the story was so short. A shame because I would have loved to have seen how he felt and reacted to the reciprocation to his confession. I mean, other than widening his eyes.
>W<
I can imagine that he'd be a cute boyfriend in that he wouldn't be afraid to stand his ground. Though I worry about his future considering his record with having misunderstandings.
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Since Kyle and Aaron will spent more time together in the future, I can imagine that Aaron will turn in some kind of nagging mother, like reminding him to wear enough layers, to do this and that. Hahaha, it seems like Kyle will only get seldom sick in the future.
Lets hope he can live a life under the protection of his boyfriend and avoid misunderstandings in the future.
@BennyBenteLaGrouw Lol, I can also see him being naggy, now that you mention it. But who knows, maybe he could end up being too naggy which causes Kyle to run off and accidentally end up with someone else after getting drunk and complaining.
'o'
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