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Just You and I
Chris/Darren (The Hush Sound)
All about Chris and Darren's relationship.
Title shamelessly from "Defying Gravity", a song from Wicked. I was lost at what to name this.
Darren and Chris have a weird relationship. They often sit on couches during the day watching public television and flicking through channels to find text-to-win commercials. And they enter them simultaneously because they simply can. It gives them a sort of joy, a connection. They also make plans to go to places, like Salem, Massachusetts or New York City. They jot down the dates they want to go, what airline they will take, what they will do. And they research. They save, but they never make the airline reservations. So when their planned dates come up, they make it an excuse to hang out with each other. They sleep at each other’s places and make big meals. And best of all, they smile because they’re with each other.
Some nights they spend together are spent staying up all night like they’re thirteen again, playing video games and sharing hopes. Others are quiet and warm, the television on in the corner but no one watching it. They sit together on the couch, close. And they say very few words. They stare at each other and their hands, feel the shock through their touching knees. Sometimes Chris will change the channel and act like he’s looking for something good at two in the morning. He often gets distracted though and stops on the Home Shopping Network or something equally boring. Other times, on nights they just don’t know what to do with themselves, Darren and Chris will venture out of their familiar homes into even more familiar Chicago. They’ll just walk and enjoy the lights, the people, and the sounds. If they’re lucky, they’ll get tickets to see the Cubs play. They’ll take the L, watch it weave through neighborhoods and travel beside streets as they sit close together, but not too close. And when they get off, they’ll follow the crowd on sidewalks, and they’ll enter Wrigley, and they’ll smile because everyone is so energetic and willing to do anything to get the Cubs to win. Chris will smoke and Darren will drink some. At the end of the game, they’ll wait for the L with hundreds of other fans. Darren will feel dizzy and Chris worn. When they get home, they collapse onto each other, breath smelling faintly of peanuts, alcohol, and cigarettes. It’s always the same, but Chris doesn’t mind, and apparently Darren doesn’t either. They just know before they buy those tickets that all the money spent, the energy used, will all be worth it again, because they’re with each other.
On tour, Chris and Darren keep their personal bubbles small around each other because there’s no other way to live on a bus. They never say they don’t mind being so close constantly. On tour, they are loud and obnoxious when they can afford to do so. They like going through the cities with Bob and Greta and spending money on cheap souvenirs. Most of the time, they like the variety, the different stages and soaring skyscrapers, but they still long for Chicago, and they long for the nights that are so predictable. On the road, in between longing and missing, Chris and Darren are prone to slow, gentle nights where they go undisturbed. But those don’t happen very often because The Hush Sound doesn’t stay in hotels very often. Or maybe it just seems that way to Chris and Darren. On the bus, they miss a lot of things like privacy and their families, but most of all, each other.
Chris and Darren sit together two years deep into their relationship. They plan on entering text-to-win contests advertised on TV, going to a Cubs game, smoking and drinking somewhere in the depths of Chicago, and discussing a new vacation they want to take. They want to get a hotel room to make it seem like they’re on tour again. They want, most of all, they want their time with each other to last forever.
Chris/Darren (The Hush Sound)
All about Chris and Darren's relationship.
Title shamelessly from "Defying Gravity", a song from Wicked. I was lost at what to name this.
Darren and Chris have a weird relationship. They often sit on couches during the day watching public television and flicking through channels to find text-to-win commercials. And they enter them simultaneously because they simply can. It gives them a sort of joy, a connection. They also make plans to go to places, like Salem, Massachusetts or New York City. They jot down the dates they want to go, what airline they will take, what they will do. And they research. They save, but they never make the airline reservations. So when their planned dates come up, they make it an excuse to hang out with each other. They sleep at each other’s places and make big meals. And best of all, they smile because they’re with each other.
Some nights they spend together are spent staying up all night like they’re thirteen again, playing video games and sharing hopes. Others are quiet and warm, the television on in the corner but no one watching it. They sit together on the couch, close. And they say very few words. They stare at each other and their hands, feel the shock through their touching knees. Sometimes Chris will change the channel and act like he’s looking for something good at two in the morning. He often gets distracted though and stops on the Home Shopping Network or something equally boring. Other times, on nights they just don’t know what to do with themselves, Darren and Chris will venture out of their familiar homes into even more familiar Chicago. They’ll just walk and enjoy the lights, the people, and the sounds. If they’re lucky, they’ll get tickets to see the Cubs play. They’ll take the L, watch it weave through neighborhoods and travel beside streets as they sit close together, but not too close. And when they get off, they’ll follow the crowd on sidewalks, and they’ll enter Wrigley, and they’ll smile because everyone is so energetic and willing to do anything to get the Cubs to win. Chris will smoke and Darren will drink some. At the end of the game, they’ll wait for the L with hundreds of other fans. Darren will feel dizzy and Chris worn. When they get home, they collapse onto each other, breath smelling faintly of peanuts, alcohol, and cigarettes. It’s always the same, but Chris doesn’t mind, and apparently Darren doesn’t either. They just know before they buy those tickets that all the money spent, the energy used, will all be worth it again, because they’re with each other.
On tour, Chris and Darren keep their personal bubbles small around each other because there’s no other way to live on a bus. They never say they don’t mind being so close constantly. On tour, they are loud and obnoxious when they can afford to do so. They like going through the cities with Bob and Greta and spending money on cheap souvenirs. Most of the time, they like the variety, the different stages and soaring skyscrapers, but they still long for Chicago, and they long for the nights that are so predictable. On the road, in between longing and missing, Chris and Darren are prone to slow, gentle nights where they go undisturbed. But those don’t happen very often because The Hush Sound doesn’t stay in hotels very often. Or maybe it just seems that way to Chris and Darren. On the bus, they miss a lot of things like privacy and their families, but most of all, each other.
Chris and Darren sit together two years deep into their relationship. They plan on entering text-to-win contests advertised on TV, going to a Cubs game, smoking and drinking somewhere in the depths of Chicago, and discussing a new vacation they want to take. They want to get a hotel room to make it seem like they’re on tour again. They want, most of all, they want their time with each other to last forever.