first fic and first ever post. be nice?? :D
Joe glanced up from his phone and over at Nick. He was lying on the bed opposite Joe’s, sheets still clean and neat compared to those they had both slept in last night. Nothing overly exciting had happened, nothing ever did. They would share the bed, cuddle up against each other and keep one and other safe. Right now Nick was studying, trying to graduate as fast as possible, and he had his "I’m concentrating too hard" face on. Joe knew all too well that if his little brother didn’t take a break and check his levels soon he would have to deal with a very cranky Fro bro.
Joe lifted himself slowly from the ruffled sheets, making sure to move slow enough to at least appear casual. He left the shared hotel room and headed to Kevin’s suite in search of a black marker.
"Hey Kev, could I borrow that marker you had earlier?" Joe was already busying himself rifling through Kevin’s suitcases.
Kevin propped himself up on his bed and momentarily watched how sleek Joe’s movements were. He longed to reach a hand out and run it down Joe’s smooth, strong back. It was torture knowing how close he and Nick were and having to live with Joe's leftover affection. Remembering Joe’s request Kevin reached for the bedside table grasping the pen he had left there.
"Here" Kevin grabbed Joe's attention and chucked the pun to him, "what’s that for?"
"Gonna make Nicky smile, he needs to take a break." Kevin couldn’t help but feel a twinge of jealousy. He pushed it away quickly, remembering Danielle and the fact that Joe and Nick were so obviously in love with each other. By the time the oldest brother looked up again Joe was moving towards the door shouting a "thanks" and a "love you man" over his shoulder. If only Joe knew.
Joe returned to his and nick’s room, heading straight for the bathroom to prepare.
*
Nick was desperately trying to get through the physics chapter on resistance and resistivity. However he found himself experiencing increasing levels of boredom. That is until there was an upside down Joe head in front of him with pen marks on his neck and a goofy smile playing across his features. Just as Joe opened his mouth to speak the shape of the pen marks took form in Nicks work-slow mind. There were two eyes drawn on Joe’s freshly shaven neck, a nose on his chin and his inverted mouth played the same part as before. Joe’s squeaky mouse impression then rang through the air.
"Hello there wisest one of books and ponderence. Place a kiss upon my lips and I the poor cursed princess shall return to my beautiful form and I shall marry you and love you forever."
Nick isn’t quite sure what broke him, maybe it was all the moments leading up to this one or maybe it was the pure innocence of the gesture showing the deepest kind of love. But for whatever reason nick leaned forward and captured Joe’s lips in as sweet and light a kiss as there ever was. It was slow and easy and a definite first and neither pulled away, the raw emotion and the length of the kiss had both teens breathing heavily.
"Promise?" it was the rare, vulnerable side of nick that only Joe ever saw. The side he could never resist; the side he would never want to resist.
"Yeah Nick, I do. If that’s what you want then I’m all yours." Nick smiled soft and moved back on the bed, pushing books to the grungy hotel carpet, and gestured for Joe to follow him. They lay there trading gentle kisses and touches.
*
Kevin recoiled from the door of his younger brothers shared room, tears blurring his vision as he stumbled back against the corridor wall to guide him back to his room. He couldn’t do this out here. No, he had to have his bed to curl up in and his pillow to muffle his cries.
Joe had given himself to Nick and he was stuck in an engagement that he didn’t believe in. He loved Danielle, he really did. But it was nothing compared to how he felt about Joe or even Nick. It hurt more than he ever thought it would to realise he would spend the rest of his life drifting further and further from them.
Kevin cried himself numb and after hours of sobbing he fell asleep with tear tracks still running down his cheeks.