Honey Hotline [ a Pico x Keith (bf) fanfiction ]

CHAPTER 2 - DROWNING

It was about a day after the day pico met him.
He tends to forget, but he still can't get keith off his mind. He still doesn't get what is so special about him and why his feeling was so sudden. He has thought for a moment about it, but he just shook it off as annoying to think about.

A pack of cigarette on his bed table and his uzi in the drawer, he zoned out for a while on his bed , scrolling through social media on his phone, with a stern face that seemed to be bored to death.
It's right before closing his eyes to sigh that a text popped up in his messages. It was from keith.

He jumped right out of his state , sitting up straight up on his bed with his eyes wide open.
After a couple seconds of realizing what was going on, he grabbed his phone to look at the text.

"Hey! :)"

Cute...
Somehow, he guessed keith was the type to put stuff at the end of his texts. But now was not the time to think about it, he had to answer somehow-
After a short moment of panicking that felt like ages, he slowly but surely typed out his answer to make sure he did not miss-spell anything.
After hesitating to press the send button, he did it, his heart beating irregularly from the pressure and his embarassment.

"Hey"

God that was bland. He beat himself up for that, god he shouldve just taken the whole evening to think about what to send and pretend he just didn't see it-

"How are you,pico? It's been a while since we've spoken."
"It's been a great time, it'd be nice if you could come visit more or something! lol"

"I WISH SO TOO ARGHSHSTHSO"
He shouted into his phone,head down and shaking hands, with a comically pained expression.
He wasn't exactly unable to come visit him, he just really can't come over himself to come over, no matter how bad he wanted to hear keith's voice.
It really is just his fault for being a coward for the first time in his life and not know how to handle it.

He quickly typed before shoving his face into the matress , holding his phone up and sending the message with his eyes closed as if his phone would explode or something.

"I'd come if I could. I can't exactly come like that without warning since I'm not like. Part of your social circle like family or friends"

"Oh but we are friends!! I could let the hospital know that you are close so you can come visit anytime."

He had his mind a mess, inching towards blushing like hell but also screaming into oblivion for being so dumb by telling him he couldn't come.
He sent a simple:

"Yeah, you can do that. I'll come visit you maybe tomorrow."

"Alright! See you by then. Do you want to talk a bit while we can? Or maybe you're busy, I don't mind. :]"

The thought of talking to keith for the whole afternoon made pico kind of happy.

"Yeah sure."

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And so they have been talking for the past hours. Telling eachother stories, things about them, without telling too much. Probably both with a wide smile through the screen, it's already night time and keith lets pico know he's feeling weak and tired.

"See you tomorrow then".

They both turn their screens off, keith dosing off in his hospital bed, almost unable to wait for tomorrow. Yet, while thinking of pico, he slowly closes his eyes and falls asleep with a warm feeling in his chest. He's smiling, for a rare time being at night in this lonely place.

All the meanwhile, pico is taking a smoke outside of the balcony of his appartment, thinking about keith as if he should bring him something the next day.
Perhaps he would like flowers? Wait he's already got many of these. He'll think of it another time.