Close To You

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George's POV

I was pretty sure my dad caught us kissing, but he didn't say anything about it and just left it like this. It made me pretty happy to know that he either didn't know about it or that he didn't care about me being gay and kissing a boy.

After we ate on top of the mountain, we went down again. Clay held me tight again so I wouldn't be scared and when we sat down in the car hours later, I grabbed Clay's hand to tell him about a surprise I had. My parents told me that I had to ask Clay to go to a restaurant with me. He never went to restaurants except that one time with Sapnap and I wanted to go together with him now.

I saw it as a sort of date, though I wasn't going to tell him that since I was too scared to bring it up. I knew we kissed multiple times now and he probably wouldn't do that if he didn't really like me, but I was still too scared. If he wouldn't bring it up within a week, I would. I just had to find a right moment for it and not one where my whole family was with us.

When we got home, I left to go upstairs with Clay and sat on the bed as I smiled. 'You might be tired after today, but I still had a question. I wanted to surprise you and you need to eat a lot to make sure you get enough nutrients today. Would you like to go with me to a restaurant nearby? I will pay, don't worry about that.'

Clay giggled shyly, he looked down at his hands and then grabbed mine. 'I would love that, but is that too expensive? I looked at my PayPal and I have seven pounds, I can at least give you that.'

'Clay, stop. I don't want any of that money.'

'I can buy you a milkshake with whipped cream, I think I might be able to pay for that. I'm going to the toilet,' Clay said as he stood up.

I smiled and grabbed my phone to surprise Clay even more. I went to my PayPal and added two thousand pounds to Clay's PayPal. I knew it was incredibly much money, but as I said before, my parents were pretty rich and so was I. On top of that, Clay was happy with seven pounds, but I felt very bad for him. He barely had anything and I loved him so I wanted him to be happy.

Clay came back a minute later and sat down next to me, opening his phone again. 'I'm going to give you my seven- George, what?'

I giggled as I saw Clay's mouth fall open. His expression turned from sweet to shocked and unbelieving. 'Two t-thousand? Thank you so much, I don't have words-.'

'Yes, two thousand.'

'I never had that much,' Clay muttered. 'I never even had more than ten pounds. Why did you give me this? I don't deserve that.'

'You do deserve it,' I said.

Clay scooted closer to me and pulled me in for a hug. He closed his eyes and hid his face on my shoulder and my neck. He stayed like this for a little and then started pressing soft kisses on my neck. I gasped from the sudden motion and Clay looked up.

'Are you okay?'

'I was a bit startled, but you can continue if you want,' I whispered shyly.

'What about on your lips?' Clay giggled as his hand went up to my face.

'I'm down,' I said with a shy smile.

Clay smiled and gently pushed me down on the bed as he rolled on top of me, pressing his lips on mine. My hand went up to his hair as he was leaning on his knees, having one on each side of my hips. The kiss lasted slightly longer than it did before, but we broke apart since it was close to dinner time and we had to go to the restaurant.

I was happy that no one walked in this time, it would be really awkward if people saw us kiss again. What would I even say?

"We aren't in a relationship, we just kiss every day."

Luckily no one came in and Clay and I walked to the restaurant. It wasn't that far and we walked hand in hand, going inside of it.

The evening passed by way quicker than we thought it would. Clay and I just talked all evening, we laughed together, we held hands most of the time and we just enjoyed being together without my parents.

When we walked home, it was fully dark. Both of us were pretty full from the dinner, so I wanted to walk slowly, but I was way too scared.

I ended up being so scared that I felt a tear roll down my cheek as I squeezed Clay's hand. Clay noticed and pulled me close. 'What's wrong, Georgie?'

'I'm v-very scared,' I whispered.

'I'm here, George,' Clay said as he kissed my cheek, softly massaging my neck. 'I'm here with you, I'm here to protect you.'

I took a deep breath and Clay wiped my tears away as he started walking faster. 'Look there, you can see our holiday house already. You are going to be safe with me in your warm bed.'

'I'm sorry for crying,' I whispered. 'I'm very scared of the dark, heights and all those things.'

'And I'm here to protect you.'

I smiled and felt very safe in his arms. We walked home and immediately went up to our room to cuddle up.

'See, Georgie. It was all fine and I kept you safe. I really enjoyed today with you.'

'I did too,' I said with a bright smile.

We didn't do anything anymore and just closed our eyes as we laid down after changing our clothes to sleep. Before we knew we fell asleep within half an hour.

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