It Started as a Joke

Not So Hidden

<<Wrighteous' POV>>

when i wake up i realize slat has his head on my chest. its honestly pretty comfy and even though he leaves in an hour i still decide to let him sleep. while i wait i take out my phone and watch tiktok while playing with his hair. after a few minutes i hear him chuckle "oh so you are awake" i say jokingly, he nods his head "i dont wanna go.." he mumbles i kiss him on the forehead as he starts to get up and get his stuff together. all he really brought was clothes and his phone but i guess he just wanted to make sure everything was together. "i should go get something to eat before my mom gets here if you wanna come with me.." he says as he leaves my room and i follow him into the kitchen he makes himself a bowl of cereal while i just grab a bag of chips we both sit down and eat while talking about youtube and dumb stuff. we keep talking until we hear a car honk outside, both of us turn our heads "i think thats your mom, you should go get your stuff and go before she gets mad" i say jokingly. we both go up to my room and he grabs his stuff "also before we get to where she can see us through the front window" i say before he leaves my room and kiss him on the cheek "bye!" i say happily "bye babe!" he says and turns to leave, i just sat there blushing at what he called me

<<Slat's POV>>

i keep walking towards and out the door just thinking about what i called him.. what if he didnt like it? shit im so cringy. when i finally get to the car door my mom is flooding me with questions "so how was it at wrighteous' house?" she asks me. i shrug my shoulders "it was fine" i respond not really thinking anything "whos got you blushing like that?" she asks, i freeze forgetting the fact she would see me blushing "mom! im not blushing its just hot outside!" i respond in a jokingly annoyed tone. she laughs to herself and continues driving silently like usual. whenever i tell wrighteous the car was silent he says how much he hates when it gets silent because that usually means something bad. but my family doesnt really care about eachother enough to have a full on convorsation and none of us really like small talk so thats just what ive been used to. "were here" i hear my mom say, i stop zoning out and opened the door, headed inside. when i get inside i immediately go to my room and jump on my bed like usual to talk with wrighteous,thats all i really like doing now. my dad is usually asleep, my mom is usually watching tv, my sisters either not home or on a phone call with her "guy best friend" who almost everyone in the house knows is her boyfriend, including wrighteous who doesnt even live here. making friends was kinda hard since i couldnt really talk about my family or anything without getting in trouble for it being innapropriate, big reason why i wanted vr because you can make friends like that. but im glad i met wrighteous. sure it wasnt from vr but im lucky he lived near me and goes to the same school as me. we share almost all of our classes and sit next to eachother in any class we were allowed to choose seats in. weve annoyed the teacher multiple times just by talking, its funny. "hey dumdum wanna go to walmart with me?" i look up and see my sister standing at my doorway "sure why not." i respond sort of surprised, she usually doesnt ask me to go with her anywhere unless she wants to talk to me. i get up and leave my room with my phone following her out the house and to her car. she starts the car "so what did you want to talk to me about" i ask her. she shrugs, "are you telling me i cant just want to hang out with my little brother?" she asks me back. i look her in the eyes with an annoyed tone, although shes mainly paying attention to the road, she gets the point. "fine. but honestly i forgot the question so i guess this is just us hanging out." she responds, i continue texting wrighteous, there really was no topic, it was one of those convorsations where the subject changes every 2 seconds ya know? "oh thats what i wanted to ask," she says. i turned my head confused "who are you texting?" she asks "uh wrighteous, why" i respond. this just turned into an awkward conorsation "okay but who were you texting in your room?" "wrighteous again, why" "so youre gay?" "what? how is texting my friend gay?" "normal people dont blush at their fuckin phone when texting their friends, slat" i sat up and froze out of shock, have i really been blushing? i didnt even feel it! "we werent even flirting this time, how?" i say quietly to myself "that implies you guys have flirted before?" she says annoyingly "no! well yeah but as a joke!" i respond "if you were blushing at a normal conversation with him then i think that just says something about how you feel about wrighteous.." she says in a more serious tone "listen just dont say anything to mom or dad" i say with my head down, ashamed of the fact she saw that. "of course not, i know how they are and everything so i would never. now i understand why youd rather go to his house than go on vacation with mom and dad. i didnt go either although i stayed home instead of going somewhere" she rants, jesus christ she talks a lot but this conversation, honesly makes her seem nice. "but back to the question, are you gay?" she asks. i shrug, "i dont know.." i respond, still texting wrighteous but the topic is on what is happening right now, im just scared shes lying and is going to tell mom anyway.. "thats fine," she says, making me feel a little less that shes gonna tell our parents. i sigh, "i AM dating wrighteous though.." i say in responce to the original question, she looks surprised, then sighs of what looks like releif "i knew it was gonna happen at some point since when yall first hang out at our house. just how you acted together, i dont know about him but you seemed 30x more comfortable when he was over, even when yall were on the phone or in vr i could just tell." she rants AGAIN, if you cant tell she talks a lot 'bruh she knew we would date when you first came over we aint safe here' i text wrighteous, he responds with the sobbing emoji. she pulls into the parking lot of walmart "oh shit were actually going to walmart?" i ask "oh shut up do you want stuff or not?" she asks me sounding annoyed in a joke way. she gets out of the car and i follow her into the store, running immediately to the oy section like a little kid, my sister just follows me laughing at how childish i am, either that or laughing at me for being cringy, i dont know or care that much.

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