An unexpected love || Ant x Stephen

The Morning after. Pt 2 - Chapter Three

"Yo ant, you in?" The shorter Geordie man shouted into ants house. "Uh yeah I'm in the kitchen!" He shouted back. When Dec walked in ant was washing the dishes. "What's wrong?" Dec asked worried ant gave a confused look "how'd you know there was something wrong?" Dec rolled his eyes at ant "we've been best mates since we were 13. Also you have a dishwasher you only wash the dishes by hand if your trying to distract yourself."

Ant hated how much Dec knew him, it meant he couldn't ever hide when there was something wrong. No matter how hard he tried, Dec always knew. He kept thinking to himself though 'should I talk to dec about it?' Eventually he came to the decision to talk to him about it, other wise it would eat him up inside.

"Well..." he started off, but had trouble finding the words to use, he swallowed the lump in his throat and tried to speak again. "It's just...it's about Stephen." He finally got out when decs face look even more worried than before "what happened??" Ant looked at Dec then back down to the floor. "Something happened last night." Decs worried expression turned to confusion. "Continue...what happened?" Ant took a deep breath and explained. "Once you, Phil and holly left, i took Stephen upstairs to put him to bed. And uh I did that I got him up and changed, then uh...he sort of, well we sort of...kissed-" ant said waiting for Dec to say something. Dec just pulled a surprised face.

Decs one of the only people who's opinion ant really cares about. Dec didn't really know how to react, he didn't know whether ant was mad at Stephen or whether this was ants way off...coming out, to dec. "oh" Was all Dec could figure to say. "Oh" ant copied. "What...uh what does this mean?" Dec asked curiously with a hint of worry in his tone. He was hoping he wasn't mad at Stephen or that their friendship was ruined because they both really like hanging out with Stephen, it's not actually like it is on TV. I mean they both love taking the piss out of Stephen and winding him up but as a friend banter sort of way.

"Well..." ant started off again when Dec interrupted. "I mean do you...like him?" Ant had trouble finding his words so he just shrugged his shoulders. Dec started thinking 'maybe he's scared to admit it to me...or himself' he took a deep breath and said "you know it's okay?" Ant gave a slightly confused look "it's okay if your gay. I'm not going to treat you any differently, I didn't with Stephen when he came out and I won't with you." Hearing dec say that made ant smile and feel slightly more comfortable talking about this. Ant stared at Dec smiling. "I like Stephen..." he started laughing. Dec laughed along with him "you like Stephen!" They keeping laughing and dec gives ant a hug and whispers in his ear. "I'm proud of you ant mcpartlin!" Ant lets out a lob sided smile. "So?" Dec asked whilst ant had a confused expression on his face. "So what?" Dec rolled his eyes again. "What are we going to do about this?" He asked as ants face dropped "what? No we aren't doing anything!!" Ant replied slightly scared. "What do you mean we have to-" Dec was interrupted by the car horn going off for them to be picked up to head to the studio.

"Oh look we've got to go." Ant said relieved Dec let out a huff. "Saved by the horn I guess." As ant grabbed his jacket from the coat rack and his keys he ushered Dec out of the house. "This conversation isn't over mate!"