My lighthouse

The broken elevator

Ryle's POV..~

We get to the hotel, and I leave Conrad to sleep in the car while I reserve a room and check us in. When I'm done with everything and the receptionist gives me the room card, I go back to the car to wake Conrad up.

I open his door to wake him but stop to admire him. I mean look at him. Ok I gotta admit that throughout the time we've spent with him, I might have grown a little crush. But don't tell Amira, she's been trying to set me up with him everyday. The only thing that gives me comfort is that he doesn't even know I'm gay. In his mind, I'm straight as a ruler. There's no chance he'll pick up on me liking him.

I shake his shoulders lightly.

"Conrad," I whisper, trying not to startle him.

He groans and readjusts himself, still asleep. I don't know what to do. This is one of the things I absolutely hate. Waking people up.

I nudge him a little harder and he jerks awake, almost crashing his face into mine. He stops himself just in time, but he's too close for me to be able to breathe. A blush creeps to his cheeks and he moves away.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," I apologize.

"It's fine, I'm a heavy sleeper," he says, his voice a bit groggy.

"I checked us into a room. Come on, you can sleep there."

"Okay"

He gets out of the car and follows me into the hotel and to the elevators. I take out my phone to check if I missed anything while we wait for the elevator.

Nothing.

Ugh, this is so awkward, I don't know what to say. I sneak a peek at him, and am surprised that he's already staring at me. He flushes bright red and looks away. What is up with him? Why does he keep blushing? Was he always like this?

Before I can answer any of these questions the elevator doors slide open and we go in. I click floor 6 and the elevator doors close. As we're is going up, the elevator suddenly stops. I look around panicking. What the fuck is happening? A beep sounds and a woman's voice comes out.

"Is everything okay with you guys?" she asks.

"Yeah, what's going on?" Conrad speaks up.

"There might be a tiny technical issue, but don't worry nothing's gonna happen to you. The elevators just stopped. The team will be here shortly to fix this, it won't take longer than 2 hours."

"2 HOURS?!" I yell.

"I'm sorry sir, but they'll try to be as fast as they can."

"Okay thank you," says Conrad calmly.

"You're welcome, and I'm sorry again."

Another beep sounds and she's gone.

I sit down and Conrad does the same opposite me. I stare at him and he stares back.

"So. What are we gonna do for 2 hours?" he asks.

"I don't know, you can go to sleep if you want. I'll wake you when they're done."

"No it's fine, I had a good nap."

"Okay, cool," I answer.

"Cool."

God, this is so fucking awkward, I can't even.

Me and Conrad have never really hung out unless it was with Amira, and Amira usually keeps the conversation flowing, but now, I'm lost.

"How's your little brother?" I ask, not knowing what else to talk about.

"He's fine."

Okayyy...

" I'm gonna watch 'Love, Victor' wanna watch with me?" I ask.
I've wanted to start this show for a while now.

"Sure, never heard of it though," he answers moving to sit next to me.

"It's a show about this closeted gay kid who then comes out and gets together with an openly gay guy at their school, and there's a lot of drama happening. I didn't start watching it yet tho."

"Ohh that sounds interesting," he says scooting closer as I start the first episode.

3 episodes later, Conrad's head was on my shoulder and it was really hard for me to breathe. My butt hurt from the way I was sitting, but I didn't want to move in case he decides to move away.

When we were in the middle of the 5th episode, I heard him snoring again. Damn, why is he so tired. I looked around for something to lay his head on, but there wasn't anything that would be comfortable enough, so I laid him down on my lap and closed my phone, leaning back on the wall. I was really tired but I didn't want to sleep until we get out of this hellhole.

I look down at Conrad on my lap. He looks so peaceful, and his mouth is forming a small O.

I don't know what came over me that second, but next thing I know, my face is moving towards Conrad's and I give his lips a feather-like peck. My stomach doesn't have butterflies now, it's a whole fucking elephant stampede.

I can't believe I just did that. My heart stops when he suddenly moves but he just snuggles into me a little bit, hiding his beautiful face.

Just when I think about taking a nap as well, the speaker beeps and the same woman from before speaks.

"Heyy, sorry guys for the long wait."

"Yeah hey."

"We'll repay you guys with a coupon for a free night here anytime you want, it doesn't have to be today."

"Thanks can we get out now?"

"Yea, click the floor you're going to again and it'll start moving, and I'm sorry again for the inconvenience."

I ignore her and reach up to click the 6th floor once again, and this time the elevators goes all the way up. The doors open, and I think against waking Conrad up, so I just pick him up baby style and make my way to our room. I bring one of my legs up to hold Conrad while using my hand to take the card out of my back pocket. When I finally get it out, I scan it and open the door. The room is pretty decent. It has a huge king bed with a nightstand on each side and a couch in front of the bed facing a tv. It has a dim lighting that give the room an aesthetic glow.
I move to the bed and lay Conrad gently on the pillows. I take off my shirt and pants, leaving me with my boxers. I go to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face. Once I'm done, I walk back to the bed and lay down next to Conrad. I snuggle a bit closer than necessary, but I'm gonna do whatever I want since he's sleeping.
Hopefully he doesn't say anything about how close we slept.
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Hope you enjoyed this chapterrr !
Sorry I haven't updated in a while but my life has been CRAZY.
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