Keep Dreaming Up Ways to Survive

Chapter 19

Felix packed up his bag at the end of class, but as always he was the last. Looking up from his bag, he saw Dawson at the door.

"You're really slow, you know."

"I- uh... I'm trying to be faster." Felix mumbled, successfully dropping all his index cards in the rush, "I'm sorry! I- I didn't mean too!"

Dawson threw his head back groaning loudly, and dropped down on his knees. One by one, Dawson picked up the cards, making sure they were all going the same way.

"Stop apologizing, I'm not mad or anything. You're just clumsy, and I know that." Dawson reassured Felix.

"Sorry, I'm just... jumpy..."

"Yeah. I know that too."

Finishing picking up all the cards, Dawson stood up. Handing Felix the cards he said, "Don't drop these again. For multiple reasons, It takes time to pick them back up and I shouldn't be the one on their knees."

"Well... What?" Felix questioned quietly.

"Don't think about it too hard." Dawson chuckled, pulling Felix by the wrist.

A small, almost invisible grimace left Felix's throat. Somehow, Dawson seemed to understand what happened. In silence, they drove towards Dawson's house. As Dawson parked his truck, he helped Felix out of it and took a grip of his arm, this time avoiding the wrist.

"Oh, hey boys!" Octavia mused, while on the ground playing with Wyatt.

"Hey Octavia." Dawson said chilly.

"Hi Wyatt!" Felix cooed happily, "How are you!"

Octavia giggled quietly at Felix's adoration for Wyatt.

"Felix, stop having baby fever and come on." Dawson said half way out of the room.

Felix turned out of the living room and followed Dawson up the steps.

"So Dawson," Felix said sitting on Dawson's bed, "What are we going to do about Ms. Ann?"

"I... I really don't know honestly." Dawson said, laying back with his hands over his face.

"I'm tired. I wanna nap." Felix sighed.

"Me too, I'm stressed." Dawson agreed, "Oh why don't we just take a nap and try to dream about something?"

"Yeah, that's a good idea! Kill two birds with one stone." Felix replied, getting comfortable.

They both shuffled around for a second, the reason being it's difficult to get comfortable in such a small bed. Finally, they settled down and closed their eyes. Dawson opened his eyes after a second, seeing that Felix was already knocked out. Gently, he maneuvered his arm under Felix's shoulders. Successfully putting him in a cuddling position, when that was done Dawson decided to actually sleep.