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Blush // Showing Love

It's morning, and the newsies have just woken up. Mush sits up in bed and yawns. He looks around the room as everybody is moaning because they have to get up so early. He turns to his right to see his boyfriend Blink still asleep. They usually sleep on separate sides of the bed so Blink didn't feel Mush waking up,
"Hey..." Mush softly nudges, "Dude, wake up."
"Morning already?" Blink mumbled getting up, "I feel like I just fell asleep."
Mush laughed, "Yeh it feels like that sometimes." He stood up to make the bed as Blink went to the washroom to take a shower.
As Mush was making the bed, he felt a tap on his shoulder, he turned to see it was Henry, "'Dude?'" Henry raised an eyebrow,
"Oh, hey dude!" Mush smiled,
"No- you call your boyfriend 'dude'? What the hell?"
"Well what am I supposed to call him? We're not a big fan of all the lovey-dovey name."
"Why not?"
"Just seem unnecessary," Mush shrugged, "besides, I don't know that many petnames."
"Well," Henry sat on his bed thinking, "there's babe or baby, darling, sweetheart or sweetie, sunshine, sugar-"
Mush laughed, "They are all awful! And they don't fit Blink or me at all?"
"What do you think of when you see him?"
"I don't know? Cool hat?"
Henry sighed, "You're hopeless. I'm sure you love him alot but I don't think you know how to show it."
"I do." Mush protested, "We do things together."
"Like what?"
"We sleep in the same bed-"
"On opposite ends."
"We kiss-"
"Like once a week."
Mush frowned, though Henry had a point, he decided to ignore him and go get ready for the day.

When we came back to his bed to get read, Blink was there, putting his bag over his shoulder,
"Hey-" Mush thought about using a nickname but just went on to his regular, "...Dude, I'll see you tonight?"
"Maybe, I might arrive alittle late tonight." Blink shrugged,
Mush nodded, "It's fine I'll wait for you."
Blink looked at him confused, "Why?"
"I don't know... we can spend the night together."
"We spend every night together already."
Mush just sighed, "See you tommorow then."
Blink nodded, "See you tomorrow."
They give eachother a quick peck on the lips before leaving.

While selling on a random street near a library, Mush started kicking a pebble around, bored as hell. He looked around, nobody was going to buy a newspaper if he stayed in the same spot so he got up and started stumbling around when saw in the distance a young couple, they were sitting on a bench, holding and kissing eachother. Mush hated pda, he stuck his tongue out in disgust and walked away. He crossed his arms and tried to find where every other newsie was so he could hang around them. He then saw the twins sitting on the street, "Hey, what are you guys up to?"
"Selling." Mike said,
"Yeh, clearly." Mush flopped down besides them.
"I want to Brooklyn tomorrow to visit my boyfriend." Ike smiled to start conversation,
"Oh, why?" Mush asked,
Ike and Mike looked at eachother confused before Ike answered, "Cause I want to talk to him?"
"But don't you guys send eachother letters?"
"Yeh, but I want to spend time with him."
"Doing what?"
"Regular couple stuff, I don't know."
Mike just tapped his brother, "Don't bother, Mush doesn't know what a regular relationship looks like."
Mush frowned "What does that mean? I've dated lots of people."
"Yeh, but your like, not a relationship person, you hate affection and you hate showing any type of love."
"Ok, Mike, first of all, we dated for like a week-"
"5 months."
"Whatever, your just mad I broke up with you."
"I broke up with you, I though you acted so cold cause you were ashamed of me, turns out, your like that to Blink too."
Mush thought for a bit, "All the nicknames, hugs and kisses- doesn't that get alittle over whelming?"
Mike smiled, thinking of his own boyfriend, "Of course not, it actually makes things a whole lot easier, I don't wonder if he loves me and I'm sure he knows I love him."
Ike nodded in agreement. Mush thought for a second, "Oh no, am I a bad boyfriend?"
The twins were about to reassure him, but Mush just got up and walked away.

That night, everyone got prepared to go to bed. As Mush expected, Blink was late, he didn't know how late, but he decided to wait for him. When everyone was asleep, he snuck onto the fire escape and looked out into the streets of new York. He knew Blink wanted to keep their relationship private, but there isn't much of a relationship to keep private. He waited hours outside until he eventually saw Blink walking up the street.
"Hey!" Mush called down from the fire escape,
Blink looked up, since he has monocular vision and it was pretty dark, he had to squint alittle and saw it was his boyfriend, "Hi!" He called back, "Why aren't you asleep?!"
"What are you? My dad?!" Mush called back. Blink laughed and headed inside. Mush waited until Blink joined him on the fire escape, "You said you wouldn't wait for me." Blink sat down.
Mush sat beside him, "Well, I did. I wasn't going to, but I did."
"Why?" Blink asked, taking off his bag, "You want to talk to me about something?"
"Well, I didn't plan on anything..."
"Ok, then we should get to bed-" Blink stood up,
"-or you could sit and we can just...spend time together. It's nice out."
Blink smiled, "It is, I don't remember a single night where I haven't been too warm or too cold." He awkwardly waited for Mush to get up, when it was clear he wasn't, Blink sat back down.
"You know..." He said, "I can tell you have alot on your mind, are you OK?"
"Just a convo with an ex," Mush chuckled, "Mike...he said that I'm not very affectionate I noticed that alot of the newsies think I treat you more like a friend, I call you dude, I hate cuddling, I hate petnames, but if I hate doing those things with you, does that mean I... don't show you enough love."
Blink went quiet.
Mush elaborated, "I do love you! So much- but...I think we struggle to show it..."
Blink looked at Mush, almost tearing up, "I love you too... I've never dated anyone before, and I knew you've been in a few relationships so I thought it was up to you to lead things. I never new how to show affection so I kinda... followed your lead."
"But what do you want?" Mush took Blinks hand,
"Well..." Blink sniffled a little, "I'm not sure... I've always wanted you to hold me... and call me something cute, and maybe I could call you something cute..." He looked up at the sky, smiling to himself at the thought, but then he looked at Mush who looked guilty, "I would do all these things for you- I'd do anything for you."
They quickly embraced eachother tightly, and in that moment, Mush realised that the boy he was hugging was all his, his boy, his Blink. When they let go, Mush cupped Blinks cheeks and peppered his face with kisses. Blink was giggling uncontrollably, "Okok-" though he was blushing and trying to push him away, Blink secretly loved it.
As soon as Mush pulled away, Blink nervously sat on Mushs lap, straddling his legs, "Let's keep this between us, ok?" Blink smiled, holding his boyfriends chin up.
Mush blushed and nodded. Blink quickly looked out the window inside the lodging house, when he saw no-one was looking, as most were either asleep or reading or something, he looked back at Mush, leading him into a kiss. After a while, they pull away, Blink asked softly, "Can I call you my love?"
Mush would normally cringe, but he looked at Blink with goofy love-drunk smile, hickeys all over his neck, "Of course."
Blink chuckled, "We should probably get to bed."

They got up and headed inside, the slowly walked to their bed. Blink lay down first, and Mush followed, holding him tightly, "Goodnight." He whispered.
"Goodnight, my love."

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