Bromance In The band

Chapter 29

Michael's POV

I wake up, the harshness of the autumn light seeping through the blinds attacking my face, disrupting me from my sleep. I had the most wonderful dream.
I felt a hot body move under my arms, and that's when I remembered.
He let me in, finally.

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Ben's POV

I open my eyes slightly, not wanting be be fully awake yet. It's too cold as I can feel with my feet, however Michael is keeping me warm with a hug. It feels so nice to be almost back to normal. It feels nice to just be able to remain here for a while. I'm just so unsure as to how the rest of the day is going to pan out. I'm glad I let down my wall a little though, because honestly, I couldn't keep it up much longer.

I hear Michael sigh, his breath spending chills down my spine and causing me to shudder.
"Ben? Are you awake?" He coos, looking over my shoulder. I quickly shut my eyes.
"I can see your eyes moving, get up you lazy!" He giggles, and I let a huge smile spread across my face.
I rolled over as he removed his arms from my side.
"Morning..." I say, noticing my voice hitting an all time low on raspy. Maybe I'm getting a cold.
"Put your arms back around me, let's stay like this for a while."
He nods and wraps himself around me, laying his head on my chest.
"So, what now?" He asks.
"With us?" I ask and he hums back in response.
"We can work on it, together. But only if you promise me you're not going to break my heart again. I can't take that."
His face lights up, and he pulls himself up to look at me. "Really??" He exclaims, a few tears rolling down his cheeks. "I thought you would hate me!"
I giggle. "I don't hate you. I could never hate you."
"What then?"
"I'm in love with you. So no matter what, I will work on us. I promise."
"Well then." He says, propping himself up properly and smiling the familiar smile that I am so used to. "I promise to love you, and cherish you, from now to evermore."
He leans down, and kisses me slowly.
I smile and lean off.
"Careful, you sound like you just said wedding vows!" I laugh. "Also, we need to brush our teeth before kissing."
"Oh yeah, morning breath."

***

The day flew by quickly, after Michael and Ben broke the news to dan that they were officially back together.

"Wait, you broke up?" Dan asks.
Ben just looks at Michael and waits for him to reply.
"Well, we never really broke up but I guess we just mean we are talking again. So yeah."
Dan looks at Ben, and smiles weakly. "And us? Do you forgive me?"
Ben looks at the floor and sighs.
"No. But I'll work on it like me and mike will work on our relationship. I will forgive you eventually, I just need time."
Dan nods in acceptance. "Friends though?"
"Yeah, friends."
Michael and dan exchange glances and both awkwardly start to look around the room.
"Soooooo..." Ben started. "Are you two friends again?"
"Best friends?" Dan asks Michael hopefully, holding out his arms.
Michael smiles and runs into them, taking the offer of a hug.
"Forever!"

They never really had to tell George anything. He walked in around tea time, took one look at Michael sitting on Ben in the same old chair and nodded, walking out of the room and into the garden.
No questions asked.
Ben rang his mum, and told her all about the holiday, and informed her that he would be going home soon with some news to tell her.
He still hadn't come out to her about Michael.
And nor had Michael come out to his family, as he phoned them and told them that he would be skyping them to tell them something important later.
And of course, the fans still don't know.

"How about we host one last gig and tell them that we have to tell them a story. And we can tell them the whole thing, like it was a fanfiction, only at the end, we kiss!" Michael asks excitedly. "We could pre write it and everything. That would be so cool."

"That would be a good way to do it. Dan?" Ben asks.
"Yeah, and what about coming out to your parents?"
"Don't worry, I have an idea of how to come out to mine. We will do that later!" Michael joins in.

In the end, they all end up watching Jeremy Kyle and eating junk food for a few hours.

***

Michael's POV

"BEN!" I called. "GET IN HERE NOW!"
Ben comes crashing through into our bedroom, with a worried look.
"What's wrong??"
"Nothing." I smile, and I pat the bed, beckoning him to come and sit down. "Here, sit. I have to do something."
Ben comes and sits next to me, as I pull out my phone and open the Skype app, clicking on my sisters ID.
"What are you doing?" He asks, fumbling around with his thumbs and looking at me.
"You'll see!" I smirk.
A few rings later and my sisters face pops up on the screen. She smiles and waves at me. "Hi Michael!"
"Hey! Can you get mum and dad please?" I grin. She calls down to them and I hear them walking up the stairs.
"What did you call for?" She asks.
"I have something to show you all!"
Ben, was innocently looking at the floor and waiting for me to tell him what was going on. Which I'm not going to do.

"Hello Michael, love!" My mum coos over the line, her face lighting up as I smile at her. "Hey mum, hey dad!"
"How was your holiday my boy?" My dad questions, trying to figure out where the camera was on roxanne's phone.
"It was good, thank you! The beach was lovely. It was cool to just chill."
"That's great Michael. Was that all you wanted to talk about?" My mum looks puzzled as does my dad.
"I actually have to show you something!" I say.
"Ben, will you hold this?" I pass him my phone, as Ben looks at me strangely.
"Hi!" He says to my parents, and they say hello back.
"Hold it up higher." I ask.
"Okay." Ben says. "But why?"
I just grin.
"So, mum and dad.. I said I have to show you something."
They both nod their heads and smile at me, both oblivious to what was happening.
I turned to face Ben after making sure the camera could get both of us in it.
"Here goes." I whisper, grabbing Ben's face with both of my hands and kissing him, both passionately and softly. His dry lips kissed back, after he let out a surprised groan.
The kiss ended with the sound of my sister and my mum shrieking. Ben almost dropped the phone.
"What????" I jump.
My sister and my mum continued to scream, but began to jump up and down.
"I FUCKING KNEW IT!!" Roxanne yelled, laughing and crying at the same time. "NOW BEN CAN BE MY GAY BEST FRIEND OH MY GOD!!!"

Well that went better than I planned.