In the rain

Sounds cool (Light climbing class)

They all got back at 10:00pm and as soon as mike walked in made a beeline for the bed. Mike sunk down on the Washington's comfortable king sized bed in Matt and his guest room and fell asleep instantly...

'Mike was running through a cave, looking searching for something in particular but he couldn't remember what it was. After passing one more corner he saw blood, he followed it until he came to a stop right in front of a dead body. As if some unknown force pushed the body it flipped over to reveal Matt's face. Bloody and cut, but the worst part was... His jaw was smashed in and, there was blood... Everywhere. Mike heard an inhuman shriek in the distance slowly getting closer. When mike turned he was face to face with a pale monster, it lifted its claw for the killing blow...'

Mike jumped up in a sweat drenched shirt, he looked over to the bed next to his just to see Matt's sleeping figure. Alive and breathing, he was fine they were both fine...

Mike tried to go back to sleep but found it impossible, his mind was plagued by the horrible dream. He wanted for Matt to hug him again. He wanted to fall asleep in the younger males arms and know that he was safe.

And mike slowly realised that he wanted Matt, he wanted Matt to kiss and hug and hold. And that scared mike more than the dream. But he brushed the feelings aside for the moment and crawled out of his bed, creeping across the rug silently as he argued with his mind on waking up Matt.

He finally made up his mind and gently shook Matt.

"Was-dat?" Matt asked still half asleep.

"Matt can I... (This sounded so stupid now that mike thought about it, he felt like a two year old), can I sleep in your bed tonight? I had a bad dream." Mike finished lamely, he felt so stupid asking Matt like a toddler to sleep in the same bed just because of a bad dream.

"Mmm-ok." Matt moved over and held up the comforter letting mike crawl in thankfully, (mike slowly realised that Matt wasn't wearing a shirt but hopped under the blanket anyway).

"Thanks." Mike whispered, slightly wondering when he had become so sentimental. But the thought vanished as he quickly fell into a deep sleep.

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This was the second time Matt had slept with mike (not like... That but he didn't know what to call it) and he still felt as though it was natural, and this was also the second time the rest of their friends had made Matt and mike jump apart because of their presence.

Chris walked into their room later that morning, he had been instructed by Sam to tell them breakfast was ready and in her terms 'get their asses out of bed.'

But when Chris opened the large dark Oakwood door just to see mikes bed empty and the two boys cuddling in Matt's bed.

"Ugh, guys?" Chris asked waking up the two boys and making them jump apart, mike who was on the edge of the bed moved away from Matt so quickly he fell of the bed.

"Fucking shit Christ fuck, Chris I'm going to fucking kill you, you fucking nerd!" Chris didn't get to hear the rest of those swears for he had ran down the Washington stairs a deep red blush forming on his face, and the fear that mike was going to actually kill him.

Chris didn't make it far because when he got to the bottom of the stairs he ran into someone and they toppled over each other.

When Chris looked down (his glasses had been thrown off and landed somewhere to his right) he saw the blurry image of Josh under him.
If the blush he had for seeing mike and Matt was bad this was ten times worse.

"Hey Cochise." Chris could see the smug grin that Josh was wearing and he swore to any god that was up there that he was going to kill whoever invented stairs.

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Matt listened to mike finish his swearing with amused silence, after what felt like two minutes mike stopped swearing and Matt moved to peer over the side of the bed to see mike with his arm over his eyes.

"Fuuuuccckkk." Mike groaned into his arm.

"Are you ok?" Matt asked chuckling lightly.

Mike groaned once more as an answer then removed his arm away from his face and sat up.

"About last night... I ugh-" mike stumbled through his words and was then cut off by Matt's voice.

"Look, I don't want things to be weird between us." Matt explained.

"Yeah man I get it, I don't want things to be weird... Why would they be?" Mike added the last part not knowing if he would get an answer or not.

"Just because... I don't know, it's just I don't want to make it feel like I'm making you hang out with me because believe it or not mike we weren't really friends till like two days ago." Matt finished his statement by self consciously licking his lips.

It was true of course (mike had actually never heard Matt lie) they hadn't been really close friends when they were younger. They use to be as thick as thieves, you would never see the rule breaker with out his trusting friend. But after a while they grew apart, Matt had dropped out of band (which left a pretty devastated Chris and a never to be used again piccolo that still had the initials M.B on the outside) and decided to commit full time to sport and mike had started enrolling in class president and became to popular to hang out with one person at a time.

It was true they weren't really friends till they were stuck in a cave together... But mike wanted them to be friends, he wanted wanted to give what they had when they were young another try.

"But we are friends." Mike blurted out unintentionally.

Matt looked at mike as if he had grown a second head, then opened his mouth and licked his lips.

"Mike we haven't hung out alone since we were like twelve..." Mike moved his body so that he was sitting more comfortably on the cold floor of the Washington lodge.

"Why haven't we? I mean...hung out." Mike asked.

"I... Ugh I guess we were busy?" The sentence came out
sounding like a question.

But once again the words came from Matt's lips were no lies, they had been busy but it was no excuse... Well not to mike anyway.

"How about when we get back home we hang out some more, sound cool?" Mike suggested with a light shrug of his shoulders.

"Yeah sounds cool." Matt agreed after some consideration.

Matt got up off the comfortable bed and held out a hand for mike to take, Matt helped mike up and together they strode out of the room (Matt still painfully oblivious to how own shirtless body) just to see at the bottom of the stairs a bushing chris on top of a smirking josh.

"Hey boys get a room!" Mike yelled from the top of the stairs Matt laughing behind mikes figure.

And when they all got down to the breakfast table mike yelled out that he swore Chris was going to bust into flames of he got any redder.