From Straight Lines to Circles (bxb) ***ON HOLD***

Chapter Eighteen

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***COLLINS POV***

"What the hell are you doing?" Danes voice snarled from the doorway, the shock making me drop the painting immediately.

"Ummm..." I started, unable to come up with a valid excuse. His face was murderous, the anger familiar on his handsome features. But there was something else lingering in his expression, a tinge of emotion I hadn't seen before.

Dane looked scared.

The thought made me guilty, sympathy filling me as I watched him struggle to cover his fear.

"Your painting is beautiful you know." I said truthfully, my voice soft and sincere. "I'm sure he'll love it." At my words his fear vanished, leaving behind a livid persona.

"How could you do that?" Dane yelled, his voice quaking in rage. "You looked at something private when I asked you not to! No one was ever supposed to see that!" He reached his hands to the top of his hair, running them through in stress. Heaving an angry sigh he slid to the floor, his head in his hands. "No one was supposed to see it." He mumbled helplessly, making the guilt flare even more in me. Carefully I moved closer, closing the gap between us but still keeping my distance.

"Dane do you... like Billy?" I asked awkwardly, wincing at the bluntness of my question. He reacted as I expected, raising his head and scoffing violently at the idea.

"No." He spat, anger marring his face.

"You know it's ok if you do, you're my best friend and-"

"No!" He repeated angrily, slamming his fist into the wall. I stayed silent, not out of fear, but out of pity. He breathed deeply in as if trying to calm himself, eventually speaking in a tone much less threatening than before. "I just fucked him." He stated brazenly, the small quiver in his voice almost unnoticeable. Confusion filled my system, making me raise an eyebrow.

"But doesn't that mean that you're-"

"No!" He shouted, interrupting yet again. "I had sex with him, but no fucking way am I a fag." He said firmly, the sliver of doubt almost unnoticeable in his voice.

But I noticed it.

"You know." I started softly, moving over and sitting down beside him on the. "We have done terrible things to innocent kids in our school, kids who have no control over who they are." I turned to look at him, noticing he was deliberately avoiding my eyes.

"And honestly? It was fucked up." Slowly he glanced upwards, his eyes gaurded. "Look, neither of us have exactly had open minded surroundings when it comes to sexuality." I stated with a dark chuckle. "But honestly I'm tired of hiding." I lightly punched him on the shoulder, trying to get him to raise his head. I stared pointedly at him, making him flinch. "And I think you are too."

I carefully gauged his expression, waiting for him to explode...

But it never happened.

For a second he even looked relieved, as if letting his emotion go had liberated him.

But that only lasted for a second.

Soon his face was indifferent, yet again angry and stoic. He shrugged his shoulders carelessly, the very picture of calm.

Unless you looked closely, noticing the shaking of his hands and the slight twitch of his eye.

"I don't know what you're talkin about." Dane stated lazily, picking his finger nails. "I was just horny and needed a good lay." He stated bluntly, making me roll my eyes. We then just sat for a minute, listening to the silence. And I got a strange inkling of yearning. Slowly I looked at him, staring deeply into his eyes. He looked confused, his expression nervous at my actions. Seeing Danes confusion, his poorly concealed pain...

It made me want to help him admit who he really was.

Slowly I leaned forward, moving my face closer to his as his warm breath panted across my skin. His eyes flickered involuntarily to my lips, making me smirk. Teasingly, I stopped a single inch away, chuckling at the loudness of his breath. And when I decided I had tortured him enough I completed the distance, connecting our skin and making our lips meet in a single, deep kiss.

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