Walking hand in hand felt better than Ricky had ever imagined. He had held hands with L.Joe many times before, but with the romantic atmosphere and the comfortable silence between it was all so perfect and special.
Despite the late night, were neither of them tired or sleepy. The happiness inside them brought some excitement in them. L.Joe smiled all while having Ricky so close to him.
“This is so nice”, he whispered suddenly and squeezed Ricky's hand. “You have no idea how long I've wanted to just do this – hold your hand and just walking”.
Ricky bit his lip to not crack up in a wide smile. He was touched by L.Joe's words and couldn't have said it in any better way than the latter had already done.
“I've missed you. Ever since that... horrible thing, it felt as though my heart was scattered and I was incomplete”, he said honestly and nodded slowly.
Before neither of them knew it, had their school come in view. Neither of them wanted to say goodnight quite yet, it was all written in their eyes. L.Joe pouted and then licked his lower lip.
“Why don't we go for another round? I'm to worked up and energized to even thing of sleeping”, he suggested and received a quick nod from Ricky.
“There's a playground not far from my grandma's house. How about we go there?”, Ricky said and pointed down the street where his grandmother's house was.
L.Joe nodded and the two kept walking. Only this time, had L.Joe snuck his arm around Ricky's shoulders and Ricky had his arm loosely wrapped around his boyfriend's waist.
“So... the new roommates of yours”, L.Joe began with an almost suspicious tone lingered around his sweet, loving voice. “Do you like them?”.
Ricky chuckled with a hoarse voice and shrugged. “They're nice. I think Joon, the dark haired guy that clung onto Kevin all day, has a thing for him. I think it's sweet, but Kevin is just as straight as a ruler, so it'll be hard for Joon”, Ricky began and laughed at the memory of Joon feeding Kevin. “And Ken, the blonde guy, is a bit of a mystery. He's very funny and kind and he's doing his best to be friends with Joon. And since Joon only has eyes for Kevin, he's trying harder. But they're good. Both of them”.
L.Joe rolled his eyes. “Mm-hm, but that wasn't what I meant”.
“Aish, pabo, of course I don't like them like THAT! How could I when I'm in love with you?!”, Ricky almost screamed and stared at his snickering boyfriend. “W-why are you laughing?”.
“I'm enjoying your mental breakdown, princess”, he grinned and planted a soft kiss on his cheek. “I know you don't like neither of them like that... they're too tall for your liking”.
At that comment, Ricky wanted to jokingly say he didn't mind people being tall, but that would be a complete lie as he did mind people being tall. Especially taller than him, which seemed to be quite the trend lately.
Instead, he pouted and hit L.Joe on the arm.
They reached the playground, that was empty and free from crying, screaming and laughing children. It wasn't very impressive, it had three swings, an old slide with the red color cracked and gave it an old feel. It was almost a bit scary on the playground, there was only one lamp by the old, white painted fence that surrounded it.
“Let's go to the swings”, Ricky said in a childish tone and ran up to the swings and called dibs on the one in the middle.
L.Joe just laughed at his baby-like boyfriend and slowly walked up to the swings with a playful expression over his face.
“Are you happy?”, he asked Ricky with a vague smile on his lips.
Ricky swung back and forth in a slow pace and nodded at his boyfriend. “Mm. Since I'm here with you, I am”.
L.Joe snickered and looked up at the sky that was decorated with millions and millions of sparkling stars. Ricky followed his boyfriend's eyes and felt his smile widen. Yes, he was happy.
“Are you happy?”, he asked curiously and felt his hand being gripped gently. He looked down at his hand and saw that L.Joe had entwined their hands together.
“I was going to say something really cheesy, but decided not to”, he laughed and nodded at Ricky. “I'm very happy, too”.
