Chatoyant [ Septiplier ]

Chapter One

Jack's POV

I met him when I went to Sarah's house for the first time. Sarah knew I was gay, but she doesn't know I have the biggest crush on her brother. I guess it was his eyes that drew me in, the way he looked at things and focused. It was amazing and I loved it in every way possible. My favorite part about him is when he looks at cats, he just radiates pure happiness. It's amazing and it's like you can feel how happy he is to be with that cat my just standing next to him! I want him to be that happy around me, but I'm afraid he just sees me as a kid brother... he's only two years older than me! 

Right now, I'm sleeping over at Sarah's house. Her mom won't let us stay in the same room at night no matter how gay I am.  So of course, I'm sleeping on her living room couch, in nothing but underwear and a t-shirt. That's okay though right? It's not like their family wakes up early- and I would know. I was always the first up at these sleep overs. Sometimes I even made breakfast for them. The first few times I did that, Mrs. Fischbach was apologetic and told me I didn't have to, but I wanted to and so I kept doing it. I think I've become more familiar than everything in their kitchen than Mark has anyway.

Speaking of Mark, here he comes in all his half-naked glory. Just like usual, 2:00 am and I'm on my phone while he's making cereal for some ungodly reason. 

"Hey Jackarooney." Mark came over and messed up my hair sitting on the chair opposite of me. This was what happened. I guess I should be lucky we do this, but to be honest it sucks.

"Hey Markimark." I just have to endure the 15 minutes it takes him to mow on that cereal, and I'm golden.

"Whatcha doin?" He says with a mouth full of food and gesturing to my phone. I just shrugged and turned it on sleep mode. I gave him a smile and moved my hands behind my head and leaned it back. "Soooooooo, dating anyone yet?"

I scoffed and looked at him with a soft smile on my face. "Like any guy would enjoy this." And I gestured to my body. 

"Oh, I forgot you were gay... How long have we known each other 2 years? Haha, 2 whoooole years." He giggle and shoved more cereal into his face.

I gave him a look kinda like that look Tetra gave Link in Wind Waker when they were leaving outset island. We both giggled quietly. This is why I like Mark. He's calm and easy to talk to. I might desperately want him to like me, but as he said- we've known each other for 2 years and It's just easy to converse with him. He sees me as a brother figure and I don't want to ruin that kind of bond with him, although I really wish I could break it as well.

"I'm gonna go to sleep Mark, I'm not up for another all night-er." I went back to closing my eyes and snuggling into my warm blanket.

"See ya tomorrow then." He ruffled my hair as he passed me to go rinse out his bowl in the sink, and left. 

I opened my eyes again and looked at the ceiling. God, why is this so complicated. I never asked to fall in love with Mark, but here I am wishing I was curled up in his arms like the gay- I mean guy I am. Mark himself is bisexual. I remember when I came out to this family. They took it much better than my family did. My parents just rolled their eyes and said "sure" but that's okay I guess. As long as they're not convincing me I'm not, I'm perfectly fine with it.

The next morning I woke up at 8:00. Everyone was asleep, except... Mark? He was sitting on his chair and probably reading on his phone. He wasn't wearing his glasses, so he was holding his phone up close to his face. I know a lot of people who do that. It always makes it look like they're taking a picture of you. I sat up and Mark looked startled.

"Oh, hey your'e up" He said still looking at me with that face.

"Yeah, I am. Who do ya think makes your breakfast when I sleep over." I giggled.

Mark started smirking at said, "Your accent is much more noticeable when you first wake up." I didn't know how to respond so I just said "Oh." and scratched the back of my head. "I'm kinda glad Sarah left her music on last night or I might not have ever known that about you."

"Sarah left her music on?"

"Yeah For some reason it just started blasting loudly but when I went to go tell her, she was still asleep so I turned it off for her. God, she's a heavy sleeper." Mark sighed out.

I giggled and stood up. Someone had to make breakfast. I pulled my shirt down because it was riding up, and slid on my sweatpants. I know Mark was right there and I should be embarrassed, but I hadn't had coffee in awhile and I really couldn't give two fucks at the moment. I headed into the kitchen and started making eggs and toast. Simple, because they all should be up in about a half hour.

I looked at Mark from the kitchen and he was staring at his phone with a lazy smile on his face. Whatever he is smiling at is lucky. 

"Mark, food's on." I called out. "Since the others aren't up yet I'm gonna wake them up myself." As I was walking out of the kitchen, I almost bumped into Mark. He held my waist and moved past me, letting go as he got farther away. My heart lurched at just that contact. That small bit of contact. I pretended I didn't just have a heart-attack and proceeded down the hall to wake up everyone. Sarah opened the door with a smile on her face just as I was about to knock.

"Morning!" She said in an incredibly cheerful way. It was slightly unlike her, but whatever. I wen't and dragged Mark's mom out of bed by telling her I had some tea already made for her- which I did.  

We all sat at the table having small conversations and Sarah had the weirdest smile on her face.

"Oh! Sea- er uh, Jack!" She was way too excited for her own good. "You left your Shadow of the Colossus muscle shirt in the bathroom when you changed out of your exercising stuff." I looked at her suspiciously specific sentence.

"Okay, thanks. I'll get it after breakfast."

"You like games Jack?" Mark asked.

"Uh, yeah. I'm surprised you didn't know that... almost all my clothes are game- related." 

"Huh." Was all he responded with as he inhaled the rest of his food. Yeesh, how can one eat so much but look at good as him. "You exercise too?"

"I started a month ago. I figured with all the pizza I ate on a daily basis, I needed to lose something." Mark looked at me up and down.

"Huh." He said again. I feel like Sarah's smile just got bigger. Me staying over for an entire month while my parents are in Vegas is gonna be awkward.   

A/N Soooo Instead of making a new character story, I made this as a series thing and I'm gonna update it when I can. I'm a huge procrastinator when it comes to homework so updates shouldn't be a problem. Enjoy!