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Chapter Twenty-Three

A/N: @melodychord before you worry, no, this is not the last chapter ;) There are at least 6 more so no worries.

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“You went to see a priest?!” Jonny exclaimed in surprise.

Chris shifted in his seat and reclined against the bus window to face Jonny better, “Yeah, man! Can you believe it?” For the past hour they had been catching up on the events that had led them to where they were now. There were so many details Chris had almost forgotten and so many things he did not know, he had been delighted to see their story through Jonny’s eyes.

“Really? And what did he tell you?” Apparently Jon was as eager to know everything as he was.

“That it was all just platonic and that it would go away. He was pretty understanding, for a priest, you know. He did not exorcise me or anything in case you were wondering,” he chuckled.

“That’s always good,” Jonny said with a laugh, “I would have never thought of discussing it with a priest! I would have been seriously terrified!”

“Oh, I was terrified! And quite desperate, too, as you might have guessed!”

“I do recall doing an internet search once, a couple of times actually,” Jon admitted.

“Oh, really? What about?” he pressed on, a trace of mischief on his face.

“Well, you know!” Jonny said and laughed.

“No, I don’t,” Chris told him smugly, “Do tell me!” he taunted. He wanted not only to tease his lovely friend, but also to hear him saying it.

“Well, about you know, liking your friend and stuff, your….male friend and you know the possibility of liking both……genres...,” he trailed off with a nervous laugh.

“And so?”

“So what?”

“What did you discover?”

“Well, that it was more common that I thought it was and it made me feel more normal and less like a perverted freak,” he finished with a chuckle.

“You’ve always been quite the perv, Jon, admit it,” he jested.

A wicked look crossed the guitarist’s eyes and he leaned forward towards him, “Oh, you have not really seen my most perverted side,” he murmured in a low voice, “yet,” he finished with a flirtatious smile, holding his gaze while he returned to his previous position reclining the side of his body on the seat.

Oh my dear Lord 

Chris swallowed hard, “I can’t wait,” he replied, recovering from the surge of heat that rushed through his body.

Jonny sat there, his eyes on him with a huge smile on his face, and Chris was amazed at how very vast and powerful his feelings for Jon were. It wasn’t only friendship, it wasn’t only lust, it wasn’t only care, it wasn’t only cuteness, it wasn’t only admiration or respect. It was a combination of all of them, it made him burn with passion one moment and melt in adoration the next. This was love. This was real love. He had no doubts about it.

He hoped with every fiber of his being that the feelings ran as deep in Jonny’s heart as they ran in his.

“Anyways,” Jon carried on, “ it still took quite a lot of time until I admitted what it was, at first I thought nothing of it because we were really good friends, you know, I thought it was natural,” Jonny explained.