The Boy Under The Azaleas

Assumptions

(Sorry about this out I'm changing tense) Morning, I freak out and sat up.
(Where the hell am I?! Oh yeah! I'm at Uriel's...holy crap! I'm at Uriel's! I don't really even know him, I'm weird.
I am ninety nine percent sure he's nice but he could be pretending....Although for whatever reason, with him It seems very unlikely that he isn't being genuinely nice..)

I looked at the time. 6:45am, I went back to sleep.

I heard a voice in the distance, getting slowly closer as it repeated.
"Derrick, Derrick, Derrick~"
I felt a tap on my shoulder, I slowly opened my eyes to see a blurry image and blinked to see better.

"Oh, hi Uriel." I said in my embarrassing morning voice.

He smiled.
"Hi, just so you know it's 7:15. You can use the shower by the way, use whatever you want in there."

"Oh, cheers." I replied, pulling away my duvet.

He got up with a smile and nod. He then went to the door to leave the room before looking backward at me.
"I'll be in the kitchen, do you like eggs and bacon?" He asked.
"yeah that sounds great." I said, softly with a smile - I couldn't remember the last time I had eaten a proper cooked breakfast....Or a proper cooked dinner...Usually I would have just put ready made ones in our busted microwave at home at the best of times, but instant ramen had practically become my life support at that point - I felt my mouth water slightly just from the thought of smokey bacon and yolky eggs, all the rich flavours that I still remembered, rich in my mind...I could almost taste them then. Then Uriel spoke again, snapping me out of my foody daydream.
"That's good, I'll go start making that." He said before actually leaving the room.

I grabbed my clothing for school and head to the bathroom. Once I got there, I placed my clothing in the corner of the room and got into the shower.
I let out a soft sigh from my lips as I felt the warm water trickle down from my hair to to toes (Man, does this feel good.)
I smiled softly, enjoying a warm shower in comparison to a cold one and saw the products on the shower rack. I saw what I assumed to be Uriel's shower products, labels saying 'For men'. I took one and began to lather my entire body then rinse it, the shower gel did smell like Uriel. I put the shower gel back and then used his shampoo, enjoying the feeling and scent.
I rinsed my entire hair and body before stepping out of the shower and drying off before I dressed.
I washed my face in the basin and dried that too, picking up the pyjamas Uriel had lent me. I stepped out of the bathroom to the scent of freshly cooked eggs and bacon.
I then took a deep breath in through my nose and began to walk down the stairs.

Uriel looked behind him and saw me.
"Oh, good. I'm just dishing it up." He said as he held a plate and spatula. he picked up an egg with the spatula and put it on the plate before doing the same with a few rashes of bacon.
"It looks delicious," I said and strolled to get my plate. He passed the plate to me with a smile. "Thanks." I said happily, "Do you always cook these kinds of hot breakfasts for yourself in the Mornings?" I asked as I sat at the table to eat.
"Nope." he put bluntly, making me just look up at him in slight confusion, consequently I nodded slightly to fill the awkward silence.
Uriel then soon joined me at the table, as he picked up his knife and fork I stared at him. He then began to eat, as soon as he did that I picked up my knife and fork and did so too. He stared at me too as he swallowed.
"Why did you wait for me to start eating before you?" He asked, pulling his elbows back and moving his neck back to crack his back.
I coughed a little before answering anxiously.
"W-What do you mean?..I-I'm sorry if it weirded you out.." I said and let my head droop down cast. He then stuttered and straightened his back.
"N-N..!..No..! I um...I was just curious I guess...You don't need to apologise...I'm sorry for being so nosy it's just...." he started before he scratched his head and shook it. "N-Never mind..It's just me being a weirdo.." he mumbled. I leaned both my elbows on the table and put my silver ware down for a moment so I could focus on what he was saying.
"No, go ahead...You know I don't judge, plus...you're not a weirdo from what I can see...and even if you were, being regular isn't interesting at all. No one wants a boring person..." I said before I eat a mouthful. I saw Uriel's cheeks turn somewhat red, causing me to realise what I had said. I almost choked and quickly swallowed before coughing terribly.
"I-I didn't mean as in I wa-..I didn't mean it like that..!" I stuttered before coughing worse. Uriel saw how seriously I was coughing.
"Derrick!" He exclaimed before he began to pat my back. My vision began to get dizzy as I panicked and coughed, flopping to my side off of my chair.The last thing I saw before pure blackness was Uriel's terrified face.

I felt something soft against my lips before a distant shout. Suddenly I blinked my eyes open to see a figure looming over me. My vision slowly coming into focus. I then realised that I was in fact laying on the floor, my head in Uriel's lap as I stared up at him in shock, his eyes seemed to be slightly glossy.
"What happened?" I mumbled as I rubbed one of my eyes.
"Oh fuck, oh thank god.." Uriel panted out. I looked worriedly up at him,
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"You fainted, I don't know why but you suddenly got nervous and choked on some food." He said in a panicked voice. I quickly sat up and put my hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, dude don't stress okay? I'm fine aren't I? See." I said before trying to make him laugh by pulling the corners of my lips with my fingers curled, making a funny face at him. He then began to chuckle at me.
"Pfft~ ahahaaha~! You're so cu- euuuh..c-comedic.!.y-yeah! Comedic!" He said, letting out a funny sounding nervous laughter as he rubbed the back of his head. At this point, I realised how close I felt with this guy and just laughed at him. I then stood up and ruffled his hair to mess it up.
"Pfft, So gay." I said with a cheeky smirk. He then looked up at me from sitting on the floor and began to laugh.
"Oi!" He laughed out before he grabbed me and tried to tickle my sides.
"Aah!!! Noo you traitor!" I laughed out before pushing him and running upstairs, "catch me if ya' can!" He exclaimed.
"Oh I will!" He said and began to base me up the stairs. I quickly stuck my tongue out at him,
"Blargh!" I joke at him before running again, going into rooms and dodging him by jumping and running over beds.

This went on for at least fifteen minutes before we ran into Uriel's room. I went to run over his bed but tripped on my way onto it so I fell on my back. Uriel then made a victorious 'aha!' Before getting on top of me, looking over me. I felt as if I was completely hidden by how much bigger he was than me. Tall, strong and muscular, long legs, slender fingers and large hands. I didn't quite understand why it was now that I really took into notice how truly amazing I thought of him as. Blonde hair, ashy in colour with golden glitters whenever the sun caught it, rusty coloured eyes like worn gold, over all he had looks that a novel takes pages to tell. I stared up at him for what felt like hours but really it was less than a single second before he grabbed my hands and pinned me to the bed with a laugh.
"I gotcha'..!!" He cheered. "I win!" He exclaimed before his humorous, cheeky grin soon melted in a soft smile as I noticed him staring or maybe even...gazing at me. That was when I realise that I in fact was the one who was staring wide eyed at him like I was gazing at a diamond. My heart pounded so hard I felt like it would jump out of me.
My breath even hitched a little and I gulped.

"You are...." he started, his cheeks progressively turning red. "Really something..." he said and gulped nervously too, putting me a bit at ease since I wasn't the only nervous one in this situation.
'What the fuck is going on??' I thought to myself.
"What do you mean 'Really somethi-.." I spoke before suddenly Uriel put his face close to mine, lips slightly open.
'Is he going to..kiss me?..' I thought to myself, parting my lips a little bit before suddenly, Uriel got up and dusted himself off.
"W-Well we better get going..!" He stuttered our and began to walk away. I propped myself up with my elbows and stared at the wall for a second. I seemed to frown a bit but I got up and followed him with a nod.

Uriel and I didn't speak to each other at all to the walk to school that day..