Summer Camp (Ryllon)

Sixteen: Glow

The glow from the fire warms the people all gathered around. Sitting on the benches and talking, the small group of campers continue to have a good time. Patrick brought his acoustic guitar, and so he's playing it. 

Once he finishes a song, he asks if anyone wants to play. 

"Ryan, why don't you play?" Dallon suggests in a calm tone. Everyone looks at him. 

"What? No, no, I'm..."

"You said once that you play, I wanna hear you," Dallon says, continuing to speak in a sweet tone. "You got this."

Everyone looks at him in shock when they realize that he's not trying to embarrass or tease Ryan, he's being genuinely nice. 

Ryan blushes and Patrick hands him the guitar. He takes it and Dallon smiles a bit, but only Ryan notices. Spencer smiles, remembering when they were little and they would play music together.

He starts to strum a song, a simple Beatles song that he doubts anyone will know. Once comfortable enough, he starts to sing, and Dallon feels himself melting. He rests his elbow on the bench arm, chin resting against his loosely curled fist. He looks at the boy across the fire with a longing look, almost like he's never fallen in love before until now. He smiles without meaning too, not really realizing it either.

Brendon looks over and sees Dallon staring at Ryan, then sees how unaware Ryan is. Anger and jealousy fuels his chest, suddenly wanting to just hit Ryan.

Mikey looks over briefly, then hits his brother's arm. Gerard and Frank look over, all three staring in shock. Soon everyone's looking, eyes almost wide. Spencer sneakily pulls out his phone and takes a photo, and so do most of the popular campers. No one would dare to tease someone so popular like Dallon unless they were almost equally as popular.

Ryan stops and tenses, face going pink from embarrassment, terrified that he just played a wrong note. He nervously swallows.

"That was really good," Dallon quickly says, causing Ryan's anxiety to go down a bit before it gets too high. He still nervously hands the guitar back, mumbling something about going to bed after yawning quite cutely, according to Dallon.

"Goodnight," everyone says. Frank goes to speak up about how Dallon was just giving Ryan heart eyes, but Dallon remembers the last time Ryan was walking alone in the dark.

"I'm gonna go walk him to his cabin, it's dark," Dallon says, standing up and quickly rushing up to Ryan. Dallon grabs his hand and they smile at each other.

"What the fuck just happened?" Gerard finally asks.

"He was smiling," Patrick says.

"God, he's so in love with Ryan," Josh says, and everyone except Brendon nods.

"Someone go spy on him," Pete says.

"Yeah, go," Frank says.

"No, no, no, if Dallon catches me over there, he'll know and beat me. My cabin isn't in that area," Pete says, almost panicked.

"Mine is," Pete looks at Mikey, "Ryan and I are roommates, it... uh... neither would be suspicious."

"Pete and Mikey, go," Gerard says, knowing damn well that his brother and Pete like each other.

"What? Both of us?" Mikey asks.

"All in favor of Mikey and Pete spying on Ryan and Dallon," Spencer says, raising his hand. Everyone raises their hands.

"Oh, and if they do anything cute, take a picture," Josh says, and Brendon rolls his eyes. Mikey and Pete stand and leave, Mikey sending Gerard a glare, only for Gerard to wink.

They closely follow the unofficial couple who are holding hands and talking.

"I've been thinking, there was that time at the dock where you got all tense. Do you not like swimming?"

"I... well, I guess I can't swim. I get panicked when I'm out there, terrified that I'll just sink. I'm pretty light, too, so the last time I went swimming I started to drown. My friend had to save me, it was a little embarrassing," Ryan explains and Dallon nods. "I'm not very talented."

"You were pretty talented playing guitar," Dallon says and Ryan scoffs. "You were!"

"I wasn't, I messed up, and my voice is horrible," Ryan says quietly. Dallon kisses Ryan's head and cheek.

"You have the prettiest, most angelic voice to ever exist," Dallon says. Ryan smiles a bit. "Plus, you're pretty talented at what you did last night," Dallon says, smirking. Ryan looks at him, frowning, not quite getting it yet. Dallon winks. Ryan blushes and hits Dallon's arm, all as Mikey and Pete type down and text Gerard things they can hear from them.

They soon reach the cabin. Ryan unlocks it and Dallon soon grabs his hand, now holding both. There's two motion sensor lights outside of each cabin, so they're lit up. Mikey and Pete get to a better spot to see both of them.

"I had fun today," Dallon says softly, and Pete starts recording.

"I did too," Ryan says, smiling a bit. Dallon smiles too. They both chuckle lightly and Ryan looks down. Dallon lifts his head up with a finger under his chin and Mikey starts taking photos on his phone.

"Goodnight, baby," Dallon says, and Ryan smiles, both completely entranced by the other.

"Goodnight," Ryan says before Dallon leans in and kisses him gently. Photos are taken and the boys stay close for a while, lips pressed together as gentle as Dallon's melting touch. They soon pull apart and Ryan walks inside as Dallon walks away, a faint smile on his lips.

Pete and Mikey send the photos and videos, and Gerard pulls the video up. Everyone crowds around and watches it. Once it gets to the moment that they kiss, Brendon shakes his head in anger and jealousy and walks away.