Alans POV
I carfully made my way over to the side of the hospital bed where the boy Ive been madly in love with laid. He looked like I died and came back to life with the smile on his face. I carefully began telling Austin everything. From meeting Oli a week before Austin left for his trip all the way up to only a few hours ago. I purposely left out the parts where Austin came up scared I might spill my guts to him about being in love with him. Once I was done telling him everything that has been going on for a month now he just stared blankly at me. Like he didn’t know what to do with himself
“I-I… Alan” he whispered,
I felt my heart break from the look in his eyes, it looked like he was mentally beating himself up over my misery, and that’s the last thing I want.
Alans phone began ringing and he fumbled for it and pulled it out, an instant frown spreading across his face
“Its Oli” he whispered
“Give me the phone” Ausitn said reaching for it
“If you ever. Touch my ginger prince again. I will personally murder your ass” he said bitterly and hung up handing Alan his phone back
Ginger prince? Does he feel something towards me? Why wouldn’t he just say Alan, or my best friend.
There was a long pause between the two before Austin finally spoke
“Alan, would you want to move in with me? I cant be by myself for too long” he said with a small smile.
I nodded quickly with a smile across my face.
I cant believe Im gonna be living with Austin, my best friend and the boy you’ll never be with just look how perfect he is. Why would he want you?
Alans smile soon began to fade as he began mentally arguing with himself.
“Whats wrong?” Austin asked, you could hear how concerned he sounded in his voice
Alan looked up at him and half smiled “Nothing”
Stop lying
“Its just, Oli. I know hes gonna do something cause of that call. And I don’t want you to get hurt.”
That was only a semi lie
Austin shrugged “I don’t think he will. And if he does Ill just kick his ass” he said with a small smile trying to cheer the ginger boy up.
Alan couldn’t help but let out a small laugh because hes seen Austin fight and its not pretty.
“Ok sounds good. I just want you to get better first”
Austin nodded looking down at all the scars
“Do you think they’ll heal enough to see my tattoos again?” Austin asked looking down at both arms and gently running his fingers across a few of the scars
“I think so. I mean they wont ever be the same, but Im sure they will” He said with a reassuring smile.
The two boys sat in that small white room for hours. Talking about anything and everything. It was like nothing ever happened. Like neither of them ever got hurt, but in reality both of the boys were breaking apart still. But whenever they were around each other they had this special bond. Like no one could hurt the other. Mostly because the other wouldn’t allow it.
After talking for almost an hour and dining on the awful hospital food Alan finally asked,
“So, how come you did it Ausitn?” He asked looking down at the ground then back up at him.
You could tell Austin was taken back by the question since he sat there with his mouth open like he was trying to look for the right words.
“When you dropped me off. I walked in on Gielle cheating on me” he said softly playing with the hem of the blanket.
“Oh” Alan responded looking down at the ground.
“And that’s mainly why I want you to move in. Not just to hang with my best friend all day but so I have someone there so I don’t do this to myself anymore” he said looking down at his arms frowning slightly
Alan nodded and bit his lip slightly.
Right best friends that’s all Ill ever be to you
After a long silence between the two Alan went to speak but the nurse came in telling Austin that he could leave now
Austin smiled brightly and hoped off of the bed and began changing his clothes
Why is he doing this in front of me?! Oh god what do I do? where do I look
Alan tried looking everywhere but the half naked man in front of him that he just happened to be head over heels for. He couldn’t help but look at him
Fuck he has a nice body, look at his muscles and that slight tan. Holy fuck.
Austin finished changing and turned around to see Alans eyes glued on him
“Excuse you” he said with a teasing smile.
Alan shook his head tearing his gaze away as he blushed
“Sorry” he said softly standing up.
Both men walked out of the cramped room, Austin had to sign a few papers and talked to the doctor for a moment about getting some anti depression pills. He gave him a bottle to start out with and informed him to take two every eight hours. Once that was all settled Alan showed Austin to the car. They had to stop at Alans house to grab a few things. Even though it wasn’t really Alans house. It was Olis. He was glad he wasn’t home at the time. He grabbed some clothes and other necessities like his phone charger, laptop, his guitar. Once he had everything that he needed they went to the car and drove back to Austins house. It was pretty late so they decided just to order some pizza and watch movies till they began falling asleep. It was four in the morning when they decided it was time for bed. Austin showed Alan to the guest room that would be his for now on. After taking a quick shower Alan crawled into his bed and pulled the covers up to his chin and began falling asleep until he heard the door creek open and someone lay next to him
“Austin?” He asked sleepily.
A arm went across his waist and pulled him closer
“You think you can just run away Ashby?” the familiar british voice asked.
