love your love the most

2 // unrequited...or not?

Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck. Chase really didn't think this one through.

He's going to tell Ryan. He totally is. But like...not right now.

Not when Ryan's currently sprawled out on his couch with an arm behind his head and one knee up, giving him an excellent view of his crotch. Oh, also, the bastard's shirt is also slightly rucked up, leaving his happy trail exposed.

Like man what the fuck? How fucking rude.

Here Chase is, mid-sexuality crisis, debating whether or not to tell his straight best friend he's in love with him, and said best friend is looking like that. Unbelievable.

"Yo did you drink too much? You're looking kinda sick," Ryan says to him, pausing the movie—which is Final Destination by the way, either the fourth or the fucking seventeenth one for all Chase knows. Let's just say he doesn't love the man for his movie choices.

Chase chuckles, but he wants to die, make no mistake.

"Yeah, must have. I'm gonna grab some water, you want anything?" He says to him, standing up from the couch, needing to get away from Ryan when he's looking like that.

"Water's fine, thanks!" Ryan says as he turns the movie back on.

Deep breaths, Chase. Deep breaths.

He gets two glasses from the cupboard and fills them with ice and water. But before he can take them over to the couch area, he spots something on Ryan's counter.

Among a bunch of other flyers, receipts, and cards is a flyer for the Charlotte PRIDE parade and festival that happened last month.

Huh? 

What's Ryan doing with a PRIDE flyer? Did he go? No, he couldn't have. We had a race that day. But still...who gave it to him and why did he keep it?

"Get lost on the way to the fridge or something?" Ryan hollers over the couch to Chase.

Shit.

"No, sorry. Just admiring your...uh," shit, "take out menus all over your refrigerator."

Take out menus? Is he stupid?

"I can't cook. Sue me," Ryan says to him as he hands him his water and sits back on the couch.

Thankfully Ryan didn't notice his awkwardness a second ago, and thankfully he finally shifted positions and is sitting normally now. He didn't even look that obscene earlier but Chase has been on-edge for a while and, well, thirsty. Sue him.

Chase starts paying attention to the movie again--a mistake, because it's bad--and soon, he and Ryan are joking about just how horrible it is.

"Then why are we watching it?" Chase asks, laughing after Ryan called the scene where some dude gets violently sucked into a pool drain and dies "the stupidest thing he's ever seen in his life."

"I don't know. Hot cast? The movie centers around a race track? I don't know" Ryan says.

"The main dude and girl are hot, I'll give you that. But everyone else? Pass."