The Fic Where Stephen Realizes He's Gay From a Picnic

Day 28

It's October 22nd now, it'd been a while since anything too eventful had happened. Life went on as usual with occasional moments with Hosuh. Daniel had recently been telling him how he'd been meaning to drag him on another Hosuh bonding escapade, especially with the 'progress made so far'. Those were his words, not Stephen's. Daniel's been caught up with helping his family with some stuff. It's been maybe two weeks though, so Stephen has been on high alert for whenever Dan decides to pull his shit again. Luckily, less time being forced to go outside means more time to play DOTA. Nothing could ruin this for him.

Then he hears yelling of two voices from downstairs. "It's snowing!" "Jay, don't go outside, you're gonna get a cold!" "Fuck you, Dan!" Ah. Stephen looks out the window, and sure enough, it's snowing. He always thought snow was nice. Then again, he reminisces of how his parents let him play out in the snow as much as he wanted, until he found out it was a lesson of how playing irresponsibly gets you hurt, and in his case, sick. Snow was ruined for a while to him, but now he can admire it. Though, he prefers staying in with something warm to drink. Stephen wasn't going to check on the two, until he went to his window to see Jay, not even in winter-wear, staking bottles of alcoholic beverages into the snow and laying beside them. Jay would hit him if he said it out loud, but Jay is a slut for snow. Stephen begrudgingly made his way out of his room to go downstairs, seeing that Hosuh is witnessing all of this from the couch. Dan was outside now too, trying to drag Jay up and off of the snow.

Stephen feels a cold breeze coming in from the opened slide door, making him shiver, "You're gonna want to pull him in quick before I lock you both out! It's cold!" Dan just gives a cry of distress. Hosuh however speaks coherent words, "Come here, I have blankets," Hosuh pats the empty spot next to him on the couch as Stephen loops around to sit next to him, feeling a little awkward being so close to Hosuh once he's gotten himself in the blankets. He can bare it though. That is until another cold breeze flows in, and Hosuh moves closer to lean into Stephen. Hosuh's body temperature is warm, and Stephen's is about to be if he can't control how flushed he gets. This isn't even the first time him and Hosuh have been this close, they've had plenty of movie nights like this, without the room feeling like an icebox. It's just different to Stephen now, which is a shame. He didn't overthink any of this before.

"So, what we up to?" Hosuh hums before replying, "I was bored and Steven Universe reruns were on. It's fucking cold," Stephen lightly slaps Hosuh's arm for the uncalled for strong language, but disregards it anyway, "I'm the superior Stephen, for starters I have a cool mohawk," Stephen looks to Hosuh just to see he has been giving Stephen his full attention. Hosuh has been doing so a lot recently, so he's slowly getting used to it. "Okay, but does Stephen have magic powers and magic moms? Didn't think so," Stephen scoffs at Hosuh's sass, "If I had magic powers I don't think I'd tell you!" Hosuh responds by first lightly shoving him, "So you wouldn't trust me with knowing your secret magic powers?!" Stephen shoves him back, "Not after you sassed me, no!" Hosuh just laughs loudly. His happiness his contagious to Stephen, so he can't help but find himself smiling wide. His smile does falter out of surprise when the silver-haired grabs onto arm and goes back to nestling into him. This is literally cuddling, right? Stephen forces himself to look away.

Whatever this form of cuddling is didn't last long when Daniel came trudging inside with Jay, finally closing the slide door. When Dan saw the two his intentions were clear the moment he said with a condescending tone, "Oh, what're you two up to?" Hosuh flinched and took his hands away when he heard the voice that was previously outside suddenly inside. Hosuh's reaction surprised Stephen a lot more than Dan's teasing did, but he keeps his composure, "Where there is chaos there is Stephen," Daniel doesn't respond after that, and Stephen can only imagine the dumb smirk Dan has on his face. Stephen's eyes can't help but find their way back to Hosuh's face. He's staring at the television, but his face is clearly a little red, same with his ears. Stephen doesn't know what to make of this, so he tries to forget it.