My Heart Is Nuclear

The Games Begin

Damien's P.O.V

When I wake up, I'm completely dumbfounded. Shayne is still laying next to me, I convinced myself that I must have been dreaming, because a scenario like this is truly too good to be true. I grab my phone from the bedside table and check the time. It's 6:53, seven minutes before our alarms go off. The light outside must have woken me up. I look next to me and I see that Shayne has removed the duvet cover off of his body, he must've been hot. He's just laying there, with only his boxers on, I can barely believe this is actually real life. For the next two minutes I do nothing but stare at his body and inspect his perfectly toned muscles. Any sense of conciousness leaves my body when I use my hand to reach out to touch his abs, right before my fingers collide with his stomach I realize what I'm doing and quickly pull my hand back. What if it would have woken him up? Right when I lay back again our alarms go off, and Shayne immediately wakes up.
'Good morning Damien,' Shayne says, while he lets out a big yawn and stretches his arms.
'Good morning,' I say back, 'time for us to get out of bed.' I quickly get out of bed and grab some clothes from my suitcase.

'Good morning guys!' I say, as Shayne and I arrive at the terrace outside Matt and Ryan's cabin where we're having breakfast.. Everyone greets back and I take a seat, luckily Shayne takes a seat at another table, so I won't have to deal with the constant blushing. During breakfast the others at my table are having a conversation, but I have my mind elsewhere, Shayne laying next to me in bed is the only thing I can think about.

About an hour later, everyone has gathered on set, and the cameras start rolling. Luckily Shayne and I are on opposite teams, so hopefully these competitions should be distracting pretty distracting. It sadly doesn't take away from the fact that I'm forced to be around him for the rest of the day, though.
"SMOSH SUMMER GAMES APOCALYPSE!" we all shout. Our first challenge is a Punishment Shootout, my punishment was getting a bucket with ice dumped over me, and to be honest, it was kind of refreshing. During Shayne's turn I do my best to not look at him for too long. The tank top that he's wearing doesn't cover his huge arms, and exposes parts of his chest, it's as if he's wearing this on purpose to make me blush.

Shayne's P.O.V

Throughout the entire game I noticed Damien acting strange, I never saw him directly looking at me when it was my turn, I never saw him looking directly at me for the entire game for that matter. He just hasn't been himself for the two days that we've been in this desert. Is he trying to distance himself from me? Everytime I've tried to talk to him recently he stutters and does his best to keep the conversation to a minimum, almost like he doesn't want to be around me? I hope not, out of all Smosh members I enjoy his company the most. I... dare I say it: I have a crush on him. I've never really forced myself to figure out my sexuality, I've just never really cared about it that much and decided to sit back and see what it would turn out to be, so when I met Damien two years ago I realized that I'm not exactly 100% straight. The thing is, I don't know if the same thing is true for Damien. He has talked about not having a girlfriend here and there, but he never uttered the words "I am gay". I wish he could just excplicitly state if he's gay or not so I know if my crush for him is ever going to go anywhere.

After we're done shooting, I walk back to my cabin. In the distance I hear the group murmuring and talking in the distance.
'Another win for Toxicitea!' I hear Wes shouting, and his comment is met with cheering by the other Toxicitea members. The cheering kills most of the other sounds around me, which results in me flinching when I feel someone tapping on my shoulder. I quickly turn around and see Damien standing behind me, he sees that I flinched and takes a step back.
'O-oh sorry man,' he apologizes 'I didn't mean to scare you like that.'
'It's okay Damien, I didn't hear you walking up to me, s-so you kind of caught me off-guard.' I can see relief appearing on his face after I utter those words.
'Well I just came to say that I'm gonna be hanging out at Ian and Keith's cabin for the day... so you know where to find me when you need something.' Damien smiles as he waves goodbye and walks to Ian, Keith and Noah's beige cabin.
'I definetely need something... I need you to tell me if you're gay or not...' I say, not out loud of course, that would be embarassing as hell. As soon as I arrive at my cabin I take off my shoes and lay down in bed. I put my hands behind my head and close my eyes, seeing only the image of Damien in my mind.

Damien's P.O.V

As I walk into the cabin I see Shayne napping on our bed. I immediately grab my phone to take a picture but then quickly put it away as I realize that what I'm doing is strange and creepy.
'Damien, you're not at that point of the relationship yet.' I think to myself as I put my phone back in my pocket. We'll probably never even be at that point in our relationship, the farthest we'll get is friends. I put my hands on Shayne's hip and shake his body around, Shayne turns around to see who has woken him up, and after that quickly puts his head back on his pillow again.
'Sarah told me to come and get you, we're going to have dinner in a few moments,' I say, as I walk to the door.
'Have I been sleeping?' he mumbles.
'Probably...' I say back.
Shayne gets out of bed, as he looks in the mirror he realizes that he's still wearing his Toxicitea uniform.
'Oh god, I still need to change,' Shayne quickly grabs his suitcase and opens it, 'You can go already, I'll be there in a few minutes.'
'Alright then,' I smirk as I walk out of the door, 'See you there!'
'Bye,' Shayne smiles at me. I've seen him smiling hundreds of times, but every time it still manages to revive those butterflies in my stomach.

As I'm walking to the dinner table, the same place where we ate our breakfast, I think about how cute Shayne looked when he was sleeping. Something about waking him up felt amazing too, for a few seconds it felt like we were an actual couple. As I arrive at the dinner table I'm greeted by my friends, I greet them back and grab some shrimp salad from the buffet table and take a seat next to Noah and Kimmy, who were in the middle of having an interesting conversation about astrology.
'Where's Shayne?' Keith asks while playing around with his food.
'He still had to change, but it probably won't be long before he gets here.'
Just as I answer Keith's question Shayne arrives at the dinner table.
'Is there still room for me?' Shayne jokes, right as he takes the opposite seat to me. Great.

After we're done eating I stand up and tap Courtney on her shoulder.
'Court, can I talk to you real quick? A-alone?'
'Uhm sure... where?' Courtney asks while she wipes her mouth with a tissue.
I quickly look around to find a place where we can talk privately. 'In my cabin?'
Courtney nods her head as she gets up from her seat and follows me to my cabin.
'Damien's not hestitating to get the ladies this time!' Lasercorn teases.
'You wish you could do it as easily as me, Lasercorn,' I tease back.
Courtney is my best friend and she's the only person I genuinely trust, hell, she's the only friend of mine that knows I'm gay, so I'm sure that she'll be able to keep this secret too. As we get inside Courtney sits on the bed.
'What did you wanna talk about?' she asks.
'Well... I've been struggling with this feeling for so long now...'
'What feeling?' Courtney asks with a confused look on her face.
'Before I tell you this... you cannot talk about this with anyone.'

Author's Note: 
Welp, that's the second chapter done already, what do you think will happen between Damien and Courtney next chapter, and what long-lasting implications will it have for the story?

You might have noticed that Shayne mentions that he had only met Damien two years prior to this story. Obviously, in real life, Shayne and Damien have known eachother for way longer than that, but in the canon for this story they only met once Damien joined Smosh in 2017 ;)