Rosenwalker Oneshots

To Dance Again

It's been 2 months since Brian and Joe had started dating and yet they hadn't told anyone yet. It was, least to say, strange keeping a secret as big as this from their friends. It had been a hard time keeping it under wraps but the two had done it to avoid the inevitable confrontation. No one even knew that Joe was bi and he didn't want everyone to find out so unexpectedly. He had however planned a whole coming out party so that he could break it to his friends and then he was going to tell them that he was dating Brian. One problem though...

Brian didn't know about the party.

Don't get him wrong, Joe wanted Brian to know about his plans to come out but he also didn't want to face his boyfriend when everyone found out about how they had been dating in secret for so long. Joe did also know how shy Brian was though when it came to showing how gay he was. He knew that Brian was terrified about how their friends would react. Joe knew they would accept the twos relationship with open arms but he also knew how much of a big deal this was.

It was terrifying.

《Bill's here for a time skip》

The party had gotten off to a great start so far and Joe was feeling pretty confident about coming out. He had arranged for everyone (minus Brian) to chill in the living room and they were all just sitting there making idle small talk. Joe took the moment as an opportunity to make the big announcement. He had planned a big speech for what he was going to say and yet the thing that came out of his mouth when he got his friends to 'shut it' was

"I'm gay"

They all took their turns to stare at him before Dylan simply said "good on you buddy" before embracing his best friend in a hug and then returning back to Jamie's side.

Joe smiled at the warm responses coming from all corners of the room before correctly informing them that he was in fact only bisexual. He just loved how comfortable and accepted he automatically felt. He just needed to break the news that he was already dating an amazing guy to them.

It would take minutes of quiet contemplation, careful planning on his behalf and a well thought out way on how to break it to them. So if you asked Joe at the start of the night he would have said that he would tell them by saying something along the lines of " I have been struggling with my sexuality for a while now and someone in particular got me through it... blah blah blah... I'm already in a relationship with someone that you may know.... blah he is great and amazing though blah.... I'm dating Brian" instead of having another random impulse to just get everything off his chest and just saying " I am in love with Brian Rosenthal" so no. No one, not even Joe was expecting that to come out of his mouth. That wasn't even a real confession that he was in a relationship with Brian rather just a needy splurge of words about how he loved Brian.

Joe saying that seemed like the worst thing to happen at that moment but it seemed like the universe was still working against him and so at that moment, yes, that exact moment, Brian chose to enter the room and near enough choke on whatever he was drinking before walking in.

That however came with a bonus on Joe's behalf as the attention turned onto Brian instead of the flustered show that Joe had turned into. It also came with the disadvantage that it was the first time that one half of the relationship had professed their love for the other.

Brian's only response however was the emotion raw and strangled words of

"You love me?"

I shouldn't be so surprised to hear those words leave his mouth but I am. I really am, we've been together for a while now and yet we hadn't committed to saying those three words yet. It's just funny that he says it for the first time when he doesn't even think that I can hear him.

That means that he's come out to everyone. I'm happy for him, proud of him even. It's just that I thought that he would want me to be there for support when he told everyone. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that he had the guts to do it solo but I would've liked to be there with him. I would've liked to tell our friends that we were together, well, together.

I think that the wotrst part is that I love him too and I just hoped that I could beat him to admitting that.

Joe's POV

Brian is stood right there. Like right in front of me, just gaping, I hope that I haven't scared him off. I wanted to make a huge romantic gesture before telling him that I loved him and now I've just blurted it out without even telling him that I love him. I just told our friends that I love him. I'm just so stupid.

I grab Brian by the hand and tug him into the closest vacant room that I could take.

"Brian, I swear that I didn't mean to say that" I didn't mean to say that I loved him? Oh my, I'm just digging a deeper hole.

"Didn't mean to say that or you didn't mean to say that without me being there?" A smile tugged at his cheeks though.

"Didn't mean for you to absent whilst I spilled my guts about how much I am dangerously and painfully in love with you" please work, please work, please work.

Brian pulls me in for a long and sweet kiss and then we pull apart and he rests into a hug. His breath hot on my neck.

"I love you too"

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Hope it lightens the mood during lockdown.

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