The hot guy next door

Besties II

Both Tee and Dome have been best friends since nursery.
They were raised together, went to the same schools and their parents were best friends as well.
They were inseparable.
Both were very quiet and kept to themselves.
Tee was the shy one.
His nose always stuck I  books, dreaming about the perfect partner whoever they would be, who would stop him on the street, declare his love to him and live with him happy ever after.
The problem was he was too shy to approach people, to talk to them first and to respond when approached. Dome was the saviour.
He was quiet but not shy.
He knew what he wanted and he got it.
The people Tee liked, he would approach, befriend and introduce to Tee.
Sometimes it backfired due to the people developing a liking for Dome instead but it was a method.
It worked.
Until Tae came along.

Currently, Dome and Tae were sitting in a coffe house laughing and remembering old days.
- Do you remember our holiday in Mexico? Laughed Tee - When I was drowning in the hotel pool...
-...Yeah. And I was trying to get you out...
-...Until I panicked  and tried to drown you as well...
- And then Tae helped us out. Supplied Dome.
Both of them became suddenly serious, remembering.

Tae became friends with both of them, but he preferred Dome from the start.
Dome was surprised but delighted, Tae was sad but accepting.
Dome and Tae became inseparable instead.
Tae didn't want any third wheels and Tee didn't want to intrude.
They were good together.
But they didn't have that something.

That spark.
The something you feel when you see your equal or your future best friend.

That thing I felt when I  met Tee,Joong and...- Dome thought.
He was looking at Tae who was lost in his own thoughts.

Few months ago, when Tee, woke up one morning, naked next to Tae and remembered what happened, he ran to his best friend to beg for forgiveness.
Dome was hurt, but told him to pursue Tae, and nothing between them changed.

Dome knew he wasn't in love with Tae, he was always waiting for something to happen.
The relationship was too smooth.
He never quarrelled, did everything Tae sugested and was taken for granted.
He knew it's not going to end well but still.
....
Tee was always in love with Tae.
Love at first sight, he would say.
Too bad the other didn't know what he wanted.

Do I know what I want? wondered Dome.