australia || solby

~6~

COREY'S POV

Sam and Colby are climbing into the back of the SUV. Colby sits in the right seat, and unsurprisingly Sam sits in the middle seat instead of on the opposite side. They're not being very stealthy if they don't want people to know that something is going on. I try to make some conversation with Elton, to act like we're not paying attention to them and see what happens.

"So what hotel are we staying at, Elton?" I ask. He catches onto what I'm doing.

"Oh, just some hotel that I've stayed at before. It's very pretty there."

I glance into the rearview mirror. Sam's wrapped around Colby and Colby has his arm around the small of Sam's back. They're not talking, just looking at each other. Colby leans down into Sam for a kiss...

"Not here!" Sam hisses, "they're going to see!" I look over at Elton.

"Should we say something?" I mouth.

"Yeah, but not fully give away what we saw on the plane" he whispers back.

"Hey guysss...?" I ask.

"Shit" Sam mumbles.

"What was that Sam?" Elton asks.

"Nothing."

"So what's going on?" I say.

"What do you mean?" asks Colby.

"Between you two," Elton adds.

"N- nothing" Colby stammers.

"Then why is Sam wrapped around you like you're snuggling?" Sam pulls away, blushing. They both look at each other, embarrassed.

"It's nothing" Sam says.

"Ok." Says Elton, giving me a warning not to say anything more. We just talk about random stuff until we get to the hotel. Elton goes up to the counter to check in, and we all sit on a couch. Sam sits next to me, obviously trying to debunk whatever they think we saw. Sam pulls out his phone and starts scrolling through instagram, and Colby pulls out his wallet and starts looking for something. I decide now is the time to talk to Sam by himself.

"Yo, Sam, will you come with me for a second." I ask him.

"Yeah sure," he says, getting up and we walk over to the other side of the lobby. "what's up?"

"Is there something going on between you and Colby?"

"W- What?" He stammers. "Why would you think that?"

"Well, in the car, you were wrapped around him, and-"

"That was nothing." he says curtly, "If that's all, I'm going to go back to where I was sitting"

"It's not," I reply, slightly hurt at the way he feels he can't tell me what's going on. "Elton and I saw you on the plane. You guys kissed."

"Y- y- you saw t- that?" He gasps.

"Yeah, so what's going on?" I ask. "Do you have a crush on him?"

"Well...."