Nick was the first to notice the two walking into the kitchen side by side. He eyed George with a raised brow and George nodded in return, eyes exhausted but lips pulled into a small smile.
"Has everyone kissed and made up?" Clark quipped and Jethro elbowed him in the side sharply for his choice of wording. George just let out a small laugh and nodded.
"Yeah. We're good." George murmured, looking around at his friends with a small smile. Though his heart was still in pieces, he could feel those pieces slowly beginning to gravitate towards one another.
"Come on, hug it out!" Ophelia instructed, shoving Zak's shoulder repeatedly from where she was stood beside him in order to inch him and Darryl towards George. Darryl giggled, both of them opening their arms and George shuffled until they could encase him. Nick was quick to shove Vincent toward the three and he rolled his eyes before wrapping his arms around them too.
Clay looked over at Nick first with a heavy heart. The look he got in return held a fizzling out anger and a rising undertone of acceptance. He nodded once, seriously, and Clay had to blink to himself in surprise for a moment before eagerly joining the hug. He pressed his chest to George's back, near shivering from the contact, and wrapped his arms around the clump.
For the first time that morning, George finally let loose the knot in his throat, allowing the tears to trickle from his eyes and drop onto Zak and Darryl's overlapped shoulders. The feeling of the fabric of Zak and Darryl's shirts against his face, of Vincent's arm around his shoulders, of Clay's chest against his back, of Clay's breath ruffling his hair was all too overwhelming. He clutched tighter at whomever he was holding on to, George couldn't tell by this point, and shook. They held him back just as tight for a long, peaceful moment. They were okay.
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"Georgie-pie!" Clark crowed, throwing an arm around George's shoulders. They had decided that it would be a waste of a day to not go and enjoy the park on their doorstep after George had deemed himself stable enough for it. "Say, does your butt buddy enjoy rollercoasters? Mine's too coward, Lia is busy simping and Geo won't stop texting that boy. Wonder when he'll realise his man-crush is rapidly becoming just a crush."
