From Day 1 ❦ BrightWin ✔

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The weeks full of exams are not fun at all.

Not only is it bad enough having to go into school practically every other day for an exam but having to basically act like your boyfriend is just a friend is even more difficult.

The boys only meet up outside school if they are with their other friends as well, and they find themselves avoiding physical contact pretty much completely.

Win knows what he must feel for Bright when he could cry because he misses Bright fingers tangled in his own, or Bright's lips on his. It is a painful experience for him, and the worst part is getting to see Bright every day and knowing that he is off limits. (Remind him why he agreed to this 'break' again?)

That is when he finds himself avoiding Bright again.

He turns other ways in corridors, taking longer trips to classrooms to avoid his regular routes. He sits away from him at lunch and goes to extra study groups instead of sticking with his friends once they have eaten. He acts like he did when he first realized that he had fallen for his best friend.

God, he thinks. I really am pathetic.

Tay is the first to ask again if they have fallen out or even broken up. Win shakes his head and mutters something about 'exams' and 'distractions'.

He knows that they have been asking Bright too, and generally, it makes Win feel like they have split up.

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It all comes to a head on the day of Win's final exam.

Bright had finished about a week earlier, and none of them had seen him since, now he did not have to come into school anymore. Win had received a couple of texts from him, wishing him luck in his remaining two exams, but even they had still been annoyingly platonic.

When Win puts his pen down after his final further maths exam, he could easily jump up from his seat and run out of the hall screaming, but he has to stay seated and wait until the papers have been taken in and they are excused.

When it is all finally over, and they are allowed to leave, Win walks quickly outside and meets up with Zee, who was also in the exam. They chat for a while about the exam and the summer ahead, before Win leaves, telling him that he'll see him at prom.

When he gets home, he sprints upstairs, pulling on his tightest black jeans with a white v-neck t-shirt, and because the weather is fair outside, he doesn't put on a jacket. Shaking out his hair, he runs down the stairs, pulls on some shoes and runs outside, locking the door behind him.

When he reaches his destination, he hesitates for a moment before raising a hand and knocking on the door.

"Win?" Bright asks when he sees who is on the doorstep.

"Hi," Win breathes. "Are you alone?"

Bright nods, a confused look in his eye, before Win grabs the front of his t-shirt and crashes their lips together. Bright lets out a moan and grips the back of Win's neck, walking backwards into the house and kicking the door closed.

He pushes the younger boy against the wall, kissing him hungrily, their tongues meeting in their mouths and sending sparks between them.

"It's not even been two months-ah!" Bright gasps when Win sucks on a particularly sensitive area behind his ear.

"I've missed you so much," Win whines softly into Bright's ear, biting the shell. "You've just always been there, and I've wanted you all the time."

Bright seems slightly surprised by Win's sudden enthusiasm and perhaps dominance as they kiss furiously but lets him take the lead.

Until he has to, anyway.