Five Dreams and Something Else - cc ficlet

Title: Five Dreams and Something Else
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Length/Rating: 500 / G
Summary: Read the title

Some nights Chris dreams.

“I have a girlfriend,” he says.

And it all makes sense. Every awkward pause. Every aborted touch. Every almost kiss. Chris blinks and the last three months shake apart like a dry sandcastle, held together with a whisper and trembling hands.

He tries to rewind the tape; replays the days and nights searching for all the things he must have missed, and comes up with a list that adds up to nothing. A pause can be a breath. An almost touch nervous hesitance of something new. A withdrawn kiss a sign of respect towards boundaries that cannot be uncrossed.

Or not. It is the unasked question answered.

“Oh,” Chris says, and carries on like he didn’t just realize he’d been building the castle alone.
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