Waiting for Clark by Annabeth Albert

Author:Annabeth Albert [Albert, Annabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: M/M romance, Love is an Open Road, gay romance, contemporary, geeks/nerds, friends to lovers, reunion, crush, college friends, cuddling, frottage, cosplay
Publisher: Goodreads M/M Romance Group
Published: 2015-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Bryce

I’d been wrong about what Clark wanted earlier when he knocked at my door, and I was pretty sure he meant his offer to share the blanket as a similarly harmless friendly gesture.

But as soon as I slid over, my ability to concentrate on the show went down to nil. I was not a cuddly guy, something all of my exes could testify to, some of them rather noisily. But with Clark, things had always been different.

It had started innocently enough, both of us cramming onto one bed to watch a movie on my laptop or sharing dorm couches way too small for two big guys. It was only natural to stretch an arm on the back of the sofa or share a pillow on the bed, heads almost-but-not-quite touching. But at some point, I started craving movie-watching time with Clark, and that scared the ever-loving shit out of me.

I didn’t want to need him like that.

Didn’t mean I called a stop to it either. I wasn’t strong like that, but I was also careful not to take things to the next level. After all, if I needed him so badly when we were just friends, then how much more could he hurt me if we were a real couple? Thoughts like that kept me from making a move, especially our first year as friends, until that day senior year we’d both given in.

And we all knew how well that turned out.

An amazing friendship destroyed and all because I couldn’t keep my lips to myself. The last few hours had reminded me how much I liked being around Clark— working next to him, talking with him, gaming with him. All of it was better with Clark along. And if we could have some semblance of that old friendship again, it would be stupid to jeopardize it, right?

I still slid over.

Still let my legs brush against him, still relaxed into the cushions, my body settling comfortably against his like it had known the way for years and had just been waiting for me to catch up. And when my arm felt weirdly trapped between us, it was the most natural thing in the world to stretch it along the back of the couch.

Clark exhaled like he’d just completed a really tricky game sequence. His full-body relief had me sighing too, had my hand dropping to his shoulder, pulling him against me. My heart beat like I’d just pounded out supersets at the gym, my whole body feeling alive and tingling simply by having him near.

“Bryce?” Clark looked up at me, a hundred questions in his eyes.

“Shhh,” I said. I couldn’t, wouldn’t discuss this. I needed it too much to reduce it to words and labels and uncomfortable truths. “Watch the show.”

I was a total hypocrite because I didn’t watch the show one bit. I watched Clark, watched how his eyes crinkled when he laughed at the show, watched how he relaxed more and more against me, watched when his eyes started to flutter shut.

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