AN: Okay, so this is a fanfic based on my new all-time-favorite book - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. I think it's going to be a series of one-shots about different times in they're lives.
The song I feel is right for for Ari and Dante, is Somewhere only we know. I feel like it's Their song.
Hope you enjoy :)

Dante and I were lying on the bed in the back of my truck, at my - our - favorite spot in the desert.
It was dark.
There was no light pollution.
Just millions and millions of beautiful, bright stars.
It was the last day of summer vacation, the last day we were free.
I had my head an his chest and my arm around his waist.
he had his arm around my shoulder, and was drawing patterns on my arm.
It was nice.
It was beautiful.
He was beautiful.
So I tolled him. "You'r so beautiful, Dante" I said.
And I didn't just mean on the outside.
"So are you, Ari" he said. And I knew he meant it. I just didn't believe him.
"I don't just mean on the outside." I said.
I sat up, and so did he, so we sat facing each other.
I wanted to tell him how much I love him, and what I love about him.
I wanted to tell him what an amazing person he is.
I wanted to tell him that he was the one keeping me together, stopping from losing it and going crazy.
And for once, I did.
I felt like he has to know all of that.
I had to have him know.
So I said again: "Not just on the outside. your the most beautiful, amazing person I have ever met. Everything about you is beautiful and amazing. You are the only person I have ever heard say 'Nice to meet you' and actually, genuinely mean it. You go crazy when some idiots shoot a bird, and cry about the dead bird like it was the most heart breaking thing ever. And then you try to save a bird that just isn't savable. You are at war against shoes.
And I don't even know why. But I know that you are definitely going to win the war one day, when you don't have your mother on the shoe's side. Because you are so stubborn, and so determined. And you Make up games against you'r shoes, just so you can beat the crap out of them.

"You don't have one mean fiber in you'r body. It's just not possible for you to be mean. You somehow manage to make my rocking chair - an inanimate object - look sad. How? I have no idea. But it's absolutely amazing.
You don't run away when 4 big guys come at you, you stay.
You'r not afraid to be yourself. Not ever. And that's incredible, Dante, it's fantastic. And much more than you can say for most people. Including me."
I stopped to take a deep breath. I was trying hard not to cry. I could see he was to.
He knew I hated when people I love cry.
And then I continued.
"You are the only person in the world that can say 'I will discover the secrets of the universe one day' and actually mean it, not just say it to sound prestigious or smart. Because you are smart, Dante. Really smart. And I know you will, I know you will discover the secrets of the universe. Because only someone like you - someone as good as you would be able to discover those well hidden secrets.
"And you are the only one that has ever made me feel happy - genuinely happy. And free. And complete.
And I love you so much. More than anyone. And you have no idea how much I love you. I don't know what I'm going to do with out you next year - tomorrow. God, it's going to be hell not seeing you every day."
And Dante being Dante didn't try to say something like that back to me. Because he new it would just feel fake.
Like he was just saying it because I did.
Instead, he said: "I do know how much you love me. Because that's just how much I love you."
I had to smile at that.
I leaned in to him and pressed my lips to his in a sweet, loving kiss, full of emotion. Of how we felt for each other.
When we pulled back, he rested his forehead against mine and whispered:"My parents are letting me move to Austin high for my senior year. We're going to be in the same school, Ari. the same class."
He was smiling.
I was smiling.
And I knew that this year was going to be fine.
No, not fine.
It was going to be beautiful.