Two days before spring break
Knocking his head on the wall, Isak typed the period for the last paragraph before handing the laptop to Even and collapsing on the bed lifelessly. Even sat beside him going through his history essay, which Isak had spent three hours working on while biting his nails, biting his pen, and tugging his hair like wanting to rip his head off.
As Even pointed out ten more mistakes for him, he sat up slowly getting ready to knock his head on the wall again. Whatever, brain was useless.
Rubbing the redness on his forehead, Even laughed, "Baby, that's not gonna help, you know. And Eskild probably would wonder what we are doing here."
Isak rolled his eyes knocking himself in the pillow instead, "I am gonna fail this course…"
"I can do it for you if you want." Even lifted his chin up while Isak trying to suffocate himself in the pillow, "I learned art history before, so it shouldn't be hard."
Feeling so relieved, Isak threw himself into Even with full strength kissing him ignoring the huge sound of laptop dropping on the floor.
"Bad timing?" Eskild knocked on the door.
"Yeah." Isak stated flatly, sitting up involuntarily.
" So you finished your work?" He burst in sitting on the other side of Even.
"Kinda, Even would revise for me."Isak pressed one more kiss on Even's busy typing hands.
Eskild clapped his hands, "So you can go grocery with me then."
"What?! Why not Noora or Linn?"
"Because Noora went on her adventure trip to London, she decided to give her and William a second chance. And if you want to wait for Linn to do grocery we would starve to death by now."
" I am busy."
"Doing what?"
"You know, watching Even revise my essay, helping him, being supportive that kinda stuff…" Isak trailed off blushing while Even looking up from laptop grinned amusingly.
" Isak, I had seen Even helping you with your essay at least for four times and you got much better scores than before, so," he prolonged the sound, "Put on your clothes, let's go."
Isak pulled the strings on his hoodie trying to think of some excuses and ended up pressing his face on the keyboard clueless, typing bunch of strange symbols.
"Baby, if you accidentally delete your essay, I can do nothing about it. I am really not a computer person." Even put the laptop away cupping his face, and kissed on his nose tip, "The weather is really good. Go buy some food you like so I can cook for you guys tonight."
Eskild leaned over kissing the back of Even's hand before dragging Isak out of the room,"Thank you so much, Even!"
"Eskild, I need to shower before we go."
" No need, you smell bad anyway, the only reason your room smells better now is because Even does laundry every week."
Their voice echoed from the doorway. Even smiled seeing them walking out while looking back to the screen to decide how to make Isak's essay better but not too good to be suspected.
Walking to the store, Eskild rambled about Season 7 of The Walking Dead he watched recently while isak was thinking about what he and Even should do during spring break.
"So Glenn died in Ep 1 and they didn't even show his face. I am so angry about …are you listening?"
"Uh? Yeah. Is Glenn the Korean guy? He was with Maggie, right?"Isak tried hard to recall these characters.
"No, he was with Daryl! They were my favorite TV couple."
" Wait," Isak wondered if they watched the same show, " I thought they were straight in the show."
"Well, most of them are gay. Don't you see there is also some spark between Daryl and Rick, Rick and Morgan, and …"
"Okay! Quit ruining the show for me, Eskild. Let's talk about something else." Isak cut him off feeling he could never look at anyone properly in the show next time he watched it.
Eskild pursed his lips, not changing the subject successfully, "Have you heard a joke about zombies?"
Isak pinched his nose bridge, signed, " What joke?"
"Zombies catch you deciding to eat your brain, but they walk away disappointedly after opening your skull." Eskild laughed so hard that he started to cough.
Isak walked into the store ignoring him.
When they finished, Eskild suggested doing some window-shopping in the large shopping mall across street while waiting for the Uber since they bought too much stuff to carry home. They left their food bags to a cute salesman for keeping. Eskild flew a kiss at him.
" Do you want to buy something, Isak?"
"Maybe a snapback."
"You have hundreds of them, and they all look the same." Eskild shook his head.
"That's a collection, Eskild. I want to buy one for Even since it's really sunny these days."
"Wow, a couple look, huh?"
" Yeah" he blushed. The truth was that Isak deeply remembered how stunning Even looked wearing a snapback in his interview video filmed by Mikael.
"Eskild, can you give me some tips on choosing hats? I am not sure what kind I should get for him."
" Don't worry." Eskild patted his head like treating a dog, "He'll like it since he even put that shitty drawing you gave him in a frame."
" Hey, I spent two hours on that!" Isak felt offended.
"What I mean is he loves everything from you, so just pick it yourself."
Isak grinned while trying on snapbacks himself to see how they look until Eskild said, "Oh, just one tip, pick a smaller size for Even. Come on, don't look at me like that, you know, your head is bigger than his which is weird considering you are so much shorter than him."
"Eskild, I have the key to your room," looking at the ceiling of the mall, Isak said casually, "I could accidentally sleepwalked and shaved your perfect eyebrows with my new shaver." Then he walked past Eskild's frozen body smiling.
Isak eventually bought a black snapback with a silver symbol after two-hour searching. They both got home feeling extremely exhausted from walking. Throwing all the food bags at the doorway, Isak rushed to bedroom to show his gift.
Of course, Even loved it and he showed his appreciation so passionately that Isak had breakfast, lunch and dinner on bed the next day.
However, until the spring passed, Isak didn't see him wearing the snapback once.
Half way through summer, he almost forgot about it until Even accidentally saw the interview video on his laptop while preparing him for the history exam. It was his fault since he searched Even's name so many times when they first met, simply typing "E" in the information bar, Even's full name would pop up with the interview video.
Even breathed a laugh stealing a peck on his cheek. He flushed. He did not know how many times he blushed each day since he met Even. But Isak again was attracted to the video no matter how many times he had watched it, " You look so good with snapback."
Even's eyebrow raised, "Is that why you bought me a new one?"
"Yeah, but…" he hesitated for a moment, "Why you never wear it?"
"Baby, I wear it all the time when I am out with my friends, I just don't wear it when I am with you."
"Why not?"
"It gets in the way sometimes."
Seeing Isak getting more confused, Even stood up and took the hat out of his drawer wearing it.
Sitting on computer chair, Isak saw him leaning down holding himself on the arms of his chair, "Kiss me."
"Huh?" Isak couldn't function while Even's face was so close to his.
" You heard me." Even moved closer.
Isak was mesmerized by his voice and slammed his lips on Even's but "Ouch!"
Isak frowned while covering his nose bridge. Damn the brim of this fucking hat!
" Are you okay? Sorry. I thought you wouldn't kiss this hard." Even's eyes were filled with concern as Isak took off his hat throwing it away and kissed him hungrily, whispering, " No more hats."
"But I really love the one you got me." Even chuckled against his lips.
"No more hats."
"You said I looked good with it."
" You look better without it." Isak said while slightly biting Even's lower lip.
Even smiled lifting him up from the chair, "Okay."
The next day, Isak walked into cafeteria joining his friends for lunch.
"Isak, why you have a band-aid on your nose?" Jonas asked.
"Long story." Isak said quickly while throwing the hat at Magnus, "Hey, Magnus! I got you a snapback."
"Thank you, dude! That's so nice of you!" Magnus exclaimed while wearing it, "Uh, Isak."
"Yeah?"
"It's… um…it's too small for me."
"…."
