Man I really can't get enough of writing and re-reading this story, I've just been in such a septiplier mood lately I can't help but re-read this story and write more of it! Also, it really helps with all the positive feedback I've been getting, I was really expecting a lot of negative feedback when I first posted this but I guess the world is unpredictable... Just kidding, I knew there would be at least someone out there who likes it. XD

So, we're starting to get more intimate with these two! But I wonder…how far will it go? How am I going to keep this story going if it's all mutual…? I don't want this story to end yet, I do have an ending in mind for the story but I don't know how far away that'll be, but it definitely won't be soon, I'll let you guys know when the last Chapter is near. ;)

Anyways, enjoy Chapter 11 of Strange Feelings! ^^ P.S. Sorry this was updated late, I caught a bug at the start of the week and then by Thursday it was getting really bad so I ended up losing a lot of time just laying in bed with a lack of sleep because of my stuffed up nose, I couldn't smell or anything, but anyways enjoy the Chapter! :D

I don't own these guys; Mark and Jack are their own people.

Chapter 11 – Game Time

The pair stared at each other, smiling slightly before they felt the awkwardness arise, they quickly let go of each other's hands and looked away shyly, feeling uncomfortable but at the same time feeling happy that they did that. Even though they had both wanted to try this, they were both expecting it to be less awkward than it was already; it must have been the sudden reality of the situation that made them feel weird about it.

"Sorry, I think that just made it more awkward…" Mark admitted, turning his head slightly.

Jack nodded in reply, looking down at the ground towards Mark's feet. "Yeah…I was kind of expecting it to go a little different." He replied, shrugging his shoulders as he slouched into the couch.

Mark agreed in reply, wanting that hand hold to go another way but it didn't. He sighed in thought of why it felt that way, and then his mind suggested that they were hitting the idea too head on and it was still too soon for either of them to try that out. Maybe they had to start out small and build their way up? He thought. Mark turned his head towards Jack, remembering how they became friends in the first place; the first game that they ever played together was gmod sandbox. He remembered still having it on his computer somewhere so now he decided to go back to their roots.

"You know what? How about we play a game together instead?" Mark suggested in a more confident tone.

Jack's eyes lit up with excitement as he smiled. "Sure, but what game?" He asked, knowing how many countless games they played together.

Mark didn't answer, instead he got up from his seat and gestured Jack to follow him upstairs to his bedroom. Jack followed close behind, feeling nervous but at the same time excited that they were going to play a game together, he worried that Mark was going to record them playing together, but then saw that Mark only set up his two computers and nothing else, after dragging a seat next to his, Mark gestured to Jack to sit down alongside him.

He obliged, sitting down and seeing what was on the screen that Mark had prepared. The nostalgia hit him hard as he read the words gmod sandbox, giving him so many happy and thoughtful memories, remembering their first game that they played together gave him so much happiness as he turned to Mark, smiling with a blush.

"Mark…it's been ages since we played this game together, out of all the games we've played together you pick this one?"

Mark nodded with a happy smile. "Yep, because it was the first game we ever played together." He stated, leaning in slightly towards Jack, before the distance between them got too close for comfort.

They separated their distance slightly, feeling the awkwardness arise as Mark opened a map for them to play on, and as soon as Jack saw the very strong familiarity of the map they were playing on, he couldn't help but laugh and nudge his friend in the shoulder. "Really Mark? We're going back to the old times?" He joked with a chuckle.

"It might help with our…situation." Mark implied, hesitating on the word situation as he felt the bubbly feeling inside arise as he looked at Jack.

Jack smiled, laughing a little before lowering his head shyly before turning towards the screen, ready to play some gmod sandbox with Mark. They played around making all sorts of weird contraptions, but most of all they enjoyed making their custom made jets that would make the other person spin and fly high up into the air; they both laughed so much when they both went flying in the air. Their screens going crazy before they safely landed back down.

"Again again!" Jack demanded excitedly, enjoying playing sandbox with Mark.

Mark chuckled as he played back in his mind what just happened on screen, it was really hilarious and he could see why Jack asked to do that again, so not a moment later they were both spinning out of control in the air. They spent a good hour messing around in sandbox before they decided to switch to prop hunt with just the two of them.

"Okay, I think we've played around with our first memories together, how about having some fun annoying the fuck out of each other?" Mark suggested as he opened up his private server, Jack slouching in his chair, calming himself down from the laughter.

Jack chuckled, straightening up his back as he sat up fully on his chair. "Yeah, any other game would be great too, but sandbox will be the best game I ever played with you." He admitted, looking down with a slight blush.

Mark raised an eyebrow suggestively while also blushing the moment he saw the tint of pink on Jack's cheeks. "Oh really? You're sure it's not Forest Coop, because that's what started the whole septiplier ship." He implied with a smirk, nodding as he kept his head focused on the screen.

"We totally made it a thing didn't we? It was never the fans..." Jack stated, slowly realising what that statement truly meant as seriousness crept into half the tone of his sentence.

Mark picked up on the seriousness instantly, his body froze as he realised that they may have liked each other this way for a much longer time than they both thought. It only seemed like over a week to them but it could just as well been over a year or so since they could have started to like each other in that way, but maybe it was subconsciously?

But now that Jack pointed it out, they both started to realise all those subtle moments they had together before those dreams happened, sometimes Jack would find himself always nervosa around Mark, but at the same time he thought he was only acting that way because he looked up to Mark so why wouldn't he be nervous? Then, when it came to talking about him, Jack couldn't help but smile most of the time.

From Mark's point of view, it was always the excitement of Jack coming over to LA and visiting, and those cutesy moments he shared with Jack in front of their fans made him feel a little shy, he remembered the heat in his face, he worried if his fans caught that, but he knew that he would have seen it posted somewhere and so far he hadn't seen any real evidence as to either of them liking each other, even though now it was actually true.

Unfortunately neither of them didn't know how to make this work, they knew what they had to do they just didn't know how to do it without it being criticized for taking too long or not enough to make a move or something, and they also didn't know how far were they going to take it by the end of the week, neither of them had even thought about beyond kissing and didn't dare to, their feelings for each other still felt fresh and they didn't want to taint it with that sort of thing, probably not even ever, it just seemed so wrong to either of them if they were to try and do that with each other.

So Mark loaded up prop hunt and made sure the computer Jack was on had the same server too so they could play together, and after a silent moment of just the two of them waiting for the map to load they were finally able to play. Jack was a prop first, picking the role of a hunter first so Mark would have no choice but to pick props as the teams swapped making Jack a prop on the second round.

Jack quickly found a good prop and hid somewhere relatively hard for Mark to find but not too hard it seemed like he was cheating, so every ten or so seconds Jack would taunt him, Mark constantly asked where Jack was, growing frustrated that he wasn't finding him anywhere and not having much knowledge of this map, but at the same time Jack hadn't played this map either so it was new to the both of them.

"You'll never find me Mark." Jack implied, feeling confident with his spot that he removed his hands from the keyboard and mouse, crossing his arms over his chest with pride.

Mark growled annoyingly as he continued to look everywhere for Jack. "Where are you!? I've searched everywhere!" Mark cried.

Jack cackled with laughter in that statement, knowing if Mark had searched everywhere on the entire map by now he would've found him and the round would be over. Jack didn't say anything, instead he cackled with laugher for an entire minute before he thought of giving Mark a hint, seeing that Mark was still being as clueless as he could possibly be. He sighed before leaning back towards the mouse and keyboard, jumping on the spot, announcing that he was bouncing in that very moment.

"Oh, are we going to play this game now?" Mark asked jokingly, smirking as he scanned around him, seeing no objects jumping around him. "Marco!" He called out, wanting Jack to jump when he responded.

"Polo!" Jack replied, jumping on the spot multiple times as he said 'Polo', cracking up in laughter when he saw Mark walk right past him as he jumped. "Are you fucking serious Mark!? My God you're so stupid!" He cried, wiping a tear from his eyes from all the laughing he had done so far.

Mark turned back; examining the area he just walked by, knowing from what Jack said meant that he walked right past him at some point. He stayed in the very room that Jack was in, Jack bit his lower lip as he smiled, trying to hold his nervousness in and contain it with fits of laughter making Mark feel stupid.

"Oh come on Jack, there's only thirty seconds left, give me a chance man!"

Jack sighed, taunting one more time and jumping repeatedly before he stopped and in that moment when Jack stopped Mark looked in his direction, not seeing any jumps. "You're a goddamn liar you know that? I have not seen you jump this whole fucking time. You are lying to me man." Mark informed, feeling annoyed and frustrated at the same time, while still retaining a humorous smile.

And as the round came to a close, Jack came out of hiding and jumped right in front of Mark's face, Mark felt incredibly stupid feeling that Jack's spot was the one place he didn't look. He sighed in exhaustion as he looked all over to find a good hiding spot before he rested his hand not on his chair, but accidentally on Jack's leg.

Jack startled at the sudden touch on his leg, his heart began to race as his muscles tensed and the heat consumed his face. The round had started and Jack was un-blinded to go find Mark, but both of them were in an intimate moment, staring almost blankly into each other's eyes, Jack rested his hand above Mark's, seeing the guilt in Mark's eyes, seeing that this sudden touch of his leg was purely accidental, but Jack accepted it with a smile, staring longingly into Mark's brown eyes as he did the same.

"I know this may sound like a corny thing to say, but you have amazing eyes." Jack said, smiling as she scratched his neck shyly.

He turned away, not seeing a response escape Mark lips, but as he turned back to the screen Mark responded. "SO do you. You have amazing eyes too." He said in a loving, adoring tone, moving his chair closer to Jack's.

But this point neither of them were really focused on the game, but the sudden bark from Chica interrupted the moment and Mark had to get up. Mark told Jack he wouldn't be long and that Jack could go and try to look for him now. By the time Mark returned back to his seat, Jack had just murdered him with a grenade. Mark sighed loudly, moaning in his defeat as Jack chuckled in laughter as he went around to find his own hiding spot.

In that same time, Mark looked over at Jack, not seeing his screen but seeing enough of his face to make him smile. He didn't realise that Jack was looking right at him as he continued to stare at him as he zoned out completely, almost mesmerised by just looking at Jack, he was slowly starting to see why he was having feelings for Jack in the first place, and even though he knew it wasn't all based on his looks, so far he could see just how attractive Jack was just by looking at him.

"Um, Mark?" Jack called out, raising an eyebrow as he started to feel uncomfortable with Mark staring at him and he didn't say a word.

It took a moment for Mark to snap out of it but once he did he got back to his game and continued to hunt Jack down until he would either give up or kill the prop that Jack was. Prop hunt was such a great game for the two, they only wished they could play it together more often, it seemed they have less games than usually just compiling of the two of them. It was always with other friends and they didn't have much chance to talk to each other one on one in a game together, it was always at least one other person and they'd usually have to talk to them too.

Both of them were really starting to see why they liked each other a lot, it seemed like they had liked each other in that way for a while, because both of them whenever they played games together with at least one other person or two, they would occasionally have that annoying sigh that they couldn't talk to each other alone in a game, they would have to talk with the others that were involved with the game, but neither of them hated the others that played with them, it was actually more fun to play with more people but at the same time both Mark and Jack were having that feeling inside that they wanted to talk to each other alone.

So they played prop hunt for a good hour and a bit before deciding that they've played enough games for today, Mark decided to give Jack some time to himself, feeling that he hadn't left Jack alone all that much since he drove him back to his house. For the remainder of the day Jack stayed in the spare room, laying down on the bed as he stared up at the ceiling, thinking about Signe and how she was doing, by this time she knew for it to be in the evening for her, as it was almost the late afternoon for him at the moment.

He slowly closed his eyes, feeling the tiredness kick in again from the long flight and the lack of sleep he had before the flight. He snuggled up, resting half his head on the pillow as he huddled himself up into a small cold ball, not realising that he could just as easily go under the bridge but Jack felt too lazy to do that so he slept where he was, fully clothed on the top of all the covers.

A little after Jack fell asleep into a nap, Mark walked on in, being quiet just in case if he was asleep, and to his amusement Jack was huddled asleep on the bed. He smiled adoringly at his green haired best friend, he wondered if he was ever tempted do any other moves on Jack, ever since the first move he did he wasn't sure what to do next, and he wasn't sure how far he was going to take it, the more he thought ahead what could happen if they do end up together, Mark gagged in response to the thought that they were ever going to go all the way with their relationship if they were to have one.

But then that made Mark think more in depth about the whole reason as to why Jack was here for the next few days, he worried that since not much was happening so far that Jack wasn't going to make a decision by the time he returned back home, he wanted to wake up Jack and talk to him in that very moment about it but seeing how peaceful and quietly Jack slept he smiled lovingly before leaving the room and slowly closing the door on his way out.

So for the remainder of the afternoon, Mark spent some time up in his bedroom laying on his bed playing around with Chica and one of her dog toys, she chewed at it and attempted to grab it out of Mark's hand multiple times, before getting up from her pet bed to jump onto the bed to grab it, she landed right on his stomach and Mark grunted loudly as he suddenly felt so much weight pressed against his stomach. He wrapped his arms around Chica, crying in slight pain from her sudden jump as he placed her back down onto her own little doggy bed and handing her toy to her, she continued to chew on it while Mark laid comfortably on his bed thinking about Jack.

He had so many mixed feelings for Jack he didn't know which one he was supposed to be showing around Jack the most, was it love, happiness, humour, seriousness, confusion? His mind was riddled with questions that he couldn't answer, and he was too afraid to look online, not just because he felt weird looking up that sort of thing but because he wasn't sure if he would get the right answer or not and then if he did get the wrong answer he would chose.

Both Mark and Jack felt so confused about all of this; they didn't know how they were going to go about this. They both had mutual feelings for each other but how would they make this work? Mark was starting to have doubts, but realising it was only the start of Jack's trip made him feel more relieved. They both knew that they still had a fair few days to see if they could make this work.

Mark knew he was willing to accept any decision Jack made, but now he worried if Jack was going to be able to make a decision at all. He felt like Jack was torn between him and Signe but he couldn't quite tell, however he could see the conflict in his eyes the few moments they shared staring into each other's eyes. It was only a matter of time; they both had to just let fate take its course. It was the only way to go.

Yeah...this chapter is a little short, but that's only because when I do these chapters later than they're schedule I end up writing them after midnight then I get super tired, and then I have to find a way to keep myself awake so I can finish the chapter in one night instead of the span of two days. Luckily I just made it with this Chapter. So again, hopefully I'll have this up on Thursday but at the same time don't expect it fully to be on Thursday because things have been pretty hectic for me lately. Oh well, I'll see you whenever I post the next Chapter! :D