(AN: Sorry for the short one, but it's cute?)
"Okay so you know how when you hit puberty you were suddenly all 'holy crap girls!'"
Alex nods his head. I'm sunning on deck while the Endurance chugs along towards the Dragon's Triangle. Alex and me have something in common. We both have the hots for Lara but he can't quite understand how that works for me. The guy's a genius but girls and computers operate completely different from each other. Throw in girl on girl and his brain kind of shuts down a little.
"So coming out to yourself is kinda like that. You're just doing your thing, maybe sailing down the river of denial on a little boat, and then one day you're like 'holy crap girls/boys' and then there's no real looking back. It's kind of like gay puberty."
He furrows his brow. "But aren't you... Didn't you have boyfriends?"
"Yep."
"So you can like both."
"Yep. That's totally an option and it's totally okay. You can like neither too but that's not something I'd ever be qualified to talk about in a hundred years. I like sex way too much." I squint at him. Then a grin bursts across my face and Alex ducks his head. I scoot closer and poke him in the side. So except for the Lara thing that was something else we had in common.
"So what kind of guys do you like, maybe I could hook you up."
He shrugs his shoulders and grins at me. "Trying to take out the competition?"
"Who? Me? Never." Okay, maybe a little. "Besides, I'm pretty sure she's never noticed me that way before." At least not while sober.
Alex laughs and I can feel his pain. "I know those feels."
I sigh, thinking of how smart she is. I'm picky with the girls I like, but Lara just did things to me. "She's amazing, isn't she."
"Yeah." Alex gets up and stuffs his hands into his pocket. Lara's come up on deck, her nose buried in a map.
I grin, shading my eyes and resisting an urge to run to her. She pauses at the railing and looks out towards the sunset. I scramble for my camera so I can film her. "You know. I keep having this bad feeling. But when I see her like that I just know everything is going to be okay."
Alex bumps his fist against mine, but neither of us can look away from Lara.