Fitz's POV
Dex is eating today. We're eating with our friends again, and he's eating.
He's eating mallowmelt, but it's food.
Food is food.
I invite him over after school. I tell him I needed help on alchemy. Keefe coughs.
"I have to leave."
"Why?" Sophie asks.
"Too many feelings in the air." He gets up to leave. Dex and I glare after him. Everybody else smirks and holds in laughs.
-Time Jump-
Fitz's POV
I lead him to my bedroom.
"We're not actually going to do alchemy are we?" Dex asks.
"No. Unless you want to."
"I'm down not to if you don't want to."
"Okay then." He sits down on my desk chair. He spins it around in a circle. I sit on the edge of my bed and watch him spin.
"Are we just going to pretend it didn't happen?" He asked, not stopping.
"Talk about what?" I ask innocently.
"The thing. With Sophie in the hallway."
"I don't need to talk about it."
"I do. I don't run from my feelings."
"Fine. But you have to talk first." He halts the chair.
"Fine." A pause. "I am very, very, very, in love with you." He blushes. I blush. "Stupid wonderboy. You made me fall in love with a straight boy."
"Am I the straight boy?" He nodded. I laughed. "I'm not straight."
"You dated Sophie."
"The biggest mistake I've ever made. Besides, you kissed her." He started spinning again.
"Yeah. I did do that. That is something I did do." He laughed.
"I mean. I don't really know what I am."
"Go on," he asked, intrigued.
"I'm not straight, you're proof of that. But that's as far as I've gotten."
"Oh?" He spun faster pretending I hadn't confessed my undying love to him.
"You're going to be dizzy when you stand up."
"Haha, Dizznee, Dizzy, I see." He paused. "If I get up and fall down, will you catch me?"
"Sure Dex, sure." He stood up, I stood up to meet him. He wobbled, I reached to catch him. He made no move to disentangle himself from my arms. He looks up at me. There's a dramatic pause. We kiss.
His world isn't the only one that's spinning.