Chapter Three:

After leaving the warehouse Rich went home unable to stop the scene from earlier, with Dave from replaying over and over in his head. The look of hurt and anger on Dave's face was the part he saw every time he closed his eye's. He lay on his couch in the dark trying to figure out what to do about Dave, but he couldn't think of anyway that would make it up to him. So he decided to go for a drive, maybe that would help clear his head, he got into his car after locking up and began to drive with no destination in mind. After driving around for awhile he found himself parked in Dave's driveway, he sat starring at the house gripping the steering wheel with both hand's. He saw Dave's car in the driveway, and a light on in the living room, he couldn't make himself get out of the car, or drive away, so he just sat there starring at the house! A half hour later he decided he needed to talk to Dave whether he answered or not he still needed to tell him how sorry he was and how much he still loved him. So he took a deep breath and got out, he went to the front door and knocked, after a few second's he tried again. When he still didn't get an answer he tried opening the door, but it was locked so he decided to talk to him through the door, so he spoke sadly.

"Dave, I know you're in there and I know you're hurt, angry, and hate me right now! I came here to tell you that I'm so sorry, I never meant to hurt you! I'm sorry I tried to force you to choose it wasn't fair, I should have been more patient until you were ready! I just love you so much that I wanted to be able to show it when other's were around, I only thought of myself! Please Dave open the door and talk to me, or yell at me, anything?" Rich begged the door, as he did Dave returned from his walk and saw him on his porch talking to the front door, confused he joined him on the porch. Rich stopped talking and looked at the man beside him who didn't say anything as he unlocked his door and opened it Dave turned to him.

"Do you want to come in and talk or would you rather I leave so you can finish your conversation with my door?" Dave said smirking.

"In my defence I didn't know you weren't home!" Rich answered smiling.

"Still weird man! Do the guy's know you talk to door's?" Dave said as he led the way to the living room. "Want a coffee?" Dave asked as he took his jacket off and tossed his key's onto the table as he went into the kitchen.

"Yeah, that would be great thanks!" Rich said as he got two cup's. Once they had their coffee's they went into the living room and sat on the couch.

"So you heard nothing I said?" Rich asked.

"Nope!" Dave answered taking a drink of his coffee.

"So…you never heard my apology?"

"Nope!"

"I can't believe I did that!" Rich said leaning back. "It took me a half hour to work the courage up to get out of my car to apologize in the first place!"

"Wow! Am I really that scary?" Dave asked putting his coffee on the table.

"No, I'm just that much of a chicken!" Rich answered setting his coffee down too. "Dave, I came here to apologize and I'm going too! Dave I didn't want people to find out about us that way, but it happened and I'm so sorry! I was okay with hiding and keeping our love secret, but then as time went on I began to see other couple's and want what they had you know, a love they didn't have to hide! It felt good to tell the guy's and like I thought they understood, and are supporting us, but I had no right to tell them without you! I had no right either to try and force you to choose, I would have done the same thing you did and leave!" Rich paused as he looked at Dave who just sat there watching Rich squirm. "You're enjoying this aren't you?"

"Yeah, yeah I' am!" Dave answered smiling.

"You aren't going to put me out of my misery yet are you?" Rich asked smiling too. "You can jump in anytime you know!?" Rich said nudging Dave lightly.

"Nah! I like watching you squirm, it's a good look for you!" Dave said as he smiled and crossed his arm's. "You can continue!"

"Dave I love you, and I'm so sorry, please give me another chance? I promise…" Dave cut him off.

"Rich, just stop please!" Dave said leaning back against the couch and rubbed his hand's over his face he sat back up before talking again. "I'm just as to blame! If I wasn't such a coward, and didn't worry about being looked differently at by other's, you wouldn't have been placed in this position! I didn't want to tell the other's because I didn't want them to look at me like I was a stranger, I didn't know how they would react you know? I guess I let my fear of being judged come before my love for you and your feeling's, and when you forced me to choose I panicked so I left! I should have told you this before, but I only admitted it to myself on my walk, I'm sorry Rich!" Dave said as he looked him in the eye's, before he once again leaned back, he put his head against the couch and covered his face with his hat.

"I guess we both screwed up huh?" Rich asked gently.

"Look's that way!" Dave replied from under his hat.

"Question is…what are we going to do about it?" Rich asked as he took the hat off Dave's face, he turned to face Rich, he smiled sadly at him.

"I don't know Rich? I'm not the easiest guy to be with obviously." Dave said sighing sadly as he turned away from Rich. Rich smiled as he watched Dave and knew in that moment that he would always love him, he spoke smiling.

"I like a challenge!"

"Rich…I'm only going to ask you this once more, and if you can still say yes then I'm all yours forever!" Dave said seriously as he sat up.

"And if I don't?" Rich asked quietly.

"Then we'll have to move on!" Dave said avoiding Rich's eye's.

"Okay…ask!"

"Rich I love you, but I'm not going to lie and tell you our relationship will be perfect! There will be time's when we'll fight, when I can't show affection like you want in front of other's, there might be time's when I can't talk to you about thing's…can you handle that? Can you handle my being distant, my craziness, or me spending hour's or sometime's day's working on my invention's…" Rich cut Dave off by kissing him.

"Dave, I love you! I love every little thing about you, and my answer is and always will be yes! I don't want or expect you to change Dave, I knew who you were and what you were like when I fell in love with you, you still are one of my best friend's remember?" Rich said smiling, before he kissed him.

"I guess it's going to take sometime for me to get used to this whole thing!"

"So we're a thing now?" Rich asked smiling at Dave as he nudged him.

"You aren't going to give me a break are you?" Dave asked leaning back on the couch. "I'm exhausted! I could sleep for day's!" He said yawning.

"I'm going to go get another coffee, you want one too?" Rich asked kissing him before he stood picking up the cup's, Dave yawned and nodded yes. Rich smiled and went into the kitchen and got their coffee's, he returned to the living room to find Dave still leaning back only he was asleep. He put the coffee's on the table and went and grabbed a blanket from the closet. He returned to see Dave still sleeping, he covered him gently and sat watching him sleep. He smiled to himself even sleeping Dave was still gorgeous, he knew there would be rough time's ahead, but he also knew that they'd make it. He knew that Dave was right there would be time's when he'd pull away from Rich, but he wasn't worried, because he knew they could make it through anything together! He got up and went to Dave and kissed him gently not wanting to wake him, Dave shifted and smiled slightly in his sleep. Then Rich whispered he loved him, before he cuddled into Dave under the blanket and he felt Dave's arm go around him as he slept and he breathed in Dave's cologne and sighed. This was exactly where he wanted to be and who he wanted to be with, he then drifted off to sleep too a smile on his lip's, and love in his heart!

The End

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