[I do not own Teen Titans or any characters mentioned in this story. wOW I don't like this site sometimes. I uploaded this like three months ago but apparently fanfiction didn't register it or something? SO here's a super late chapter you were supposed to get a long time ago. Enjoy.]

The drive home was quick, spent in comfortable silence as Kid Rock filled the stereos in the beaten truck. Elliot kept stealing quick, admiring glances at Billy, just to help himself with the internal debate of what exactly he was about to do. For once, the lights and the atmosphere of the small town were distant to him, he had much pressing matters to stress over as of now. He needed to finally tell Billy how he felt, or it was going to rip him apart from the inside out. Just thinking about a confession was making his stomach dip and his heart stop.

As the Strayer house came into sight of the truck, Elliot could feel his pulse quickening, his stomach dropping, his hands shaking. As they fully pulled into the driveway, Elliot took one last deep breath. It's just like singing, he told himself, just pretend you're calm and it will come out that way.

Elliot took another deep breath before finally turning to face William while they were still in car, thinking hard about his decision and remembering everything Will had told him in his room earlier. He had to do this, if not for himself then for his friend.

"Hey." Elliot said nervously, his voice wavering with obvious nervousness.

As Billy turned around, Elliot placed a cold hand to the side of his face and leaned in to place a timid kiss to the swell of his cheek, all the while Billy blushed uncontrollably. He tried to discern any explanation from his friend's expression, but it only showed shyness as normal. Elliot's eyes were closed and his ears were downturned as he blushed again, harder this time. He looked happy, like a weight had been lifted off of him.

"I...I-I love you too William." came Elliot's quiet reply as he bit his lip and his hopeful eyes opened up to his confused friend who was speechless. Finally after what felt like hours of tormenting silence to the two, Elliot got out of the truck and left Billy to process what just happened on his own.

Before long, Billy snapped out of his daze and ran after Elliot, who was making his way to the porch. Billy caught him just as Elliot's hand was resting on the doorknob to the front door, catching him by the arm and turning Elliot to look at him in surprise.

"You...I mean...You're...okay w-with the…? I...erm…?" Billy stuttered gracelessly as Elliot gave him that amused smile he loved so much.

Elliot chuckled sadly before finally answering his still confused companion.

"I...I was awake...when you said all that stuff earlier." Elliot said softly with an small smile as Billy's expression fell in embarrassment.

"I...I think I finally understand what you've been trying to say Billy. And...I love you….I'd like to finally be more than a friend, if you still love me that is…?" Elliot asked, filled with nervous tension.

Billy sucked in a deep breath. Billy's fallen expression slowly widened into a beaming grin, which then morphed into boisterous laughter as he grabbed Elliot by his smaller waist and spun him around yelling something that sounded like 'are you kidding?'. Once Billy realized what he was doing he abruptly put the smaller boy down, blushing all the way.

"S-Sorry! I...uh...I forgot about how you're all...not touchy-feely with most folks-" Billy begun, before he was interrupted by Elliot.

"Some people...are an exception. You are definitely one of them." Elliot said calmly.

Billy smiled bashfully in the light of recent events, chuckling quietly to himself.

"So...now we're uh…?" Billy said light-heartedly.

"Boyfriends. Yes, or I would hope so." Elliot finished for him.

"Finally!" Came the loud voice of Billy's mother, who was watching them from the lit up doorway with her hands on her hips and a crowd of the Strayer family whispering and giggling behind her.

"Momma!" Billy screeched, his whole face beet red as Elliot hid his also red face in Billy's shoulder. Before the two could stop her, the woman was already dragging them inside and rambling about how 'she knew it' and 'it was only a matter of time'.

Eventually Elliot and Billy were both sat on the couch while Billy's mother was still yammering about God-knows-what from the kitchen, some generic movie playing in front of them on the TV. They were close, like they normally were. Their knees were practically touching and Elliot could feel the heat radiating off of his fr-boyfriend. Boyfriend, he corrected himself, smiling giddily at the term. For once, Elliot didn't stop the contact. In fact, Elliot actually managed to make his way under Billy's arm to lean against him more than sit next to him. His heart felt like it was about to burst, every pump of his blood felt like it was amplified by ten. While he was on cloud nine, he didn't even notice when William smiled down at his new boyfriend warmly, resting his head on Elliot's and pulling him closer by the waist.

After a while of the movie and realizing there was no way in hell Billy was going to try to get up and wake up his sleeping beauty, they ended up laying down next to each other on the couch, Elliot snug in his boyfriends chest every now and then mumbling something incoherent.

They ended up falling asleep like that, snuggled close together with the faintest static of the TV barely registering in their minds. They also didn't register when Sabrina Strayer snapped a photo of them on her phone, whisper something that sounded dangerously similar to 'blackmail material'.

[Yeah, I'm gonna try to work on this story more. But one major thing that keeps it going is reviews, if I don't get them I kind of assume nobody wants the story continued so review please! Any requests you may have or ideas you want to happen in the story are majorly welcome! Also, if you've read any of my other works you've probably mention a schizophrenic Punk Rocket headcanon of mine, I finally wrote a (super gay) story for it! I doubt I did it justice but read if you'd like. Also, I want to thank Stella Bella 123 for reminding me to get back on this. I totally forgot about this story until she sent me a message, so thank you!]