It was Thanksgiving, Spencer was getting ready to go out to dinner with his family along with Billy's and Shanilla and Rajeevs. They were going to one of the few restaurants open on Thanksgiving and they were lucky they were able to get reservations in the first place. And they had to dress "fancy".
Spencer wore one of his only suits, it was black with a green and red patterned tie, nothing special.
The restaurant was packed. When they got to the table Billy's family was already there.
"Oh hello Mr. and Mrs. Wright, its nice to to finally meet you," Billy's mom said cheerfully getting up to greet Spencers parents.
"I'm Adina and this is my husband William." She introduced shaking their hands.
"Well, you know Spencer of course, and this is our Jessica." Hugh said gesturing to Jessica.
"Wow Spence, you clean up good." Billy smirked pulling Spencer in for a hug.
"Its just a stupid suit." He shrugged.
Billy laughed. Ever since they'd kissed at that stupid Halloween party he'd spent a considerable amount of time thinking about Spencer. He'd found himself thinking about what Spencer was doing a certain moment, what kind of things he slept in, he'd also started noticing a lot about him, like some days he wore cologne and some days he didn't, he'd notice when Spencer did something different with his hair, or when he wore a new shirt or something. He noticed how Spencers eyes lit up when he talked about films, that cute look on his face when he was confused, how his voice changed when he was angry, how short he was compared to him. He was falling for Spencer, he just hadn't realised it yet. And much to his dismay he'd thought about kissing Spencer again and doing…..other things with him, whether he liked it or not.
Spencer had thought about it too of course, but he was still pretty confused about everything, so he tried not to, he didn't want things to be awkward between them and he felt not thinking about it would lessen the awkwardness, besides he had better things to think about than a stupid kiss.
The two of them went outside while their families got to know each other to wait for Rajeev and Shanilla to show.
When they finally showed a few minutes later everyone was ready to eat. They ordered their food and chatted amongst themselves.
"So how's your film coming along.?" Shanilla asked from across the table.
"Pretty good actually, its due at the end of the month and I've just got to put a few more finishing touches and it'll be okay." Spencer answered. Just the he noticed that Billy was still gone. He looked around the restaurant but there was no sign of him, guess he was still in the bathroom. Spencer excused himself and went to the restroom.
"Billy.? You in here.?" He called out. He heard a groan. "That you Billy.?" He asked.
"Spence.? Billy groaned out from a stall.
"You okay.?" Spencer asked, finding Billy's stall, which was slightly open.
"Nuh-uh." He answered.
"Uh, okay, I'm coming in." Spencer hesitated. He saw Billy leaned over the toilet, with his hair in his face.
"What happened Billy." Spencer asked concerned.
"Yea something i ate didn't quite agree with The Cobra." He slowly replied, clutching his tummy.
Spencer knelt down next to Billy rubbing his back.
"I'm cold Spence.. and my head hurts." Billy whined miserably.
Spencer didn't know exactlu what to do, he wanted Billy to feel better so he did what his mom used to do when he was sick.
He hugged him.
Billy put his forehead on Spencers shoulder rocking back and forth, while Spencer slowly rubbed his back. Things were quiet except for them breathing and Billy's occasional whimper.
Billy puked about two more times after that, in the toilet of course, before he felt a bit better. "You feelin' okay.?" Spencer asked holding Billy's face up. Billy nodded sheepishly. There they were again, face to face, alone, closer than ever, he could've kissed Spencer again, he wanted too, but he didn't. He'd just puked and that be pretty gross. So instead he sighed and went to rise his mouth out.
Fortunately, everyone was done eating when they got back so they could go straight home, but unfortunately Shanilla and Rajeev had already left and they'd been waiting about 10 minutes for Billy and Spencer to get back.
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It was now December, school was almost out for the rest of the year and Spencer couldn't be happier. He'd thought the whole Billy thing would've dies down but it didn't, Billy was still treated like royalty whenever there was a chance, which really raised his already high ego. Billy was really busy with recording songs, they'd been in the writing process for months and now it was finally time for a single, but he wanted to write his own single. His record label advised against it, but he was gonna do what he wanted anyways, just to see how things would go. Frankly he was tired of all this teen pop, wusscore stuff his label was making him do, he was Billy Joe Cobra, his fans would love him no matter what…. Right.? He just needed to figure out what the song would be about.
As you can probably tell Spencers family loved to plan "get togethers" for holidays and the next holiday was Christmas. Spencers parents were having a Christmas dinner and his friends were invited. Fortunately, Christmas was after Hanukkah this year so Billy's family was able to go (his mother was Jewish).
The Christmas dinner started at around 6 and for the first hour or so they sat around the fire sharing Christmas memories and stories waiting for dinner to be ready. 5 embarrassing stories later and Billy's story is being told. He was 10 at the time and let's just say it was the reason he'd had no friends for like the past few years. And everyone was laughing, it was not funny, well it was but, he still wasn't exactly over it yet of course, so he left the room for a bit, just to think.
About 5 mimutes later Spencer appears infront of him.
"Hey, Billy you okay, you seem kinda bummed." Spencer asked concerned.
"Yea, its all good brometheus, those stories just kinda got to me. That's all." Billy shrugged.
Spencer groaned doubtfully.
"Forrealsie Spence, I'm okay. All that stuff happened in the past and I gotta keep looking forward, there's no point in livin' in the past when you're in the right now." He explained poetically.
"Whatever you say Billy." Spencer scoffed, about to walk off.
"Wait, look Spence," Billy said gesturing above them. It was mistletoe.
Spencer turned red. He laughed nervously.
And the next thing he knew Billy's lips were on his. He was nervous, his heart was beating fast, he was confused.
"Billy.." He mumbled pushing away.
"Come onnn Spence, its Christmas." He argued.
Spencer frowned.
"You're kissing thee Billy Joe Cobra, d'ya know how many people would love to be you right now bromigo.?" Billy bragged. This kinda pissed Spencer off.
"Oh yea, well why don't you go find one of those people then." He insisted angrily.
Billy was about to argue back when Shanilla entered the room.
"Oh, uh.. Ehm. I- dinners ready." She stuttered out noticing an issue.
"Yeah." Spencer mumbled angrily, walking to the kitchen.
Who was this guy, telling him that kissing him was a PRIVILEGE just because he was famous, what.? His stupid ego was getting worse, it was the reason he'd hated him when they first met back in September.
Once dinner was over, it was time to open gifts.
"At least i can look forward to this." Spencer thought.
He'd gotten a camera from his parents, a "Hunted" movie poster and shirt and a few trinkets Shanilla and Rajeev had brought back from India a few weeks before.
Rajeev got a leather belt and a new video game, and Shanilla got a watch along with a book she'd been dying to read.
Billy had gotten some souvenirs from India too but that was it, Spencer hadn't gotten up him anything, he didn't know what to get the guy that had basically everything and right now he was pretty happy that he didn't.
Afterwards, they sang carols in front of the fire, watched Christmas classics, and played video and bored games, Christmas was pretty fun. But of course everything good had to come to an end.
Spencer had brought all his gifts up to his room, Christmas was great, but he was still kinda pissed at how jerky Billy was earlier. Just then there was a knock as his door and in came Billy.
"You here to tell me that I have no right to be mad at you, that its a privilege to know you.?" Spencer said sarcastically.
Billy was quiet for a moment.
"…ohh.. Haha, yea… Sorry about that bromigo. Nah, I just wanted to give you this.." He said sheepishly holding out a box wrapped in shiny blue wrapping paper.
"What is it.? An autographed photo of you.?" Spencer snickered.
"Just open it…" Billy sighed. Spencer groaned, but opened it anyways.
He smiled as Spencers eyes lit up.
"Oh my gosh, where did you get this. They don't even sell them in the store." Spencer beamed. It was a book, the book, from "Hunted" where they kept all the letters from the mysterious hunter.
"Yea, it's kinda the one they used in the movie." Billy bragged.
"You're totally kidding.!" Spencer blinked doubtfully.
"Nah, of course not. I just wanted to y'know thank you. I've been a tiny bit over confident lately, especially today, and-"
"Tiny.? More like an overly arrogant egoistic jerk." Spencer cut in.
"Hehe, yeah. And any normal person wouldn't have to guts to say that to me, but you Spence, you're different. I just wanted to give this to you in person. Y'know." Billy concluded scratching his head.
"Yea, I am different. I hate your music." Spencer joked. Billy could be a jerk sometimes, but he was still a pretty good guy.
"Yea." Billy giggled. "Well I'll see you later Spence, yea." He continued turning to leave.
"Ahhh, come 'ere toolshed," Spencer teased pulling him in for a hug.
"Heyyy, you never got me a present." Billy pointed out.
"Well, what am I supposed to get the guy that has everything, I'm not from a foreign place." Spencer complained.
Billy just laughed. He'd never admit it, but just having Spencer as his friend was good enough. He was a screw up, and Spencer realised that, but he didn't hate him for it and he admired that. He wasn't like Billy's fans, who'd be on his side no matter what he did, Spencer was a real friend and that was all Billy could ask for right now.