Boyfriends{END}

<div align=center>William would probably never go near him again if it hadn't been an accident, he was a timid boy and things like that tended to scare him an awful lot. He'd known it had been an accident, Gabe wouldn't have wanted to do something as nasty as that. At least Bill hoped so. There'd been a little incident between the two recently, but William didn't want to talk about that, besides, it had all been cleared up anyway. He shook his head, pushing the thoughts out of his head and forcing a smile onto his face. He would have liked to curl up next to Gabe right now for a little while, he was in lessons though, so that wasn't possible.

William frowned a little, and blushed. Over excited? He rubbed the back of his neck and bit his lip. "Uh... I... Yeah..." He wasn't sure if he should go into much detail, was she even old enough to know about that? William realized what he was thinking about all of a sudden, and blushed hard. Stop it stop it stop it. He shrugged, it was nice that Gabe cared that much about him, though Bill wished he wouldn't tread on eggshells the whole time he was around him, is it really that hard not to be an asshole? "He's..." William paused, he wouldn't really call Gabe nice. Sure, he was nice to him, but to other people... "It depends, I guess."</div>

<div align=center>William was perhaps unhappy more than he was happy. But he didn't really say anything about it ever, and generally refused to cry in front of other people, or at least did his best to. He probably wouldn't have gone into detail even if she had asked him to, he found himself being unable to talk about things like that with people that weren't Gabe, and even that was awkward for him. Gentle was the exact word to use for William, easy going, however, was not who he was. William was more or less constantly paranoid of everything, he struggled to relax and generally tended to worry an awful lot. It kept him from sleeping and it kept him from eating, though there were other things going on there that he'd rather not bring up in conversation, if he refused to talk about that with Gabriel then he probably wouldn't want to talk about it at all.

William shook his head, was cautious the right word? "He's just..." There wasn't really any kind of way to sugar coat it. "He's mean." William scolded Gabe if he was rude around him, but if he wasn't, there was absolutely no way of stopping it. "He's mean and arrogant and he's got the biggest ego of anyone I've ever met." He scowled, "it makes me wanna throttle him half the time."</div>

<div align=center>William wasn't sure why Claire would feel his pain anyway, there wasn't really any pain to feel. He shrugged, "what pain?" A perplexed look crossed his effeminate features, and he tucked a strand of hair behind his ear. "Gabe is perfect in every way." Gabe was the complete opposite of William, he was loud and obnoxious in some ways, though it tended to bring Bill out of his shell just a little. It was good for him to spend time around the other boy, since, well, it made him happy for once. He was more inclined to talk to people around Gabe, mostly because if things took a turn for the worse he could just latch himself onto Gabe's mind and make himself feel better. Moderately nice was an understatement. Gabriel treated William like a princess, and the younger boy had him wrapped delicately round his little finger. He knew how to push every single one of his buttons.

It was a frequent and common mistake that Gabe was the boss in their relationship, but that was quite wrong, and William was the leader in most aspects. That wasn't to say he was completely in control, though... They were already reminiscent of a married couple and they hadn't yet been together a year. "I love him. There isn't anyone else in the world I'd rather be that close to."</div>

<div align=center>Bill smiled brightly and giggled, swinging his legs a little and placing his hands on his knees. He wondered if it was just because he was young and naive, but for now he was happy with Gabriel. He didn't really like being on his own, Gabe was the best source of comfort William could hope to get, it didn't matter what time of the day it was or what he was doing, the older boy would drop everything to be with him. William supposed he would do the same, but Gabriel wasn't half as needy as he was, Bill thought that was a good thing, it'd be difficult if they were both crying all the time. William didn't think he'd even seen Gabe shed a tear, he was brave. Gabriel never cried.

William nodded, Gabe did make him happy. But he was a handful to look after, William was less like a teenager and more like a squalling child. He needed constant care and constant supervision, a lot of things went wrong for William, he couldn't look after himself and therefore relied on other people to look after him. It hadn't been like that for his whole life, it was only more recently. "If I yelled at him he would be nice to you."</div>

<div align=center>William didn't understand why Claire thought him yelling at Gabriel would be funny, that was more or less a daily occurrence. "What?" He asked, confused. William was the boss in their relationship. He had always been the boss and he probably always would be. Gabriel was older and far more dominant than William, but that didn't mean for a second that he was in charge. Gabe did more or less everything asked of him, he was like a faithful dog that you could always count on. But he probably wouldn't have liked being called a dog, William tucked the thought away.

The boy shrugged, "he is stupid." He told her with a smile, "but that's okay because he's good at other things." He had to take a moment to think about what Gabe was good at. "Like cuddling and making me feel better and not being scared of everything." William didn't think Gabriel was scared of anything, at least, not that he knew of. William on the other hand, was terrified of absolutely everything. Everything from the dark to thunderstorms frightened him, and not to mention whatever was in between. "He's not scared of anything. Nothing at all." He told her this in almost a proud sort of manner.</div>