rumored nights

<div align=center>Love. No, no, no. The word terrified him, he didn't understand love one bit, but that was probably why it scared him so much. The look on his face displayed these thoughts perfectly, he wanted to understand what it was, but that was difficult for anyone to explain, not even Micheal could explain that to him. William let out a shaky little sigh, hiding his face against the material of Gabe's hoodie. His tears left damp little marks on it, he apologized for them. He didn't answer that part of what Gabriel had said though, he might take it badly either well, Bill didn't want that.

William wasn't ashamed of Gabriel, not at all, he was just... Frigid. He shuffled back and pressed a small, damp kiss to Gabe's lips, he wasn't sure what else to do. "It's okay," he mumbled, William wasn't angry about any of this, he wasn't angry at all, he hadn't been in the first place, he had merely been scared. He understood now, though, and that made him feel a lot better. A small, timid smile crossed his features, but his eyes were still watery, and he still sounded sniffly. He didn't know what to say about love, it confused him.</div>

<div align=center>William shook his head, "I don't know." He replied, and he didn't really know why he was crying, tears just happened sometimes, sometimes he knew why, sometimes he didn't. It didn't really make any difference whether he knew why he was crying or not, William was incredibly emotional as it was, tears were common, but he was so cute that it was sad to see him cry. He was still clinging to Gabe, he liked the way the closeness felt, it was comforting. William liked comfort and he knew that Gabe knew that very well, even if they hadn't spoken for a few days or so. "I like you too," he answered absently, pressing his forehead to the other boy's and letting his eyes flicker shut again.

He wouldn't have minded talking about this a little more, it felt good to talk and William liked it, he liked to understand things and know things. He hated the opposite, he hated being confused and scared and clueless. He tried to do his best to understand all these new things, but sometimes it was awfully difficult, feelings were hard to understand, regardless of what they were. "I don't mind." Bill returned quietly, "whatever you want."</div>

<div align=center>William nestled himself up against Gabe, enjoying his warmth. The shiny foil hat was skew-iff on top of his head, he couldn't hear Gabe's thoughts that way, he felt like he was violating his privacy, and he knew that Gabriel hated it. In the end, William was smiling, albeit it was a small smile, and Gabe wouldn't have been able to see it, but he was smiling nonetheless. By now, his feet were either side of Gabe, the toes of his worn out converse pointed toward each other. It wasn't all that clear whether he was just comfortable, or if he was falling asleep, they were both likely.

"Yeah," William nodded a little, his voice was soft, gentle. His hair was messy from the way he was against the other boy and his fringe had fallen in front of his face. He looked tired, but he wasn't going to let himself fall asleep, this was too important to fall asleep in the middle of it, he'd done that to Gabriel so many times and each time he did he felt a little worse about it, it wasn't his fault, he just felt so sleepy sometimes that he was completely unable to stop himself from going to sleep, on top of the fact that Bill hadn't been sleeping very well anyway... "You're right."</div>

<div align=center>William blinked and pressed a short kiss to Gabriel's neck, sitting back a short way and giggling at him. His hands had drifted to the top of Gabe's head, he was sleepy, but he could deal with it, it wouldn't be a while until he'd pass out, at least he hoped it wouldn't be. Now was a good time to talk, William wanted to talk now, and he wanted to talk about everything. He liked to talk, it made him feel better about everything, it was good to talk about thoughts every now and then, it was healthy. William nodded, and told Gabe he didn't want to go to sleep.

He frowned a little, he didn't really know, he thought he probably would have cried if they'd broken up, at the least, anyhow, he was far more attached to Gabe than that though, he liked having him around. "I suppose so." He answered tentatively, though in truth he wasn't really sure, he wanted to have Gabe around, he liked having him around. It made him happy. He felt a lot calmer, and far more relaxed around Micheal, but Gabe made him happy and Gabe made him feel good. He looked confused for a moment, wondering what the older boy had been about to say. "Huh?"</div>

<div align=center>William looked just a little taken aback at the kiss, though smiled when Gabe pulled away again, giggling very softly. He'd stopped crying, he looked a little happier than he had ten minutes ago. "Don't ever say that again." He chirped, sounding just a little bit on the overly-peppy side, though that was probably what he had intended, it didn't sound as mean that way. William frowned, he thought perhaps he knew what Gabe meant, he hoped he did at least. "I think so." He replied, giving a little nod as if to confirm it with himself, he didn't really want to think about the end of them when they had only really begun around mid-October.

He frowned, "what?" He asked, tilting his head to one side. "What were you...?" He honestly had no idea, he could only have taken the little foil hat off, but that was wrong, he didn't want to do that. He wanted to be talked to as a person, rather than a strange little boy that knew what you were going to say before you ever said it. He didn't like being thought of like that, he didn't like invading the privacy of others, though sometimes he merely couldn't help it.</div>