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they spend a lot of time together, he and wren do. one might say they’re caught up in the honeymoon phase, and that’d be completely correct. they were so invested in one another, completely doting back and forth. charlie never wanted it to end. with how things have been lately, and how his depressive episode has been weighing him down, he felt blessed to have wren, and his absolute support. it made him dote more. charlie wanted something good and it seemed it’s what they were getting. they were both adamant on having something stable, and healthy. filled with love and support. there was no fighting, no hurting. no fights and no weeping. he hadn’t been used to this but he was happy he had it. the thumb running across his hand made him smiling, chewing the piece of bread as he spoke, and his eyes rolled at the comment. but the next words sent a wave of panic through his body. he was just thinking about how well this was going, and now wren wanted to ask him something. something that deserved a special lunch. maybe because this were on such an up-and-up, it would only be fair to have such a crash and burn type of situation where wren bring out some big question to send charlie into shock. charlie slides his hand out of wrens grip to sit back, laughing anways, even if his shoulders were beginning to grow tense. “ a little early to pop the question, don’t you think? “ while that was the last scenario on his mind, he still went through a list of big questions wren could possibly ask. charlie tried to ease his mind, adjusting in his seat and taking the glass of champagne. “ but i’m listening, “ he takes a long sip, feeling the bubbles go down his throat. he might need a lot more to get through this conversation.
a bubble of doubt forms the moment that charlie pulls away from his grasp, the grounding touch disappearing only moments after it had been granted. and a part of wren felt petulant, childish at the fact that he wanted to grab charlie’s hand again; he was nervous, extremely so -- he didn’t know if the other boy was going to deign to accept his offer, and the reassurance of the contact had been quelling the anxiety that had been riddling him for not only the car ride here, but for the past couple of weeks as well. but he hides it well, using his now empty hand to card his fingers through his blond hair, and to allow charlie idle time to prepare himself. he reckoned it was his own fault -- he knew that charlie could overthink things, almost perceptibly so. he might as well have had a kind of inkling when he was doing so, the cogs of his mind turning practically something that wren could hear once it started. so he laughs along with him, a soft chuckle burgeoning with the worry that had now began to bloom throughout his being, and tries to hamper it so that he’ll be able to say what had been unwaveringly on his mind. ‘ yeah, definitely -- but no, it’s nothing that drastic. ’ wren represses the urge to say that he’d hardly propose when they haven’t even said those three words to each other, but he digresses so that he can focus on what he has to ask the boy across from him. ‘ so ... you obviously know that i’m not originally from here. here meaning california. ’ he cringes slightly, but he powers through his slight ramblings. he could do this. wren would be damned before he allowed his nerves to get in the way of something this important, this special to him. ‘ and i’ve been talking to my parents a lot, and they can tell how much ... how much happier i’ve been. they want me to come home, to paris. i haven’t visited since the winter holiday and they really miss me, and i, them. but they said i could only come on one condition. ’ his following smile is partially caused by the way he managed to recover smoothly from his earlier fumble, and the truth of the words he speaks next. ‘ they said i have to invite the person that’s been responsible for causing such a difference in my mood. ’ he rests his chin in his hand, wishing that he was holding charlie’s instead. ‘ so, i was wondering -- charlie baudo, will you come to paris with me ? ’








