This is gonna sound a little obsessive...

Not that they had ever regularly contacted each other before, but this silence had been particularly deafening. The past few weeks had been the first time that Ilya felt sure that, if he texted him, Shane wouldn't reply.

Shane would probably show the text to his movie star girlfriend, and they would laugh at how pathetic Ilya was.

No. That wouldn't happen. Of course Shane wouldn't do that.

Maybe.

Had Shane brought his girlfriend to All-Star weekend? Would he introduce her to Ilya? …

Ilya ran out of time to fret, because at that moment, Hollander walked into the bar. Every head turned …

Ilya leaned against the bar and watched Shane shake hands and clap guys on the back.

He watched him smile and laugh with everyone. He looked relaxed and confident, like a man who had gotten his life together. Like a man who didn't question himself anymore.

He looked...

Christ, he looks so f*cking good.

Shane (Home sick with a horrible cold) (Bored) (Missing his boyfriend) replies in a deep gravelly voice: Hey, how’s my baby doing?

Hiii

😭

Tbh, I don’t put much stock into IG unfollowing … like he knows where she is… he can do whatever he wants, probably has her phone number lol 🙃 might make another acct and she’s back there? Who fucking knows with them man…

However let me be delulu for a second?

Look at this man experiencing freckles and awkward Canadian politeness and developing a fat crush.

My favourite part however is as Shane is leaving clearly uncomfortable with how their conversation went (he does a head tilt like "well, that went horribly")

Ilya notices and that's when he chirps, immediately making Shane more comfortable as he chirps back. And thus, their lovingly teasing, when they say "asshole" and "boring" they really mean "I love you" dynamic is born.