#bralec

moodboard: alec x brett x nolan (nalett)

Alec feels like he's gained 10 pounds at an AC/DC concert but he doesn't mind it because he's with Brady and they've gotten a bit closer during those two/three hours, and went over their game plan, and then goofed about on the road.

(Brady complained about how he was up early that morning, packing last minute and, basically, panicking while Alec packed in advance and thought everything out, so he was alright and slept well.

Brady fell asleep behind the wheel for a solid 10 seconds before he snapped awake and Alec demanded they switch so he gets some sleep. Brady refused and Alec huffed in reply, saying he'd kill them both before they arrive.)

Brady's parents were very warm and welcoming, and Alec could feel Brady cringing beside him when his mum pinched his cheeks and his dad pulled him into a hug.

Brady said quick hello's and goodbye's and grabbed their suitcases and ran up the stairs, Alec awkwardly in tow.

They walked across the banister, seeing his parents looking up at them and whispering and whatnot, and then turned into an open door st the end of a short hall.

Brady stopped at the centre of the room an inhaled.

"Hey- uh Al? There's only one bed," he said, putting the suitcases down and setting his hands on his hips, shucking off his shoes by the doorframe.

Alec's eyes widened, and he scratched his head before making a weird grumbling sound.

"That's- quite alright. I mean- if that's alright with you? I don't mind sharing, that is," he said, and Brady gave him a small smile.

"It's alright, I can sleep on the couch," he said in return, and Alec deflated (immensely) at that.

Brady shrugged it off.

"Alright. Let's go shower and maybe we can go rest? Or would you like to go somewhere?" Brady asked, closing the door and turning on the A/C. He shut the blinds, pulled the curtains, and yawned, rubbing his eyes.

Alec swallowed thickly. "I'll unpack first, and then maybe rest for a bit- hey are you sure you don't want to sleep with me?"

The question- came out pretty shittily. Brady choked on his spit and coughed as Alec stuttered horribly and sighed in a defeated slump, sitting on the bed.

"I- what?" Brady got out after a while, and Alec dropped his face into his hands.

"I didn't mean it like that," he said, and he couldn't fight the blush creeping up his neck.

"Do you want me to sleep up here or..?" Brady asked, jumping onto the bed and sitting against the wall.

"Well, I wouldn't like to sleep alone or anything..." Alec trailed off, moving to sit beside Brady, back pressing into the wall and head thumping softly as he leaned it back.

Brady hummed in acknowledgment. He sighed, rubbing his eyes and shaking his head. Alec looked over, giving him a lazy smile. He took off his glasses and hung them around his shirt collar.

"Let's unpack," Brady said after a moment, and they got up and made a big thing out of it- Brady pulled out a speaker and put on some slow music, matching the overcast sky outside, hearing the soft drizzle of rain hitting the roof as they danced around he room to whatever 50's music Brady saved up.

Alec nearly folded his clothes in the left drawers, and Brady flung his underwear and football shorts into the right side.

Alec grumbled at him, going to fold the ginger boy's clothes, but Brady slapped his hand away and scolded him.

("Don't touch it! There's an art to comfort-slash-laziness!")

They finished their unpacking, shoving the suitcases under the bed and dropping themselves onto the mattress.

The sky outside was dark now, and Alec looked at the ceiling, laughter bubbling up his throat.

"Glow in the dark stars?" He asked, looking over at Brady as he put his hands on his stomach.

Brady pouted, looking away. "I was a kid, okay? And they were nice and i like them."

Alec chuckled, mumbling an "okay".

A few moments pass, and Brady is slightly snoring next to him. Alec looks over, taking the opportunity to look at Brady without any restrictions, or embarrassment from being caught.

Alec sighed, reaching out to touch a curl of Brady's hair, appreciating how it's in-between being red and brown, although more brown than anything, and Alec smiled when Brady nuzzled into his hand a little.

He pulled himself out of bed to drag himself over to the light-dimmer, dimming it a lot but not taking the light fully off, and then proceeded to change his clothes, putting on a pair of tights and a hoodie he had gotten from Brady a while ago.

He pulled on a pair of socks and slipped into bed next to Brady, warm and content but... a bit anxious. Would Brady think it weird if he woke up to Alec's face?

Alec hummed, then turned r face the other way, sinking further into the mattress then moving farther under the covers.

"This is nice," he thinks distantly before he dozes off.

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Alec wakes up in the middle of the night, crickets chirping and an owl hooting in the distance.

And god, did he feel so discombobulated.

He waited a moment until it clicked and- ah, he can relax.

Although he can't because Brady's arm is slung over him and his chin is above his head.

Alec never felt so... comfortable, so his half-conscious mind tells him to turn around and move closer, and so he does.

Brady seemed to hold him tighter, pull him in and inhale the scent of his hair, but he couldn't tell.

It was super comfortable, though.

- "hee hoo"

- steals alec's glasses all the time to try them on

- misplaces alec's glasses all the time

- has random urges to just snog alec but doesn't really

- has a category on his memos dedicated to the random things he thinks about alec

- sticks his tongue out when he thinks really hard

- cracks knuckles at least 50 times a day

- yawns obnoxiously loud or suppresses it, no in-between

- slaps dean for no reason

- pokes dani for no reason

- whale noises

- different coloured socks

- sometimes jogs with the old ladies at 6am

- cooks enough food for the whole neighbourhood, saying he loves to share the delight of food no matter what

- then cooks enough food for an ant, saying he doesn't wanna mess up a recipe

- bird noises

- blinks rapidly when he's under pressure

- sits on the couch and zones out for no reason out of the blue

- "yee haw"

- "donkäē"

- swarms alec in compliments until the boy is a horrible blushing mess and kisses him rapidly between it all

- praises his boyfriend, praises his friends, praises miss Jay from across the street

- "ha gay"

- *something miniscularly bad happens* "okay fine bitch fuck you then "

- "whoever the that paper, tu maman es une hoe!"

- sometimes sleep talks but it's just him mumbling something to alec when he can't sleep and it's usually something French like "je t'aime" or "je suis une pomme de terre"

- nuzzles whoever he lies down on, including dani

- hoodie with football shorts, or vest with sweatpants, no in-between

“My parents think we’re dating.”

It slipped out as soon as Brady reached the table at the back corner of the library, panting a little bit since he ran. Alec, taken aback, looks across the table at Shadan and Dorian.

“They what now?”

Brady sits and aggressively wipes some sweat from his forehead.

“Yeah. They think we’re dating and they want you to come to back home with me over spring break.” He rushes out, stumbling over his words.

“They who now?”

“They arranged a room for us and everything.”

“wAIT wait wait, they think we’re dating?” Alec asks, not keeping up with the pace Brady was going with.

“I’m so sorry, please don’t get upset?” Brady asks.

“Why do they think we’re dating?” Alec asks, closing the book he was reading and capping his pen. Shadan made an ‘ooh’ sound across from them as he turned to fully face Brady.

“Well maybe because I talk about you so much they just-"

“You talk about me?” Alec interjected.

“Well yeah, I talk about all of you guys.”

“So why’s it different with me??”

Brady made a weird grunting sound at the back of his throat, the colour rising from his neck unmissable.

"I dunno. They think we're dating and I need your help kind of?"

Alec stares for a second- no, two seconds. Three.

"What do you want me to do?" He asks, against his will.

"Can you come back home with me and pretend to be my boyfriend for a month?"

Shadan choked across the table and rated her head on Dorian's shoulder, sputtering, as Dorian stared wide-eyed at the two, closing his book and raining his eyebrows to the moon.

Brady was getting anxious now- tapping the table top really quickly, foot bouncing, gnawing on bottom lip.

Shadan almost laughed out loud, because she knew what Alec was thinking and Alec knew she knew what he was thinking, and so did Dorian, and so did Dean if he were here.

Because Alec had the biggest, ugliest, most horrible, stinky crush on Brady and Brady was one goddamned Oblivious Fool™ for not seeing how Obvious Alec Is and it has the whole group in pain.

So Alec now, face gone an absolutely pretty wine colour that Brady thought was from embarrassment, looked away and tried to curl into his turtleneck.

Brady, upon seeing this, started to- "I'm so sorry- I shouldn't have asked this was- I'm so sor- God shit uh-"

Shadan was cackling so hard she had to leave the seat and Dorian went to make sure she didn't die from choking or whatever as she started a coughing fit.

"No wait, it's alright I just-" Alec started, trying to swallow down some of his blush.

"I'm sorry if this is making you uncomfortable," Brady says, fiddling with his fingers. "God I didn't even ask if you were doing anything over the break or-" Alec chuckled softly, thinking it quite cute.

'No! Stop that train of thought!'

'...'

'Choo Choo mother fucker.'

"It's alright. I'm not doing anything. If you hadn't asked I'd just stay here and read myself to death," he said, heart beating a million times a second.

Brady widened his eyes a little. "Does that mean you're-?"

"Yeah, of course, I'll come." Alec says, smiling with a little blush rising again. "Once it'll help you out, I'm happy to help with whatever."

Alec lied. He's doing this for himself, purely for the fact that he'll be close to Brady for a whole month.

'A whole month! Who would've thought?' Alec thinks to himself.

Brady wraps him in a hug, smelling of honey and sugar and just- really nice and sweet. It has Alec wrapping hus arms around him too, turning his head slightly so his nose is in his hair to inhale.

"God you don't even know how happy I am right now," Brady says, pulling away.

'Now why the FUCK would to pull away from me-' Alec starts to think, until Brady gives him the toothiest grin and the thought is immediately gone.

'God, he'd be the death of me,' he thinks as he smiles back.

"So since we're doing this, I guess we need a backstory on how we met or got together?" Alec asks, pulling a small notepad and a crayon out of his bag, ready to jot things down.

Brady makes a :o face. "I haven't thought that far, actually." He said, sheepishly rubbing his neck as he hung his neck.

"This is crucial! What if we both give totally different answers to their questions?" Alec says, bewildered.

"Well, I didn't think you'd say yes," Brady says softly.

Alec sighed. He was such a pushover for Brady.

"For you, I'll always say yes." Alec says, rubbing his eyes.

He missed the blush that took over Brady's face and the panic that took over his face.

"Okay, we met on the first day from orientation? Shadan introduced us both, remember? And you introduced me to Dean and the twins, so that's the start, I'd guess?" Alec says thoughtfully, nibbling on the end of the writing instrument (did i say pen or pencil i can't remember).

Brady puts his chin in his hand. "The first time we hung out was in my dorm. Hey, write that the first time i saw you i had a heart boner."

"A what boner?"

"A heart boner! Couldn't breathe properly? You were an absolute angel in my eyes." Brady says, batting his lashes and linking hus fingers.

"I can't tell if you're serious or not."

"Ooh, write that sometimes we swap dorm with Dean and Shadan because we all know how much they like each other and wanna spend time together?" Brady mumbles. Alec hits it down with a smile.

The planning of their relationship goes on for a few minutes as they read it over a few times.

"Seems believable! Very believe! Much real! Oh God I'm getting nervous again why-" Brady says, saying gibberish and nonsensical sentences.

"Calm down. We just gotta act like normal," Alec assured him, smiling a bit.

"Okay, alright... what about uh- what about hugs?" Brady asked, and Alec choked on his spit.

"Hu- I mean- yeah hugs are okay. We can hug and stuff," Alec got out.

Brady flushed a bit at the thought of it.

Hugging Alec! Woah. I never would've thought.

Brady smiled and then-

Shit. Can I kiss him? Is that okay? I want to kiss him. Please God let him be okay with that.

Brady widened his eyes and blushed deeply at the thought.

"okAY be sure to pack a lotta clothes!! We leave in a few days, too, so pack soon! I'll see ya okay bye haha," Brady said nervously, getting up and walking away.

Shit... I'm gonna die, huh.

hexad twitter au part 12/??

(they went to a sunflower field in case that wasn't clear)

hexad twitter au part 5/??