#hrhc

Obviously Ilya and Shane are isolating at the cottage. They meet up with Shane's parents every so often for fire nights (Ilya loves roasted hot dogs) but still socially distanced. Hollanov are living the life. For like a week. And then it becomes unbearable. Shane needs his down time, his alone time, his five fucking minutes alone without his boyfriend on top of him. Purely to regulate himself. But he needs a reason to be alone.

So he tells Ilya that he wants to learn how to do a backflip. Not off the dock, that's easy, but a standing back flip.

Ilya sees this as a spinal cord injury waiting to happen but Shane is adamant. And he does the work, he's joining those online gymnastics classes that have little progression videos and he makes sure to have his camera off. The first ones feel a silly, just rolling on his back trying to get his feet over his head. Shane makes sure that he locks the gym door so Ilya can't watch.