Kyle quirked a smile. "I wouldn't know about the clothes thing. The school I went to had this his awful uniform," he joked, but it was with a sympathetic smile. "So, you never really reconnected again then?"
Adam laughed a little. "I bet you looked great in a uniform," he said, not liking that sympathetic look. "Not really. Not until Jeffrey. I'd known who he was for a few years because he was in my grade, but one day he just showed up at my locker and started talking to me. First person to do that in close to ever."
"I looked like an idiot. A boring, dull idiot with no self-expression. Like all the other dull, boring idiot clones," Kyle told him. "So, Jeffrey finally figured out what everyone else didn't realise then?"
"I would have loved to be a boring dull idiot instead of the kid I was." Adam smiled a little and nodded. "Yeah I guess he did. It was pretty great. He was popular and everything and suddenly he was my friend."
"I know, rich privileged kid has no right to complain," Kyle said. "I'm not trying to say I had it worse than you. Or anywhere near as bad as you."
"And I'm not saying it's all that bad," Adam said shaking his head. "Just not great. And I think I would have liked a uniform."
Kyle looked him over, meeting his eyes. "You like to fit in, don't you?" he asked, though it sounded more like a statement more than an actual question.
Adam stopped on the stairs when he got to Kyle's floor. "It's better than not fitting in isn't it?"
Kyle shrugged a shoulder. "I never fitted in," he said. He had always been the weird guy, always striving for individuality, always pushing the boundaries and never content just to settle and conform.
Adam opened the door for the floor and shook his head. "You're better suited for it than I am. You are unique. I'm not very interesting."
Kyle raised a brow, looking vaguely amused. "So, we have two social outcasts, but one is unique and the other is merely uninteresting. How's that work again?"
"Opposites attract?" Adam suggested. "I think it means we work well together." He squeezed Kyle's hand and leaned in to kiss him lightly.
Kyle returned the kiss, folding himself into Adam's arms without hesitation. "Maybe, or maybe it's just that we're more than just our histories. I think we do work well together though. Really well."