Charlie was waiting for the earth to open and swallow him whole. He now felt so stupid for feeling jealous of him and that girl, not so much because he felt jealous but because he had said it out loud and now Eddie probably thought he was crazy or something. He just had feelings for him that were strong and... It suddenly hit him. Maybe Lucy wasn’t just banging those Ken dolls like they were wrestling. That just made him blush even more, and he tried to cover it up by looking away pretending to scratch the side of his face while he told himself to calm the heck down like a good Jedi does and not act like a teenage girl -- even if he was a teenage boy.
When Charlie heard the word movie, his ears immediately perked like a dog’s. Movie was good. Movie meant no more awkward conversations and maybe he could relax a little. And things would go back to the way they were. “Sure, yeah,” he said, taking a step and moving toward Eddie’s room.
He knew things weren’t fixed. He still felt like a fool for feeling jealous and for feeling what he felt for him, but a movie was good. It was like a Kit-Kat, and he so needed one right now. And now that he thought about it he also kind of wanted one. “You have Kit-Kat, I’m kind of hungry.”
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If he thought Eddie would find it silly, clearly Charlie was not thinking properly at the moment. He was hardly phased by the fact that he had been jealous. Perhaps more confused than anything, but he did not see a reason for him to feel embarrassed over it. He would save everything else for another time, once Charlie gained composure again. He did not need his friend getting annoyed for Eddie pushing the issue. he could wait, as little as he wanted to. It would be worth it. He cared too much about Charlie’s happiness to simply let him get too curious and end up causing him to leave. Now that he was starting to understand what Cai was so shocked that he had been clueless over, he was sure that there would be a better time to talk about everything else. At least now he knew what he had done and he could fix the offense. How? Well, he would simply try to avoid that girl if he saw her again, after the promised outing for coffee. And he would promise with was not a date. And make sure she got that message. Why did it suddenly matter now that his friend knew there was no dating? Well, his jealousy was hope.
When he agreed to the movie, Eddie smiled in relief and was about to bound off to his room to get out his obnoxious collection when Charlie mentioned kit-kats. Those sounded delicious. If he didn’t have any in his candy stash, he would have other chocolatey goodness. Maybe that would suffice for now. “Not sure, we can raid the candy drawer in my room,” he replied with a bright smile. Candy always made things better. Eddie liked candy. And the fact that he was slowly feeling more like himself. With a bit of a spring in his step again, he tossed his hair to the side and led the way to the room. Once inside, he shut the door after Charlie and then open his candy drawer for Charlie to poke through while the DVDs were brought out. “What do you want to watch?” Once thing his room was great for was movies. With a 54” plasma TV, surround sound, it was pretty much movie win. “Did you find anything munchy in there?” Eddie put down the case and let Charlie look through them, even though he had seen the collection many times before.