Bonfire: Mickey and Leon
"Mmhm," Leon murmured in agreement when Mickey told him he loved him. "Hmm?" was the sound he made when he said he had to tell him something. But when Mickey said it out loud, Leon made no sound.
He had been hold Mickey's face, framed between his hands, sometimes threading his fingers through his wild curly hair. He stopped moving altogether when Mickey said he wasn't going to college next year. "What?" Leon scanned Mickey's dark eyes, then let go of his face and slid off his lap to sit beside him. "Of course you're going to college next year. You got into Columbia. Your aunt is probably already writing referral letters to her colleagues for after you get your degree."