*woah, a new chapter already? While I'm still in school? It's a goddamn miracle! Honestly though I'm like hella bored, I do want to get back into the habit of updating on the weekends though, but I can't promise much. It's still Gilbert's POV*

Okay so I was hanging out with Matthew today, alone. No problem. I had dealt with worse, totally. It's not like I have no idea what the fuck to wear or anything.

I called Eliza in a sense of urgency, she always seemed to know what to wear in these situations. (not to mention an embarrassing amount of her clothes fit me but we're not talking about that)

Knowing Elizabeta though, she would probably bring over her whole ass wardrobe and make me try on everything.

Soon enough she got to my apartment, and sure enough, she brought a bag filled with clothes.

"Okay so you're gonna need something cute that also works with your grunge style at the same time, so we definitely need the ripped jeans, that one's easy," she said, throwing a pair of black skinny jeans at me. "But for the top I'm not sure so we're gonna have to try all of these on."

She dumped out the entire contents of her bag on my bed and pulled out a pink tube top that looked like it would absolutely never fit me, of course I knew it did, being friends with an aspiring photographer came with its territory.

"I'm not wearing that. I thought you said grunge."

"I also said cute." she said, throwing the tube top to the side.

We went through a series of shirts that were all definitely not things I would wear in front of Matthew. Like sure, I cross dressed a lot, I wasn't ashamed of it, it was literally part of my career, but I wasn't wear a tube top in front of Matthew.

Finally Eliza settled on a grey sweater that had been cut at the bottem to be a loose crop top, it was low enough that it would cover my stomach but it would show my waistband and the top of the tattoo on my hip when I stretched up. It had warmed up a lot since Wednesday, so It was still slightly cool but it was warm enough to wear this top. *literally my outfit for free dress this Friday, I will show a pic when It's out of the laundry*

She also gave me a black choker with a small pendant that looked like a planet (which I heavily argued against yet ended up agreeing on anyway) and black converse.

*I had a lot of fun dressing up Gilbert if you can't tell. *

I finally escaped Elizabeth's fashion wrath when I said I had to leave to meet up with Matthew.

I technically still had around fifteen minutes until I would be meeting Matt by the time I got to our decided meeting area.

We had planned to just walk around down town so we decided to meet at the water fountain near my café.

It was a really beautiful area, lots of flowers and cute little shops, especially with the fountain in the centre of the square.

It was even more beautiful at night when the fairy lights came on.

I opted to just sit by the fountain and listen to some music while I waited. I often did this when I was feeling stressed just to calm down and I had honestly never felt more stressed in my life.

So I sat at the fountain with my eyes closed and my ear buds in, just listening to MCR and P!ATD, and letting all thoughts of Matthew and Caleb slip away.

That is until Matthew pulled out my earbud and went 'Boo!' in my ear.

"Ahhh!" I yelled, almost falling into the fountain.

I heard Matt giggle in the way that hasn't changed at all since we were kids as he grasped my should to keep me from falling.

"Sorry, it was too hard to resist." He said through his laughs. "You should've seen your face though, it was just like that time when you swung too high in grade five and almost fell off."

I flushed at the memory. "Yeah that...wasn't my proudest moment."

Matthew started laughing even harder than before, to the point where he was almost gasping for air. "You had a proud moment in your life?"

"Hey I have!" I paused for a moment, trying to think of a moment in my life that wasn't embarrassing. "Probably."

"Pfft, alright Mr. Cool guy, what was your proudest moment then? Getting those piercings?"

I laughed at that. "Oh god no, I cried like a bitch getting these ones." I said, gesturing to my entire face.

"Okay then what about graduating art school? You must have been proud of that."

"No do you know have many embarrassing things I did to get that degree? They were all displayed to my whole family at graduation. You ever seen a guy wearing nipple tassels and lingerie? Cause I have, and I painted it."

Matthew cracked up again, pretty much winded at this point.

"I need to see that sometime" he wheezed once he had mostly finished laughing.

"I'm pretty sure I got rid of it but if you talk to Antonio he would probably show you a picture without even needing prompting. His sole purpose in life is to embarrass me as much as possible." I laughed a bit at my own suffering.

"So did Lovino finally kiss Antonio? Or am I gonna have to suffer through him pinning forever?"

"Yeah how did you- do you know Lovi?"

Matt laughed awkwardly. "Um yeah, he was like one of my best friends in high school. I suppose I should have cleared that up."

Fantastic to know I lost my best friend status so quickly.

"Well I'm pretty sure he and Antonio did more than just kissing. In other words I am no longer going to sit on our couch"

"Didn't need to know that..." he said, making a face.

"Neither did I so I'm bringing you down with me."

Matthew laughed and shoved my shoulder.

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*le time skip cause I'm lazy, it's still Gilbert's POV*

The rest of the day went by pretty quickly, reminiscing on old times, mostly my most embarrassing childhood moments that I thought I would never have to relive, chatting about Toni and Lovi's love life, and of course, me making a general fool of myself for his enjoyment.

We soon noticed it was already pretty late so I offered to walk him home.

Dispite the fact that I would do almost anything to avoid seeing Caleb, I'm a gentleman and I walk people home when it's getting late.

Once we got to his apartment he turned to me and blushed a bit. "I had fun tonight, thank you Gilbert." he leaned down and placed a quick kiss on my cheek before stepping inside and waving.

"O-oh okay, night birdie." I stuttered.

I didn't stop blushing the entire way home.

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*That was fun, I might post again this week because I want to and I feel like it. Or I'll post again in the next day....