For the first night, everybody, except Jon and Tommy, thought Nick had a bad day. He ate quickly, then washed his dishes. He said "Thanks for the meal." before heading upstairs to sleep, and this repeated the second day as well.

"Okay, Tommy, what did you do to make Nick so upset?" Jon asked, and everybody groaned.

"Of course it was Tommy!" said Cory.

"I'm not surprised." Ashlie added, and everybody kept making comments.

Nick could hear the yelling from upstairs, which was the gang yelling at Tommy, asking him what he said, and Tommy, asking everybody to shut up.

"Stop, stop, stop!" Tommy yelled from the top of his lungs, and the yelling ceased. Nick couldn't hear anything else, so he decided to sleep.

"I-I don't know what I did wrong, it must have been something I've said, I know that for a fact," Tommy began to cry, Jon putting an arm around him. "Nick not talking to me, or to anybody really hurts. I-I miss seeing him smile and laugh, despite it being only two days."

"Tommy-" Cory began, but Tommy held up a hand.

"I don't want to hear it. I have to be honest with you all, N-Nick and I have been kissing, a lot, recently, a-and I-I wanted it to be a friends with benefits type of deal, b-because I didn't want to get into a relationship and have things turn messy, but look where that got us."

"Tommy, did you tell Nick this?" Ashlie asked, and Tommy wiped a tear drop his cheek.

"O-Only about the part about being friends with benefits. H-He must have wanted to go further into a relationship, b-but..." Tommy couldn't help but break down crying, Ashlie and Jon both hugged him.

"I love Nick, s-so much, it hurts t-to see him so hurt like this, I-I want to help him, I-I want to make things right, b-b-ut I-"

"Hey, Tom, just give Nick some time, alright?" Cory told him, and Tommy nodded slowly.

He didn't.

Nick kept getting calls from Tommy that night, and listened to the messages Tommy left.

They mostly were "I'm sorry," and "Please, talk to me, I miss your voice," and "I miss you." Which seemed odd, since he was at dinner and spoke a word or two.

Then Tommy seemed to slowly break down during the messages.

"Nick, I'm so afraid to lose you, not as a friend with benefit, just an actual friend. I-I hate seeing you h-hurt, I-I want to comfort you."

"I-I don't want to stop hearing you crack jokes, o-or stop hearing your laugh. I want to hear your problems a-and be here for you."

The messages went on, with Tommy just saying his favorite things about Nick, and wanting to fix the thing he broke.

His phone began to ring again, and this time, he answered it. "Nick?" Tommy asked, his voice full of hope. Nick just let out a sigh, and hugged his pillow. "N-Nick, please, just say something."

"'Something,' there, happy now?" Nick asked, and Tommy let out a sigh. Nick hung up before Tommy could get in another word, and his phone rang again. He ignored it and went over to his door.

Where he could hear Tommy leaving another message.

When Tommy was done, Nick took a deep breath, and opened his door.

Nick's eyes locked with Tommy's, who took of his mask, revealing the prettiest blue eyes Nick has ever seen.

Tommy was the first to speak. "I didn't want to end up losing you, Nick. I didn't want to get into a relationship that could become messy. I see that now saying that was me being selfish, I-I didn't even think about you." Tommy held Nick's hands, and Nick started to cry.

"T-Tommy..." Tommy took Nick's hands, and looked him right in the eyes.

"Nick, I love you, and I want to be more than just friends, but if you don't feel the same, t-that's fine. W-We can just be friends, if that makes you happy. As long as I'm able to be here to comfort and crack jokes with you, I'll be fine."

Nick wrapped his arms around Tommy's neck, and kissed him deeply. Now this kiss was a romantic movie kiss in the rain.

"I-I love you too, Tommy, and I do want to be something more than just friends." Nick said, and they kissed again.

"Nick, will you be my boyfriend?" Tommy asked. "Will you allow me to love you and comfort you everyday? Will you allow me to listen and talk to you? Will you be with me forever, in my heart?"

"T-Tommy, this is sounding like a wedding proposal." Nick told him with a bit of a laugh. That's when Tommy pulled out a ring box, which revealed two mood rings.

"I just want you to know how special you are to me," Tommy said, and held up a ring. "So, what will it be?"

"Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes." Nick hugged and kissed Tommy once more, before having the ring put on his left ring finger. He put on Tommy's ring for him, and they smiled.

"I love you," Tommy kissed his cheek. "I should be heading to bed now."

"You can sleep in here with me, if you want." Nick suggested, and Tommy nodded.

As they laid in the bed, hand in hand, they talked quietly about random things, like videos or games, things like that.

"Hey, Tommy, can you uh, tell me the things you like about me?" Nick asked, and Tommy nodded.

"I love how caring you are, and I like your laugh, which tells me things are going to be okay. I liked you voice acting, and giving characters life, it always brings a smile to my face."

Nick kissed Tommy's chin, then neck as  Tommy went on. Tommy felt Nick move a hand up his shirt, and did his low chuckle.

He suddenly had Nick pinned down to the bed, and Nick honestly found it hot, seeing Tommy towering over him.

"So, is this what we're doing for the remainder of the night?" Tommy asked, and Nick nodded slowly.

"Let's see how far we go."