Chapter 28

Devin's POV

Guess who's back?

I'm still here, still your favorite word fumbler and the only person that accidentally drove a wedge between Aaron and Cameron. They're together now though and I doubt they'll ever break up. They're practically my brothers in law and I couldn't have asked for better brothers in law. They're so perfect for each other and I really love going on double dates with Alicia with them, they're really funny and not overly touchy in public. Always just Cam's arm around Aaron while we eat.

We also have lunch and/or dinner with Aaron and Alicia's mom, who is an angel. My future in laws are legitimately the best people I know. I'm so excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas with all of them. It's gonna be pretty fun.

I've appreciated that no one has said anything to me about spending every night at Alicia's dorm room. Her roommate is always gone, so we just decided to basically move in together. I wouldn't have it any other way. We never lived together the way Cam and Aaron were living together, but still, not seeing Alicia all the time isn't fun.

We rarely have sex anymore and I'm fine with that. Whatever Alicia wants is perfect in my mind. If she wants to do it more, I'll be cool with that too. I just want to be the perfect boyfriend to her and make her happy.

"Devin?" Alicia asks, rubbing her eyes and turning onto her side.

"Hey babe," I answer, smiling at her.

"What time is it?" she asks, groaning.

"It's 6:30."

"So we should get up."

"If you want babe, we can stay here for a little longer if you want," I answer.

"We can stay here for a little longer. Just wake me up in 10 minutes."

"Kay. Love you."

"Love you more," she says. That's not possible.

She wraps her arms around my torso and buries her head in my chest. I rub her back softly and play with her hair in my other hand, untangling her after sleep birds nest. I'm living in a fantasy world. Everything is going well for me. My girlfriend loves me, I love her more than anything, my in laws are amazing, I'm arguably the best player on the team, and my grades are good.

After ten minutes, I wake Alicia up and she groans again before rolling onto her back and staring at the ceiling.

"Where should we get married?" she asks, and I practically melt on the spot.

"Wherever you want baby."

"But you should give your input too," she says.

"Hawaii would be nice. Hopefully Cam and Aaron haven't already claimed that as their wedding destination."

She laughs. "Yeah. Or we could do a back to back wedding thing and we could stay in Hawaii for a longer time," she suggests.

"That might not work, but maybe within 3 months of each other would be nice."

"We have to get married first. We're the original golden couple. People base their relationship off of what we have," she correctly points out.

"Yeah. Do you wanna go to the mall later today? I can buy you some new Apple Earbuds, I know your old ones broke."

"Sure," she grins. "I love our dates."

I kiss her forehead softly. "Same. This is such an insane dream I feel like I'm always living when I'm with you. It's just so amazing."

"Aww. You sound like a girl," she jokes.

"Baby, I'm being serious. I know it's cliche or cringey but I mean it from the bottom of my heart. I still can't believe we're together. It's so perfect."

"I was joking babe. This is also such a perfect dream for me. You're the most amazing man I know and you're so cute and have such a perfect body. And you get along with my brother and my mom, which is great," she says.

"So we should meet back here after class?" I ask.

"Yeah. Sounds great. I'm gonna shower now, my hair is awful right now."

"Your hair is never awful. Just a little too tangled. Nothing wrong with that."

"Thanks." She gives me a quick kiss and then gets up and walks to the bathroom.

I lie back down, putting my hands behind my head and laying back. I have some exams today and I'll do okay I think. I'm not dumb so I can do school well. Me and Alicia share a lot of classes and we've been studying together for a while. Again, spending all my time with one person would never be this easy with anyone that isn't Alicia.

The day goes by quickly, me and Alicia did well on our tests, and I'm going back to Alicia's dorm so we can go to the mall. I am seriously racking up the money from being in a bunch of local advertisements and I use a lot of it to spoil Alicia. She deserves it. She's the best.

I knock on Alicia's door and she opens it, already ready to go to the mall.

"Hi," she grins before reaching out and grabbing my hand. We walk out of the dorms with our hands intertwined.

"So, what are you thinking of getting at the mall?" I ask.

"I don't know. I don't need that much stuff to be honest. You already got me so many clothes and my closet is getting full."

"Do you want me to buy you a dresser? I'd be willing to do that, we just need to find a place to put it," I suggest.

"No. I was thinking about matching jewelry."

"Like what?"

"I don't know. Maybe bracelets with each other's names on it. Like I have a bracelet that says Devin on it, you get one that says Alicia on it," she suggests.

"That sounds great, Ali. We can figure that out. I don't think we'll get the bracelets today, but we can put in an order and get it another day."

She smiles and grips my hand tighter. "That sounds good. Thanks Dev."

"Of course, babe."

"So, how's Adrian doing?" she asks. I haven't really been around Adrian a lot recently. He's spending all his time with Derek, I'm always with Alicia.

"I think he's doing well. He seems happy, you know. I think whatever he was going through in terms of homophobia was very much calmed down by Derek. They're always spending time together, it's like they're dating," I joke.

"Maybe they are."

"Ha."

"I'm serious. I genuinely wouldn't be very surprised if they end up being together. They would be so cute. Derek's a good guy, he would really make Adrian happy. Kind of like how you make me happy," she states.

"Everyone's always copying us," I say.

"I know. We should start trademarking what we do."

"I don't think we can own cuddling on a couch, Ali."

"I know. Just fun to imagine," she says.

"You're right. Imagine where we would be if we never met each other."

"I'd probably be single. I'm very picky and you filled out every box on my list of criteria for adequate partners. How about you?" She questions.

"I don't know. Probably single too. I have no confidence. I'm lucky I met you at the dance, I was ready to be single forever."

"You're too cute to always be single. Someone would've found you," she claims.

"Thank you," I say, kissing her temple.

We get to my car and I drive the two of us to the mall. We sing random songs on the radio together. She has the voice of an angel. She says I could be a good singer too, which I highly doubt. I have stage fright. That's why I stopped playing instruments.

"So, let's find a jewelry store and then we can just walk around. Anything you want I'll get you," I tell her.

"Dev, I can pay for myself."

"But wouldn't you rather me pay?" I ask.

"Yeah, I guess. Just don't start thinking I only love you because you're rich."

I cup her face and kiss her forehead again. "You've been with me for 2 years, and for most of that time you were richer than me, I know you don't want me for my money. I would never think that, I trust you enough."

"Thanks babe. I love you," she says.

"I love you too."

We keep walking towards the mall, talking about random bullshit. Our relationship is so amazing. I feel like we can have a full on conversation about bottled water and I would still enjoy it because talking with her is fun.

My soul drops as I look ahead of me, at two guys holding their hands. They're walking towards the mall as well, but they look awfully familiar. One is tall, has curly blonde hair, and the other is quite a bit shorter than the blonde one, and he has brown hair. They look like Derek and Adrian.

Maybe I'm imagining things. It's not weird for a blonde guy and a brunette guy to be holding hands, and plus, those aren't uncommon hair colors. Maybe it's not them, maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me. I hope they are because I have a very difficult time keeping my mouth about this kind of shit. If it truly is them, I don't want to be the one to break them up or cause any amount of fighting between them. It's just kinda surprising that Derek might be gay or bi. He always seemed straighter than me.

"Don't you agree?" Alicia asks, and I realize I haven't been paying attention.

"Yeah, I do."

"Really? I thought you hated Cafe Rio."

Shit. I do hate Cafe Rio. "Uh, I usually do, but if you want it we can get it," I tell her.

"Aww. Thanks Dev."

"No problem."

Me and Alicia walk all the way into the mall and look at the map for a moment just so we know where everything is. We find where the food court is, where all the stores and shit are, where the jewelry shop and the clothes store is, and other random stores we might want to go to.

"Okay. It's really early, we only had lunch like, 2 hours ago, so let's eat later, does that sound good?" I ask.

"Yeah. Let's just walk around. If anything jumps out to us, we can go. By the way, I don't think getting those bracelets would be the best idea. That would be a great Christmas present, but just a random day like today, I don't think would be the best idea."

"I kinda agree. Christmas presents?" I ask.

"I'll buy one for you, you can buy one for me," she suggests.

"Yup. Sounds great. Let's go walk around."

I take Alicia's hand in mine and we start walking around the mall. She points out some stuff that would look good in her dorm, like decorations and shit. She would know better about that kind of stuff than me. I have no clue how to decorate a room, and Alicia decorated her dorm room perfectly. It looks amazing and there are things in the room that really just make me feel at home with her. I'm glad we still have time for each other despite her playing volleyball and me playing football.

"Anything we could buy for our room?" She asks me.

"I don't know. That's your call, in my opinion it looks great already, if there's anything you think should be added, I trust you 100% and will be on your side with whatever you pick out. Besides, it's your room, not mine."

"It's ours," she states. "You're always in my room with me. Which is amazing, by the way, thank you for keeping me company all the time. But would more stuff look good in our room?"

"If you want to get something for the room, pick it out and I'll buy it we can always return it if it doesn't look great in the room."

"Okay," she grins and kisses my hand. "I'm excited to get a real house with you."

"Same. We'll have more space to just relax."

"We can start having sex again," she laughs.

"We can do it whenever, we can just go to your house when your mom's at work."

"Oh yeah. I didn't think about that very hard," she states.

"It's fine. I don't need to have sex to be happy with you by the way, if that needs any clarification."

She looks up at me and kisses my cheek. "I know. You're not a complete dirtbag. Same with me by the way, it's just been forever. And I miss it," she says seductively.

"Uh, um, same, yeah. I miss it so much too."

"Glad to know," she smiles. She really acts so innocent sometimes but she's genuinely such a tease. I love that about her. She's not afraid to be dirty if she wants. I'm not a very dirty talker. It just never worked for me and now that I'm with her, there's not really any reason to do dirty talk.

"Yeah," I reply.

"You're the best, you know that? I appreciate how much you love me."

"Nah, baby. You're the best. Don't debate me on this, you know I'm right," I counter.

"Whatever," she smiles.

We end up buying a few things for her room. I paid for the stuff with my money instead of letting her do it. She was trying really hard to pay, but the cashier was the best wingman I could've asked for and he took my card instead of Alicia's. She acted all mad until we left the store and she gave me a kiss on the lips and thanked me. I still get butterflies from her kissing me. I've never not gotten butterflies from her.

"Where should we go next?" She asks.

"Hmmm. More clothes?"

"I don't need more clothes, but it can't hurt to get more. Do you need more clothes?"

"I don't really need more clothes, but like you said, more stuff I can wear is better. We can buy new light jackets for the next few months. It can get kinda cold sometimes," I point out.

"Yeah, that's true. We can go do that."

Me and Alicia spot a clothes store and walk over. I might pick out some other extra stuff for myself. I love getting new clothes, it really makes me happy somehow. Just having more options in my wardrobe is nice.

Out of nowhere, I look towards the store and see the same couple from before, the blonde tall guy and the brunette shorter guy, walking out, still holding hands. The tall blonde guy is 100% Derek and the brunette is almost guaranteed to be Adrian. The two of them are laughing like a couple, for Gods sake they're holding each other's hands. Derek leans down and kisses Adrian's forehead.

I look over at Alicia and she's looking at something else. I don't think Derek and Adrian see us. That would be a lot of explaining I'm not willing to sit through. They really looked like a couple. They looked super cute together.

Maybe I'm just crazy though. Hearing Aaron and Cam fucking was basically a giveaway to what they'd been doing. At the time, there was absolutely no way the two of them would be sharing a shower in a house that had a hell of a lot of showers unless they were together. They weren't quite together, but they were fucking and Aaron at the very least had strong feelings for Cameron.

But Derek is very caring of Adrian, and Adrian doesn't complain about it. He likes Derek, I'm pretty sure. Maybe Derek is just trying to make Adrian feel better and feel safer. He's a good guy, and I know I can't be speaking on gaydar, because I still insisted that Cam was straight up until there was basically no defending him, but Derek might be gay or bi. Either that or he's so comfortable with his straightness that he's okay with showing affection for Adrian.

I'm not gonna say anything because there's no 100% evidence. Sure, the allegations could be very difficult to escape but there are ways to deny it. Like Derek being comfortable with his straightness or he's trying to make Adrian feel more comfortable or safer. Like I've said, he's very affectionate to Adrian and Adrian is happy about that.

"Babe, you okay?" Alicia asks.

"Yeah. Yeah, sorry. I just thought I saw something."

"Oh okay."

"Yeah."

Me and Alicia kept shopping around for random shit, me paying for half of the stuff despite her not wanting me to. I have a lot of money, and I want to spoil her. She deserves it for being so good to me all the time.

The fact that I was the person to see Derek and Adrian like that is a bit annoying. If they're dating, I'm super happy for them, but I don't love being the one that find this shit out. I won't say anything this time though. I'm not making that mistake again. I don't want to drive a wedge between the two of them. They work well together. Derek, even before he started dating Adrian, clearly created a huge shift in the way Adrian was feeling. Derek made Adrian happy, and I want Adrian to be happy. What he went through over the summer was horrible.

So, basically, I'm not gonna say anything to anyone. I'm gonna let them be happy and not do anything that might hurt their relationship, whether it's real or just Derek being affectionate.

Either way, they looked cute together.

A/N: Uh oh!!! Do you guys think angst will happen because of Devin again? Will he ruin Adrian and Derek's relationship like he almost did to Cam and Aaron? I don't know, to be honest. Maybe. I just don't see something small like this actually making Derek want out of this relationship. Aaron already knows, Derek knows Aaron knows because he told Aaron himself. I'll see where the next couple chapters take me, and I'll decide if I want there to be angst or not. Thanks for reading!!!