Chapter 19: Dripping Wet

"Can I come in?" Max asked gently.

Evan gave him a look, but opened the door wider and motioned for him to enter.

Max ducked his head politely. Before walking into a dorm room that looked fairly similar to his own. But was decorated in soft pastel blues instead of grays and reds.

"He is just in the shower," Evan said and dropped on the bed. Then picked up a worn-out old brown teddy bear.

Max nodded and looked around slowly, the room was much like his own just smaller and much more worn out looking.

Leo's window was slightly ajar, which Max attributed the clean air smell too.

It smelt like, morning, not like a boys dorm room and the whole place looked pristine. The items inside the room beside the worn down furniture were all new looking. His eyes lit on the Bear inside Evan's hand. That looked like a child's toy and fit in with the furniture much better than the new stuff.

"That looks old." He said nonchalantly. Pretending not to be interested in the bear.

"It is," Evan stated unhelpfully.

"Oh, it's nice." He tried figuring out what to say next since Evan hadn't given him anything to work with.

Evan gave him a look, rolled his eyes and smirked.

"Yeah, it's Leo's he likes cute things, adorable sweaters, and t-shirts, soft plushies. This one is his from when he was a kid."

Max looked surprised. 'He likes cute things... Ironic so did he. After all, he liked Leo.' He thought, then smirked to himself.

The water sound stopped. Then the room filled with the sounds of soft swearing and struggling that flew out from inside the bathroom with vigor.

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A moment later Leo exited the bathroom in a pair of light blue acid wash jeans that sat snugly against his frame. He slowly pulled over a soft tan-colored shirt that had a barely visible white swirl pattern on it.

He had a light blue towel around his neck and was gently ruffling his wet hair. The wet droplets proceeded to shake out on his shirt and the floor around him. He squeezed it and shook his head gently before he realized there were two sets of feet in front of him, not just one.

Leo looked past his own bare feet that poked out from his jeans and his eyes traveled up the pair of brand name shoes to the dark black jeans blue and black striped sweater and strong lean frame attached to them.

He stared into Max's shocked face.

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Leo had come out with bare chest, bare feet, and dripping wet hair.

Max had tried to look away but felt glued as he watched the shirt fly over Leo's head and watched him shove his arms through then pull the shirt down.

At that moment he suddenly felt a sense of loss and disappointment. 'Like someone had taken the last cookie while he had been reaching for it.'

Max closed his mouth and gulped.

Leo pursed his lips in surprise and blinked.

"You weren't answering your phone. So, I came to see if everything was okay, and to make sure you could still make it." Max said, licking his lips, his tongue darting out quickly to flick across them as he stared Leo up and down.

'Be cool dude, be cool,' He thought.

But his brain kept flying to how tight his pants had become just from seeing Leo's bare chest, naked feet, and dripping wet hair. He looked sexy, hot...

And Max had never thought this before in his life about anyone. But he looked downright fuckable. 'What the heck are you thinking right now? Calm down... Like what are you? An animal!'

"Do you need more time to get ready? Oorr...?" Max asked tentatively. Looking past Leo and trying not to focus on the parts of Leo he wanted to see naked on top of the two he had already seen.

"Yeah, actually just a few more minutes so I can dry my hair if that would be okay," Leo said, unsurely.

Max nodded. "Sure, there is no rush the place we are heading to is open all day." Max practically fell down on the single bed in the room as his legs sort of just crumpled in. He stared at Evan awkwardly and smiled unconfidently.

Evan occupied the only other spot in the room to sit and was clearly staring at Max with a soft knowing grin on his face. Max avoided his gaze, embarrassed.

'God, he hoped he wasn't that easy to read.'

Leo started to dry his hair with the blow dryer. He slowly styled it throwing his dark black curls away from his face. They fell in a neatly pressed wave away from his eyes and he sprayed it with hair spray so that it would hold.

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Evan tried very hard not to laugh as he watched the two awkward adults exist in the same atmosphere and have no clue what to do with themselves.

He thought that for how much Leo had claimed they were just "hanging out" and that it was just another "date" of the year... That it wasn't like that.

For just another "date" of the year, he thought Leo sure was trying hard and it looked like Max probably had too.

And that was what was currently making his opinion of Max change, his manners were great.

'Maybe there really had been some sort of misunderstanding... Maybe what Leo had seen that day wasn't true, maybe he had misunderstood it?' Evan mused.

'Was he was being harsh for no reason?'

He watched Max, who was doing everything he could think of for fidgeting to distract him from peering into the not entirely closed bathroom.

Evan looked out the window to hide his snickering.

'That had to be it. Because if anyone else was staring at this poor infatuated fool they would be thinking he was already with the guy getting ready.'

'Only Leo was a big enough idiot not to see it, and confuse it for someone else' Evan felt kinda bad he had judged Sun and Max a little too harshly just off of his friend's naivety. He didn't really need to judge the guy so harshly he supposed.

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Max tried his best not to feel disappointed the wet mass of curls was gone. But he only had a second as Leo came out with his hair pulled back.

Max sucked in a breath of air and stood up. 'Leo looked freaking gorgeous.'

"I'm glad we stayed so you could dry your hair. Max said. Leo had stopped about a foot from Max and he smiled at Max.

"Oh? Why?"

Max went to open his mouth. 'BECAUSE YOU ARE FREAKING GORGEOUS!' His brain screamed. A snicker off to the side reminded them they were not alone and Max backed up rubbing his neck and chuckling nervously.

"Don't want you to catch a cold from having wet hair. It is still spring after all. And we are in Canada. No matter how nice the weather has been." He smiled.

'Was it really safe to take him out to such a crowded place,' he wondered. Part of him really didn't want to share this sight with anyone else. In fact, he had this sudden urge to kick Evan out on his ass, for even being able to see him at all.

"Ready to go?" Leo asked with a smile.

"Yes, hmm yeah, yeah, let's go," Max said quickly gesturing towards the door. Suddenly eager to leave the room before he did something really stupid.

The two of them grabbed their sweaters and walked out of the dorm. The door behind them clicked.

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Evan burst out laughing the moment the door clicked.

"Wow, well that was a bit much even for me!" He stated and got up while chuckling.

"I seriously need to get myself a boyfriend, after all, that sexual tension." He shook his head.

"I'm the leader of a pack of idiots." He opened the door and let it close behind him still chuckling away.