aruan | Justin Month, Day Four

This picture twisted my gut when I first came across it. I wasn't in the fandom for the whole Wade fiasco, from when they started writing together to when they were rumored to have one woman too many in common. But this moment right here - it's pretty damn awesome. This was pretty epic as friendships go and I'm glad to have a chance to see them like this, however briefly.

Haunting Me by Cherry

They never stop, and Chris likes that for a while, doesn't even mind the constant closeness of Lynn and Diane and the other guys because it keeps his mind off the things that still whisper darkly in the corners of his brain. Memories not quite faded, the sounds of breath and skin, the smell of Justin lingering on his sheets for days. They're so busy that there's no time for anything more than the occasional, vaguely inappropriate touch or too-long glance on the bus or in dressing rooms, nothing that Chris can't write off as a hazard of close quarters, even if he doesn't believe it.

It reminds me of Synchronik's Favor in the same way that Chris spends the story lying to himself about Justin. Except Justin's got it a lot more figured out than Chris thinks, and say what you want, but personally, sixteen-year-old Justin having the confidence of self-knowledge and the gall to go after the man almost ten years his senior? Very, very hot.