Chilly Boulder, Thursday Afternoon

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Billy and Topher had originally made plans to go out for an ice cream date over the weekend, but that idea had been hampered by the whole pony thing. So, of course, the day they rescheduled for was the day the island was invaded by goats. Of course.

"Tell me this wasn't our fault?" Billy said, once they were safely inside. He didn't really think it was their fault, but he had to admit, they were getting kind of a strange track record here.

[For the other awkward geek!]

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An actual kiss, it turned out, caused Topher to flail his arms wildly but refrain from making any actual noise. Well, apart from the sound of his ice cream cup falling off the table and onto the floor. That would be due to the arm-flailing.

"Huh," Topher said, when it was done.

Then he grinned. A little sheepishly, but there it was.

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"I'm sorry"! Billy said quickly, leaning down to pick up Topher's spilled ice cream. "I didn't mean to--I'll get you more, I'm sorry." Then he noticed the grin, and smiled softly. "Sorry. I should warned you or something."

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"No, no, it's okay," Topher said hastily. "I was mostly done." He took a breath, then rushed out, "Um. That was cool."

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Now Billy was grinning too. "It was cool for me too. Nice. Like, really nice. I could, um, do it again if you want?" See? He could learn to warn.

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"Or I could," Topher offered, committed now that he'd said it. "I could just sort of..."

And that would be a somewhat awkward pause as he tilted his head in the manner that Jeff had described in class, hoping to avoid any awkward collision of noses.

See, he planned things.

[selfhelphero]

Who knew that Jeff's class could be useful for anything? But there was Billy, tilting his head a little as well, because this was awkward enough to begin with.

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And then there was kissing! Obviously.

"You know, you'd think that'd be gross," Topher commented afterwards. "It isn't, so much. Movies lie."

Or Topher was just a baby and misinterpreted the way movie kiss scenes were supposed to be taken. That was also a possibility.

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"Some movie kisses are totally gross." Like the ones that involved sucking noises, ew. "That was really awesome."

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"Really awesome," Topher agreed. He was sort of rethinking his stance on mouth germs, Billy. This was quite an accomplishment you'd achieved here. "Um. This could be, like. Something we do sometimes, if you want?" he tried. "I mean. Since it wasn't gross."

Topher, this was not how normal people did things.

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No, this wasn't normal, but Billy was going to take it anyway. "I'd like that a lot. But only if you want to," he said.

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Topher nodded once, vigorously, then went in for another quick kiss.

"Yuh-huh."