“Play along, please?”
“Fine,” Luka said and Reno’s confidence grew marginally.
“Hypothetically, if we were, let’s say, living in the same city, how would you feel about being my boyfriend?”
“Are you asking me out?” Luka laughed, sounding in disbelief.
“That depends.” Reno felt himself smiling. “We are in hypothetical right now. Answer the question, please?”
“Okay.” Reno could hear the amusement in Luka’s reply, “Sure. If I lived in the same city as you, I would be happy to date you.”
Reno could soar. He put Luka on speaker and rested his chest on his kitchen counter, the phone near his arms. “Okay, good. Now would you like to come on tour with me, one day?”
Luka replied, “And share a bed with you and Arnaud?”
“Maybe.” Reno winced but asked anyway, “Is it a problem that I am so close to him?”
“Are you two fucking?”
Reno didn’t mean for the conversation to go this way. “We were. We stopped when I found you.”
Luka made a choked noise.
“Promise, nothing’s happened. He’s aro, and my best friend. There’s nothing not-platonic there. It's not like how I am about you.”
“That’s so much to process.” Luka was quiet and Reno wondered what kind of face he was making. “I?—”
“You don’t have to worry about me being unfaithful.”
“That’s not what I’m processing!” Luka barked a laugh. “You… do you know," he laughed again, “what the fan clubs would do if they found out?”
“Don’t remind me,” Reno groaned. “So you’re not mad?”
“No,” Luka said quickly. “Your past sexual partners mean nothing to me. It’s what you do now that counts. How did Arnaud take it?”
“He doesn’t care as long as we are the same in all other ways.”
“Sharing a bed,” Luka confirmed. “Being unreasonably dependent on each other.”
Reno took in a long breath. “That obvious?”
“Oh god. You have no idea how easy you are to read, do you? You two spend every moment together. Honestly I just wish—” Luka cut himself off.
“Wish what?” Reno asked, anxiously.
Luka gave an embarrassed groan then admitted, “That I could haveseenit.”
“What?” Reno perked up, almost knocking the glass of water over.
“Don’t make me say,” Luka pleaded.
Reno tried to wrap his head around this latest development. “Please clarify before I pass out.”
“You still tired?”
“Not that kind of pass out, more like I’m going to faint if you don’t say exactly what you mean.”
“You’re so dramatic.” Luka was laughing. “I would have paid good money to see you two together before we started talking.”
