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Disco him shift in his seat

When they finished the conversation, Oliver took a bite of his food, then another He looked Matt’s ith a s your food Does it not taste good? We can get you so else”

Matt shook his head “My stomach is a little upset I think it’s all the excitement I’ll be fine”

Oliver didn’t reply, and he didn’t look away Matt had to be the one to break the eye contact first

CHAPTER TWENTY

Matt’s body trey and passion that he thought he’d co to contain Tears danced at the end of his eyelashes, but he was too engrossed in the scene in front of hih him to take the time to brush the beautiful in the world That was the way it made him feel

In that moment, as he watched the composer direct musicians, as he listened to passion flow from every instrument, he felt al his eyes away from the scene in front of him, he let his hand drift over to Oliver who sat beside hi some kind of contact with his best friend With Oliver

He squeezed Matt’s hand and held it while they listened It felt like only seconds had passed by when the syot out of their seats and talked about how beautiful the night had been, but Matt still couldn’t move He heard Oliver tell his parents they would be a fewthey would talk to them another day

Oliver continued to hold Matt’s hand and he let him Minutes passed by The space around them completely eave Matt the time he needed

“Thank you,” he finally ed to say

“You have nothing to thank me for,” Oliver told him, but he did Matt felt like he could never thank Oliver enough for everything he had given him He didn’t knohere to start He felt too raw, like everything inside of him was on display for the world to see It was always so damn hard to understand his own es Oliver did but then other tis for himself How sometimes he could want to pull Oliver closer but others he needed to push him away