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It had been a long week at Hillerska and Simon was glad just to have a moment alone with his boyfriend in their room. After Wilhelm confessed that it was indeed him in that oh-so-famous video during their first year, Simon had been staying on campus with him to not get photographed on his way to and from school. He felt a bit unsure at first but grew into this new stage of their relationship pretty quickly. From waking up next to each other, to fighting over clothes, to caresses of skin, deep in the night. It had been two years and he felt closer to his boyfriend as time went on.
They were watching a movie on Wilhelm’s bed. Wilhelm’s with his back against the wall, Simon between his legs with his head against his chest. They may or may not have stolen popcorn from the school’s kitchen after it closed for the day. The perks of having the crown prince for a boyfriend.
The bowl on Simon’s lap, Wille’s arm sneaking around him to grab a hand and bring it to his mouth.
It was so minuscule he almost missed it. A tiny bounce in the curls on top of his head.
He felt Wilhelm freeze behind him, holding his breath.
‘Wille?’
‘Hmm?’
‘Did you just spill popcorn in my hair?’
Silence.
‘Maybe’
‘Wille!!’ He brushed with his hand over his head.
‘No! Don’t move’ he felt his hands being swatted away from his hair. ‘I almost got it’
He couldn’t believe that his idiot of a boyfriend spilled popcorn in his freshly washed curls.
Later in bed, there are crumbs.
‘You never get to eat popcorn in bed again! Didn’t they raise you at the palace? What on earth…’ Simon grumbled while standing next to the bed, picking up popcorn crumbs from their sheets.
Wilhelm laughed loudly. ‘Maybe that’s the problem. I was raised in a palace, there was no lesson on popcorn in bed’ He stood up from the bed to wipe the crumbs on the floor.
‘Not on the floor! We will step on it in the morning!’ Simon whined loudly. ‘God, I need to teach you so much’ he mumbled.
Wilhelm felt more giggles in his stomach but tried to suppress them.
They got all the crumbs from the bed and reinstalled all the blankets for a second try at sleep for today.
Wilhelm is on the side of the wall and his boyfriend next to him. He was still too giddy to sleep after the popcorn debacle.
He rolled onto his side and pulled Simon in by his waist abruptly. A surprised giggle left his boyfriend's lips.
‘Wille!’ He giggled. ‘We need to sleep! Leave me alone’ he exclaimed, while wrapping his arms around him.
‘No’ he caged him in his arms. ‘What else do you want to teach me?’ He tickled his side. Simon yelped.
‘How to eat pasta with Ketchup?’
Simon giggled loudly and tried to swat his hand away. ‘Wille!’ He yelped again. ‘Stop it!’
‘How to talk with my mouth full of food?’
‘Please have mercy! I’m sorry! I won’t say anything ever again!’ More giggles erupted from his chest. Arms swatting wildly.
‘How to shoot a zombie on a screen?’
Simon’s eyes started to water, and he started moving so far away from him, that he almost fell off the bed. Finally, Wilhelm gave in and had mercy on his boyfriend’s soul.
‘Fine’ He pulled his boyfriend in by the waist again, away from the edge of the bed.
Simon crawled back into his arms, putting his arm around his neck, and playing with the hairs on the back of his head.
‘Sometimes I forget that we come from such different worlds’ he sighs.
Wilhelm looks into his eyes, trying to find out where Simon is getting at.
‘I don’t care, Simon’. He rubbed his fingers gently on his lower back. ‘I don’t care if you will yell at me for the rest of my life for getting crumbs in the bed. Or laugh at me for putting a napkin on my lap. Or grumble at my expensive clothes’ he continued, rubbing their noses together.
‘As long as it’s our bed, and our napkins and you can steal anything you like from our closet’ he smiled at him. ‘As long as I get to do everything with you’.
Simon closed the gap between them and their lips together softly. Holding on for way longer than was expectable.
But Wilhelm let him.
He will always let him.
As long as they are together.