Resistance is Futile [Evaaaan ^^]

[Robbie Wilkes]

As usual, break meant not going home. This time, Robbie didn't even bother calling his parents to ask if he could come home. The fact that they didn't call either just meant they didn't want him to either. No matter. He was fine in his dorm. Alone. With nothing to do.

Evan had gone home and with Levi no less. So much like a big brother, he decided Evan had to be interrogated.

Scrolling through his phonebook for his best friend's number, he pressed the green call button as he went in search of some entertainment. Turned out to be the pond, with the fishes. At least he had company.

Once the other end was picked up, Robbie yelled out his greeting. "Sup Van Damme!" the blond chuckled at his ingenuity and sprawled across the decorative stones around the pond. "How's your break? And how's Leeeeviiiii?" He cackled annoyingly. Briefly, he wondered why Evan was even friends with him.

[Evan Brackett]

Evan had been reading when his phone rang, and he jumped at the sudden burst of sound. Dog earing the page and grabbing his cell off of his dresser, he barely glanced at the name on the display before hitting the talk button. "Hel--" his greeting was cut off as the other boy shouted into his phone. Van quickly jerked the device away from his ear, easily able to hear his friend through the receiver even at a distance. He smashed down the volume key until it was at it lowest setting before daring to put the phone to his ear again.

"Hey, Robbie. You nearly deafened me with your, um, creative greeting," he said with a chuckle. "Break's been good. Really good. Levi's, um, good." He knew instantly that his friend was looking for more information than that. The problem was deciding on how much he should tell him. The whole weekend kind of just...happened, and while it was amazing and wonderful and made life that much more awesome, he wasn't sure how much he wanted other people to know yet. Then again, this was one of his closest friends he was talking to. He could trust Robbie, of all people. He had pretty much told him everything else already.

With that thought, he got up and shut his bedroom door. He definitely didn't want any of his family to overhear this.

Evan cleared his throat as he walked back to his bed and sat down, trying to think of what he was going to say. "But, um. Something might have happened."

[Robbie Wilkes]

Robbie chuckled at Evan's response and leaned back against his bedpost, glad to hear Evan's break was going good. The inflection in one of his best friend's voice did not go unnoticed, especially when it involved Levi. Robbie had sensed there was something going on before but he hadn't been too sure.

He was piecing things up though and this call was starting to look like a gateway to him finally solving the puzzle. "Yuh-uh, that's all fine and dandy but-" he paused to let Evan speak. Evan's words made him sit up straighter on his bed and grin. "Oh my God. Might have? There's no might haves in something happened, Van. Spill, spill!" Robbie exclaimed.

Finally something good happening during break for Robbie! Sadly enough, it wasn't happening to him.

[Evan Brackett]

The excitement in Robbie's voice made the phaser laugh, more out of nerves than amusement. "Ah, yeah. Just, uh." He ran a hand through his hair, and shifted farther onto his bed. "First, you have to promise not to tell anyone else. No one. Okay?" He knew his friend wasn't going to go around telling his secrets, but it made him feel more comfortable to have the other boy promise.

Then there was still the issue of a starting point. "Well, I never told you, but," he began slowly, pausing as the last wave of hesitation hit him. "I've kinda liked Levi for a while. And I mean really liked him. Like liked him." He pulled his legs up to his chest and rested his head on his knees. It was still really weird to admit that out loud, even after having confessed to Levi. "So, um, I didn't tell him, because I didn't think he'd like me back." Plus there was that whole shebang where he didn't want to push away one of his closest friends, but whatever.

"Anyway, so I invited him over, you know, to spend the weekend. As a friend." He felt the need to clarify that, thinking that he'd sound like a creeper otherwise. "We got to talking, and..." Evan trailed off at that point, suddenly worried that Levi would be upset if he told someone. He probably should have considered that earlier.

[Robbie Wilkes]

The nervous laughter Robbie heard on the phone just basically confirmed what Robbie had thought all along. This was gonna be good. He knew it. It was all the more confirmed when Evan made him promise not to tell anybody. Robbie wasn't good at keeping secrets but he never intentionally blurted things out like some people were prone to do. He was definitely not telling Rumor, however hilarious he thought Rumor was. But yeah, Robbie was hellbent on keeping secrets. It really wasn't his fault that a skillful set of questions would make him spill.

Really, as long as nobody asked specifically how Evan and Levi were, Robbie was sure to keep this to his grave.

Evan's explanation about his feelings for Levi had Robbie rolling his eyes in a "Duh" manner. Thank God Evan couldn't see through the phone. Well, this was inevitable. Robbie may be thick but the Valentine's Day dance could not have made things clearer. He was so tempted to yell at Evan to speed things up. He wanted to get to the good parts already!

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get to the good-" Robbie paused once again and a smile spread across his face. "No. Way. AND?" He demanded. Evan couldn't be stopping there! So many things could happen after 'talking'!

"I swear to God Van if you leave me hanging, I will hunt you down to the ranch!" Robbie threatened.

[Evan Brackett]

Had Evan realized that Robbie noticed his crush as far back as February, he probably would have crawled into a hole and died of embarrassment. He really was one of the last people to figure it out, the other being Levi. Even someone as thick as Robbie knew before they did.

Fidgeting with the material of his jeans, Evan began to doubt his decision to tell the blonde about the weekend. Then again, he already got the other boy hooked on his story, and he didn't want Robbie pestering him about it for the rest of forever. The first thing he did was correct the blonde, as more of a diversion tactic than anything. "It's a farm, not a ranch. The difference is we grow crops." He knew that wasn't going to keep his friend from digging for more information, though.

He cleared his throat and continued, "Anyway. We were talking, and he told me that he had a crush on someone. A guy." The phaser conveniently left out the parts about miscommunication, but he doubted Robbie wanted to hear about that anyway. Evan smiled, thinking of how jealous he had been, when really he was just jealous of himself. He had to laugh at his stupidity. "It turns out that guy was me, so I told him how I felt and how happy I was to hear that he felt the same. And then I kissed him."

[Robbie Wilkes]

Evan's silence agitated Robbie as he swung his feet over the bed, letting them hit the floor with a soft thud. He was anxious to know about everything and Evan was just delaying!

When he stalled with the difference between farm and ranch, Robbie let out a growl. "Evan!" He exclaimed anxiously. "Give a brother some love man. I'm dying here!" He said in a pained voice.

As he continued, Robbie's feet started to tap furiously on the carpeted floor until Evan finally got to the best part. "FINALLY!" The blonde boy fistpumped the air and let loose a long laugh of jubilation for his friend. At least one of them was getting a start of something new and possibly lasting. "Good for you bro. Seriously. This is good! You're coming back to school as a couple. And you're staying in the same dorm...this is good!" Robbie was running out of things to say in his fit of happiness for his best friend.

Finally, after composing himself enough to sit up straight again at the edge of his bed, Robbie grinned playfully. "So when's the wedding?"

[Evan Brackett]

The shout alarmed the phaser, causing him to drop the phone into his lap. Rolling his eyes as he fumbled with the device, he got it back to his ear just in time to catch the tail end of Robbie's ridiculous laugh.

"Yeah," he agreed quietly, lacking the overexcitement his friend showed. He was happy--never been happier--but there was more to it than what he was letting on. Regardless, it was Robbie's fault that his next comment distracted Evan from telling the rest of the story.

"Robbie," he whined, dragging out the vowel sounds. "We haven't even gone on a proper date yet." The closest thing they'd done to date was go out to the movies when they were friends, but he was trying really hard not to blur the line between the two. "Oh God, I should take him out somewhere, shouldn't I? Or just stay in the dorm and do something? But we use to do that all the time, so that doesn't really count, right?" Enter neurotic mode.

Van promptly flumped across his bed, racking his hair with his free hand. "I just want to do something nice for him, you know. Something...boyfriend-y. Maybe I could bring him back something. But what? It's not like I can bring him flowers...Candy? Is candy good? Or is it too cliché?" He buried his face in his comforter, muffling his plea. "Robbie, you gotta help me."

[Robbie Wilkes]

Evan's whine got a huge grin from the weather manipulator as he stood up to walk about in his room, his legs not letting him rest at all. "Evan, Evan chilllll!" Robbie laughed as his friend started babbling on about what to do.

"Dude, just go out for a movie, have dinner at some place semi fancy and don't forget to be chill. Like, you can't be babbling about yourself on the date ya know?" Robbie said, clearly not knowing what the heck people did on dates, seeing that he'd never actually done so himself. Well, not recently enough for him to remember anyway.

Dating guys wouldn't be too different would it? They were still two people trying to get to know each other a bit better...with perks! A lot of perks.

"Candy's always good. Not chocolates. Like...a bag of gummy bears or ooooh gummy bears Van! You should give Levi like aaaalll kinds of chewies. And throw in some Reece's Pieces or something. Or you know, you could always ask him what he wanted to do. Then you can like...set up for the next dates and stuff. Van! Mini golf! That's always fun to do! Or bowling!" Robbie prattled on, not even certain if those were viable dating options.

[Evan Brackett]

Propping his head up, he listened as the other boy tried to help. Robbie's idea was good, but Evan still found reason to complain. "We've seen movies before. I mean, I know they can be dates, but I want to do something different," he explained. The information on etiquette that followed Robbie's suggestion was quietly archived for future reference. Maybe the blonde didn't know any more about dating that Van did, but at least it was something.

He nodded at his phone, forgetting that Robbie wouldn't be able to see that. "Yeah yeah yeah. Gummies are probably best, and I can get a bunch of different kinds at the candy store in the mall. Reese's might clash with 'em, though." His nose scrunched a bit at the thought of mixing gummies with peanut butter and chocolate. It didn't sound appetizing. "Oh, mini-golf and bowling are both good." Until he had the nightmarish idea of losing a club or bowling ball to an accidental phase. "...Except I might kill something."

He tapped his lip in thought, until it suddenly hit him. "Fireflies are out right now, aren't they?" he asked rhetorically as he formed an idea. "I could take him to the lake to catch fireflies, and we can keep them in jars. And they have those fire pits, right? So I could bring stuff for s'mores." He sat up, swinging his legs over the side of his bed. The more he thought about it, the better his idea sounded.

"I think he'd like that. It sounds good, right?" he prodded his friend for confirmation.

[Robbie Wilkes]

"Well, yeah...movie dates can be boring. Unless you don't actually watch the movie." If Evan were there, Robbie would have nudged and winked at him but because they were just on the phone, the blond teen simply laughed. "That's something different, right?" Leave it to Robbie to think of doing sleazy things on a first date.

He felt sort of accomplished when Evan agreed to his gummy bears suggestion. "Eh, then fine. Gummy bears! And coke bottle gummies. Oh, I think I found this store that sells berry gummies. Gummies. Shaped like berries. They're pretty awesome."

"What? You're not that bad in sports, Van." Robbie rolled his eyes at his friend's dramatics. He didn't even counter in the fact that it could possibly be because of Evan's abilities.

As Robbie tried to come up with things, Evan's question brought him back to the present. "Um...yeah I suppose they...oh well hey! That's an awesome idea! Levi'd like that!" The weather manipulator nodded enthusiastically, not even worried that Evan couldn't see it.

"Oh Evan, you're such a romantic." Robbie cooed teasingly before laughing, totally not being serious.

[Evan Brackett]

Even without the wink and nudge to egg him on, Evan blushed at the phone. It wasn't such a sleazy idea when you factored in what they did in the tree house together, and that didn't happen very long after their confessions. Of course, Robbie didn't know that because Evan failed to tell him. "I'm not going to pay out $22 to a movie theater just to make out with him. Firstly, I don't have that kind of money to splurge, and secondly, we can do that in my bedroom." He added more hesitantly, "We did do that in my bedroom."

Poking idly at his comforter, he smiled at the continued suggestions. "Right, yeah. I know that place. It'll be a little more expensive than just going to CVS or something, but the candy's better." It was worth spending extra, and he could tie the bag with a ribbon or something extremely cute and cheesy like that.

"No, I mean, what if I lost the club on a backswing because I phased through it?" he corrected. "Can you imagine if I hit him in the face? It would be disastrous." Except, saying it out loud made him laugh, because it sounded absolutely ridiculous. The problem was that it could actually happen.

Evan didn't take the time to thank the blond for the praise before protesting his teasing. "Am no--Okay, maybe. But is it so weird to want to do something special for him?" He bit his lip. "I, I really like him."

[Robbie Wilkes]

As Robbie listened to Evan protesting the movie idea, his eyes widened when Evan finally reached the end of his sentence. "Oh. My. God. Van! You made out with him already? In your bedroom?" Robbie practically squeaked. "Van. VAN! So damn proud dude. So damn proud!" He needed something to glomp, Robbie did. Preferrably something with Evan's consistency but for now he settled on his body pillow.

"Yes yes yes. Hey grab me some gummies too wouldja? I want some gummies when you get back." He rubbed his belly, all of a sudden craving some really good gummies.

What Evan said made sense and Robbie nodded. "Right...well...hmm yeah. Minigolf and bowling out. That also rules out carnivals. Wait, maybe you could just go to a fair or something? And get him the most ridiculous stuffed animal ever. Or a goldfish. Or play bumper cars!"

Then again, catching fireflies, it kind of suited both Evan and Levi's style. They weren't really that out of there like Robbie usually was. Just because he couldn't appreciate quiet doesn't mean Levi and Evan wouldn't.

"Naw man. I know you like him. He's a lucky guy. Then again, so're you. Wait, is he there with you now? Were you fooling around before you answered the phone? I should let you get back to him shouldn't I?" He couldn't help but tease one last time.

[Evan Brackett]

Part of the reason for his hesitation had been the fact that he expected Robbie to flip over the news. It was odd that he found himself grinning instead of blushing again. He did feel weird telling someone about it, but at the same time Van was pretty proud of himself. "Yeah, we made out. And did some other things," he boasted. "He was the one who initiated it, so I guess that's a good sign...I mean, that he's interested." Of course he knew that Levi liked him, but he was still worried that the boy would change his mind.

At first, he was going to protest getting some for Robbie too, because they were expensive and were for his boyfriend. It was easier to just drop it, though, and hope that the blond didn't have the same craving by the time they got back to school.

"The problem with that is waiting for the fair to come 'round," he said. "But yeah, we can do that when it does." It wasn't a bad idea, it was just going to take some time. As far as short term plans went, it wasn't going to fit the role.

He could feel the heat starting to creep up his neck before the weather manipulator even finished his line of questioning. "No, I was just reading. He was only here for the weekend," he reiterated. Then with a smirk, "And if we were doing something, do you really think I would answer the phone? Seems like a turnoff." He was far to proud for cracking that little joke. The way the other boy was starting to tease him made him really want to hang up, though. "But if you want to go, that's fine. I'm going to have to get ready for work soon anyway."

[Robbie Wilkes]

The way Evan mentioned "other things" made Robbie laugh incredulously. Not that he didn't believe Evan did it, more because it finally happened. After what...eight months?

Evan's worry made Robbie laugh even more. "Van don't be dumb. Levi's not, he knows you're good for him. Both of you're gonna be fiiiiine." Robbie drawled out reassuringly. He wasn't a romantic but even he knew Evan and Levi were kinda something special.

Though Robbie would probably remember his request till Evan came back to school, he was most certainly kidding about asking the older teen to go through with the request. He just liked messing with Evan. Not that he was going to admit that now.

"Just the week-boo..." he paused and laughed at Evan's joke. "Evan! Evan! Duuuude, you're evolving! I love this!" The blond teen cracked up over the phone. "Ew, you have work? Shit...I think I need to find a job soon. Aw craps. Alright, Imma letchu go. You stud you." Robbie laughed at his own stupid joke. "Aite. Take care, brah. See you when you get back, aite? Smell ya laters!"

[OOC: Wrap? ^^]