The sad part was that Daniel didn’t have any friends he could introduce to his new roommate. But none of them both really cared. They somehow got accustomed to each other’s almost constant presence.

Étienne’s hand on Daniel’s shoulder suddenly got the taller guy out of his thoughts. They had been sharing a room for a few weeks now, but they never really had had any discussions with each other. Taking his headphone’s off, he raised his eyes from his computer to peek at the other boy’s head above his. He blinked a few times, readjusting to reality as he felt a slight headache due to his focusing for too long on his too bright little screen.

The blond guy typed something on his cell phone before turning it toward Daniel. Daniel chuckled at the sight of the sentence Étienne had typed. “You know, if you never try to speak in English you’ll never get used to it, right?”, Daniel said without paying attention to the translated text.

Étienne’s reddening face showed he understood.

“I won’t laugh if you're making an effort, you know that, right?”, Daniel added as a soft frown made its way to his face.

Étienne nodded in a way that his roommate thought was awfully adorable, and then they were both flushed. Slowly, Étienne gathered the courage to ask out loud what he was listening to.

The Bluetooth was soon disconnected from Daniel’s headphones and Undisclosed Desires by Muse, halfway through, instantly surrounded the two boys. Daniel’s cheeks warmed up even more as he realized the quite sensual lyrics even if he was confident Étienne wouldn’t grasp their meaning. Matthew Bellamy making out with the mic and through the cell phone's small speaker went unnoticed by the younger one.

The songs then shuffled from Muse to Grandson to David Bowie. Somehow, music was easier to understand for both of them. That day they discovered just how much they didn’t need words to understand each other's feelings. It was the first time of many that they listened to music together and they were still at Daniel’s desk even an hour later, unaware that music would get them through it all.

But Étienne’s legs were slowly becoming sore and he eventually sat on Daniel’s chair’s armrest. They both didn’t realize the sudden proximity that music seemed to allow until one of them made too big of a movement and the chair lost balance.

It was one of those moments that happen really quickly, but time seems to slow down while you’re trying to grasp the situation. And they wouldn’t realize what’s going on for at least a good minute.

They both fell hard to the ground, Étienne’s breath knocked off by the impact and Daniel’s chest against him. And then it happened so fast that an outsider wouldn’t have noticed. Daniel’s longer hair cascaded all around his head, blocking the light and hiding his shocked reaction from Étienne. But as much as they wanted to ignore what had happened, to discredit it completely and crawl back to the little bubble music had created just a few seconds earlier, they’d never forget the very first instant their lips brushed one another.

Of all the ways Daniel could have dreamed his first kiss to be, he'd never have dared to imagine it being with another man. Yet no matter how cliché, unrealistic and against anything he would have ever believed could happen, he would not admit to himself how much he had wanted this.

At least, he would not admit it yet.