Through the Screen

"oh so someone is actually cooking today," adrian commented sarcastically, bumping his hip into abel 's and abel just ruffled his hair fondly, turning his attention back to the stir fry.

"shut up," abel rolled his eyes, watching as adrian filled up a glass of water, sipping on it while leaning against the counter. "how's the preparation for math going?"

"good, i had a few problems but i asked dad," adrian shrugged. "who struggled by the way," he added and abel chuckled, shaking his head, his stomach still twisting at what happened earlier today.

noah hadn't spoken to him since then. not even agreeing to help abel in making dinner, saying that he had a few important emails to draft.

"what are you making?" the younger boy peeked into the fry pan, and abel leaned forward to kiss the top of his head.

"mexican," abel replied and adrian just nodded appreciatively before walking out of the kitchen.

noah was sat in the living room, his fingers almost cramped from the amount of unnecessary emails that he had drafted for the sole reason that he didn't want to be around abel. at least not for a while.

they will be too consumed in their own work to notice or

first time they had

stretching his fingers and making his way to

him what he was making as he poured a cup of water in the automatic kettle, waiting for the water to heat up while his fingers drummed aimlessly on

tension but he did not

kettle beeped, and he searched the cabinets for a

mumbled to himself, silently blaming adrian to be even clumsier than him

his eyes, glad that there was at least something they could talk about without it being awkward. be it

the mugs though? have you put all of them in the dishwasher?" noah furrowed his eyebrows as abel nodded guiltily and noah just shook his head, too aware of abel 's habit of putting even remotely dusty utensils into

to stop doing that," noah told

noah let out a breathy laugh, pushing