Sidemen Oneshots

New House (Part 5)

Back again with another part :)

Are you sick of this yet?

Vik has feelings. (Feelings he's still not convinced he's allowed to have. Which is why he feels so guilty all of the time.)

Vik has feelings, and he doesn't know what to do with them.

Harry, on the other hand; Harry has feelings, and though he's not very good with them, he knows what to do with them.

(Show them.)

Which is how he ended up in the situation he is in now. He's currently in a thing - relationship? - with three out of six of the men he has such feelings for.

~~~

Harry giggles, his tongue caught between his teeth, the angelic sound the cause in the obvious off-beat thumping of Josh's heart. (You would never know however; Josh is always as cool as a cucumber on the outside.)

(Like the one Harry deepthroated, if he's lucky.)

Anyway, Harry giggles, and Josh, for a second, doesn't feel like he's breathing. The sound is heavenly, Harry's expression just so radient - in a way it only is when they're alone, when he's relaxed. Josh has no words, for any of it.

Simon's clearly thinking along those lines too, because as soon as Harry's tongue is gone from between his teeth and he's stopped laughing, Simon leans in for a kiss from him. It's on the lips, a beautiful press of existence that makes Josh's heart soar inside his chest, somehow. Yet at the same time, it feels like it's plummeting down so quickly, through all the other organs hindering its way.

(Fuuck, Josh is so far gone. For both of them.)

When Simon pulls away, Harry looks dazed, blinking repeatedly as he looks up at Simon.

"What was that for?"

Harry pouts when Simon doesn't answer, instead leaning back againt the sofa, one ankle crossed over the opposite knee. He grabs one of the magazines from the side table to his left and begins flicking through it mindlessly.

Tobi snorts.

"Don't pout, Bog."

Harry promptly sticks his tongue out at Tobi. (For no reason at all, in Tobi's opinion.)

For that, Tobi throws the nearest pillow at him, and the squawk Harry let's out when it hits his shoulder sends all four of them into laughter. Though Harry's is more of an embarrassed chuckle than anything else.

~~~

"What the fuck?" Ethan whispers from the middle of the stairs, the second set leading up to the third floor where his, Vik's and JJ's rooms are.

Just like two nights ago, Harry appears to be sneaking into one of the other boys' rooms. The only difference is that this time it's Simon's room, and Ethan graciously let's him succeed in his sneaking.

Shaking his head - shaking off the thoughts - Ethan heads down to the kitchen again for his nightly glass of water.

(Since it's nightly, maybe he can milk it and find out what's happening between the other four.)

~~~

Simon's eyes are open the second the door is, so he's unsurprised when he feels someone crawl into bed with him. Even less so when he recognises it as Harry's body currently sprawling its way across him.

"You okay, Haz?"

Once the older man has finished speaking, Harry presses his index finger flat against the other's lips, a silent be quiet.

"Shh, noisy Minter. Trying to sleep."

Simon giggles, short, sweet and near-silent. He leaves Harry be, rests his head back against the pillow and just let's sleep retake him.

~~~

The next morning, Harry is nothing but chipper, smiling and glowing as he hums around his spoonful of cereal.

"You seem happy." JJ comments, sat across from Harry at their kitchen's breakfast bar. "Finally get laid or something?"

Harry, weirdly undeterred by the question, shakes his head and smiles brightly across at JJ. JJ feels like that answers his question; he also feels like Simon's response was unnecessary and cruel.

"Don't act like you have."

JJ wiggles his whole upper body, scowling at Simon's back. As the elder had passed him, he had patted him on the head like he was a dog. The touch - to JJ - was silly and demeaning.

(If JJ had looked back at Harry for just a spit second, he would have noticed the other seemed to have very different views on the matter. Harry looked liked a kicked puppy - like his owner had just favoured the cat over him.)

But as soon as Tobi enters the room, his humming starts up again.

JJ hadn't noticed the pause in Harry's humming, but it seemed to strengthen when Tobi enters the room. Harry's smile when Tobi does the same to him that Simon had done to JJ looks just short of breaking his face.

"You in a good mood today, Bog?"

"Yeah." Harry nods, amusingly enthused.

"That's good."

When Tobi gets out two cups and the carton of apple juice, JJ thinks nothing of it. Until the carton is revealed to be the last one. There was only one full cup. Even then, JJ kind of thinks nothing of it.

But then Tobi looks from the cup of apple juice to Harry, then walks to Harry with the full cup. When he places it down in front of Harry, Harry gasps. He looks at Tobi like he is seconds away from kissing him, then wraps his arms around him in a tight hug. Tobi hugs him back just as tight and laughs at the same time.

During the hug, when Tobi kisses the top of Harry's head, JJ doesn't think that much of it, but his eyes do narrow.

Okay, something is going on. But what?

(Is it really between all four of them like Ethan had suggested the other day?)

(Yes; the answer is yes. If JJ opens his eyes just a little wider then he would be included in it, too. But, obviously, JJ doesn't even know his own feelings half the time, let alone what to do with them.)

~~~

It's noon, and Vik is resting on one of the sofas in the living room. On the other, Josh and Tobi sit very close together, with Josh's arm around Tobi's shoulders. Tobi's head rests against Josh's own shoulder.

The image is cute, and it causes Vik's heart to pang painfully. If he felt guilty before, he's feeling it tenfold now.

Vik had been wondering what he should do with his feelings, but it's clear to him now that he shouldn't do anything with them. Selfishly, he hadn't even entertained the idea that the objects of his affections could already be with others.

~~~

"How much more obvious can we make it?"

Harry's face is pink, his bottom lip between his teeth, but they all know the expression on his face.

"I have an idea."

"Oh no."