It All Started With Candy

Part 20

I slowly snuck back into Gabe's room and I gave a small knock on the bathroom door. Soon enough the door gently opened to reveal my rather unamused little brother.

"Finally you finished that call. It feels like I've been trapped in there forever."

I chuckled as I remember how impatient he was as a a kid all the way up until he left. That only made me that much more sadder about that situation than I previously was.

I really don't want to keep Sam and Dean waiting and I also don't trust them on a phone call on an unattended phone with my family in the room.

I grabbed Gabriel's as he looked nervous. I feel terrible about giving him unnecessary anxiety because I KNOW my family will be okay with it and I hope he's not mad when he finds out, but from the sound of this, it sounds like this thing between these two have been happening for quite some time and I want to see my little brother happy.

"Gabe, are you ready? I'll be with you every step of the way and I'll intervene if things start to get ugly."

He took a deep breath in and exhaled with a sigh.

"Yeah okay, I'm ready."

The two of us walked out of the room and started to head over to the living room with the rest of the family. Once we did, everyone was staring at us in silence except for Lucifer.

He kept glancing back and forth from us to the phone. When he was looking our direction, I gave him a glare telling him to stop doing that. With an eye roll, he gave in but I can't have him ruining me well thought out plan. Good thing that Gabriel is too oblivious to realized that there's something that he doesn't know when everyone does.

He started without any warning.

"I met a guy."

Instead of looking at the two of us, they were just staring at him, which was making him even more awkward and anxious.

This time I gave a glare to all of them to try to get them to look away for a second, or at the least blink.

They seemed to get the hint as a lot of them started to fidget and advert their eyes just the slightest bit.

I hoped this didn't do the reverse effect and make him think that they were uncomfortable with Gabriel talking about another man in a romantic sense, but to my relief, he seemed to relax a little bit.

With some of the tension in the room gone, he continued.

"I met a guy, down at the local grocery store. I didn't know what it was about him but I was left speechless, well literally and figuratively because I'm still mute in public and I didn't know him at the time."

Gabe along with a few others gave a little laugh to his joke with seemed to make him almost entirely calm. This is going so much better than I planned.

"There was this twinkle in his eye that showed he wasn't a person that I had come across before. They were so gentle, yet so vibrant with life. His smile was so bright, no only did it light the room, but it shined brighter than the sun, the moon, and all of the stars combined."

I hadn't planned on Gabriel being this descriptive, but I'm so glad that he is. It's making my plan work that much more.

"And don't get me started on his personality or the way that he makes me feel. Well too bad I'm telling you anyway. If getting to know him wasn't enough, first glances told me that he was an amazing person. Once I got to know him, I saw the real him. The gentle, passionate, confident man that I know today. Not only that, but he's funny and kind, and I've never been more amazed with one person before."

I looked around the room and I could see everyone was moved by this speech, and I'm not going to lie, I'm moved too.

"He's so generous to me and other people and he's always trying to check up on me when he isn't dealing with his own issues, and even checking up on me then as well. He thinks about others so often I wonder how much he thinks about himself because after everything he has done, he deserves it. He doesn't deserve the stress of everyday life. He deserves so much better than that. I wish that I could give him more than the world and everything amazing about it."

At this point Gabe was starting to tear up from all this intense emotion. I came very close to stepping in but reminded myself that this wasn't from sadness. After he is talking about someone he loves, unless he's about to say something deep and personal that's not on the happier side.

"He makes me feel like I'm wanted in this world. I was feeling very lost at the time of meeting him and I felt like that for a long time. I felt like I was never never good enough and- and that I was never going to get out of that place. And then I met him. He showed me kindness and serenity that I've never known before. He started to coax me out of my terrible mindset and helped me with my selective mute issue that I've had for about seven years now. If I knew I'd be talking as much as I am now before I met him, I would've never believed it."

He took a little pause as I watched him and everyone else in the room, including me, wiping our faces in an attempt to get ourselves to stop crying. The silence wasn't awkward like it was before, not even in the slightest.

"Every day, every hour, every minute, every second, every single moment I spend with him feels like bliss. I can't stress this enough when I saw he special he makes me feel. When any other person would look at me differently because of my issue, he'd look at me like I was the most beautiful sunset that he's ever seen. I would absolutely love to be more than friends with him, if anything I don't want anything more than that right now, but if he doesn't feel the same way..."

He took a pause, but this one was full of sadness this time.

"Well then I would accept and respect that. Yes it would hurt a lot, but he's too precious to me for to just let him go. God, I love him! I love him so much! I love him too much to just let him go like that. In one shape or form, I want him to be in my life forever. If  I could just tell him all of this, I one hundred percent would, but sadly, he'll never know how amazing he is and how much I truly love him."

Little did he know that he did just that.
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Gabriel really said "and that's on being in love 🥺"

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