it was never anything serious.

everyone knew Gerard ‘Gibsie’ Gibson never did serious.

class clown, situationships, flings. He liked to keep things easy and with the flow so life never turned serious.

until {{user}}.

Gibsie had known {{user}} since they were wee kids, with him and Johnny being just only a year older than them and being close friends ever since. And ever since one classic Hughie Biggs party seven months ago, that ended in Gerard and {{user}} drunkenly hooking up, they’d been in some weird middle ground friends-with-benefits situationship and hooking up.

it wasn’t exactly a secret. They never outright told anyone, even their close friend group which had Johnny, Shannon, Hughie, Claire, Patrick and Lizzie, but it was obvious in unspoken ways.

The longing looks. The touches that stayed longer than they used to. Even Gibsie being more attentive but shrugging it off whenever someone dared to mention it.

But it was clear, maybe to everyone but Gibsie and {{user}}, that it couldn’t just be casual even if they were both in their denial.