Jonathan always loved movies and TV, especially as he got older and more LGBT movies came to be. One night the 24-year-old was watching a movie and realized how in every gay romance movie he’s watched, the actors have been super fit or thin. The young man has always tried looking past it. Just because it was in the movies doesn’t mean that’s the only way you can fall in love.

Size doesn’t matter in any kind of relationship.

Evan knew that too.

CaRtOoNz slams on the breaks outside of the train station. Jonathan immediately jumps out of the tall truck and starts running toward the station. People are boarding the train. The blue eyes search over the multiple people; trying to find his friend. He looks for the jet black hair. The red duffle bag he brought with him, but he couldn’t find him. He must be on the train already. Jonathan runs up to the conductor. The man stops him from getting on the train. “Please! My friend is on there! I need to talk to him!” The conductor sighs, “I’m sorry. Do you have a ticket?” Delirious groans, “No! Please! Can you at least get him?”

The conductor whispers to his co-worker. The other conductor walks back through the train. “Is there anyone on here named Evan?” He asks, and with Jonathan’s luck, the owl has his earbuds in and sad music blaring through them as he stares out the window. So, he can’t hear them asking for his name. The Good Side by Troye Sivan is playing as the train starts to move. The 26-year-old sighs as his mind plays fantasies of Delirious ever choosing him of his childhood lover.

“I’m sorry. No one answered, sir.”

CaRtOoNz finally catches up to Delirious. Only in time for the train to start moving away. The clown wants to break down right there, but he wasn’t going to. Suddenly the raccoon starts running with the train as it picks up speed. “Evan!” He shouts with so much pain in his voice. Delirious continues running and ignores Luke’s shouts for him. The man is going to kill himself from running.

A few teenagers on the train start laughing in the seat in front of Evan. He pulls out one earbud to listen. “Hah! Look at that fat guy chase after the train!” Vanoss turns in his seat to look out the window. He spots the guy in a blue hoodie running. The blue hoodie. Evan meets those loving blue eyes once again. The heart melts on the asian man. He doesn’t know what to do. Maybe he can get off at the next stop and go back for him. Evan presses his hands against the window. The train now goes too fast for Delirious. The brown eyes flash in worry as his friend falls to the ground. “Stop the train!” He shouts and people start looking around. They all stare at the red jacket wearing man. He grabs his stuff; fuck it. The tan hands pull on the red cord for emergency stop. The train slows to a stop and people groan and yell at Evan. An old couple watches Evan jump off the train and run down the track.

Vanoss grabs Delirious and pulls him up. The head pounds on the poor raccoon. Tears form in the corner of the brown eyes. Blue eyes meet those teary brown ones. They look at each other before Jonathan smashes his lips into Evan’s. Vanoss drops his bag and holds onto the soft face. As Evan holds his face, Jonathan wraps his arm around his lower back and nearly picks him up. Just like in their call Jonathan said he could lift Evan, and look, he did.

The old couple turn to each other. The woman smiles at her husband and kisses him. The owl and the raccoon spread the love to the people on the train. Two girls on their way to New York share a kiss. A couple with a baby on the way smile and kiss each other. It was like a Hallmark original movie.

From a distance Luke watches his friends make out. He smiles and starts shaking his head, “I knew you had it in you Evan.” The train starts moving again. Luke watches the two figures in the distance and notices one of them fall over. Like a voice in the wind he could hear Vanoss yell for help. By instinct, Luke starts to sprint toward his fallen friend. He arrives to a crying Vanoss and an unconscious Delirious.

Two men wait impatiently for their friend or new found love interest. Evan’s legs continuously bounce up and down in anxiety. Luke watches the laces on his sneakers bounce up and down. He wonders if he should ask Vanoss about the kiss, but now probably wasn’t the time.  The wait another hour. Luke’s stomach growls and he turns to ask Evan about getting food, but the man has fallen asleep. He sighs and just goes down the road to a drive thru, fast food joint.

In the drive thru to Mickey D’s Luke nearly dies when he spots Weston in one of the windows. “Fuck,” the bearded man grumbles and quickly grabs a hat from the back of the driver’s seat.

Once it’s Luke’s turn to grab his food he pulls his hat down and takes the food without making any eye contact. In the window Weston tries figuring out who was in the big vehicle and why they were trying to hide. “Are you okay sir?” Luke sighs and makes his voice deeper, “Yes, thank you.” Suddenly Weston starts laughing, “Luke! What are ya doin’ hiding man?”

“I tried avoiding you,” he gives in and takes off the hat.

“Why?” Weston asks, offended. CaRtOoNz groans, “I thought you’d want to talk to me about Delirious, so I tried avoiding you.” Weston nods and then his face lights up, “Did you guys find Evan?”

“Yeah. We did. Jon did.”

“I knew it. I’m glad he did,” Weston’s voice is suddenly poisonous. The window slams shut and Luke drives back to the hospital.

At the hospital CaRtOoNz picks at his fries waiting for a nurse or Evan to wake up. Like a genie grants his wish, Evan’s eyes slowly open. “What smells good?” He looks around and spots the McDonalds bag sitting beside Luke. CaRtOoNz hands him his own bad, “I don’t know what you like, but there you go.”

“Thanks Luke,” Evan tiredly mumbles and then starts eating fries. While chowing down, Luke decides to start a conversation, “How are you doing?”

“I mean, good, but… I don’t know. So much happened at once,” Vanoss explains and opens a box of chicken nuggets. Luke nods and takes the hint that Evan didn’t want to talk right now.

A nurse finally walks out and asks for the family of Jonathan Dennis. Both Evan and Luke stand up. Evan pulls the at the sleeve of his own jacket, nervousness setting into both men as they follow the nurse. While they walk back the nurse explains to them that he’s still unconscious, but the doctor will explain to them why.

Luke goes into the room first and frowns at his best friend. “I’m tired of seeing him like this,” Luke admits out loud to Evan. The owl himself looks shaken up. “Why does he keep ending up in the hospital?” Vanoss questions. Luke shrugs with a frown still plastered on his face. “He keeps ending up in the hospital because he’s not taking care of himself,” a voice answers from behind. Both Luke and Evan whip around to be greeted by the doctor. “What do you mean he’s not taking care of himself?” Luke asks, but he knows what the doctor means. The doctor sighs and looks over his glasses at the boys, “Jonathan is unconscious because he hasn’t eaten in… from what we’ve gathered, about three days.” Vanoss and CaRtOoNz turn to each other with a look of horror. “There’s no way! He was just on a date yesterday. They must’ve eaten somethin’!” Luke argues with the doctor. “I’m sorry, but it’s true. He passed out because he was using energy that wasn’t even there. You seem to be a close friend for him Luke. I’m sorry to say this, but you guys need to treat him like a child and make sure he eats,” the doctor explains. The doctor leaves the room in a gloomy mood.

Jonathan’s been in and out of the hospital twice in one day, but it was worth it.

He found his owl.

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