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The sixth video becomes the number one on the trending page.
His birthday and VidCon pass without any more incidents. The summer ends and Daniel and Chris go back to settle. Sean had been so willing to forget everything about the oddness of VidCon that he had completely forgotten the plan of coming out.
Of course, he would have this thought in the middle of making out with Finn.
He pulled away, Finn chasing after him with his lips and Sean had to put his hands on his chest to stop him.
Finn stopped right away, giving Sean a curious look. “What’s wrong?”
“Do you still want to...come out?” Sean asked looking into Finn’s blue eyes.
Finn, frowned, probably remembering what had happened when they had tried at VidCon and Sean kissed his cheek, to get his mind off of it.
He didn’t want Finn to think about that as Sean barely spared it a thought himself especially after they had gone to their room together after to make up.
Lyla always liked to tease him that while virginity probably wouldn’t be as great as movies and stories liked to put it out to be, but make-up sex was always the best.
They hadn’t really had a fight, so maybe it couldn’t really be considered make-up sex but whatever it was, it was great.
“You wanna try again?” Finn asked as Sean sat back to look at him.
“I would be okay with it if you are.” Sean said.
Finn put his hand on the back of Sean’s head. “Sweetie, I’ll fuckin’ tell the world about us if you want.”
Sean couldn’t stop the smile on his face even if he tried.
*
Lyla turned away from her computer to face Finn and Sean. “What are you talking about again?”
“We’re going to come out,” Sean said opening a bag of popcorn. He held it out for Lyla and she grabbed a handful. “To the fans, about where our relationship is now.”
She nodded, crossing her legs. “Ideas?”
Sean sat back on the couch he and Finn had dragged over to sit before her.
“What if we go back to our roots?” Sean asked tossing popcorn and catching it in his mouth. “Our first video together was a Try Not to Laugh.”
“Technically, your first video was exposing Jenn.” Lyla pointed out. To spite her, Sean threw popcorn at her.
Finn nodded. “We haven’t done a try not to laugh in a while.” He opened his mouth and Sean tossed popcorn into his mouth. “Let’s try it out.” He winked at Sean before standing up, grabbing his hand and they led off together. Sean didn’t catch the smile on Lyla’s face.
*
They hadn’t done a Try Not to Laugh Challenge in a long time but it’s just as fun as the first one they had done together.
“Hey Strays, we’re doing the Try Not to Laugh Challenge,” Sean said with a smile. “Just a break from the games and having a few laughs together with my...my uh...” He blinked, looking at Finn. “What...are we?”
Finn made a small face. “I...don't really do labels. But I’ll be anything you want me to be sweetie.”
“Right...okay.” Sean said nodding his head. “We’ll just move on.”
They watch a few funny videos and like before it seemed to be awkward at first, though Sean was sure it was all him. He couldn’t help it, not sure how to show everyone that he loved Finn.
Finn slid his hand on Sean’s thigh and Sean looked at him. His anxiety falling away before he put his hand on Finn’s hand, relaxing.
They laughed at a few videos together, the ‘challenge’ not really a challenge when Sean tried his best not to laugh at the oddness of vine.
He couldn’t help but smile at boy recreating the old Chef Boyardee where the can rolls after the kid after their mom says that they can’t, with a twist of the mom thinking the kid stole it.
“I loved that commercial.”
“I love you.” Finn said with a wink.
Sean rolled his eyes. “Dude, can’t you be a little more...I don’t know natural. That sounds so...weird.”
Finn just chuckled. “We gotta put it somewhere sweetie. So far this is just a try not to laugh challenge.”
“I know.” Sean sighed. Something just seemed off. “Let’s just keep going.”
The next video is a cat sneezing uncontrollably. And while it seems to try to stop itself by bring it’s paw up to its nose to stop itself from sneezing.
Finn slapped the pause button. “Let’s get a cat!”
“Dude no! We already have a rabbit and a ferret.” Sean said, rolling his eyes.
“But a cat would be so cute!” Finn putting his arm Sean and pouted. “Please! We can name it Socks or Waffles, or whatever you want!”
Sean rolled his eyes. “God! Let’s go!”
The whole experience felt like de ja vu. Filming the little bits as they go to the pet store. Filming as they enter the store together and look at the available kittens before settling on a grey cat with a stubby tail.
“Hey guys, we’re back,” Sean said with a sigh. “And we have Ash with us now.” He held up the kitten to the camera.
“The Try not to Laugh challenge has never been this cute.” Finn teased.
Sean looked at him, a fond smile on his face as he remembered saying something of the same when Finn broke his finger.
“Let’s keep going.” He said continuing to play the video.
With a few words here and there, they play off the fact that they don’t really say they are in a relationship and instead show off how much more affectionate they are to each other. After reviewing with Lyla and Finn, Sean chewed his lip.
“I’m...not sure.” He said crossing his arms. “We don’t really outright say we’re together. People will probably think you’re just high.”
Finn hummed to himself. “I do get touchy when I’m high.”
“We know.” Lyla and Sean said at the same time.
Jumping up out of his seat, Finn clapped his hand together. “Well sweetie, if this isn’t your style how about we do something new! Something sexy.”
“Finn. We can’t do anything that will get us demonetized, or worse, kicked off the channel.” Sean gave him a look.
“Sweetie, don’t worry your little head. This will not get us in trouble at all.” He smiled grabbing Sean’s shoulders before leaning forward and kissing him on the nose. “Just let me make a quick call.”
Sean couldn’t think of anything else to do so he just shrugged it off, kissing Finn again before the man walked off with his phone in hand.
“I think this video is cute.” Lyla pointed out turning back to the Try Not to Laugh Challenge. You even got a kitten out of it.”
“If this keeps up, we’re going to have a petting zoo at our place,” Sean said leaning back against his chair. “I don’t know, I just want to make sure the point gets across as clearly as possible.”
“Then just say it, dude!” Lyla chuckled, turning to look at him. “Make a vlog and just say it.”
“Yeah...I guess.” Sean said looking away.
Lyla moved to stay in his line of sight. “Dude, spill, why don’t you want to take the easy way out and just come out and say it.”
“I don’t know, I just want this to be different.” Sean sighed. “I did a video like that with Jenn and it was so awkward. Plus, Finn deserves more than a ‘hey guys we’re actually dating, bye’. I want to show that it’s real...not just say that it is.”
Lyla looked at him with a surprised look for a moment before crossing her arms and sitting back. “Wow, you said that even without blushing.”
With her pointing it out of course he was blush now. “Shut up.”
“Whatever you do, I’m sure the fans will appreciate it and love you for it.”
Sean stood up, having nothing really to say on the matter he shrugged and headed to the gaming room to wait for Finn to return. Hopefully whatever the older male had in mind would be a better idea.
*
“Dude, what the hell.”
“Alright, hear me out.” Finn said as he finished putting down the large pot filled several packets of ramen.
“I told you mukbangs are nothing but trouble.” Sean said, rolling his eyes. “Mukbangs are filled with drama.”
“But this is a couple mukbang.” Finn said sliding over to Sean, putting his arm around him. “Not like that drama spillin’, hate-filled mukbang everyone used to. Just you and me, chowing down.”
Sean pulled out one of the packets. “Dude...you have like thirteen different flavors in this.”
“I know, I thought we would mix it up, see what it all tastes like in the end.”
Shaking his head Sean sighed. “I’ll boil the water.”
They got everything set up, waiting for the water to be boiled before actually getting started with filming.
“What up strays.” Sean said as Finn slid into camera view, Ash in his hand. “As you can see we aren’t playing a game and we have a cat. It’s been a busy week.”
“Instead, sweetheart here has finally cracked and we’re doing a mukbang.” Finn said sounding all too excited. “A couple mukbang.” He leaned over and kissed Sean sweetly on the cheek before going in for another kiss and then another.
“Dude...” Sean could feel his face heat up, “ at least wait till the food is ready.”
They went through a quick discussion of what they were doing, mixing 13 flavors of ramen together from nuclear to...egg.
“Ew.” Sean looked at the packaging. “Have you had this flavor, it sounds gross.”
Finn just laughed, putting down Ash. “You think we gonna taste anything other than the hot stuff anyway?”
Well, he probably had a point. “Dude, can you even handle spice?”
Finn just waved him off as they began to dump the flavors into the water. “Should we be talking about us?” Finn asked.
“Oh...right.” Sean nodded looking at Finn. “Uh, how do you want to discuss it?”
Finn smiled before looking at the camera. “We’re fuckin’!”
“Finn!”
They continued to stir and dump, trying out different ways to come out. “Uh! Why is this so hard?” Sean asked with a sigh as he leaned back against the counter behind him.
“This is good,” Finn said trying out the broth they had created. “Here.”
He held out the spoon, coming over to Sean and holding it out the spoon. “You’re not worried at all? We’re not getting anywhere but wasting tape.”
He let Finn feed him. “Hey...that’s not bad.”
“Right!” Finn hurried back and Sean took a moment to look at the male. He always liked it when Finn had his hair up, something about the long longs being in the bun just made him look so hot. Finn looked back at him, “let’s add the noodles!”
They added the noodles carefully, trying to not get it to overflow. “This actually smells really good,” Sean said looking down at it. He picked up his chopsticks, pulling out some of the noodles blowing on it before holding it out to Finn.
Opening his mouth, Finn accepted it eagerly, slurping up the noodles. With the bright look on Finn’s face was all Sean needed to tell him it was good.
While he prepared his own chopstick full he noticed Finn pick up a fork. “Whoa, what are you doing?”
“About to dig in!” Finn said already twirling his fork.
“Dude, you can’t use a fork, you have to use chopsticks.”
Finn gave him an unimpressed look before shrugging. “Don’t know how sweetie.”
Sean just laughed it off. “I’ll help you.”
Sean handed Finn chopsticks and held his hand over Finn’s and helped him hold the chopsticks correctly. Once Finn was able to grab his own good portion of noodles the male blew on it before holding it out for Sean to eat.
It did taste good, but Sean really couldn’t be bothered with the food anymore. The heat from the pot wasn’t really helping the heat crawling over his skin but Finn looked at him with a look. Once he had swallowed it he nodded. “It’s good.”
“Great.” Finn clarified before gathering more and holding it out for Sean. Once again he ate it but before he could begin to slurp it up Finn grabbed a few of the loose ends and brought them to his mouth.
It was a little too much like Lady and the Tramp for something he would ever consider but he allowed himself to eat the ramen at Finn’s place before they met in a kiss.
It was more awkward then Sean imagined it, not really enjoying kissing with a mouthful but once he swallowed it and the food was replaced with Finn’s tongue he didn’t think about the food or the video, just Finn’s lips as they trailed from his lips to his neck and lower...and lower.
He forgot to shut off the camera.
*
Lyla paused the video before looking at Finn and Sean. “Well...that was...hot. Maybe you should consider putting it on PornHub instead-”
“Alright.” Sean cut her off while Finn shrugged.
“Okay...besides the obvious...can’t you just cut it out?” Finn asked rubbing his thumb against Sean’s knee. He was never aware that he was bobbing his leg nervously until Finn subtle brought it to his attention with a squeeze or a brush of his fingers.
“Of course I can.” Lyla said. “I can cut it from before the Lady and the Tramp moment and beyond but the next time either of you come up from air you’ve burned the ramen. Unless you guys want to do that again-”
“No,” Sean mumbled shaking his head and sitting back. “Good idea but...let’s try something else.”
The thought of replicating that didn’t seem like it would end up anywhere other than R-rated again. Just thinking of Ramen already was getting him hot under the collar. Ramen would never be the same again for him.
“So, what’s next?” Finn asked holding two pens in his hand like chopsticks.
“Okay, so maybe the mukbang turned out more bang than muk,” Lyla teased just to see Sean blush. “How about a couple baking challenge?” She offered.
Sean wasn’t sure how he felt about going back in the kitchen after what they had done in their kitchen.
Seriously he might never look at the kitchen ever again either.
“Like you guys cook something from the heart for each other and separately talk about how much you love each other. Super sappy, super cute, super clickbaity!”
“It really did sound sappy, but from Finn’s bright face he could see the male was into it. Did Finn have some sort of food kink that Sean didn’t know about?
“Fine. But separate kitchens.” Sean said, looking at Finn. “You do it at our place, Lyla can I do it at yours?”
“Of course,” Lyla rolled her eyes. “Any mess you make you better clean up.”
“I will, I will.” Sean rolled his eyes.
“We’ll do it tomorrow,” Finn said before standing up. “You mind painting my nails babe? I need to get them retouched before we start doing hand shots while baking.”
“Dude, you need to learn to do this yourself.” Sean pointed out as he stood up and followed him to the table.
“It’s easier when you do it,” Finn whined, putting his arm around Sean’s shoulder.
“Yeah, whatever.”
*
“Hey Strays, what’s up?” Sean asked with a sigh. He had done the intro four times already and it still didn’t seem to get any better. “As you can see I’m alone and not in the gaming studio, but I’m in Lyla’s house, more specifically in her kitchen. And today, I’m going to be baking Finn cupcakes. Why you may be asking...well it’s uh..it’s because I...uh I love him.”
He looked off at the moment, the tension in his shoulders easing. It wasn’t the first time he had said it on camera these past two days but something about Finn not being around made it a little easier.
“We’re dating,” Sean said as he began to put the ingredients together. “Have been since late June...sorry for not telling you but a few things happened and...yeah.”
He didn’t want to get into Mark Jefferson or VidCon, and found himself rambling instead, talking about why he picked cupcakes for Finn.
“Cupcakes are fun, unique and just the right size.” Sean flushed a little. That sounded...dirty somehow. He cleared his throat. “S-So, I’m going to make Funfetti cupcakes with buttercream frosting.”
He clapped his hands together. “Let’s get started.”
He did his best, is what he could say, he had a vision that he had in his mind, a simple Funfettie cupcake with the icing on top dyed green (for the herb Finn loved so much). He was sure most of the footage was probably just him trying to follow the directions as much as possible.
“Why am I making homemade frosting?” Sean asked himself as he looked at the mixture before him before mumbling, “because Finn deserves homemade frosting.”
It took longer than he expected, mostly trying to get the frosting to look good on the cupcakes. Adding a few sprinkles he stepped back and looked at his work. “I think I rocked it guys? So, next time I see you we’ll be with Finn trying out his food, peace.”
He saluted them before shutting off the camera.
He sent his filming to Lyla at the office before texting Finn he was on his way. Carefully putting his cupcakes up in a container, cleaning up he left behind before heading out to meet Finn.
*
“Dude you made these?!” Sean blinked looking at the tray of brownies. They looked amazing, cut in small squares all piled up on a table looking almost fresh out the oven.
“Yeah, took me a while,” Finn said looking down at them. Sean picked one up, looking at the square. “Yeah I-”
“They look amazing,” Sean said before popping the square in his mouth. Finn looked as if he wanted to say something.
Getting a few chews in, Sean was surprised by how moist and gooey it was. “F-Finn...this is amazing.”
He finished up the small square before reaching for another. “I didn’t know you were such a baking mastermind.”
“Well, these brownies are my specialty,” Finn said as he licked off the icing on the cupcake. He gave the camera a look before turning it off.
Sean blinked. “What are you doing?”
“Okay...so before you eat the whole plate. They are special brownies...’ special’.”
Sean stopped mid-chew. “They’re what?”
“Weed brownies.”
“Finn-”
“I know, I should have told you before you ate them, but you were really ready to dig in, I didn’t get the chance.”
“Dude-”
He was cut off again when his phone rang. With a sigh, he picked it up, Lyla’s name flashing on the screen. “Lyla, what’s wrong?” He asked as soon as he answered.
“Come to the office as soon as you can,” Lyla said on the other line. “It’s urgent.”
It had to be, she never called.
“Okay, we’ll be there.” He hung up before looking at Finn who gave him puppy dog eyes. “It takes hours to kick in, I’m sorry babe, just wanted to, relax you a little. All this filmin’ got you stressin’ like mad.”
Sean stopped tapping his foot. “Dude, I don’t need to explain to you why drugging me isn’t cool.” He stood up and Finn followed.
“I know, I’m sorry. I was honestly going to tell you before you ate it.”
To ease his tension, Sean kissed him on the cheek. “I know...just do it sooner, okay. Come on, Lyla needs to see us, you drive.”
*
Lyla turned around in her chair. “So...we have a problem.”
“Besides the fact Finn made weed brownies?” Sean asked, rolling his eyes.
Finn gave him puppy dog eyes again and Sean shook his heads, knocking into him. They had brought the rest to the office, with it clearly labeled as weed brownies for anyone who wanted one. Lyla was already eating hers.
“Well, as long as it’s not shown, we can probably get away with it. But, Sean your file was corrupted.”
“A-Are you serious?” Sean asked before sighing. This was getting exhausting. “You can’t save it at all?”
“Nope,” Lyla said a little too cheerfully. “You have to re-upload it...or...”
“Or...?”
“Okay so after watching Finn’s I realized it was a little sappy. Too sappy for you two. We’re trying new things so I had another idea. Doing something simple like a couple quiz. You guys pretend that you’re just trying out the quiz to see if you guys are really compatible. It’ll be cute.”
“How is that not sappy?”
“Just do it,” Lyla waved him off.
Sean wanted to argue, but the thing about edibles...when they kick in, they kick in, and you can never tell when they are going to kick in.
So of course fate would have it now that they kick in. It’s like a flip is switched and his vision is 10x better than it had been before.
By the way, Finn smiles at him, he can see tell that it has hit Sean right where it’s supposed too. “You wanna do it?”
“Uh...yeah...” Sean nodded feeling a little dazed. “We can uh...we can do that.”
Finn laughed at him, running his hand through Sean’s hair. “We’ll do it after you come down.”
“Yeah...That’s probably a good idea.”
“Cupcake?” Finn asked holding out one of Sean’s cupcakes.
Sean smiled back at him taking one off the tray.
*
They watched End Games while Sean came down and it was better than he could imagine it to be high off his ass.
The others joined them once their own edibles kicked in, watching the cinema masterpiece play out.
It took Sean a while to actually come down but when he finally did they still had time to start making the video.
“I actually hate BuzzFeed.” Sean mumbled scrolling through the website.
“Wait!” Finn put his hand on Sean’s, stopping him from scrolling anymore. “This!”
“What Typical White Girl Tattoo are You?” Sean read out before sighing. “Dude this website is so fucking stu-”
“No, couple picks each other's tattoos.” Finn said, looking at Sean with bright eyes.
“You want to get a tattoo?” Sean asked.
“Now that’s more us! Not some stupid quiz. This babe is all us. You always sayin’ you wanted one. Let me pick out somethin’ real nice sweetie, and you can pick somethin’ for me.”
Sean would admit, it was more...them and he let out a soft sigh. “Yeah, I trust you.”
“That’s what I love to hear sweetie.” Finn put his arms around him, kissing Sean on the lips before hugging him. “I’ll call Chloe!”
*
Chloe the tattoo YouTuber had a sleeve of tattoos on her arm and her own collection in the Inkbox. So did Finn and Cass and like hers, they all had their own unique style. Finn’s tattoos ranged from nonsense like Space Turd to tattoos with hidden meaning like the symbol for North on his hand. Cass’s tattoo had color, beauty against her skin bringing out the beauty within her. Chloe was best known for her whole arm tattoo, full of beauty and death.
If anyone was going to do his tattoo it was going to be her.
“Couple tattoos? That’s cute.” Chloe’s girlfriend, Rachel said to Sean while Finn and Chloe messed around in the back, probably going over what they were going to tattoo on Sean. “When did you two start dating?”
“Mid June.” Sean looked down at some of the work at the front counter, thinking over what to tattoo on Finn.
“That’s really cute. And awesome.” Rachel pushed some of her hair behind her shoulder. “I think it’ll be really cool for queer YouTubers to be in your genre.”
Blinking out of his musing, Sean looked at her. “What do you mean?”
“Well...I’m not much into gaming, but it’s never advertised for queer folks. And though there are queer YouTubers it always seems to be the same category they fall under. It’ll be great for you and Finn to be in a YouTube category that’s typically for hetero males.”
Sean had never thought about it before. He knew his sexuality, never thought about how it would be displayed out into the world and how his audience would take it. “Yeah...I guess...”
“Sean,” Chloe called him back. Finn came out with a smile plastered on his face. He kissed Sean while they walked past each other.
He headed back to Chloe who was pulling out a new sheet. “Okay, wanna do you have planned for that ball of sap up there.”
“Just...something simple.” He rubbed the back of his head before explaining his idea to her. Really, he was sure they would expect more from him, being an artist but something about it just fit well with Finn.
“It’s just a no-smoking sign,” Sean said. “But under it in graffiti I want it to say Without Me.”
“Oh yeah, that’s totally Finn,” Chloe said laughing before drawing it out. With a few tweaking, Sean got it to where he thought it would look great. “And where do you want this?”
“On his right side, his rib cage.”
“Alright, let’s get started,” Chloe said nodding her head.
*
“What up Strays!” Finn and Sean said together.
“As you can see we’re not on our couch. We’re getting tattoos.” Sean said.
Finn put his arm around Sean’s neck, pulling him close. “More specifically, we’re picking each other tattoos.”
“Because...we’re a couple.” Sean settled on saying. It felt awkward in his mouth and he shook his head. “We’re going to have to do this later.”
Finn just laughed. “Ready to get tatted up?”
“Does it hurt?” Sean asked.
“Nothin’ wrong with a little pain sweetie, you should know that.” He bumped his hip against Sean who elbowed him in the stomach.
“So, who’s going first?” Chloe asked.
“Me,” Finn said coming over to sit in the chair. “Let me show you it ain’t that bad sweetie.”
“Alright, take off your shirt, and put on this blindfold.”
“Ooh, kinky.” Finn chuckled, chucking off his shirt while Rachel put on a blindfold. “Watch carefully, I’ll show you it ain’t but a thang!”
Sean nodded crossing his arms as he watched and processed to laugh along with Rachel as Finn as he groaned and whined while Rachel filmed.
“What happened to all that bravery?” Chloe asked, rolling her eyes.
“Fuck...it hurts.”
“It is right on the bone.” Rachel pointed out.
“Besides, you’re probably always drunk when you get a tattoo,” Chloe commented.
“Not true!” Finn argued before gritting his teeth. “Babe...h-hold my hand.”
Sean couldn’t help but laugh but held his hand.
It didn’t take too long for Chloe to finish up Finn’s tattoo and before long she was cleaning up and putting the finishing touches on it. “Alright, have a look.”
Sean made sure to adjust the camera to get Finn’s view in the reflection as he pulled off the blindfold and gave it a look.
His blue eyes widen for a moment before he turned to Sean. “Babe...it’s fucking awesome.”
“You...like it?”
“I fuckin’ love it!” Finn threw his hands up and looking at it. “Shit babe, you gotta pick out the rest of my tattoos for the rest of my life.”
“You ready, Sean?” Chloe asked as she got ready for him.
“As ready as I will ever be.”
He took his seat, Chloe giving him a blindfold before adjusting the inside of his arm.
It did hurt but not as bad as he thought. Finn was there to hold his hand anyway talking to him sweetly.
“Sweetheart, you are going to look so sexy with a tattoo.”
He tried to figure out what was being drawn on him but he couldn’t put it together in his mind. “Dude, I swear if you drew a penis on me I’m going to kill you.”
“Nah, sweetie, I would never put a dick on you...well unless it’s mine-”
“Ew, dude shut up!” Chloe snapped.
Sean honestly believed that. From the way it was feeling, it felt like it was taking up a large portion of his inner forearm.
Just as it was beginning to get a little bit more uncomfortable than Sean would like it was finally done.
“Alright, ready to see it,” Chloe said cleaning it off as Sean sat up.
“Yeah.”
Just as the words left his mouth, Finn was pulling off his blindfold. He blinked to get his eyes adjusted to the light before looking down at his arm to see his new tattoo.
It was two wolves, one just a pup, the other full-grown. Just their outline as they were captured in motion running.
“It’s like you and Daniel,” Finn said sounding a little uncertain of himself with Sean’s silence. “You like it?”
“I uh...I love it.” Sean said looking down at it. “I really love it dude.”
He looked at Finn, a smile on his lips before he grabbed him by the back of the neck and kissed him.
“Jeez, lovebirds!”
Rachel laughed. “You two are really cute.”
*
“I have a better idea,” Lyla said, looking at them.
“What’s wrong with the couple tattoos?” Sean had to ask.
Blowing a raspberry, she waved him off. “That’s more of an after you’ve come out video.” She said, “the first thing you do together as a couple then just friends.”
Even Finn seems to be getting tired of this and he looked at Sean for guidance. “This is the last video,” Sean said, shaking his head.
Lyla nodded. “Yes. This will be the last video. Trust me.”
Lyla lead them to the conference table, getting them to sit across from each other. “Setting up the camera she smiled at Sean before holding out large headphones. “Sean, put these on.”
“What are those?” Sean asked, looking at them.
Lyla laughed, “just put them on loser and wait.”
Rolling his eyes, he slipped them on. She took a moment to put on a song and Sean’s senses were overloaded by the music, it drowned out whatever she was saying. “Why is it so loud?” He asked probably too loud himself.
Finn laughs went unheard before Lyla pressed record and looked at Finn saying something. Finn looked at her for a moment before smiling and shrugging. He started to speak and Sean watched.
He had never noticed how animated Finn was as he spoke. His hands moved and he laughed and smiled, whatever he was talking about he seemed to really be into. Lyla continued to ask him questions and Finn answered with little to no thought it seemed, knowing exactly what he wanted to say as soon as the question was asked.
It had to be nice to be so confident in everything.
After a while Lyla gave him a thumbs up before Sean took off the headphones. “Okay, your turn Sean.”
He handed the headphones over to Finn. Once they were on Lyla looked at him. “What was your first impression of Finn?”
Sean blinked for a moment. “My first impression...” He rubbed the back of his neck before shrugging. “I thought he was...cool. Cooler than me that’s for sure. When we found out that Jenn had cheated on me with him, it just...made so much sense. He’s so...cool.”
Lyla was giving him a shit-eating grin and he glared at her, his face heating up. “Shut up!”
“I’m not saying anything.” She chuckled before asking the next question. “What if you never met?”
What if he never met Finn? Sean had never thought about it...never wanted to think about it. “I...I can’t even imagine it. Can’t imagine Finn not in my life even if he wasn’t my boyfriend or...whatever he is. If we never left, I probably go back to Settle, do something with art, probably become an art teacher or something boring like that. Finn makes me...brave. Trying new things, things I would never have thought about doing myself.”
“When did you know you were in love?”
“It’s uh...it’s stupid,” Sean said, shaking his head. “But I think it’s true. It was after we confronted Jenn. You know, after I decided that I didn’t want to do it and he came out to talk to me. He was so...sincere. So sweet and nice. He was just as hurt as I was about it all but pushed his feelings aside for me. He didn’t even know me but still did that and it meant a lot to me. It still means a lot to me.”
Finn was smile at him, had been through all of Sean’s questions and he couldn’t help but wonder if he looked as love-struck as Finn did when he had been looking at the answer the questions.
Lyla gave Finn a thumbs up, and he removed the headphones. “Just one more question, for both of you.” She said looking between them. “If you could do anything over again, maybe start dating sooner, or anything like that would you?”
Sean looked at Finn who stared back at him. “Nah,” Finn said smiling at Sean. “Everything happened at the speed it’s ‘pose too. Slow and steady.”
Sean blushed under his gaze and nodded. “Yeah...no regrets.”
*
Lyla promised she would edit the footage and have it uploaded by tomorrow morning, in the meanwhile, Sean and Finn headed home.
They smoked and made out on their couch. Played a little with Ash, Jax, and Squirmy before heading to bed.
The lovemaking that followed was slow and gentle. Roaming hands and lips dragging moans out of each other as they moved against each other enjoying their time together, rolling hips and shuddering against each other. The room was filled with Sean’s ‘embarrassing’ moans while Finn whispered sweet things into his ear while he rolled his hips against Sean.
It ended as great as it always did, with Sean letting out a sound only Finn was able to drag out, with Finn following close behind.
They stayed connected for a while after, enjoying being close. He must have been more tired than he thought as he fell asleep in Finn’s arms, only vaguely aware of Finn cleaning them before joining him once again to sleep.
He woke up much earlier than he ever thought he would. Finn was usually the early bird in their relationship, at least earlier than Sean. He was ready to put it off on anticipation, wanting to see the video.
He slipped out of Finn’s arms, picking up his phone from the table and opening up Youtube and going to their channel, ready to watch the video.
The video...was not what Sean had been expecting. Instead of the questions he had answered for Lyla it’s something different.
‘What was your first impression of Sean? Of Finn?’
Lyla’s voice starts off the video in a blank screen before Cassidy begins to sing a slowed-down version of Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop while Finn spoke first, the screen cutting to him sitting in front of Sean with a smile on his face.
“Shit...I thought he was...so fuckin’ sweet.”
The video cuts again to their first attempt at telling the fan. Their Try Not to Laugh Challenge but only a few clips. The video Sean had taken of them getting a kitten. It was the part he had handed the camera to Finn so he could pick up the kitten they had gotten. Ash so small in his hands as he held it up to his face. Finn had zoomed in as their noses touched.
“Honest with his feelin’s and shy, so fuckin’ shy. Sensitive in the best fuckin' way.”
The video cut again, to their drive home where Finn had filmed Sean singing, Cassidy guitar playing lowly so you could hear Sean singing Flip of a Coin to their kitten before Finn cut the music and Sean was left singing off-key on his own. It had been embarrassing, as he hadn’t known how loud he was singing until Finn had cut the music and he covered his eyes while Finn laughed.
He couldn’t help it, he looked down at the comments just to see the reaction.
{Dani: Wow, I can’t wait for more!}
{Lunarhero: !! oh man, I’m already in love with you two}
{AFairy: This is actually adorable}
He came back up when his voice cut in. “I thought he was...cool. Cooler than me that’s for sure.”
Looking back at the video it was now their second attempt: the mukbang. Finn sliding into view of the camera while Sean greeted the fans. The clip was followed by Finn holding out the spoon for Sean to taste, a teasing smile on his lips.
“When we found out that Jenn had cheated on me with him, it just...made so much sense. He’s so...cool.” His voice accompanied the next clip, of when he was teaching Finn how to use chopsticks only for it to flicker between a secretly recorded video of Finn eating Chinese food with Cass and Hannah and he was using chopsticks just fine. In the background Sean could see himself being cornered by Mark Jefferson giving him a clear idea when this had been taken.
{Dani: Wow, finally. I can’t wait for more!}
{Lunarhero: !! oh man, I’m already in love with you two}
{AFairy: This is actually adorable}
“What if you never met?” Lyla’s voice asked as the next video came up of them baking. The screen split between Finn and Sean.
“Shit...probably be in jail. Or in fuckin’ trouble for some dumbass shit I ain’t have business bein’ involved in.” Finn’s voice cut in before the video of him came into sound.
“What up strays! Today we’re bakin’ some sweets for my sweetie!” Finn said clapping his hand and doing finger guns at the camera. A look crossed his face before he shook his head and tried again. “Sup Strays! We doin’ somethin’ different. Fuckin’ bakin’ brownies for my...brown...stupid.”
Sean had thought he had done bad, and was quickly reminded as it cut to his audio and the all the fumbles he made in trying to do the intro before he sighed it came to the last intro he had made.
“-Why you may be asking...well it’s uh..it’s because I...uh I love him.” Sean said at the exact moment Finn spoke.
“We doin’ somethin’ new because...shit I lied to you. I love ‘im.” Finn said in the video.
{seoulcitybatman: dmmddjxksksjsj i love them!!!!!!}
{galacticleah: So f--ing cute!}
{catersick: I’m really excited for you two! I can’t wait to see where it goes from here}
Even hearing his own voice answer Lyla’s question couldn’t pull him away from the comment section. He had gotten better at ignoring the bad and finding the good but the positivity they were receiving made him feel warm.
{Eilla: Can’t wait to see where you two go from here!}
{Arsonistka: You guys really caught my attention, so I would love to watch more of your videos as soon as they are ready}
{Tierrayaoi: They’re literally too cute. I love this}
{iamstupid: this!!! Hhhh}
He came back up to the video when he heard Lyla speak. “When did you know you were in love?”
The video changed to another secret filming of Sean painting Finn’s nails for him while Finn laughed over it.
“Shit baby girl, I always liked him. Like really liked him. So fucki’ cute when he hovered around you when you and I had business. He always looked like he wanted to come closer but was...afraid or somethin’.”
The video changed again to one of their filming Self-Care Sunday but was focused on Sean and Finn in the background. It was one of those late nights filming sessions and Sean had been dead tired. He was leaning against Finn asleep with Finn running his hands through his hair.
“I knew I loved him durin’ the try not to laugh challenge. Fuckin’ breakin’ my finger on the ceillin’ fan. That shit is a crazy-ass thin’ to do, but shit he went for it just with me. That’s some ride or die shit, you don’t let that go. And I love that shit...”
The video shifted between more candid shots of the two of them being sweet together. The soft looks, the playful behavior from what they usually cut out between each episode, Sean didn’t know there was so much footage of the two.
{Penstills: This is so cute!}
{DaniDani333: OMG!!!!}
{blakel: okay, so I usually don’t comment on any video, but this is the first time, in months, where I’ve seen something so pure and cute}
“Just one more question, for both of you.” Lyla’s voice cutting in. “If you could do anything over again, maybe start dating sooner, or anything like that would you?”
The video flickered between their tattoo video, the intro was one of the ones they had done after they had already gotten it, all smiles and laughs. “Today we’re picking each other’s tattoo!” Finn said with a smile while Sean laughed. “Sweetie, gonna look sexy as hell tatted up.” He put his arm around Sean and pulled him close, kissing him on camera. It then cut to both Sean and Finn’s reaction to getting their tattoos.
They came back to actually just the two of them sitting at the table together, Lyla off-camera but the two of them looking at each other.
“Nah,” Finn said smiling at Sean. “Everything happened at the speed it’s ‘pose too. Slow and steady.”
Sean blushed under his gaze and nodded. “Yeah...no regrets.”
The final few shots were just the two of them kissing, which they had tried to do at the end of all five videos they had done together. The shot included the Lady and Tramp kiss they had done.
{Annie: I squealed at their kiss!}
{Iwantcoffee: dude, I don’t even watch gaming channels and i am i n v e s t e d in your love}
{JJ_Dyl: wait, I love this so much}
{La mouille: Hello, I really appreciate your videos. Was unsure at first but was like : why not? But now I watch it every day and I am really excited to watch more from you two.}
“What’s the verdict?”
Sean shut off YouTube, looking back at Finn who sat up in his spot, his hair a mess as he yawned and stretched.
Sean put his phone back on the table before rolling over and slipping into Finn’s arms. “Doesn’t matter,” Sean said with a shrug.
Finn let out a soft chuckle but didn’t argue, putting his arm around Sean as they settled back to go back to sleep. He was sure Finn would really enjoy knowing they had finally made it to the Trending page, number 1 even! But for now, he just wanted to enjoy the moment. Just the two of them.