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Matt tried hard.
He really did.
But he found the harder he tried not to stare, to glance at Trey in such an odd way, the more he wanted him.
He hated himself for looking at Trey like this.
It was getting particularly harder to ignore it, to keep it under control and just keep moving on as if he didn't see his best friend in a different light other than the normal brotherly way he should.
He had almost easily kept his feelings hidden when they were just working on the show together. If anything, it made him feel good that he could spend so much time with Trey, hearing him laugh along with each stupid line that they wrote for each episode.
However, it started to get more difficult when they started filming 'BASEketball.'
They were now spending day and night together, getting solely a few hours of sleep at most.
They'd wake up, work on filming, go to work on a new 'South Park' episode, hang out for a bit and then they'd go to bed, just to repeat it again the next day.
It was exhausting, to say the least.
But the fact that those hours were spent with Trey, made Matt think that it was all worth it.
Him and his best friend, fulfilling their dream job together. It couldn't get any better than that.
Until Matt found out he was gay.
He hadn't told anyone yet, especially not Trey.
Ironically, Trey would be the first person Matt would tell, but in this case, it would be impossible.
First of all, he didn't want to get made fun of. He knew this was mostly illogical, and that Trey would most likely support him, but what if he didn't?
And lastly.. Trey was the one that had made him realise he was gay in the first place. He couldn't exactly drop that bomb on Trey just yet.
"Hellloooo? Anybody home, McFly?" Trey says, knocking his fist lightly against Matt's temple.
Matt looks up at Trey quickly, nodding and laughing awkwardly. Great, he'd zoned out thinking about Trey yet again. Wonderful. "Oh, yeah sorry. I must have not gotten enough sleep last night.."
They were currently sat at a table in their hotel suite, reading over the script for 'BASEketball,' memorising lines and thinking of ways to improve them.
"You're fine. I understand." After a few seconds of silence, Trey clears his throat, though not out of awkwardness; Matt wasn't even sure if he had experienced that feeling before. Trey was a.. special person.
"So, anyways, as I was saying, you know how at the end it gets all emotional and we're just saying dude to each other and hug?" Trey has a shit eating grin on his face, and Matt can't decide if it's good or bad.
"Uhhh.." Matt thinks back to Trey reading over the script yesterday, and nods. "..Yeah, I do. What about it?"
"So, I was thinking, wouldn't it be really hilarious if we, well, they like, kissed right there instead of hugging? But like instead of kissing, just full blown making out. It would be hilarious! And then they never mention it again. I think im gonna mention it to David later."
Matt's eyes widen as he stares blankly at Trey. Is he serious!? Fuck dude! Holy shit.. Is he trying to embarrass Matt? Make out with him?! Matt takes in a few breaths and tries not to panic.
It's just for the movie, after all. It's Coop and Remer kissing, not Matt and Trey..
"Oh, yeah that does sound pretty hilarious." Matt fakes a laugh quietly as he looks over his best friend's expression.
Trey seems to be scanning over Matt's reaction to his idea, as he usually does.
Trey will often propose episode ideas to Matt, waiting for his response. If it's good, he will surely use them. Matt is scared shitless right now, knowing he's just enabled this silly idea.
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Please don't accept it, please don't accept it..
"I think that would be hilarious!" David says, laughing in his seat.
Matt smiles a bit, and Trey grins, happy that the director had accepted to implement his idea into the script.
"Alright, well, go get changed into costume and we'll start filming the scene where you two fight on the bridge. Got it? Then next week we'll work on everything else."
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After a day of filming, they get in Trey's car and drive back to the hotel. They'd already worked on 'South Park' earlier, and Matt was exhausted.
He was extremely nervous, to say the least, about the scene they'd be recording starting first thing next week.
They'll film them falling off the bridge, and then the uhmm.. well.. make up.. (more like make out) scene.
Matt leans his head against the window, leaning back in his seat.
Trey glances over at Matt, empathising with the younger boy, as he was as well exhausted from today's work.
He decides to try and make Matt feel a bit better.
"Well, looks like we should probably practice for the upcoming scene, huh?"
Matt looks over at Trey, and feels his mouth go a bit dry. "We should?"
"Well, I mean, I'd rather practice than have to keep re-doing the scene in front of a billion people, you know? It would be awkward." Trey glances over at Matt again, scanning for his approval as always.
Matt looks forward at the dashboard, avoiding any sort of eye contact with Trey.
Awkward? As if Trey had ever felt awkward before. This was the same man that wrote 'Orgazmo.'
Matt nods a bit. God, what was he doing? Now he was agreeing to .. making out or whatever with the guy that he's been severely infatuated with for a long, long time.
Nothing good could ever come out of this.
Trey notices Matt's abnormal silence, and nudges Matt's shoulder a bit, before turning back to face the road. "Good call. I just really don't want them to have like twenty cuts of us kissing. Awkward." He chuckles a bit and Matt tenses up at the touch, but laughs a bit quietly.
"Yeah, me neither, that would be weird."
They arrive at the hotel, and go up to their shared suite, and Matt immediately falls back on the bed, exhausted while Trey locks the door.
"Hey, I'm exhausted too, but we've got some practice to get to. So I'd recommend you get off the bed and over to the sofa, because that would just make it weirder."
Matt rolls his eyes but gets out of bed, trying to hide his nervousness as he sits on the sofa along with Trey.
Matt brushes his hair back, but it doesn't do anything as his curls fall right back into place.
"Alright, so, how should we do this..?" Trey says quietly, looking over at Matt.
Matt shrugs and feels the blood rushing to his face yet again. Trey was being unusually gentle towards Matt, even using a softer tone as he spoke next to him.
Matt knew they were just practicing for the movie, but he couldn't help but feel like it was gonna be for real.
"Hmm.. okay then, maybe we should, hmm.. should we like, kiss for real? Or should we make it like, a disgustingly gross make out scene? 'Cuz I think either would be hilarious to be honest.
"Yeah me too," Matt says, not really caring which one Trey went with.
"I guess we can just work it out as we go. Let's say our lines first."
Matt nods, thinking back to his lines. He smiles a bit as he starts to recite them from the middle. "Look at me, I've become everything I used to hate."
Trey chuckles a bit and shrugs, looking down at the floor. "Maybe we just, grew up too fast?" For practicing, they sure weren't being very serious but that's the fun part.
"Our worst enemy, turned out to be.." Matt stifles a laugh and instead coughs a bit. "Me."
Trey bites at his cheek and tries to make a serious facial expression at Matt as he looks up at him slowly. "Dude.."
Matt swallows. "Dude,"
"Dude." Trey grins.
Matt nods a bit and smirks, "Dude.." He takes in a breath nervously as he sees Trey move closer, so he does the same.
He leans in, planting his lips against Trey's. He feels as Trey moves his hand to rest on Matt's shoulder, before bringing it up to cup his cheek gently.
They kiss for a bit until Trey licks over Matt's bottom lip and Matt pulls away quickly in surprise. He feels himself get a bit flustered as he looks over Trey.
He doesn't want to get too carried away with this.. He has to remind himself it's only for the movie..
"Sorry." Matt says, swallowing and wiping his lips. He had started to enjoy the kiss way more than he should have. He didn't want to start to actually make out with Trey, and then have the embarrassment of making Trey uncomfortable.
"What?" Trey says, looking over Matt. "You didn't like the tongue, huh?" he chuckles a bit, and Matt blushes.
"Uhh.. well.. I definitely didn't want to get too psyched."
"That's fine. We should rest anyways. We have a whole lot of nothing to do tomorrow." Trey chuckles a bit, as tomorrow is their day off.
Matt had almost forgotten.
"You're right. Okay, well, I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Right back at ya."
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Matt wakes up early the next morning, his hair awfully messy. He groans as he sits up and stretches, realising it's still fairly early as he checks the clock.
It's only 7am, so Matt decides to take a quick shower and get dressed for the day before Trey is awake as well.
He grabs some clothes and then hops in the shower.
About half an hour later, he gets out of the shower and dries off, tugging his clothes on after a bit of a struggle and then he walks out, seeing Trey now awake, stretching in the middle of the living room door frame staring back at him.
"Morning." Trey says, looking over Matt's wet hair and he smirks a bit at it.
Matt bites his cheeks and brushes his hair back, trying to fix it as he knows he probably looks stupid right now with wet hair.
"Good morning," He replies back, taking note of what Trey was wearing. "Oh, you didn't even put pajamas on, huh?"
Trey rolls his eyes and chuckles a bit, walking past Matt. "I didn't have time. I had to go to sleep for our busy day, remember?" He says sarcastically.
Ah yes, today they were actually going to be able to have some fun, and just hang out like old times. Matt smiles a bit. "Oh yeah for sure," he says, walking over to sit on the couch waiting for Trey to get done in the bathroom.
He hears Trey take a shower as well so he just watches TV to keep himself occupied.
He smiles a bit to himself as he sees a re-run of their first ever 'South Park' episode, and though it's already halfway through he still decides on watching it.
It was painstakingly difficult to get every frame perfectly, cut out all of the characters and move them one by one, but doing it with Trey made it a lot easier.
He kind of missed the moment. Him and Trey had been able to talk all day while working simultaneously, helping each other out with the cutouts and then snapping the pictures.
He hears the shower turn off and a few minutes later, Trey steps out, a towel around his waist. He clicks off the TV and tosses the remote aside.
Matt was used to the sight of Trey just in a towel by now, even without it, and so he tried not to be weird about it. "Took you long enough. I was bored out here," Matt teases, though he was actually very interested in watching the episode.
"Oh I'm sure you were. It only takes you three hours to shower, bathroom princess. What takes you so long? You applying makeup too?" Trey grins a bit as he shouts his response from his room, leaned over to find clothes to put on.
He pulls away the towel and starts to get dressed.
"Uhhh no actually i'm making sure my hair looks decent and not totally //bleached and dead//!"
"Oh fuck off, it looks like a clump of wet pasta" Trey says, grinning as he pulls on some baggy pants and a baggy shirt because he was mainly going to be lounging around anyways.
"A clump of attractive wet pasta, I beg your pardon."
"Yeah whatever, Matt, if you can't afford a blow dryer just tell me."
"We share the same salary, douchebag."
"Oh right, I forgot." Trey sarcastically remarks, walking back into the room to sit next to Matt.
"What did you get all dolled up for?" Matt eyes Trey, laughing a bit as he looks pretty good in his outfit choice.
"I didn't, weirdo. It's just baggy clothes." Trey leans back on the couch, turning to Matt. "What do you wanna do today? Should we practice more?"
"Eager, much?" Matt says, laughing quietly.
"Hmmm, no I meant practice the lines. Are /you/ eager much?"
"I mean't the lines too?" Matt smiles a bit, looking back at Trey innocently. He most definitely did not mean the lines.
"Oh. Well, should we?"
"Maybe.." Matt contemplates it, was it worth going through the awkwardness of it again? He already almost blew it last time..
Treys cell phone ringing interrupted the silence and Matt looks over at him as he pulls it out of his pocket.
"Look at you, how fancy is that?" Matt laughs a bit as he watches Trey check for a caller ID.
"Oh shut up it's not fancy."
"Yeah okay." Matt says, chuckling. "Why do you need that?"
"Because it's better than just having a house phone. You can just get a call from your pocket. I think this is just a telemarketer though I dunno.." He hangs up the call and then puts his phone back in his pocket.
"Why? What can that do that a home phone can't?"
"Play 'Snake.'" Trey says, smirking a bit.
"What the hell is 'Snake?'"
"I guess you'll never find out, Mr. I use a home phone because I'm a grandpa."
"Fine then Mr. Sellout with the fancy mobile phone." Matt grins a bit as he looks over Trey. Maybe he should get one too. I mean, Trey looks pretty cool with it after all.
Matt brushes his hair back to fix it into place so that he doesn't look like a complete mess as he looks over how Trey seemingly effortlessly looks great.
"What're you staring for?" Trey says, turning to look at Matt who shrugs.
"I dunno. I was thinking about what we should do today.. I don't have any ideas."
Trey smiles a bit as he thinks as well. "I really don't know. Maybe we should just.. hang out? We don't have to go anywhere you know. I don't mind."
Matt thinks for a second, as he feels Trey's eyes looking over him. "I don't mind either." Great, now it was set. Him and Trey will now be stuck up here in their room, together.
Matt is sort of nervous in case Trey wants to practice again.
He can't even begin to process that he'd almost made out with Trey, alone, in their hotel room.
And Trey hadn't really mentioned it since. I mean, it /was/ just for the movie after all, and maybe it was since Matt had begun to feel uncomfortable and told Trey this.
"Trey?" Matt says, a bit quietly as he looks over him. He still keeps a good mood though, not wanting to alarm Trey.
"Huh?"
Matt contemplates for a second about asking Trey why they'd kissed yesterday, and if it was truly for the movie and if so why didn't they just leave the kissing to be on set..
But he didn't want to make the time they were spending together awkward, so he shrugged.
"Nevermind."
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After a few hours of just chilling, drinking beer and playing nintendo, (lol) Matt turned to Trey.
"I think we should practice again."
"Oh, okay, I'll go get the script." Trey gets up and starts to walk to his room.
"No, I already know the script I mean.. I mean the kissing part." Matt looks over Trey for a reaction, sitting in his spot on the end of the bed.
Trey looks at Matt and seems to be a bit confused but shrugs. "Alright. So, should we say the lines first?"
"No."
"Oh. Uhm. Okay?" Trey sits back next to Matt on the bed and he looks over Matt, waiting to see what he's going to do.
Trey was a bit surprised at Matt's sudden need to practice for the movie, as they hadn't even been talking about anything close to that subject.
Maybe it was the beer going to Matt's brain and causing a short circuit or something, though usually he wasn't like this.
Matt leans a bit forward and rests a hand on the back of Trey's head, placing his lips against Trey's.
Trey hesitantly kisses him back, though he's usually the one to take initiative.
He rests a hand on Matt's shoulder, then up to his cheek just like last time.
They go at this for a while, when Trey swipes his tongue gently over Matt's bottom lip again.
He feels Matt freeze and tense up for a few seconds but he resumes what he was doing and allows Trey to keep going.
After a while of going at it with their tongues, Matt pulls away and wipes his lips and so does Trey.
Matt looks down at the bed, not wanting to look at Trey.
"Sorry." He says, quietly.
"What are you sorry for? You didn't do anything! It was just for the movie."
"That's what I'm sorry for. I don't want it to be for the movie, Trey." Matt looks up at Trey, who removes his hand from Matt's shoulder and backs up a bit on the bed.
"Oh. What do you mean...?" He says, though he's sure he knows what Matt means he just doesn't believe him.
"I mean.. I wanna be able to kiss you and not just for the movie. I like you, Trey. I like you, a lot. I really do."
Trey chuckles a bit, awkwardly. "Oh. Uhm. I.. Matt." He says, raising his eyebrow a bit at him. While he can usually read Matt like an open book, Matt was giving off mixed signals and he couldn't tell if he was serious or not until Matt started to tense up again.
"I'm sorry. Forget I said anything. I don't know what I was thinking." He starts to get up, but Trey grabs his wrist and keeps him in place.
"No! Matt, wait, just sit down please." Trey is very confused with what he's feeling right now but he knows that he can't lose Matt and that no matter what they can fix this.
Matt sits back down, Trey gripping his wrist. He stares diagonally down at the floor, clearly a bit upset.
"Matt, look, I'm, I mean I'm definitely surprised I really didn't expect that but you don't have to apologize. I know that you can't help it."
"But, you don't like me now do you?"
"What? No! Matt, I do like you just listen to me." Trey swallows a bit and looks over Matt as he thinks of the correct words to say.
He does like Matt, and, it is a lot more than best friends, he'd just never thought about it.
"Matt, look, I do like you, I like you so much, but, I never really thought about you in that way. I mean, I don't mind, I do like you too I really do, just give me some time to figure it out, alright? I want to be sure before we do something drastic, okay?"
Matt looks up at him and smiles a bit. "Okay." He says, a bit happier. He understands, it took him quite a while to come to terms with his feelings too.
Trey moves his hand from Matt's wrist down to intertwine their fingers together, and he brings Matt's hand up to kiss the back of it as a joke.
Matt giggles a bit as he watches Trey and he yanks his hand away. "That was so corny."
"Shut up."
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