Elijah looked down silently as he took his hand. And then his thumb moved across it. It was such a small movement but it said so much. He looked up and knew it would be so easy to close the gap between them.

To just live out a moment to keep with him forever.

He refused to fail so suddenly after saying he could be good. And he would be, for both their sakes. He smiled and squeezed his hand tenderly as he spoke, in a lower softer voice than he'd meant to.

"There's nothing wrong about this... we can do this." His heart wasn't the only thing that was throbbing, but he was behaving and he was actually happy. He could stand there, holding his hand and just be close. It was a dream come true.