When Gus asked Matt to go to grom with him as friends, he was going through a mixture of feelings. Just friends? Grom? Him? Why?! Obviously, he didn’t ask any questions, at the moment he was kinda happy Gus asked him, even if it was far from romantic attraction. But now at grom, he felt nervous. Matt had excused himself to go get some punch and Gus was on the dance floor with his friends. Matt looked down at the liquid in his hands, swirling it around a couple of times. He liked Gus, and he liked hanging out with him, but parties were never really his thing, and the fact he was dumped last grom didn’t help. Although he wasn’t enjoying himself as much as he wanted to, seeing Gus enjoying this silly little school dance was a lovely sight. He was lively and energetic, it was hard to not notice the boy, he practically lit up the room. Before he knew it he found himself staring, the way he moved on the dance floor and interacted with others was hypnotizing. Everything about that boy was so interesting, so magical. He could barely take his eyes off of him. His mind wandered for a while before he noticed someone had started walking up to him, he looked to see the person who was approaching him. The guy was tall and skinny, with dark red hair that was half up-half down and deep gray eyes, he was wearing a nicely tailored white suit and he was looking at Matt with a strange smile, one that for some reason made him slightly uncomfortable. The music had slowed down and the boy in question had stopped in front of him, blocking his view, and he reached out his hand to Matt, taking a small bow,
“Might I have this dance?” The mystery boy said with a smirk,
Matt shifted backward, only to be met with the table, he stared at the hand that was being offered to him,
“Actually, I’m already here with someone so,”
Matt spoke in a bored and slightly confused-sounding voice.
Who the hell was this dude?
He placed his drink down and began to walk away but the boy easily caught up,
“Awh c'mon, just one dance?” He said teasingly, Matt backed up, chuckling awkwardly, when he suddenly hit a wall
Matt blinked up at him, the boy smirked down at him. He was half ready to use his magic to throw the guy across the room and wipe that smug smile off his face but he didn’t want to make a scene. (Or kill him) The boy’s expression turned angry,
“Are you going to sit there and look stupid? Or are you gonna answer me.” He said, his smile dropping,
Matt cast a spell circle behind his back, ready to defend himself but stopped mid-motion when he noticed something, he smirked up at the boy, whose expression went blank with confusion,
A shadow came into view, hovering over the mystery boys figure, suddenly a hand grabbed at the boy's shoulder and he jumped, partially turning around, Gus stood behind him with a not very well hidden forced smile,
“Excuse me, is everything okay over here?” Gus said in an oddly deep-sounding voice, the boy turned to face him and he practically jumped.
Matt looked over the boy's shoulder and got a closer look, Gus looked tall and muscular, he had a large scar on his face, multiple piercings, and his smile had disappeared. The boy shrunk and started moving away from Gus,
“Just fine! I was actually just about to leave-!” the boy started spitting out a bunch of nonsense as he slowly walked farther away from Gus
“I wasn’t talking to you. I was talking to my date.” Gus said sternly,
The boy went pale, and without another word he ran towards the door, only to slip on abomination goo, scatter back up and run out the exit.
Matt looked at the door and then back at Gus in disbelief, he would’ve laughed but the situation itself didn’t seem very ha ha funny. Gus’ muscular form poofed away, blue surrounded him as he returned to his normal form, he approached Matt,
“Matty, are you okay?” Gus said sounding concerned as he approached him, he began to search him all over as if he was physically hurt,
Matt watched as his panicked friend looked for any markings, his heart was beating a thousand miles an hour, he just kept showering him with attention, Gus was mumbling a bunch of stuff Matt didn’t attempt to understand, he pushed him away,
“I’m fine dingus!” He scoffed and turned away, the tips of his ears turning red,
Gus frowned, but backed off,
“Sorry, I shouldn’t have left you alone for so long,” Gus said eyes stuck on the floor as he fidgeted with his fingers
Matt turned around and saw a very pitiful-looking Gus and before he could stop himself he grabbed both Gus’ hands and held them in his own,
“Don’t do that! It’s not your fault, you had no way of knowing, so don’t go blaming yourself you idiot.” Matt barked at him, looking him in the eyes with intensity, he felt himself turn redder than before
Gus stood starstruck for a moment, until his expression softened and he smiled , pulling Matt into a tight hug.
Matt was startled, he felt warm all over, he didn’t get a chance to hug back before Gus pulled out of it,
“Whoa dude, your heart is beating fast, you sure you’re okay?”
shit.
“Pshh, I'm fine! Come on, let’s get back to the dance.” Matt said swiftly, giving him a harder then intended shove on the shoulder before speed-walking off, Gus followed close behind
Matt walked through a crowd of people, no idea where he was going, only stopping when he suddenly tripped on something and spiraled backward, being caught by something before hitting the floor, he looked up to see it wasn’t a something, it was a someone. It was Gus. And Matt had led them into the very middle of the dance floor. A spotlight landed on the both of them and a few other couples, Matt scrambled up, and blinked up at the spotlight,
The speakers screeched before someone started speaking, a familiar voice.
“HELLO HEXSIDE!!! It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! It’s time for… COUPLES DANCES!!!!” The voice yelled into the microphone from the stage, Matt whipped his head towards the stage to see the human staring at the both of them with a smirk. Matt growled under his breath as he looked at Luz with an angry expression.
Music started playing and multiple couples moved onto the dance floor, it was stuffy and Gus got pushed forward against Matt, forcing them to be closer to each other, he turned to yell at the person who had pushed them,
“Hey! Watch where you’re going!” Matt barked out at the girl,
Said girl simply scoffed and she and her girlfriend kissed and danced away from them.
Gus seemed to be frozen, he hadn’t said a single thing. Matt turned back around towards Gus who looked red, what was he staring a- oh.
Matts hands were on his chest.
The speakers screeched again,
“EVERYONE ON THE DANCE FLOOR HAS TO DANCE!!!” Luz once again unnecessarily screamed into the microphone even though it was loud enough as is, once again shooting Matt a look, and as if she could sense his annoyance she stuck out her tongue at him with a goofy smile on her face
Matt audibly gasped, and mimicked her look, Luz simply pointed towards Gus and gave the both of them a thumbs up of encouragement
He turned to face Gus again, hands still on his chest, Gus was having an inaudible conversation with Luz and he looked slightly annoyed, but also panicked. Matt took a deep breath, stepped back as much as he could, swallowed any nervous feelings he had, and held out his hand, when Gus looked at him confused he spoke up,
“Let’s get this over with, yea?” He said unable to hide the smile spreading onto his face
Gus smiled nervously and grabbed his hand, Matt pulled him in closer and they started swaying across the dance floor, Matt held one of Gus’ hands while the other was positioned on his shoulder, Gus’ other hand was placed firmly on his waist, the spotlight followed them as they twirled each other with ease and waltzed across the floor, a fun dip here and there, the both of them seemed to get lost in the moment, they had been holding eye contact the entire time, it was a magical sight to all who saw them, which neither of them noticed, was most of everyone. Where they went the crowd's eyes followed, they ended their dance with a twirl and dip, Gus pulled Matt back up, holding onto his waist as the music finally came to a stop, they finished, neither of them let go of each other nor broke eye contact. It went silent, all that either of them could hear was their breathing, after a few seconds of just admiring each other in silence the crowd erupted into applause, snapping both Matt and Gus out of their trance as they looked around to see that the crowd was clapping for them, and that most of everyone had been standing around watching them dance.
another screech could be heard from the speakers, someone should really do something to fix that…
“I think we have our winners!!!” Luz yelled into the mic with an enthusiastic voice, Amity was on stage with her, holding the hand that didn’t contain the microphone, Luz handed the mic to her,
“Congratulations to Gus and Matt! Please come to the stage for your crowns!” Amity said in a neutral tone, quite the opposite of her girlfriend as she placed down the microphone on its stand, adjusting it slightly,
Gus and Matt finally let go of each other, exchanging confused looks before Gus smiled at him and held out his hand, Matt took it, smiling softly up at him and they walked to the stage together.
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Once centered on the stage Luz went up to Gus to put a crown on his head, Amity does the same for Matt,
Luz did so dramatically, she looked like she was about to cry, once she crowned him she held a hand to her heart, clenching it and sniffling
“I’m so- *sniff* proud of youUuuuuuu,” Luz said to Gus, her voice cracking as a single tear strolled down her face
Gus rolled his eyes and laughed, Amity placed a hand on Luz’s shoulder and whisked her away to the microphone stand, giving Gus a little thumbs up before turning around,
Luz grabbed the mic,
“I present to you, Dance King Matt Tholomule and Dance King Augustus Porter!!” Luz barely managed to yell into the microphone,
The crowd goes wild with cheers, Matt grabs Gus’ hand and waves awkwardly with the other, Gus mimics him, both of them unsure of what exactly was happening, Gus glanced at Matt and smiled, he kissed him on the cheek and continued on waving as if nothing had happened. Matt on the other hand couldn’t contain himself, his cheeks and the tips of his ears had turned into a deep red color, if anything it made him more nervous than he was already feeling. Once the cheers die down they are excused off the stage by Amity, Gus overhears Luz ranting to her girlfriend as they walk off of the stage,
“Is this what it feels like to be proud of your child? I can’t wait to have kids.” Luz said between sniffles, causing Amity to turn a visibly bright red,