❝ i can't spend my whole

life dreaming ❞

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Sophie looked at Dean out of the corner of her eye, smiling at the boy. She had never thought she'd feel this way about a teammate but yet here she was. She should have known when she realized he reminded her of Mush from Newsies. Dean looked over at Sophie and laughed when he noticed she was already looking at him.

"What?" Dean asked as he turned towards the girl, leaning on the locker.

"Nothing. You're just cute," Sophie shrugged as she turned back to her locker to grab her bag.

Dean quickly looked back to his locker to hide his flushed cheeks. Sophie looked at him and quietly laughed at his reddening face causing the boy to turn a darker shade and shove his face inside the locker. The girl pulled Dean's shoulder slightly causing him to pull his head out of the locker to look at her. Sophie leaned up and kissed his cheek before grabbing her bag and walking out of the locker room.

Dean stood there for a few moments before he shook his head with a smile on his face. He grabbed his bags and shut his locker before following after Sophie. He spotted her near the entrance of the building, standing with the team and Reggie. Deciding to be oh so discreet about the pair being on good terms once again, Dean walked up behind Sophie and wrapped his arms around her waist with his chin resting on her shoulder. The girl wrapped her arms around the arms around her waist as she smiled at the boy.

Reggie gave Sophie a small smirk to which she rolled her eyes, trying to shove down the blush that was creeping up to her cheeks. Fulton watched the pair holding each other from the other side of the group and looked away. He was aware that he shouldn't feel this way, especially because his sister was happy. He just couldn't help it.

Fulton realized in that moment why he enjoyed spending that evening out in the city with Sophie and Dean. Why he enjoyed sharing a room with Dean and staying up all night talking about music and sneaking out to walk around the city at night. Why he enjoyed hanging out and just being himself in front of Dean.

It was the same reason Sophie enjoyed going to diners with Dean. Why she enjoyed stealing his flannels. Why she enjoyed having Dean's arm wrapped around her shoulder. Why she enjoyed being able to talk about anything with him. Why she enjoyed his shameless flirting.

Fulton tried to push away the thoughts swimming around and consuming his brain but it was no use. It was all he could think about and he despised it. 

He finally got to see his sister happier than he had in what seemed like years and he felt like he was ruining it. Shaking it off when Sophie made her way over to him, Fulton put on a smile.

"Ful guess what," Sophie smiled as she rested her arm on her brother's shoulder.

"I have no idea. What's up?" Fulton gave the girl an amused look.

"I love you. You're the best brother I could ask for," Sophie smiled as she looked at him before turning her head to look at their teammates.

"I love you too Soph." 

After a few more minutes the team left the building to head back to their rooms. Dean and Fulton walked to their room and joked around through the hallways. Luis and Dwayne had asked the two if they wanted to hang out and Fulton was about to accept the offer, not wanting to listen to Dean talk about his new relationship with his sister but Dean answered before him.

The boy told the pair that him and Fulton already had plans and the two walked away. Dean continued walking to their room with Fulton trailing behind him.

"Since when do we have plans?" Fulton chuckled as they walked into their room.

"Since Sophie kissed me in the locker room," Dean said and he jumped backwards on his bed.

Fulton scrunched his face up, already hating where this conversation was going. He definitely didn't want to hear about his sister's love life especially when they were both interested in the same guy. The boy sat on his own bed and looked over at Dean who was smiling. Pushing away his feelings, Fulton put a smile on his face and told Dean to continue. 

Dean proceeded to give Fulton just about every detail about what happened between him and Sophie in the locker room. Fulton nodded as he listened, wishing he had gone with Luis and Dwayne wherever they were going. The boy smiled when Dean ran his hand through his hair, ignoring the fact that Dean was talking about how Sophie had asked the boy to be her boyfriend. 

By the time Dean had finished rambling on about him and Sophie, Fulton decided he needed to take a shower so excused himself to the bathroom. As he showered Dean decided to bring out his sketchbook and colored pencils. After he had realized he lost his sketch of Sophie on the plane, he had drawn a new one of her. He had already gotten it to look the best he could and now he planned on coloring it.

When Fulton had walked back into the room Dean asked him to come over to the desk. He was working on Sophie's eyes and couldn't decide which shade was best to use. He gave Fulton three options and the boy began to look through them.

"Hold on you two have almost the exact same color eyes. Let me look into your eyes," Dean said as he looked up at Fulton who was standing next to him.

Fulton looked down at Dean and the other boy stared into Fulton's eyes. After a few moments Dean grabbed one of the three shades he had originally chosen. Fulton walked back to his bed and laid on his back. For just a moment he pretended that Dean was drawing him and his eyes.