So Close

-A/N- This takes place the summer before their 7th year, and is told from Ron\'s point of view -

I lay in my bed at night, listening to the rain tap against my window. I was off in my own world, dreaming of having someone next to me. I dreamt of this a lot, never thinking it would actually happen. I lay dreaming of what I thought would never come, when a noise from the floor below me startled me from my trancelike state.
It was the sound of someone apparating. I listened carefully as the noise was repeated closer to my room. Suddenly my bedroom door swung open... It was Harry. I wasn\'t surprised to see him; he was always coming over. I was happy to see him like always, but I kind of wanted to be alone, as I was feeling depressed and lonely.
Harry smiled at me brightly and said \"Hi Ron!\"
I turned over and managed to mumble a sullen, \"Hey\".
Immediately Harry knew something was wrong. We could always tell when there was something wrong with each other. \"What’s going on?\" Harry asked knowingly.
\"Nothing\" I said, knowing that neither of us believed that.
He walked over to me, sat on the corner of the bed, and looked me straight in the eyes and said, \" What\'s wrong? You know you can tell me anything, and you know you can\'t cover it up...\"
\"Doesn\'t mean I can\'t try,\" I said with a smirk, and we both laughed.
\"C\'mon, be serious...what\'s up?\"
\"Nothing. Its just I\'ve been kind of down lately, because… I want someone around to care about me, and love me... I know that sounds dumb, but... its true\"
\"It\'s not dumb...\" replied Harry, \"I know what you mean. I feel the same way a lot of the time, but you know I\'m always here for you, right?\"
\"Yeah.. thanks.\" I said feeling a little better.
Harry moved in a little closer, and looked into my eyes for a couple seconds, then hugged me. This was a bit of a surprise to me. I mean we had hugged many times and we\'ve always been very close so it wasn\'t a big deal usually. There was just something different about this time, it just seemed warm and caring and I knew that Harry really did care about me more than I knew. After the initial shock wore off I hugged him back and we sat there for a few minutes holding each other. Finally I pulled back a little bit noticing I was getting slowly wet from Harry\'s clothes since he had walked over in the rain. I looked down at my shirt that had a large spot on it and smiled.
Harry noticed what I was looking at and laughed a little bit and said, \"Sorry about that, I kind of forgot I was wet\".
\"Don\'t worry about it I\'ve got clothes you can change into.\" I got up off the bed and went over to my dresser. I got out some shorts a t-shirt and boxers for him and a t-shirt for myself. As I turned around, he had already taken off his shirt and was undoing his pants. We had seen each other dressing and undressing in our dormrooms during school, and it was never a big deal. This time though for some reason my eyes were fixated on his hands undoing the button on his shorts and slowly pulling them down his boxers going with them. After what seemed an hour to me probably actually only a second or two I took my eyes off of him.
\"Here you go\", I said tossing him the clothes.
\"Thanks\", he replied standing there completely uncovered and smiling at me.
For some reason this time looking at him I was having some new feelings I hadn\'t felt before while staring at my best friend. I again pulled my eyes from him and removed my shirt. After I had gotten the clean shirt over my head Harry had the shorts on and was getting the shirt over his head. I walked over and I had to hug him again, I don\'t know why; I just kind of had the urge, so I did. His bare chest and stomach were warm and he felt so nice to be pressed up against. Harry chuckled when he felt me hug him again. After about 10 seconds I pulled back and he slid the shirt all the way on. He was smiling.
\"What made you do that?\" he asked.
\"I don\'t really know, I was just thinking about what u said and it means a lot to me that you\'re here for me\". I replied a little sheepishly.
\"Well, its true. You\'re my best friend and I care about you. I\'d do anything for you.”
He was always good at making light of awkward situations. We both laughed for a few minutes before I looked at the time, it was 6:30. I asked him if was staying the night. He said he could if I wanted him to. Of course, I did, so that was all decided upon. The next matter was I started to realize I was getting hungry I hadn\'t eaten all day except for a light breakfast about 9 that morning. I turned to Harry and asked, \"Hey are you hungry at all? I\'m starving I haven\'t eaten since this morning.\"
\"Yeah I\'m starving too, all I ate today was a bowl of cereal earlier when I woke up.”
\"Were my parents here when you came?\"
\"Nope.\"
\"Alright well I guess they are still in Diagon Alley. I told them I didn\'t want to go. Anyways we\'ll have to make something ourselves.\" I said this smiling because usually when Harry and I made food by ourselves it always ended up being an adventure.
\"Uh oh us and cooking? You know how that always turns out, but oh well it is always fun. So, lets go.\" Harry said.
We headed out of my room and down towards the kitchen. As we entered Harry sat down and I looked around to see what we had. I found a frozen pizza, which seemed pretty simple to make… just a simple heating spell should do the trick. I wasn\'t sure how we could mess that up so I grabbed that and tossed it on the table.
Harry looked at it and said \"Alright sounds good it should be interesting to see how we can screw this up.\" We both laughed.
Eventually, we figured out how to heat the pizza, and we thought it had all worked out pretty well. I started to cut it and noticed it was pretty hard to do. That\'s when saw that the cardboard circle the pizza was on in the box had never come off and was stuck to the bottom. I thought to myself \"One of the easiest damn things to make… we don’t even need to use any cooking charms… and somehow I find a way to mess it up\". When Harry saw what happened, he just started laughing. I ended up joining in. Somehow we managed to pry the pizza off of the cardboard semi intact and put half on 2 plates.
Just as we were going to head up to my room with the pizza my parents got back from Diagon Alley. We said our greetings and I told them that Harry was staying with us. Because Harry was practically their son anyway, they had no objections. We continued on to my room, and both of us settled down on the bed pretty close to each other.
After about an hour we had both finished our dinner and even though it was pretty early both of us were tired. I asked Harry if he wanted to get ready to go to sleep. He said that sounded good to him. So, I grabbed our plates and brought them down to the kitchen and told my parents we were going to bed. They looked pretty surprised because we usually stayed up half the night, so I told them we were both just tired. They probably thought something was up but never said anything about it.
I made my way back up to my room and when I went in Harry was in his boxers and lying on top of my bed. I looked at him and I was noticing things I hadn\'t before: his milky white soft looking chest and his firm stomach and how nice it looked. I hadn\'t thought about Harry like this before it was sort of weird but I liked it. It was definitely a surprise.
I quickly turned away, hoping he didn\'t notice me staring at him. I guess he hadn\'t because he didn\'t say anything about it. I took off my shirt and shorts leaving my just my boxers like Harry. I climbed into the bed and pulled the covers over him and me. I rolled onto my side facing him. He was facing the other way and he move back a little and pressed himself against me. He turned his head towards me smiled mischievously, turned away again and pushed closer into me with his ass.
I was confused he had never done this before but it felt nice having his butt pressing against me. I was starting to get hard and hoping he wouldn\'t notice. He didn\'t let on that he did, and if he did notice the only thing he did was push harder against me. I just went along with it and didn\'t say anything. So many thoughts were running through my head; did he see me staring earlier? Did he like it? What was he doing now?
Finally I gave up thinking and just thought, \"Well whatever it was that was happening I liked it and my best friend who I cared about more than anyone I knew was curled up next to me.\" If what I hoped it was, was happening then I was overjoyed. My dream was coming true; someone I cared about deeply was next to me. I never had thought of Harry this way before but it fit completely and now just seemed right. I put an arm over his chest slowly. He didn\'t make any movement to stop me but just sighed deeply and relaxed his back into my chest. I fell asleep faster and slept better than I ever had, all while having my best friend cuddled in my arms.