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Tim and Danny were strangers until they started competing with each other academically. Except Danny doesn’t know that. Tim saw Danny as competition but Danny saw Tim as a cute friend that kept trying to get his attention. Both of their grades are higher than the rest of the student body’s average grade, Danny was happy that his grades raised while Tim was flustered that he kept getting beaten by a transferred student.

Their professor gave everyone a project and got Danny and Tim to work together. Of course, Danny was excited that he has a friend as a partner but Tim was seething as he wanted to best Danny. Of course Danny being raised by Jazz, he kept giving Tim head pats whenever Tim pointed out a mistake Danny made. “Oh, thank you Tim. You’re such a good boy.” Was all Danny had to say, without realizing since he helped Jazz raise Ellie and Dan from their de-aged selves. Tim blue screened as he heard the praise and the head pats were… nice?

Since then Tim stopped being competitive and started looking for praises that Danny kept providing happily. Tim saw Danny as a possible partner but Danny was still oblivious, of course Tucker and Sam pointed it out to him but he dismissed them since they never met Tim, but Sam did in fact have met Tim in a gala.

“Hey Danny, wanna go to my place to do the project?” Tim asked, hoping Danny would agree.

“Sure, when though?” Danny asked with a huge smile.

“How about now? My place is empty at the moment, my siblings are with our dad, and Alfred is doing groceries.” Tim said nervously.

“Sure, how close… or far is it?” Danny started to gather his stuff in his backpack.

“I can drive us there.” Tim replied as he put his laptop in his bag, then stood up.

“Oh yeah. I kept forgetting that you’re one of the rich college students.” Danny laughed. “Well lead the way, pretty boy.” Danny grinned. Tim turned around as he felt his face heat up. He led Danny to his car and drove them to the manor.

“Just a warning, my family is a bit… Weird. Well, let me rephrase that. My family is weird but you can tell them to back off.” Tim said nervously. “So, hopefully they don’t get back until we finish our project.”

“Hey, not gonna judge you. My family is weird as well so it would be fine.” Danny tried to reassure Tim. Danny saw the manor and leaned a bit forward, then whistled. “Dang, that’s such an old rich people’s house.”

“Yeah… That’s our old rich people’s house.” Tim replied, nervously chuckled.

“Oop, I- You know what I’ll own up to what I said, but it is true though. How old is this house?” Danny leaned back to the seat.

“I think it was made in the 19th century.” Tim replied, of course he knew the background of the house. He’s built different.

“That’s an old b-” Danny was about to swear but stopped himself. “How did you know that it was made in the 19th century?” Danny asked curiously.

“I got bored and looked at our library.” Tim replied, not thinking about it.

“You have your own library?! I shouldn’t really be surprised to be honest.” Danny chuckled to himself. “Is that how you got to be a smart potato?”

“I’m not a potato.” Tim huffed which made Danny laugh. “What are you laughing about?”

“Well you pouted when you said that which made you even cuter. Plus I called a potato ’cause I think potatoes are cute.” Danny added to his statement, which made Tim shut up. “Woah there cowboy, you almost hit that fountain.”

“I know what I’m doing.” Tim replied and parked the car in the garage. “Follow me.” Tim got out of the car and started to head inside, and Danny happily followed him. “We’ll go to the study room.” Tim announced to Danny.

“Sure thing chicken wing, lead the way. Well, you’re already leading the way so I’ll just follow.” Danny said nervously as he looked around, everything looked expensive, he thought that the air he breathed was expensive as well and he would need to pay a subscription to just breathe.

Tim opened the study room and removed his coat and tie, and hung them up, then unbuttoned a couple of buttons on his shirt, revealing his collarbone and his chest a bit. “Get comfortable, if it gets too hot I’ll open up the air conditioner. You can put your stuff next to mine since your coat is bigger.” He turned to Danny whose face was heating up. Danny gulped and nodded and did the same as Tim. Tim doesn’t know where to look. They sat down to start their project but when he kept looking up, all he saw was Danny’s pecs, which made him imagine a couple of things. “Do you work out?” Tim regretted asking that as his mouth was too fast than his brain at the moment.

“Huh? Oh, not really. Though I try my best to just do basic stuff like push ups, sit ups, and curl ups. What about you?” Danny looked up then his eyes felt like magnets as he looked at Tim’s chest. He tried his best to look at Tim’s eyes but Tim’s lips looked interesting from time to time.

“Uh, yeah… We have a gym here.” Tim saw Danny was looking at his lips which made Tim bite his lower lip, making Danny gulp. “Do you wanna check it out? We can do our project later… or after?” Tim asked… more like whispered.

“Maybe we can do something else instead…” Danny replied in the same tone.

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Jason comes to the study to read but instead saw Danny and Tim kissing, he took a picture then decided to walk away.

Tim owes him one.