Well, until it happened to me. Dumb huh? I hear stories, read 'em and then it ends up happening to me. No angels suddenly fell from the sky singing 'hallelujah', life didn't suddenly erupt into a giant party, I didn't start seeing the world through rose colored glasses. It just happened.

I was washing dishes when I realized it. Well, not my dishes. Heero's dishes. Isn't that lame? I was mid-way into putting a plate into the dish-rack to dry when it suddenly occurred to me that I was in love with my best friend. Hell, he only invited me over in the first place to watch some bad horror movie and eat pizza and drink beer. A regular night out with your best buddy, yanno?

How the fuck does love suddenly pop into someone's head after a night like that? I couldn't figure it out. I'm pretty sure I spent a few minutes just staring into space right by his sink, thinking about it.

How could I be in love with Heero? He was my best friend. We played basketball every Sunday, ate out on Fridays, worked together... Yeah so we spend a lot of time together. Bite me. But it's not like we over-do it. We don't live together or anything. I have my friends and he has his. In the end, I spend just as much time with my other friends as I do him. Yet I didn't have any sudden epiphanies about love around them. So why Heero?

I don't know. I can't even say when I fell in love with him. It just...happened. At some point, my comfort with him just became normal. We laughed, we ate together, we worked, we shared our pain, even stitched each other up after the odd mission at work. When did all of that become love? I have no idea.

But when I look at Heero now, I can't deny that I feel all warm and fuzzy. I know I get....softer, for lack of a better term, around him. I know that without him I'll never be the same man I am right now. It's nothing life changing. Nothing shockingly spectacular like fireworks. Just a steady stream of growing love; like a stream slowly turning into a river. Or maybe like a river cutting into stone that'll someday become the Grand Canyon. Looking back at it, it'll seem like something amazing.

But for now, I'm happy to just go with the flow and bask in this steady, comfortable emotion. I don't need anything earth-shattering. Not when it comes to Heero. Just knowing that he's around the corner is enough to make me smile. And maybe one day....one day I'll gather up the courage to tell him that I've fallen in love with him.

For now I think I'll just enjoy my unexpected, every day love.