Ballum headcanons is their first Valentine’s Day together x
they both pretend they don’t care about it. neither mentions it, well that’s not exactly true, but the only time they talk about it is to agree they’re not going to make a fuss over it.
kathy shouts at them. she’s all: after all you’ve been through you’re just going to skip valentines day, the youth of today really have no idea do they? and then she phones iain and makes him reserve a table at his restaurant, just in case she can talk to sense into them both.
when the day comes neither of them acknowledges it, not verbally, anyway. but they do spend an extra hour in bed, lost in each other.
they go down for breakfast then, over an hour after they both should’ve turned up to work. they eat their cereal in comfortable silence, feet knocking purposefully against each other under the table when ben coughs awkwardly. callum’s shocked when he looks up and see’s a card addressed to him in his face.
the front of the card is simple, there’s a red heart across the middle and nothing else. inside it reads: to cal. happy valentine’s day. love always, ben x
callum remembers when they agreed on no cards and no presents, so it’d of been embarrassing if callum had actually stuck to that rule, unlike ben. but luckily, he hadn’t.
callum’s card to ben is a bit more lovey-dovely. there’s a drawing of two stick men on the front, hand-in-hand with a flurry of love hearts above their heads. to my loved one this valentines day, it reads.
lexi had begged lola to buy them a box of chocolates from the shop because apparently, that’s what you do for people who are in love and they eat almost off of them over breakfast.
they do end up taking up that table in iain’s restaurant. it’s not exactly the height of romance but it’s more than either expected. callum turns up with a rose in tow and ben is about to laugh before he remembers what this means to callum. to come out here on valentines day, with his boyfriends, after spending all his previous years wishing he was someone else.
he tells callum how proud he is of him, with their hands clasped over the candle-lit table and then they both cry.
the night draws to an end and just as their about to make their way home ben stops them and hands callum another card. ‘you’ve already given me a card, idiot’ callum says, and ‘yeah i know that, just shut up and open it will ya?’ and so callum does. inside is a book confirmation for a weekend in paris.
