idiosyncrasies; breddy (friend)ship fic
It was a rainy night for Singapore. A muffled gush of raindrops has served as the background music for these two violinists in their pajamas, who were both chilling on the couch in their well-lit living room. Brett was lying on his back, head atop a pillow, and was scrolling through his Instagram tags. Meanwhile, leaning on his back at the other end of the couch, Eddy was reading a book he just bought, occasionally using his phone to search up the meaning of some words. How proper their postures were at that point was questionable.
“Hey, Brett,” Eddy called out while yawning and stretching, holding both his book and his phone upwards. They’ve just finished filling their stomachs up from dinner, and the sleepiness was kicking in somehow. “What are my idiosyncrasies?”
“Your what?” Brett glances at Eddy and back at his phone.
“Y’know, some weird mannerisms or quirks that are distinctive of me? Bro, I don’t even know how to English anymore-,” he chuckles. “I mean… Maybe it’s how I flip my bangs before resting my chin on the chin rest.”
“And how you open your mouth when you’re feeling the music,” Brett grins and snorts softly, still scrolling.
“Yeah- yeah- and when I… when I…” Eddy trails off, trying to think of something unique about him. He decides to set his book aside to cross his arms.
“When you scrunch up your nose while you explain stuff.” Brett chuckles and shuts his phone, then turns to lie on his side to face Eddy. He was rummaging through thousands of memories in his mind to find patterns other than the ones he already knew.
Eddy rolls his eyes while smiling. “I don’t know why I do that, man,” he shakes his head.
“Oh, and when you stick your tongue out,” Brett says and proceeds to sit upright and copy Eddy repeatedly. “Blep, blep, blep–”
“Bro, you’re overexaggerating, you look like a lizard–”
“And when you gape your mouth at everything, man, like when you get shocked, when you laugh-”
“-when you sleep, you’re all like–” Brett proceeds to copy Eddy again, making the both of them burst laughing.
“You know my favorite, though?” Brett asks, eyes twinkling with mischief. He was suppressing a smile. Eddy gives him a curious look, waiting for his answer.
“When you SMELL!” Brett laughs maniacally, pointing at his best friend’s disappointed yet smiling face. The former’s eyes were too shut while laughing to notice Eddy’s subtle sniffs from each of his sides. He rolls his eyes. Right, he was pranked a lot of times about this, why was he still being fooled by him?
“Nah, man, I’m just kidding…” Brett’s laughter has subsided now, the tickle of Eddy’s expression slowly diminishing in his mind. He leans back on the couch.
“It’s when you always turn to call my name first when you find something cool… or when there’s something funny,” Brett continues, eyes softening whilst looking at nothing in particular.
“Our friends told me that you’d always call my name when you found something interesting. Even when I wasn’t there.” He paused, already hinting sleepiness in his voice. He directed his gaze at his best friend, who was staring at him intently, all the while absorbing all that he could with that statement. Flashes of memories were appearing in the latter’s mind about the outings he had with their common friends back in high school, and during the time they worked in separate conservatories. The days he’d travel to and from Brett’s city, and all the ‘wish you were here, bro!’-s. “They said you did it whenever they hung out with you, and that when you realized I wasn’t there, you’d tap on your phone right away,” Brett added. He was wiggling his eyebrows as if to tease, but his heart felt warmed and delighted with this fact.
Eddy looked down, smiling and biting the insides of his bottom lip to hide the slight embarrassment. “Well, yeah. Why wouldn’t I? Not my fault you were so far…”
Eddy snorted. “Yeah, years later and I’m living with this person being the sappiest of all saps towards the great Eddy Chen-”
“-and that’s my favorite idiosyncrasy of Brett Yang!”
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