Otto sets the camera on his cabinet top, concealed between knicknacks, and flinches backwards onto Awsten’s bed when the door creaks.

“Haven’t seen you,” Awsten comments coyly. 

“Still had to think things over,” Otto responds.

“Fine by me,” he says, eyes scanning everywhere but Otto.

He seems to notice this, getting up and guiding Awsten’s gaze towards him with a hand to his chin. Awsten stills and stares, entranced.

“Listen, I worry about you. I know I—” Words fail Otto once again. "Wanna tell me what’s up? I know it involves me at least."

“What makes you think that?” 

“You know why.”

Awsten blinks vacantly before he pushes Otto to his back on the bed and straddles him.

“Uh.” Otto looks at him, bewildered.

Awsten slowly strokes Otto’s biceps, a certain reverence in his expression. “I never get to appreciate what’s in front of me. I’m always so caught up in the motions.”

“Okay…?” Otto says perplexedly.

He pauses his fingertips on Otto’s shoulder. “You love me, don’t you?”

“Of course.” The statement comes out confused and uneasy. “You always point it out anyways.”

Awsten leans in and whispers something in his ear. Otto’s eyes widen as he turns his gaze somewhere out of frame and pushes a giggling Awsten along with a stray hand mirror off the bed.

“What?” Awsten asks faux-innocently. “I’m just saying…”

Otto’s eyes flick around the room, hands twitching. “C-can you get me some water? From downstairs?”

Awsten's scrunches his face. "Like now?"

"Yeah, uh, yeah. Just feeling a bit dehydrated and thought I might need the energy if you wanted to, um—" Otto gulps. "go through with that."

Awsten’s head tilts and he gets up. “Alllllllright.”

As soon as he leaves, Otto picks up the mirror from the floor, waving his hand in its reflection. He scours the rest of the room off camera. He returns in frame with Awsten’s laptop, opening it with a stunned expression. 

“Hey y’all,” Otto says in a small voice. He turns the laptop towards the camera and when it focuses, Awsten and Geoff are visible on the computer’s home screen, against it like a barrier. 

To put it simply, they’re trapped.