You're no good alone

Phil might have fallen into something with Lexi. He didn't really know or did he just not want to think about it?

It had been a lazy string of summer days, indoors mostly and something festered and then it happened. All of this left him in a bit of a stupor. They were a genuine couple now. Yes, the intercourse commenced and it was a steady darkness that shined in the sunlight most early mornings. 

Phil knew he shouldn't mention it to Boone who was being as coy as ever. 

"Has anything happened between you and Lily?" Phil caught Boone before he left for work.

Naturally, Boone gave him a sheepish grin. "Like what?"

"Quit being a man of mystery," Phil just wanted honesty, couldn't they talk about this kind of stuff?

"I don't know what you mean?" Boone looked at him blankly. "I like her a lot."

"But you don't love her?" Phil asked because this is what worried him the most. Did he really love Lexi? Was it like in those classic romances? Or was it just something from a Harold Robins' book.

"I didn't say that," Boone tensed. "It'll get there. It will. We just, you know." He shrugged.

Phil sighed wondering if he'd done an awful thing. But then again, he didn't think he was a romantic. "Well, in my family we have very long engagements." He told Boone about his grandmother and how she'd lived with his grandfather's family a good ten years before they got married. 

"Wow, that's a really long time." Boone cracked a grin. Of course, he did look more brainy in his glasses and perhaps he knew better than Phil.

"Lexi wants to have a baby," Phil said before he knew it.

"That's a lot of pressure," Boone still smiled like an idiot. "We are nowhere there, Lily and me. We just want to be turtles, you know, hiding in our shells from time to time." Boone smirked as he grabbed his hoodie and was on his way.

Phil crossed his arms. He thought of being in a shell. He had a feeling they liked being in that shell together.