Boyfriends?

And now, with all the baby cats rounding he relied on his teammates to do all the talk. Or that was the plan until he heard the interviewer saying his name.

"Sorry, what was the question?"

"Neil seems a little in his world with the cats" The man laughed "you yourself own a cat, right?"

"Two actually, but one lives with my partner"

He felt an awkward silence fill the room, which made him stop staring at the cat whose chin he was scratching, but before he could say something the interviewer was asking him about his opinion on the next season.

Or: Neil publicly says he has a partner by accident and freaks out thinking he'd overstepped Andrew’s limits. Andrew notices Neil's weird attitude and thinks he's cheating on him.

They're both dumb and don't know how to have a proper conversation.