I really liked the feeling of this. Its delicate, but there's a sense right from the beginning that they really love each other. Especially the "idiot one" who is obviously serious about his passes all along but holds himself back (for 7 years!) from actually doing anything really serious because he doesn't want to hurt the "smart one".
And the "smart one" gets mad about the passes, but only after the idiot one says they are jokes, like "okay, its a joke, so I can get mad about it". Even when the idiot one snaps, its like he's only mad because he's surprised and it hurts; he keeps trying to reason with him rather than struggling. And when he goes home, he's not all messed up because of the rape, he's busy being miserable because he's with his family instead of the idiot one.
I kinda get the feeling that the "idiot one" is as useless as he is because he knows that the smart one will forgive anything and likes him that way. He's just a little too sharp to really be as useless as he usually is.
