Note:- I should probably add a warning of sorts here to say that this does not follow the canon plot line of Glee; I guess it's some sort of slight AU. However, I hope you enjoy reading! :)

Chapter 1

"Do you really have to leave?"

"I do. I can't stay; you know what my dad is like."

"..."

"Please say something, Ben."

That conversation kept running through Sebastian Smythe's head ever since it took place. Over and over again, it wouldn't leave him and it sucked. That was the only word he could think that could describe his life at that moment, it sucked.

He spent the last few days constantly on his phone; there wasn't much else to do when you first move to a new house, let alone to another country basically half way round the world. He lost his appetite, any willingness to hold a proper conversation and any interest in the things happening around him. He was perfectly content with sitting some place quiet with his phone, looking at pictures of his old life, the one he led in France.

Ohio. What a dull place this will be, he thought. Sebastian always got what he wanted and this was possibly the first time he hadn't.

In his old life, Sebastian was the reckless, smooth-talking boy that everyone wanted. He knew it and everyone knew that he knew, but they didn't mind. Something about Sebastian was so charming, mesmerising and drew you towards him even though you knew perfectly well that he would toy with you and that you don't mean anything to him. No one could ever reach to him. Unless you were Ben Parker of course; the only boy in the whole of France that actually made Sebastian feel something special.

Sebastian didn't think it was love; he didn't think he was capable of such a thing. But he knew that Ben Parker was not someone that he wanted to lose. It all started with them not knowing each other, to vaguely knowing of each other's presence in the posh boarding school, to small smirks as they passed in the corridor and then finally Sebastian got fed up of it all leading nowhere that he decided to say hello.

"Well, hello there." Sebastian smoothly slid next to the boy, falling in sync with his footsteps. "I can't help but notice that you've been checking me out." Sebastian basically got straight to the point, he wasn't one for faffing about.

The boy simply gave the usual smirk that Sebastian had been so familiar with and kept looking straight ahead, "Checking you out? No. Well not really. Not until a friend mentioned your tendency to stare at me, I hadn't really known of you before that."

Interesting, Sebastian thought. Everyone knew of him, he was one of those people everyone just knew about. And he didn't get offended by his flirting. "I see," He finally said with a small laugh, "I'm Sebastian. Sebastian Smythe."

"Oh, I know who you are. Ben Parker." He glanced at him with a smile.

At the time, Sebastian didn't think much of Ben Parker. A bit of a disappointment really; sure, he was good looking - blonde hair, blue eyes etc. - but the conversation was unpleasant, all he got was simple answers, the occasional look, he still basically knew nothing about him, just a name. What frustrated Sebastian also was that Ben came across as being a bit...full of himself, condescending, arrogant, basically, he saw all the many flaws that he himself had in the other boy.

And as they do, one thing led to another in a blur and the two boys began to speak more and got to know one another. They wouldn't stop speaking to each other; it was like they were overcome with a hunger to know every detail of the other's lives. It was easy speaking to each other and slowly they saw beyond the first impression they had gotten from their first encounter. Much to Sebastian's happiness, Ben also turned out to be gay, not as open as Sebastian, but gay nonetheless. It perhaps pleased Sebastian a little too much.

Eventually they became an "official couple"; they weren't really too keen on labelling it, they just enjoyed each other's company a great deal and cared for each other. To everyone else in the school, this was big. Could it be? Sebastian has a boyfriend? Who thought they would see the day? Everyone also started to notice a change in Sebastian; he was much friendlier, less flirty and snarky - they were glad a better side of him was coming out.

But when Sebastian's dad told him that they were moving to Ohio, he slowly began to revert to his former self; it was possibly his way with coping with things. He didn't like change and a decent fight with his father still didn't change his mind. Sebastian Smythe was going to lose everything that he built for the past few years and he wasn't happy about it. But his mere spite against his father turned into the closest thing he felt to heartbreak when he told Ben what was going to happen. They didn't discuss how they could possibly cope with a long distance relationship; they both secretly assumed that he would easily move on when he'd go to America. They didn't speak of the matter, at times they never spoke at all.

But the last meeting between the two boys was the most crushing experience Sebastian ever went through and it was on constant loop in his head and the only way he could cope was to endlessly stare at photos of him and his boyfriend...ex-boyfriend...boyfriend; he wasn't too sure where they left things but God, did he miss him.

He decided that when he wakes up on his first day to go to his new school, he would start afresh, he would forget about Ben and everything he learnt from him and be Sebastian again.