If I'm too young to fall in love
Why do you keep runnin' through my brain?
And if I'm too young to know anything
Then why do I know that I'm just not the same?

It was a cold day outside and Austin had forgotten his jacket, despite his mothers constant worrying about him having it. So, as he sat outside of the kindergarten waiting for his mother to collect him he was shivering, so much that one of the other kids came up to him and offered him his jacket. But Austin denied it, saying his mother won't be that long anyway. But she was running late, he would have already been picked up from this place, at three on the dot is when she usually came. Brown eyes looked at the ground and he shivered again, that was when he felt something drape over his shoulder. He looked up to see the redhead kid putting his jacket around Austin.

"Thank you." He mumbled in response. "I'm Austin."

"I'm Dez." The redhead replied with a huge grin, the smile was contagious and it made the little blond smile. "And I want to be your friend."

"You do? Yay. A friend." Austin smiled a bit to himself. Finally, after a year of being in the kindergarten, he's finally made a friend.

A sigh left the singer's mouth as he sat backstage after finishing up his last concert for the year. It was his birthday as well, but the person he really needed there wasn't. The tall redhead was moving to L.A so he can work on his directing career, he had to leave Austin half way during the tour. But Austin understood, it was Dez's dream and he would never want to be the one to crush his best friend's dream, not when the same best friend was the only one to support his dream from the get go. Ally and Trish had disappeared on him while he went to the bathroom with no note as to tell him where they had gone. Picking up his phone from the table he smiled when he saw that he had a text from the redhead. The message read: Happy Birthday Austin, Hope you had a wonderful day. And a great concert. Sucks that I can't be there.

Austin decided to lie back on the couch, a smile still spread across his face before letting out a content sigh, he had been kind of worrying that Dez had forgotten his birthday this year, so seeing the text finally made him feel a rush of relief.

The last time his birthday was forgotten, he was ten. His mother and father were rushing around in the morning, telling him to hurry up and get some breakfast and get ready because the babysitter was coming around. This made the ten year-old feel sad, no birthday pancakes this year. Had he out grown it? He doesn't think so; he always looked forward to them. In fact he barely got any sleep that night just thinking about the pancakes. His parents left as soon as his babysitter arrived, none of them even spoke the words 'Happy Birthday'this made him feel bad and coop himself up in his room. Around lunch time, he was called out to have lunch, but he didn't which made the babysitter come and get him so he would eat. All day, a frown was spread upon his little face. When the phone rang at four, Austin was playing with his toys in his room that was when he also heard a knock at his window. How? He was on the second floor? Turning his head, he saw his best friends face looking at him. The little blond ran over to the window and opened it up, helping the redhead into his room.

"What are you doing here Dez?"Austin mused, confused as to why his best friend was here. They didn't plan anything as far as he could remember

"It's your birthday and I got you something." Dez spoke with a smile as he opened up his backpack, before pulling out a neatly wrapped box. He held it out to the blond, who shyly took hold of it. Dez noticed that something was off with his friend. "What did your parents get you?"

Austin licked his lips a bit and just kept his eyes on the wrapped box in front of him. "N-Nothing."

"What? They are your parents. How did they forget your birthday?"

That was met with a small shrug, and Austin decided to place the box to the side before wrapping his arms around the taller in a hug. The redhead hugged him back, the hug was a long one, but Austin didn't care. He needed the hug, and he liked Dez's hugs. Much more than he did his mothers, not that he would ever admit that to anyone.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUSTIN!" Ally and Trish's voice echoed, making the performer sit up and see his friends and a few guards pushing in a big box.

"Today was a very busy day, so we hope you don't mind the delay in your birthday celebrations." Ally spoke as she reached her hand into her purse, to pull out a little box and hand it to the birthday boy.

"It's completely okay. I knew you hadn't forgotten it." He replied, and he did know because when they first saw him that day, they told him happy birthday. He opened up the box to reveal a necklace with a music note pendant.

"Because you lost your other one. I hope its okay."

Austin hugged Ally in thanks. "I love it, it is A-Okay." He said pulling away and taking it out to put it on.

"My turn is it?" Trish asked before going behind the couch and pulling out her bag. She got out a card and handed it to Austin.

Austin took it, and opened it up. Inside it read Close Your Eyes. The blond tilted his head when he finished reading it. "What does this mean?"

"Just do it Austin."

A sigh left him, but he did close his eyes. He could hear rustling, and movement. What was going on he thought?

It was their first thirteen year old party. Everyone in their class had been given invitations to Missy's party. It was going from four to eight. Which is the longest his parents have ever let him out at night without them. He had gotten a ride with Dez's parents to the party, and his parents were going to pick them up. Missy's parents had left the room and everyone who showed up was sitting in a circle, Missy had placed a bottle in the middle of the circle.

"We are playing Spin the Bottle." She spoke, spinning the bottle before going on to explain the game's rules. How the person who spins the bottle is to kiss the person that the neck of the bottle is pointing at. Missy was going first, she had said 'My party, I start.' As she spun the bottle Austin was curious as to who it landed on, never ever thinking it would land on him, yet as it started to slow down there was the head of the bottle pointing at him. His eyes widened a little, and he licked his lips a bit. Then within seconds Missy was in front of him, pressing her lips his. It felt weird, and people did this all the time? He thought. Missy pulled away, smiling at him, well it was more of a smirk. Oh god, did he do something?

"You spin Austin. Now you spin, and kiss whoever it tells you too."

Austin frowned a little; did he have to kiss someone else? He really didn't want too, but he played along and spun the bottle, closing his eyes as it made circles. He didn't want to see who it landed on, he didn't want to play this game anymore. He opened his eyes when he heard a little group gasp. Sighing he looked down at the bottle, but it seemed to be pointing to… to Dez? He thought it would be pointing to a girl, wasn't that how this game worked? If a guy spun it, a girl would be on the other end, and if a girl spun it, she would have a guy on the other end?

"Spin again." Missy said, making Austin tilt his head.

Wasn't he supposed to kiss whoever was on the other end of the bottle? "Why?" He asked confused as to why he needed to spin again.

"You landed on…a boy." The host replied, whispering the last part.

"I see…So I kiss him right. Dez? Those are the rules right?" He asked, turning to his friend for reassurance that he did get the rules of the came right. Because otherwise, he didn't know what was going on anymore.

"Yeah, but, you can spin again."

"Why? We don't get to choose not to." Austin said before leaning up to press his lips against Dez's. It still felt weird, but something felt… better with him kissing Dez, then the one with Missy.

He felt a tap on his shoulder, followed by hearing Trish's voice telling him he can open up his eyes. When he did, Austin couldn't believe it. The colourful clad male that he wished was here, was standing in front of him. A huge grin spread across his face, and his arms automatically went around the taller male's neck in a hug. He took in a long deep breath, taking in the scent of his best friend.

"Happy Birthday Buddy." Dez spoke as he returned the hug.

"Do you like the present?" Trish's voice spoke up.

Austin's smile didn't fade as he replied "Yes, I do. So much." Finally pulling away, he looked into his friend's eyes, before he leant up to press his lips against the redhead's lips. Pulling away again, he realised what he had just done. He took a step back. Oh god, he just kissed Dez in front of his friends. He kissed the guy he has slowly fallen for since they meet. He just blew his big secret in front of everyone. Eyes wide he tried to bolt out, maybe seeing the lingering fans would get this off of his mind. But he couldn't, he was stopped by Dez pulling on his arm.

"You…" Dez started, stopping as he tried to find the words to use.

"Yes, I kissed you." Austin filled in, a slight crack in voice as spoke. Taking a deep breath he gave a deadpanned look to everyone "Okay, I did. That an issue?"

The girls shook their head. "No, why would it be?" Trish asked with a light shrug of her shoulders.

"Because I'm a guy too, and I just kissed my best friend."

"It was bound to happen at some point." Ally said, making the redhead and blond tilt their heads in confusion. "Oh my god, Dez, I can understand you not getting it. But seriously Austin, you didn't think I wouldn't figure it out? We write songs together for gods' sakes, and we've been friends for years. I think I know the tell tale signs. I didn't at first; it wasn't until I dated Gavin that I fully understood because of the way you would look at him. It was the same way Gavin would look at me."

"What is she talking about Austin?" Dez asked his best friend.

Austin licked his lips a bit, letting out a sigh before replying. "She's talking about me…. About me being in love with you Dez. Because, that is true. I knew for the longest time that I was."

Dez gave a small smile before reaching out to grab hold of Austin's hand. As he did, he intertwined their fingers. "Yeah? How long?"

"It was slowly, I think because of when you gave me your jacket. Then… when we were ten, again at thirteen. At that party, it just started me to realise it."

Dez stepped closer to him, before pressing his lips against Austin's who kissed back. There was a quick flash, and they knew their friends had taken a photo but, Austin couldn't care. Not anymore, the whole world can know now and he will no longer fear what others think, because those that matter most to him right now, care and support him.