Seek and You Shall Find

Nick and Jeff were in their Dalton dorm room. After the Friday night party had been cancelled –much to Jeff's dismay- the two boys had decided that tonight they could relax in their dorm, and tomorrow – Saturday, would be the night to have fun.

Unfortunately, they were running out of things to do.

"Niiiiiick?"

"Yes, Jeff?"

"Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick?"

"Yes, Jeff?"

"Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick?"

Sighing in defeat, Nick laid down the book he was reading and placed his reading glasses on the small table beside his twin bed. He looked over to Jeff with confusion – the boy lay across his bed., head hanging upside down over the edge, large brown puppy eyes looking up at him with a sparkle of mischievousness.

"I'm bored."

"Really? I had no idea."

"Okaaaaay, Sergeant Sarcasm" he said, with a mock salute in Nick's general direction.

They looked at each other, and grinned.

"Hey! I have an idea!"

"What is it, Jeff?" Nick was getting concerned now. Jeff's 'ideas' had a tendency to to end in tears, injury or detention. Often all 3.

"Let's play hide and seek!" The blond announced, clearly proud of himself for coming up with the suggestion. Nick groaned at Jeff's childlike tendencies and ability to wrap him around his little finger. He swore it would be the death of him. Before he had a chance to protest however, Jeff was already bounding out the door on his long legs, only sticking his head back in the door to remind Nick to "count to 100 then start looking!" Nick sighed and threw himself back onto his pillow. God, the boy was adorable, but now Nick had to spend time searching the entire dorm building.

"1….2….3…"

Jeff was running through the corridors of Dalton's dorm building. He'd been running for a while, trying to get further away for their dorm so it would be more difficult for Nick to find him.

After sure long, when Jeff was sure he was a safe distance, he stopped to regain his breath. He glanced around the corridor and took in his surroundings. He didn't understand why they needed such lavish décor for a building that boys ran around in playing hide and seek.

He let his mind wander for a while, before he heard footsteps approaching. He cursed himself for letting himself get distracted so easily. He dived behind a door that he saw had been left wide open and prayed that the brunette wouldn't notice him. He held his breath as a confused looking Nick wandered past, eyes wide and searching. Once he thought he was a safe distance, he let out a lous sigh of relief and stepped back out from his hiding place.

"Jeffy?"

Jeff froze, unsure of what to do. Slowly, he turned around.

"Jeffy!"

That was it. Jeff was off sprinting down the corridor. He could hear Nick's footsteps following behind him as well as his adorable giggling and often the cry of "Jeffy!", "Stop!" or "I found you!".

Eventually, Jeff got tired and tried to hide behind a corner to recover. Before he had a chance to regain his breath however, Nick came rocketing around the corner, stumbling straight into him and sending them into a heap on the floor. Instinctively, Jeff's arms wrapped around Nick's waist to cushion his fall, so Jeff ended up on his back while Nick's face was buried into his chest.

They began giggling and rolling around on the floor, trying to untangle their limbs. Nick would never admit it, but when Jeff's arms wrapped around his waist, he swore it felt like every nerve in his body was on edge and it was sending amazing sensations through his entire body.

He sighed and looked at the boy to his left. When he looked at Jeff, he saw that Jeff was staring at him.

"Here's your chance, Nick", He thought to himself.

Slowly, he began to move closer to Jeff, inching forwards so that those lips that he longed to kiss got closer and closer. His hand came up on its own accord to cradle Jeff's cheek, and just as he was about to get him first feel on Jeff's lips on his own, he heard a two familiar voice approach.

"-yeah I was wondering about that myself since-" Nick flinched away from Jeff, his hand going back down to his own side, "-oh hey guys!" Blaine's voice rang out.

"…what are you doing?" Sebastian asked them, a puzzled look on his face.

"Nothing, nothing at all" Nick almost yelled out, startling both Blaine and Sebastian. He jumped up, grabbing a startled Jeff's hand and dragging him upright. "Come on Jeff, we should get back to the dorm." And wish that, they were gone.

"That was so weird", Sebastian said turning to Blaine.

"Yeah, well Nick and Jeff have always been weird", Blaine replied.

Sebastian snorted, "yeah, and totally into each other. I swear if we had of been 5 seconds later they would have already jumped each other's bones. Well, just the one bone really, and –ouch! Hey!" He nursed his arm where Blaine had slapped it, and laughed at his cry of "Sebastian!".

Back in their dorm, Jeff was pacing, trying to come to terms with what had almost happened.

"What was that Nick?"

Nick looked up at him from across the room, where he'd been sat staring at his shoes for the past 5 minutes. He'd tried to kiss Jeff for the love of God. What in the hell had he been thinking? Jeff would never like him in that way, he was an idiot to try something like that.

"I…..don't know."

"Well you better hurry and figure it out because I want answers!"

Nick sighed, trying to think up an excuse so Jeff wouldn't find out about his crush.

"I guess it was just a heat of the moment thing, you know?"

"Oh…yeah, I get you. Okay, cool, glad that's…resolved." Jeff moved towards his bed and climbed in. "I think I'm just gonna go to sleep. Uhm…goodnight Nick."

"Goodnight, Jeff."

Jeff lay awake for at least 3 hours after he and Nick had said goodnight. Nick just tried to kiss him in the heat of the moment, it wasn't like the guy had feelings for him or anything. He frowned to himself for letting himself believe that the guy he was in love with, they guy he spent almost every hour of every day with and the guy he thought about 24/7, would like him. Him. Like Nick would ever be into someone like Jeff.

He tossed and turned for a while, trying to stop thinking about Nick, and eventually, at around 3am, he fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.