DAY 1
"Hello?"
"Hi Chris! It's Darren, how you doin'?" Chris heard that familiar voice and smiled even though it was just 7am, he had just woken up and was just about to get into his car.
"Hey Darren, all good. What's up?" Chris answered trying not to let his high pitched super-excited voice come out.
"Glad to hear that. Me? Not so good... listen my car won't turn on, it died! I'm stuck in Farewell St. and I was wondering if you could give me a ride? If you already left it's no problem" Darren begged Chris said yes.
And he did. "Ow, that sucks! Sure, don't worry. I'll be there in 2 minutes" Chris got inside the car.
"Awesome! A-also can I ask you a favor? I got my shirt completely black and stained because of this damn car. Could you please bring me a shirt or something?"
"You got it" Chris answered.
"God bless you Colfer!" Darren grinned.
Chris laughed and hung up. He got inside the house for one second, chose a green t-shirt for Darren, (thing that lasted approximately 5 minutes because Chris couldn't tell which one was the best) and started to drive. In a few minutes, he already saw him and his car parked on Farewell St. Darren leaned his back against his car and instantly smiled when he saw Chris. He walked towards him and Chris could see he had a big black stain in the middle of his white shirt. His sleeves were rolled up, his hair was a mess and his face was a little dirty too. It seemed as if he walked in slow motion. Sexier than that? No way.
"Hey" Darren got inside and greeted Chris with a kiss on the cheek, he always did so with the people close to him.
"Hey" Chris answered smiling and started to drive. "Tough morning?"
"Heck yeah. Thank you so much for coming Chris, you saved me." Darren looked at him and beamed. No matter how pissed off or mad Darren was about something, he always offered a kind smile to everyone else.
"Oh, no problem!" Chris laughed, "What happened?"
"I was waiting for the green light to show up and when I pressed the accelerator...nothing. I tried turning it off and stuff but you know, I'm not familiar with these things" Darren explained and giggled.
"Oops! What a pity! Yeah, neither do I..." Chris giggled. He was not familiar with cars, he never was. Once he helped his dad out with a car and almost cut off the brakes. "And what will you do?"
"For now Chuck (Darren's brother) will receive the car crane. I called him to see if he could explain to me what was wrong, he actually does know about this. But he couldn't tell me, so he offered me to go where my car is and take care of it so I wouldn't arrive late today." Darren explained.
"That's nice of him," Chris
'Yeah, totally. He's the best bro ever. And I'll call now at midday, maybe something can be done" Darren thought out loud.
"I'm sure there is" Chris nodded positively.
"I hope so..." Darren said lowering the mirror and passing his fingers through his crazy curls. "Fuck, I'm a fucking mess!" He wiped all the black stains from his face and combed his hair with his fingers. "They'll fire me if I look like a freaking homeless."
"You're just fine!" Chris said.
"Aw that's sweet but I'm sure Ryan wouldn't say the same thing" Darren giggled.
"Oops I forgot the t-shirt!" Chris said.
Darren's pupils grew wide and he stared at Chris with a panicked face.
"Just kidding it's on the back seat."
"Oh damn you!" Darren laughed out loud and grabbed the green t-shirt. He began to undo the buttons of his own shirt. Topless and a sweaty next to Chris, who blushed a bit to be honest. He could see his abbs, and little thin hairs on the chest and a trail going down from the bellybutton to his pants. Darren freaking Criss. Topless. Right next to him. Coldplay's song Paradise played on Chris' head and he basically licked his lips.
"It has your smell" Darren said once he put in on.
"What the hell?" Chris snorted, "what's my smell?" Darren laughed at how weird that actually sounded.
"I don't know! Everyone has a smell, you know. I think yours is like vanilla."
Both laughed again. "Do I take that as a compliment?" Chris asked still laughing.
"Yeah you can that as a compliment," Darren giggled. "Anyway, it fits just fine, thanks Chris" He smiled.
"You're welcome" Chris smiled back. "We have a long day, huh?" He added to introduce a new conversation.
"We really do, we have to film the first part of the Nationals episode" Darren said folding his stained shirt and putting it inside a bag.
"We get to have a 10 second duet, yay" Chris said ironically. "Sometimes I miss the Warblers you know...all the solos and stuff."
"I know right? I miss them too. That costume was so much comfortable than these skinny jeans I have to use. Plus Blaine Warbler did not use that kind of gel."
"Pff you use those jeans anyway! I bet you have some in your closet" Chris giggled. He remembered seeing Darren wear them a few times off set.
"Oh yeah but just sometimes!" Darren laughed out loud. "I know you check on me when I do."
Chris almost chocked. Well, really he did, but tried to cover it with a fake cough. "What?! I would never check on you mister" Chris laughed. Hell yes he would. Always.
"Woah woah woah, don't be such an extremist! It's no problem you check on my ass, you know" Darren said playfully.
Chris blushed but had to continue talking in order not to freeze. "I-Me? You've got the wrong guy."
"Maybe" Darren smiled.
Chris got to look at him and saw his adorable Chinese face Darren had when he smiled wide. That particular look was so cute and powerful, that Chris could barely melt. He unwittingly smiled every time by just watching him.
After a few blocks, Chris parked the car inside the Paramount parking lot. Both of them got outside and walked together to their trailers, joking about silly things.
"Well, see you" Chris said walking a few steps towards his trailer.
"See you" Darren smiled and waved.
When Chris was about to open his trailer, he heard Darren's voice again. "Hey Chris"
He turned around and saw Darren smiling at him. "Thanks again for today" he said giving a kind smile. "Anytime!" Chris answered and returned to open his trailer.
About 12am rehearsal time was over and everybody went to the cafeteria to get some lunch. Everyone except Chris, who sat tired on his set chair and passed a towel through his face. All the new dance steps Zack had taught them would be the death of him.
"Hey life saver" Darren popped out of nowhere and hopped to the chair next to Chris. "Tired, huh?"
"Absolutely" Chris rolled his eyes back. "Definitely dancing is not a skill I have"
Darren chucked, "Are you kidding me? You're doing just fine. Water?" He offered. Chris drank it happily.
"Thanks", he said handing it back, "got any news from your car?"
"Bad news..." Darren complained, "I called and they have it with them and it won't be fixed until Friday of next week, that'd be 10 freaking days. I guess I'll have to rent one or something."
"Forget it" Chris smiled, "I can give you a ride"
"No Chris, don't worry, I got it" Darren smiled back.
"No you don't, you know it's difficult to rent cars at this part of the year," Chris made a gesture with his hand, "so forget about it and let me be your driver. I live like 5 minutes away from you!"
"But I've already bothered you this morning, I don't wanna be a pain in the ass for 10 days!" Darren explained.
"You didn't bother me, although I had to pick which t-shirt to give you and was approximately 5 minutes to choose one, thinking if it would match your clothes or not, but anyway it's all good" Chris said playfully and laughed.
"Well you chose correctly" Darren giggled and smiled, "you sure?" Darren turned his head to one side like a puppy. It was so adorable Chris could barely melt.
"Sure" Chris nodded.
"Awesome! Thank you so much!" Darren threw himself and hugged Chris tightly, who became tense and wide eyed from Darren's sudden action.
1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8 seconds passed and Darren didn't let go.
"Darren?"
"Mmm?"
"I can't breath"
"Oh! S-sorry" Darren let go with his arms raised and smiled at him, charmingly.
He stared at Chris. Analyzing his face, his mouth, his parted pink lips, his light colored eyebrows, his eyes looking down, and the way his hair was a mess from dancing. Darren felt hypnotized by him, and couldn't help but smile. "Thank you"
Chris felt stared by Darren. He was looking down cause he couldn't stare at him straight to his eyes, it was too much tension, positive, not negative tension, which he hated but loved at the same time. He felt his cheeks burning a bit and the power of Darren's stare at him. Finally he met Darren's eyes.
"No problem" Chris smiled. And Darren kept staring at him, like a tiger gazing at its prey.
"Darren?"
"Yes?"
"Stop staring at me like that you're freaking the hell out of me" Chris playfully made a panicked face.
"Like what?" Darren raised an eyebrow.
"Dumbass" Chris giggled and pushed Darren away by placing a hand on his grinning face. He blushed and laughed.
"Hey!" Darren giggled, "you cannot smack me on the face for just looking at you! Not nice, Colfer" He said playfully.
"Shut up" Chris laughed and got up to get his lunch. "By 6pm I'm out of here! If you're not ready I'll leave!" He said kidding and not looking back at Darren while he walked towards the cafeteria.
"Oh I fucking know that!" Darren yelled back. They both laughed.
It was 5:30 pm and Chris was already done shooting. He went to his trailer and got ready to leave. Taking off Kurt's outfit was so difficult for him. He made his backpack and by
5:45pm he was outside the trailer, and there was Darren talking to Mark, both leaned on the trailer in front of Chris'.
"Hey guys" Chris said walking towards them.
"Hey Chris" Mark waved happily. Chris greeted him too.
"Oh I was waiting for you Chris" Darren said. He was still with Blaine's hair style and it looked so adorable Chris had to look away for his own sake. He was wearing Chris' shirt, blue jeans and black vans.
"Yes, we're ready to go" he said smiling.
"Great. See you bro" Darren patted Mark on the shoulder. "See you guys" Mark waved again and walked away.
"I was kinda scared you'd leave me man" Darren laughed, "so I came in front of your trailer like 20 minutes earlier" he added walking next to Chris towards the car.
"I admit I'm kinda mean, but not that mean!" Chris laughed. "Thought you knew me better!"
"Oh, okay so tomorrow I'll sleep a bit longer and maybe watch some tv in the morning" Darren joked.
"Don't test me, Criss" Chris gave Darren a challenge full look.
"I won't, I won't" Darren raised his arms in surrender. "How was your day?"
"We work together dummy" Chris giggled. "We saw each other all day long."
"Yeah I know but still, I wanna know how your day was! Is it bad I'm interested?" Darren walked beside him and looked at him smiling.
"No it's not!" Chris smiled charmingly. "It was great, we did a lot of things. I am kinda tired from the dancing rehearsals, to be honest my legs hurt a little! But anyway I had a good time. What about yours?" he asked.
"We saw each other all day, why ask?" Darren said playfully. "Just kidding it was quite great actually, leaving aside the car part, I had a lot of fun."
"Glad to hear that" Chris answered giving a kind smile.
They both entered to the car and drove their way to Darren's house. "Thanks a lot Mister" Darren smiled and greeted Chris. "You're welcome" He yawned. Darren stayed there, sitting next to Chris, motionless and speechless, smiling at him. Chris waited like 10 seconds but Darren wouldn't leave.
"Darren?"
"Yes?"
"Now's the part you get off the car"
"Oh! Y-yeah I'm out, I'm out!" Darren opened the car door clumsily and almost fell to the ground. "Bye!" He said before closing the door and also almost falling again.
"Dork" Chris said laughing.
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