Darren sat in a corner, just watching. Watching everyone dancing and having fun. Darren wasn't dancing, he was drinking. He had probably had his bodyweight in alcohol, but he just kept drinking. Drinking and thinking.
Three months. It had been three months since Darren had gotten his head out of his ass. Three months since he had had 'a moment' as Blaine would have called it.
It had started out as a normal day. Darren and Chris didn't have to be on set for another hour, so they decided to hang out at Chris' trailer. Chris was looking through the script again and Darren was strumming random melodies on his guitar.
"I still can't believe Ryan let you do this to your trailer." Darren said admiring Chris' trailer.
Chris had it completely redecorated. The furniture was a tasteful cream color, there was a giant jukebox in the corner, a discoball was hanging at the ceiling and posters of musicals were all over the walls. Chris often had cast's parties in there.
"I just wanted it to be a little more, I don't know, me? Besides, Ryan would let me do anything I want. I'm his golden kid, remember?"
Darren just hummed in response, still playing every song that popped up in his head. Right then that may or may not have been 'lucky'.
Chris started humming along. Darren noticed and started singing softly. Chris joined him, both of them remembered the duet of 'Quinn and Sam'. Chris sang Quinn's part because Darren couldn't reach those notes.
Darren didn't know when it happened, he guessed halfway through the song, but at some point Chris changed in his eyes.
Chris, who used to be his friend and his coworker suddenly became something else. Suddenly Chris looked so beautiful.
Darren wasn't stupid, maybe a little native sometimes, but not stupid, he knew Chris was attractive. But this was a different kind of beauty. Darren just wanted to take Chris in his arms and hold him.
Wait, what?
Since then Darren had repeated that moment numerous times in his mind. From that moment Darren had spend every moment he could with Chris. Trying to figure out what these new feelings were. He pretty quickly figured out he really liked Chris. He really, really liked him.
Darren still didn't really know what that meant. Am I bi, maybe gay? He didn't really care about that. What he really cared about was if Chris felt this too.
Darren thought he didn't. But then again, Chris is an incredible actor. Maybe, just maybe, Chris was hiding his feelings. After all, Darren claimed to be straight, but he had also mentioned that people don't fall in love with a gender, but with a person.
Here he was, sitting at Chris' birthday party, doing nothing. This is pathetic! I've gotta make a move!