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Chapter 3
No, no no no, no no no. This was wrong; this was not what Blaine wanted. His mind was on an automatic loop of disbelief. Blaine had pictured his first formal introduction to Sebastian Smythe about a hundred times since seeing him for the first time the other day. This tall, beautiful boy had been Blaine's obsession for the past thirty-six hours. In all the scenarios Blaine had conjured up in his head, Sebastian being introduced, as someone else's boyfriend had not made the cut. This was wrong.
Blaine's stomach twisted uncomfortably as Sebastian Smythe walked up to their little group, slinking one of his clearly well muscled arms around Jesse's waist, as he rested his chin on the head warbler's shoulder before placing a dutiful and somewhat heated kiss on the boys jaw.
"What's up?" Sebastian asked nonchalantly as he looked around at the boys, wondering why he had been summoned.
"Sebastian, I want you to meet Dalton's newest Warbler, Blaine Anderson." Jesse gestured broadly to Blaine. "He just transferred here yesterday."
"And already a Warbler?" Sebastian asked rhetorically as he fixed his gaze on Blaine surveying the outsider. "Ambitious, aren't we?" He smirked, his eyes, that Blaine could now tell were green, sparkled with something mischievous that Blaine couldn't quite put his finger on.
Blaine had always prided himself on the easy way he was able to converse with anyone, even complete strangers, but now, to his utter humiliation, he found he was unable to string together even the most basic of sentences, and he became acutely aware that Sebastian was staring intently at him waiting for his response.
"Yeah…I mean no. It was Nick's idea for me to join the umm, the team…." Blaine finally managed to sputter out, Blaine inwardly cringed, and Sebastian probably thought he had brain damage or something.
"Well, allow me to formally welcome you to Westerville, and my place." He said easily. "Sebastian Smythe." He added formally introducing himself, while extending his hand.
"Yeah, I know." Blaine said quickly before inwardly kicking himself.
"You do?" Sebastian smirked as he quirked his eyebrow up at Blaine teasing him.
"Yeah, I mean Jesse introduced you, earlier…. before you came over, that's why I know your name. I'm not like a stalker, or anything." Blaine rambled before breaking into an uncomfortable laughter.
"Well that's good to know." Sebastian laughed, humoring the awkward boy.
"Blaine is a great singer." Nick interjected trying to change the subject, before shooting Blaine a 'WTF-look'.
"Good for Dalton." Sebastian said taking a large sip from his red plastic cup. "You're in luck, Blaine. The Warblers are like rock stars at Dalton, or at least Jesse likes to think so." Earning a playful shove from his boyfriend.
"Blaine's really amazing!" Nick insisted.
"Yeah, I mean he was pretty good." Jesse cut in, "A little rough, but that can be fixed with the proper training. The Warblers will help refine your voice in no time." Jesse said with a forced encouraging tone, and a tight smile.
"Yeah, it'll be refined in no time with all the ooo's and ah's you'll be doing." Sebastian joked.
"Now, Sebastian, don't forget about all the important swaying in the background we do." Said Jeff sarcastically.
"I don't appreciate what you two are insinuating. I give all the Warblers a chance to shine." Said Jesse in complete seriousness.
"Yes, Blaine. You will get to shine all you want. As long as you don't outshine Jesse." Jeff said with a snarky smile.
"Well, not that this isn't fun…" Jesse bit with a smile "But I think I'm gonna defer from anymore jabs at my leadership style, David and Thad brought Jell-O shots. Sebastian, you coming?" Jesse asked.
"I've got practice tomorrow at nine, I'm taking it easy tonight." Sebastian responded.
"Boo," was all Jesse offered in response. "I guess that means Jeff is on the lame train tonight too."
"Choo, choo." Jeff responded.
"Come on, Nick." Jesse said before dragging Nick off towards the house.
"Rock, paper, scissors?" Sebastian asked Jeff, confusing Blaine entirely.
"One, two, three." Jeff counted as the two began the elementary school ritual, Sebastian producing scissors, and Jeff paper. "Damn it." Jeff cursed. "Ok I guess I'm the babysitter tonight." Jeff sighed.
"You're a good man." Sebastian said with a crooked grin. "Make sure Jesse keeps his hands to himself."
"I'll do my best." Jeff said swallowing the rest of his beer.
"And, though my guests enjoyed the show last time, if you could see to it that Nick's clothes stayed on tonight, I'd appreciate it."
"Its Jell-O shots, I'm not a miracle worker." Jeff said chuckling at his boyfriend's antics, before walking off in the direction Nick and Jesse had just run off in.
There was an awkward silence as just Blaine and Sebastian remained together.
"So Blaine Anderson, what's your story?" Sebastian asked as he tilted his head slightly to the left as he examined Blaine closely.
"My story?" Blaine asked confused and still a little flustered.
"Yeah, I mean you transfer to a new school in a new town halfway through your senior year. What's your dark secret, your mysterious back-story? Orphaned after your parents died in a tragic fire, running away from a spurned lover after some torrid affair?"
"Nothing nearly that interesting, my story's quite boring." Blaine answered.
"Somehow, I find that hard to believe." Sebastian said, his smirk coming back into place. It seemed to be his patented look. Sebastian turned and began to walk further down the beach towards the lake, Blaine following him without a second thought.
Blaine fell in step with Sebastian, having to quicken his pace slightly to keep up with the boy's long strides.
"So, you were about to tell me your life's story." Sebastian continued.
"Umm.. there really isn't much to tell…" Blaine said as he rubbed the back of his neck, he wished he had some fascinating, or exotic back story, something to make him seem cool and cultured, something that would impress the privileged boy that walked next to him.
"We'll start from the beginning and work our way back, why'd you transfer to Dalton? It must suck to move right before your final semester."
"Not really, I'm mostly used to it by now, I've moved around all my life. The longest I think my family's ever stayed in one town was four months." Blaine answered.
"Army brat?" Sebastian questioned.
"Construction, where his project group goes, we follow." Blaine said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Hmmm…how do you know Nick then?" Sebastian asked as he stopped just a few yards back from the edge of the lake.
"Our dads are old friends, we've always visited and spent holidays together. Nick's basically family."
"How'd you become fortunate enough to end up moving to the same town?" Sebastian asked turning to face Blaine.
"Nick's dad's company is building a new headquarters' building here and they hired my dad's group on to build it."
"That's cool, that it all worked out that way. Sucks it had to work out in a place like Westerville." Sebastian half-chuckled.
"Is this place as lame as the name suggests?" Blaine asked with a smile.
"Pretty much." Sebastian sighed, turning back towards the shore, Blaine following wordlessly.
"Have you always lived here?" Blaine asked as he moved alongside Sebastian.
"No, I moved here two years ago. I used to live in Paris." Sebastian threw out nonchalantly.
"Wait, what?" Blaine asked stopping in his tracks. Sebastian paused when he realized Blaine wasn't still walking beside him and turned to look back at Blaine.
"You used to live in Paris? As in Paris, France?" Blaine questioned.
"Oui." Sebastian responded.
"For how long?" Blaine said beginning to walk again.
"I moved there from New York when I was nine."
"You used to live in New York too?" Blaine asked; Sebastian grew more intimidating by the second. He was handsome, popular, rich, and now cultured and metropolitan. Blaine had only ever moved to boring suburban towns like Westerville.
"I was born in New York." Sebastian responded.
"How did you go from living in places like New York and Paris, to living in Westerville?"
"My dad's a States attorney here." Sebastian responded shortly, as if he was growing quickly tired of the conversation. His response didn't quite answer Blaine's question, but Blaine dropped the conversation regardless.
"So, you said something about a practice tomorrow. For what?" Blaine asked after they had fallen into a silence.
"You're looking at the Captain of Dalton's varsity lacrosse team." Sebastian said proudly.
"That's awesome, I don't know much about lacrosse, but that's the one with the sticks right?" Blaine asked feeling slightly embarrassed afterwards.
"Yeah, it's the one with the sticks." Sebastian laughed. "I take it you won't be trying out for the team."
"No, I'm not really a sports guy, more of a dancing, singing kind of guy. Unfortunately since show choir doesn't count as a sport I'm stuck taking P.E. every sixth period."
"That's when I have lacrosse, so we have a class together…sort of."
"That and calculus." Blaine corrected.
"I knew you looked familiar!" Sebastian said. "Fourth, right? You sit in the back?"
"Yep." Blaine said, suppressing a smile that tried to form upon finding out Sebastian had, at least a little bit, noticed him.
"Hey, do you want a beer?" Sebastian asked looking down at his empty cup.
"Ummm, sure. I think there's a keg over by the bonfire." Blaine said searching through the clustered bodies to try to locate the keg.
"No, that's stuff is crap, I keep the good beer in a mini fridge upstairs. Come on." Sebastian said leading the way.
Blaine tried to look relaxed as he sat Indian style on Sebastian's bed, sipping some fancy German beer, with a name Blaine couldn't even pronounce. Blaine surveyed the room, it was neat, minimalistic, but that was to be expected for a vacation home. One of the few non-standard bedroom furniture pieces was record player that was on full display on Sebastian's nightstand. Blaine watched with idle fascination as Sebastian's long fingers flipped through a stack of vinyl, trying to select one. Blaine looked up when he heard a ruckus in the hallway. He was surprised when a tall, muscled boy and a slender, leggy brunette all but fell against the open door frame of the room, their limbs tangled together as the two clearly intoxicated teens tried to maul one another.
"Oopsie…" The girl said turning to look at the occupants of the room. "Seems like we have an audience." She smiled as she took a sip from the bottle of Patrón she clutched in her left hand.
"Georgina, please take your conquest to your room." Sebastian said without even looking up from the records. Blaine looked at the girl, examining her more closely. Same brown hair, same devilish green eyes. Blaine looked away in embarrassment when she turned to him and caught him staring; a smirk crossed her face. They had to be related.
"I'm sorry, Sebastian. I didn't realize you had…company." She said, a familiar wicked gleam in her eyes.
"Georgie. This is my friend, Blaine. We were just hanging out." Sebastian said stiffly as he got up and crossed over to Georgina.
"Of course you were, Sebby." She winked, "Me and my friend are gonna go hangout in my room."
"Enough, Georgie." Sebastian said before silencing her with a look and going back to his place by the records. Georgina's face fell, unsure what exactly she had said to upset her brother so much.
"Here," She said as she followed Sebastian, kneeling next to him by the records. "You can't go wrong with a classic." She handed him a slightly beaten up white record sleeve, looking up at him, her green-eyes as big as saucers, Blaine couldn't help but think how sweet and innocent she looked, it was quite the change from earlier.
"Good choice." Sebastian seceded, putting the record on.
"I'll leave you too alone." She said her smirk back in place in the blink of an eye. Georgina got up, striding off with the boy from earlier, pulling the door shut behind her. Blaine wondered if he should say something, but Sebastian hadn't noticed so Blaine held his tongue.
"Your sister?" Blaine asked even though he basically knew the answer.
"Yep, that's Georgie." Sebastian said laughing under his breath at joke Blaine didn't seem to be in the loop about. "Do you have any siblings?" Sebastian said looking at Blaine. Blaine's breath hitched as he was caught in those dark green eyes again, he needed to remember that the key to staying articulate around Sebastian was not making eye contact.
After a long pause, Blaine finally managed to respond, "No, no siblings. Just me."
Sebastian didn't say anything for a long time, he just sat on the floor, propped up against the floor, his eyes closed as he hummed along to a song Blaine wasn't familiar with, but instantly fell in love with. Blaine sat quietly in the room, listening to the music and subtly memorizing every contour of Sebastian's face and body. His visual exploration was interrupted as the knob to the bedroom door was fumbled with loudly before the door was thrown open a bit too dramatically Blaine thought.
Jesse stood in the door way with a confused look on his face as he stared down at the boys, who when he had last seen them were strangers, now sat secluded in his boyfriend's room. Jesse immediately took a step further in the room, blocking entrance in or out of the room. Blaine could hear Jeff and Nick talking loudly outside, but Jesse, whose face was slowly contorting in growing anger, obstructed his view of them.
"Hey, babe." Sebastian breathed out, Blaine turned to look at him, and he hadn't even realized Sebastian had opened his eyes again.
"Hey." Jesse's tone was short, and didn't carry a trace of warmth, Blaine cringed, but Sebastian seemed unaffected by it. "We were looking for you guys downstairs for like half an hour, have you been up here the whole time?" Jesse didn't seem upset or even irritated. His voice held an eerie calm that was in complete juxtaposition, to the near snarl his face had been sporting only moment's ago.
"Oh, yeah. We came up here to get beer." Sebastian said getting up from the floor, and making quick strides over to his boyfriend.
"There's beer downstairs." Jesse responded forcing the same unemotional tone.
"Yeah, but that crap tastes like horse piss," Sebastian joked, smiling and looking out into the hallway at something Blaine couldn't see from his place on the bed. That reminded him, it probably didn't look great that he was on Sebastian's bed, Blaine quickly stood up. "Then, we started listening to some music, you know Blaine had never even heard of-"
"Why was the door closed?" Jesse interrupted cutting Sebastian off abruptly.
"Oh?" Sebastian asked; Blaine inwardly kicked himself again. "Georgie must have closed it on her way out." Sebastian said matter of factly.
"Georgie was in here with you two?" Jesse seemed to visibly relax at that bit of information.
"Yeah, before she ran off with some dude, I'm pretty sure doesn't even go to Dalton."
"Oh…" Jesse said turning to look at Blaine, "Did you have fun tonight, Blaine?"
"Umm yeah." Blaine answered shifting uncomfortably under Jesse's steely gaze.
"Sebastian showed you a good time?" Jesse's lips were smirking but his eyes seemed to be almost on fire.
"Jesse…" Sebastian put a hand on Jesse's arm, his touch seemingly draining all of Jesse's venom, as the tall curly-haired boy, turned into the even taller boys embrace.
"Blaine, you in there?" An exasperated Jeff called from the hallway, sticking his head through the doorway, before making eye contact with Blaine, "Hey, dude, we gotta go."
"Why?" Blaine asked confused.
"Let's just say, if Mexico is having a tequila shortage, I have the sole culprit in the hallway." Jeff responded, his tone light, but Blaine could tell his nerves were a little raw from playing babysitter all night.
"Jesus, how bad is he?" Blaine asked making his way out into the hallway.
"Blaine!" Nick yelled joyously from where he sat on the floor. "I'd get up to say hello, but every time I move, the floor and the ceiling switch." He slurred.
"Ok, I'll drive." Blaine said looking back at Jeff, then over to where Jesse and Sebastian stood. "Umm, thanks for having me over." Blaine said with his politest smile.
"No problem." Sebastian said, "Hey, we'll walk you down. Might as well rejoin the party."
"Everyone's mostly cleared out, I guess you two were up here for a while." Jesse said not making eye contact with ether of the offending parties.
"Oh, well then I better go lock up." Sebastian threw in, moving away from Jesse.
"All taken care of," Jesse said pulling Sebastian back, before wrapping his hands around Sebastian's waist. "Let's go to bed." Jesse said in a low voice.
"I'm not tired." Sebastian said cheekily.
"Good…" Jesse said smirking, before pulling Sebastian into a heated kiss, that Blaine felt was a little too handsy for in front of other people. Blaine looked away uncomfortably, not sure if he should say good-bye again, but Jeff was already halfway down the hallway with nick, so Blaine just turned and left quietly.
"Did you have fun tonight?" Jeff asked as he poured Nick into the car.
"Surprisingly, yes." Blaine smiled as he buckled himself in.
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