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Seraphalexiel... To be honest, I've no idea what you meant by that first sentence or is it something to do with you not liking Matt cheating on Evan and I'm just stupid? Adam just isn't cool sometimes. He does horrible things, quite often actually. I think Matt is the one person he hurt when he really didn't mean to because he actually cares about him and always has. I guess there will be fun times with Jeff and JoMo but, unfortunately, not in this chapter.
redsandman99... You know... it probably will. I figured that about Adam too. He doesn't like to let go of things... especially his belt but I thought let's transfer that to something else!

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Anyway... on to the next chapter!


CHAPTER 3

As soon as they got out of the club, Phil and Evan flagged down a cab. They got in and headed back to the hotel. Hopefully John and Jeff would be there, sleeping off their activities form that night.

But of course, that was just wishful thinking.

The two men weren't at the hotel. They weren't in Matt and Jeff's room or in Phil's or in Mike and John's room either. They weren't in the hotel bar nor were they on the roof or by the pool. They'd even been down to the front desk and had asked if either of the two men had booked another room only to be told that the hotel was completely booked.

Jeff and John were definitely not in the hotel.

Phil and Evan made their way back to the former's room, a little discouraged but hopeful that Matt and Adam would find them.

Evan leaned against the wall outside the room and sighed while he waited for Phil to open the door again. Walking inside, he sat down on the couch in the room and put his head in his hands.

Phil threw the key card down on one of the beds before making his way over to a wall and bashing his fists against it in frustration. "Where the fuck are those two? I'm really worried Evan. When he's drunk, John really loosens up and that's when he spills pretty much everything."

Evan turned to look at Phil, confused. "Wait. What? Why is that a problem?"

"Oh shit." Phil looked beseechingly at Evan. "Look, I haven't told Matt about this so keep it to yourself, yeah?" At Evan's nod, he continued. "John's in love with Jeff."

"Oh."

"He's been in love with him for three years, man! And Jeff's not gay and he's just been dumped and they're drunk! Someone is gonna get hurt and I don't want that to happen. John will be crushed when he gets rejected by Jeff."

"When? Don'tcha mean 'if'? Who's to say that Jeff won't give it a go? Maybe he's curious. Maybe that was why he was dumped."

"Come on. Jeff gay? Sure he dresses weird and dyes his hair all those colours and he certainly acts like he could be but he's like the straightest guy I know! I don't think he's ever even looked at another guy like that!"

"Yeah, maybe. I guess. I've never really given it much thought."

Both men were quiet. Phil moved and down beside Evan on the couch.

Evan broke the silence. "You know maybe we should go join Adam and Matt? Help them? Seeing as Jeff and John aren't here?"

"Yeah. Sounds good. That's a good idea. We can give them a call and find out where they are so we can search someone else."

"Look, Phil... I, uh, I understand the reasoning behind us going with the other person's partner so there'll be less distractions and whatever but I really think we should change that. Meet up with Matt and Adam and go with our respective partners to search."

"O-kay... Why?"

Evan looked up at Phil. "I really need to talk to Matt, Phil. Please? It's really important," he implored the older man.

Phil noticed unshed tears in Evan's eyes. "Hey," he said, scooting over and putting his arm around his friend. "What's wrong? Is it Matt?"

"I don't know what to do, Phil. It's like for the last few weeks or so, he's being pulling away from. Well, not exactly 'pulling away'... more like, 'distant' and I don't what I did. It's killing me. I'm not sure if he wants to be with me anymore. He hardly ever says 'I love you', only if I say it first. He doesn't initiate anything..."

"You mean sex?"

"No, I mean 'anything'. He doesn't try to kiss me or hug me or touch me or anything at all."

"He seemed pretty loved up in the club, earlier."

Evan let out a sour laugh. "Oh, he's great in public but in private? Nuh-uh," He looked up at Phil with sad eyes, tears beginning to fall. "What am I gonna do Phil? I love him so much. I don't wanna lose him."

Phil hugged him closer, feeling glad that it wasn't like this with him and Adam. They'd not had full sex yet but Phil knew that he loved Adam and vice versa.

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It took a while but Evan eventually stopped crying with Phil's help. As he washed his face at the bathroom, he heard Phil on the phone to Adam through the open door.

"Hey baby," he said. Evan couldn't hear the other side of the conversation but he guessed from the smile in Phil's voice that Adam had said something similar.

"They're not here at the hotel so we were thinking that we'd come out and join you on the search? Cover more ground that way.

"Where are you right now?

"Why am I not surprised that you don't know? OK, we'll find you. From the club, go left and keep walking. We'll catch you up eventually.

"Bye Addy. Love you." Phil was grinning as he hung up while all listening to that phone call had done for Evan was make him even more depressed and even more determined to talk to Matt. They had to work out whatever it was that was wrong with them.

Phil turned to Evan and told him what Adam had told him, "They're not sure where they are exactly but I have a good idea. I've only been to that club once but I know the area. Dammit, I should have searched the streets not come back to the hotel! What the hell was I thinking? This is my hometown and I've left Matt and Adam to wander around a strange place! I'm such an idiot!"

"Calm down, man," Evan stated, placing a hand on Phil's shoulder. "You're not an idiot. You're worried about John. You're a bit preoccupied at the moment."

"Still... I shoulda went with Matt or you and searched outside, not come back to the hotel. Adam shoulda come here, he's the charming one – all blond hair and blue eyes. He woulda charmed the pants off the receptionist downstairs.

"Hey now. It was Adam who suggested going our separate ways in the first place. Don't blame yourself. We'll find John and Jeff. You know we will. How far could they have gotten anyway? They're absolutely pissed. How good do you think their sense of direction is right now?"

"I guess." Phil picked up his key card from the bed and walked over to the door. "Let's go. We'll get a cab to the club and give them a call when we're nearly there. Come on." Phil held the door open for Evan before locking the door behind him.

As the two men entered the elevator, Phil noticed that Evan was really tense and correctly assumed that he was nervous about talking to Matt.

He touched his friends arm softly. "It'll be fine, you'll see."


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