A/N: Okay, this one would be shorter than the usual chapters as I'm breaking this down into two parts-and here's the first part. Hopefully I'll have more time later and write up the second part!

Enjoy!

On Tuesday, Hunter went over to Sebastian's house. Sophia greeted him again and to his surprise, Sebastian was sitting on the piano bench already, playing some scales absent-mindedly. Hunter smiled at the sight and decided to try a little trick. "F minor." He called out and Sebastian immediately started playing the scale. After he was done, Hunter called out again. "D-flat major." And Sebastian played it away.

Hunter eventually couldn't take it anymore and started laughing. Sebastian turned around with a blank look on his face and he grinned when he saw Hunter standing by the door. But his face quickly turned into a look of confusion. "What's so funny?"

"Never took you as the obedient type." Hunter chuckled and realization washed over Sebastian. He glared at Hunter and this made Hunter laugh even harder. "It's okay. When you take your piano exam, you will have to do the same thing." Sebastian simply groaned and turned back to face the keyboard.

This time they worked on using the pedal. To be honest it was even funnier than the 'Scales Incident'. Sebastian was fine with the piano until now. He just couldn't use his hands and foot simultaneously and changing the chords pattern and stepping on the pedal at the same time? Forget it. Either he would step onto the pedal a beat late or played the wrong chords when he finally remembered to use it. Sebastian kept cursing whenever he made a mistake. "That's just so damn hard." He complained. "Must we use it?"

Hunter shot him a look. "Can you imagine 'Fur Elise' without the pedal?" Sebastian groaned and resumed his war against that damn thing.

After more failed attempts, Hunter started to get impatient. "Let me show you how to use it again." He sighed when Sebastian messed up for the umpteenth time. "Move over." Sebastian did as he was told and moved a bit to the left. Hunter also moved and put his hands on the keyboard. They were working on Liszt's Liebestraume and Hunter quite liked this piece. It was sweet and romantic. His leg brushed Sebastian's and he felt the skin there tingle when he positioned his foot over the pedal. "Step," he stepped onto the pedal and played the chords. "Release and step onto it again, then play the notes." He continued playing until the song ended. "Try it again."

Sebastian resumed his original position on the bench and began playing. Finally, no mistakes. He grinned proudly when he finished the song. Hunter smiled as well and glanced at his watch. "That's all for today." It was time for him to go. "Don't forget to practise more and you'll get used to it." Hunter stood up and Sebastian also got up - or to be more precise, tried to get up. Hunter looked at him in confusion as Sebastian managed to stand up, but had to lean onto the piano for support. "What's wrong?'

"My leg." He scowled at Hunter. "Thanks to your insistence that I had to use that damn thing, I have leg cramps now!" He winced as he tried to move his leg again.

Hunter laughed. "You must have stepped onto the pedal the wrong way. Usually it doesn't happen to me. Never mind, just work harder and it'll get better." Sebastian sent him another glare and turned to leave, but he stopped mid-way and looked at Hunter.

"I almost forgot this," he said. "My parents are holding a gathering with their colleagues this Saturday at seven fifteen and they wanted someone to play some background music during the whole thing. Are you in or out?"

Well, it was not like Hunter had anything to do that day. "Okay, but what about our lesson?" But then he thought about this from another angle and he realized that he actually had an ulterior motive for taking up this post. Undeniably, Hunter wanted to show off his piano skills and this was a good chance. Ever since he was little, he often had the desire to show himself and awe people with his talent. This trait was now still stuck to him and it was also one of the reasons he joined New Directions, though he didn't get to perform solo often as these roles always went to Rachel, Kurt and Mercedes. He couldn't deny the fact that everyone was great, but sometimes he wished he could be the one leading the whole performance.

"Like usual, but you'll have to stay behind for a bit to help get things ready." Sebastian replied, "And don't worry about what to wear. We'll get a suit or something for you. My parents are offering 200 dollars for the whole event. It'll probably end at around ten or something. And don't eat before you come over-we'll all eat at eight."

Then, Hunter said something that surprised himself. "I'm not taking any money." He said. "You don't have to pay me." There had to be something wrong with him today, but he just didn't want to take the money.

Sebastian raised an eyebrow. "Really? You're the first person to reject getting paid-you must be some kind of wonder." He waved his hand dismissively. "Never mind, I'll tell them that. Also, you'll have to prepare the pieces yourself. My parents know nothing about music. So you now know what to do." He walked over to the door. "I'll see you next time then." With that he left, and Hunter noticed that he was walking with a limp and he couldn't help but chuckle at the sight. He soon left the Music Room and the Smythe's residence.

The tingling sensation on his leg was still there when Hunter's reached his house.

For the rest of the week, Hunter mainly did the following two things: searching for sheet music and practicing playing the piano until his fingers couldn't take it any longer. He made a list of the songs that he was going to play and gathered all the scores he needed. The whole event lasted for around two hours, and you could literally play a thousand songs as most songs lasted for at most ten minutes. So now you could have an idea on how many songs Hunter had to play.

Now he had to practise. The good thing was that he had learnt most of the songs and it didn't take him much time to perfect his playing. But this didn't stop him form going hard on himself. Every now and then he would still make mistakes, be it a wrong note or the timing was delayed. Hunter simply mark them down onto the score and resumed playing.

He had three days, and that was actually more than enough time for him to get everything done.

On Saturday afternoon, Sebastian found himself once again seated in front of the piano but this time he wasn't playing scales. Instead, he was playing the piece they were working on last time-something composed by Liszt and Sebastian didn't know how to pronounce the title as it was super long. He got leg cramps last week thanks to this goddamn piece - the pedals to be precise - but he later discovered that he was moving his foot the wrong way and now he was fine.

Sebastian glanced at the clock. It was now five thirty-five and Hunter still had yet to show up. Speaking of Hunter, Sebastian went on a coffee date with Klaine (no need to explain what this name stood for, right?) and discovered something interesting about him.

"Those jocks at McKinley are bastards and they used to bully us Glee kids on a regular basis." Kurt said, waving his hands around to emphasize his point and nearly knocking his cup of coffee over, but luckily Blaine managed to catch it in time. "And it's not about your sexual orientation; straight, gay, bi, whatever!"

Sebastian hummed in reply and took a sip of his coffee. Suddenly, a thought jumped into his head. Straight, gay, bi? "There are bi people at your school?" he asked, "I still haven't met one myself. How unlucky of me."

"You already have." Blaine piped up, "Hunter is bi and I think he is the only one who is at our school. We only stopped getting bullied after Hunter joined New Directions as he transferred from a military academy and you could only guess the consequences if they messed with us."

"He sometimes tells us stories about his girlfriends and boyfriends in the past and judging from his tone, they are probably now friends and nothing more." Kurt supplied helpfully. "I don't think he's in a relationship now though. But I've heard that Hunter is quite tough to handle especially when it comes to going out with him. He doesn't show his emotions easily and you can never tell if he likes you or not, unless he tells you that himself."

So far Hunter was single and Sebastian definitely could have a shot. Now came the hardest part. Seducing. But wasn't seducing something that Sebastian was extremely good at? He smirked at this thought and finished playing the last note of the song.

As if on cue, Hunter walked into the room, with an extremely thick folder in his hands. Sebastian eyed it warily. "Don't tell me we have to go through everything in that."

"Not today," Hunter said, dropping his backpack onto the floor and placed the folder on the piano. "This is for the event later, but we can if you want to." He took out the score from the last lesson. "Let's see if you've improved."

Sebastian played the song right away. He'd practiced for a billion times and now it was easy as Hell to him. Hunter nodded in approval when he was done. "That was good." He commented and took out another score. "Today we're going to work on Chopin's compositions." It was Chopin's Prelude in E-minor. "A bit sad but beautiful nevertheless."

They continued to work on the song and started several other Preludes as most of them were rather short and easy-Sebastian noted that Chopin basically wrote a prelude in every key he could think of. The lesson passed in a blur and pretty soon the clock struck half past six. "These songs are really easy." Sebastian said rather smugly, "Aren't there harder ones? Never knew Chopin only wrote child's songs'

"Of course," Hunter smirked in reply. Sebastian still had a lot to learn. "Don't get too vain; I'll show you some harder ones later. Let's go get ready." They packed their things and left the room. Sebastian led Hunter up to the second floor of the house and into a long corridor with different doors on the side of it. The décor was simpler than the ground floor but it was still luxurious and everything screamed wealth. Sebastian pointed at an open door. "Here's your room. Get changed and fix yourself. Meet me at the staircase when you're done. Okay?" Hunter nodded and they went into their separate rooms.

Sebastian went into his bedroom and locked the door. Sophia already had his tux ironed and neatly laid out on his bed. He quickly changed his clothes and styled his hair. As he looked into the mirror in his en-suite bathroom, he couldn't help but think about how Hunter would look like in his suit. The one Sophia had picked out for Hunter wasn't a tux, but rather a simple suit and it had a blue tie to go with it. How was Hunter going to look in it? Probably good, but not enough to steal the spotlight from him.

Sebastian blinked and the thought fluttered away. He'd never thought of anyone that way. Something had to be wrong today. He sighed and checked his clothes again to see if there was anything off with it-he didn't want to suffer form a wardrobe malfunction later. After he made sure that everything was okay, he left his room and walked over to the staircase.

Hunter was already waiting for him in front of the railings and Sebastian was right-Hunter looked brilliant. His hair was the same and the suit fitted him like a glove. It brought out the shape of his body and that fucking blue tie made his eyes even more striking. Sebastian inwardly gulped before plastering his usual smirk onto his face. Time for some flirting. "Looking sexy here, mister." He particularly purred.

Hunter looked at him with an unreadable expression on his face. "And you look great with your Disney Prince wannabe haircut, mister." Sebastian frowned. He'd got that from Santana some time ago and he was fine with her comment, but it felt strange to hear something like that coming out form Hunter's mouth. He had to have looked weird as Hunter's face softened and he laughed. "Just joking. Now which way should we go?"

"I'll show you." They went down the staircase and into the main hall. It had just been recently renovated and it looked drop dead beautiful, with crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. Tables had been set up with different plates and bowls of food on them. There was a grand piano at the back of the hall and Sebastian took a second to take in Hunter's awestruck look. He smirked, "All yours, sir." He gestured at the piano, "You can warm up a little bit here for a while. He guests will arrive at around seven fifteen and start playing a new song at that time. I'll go and check how things are doing in the Dining Room." Hunter nodded and Sebastian left, with the image of Hunter in his suit swimming in his head.

Hunter pulled out the piano bench and sat onto it. This piano looked even more expensive than the one in the Music Room. How the Hell were the Smythes able to afford them? Hunter shook his head and started playing. Fuck, the keys were even harder than the piano in the Music Room. He had to get used to it quick; the guest would be arriving in fifteen minutes.

A/N: The gathering would start in the next chapter. Don't forget to leave a review! Don't hesitate to give me suggestions or ideas!