Disclaimer: I do not own the characters just this story line.

A/N: In the TV series Raj is portrayed as being heterosexual, but there are the occasional lines that suggest otherwise. I'm emphasising those, e.g Leonards mothers comment about his and Howards friendship.

Thanks for reading and the review. Enjoy.

Chapter 4

Raj slept peacefully that night and almost over slept if not for Priya banging around in the kitchen. He wanted to get some errands ran that day so he had set his alarm early. He assumed he slept through it as he was tired from the night before.

Raj suddenly sat up and banged his head against his wall. Wait, last night. Something about secret boyfriend, Stuart and Green Hornet. The night was very peculiar. He had a boyfriend kept repeating through his mind. "I have a boyfriend," Raj whispered, he needed to say it out loud for it to be true, "Oh no what will my parents think of this," he groaned to himself.

"Are you awake?" Priya called out.

"I am now thanks to your bashing of my pots."

"Someone sounds grumpy this morning."

"Just a late night."

Later that day Raj found himself bumping into Leonard and Sheldon in the Comic book store.

"I take it you had a good time last night," Leonard tried to say casually.

"What do you want Leonard? There's clearly something you want to ask." Raj said wearily with a feeling that he'd be saying that a lot today.

"I was just wondering if you've been on Facebook recently."

"You want to know about my relationship. Well like I put on Facebook it's complicated and I see no reason to elaborate."

"So are you going out again?"

"I haven't gotten round to asking yet, Raj said curtly and headed for the till where it was clear Stuart had overheard the conversation.

"They're going to have to find out some time. Sooner rather than later as they say." Stuart whispered.

"I know but I'm inclined to go for later. Anyway I came here to ask if you were busy tonight not be grilled by Leonard."

"He hardly grilled you and no I'm not busy. What do you have in mind?"

"A restaurant?" Raj suggested tentatively.

"Cool, meet me here at 6?"

"Sure see you then. Oh have you got something I might like to buy otherwise it looks suspicious, me coming in here and not buying anything."

"Here, on the house but don't let anyone know." Stuart replied handing over a drawing he'd been doing. Raj looked down and saw that it was himself."

"This is incredible." Raj remarked, stunned by the accuracy.

"Well, I've been working on it for awhile now."

"Really," Raj said, a warm feeling spreading through his heart. Clearly Stuart had liked him for some time.

"Why didn't you say earlier?"

"I didn't think you'd care," Stuart admitted quietly.

"Well I do and I'll show this evening." With that said Raj left Stuart pondering what he could mean.

To say that Raj was nervous about his date was an understatement. He was terrified. Not only was he going to make this date brilliant for Stuart but he was contemplating outing them, so long as Stuart didn't mind.

Half five came and Raj left his apartment and decided to walk to the comic book store, it would take half an hour and he needed to clear his head.

"Hi," Raj said as he walked through the door.

"Hey yourself, you look good tonight." Stuart remarked quietly trying not to let the remaining customer overhear. "Let me finish off here and we'll leave."

Five minutes later and Stuart was locking the store up and following Raj to the main street. "Where are we going?" Stuart enquired.

"If you don't mind after seeing the drawing I felt that it would be nice to go somewhere more public today." Raj said shyly.

"The drawing?" Stuart asked confused.

"You clearly spent time on it, so you must have liked me for a while and I'm making you suppress those feelings still and I want to do something nice for you and grand to show my affection and you know I want people to know how happy I am," Raj rambled without taking a breath.

"Hey, slow down, it's not a speaking race. Whatever one of those is." Stuart told Raj. "Now to your jumble of statements. Yes I have liked you a long time, I would like people to know about us but only if you're comfortable with it, being in public is fine with me, I don't need grand gestures and I am also very happy."

"So somewhere public?"

"Sure, where did you have in mind?"

A thirty minute walk later, it would have been ten if they hadn't walked so slowly, and they arrived again at the cheesecake factory.

"I thought it would be nice to come out at the site of our first date." Raj informed Stuart.

"We could make it a tradition. Cheesecake factory for dates."

"How about we give ourselves more freedom and not say that." Raj suggested

"Sure thing."

As they entered Raj remembered that both Penny and Bernadette were working that night. Impulsively Raj took Stuarts hand and waited to be seated. There was a slight queue so Raj and Stuart just waited patiently trying to ignore the looks people were giving to their interlocked hands. If they noticed or cared they didn't show it and just kept staring into space.

"Hey Raj," Penny greeted cheerily "what are you doing here tonight it's not your normal night."

"He's here with me," Stuart said from behind Raj.

"Oh, hi Stuart. How are you?"

"I'm good thanks. Can we have a table for two please?"

"Follow me."

Once Raj and Stuart had sat down Penny gave them each a menu and went off to get Raj a grasshopper so that he could order.

"Can I have a meat feast pizza with no meat? I've taken up the Hindu faith again." Raj asked.

"Sure and what can I get you Stuart?"

"Same as Raj but with the meat."

"Coming right up" Penny said leaving them.

A few minutes later and the pizzas arrived.

"This is brilliant," Stuart exclaimed happily.

"I'm guessing you don't eat here very often."

"No, but I think I should start coming."

Three hours later and Raj and Stuart were forced to leave the restaurant as their table was needed for a reservation. As they were leaving they passed Leonard and Priya in the doorway of the restaurant. "What are you doing here?" Leonard asked, surprised to see the two of them out together.

"We came for a meal."

"Together?" Priya enquired sceptically.

"Yes," Raj replied lifting up his hand to scratch his nose, conveniently showing his and Stuarts linked hands. "Well we better be off now. See you tomorrow."

A/N: I don't know if this is going to quickly or slowly.