Chapter Seven: Victor/Victrola
Danni spent her morning before school by the stairs; being pushed up against the bricks doing what could only described as making out with Sebastian Van Der Woodsen. She let out a groan as one of the bricks dug into her back.
"Ow, brick not comfortable" she complained.
"Here, here I'll take one for the team" he volunteered spinning them around so he was backed up against the brick instead.
"Ow, yeah I see what you mean not comfortable, I mean we pay all his money for private school the least they can do is give us a comfortable place to make out"
"Or better chemistry teachers, Mr Piezer is a little weird" she said before leaning in for another kiss but this time Sebastian pulled away, laughing.
"Wait you're thinking about Mr Piezer right now?" he asked.
"Well we are at school" she pointed out, he merely laughed again before resuming their make out session until a voice from the stairs above yelled: "get a room!"
"We could find a place more private" Sebastian suggested "our parents aren't always home"
"That's true" she agreed toying with Sebastian's blazer "they must eventually leave"
"Hmm, the only problem is waiting for eventually" he said, kissing her again.
She laughed a little when she pulled away after a while.
"What's the rush? It's not like this is so bad apart from the bricks and the –"she paused upon hearing laughing from above them, they both looked up to find Kade and Isaac snapping pictures with their phones "paparazzi" she finished.
"Bye" Sebastian said to them, practically waving them away. The two of them shrugged and continued heading up the stairs together.
Sebastian leaned into kiss her again but paused when the bell rang. He groaned pulling away.
"We should talk about this though" he told her "about us, about eventually….."
"Definitely" she told him.
"Or we could just get it over with in a broom closet" he joked, or at least she hoped it was a joke. He wrapped his arms around her waist, kissing her once more before dashing off for class with a quick goodbye.
…
"So I saw on Gossip Girl that you were having sex with Danni out here" Blaine commented teasingly as he and Sebastian sat on the steps together later that day "in streaming video"
"Oh god, Kade and Isaac filmed us?" he asked with a groan.
"It's all very High School Musical scandalous" Blaine teased "and no they haven't streamed it yet, but I heard it was…aggressive?"
"I must say she's been surprisingly good at everything we've done" he commented.
"Which is…everything?" he asked, repeating the eyebrow waggle from before the ball.
"Not yet" he admitted "haven't even talked about it yet"
"May I remind you that this is your first real girlfriend?" Blaine pointed out "and in relationships you talk about stuff"
"Well sometimes talking about or planning can ruin a good thing" he tried to explain "besides I think maybe she wants to slow things down"
…
She was nervous about the whole sex thing, she'd never done it before, never had anyone she wanted to have sex with and it was very obvious that Sebastian wasn't a virgin. What if she just so bad that she completely ruined thing? She'd fallen asleep not long after getting home from school and dreamt about receiving horrible scores on her sexual performance with Sebastian from Kade and Isaac, only to be woken by her father yelling into the phone.
"Did you sleep with him?" he was saying "tell me did you or did you not sleep with him?"
"Yes Allison I encouraged you to do your paintings not the next door neighbour" he continued. She left her room just in time to see him hang up the phone. He looked up as her door squeaked open.
"Oh Danni, I didn't realise you were home, I'm sorry you had to hear that" he told her. Yeah so was she.
"Well, I did" she replied "something about mom and a neighbour?"
Neither of them noticed Jeremy walked in through the front door; he paused upon hearing Danni's comment.
"It's uh complicated" her dad tried to explain.
"Mom's having an affair; it's easy when you say it"
He sighed, looking down at the phone in his hand before looking back up at her.
"Not to your daughter"
"She's not exactly rushing back to us, it's good to know why" she told him. At this point Jeremy decided to make his presence shown, shutting the door behind him and calling out to them.
"What's going on dad?" he asked.
"Nothing" he lied "I'm just going to get some groceries"
"Danni?" he tried, hopefully she could at least trust Danni to tell her the truth.
"I'm sorry, I've got a lot of homework" she told him before ducking back in her room. He was disappointed; when dad lied or tried to sugar coat things he could usually trust Danni to give him the reality, apparently not this time.
….
As soon as the loft was empty, which happened to be early the next morning, she called Sebastian and asked him to come over, she didn't really know where this sudden burst of courage was coming but she was thankful for it.
"I can't believe we actually got the apartment to ourselves" Sebastian said as Danni flopped down onto her bed and he leaned over her.
"You got downtown pretty fast" she commented, she was actually a little scared by how fast he got there.
"Well with an opportunity like this one needs to take advantage of it" he explained, leaning down to kiss her, he pulled away after a moment "how long are your brother and dad going to be out for?"
"Anywhere between twenty minutes and an hour" she told him. He grinned, kissing her again.
"Twenty minutes is all we need"
All the courage from before was gone. It wasn't that she didn't want to do this, she just was so damn nervous about it. Sebastian had experience, she knew that and she didn't, not at all.
"It's really bright in here isn't it?" she asked when Sebastian pulled away once again "maybe I should get blinds"
"I think it's fine" Sebastian commented with a smile before rolling them over so she was on top.
"Hey Danni!" Van called, using his usual route of just climbing in through her window "you hungry?"
Sebastian moved to sit; accidently throwing her off and she went tumbling off the side of the bed.
"Oh" Van said when he realised what he'd just interrupted.
"Van right?" Sebastian asked "it's good to see you"
"Good to see you too" Van said, even though it was pretty obvious that it really wasn't.
"Good to see you" Danni chimed in, straightening her shirt "seeing us, seeing you"
Sebastian held out his hand to help Danni up, she gratefully took it and stood up.
"Excuse me" she told him before herding Van towards the door.
"You've really got to start using the door" she told him once they'd left her bedroom.
"Which you're showing me to right now"
"Well practice makes perfect" she said jokingly.
"I'm leaving okay, out the door I go" he told her pulling open the door to the Humphrey residence and slipping outside.
"I – we appreciate it, thank you" she called out to him.
….
"Do you think we should talk about it?" he asked when she sat back down on the bed beside him. He was thinking about what Blaine had said earlier in the day, maybe he was right.
"About Van?" she asked "he's like family, it's comfortable so he often just drops in without calling"
"No, no about what just almost happened" he said.
"Oh, if Van hadn't stopped by?" she asked "if he hadn't interrupted the, um, the uh-"
"Or we could not talk about it?" he suggested with a grin, leaning back down to kiss her. She's pretty sure it would've gone a lot further if her father and Jeremy did not arrived at that moment, calling out to her to announce their presence.
…
She'd always been the type to research things if she needed help and sex was no different. She was in the middle of watching some of this research when Van just walked right into her room. She quickly pressed pause on the video and closed her laptop screen.
"You know people do this thing where they curl their fingers into a first and with several thrusts of force they know, maybe you should give it a go?" she told him. Van rolled his eyes and sat down next to her on her bed.
"Hey I didn't use the fire escape this time, baby steps" he pointed out, he leaned over her picking up the DVD she'd been watching as research "why are you watching porn?" he asked.
"It's not porn, it's art cinema" she tried to argue tucking the DVD under her pillow.
"Well" Van started "from what I saw earlier you don't need to be doing research"
"Okay, I cannot talk to you about this" she told him running a hand through her hair.
"What's with the change in attitude?" Van asked "because you once said, and I quote 'sex is meaningful, like art and you don't rush art'"
"That was in 2005, I was much more idealistic back then and you know there wasn't an actual guy who wanted to have sex with me"
"You're going to lose your virginity" Van stated, she was surprised by the fact that he sounded rather disappointed by this knowledge.
"It'll be fine" Van said obviously noticing her discomfort "I'm sure Sebastian will know what to do what with all his experience with boarding school professors and you know best friend's girlfriends"
"Okay, okay you're leaving now" she told him helping him off the bed and directing him towards the door. He paused at her bedroom door, holding onto her wrist.
"Look, I know you Danni and I know you'd want it to be special just don't get so distracted by the fact that this is Sebastian Van Der Woodsen and forget that okay?"
…..
She had another dream. This time she was watching Sebastian and Nat go at it, asking them questions as they did so. She awoke with a start when her dad knocked on her door; she ran her hands over her face feeling more stressed about this whole thing than ever.
"Hey I'm heading to the gallery to test run a twenty four hour installation, Van and Jeremy will be there, do you want to come?" he asked.
"Uh twenty four hours is a long time to be working straight, so I'll think I'll just chill here" she told him.
"Alone on a Saturday night?" he asked. Why did he sound so surprised, it wasn't like she went out all too much.
"Or with your boyfriend?" he added. God sometimes she hated that he could read her like that.
"Dad, we've had the talk already remember?"
"Do you need a refresher?" he asked in his best 'stern dad' voice. She shook her head; it was bad enough the first time. He sighed and nodded.
"Okay just be safe don't do anything you're not ready to do" he warned.
….
Sebastian took a little longer to arrive at the loft then last time but this time he was holding a shopping bag in his hand. She cocked her head to side in confusion upon seeing it. He saw this and smiled a little.
"Just give me a second to set something up okay?" he asked and she nodded opening the door to her room for him before sitting down at the kitchen counter, wondering what the hell he was doing in there.
He stepped out of the room a few minutes later and beckoned her over. He put his hands over her eyes as a blindfold before opening the door again. They stepped inside together and he dropped his hands from her eyes. The room was covered in candles, creating a dull glow. It was almost magical, it was definitely special.
"I know it's probably a fire hazard but –"
"It's perfect" she cut in because it really was. It wasn't how she imagined it but it was perfect in its own perfectly special way.
