Mad About You

Chapter 7

A/N: So I'm in Degrassi mode right now and I'm writing chapters for this fic like crazy. I'm really into it!

Riley and I have been together for two weeks now, and it's really been working out. We did a good job of keeping our relationship a secret, and it was actually kind of fun sneaking around too.

We were at my house one day, making out on my bed, when I had a revelation. Every time Riley and I went somewhere, whether it be to make out or just hang out, we always went to my house. I'd been to his house a couple of times before we started dating and I was only introduced to his parents as his "friend." I'm kind of glad it was only that though. I can only imagine what his dad would do if Riley came home and introduced him to his new boyfriend. It made me shutter just thinking about it.

I tried to pull away from his rough embrace around my body and the firm grip his teeth had on my lower lip so I could try and ask him something.

"Hey." I managed to slip out through heavy breaths.

"Not now." He panted, sliding his tongue into my mouth. I tried to push him off again, but he wouldn't let go. He just kissed harder. As he pulled away to breath for a minute, I got my question in.

"How come we never go to your house?" He paused for a minute, before stopping completely and sitting up.

"You know why we never go to my house." He said.

"But I don't. I mean I've met your parents before, as far as they know I'm just your friend. There's no reason we couldn't do what we do here on your bed." I grinned. He rolled over so he wasn't straddling me anymore and sat on the bed next to me, looking angry.

"No, we CAN'T do what we do here at my house. Not with my parents downstairs and in the house. It's too risky." I sat up and slid my arm around his bare shoulders.

"Isn't there just as much of a risk of my mom walking in on us here?" I asked.

"Your mom isn't like my parents. She wouldn't go all psycho and she probably wouldn't care that you're gay." He said, disappointed. I sighed and rubbed his shoulders.

"I know we've never really talked about this before, but……why is it that you're so afraid of your dad finding out about you being gay and dating me?" I asked.

"Have you seen my dad? He wouldn't hesitate to kick my ass if he found out I was gay. If he found I wasn't normal, wasn't what raised me to be. He raised me to be an athlete, with a wife and two kids, living the perfect life. He wants me to relive his life, and……keep the family gene going. I have the looks, the athletic ability, the popularity, the grades……and I'm gay. My dad wouldn't care that I had everything else. There's that one bit of……un-normalness that ruins it." He seemed like he was about to start crying again.

"Wow……I never knew it was that bad. I'm really sorry Ri." He shook his head and looked down.

"Don't be. It's not your fault I have an insensitive, homophobic asshole for a dad. Look, it's really nothing against you Peter." He started laughing. "And it's definitely nothing against making out with you." I kissed the top of his head and caused for a minute.

"Do you really feel that strongly about your dad? I mean I'm not the biggest fan of my dad either, but I don't think I'd ever go as far as to call him an asshole."

"It's……it's really complicated. I can't fully explain it to you. Or anyone, for that matter. Look, can we just drop this subject and go back to what we were doing before?" He said , grinning seductively.

"Sounds like a plan to me." I said, leaning down to kiss him.


I sat down in physics the next day, when Jane turned to me.

"So……how're things with stud-muffin going? Have you got him into bed yet?" She said, winking.

"Only to make out, unfortunately. I don't……I don't think he's really……ready. I mean, his still a virgin and I'm not, and I think he's kind of…….I don't know, embarrassed by that. And I don't think either of us are completely comfortable with the fact that it's……well not the type of sex we thought we'd ever end up having, if you get what I mean." She nodded.

"Gay sex? Yeah, I'm not as dumb as you think. Anyways, have you ever talked to him about it before? Do you know that he's embarrassed or are you just assuming he is because he's never done it before? Maybe he's dying to do it, but thinks you don't want to because it's not what you're used to."

"Maybe……it's kind of an awkward topic to talk about. I don't really know how to bring it up casually."

"Well before you started dating, talking about sex was just casual guy stuff, wasn't it? So why can't you just pretend your just friends again for a minute and ask him." I thought about it for a minute.

"It's worth a shot, I guess."

"What's worth a shot?" Riley said, taking his seat next to me. I turned to Jane who silently encouraged me not to change the subject.

"Hey, uh……after school. Do you think we could maybe go to your place today?" He looked down and shrugged.

"Fine. You won't let it go, so……why not?" He said.

"R-really? Are you serious?"

"Hey……how bad can it be? There's always the chance my dad won't be there."

"There's the positive thinking I've been looking for." I said, intertwining my hand in his. He gave me a look and snatched it away.

"We're in the middle of class." He said.

"Right, I know, sorry." He must of saw the hurt expression on my face because he spoke again.

"Peter, remember, I don't do that to be mean, I really don't want you to get hurt."

"Yeah, yeah, I know. My safety is important to you and all that crap." I said in a somewhat mocking tone.

"It is……what, you don't believe me? Pete, I……" He stopped mid-sentence and instantly went back to note-taking.

"You what?"

"Forget it. It's not important right now. Just forget I ever said anything."

"Well can we at least talk about it after school at your house?"

"Yeah, sure, whatever." He kept his eyes focused on his notebook and wouldn't look at me. Jane tapped me and I turned around.

"You honestly don't know what he was going to say?" She asked. I shook my head.

"No……should I?"

"Oh my God, you are SUCH an idiot!"

"Was it bad?! Is he cheating on me?! You're scaring me!"

"I'm not telling you! Ask him after school, and when he tells you, you'll feel like a jackass."

"Fine." Was the best comeback I could think of. I really didn't know what he was about to say. You can never REALLY tell with Riley.


Riley pulled into his driveway and turned the car off. He sat still for a few minutes and stared straight ahead, taking a deep breath. I took his hand.

"Relax. It's not gonna be that bad. You don't have to tell him I'm your boyfriend or anything. I'm still your friend, just like the first time I met him. You're allowed to have guy friends."

"What if he thinks something is up though? The only girls I ever brought home were Anya and Fiona and you know how both of those relationships went over. They were the only people I ever really brought home after school and they were both dates."

"So……?"

"Well now I'm bringing you home……what if my dad catches on?"

"It won't even cross his mind, trust me." I reassured. He smiled at me.

"Thanks." He said, bringing me in for a kiss. Our first real kiss in his car. For some reason the idea of it being in a car was extremely sexy. I started to run my hand through his hair when we heard someone call his name.

"Riley? Is that you?" We both quickly pulled away and moved as far away from each other as possible. Riley got out of the car and slammed the door behind him.

"Hi mom." He said. I got out shortly after. She looked me over and grinned.

"Hello. Peter, right?" She said, shaking my hand.

"Yeah. Nice to see you again Mrs. Stavros."

"So, what are you two up to? Just hanging out?" By this point I was pretty sure she caught a glimpse of us in the car and meant a lot by "What are you two up to?"

"Yep. We have this physics project we need to work on that's due on Thursday that we really need to get a head start on it, so we'll be up in my room." Riley said, grabbing my hand to lead me up to his room.

I could see his mom giving us a questioning look as he led me inside, but I figured she wouldn't be the one to flip a shit if she found out Riley was gay. I was actually pretty convinced she already knew……I think it's just a mom instinct thing to know when your kid is gay.

We were halfway through his living room, approaching the stairs, when the moment Riley was dreading happened. His father showed up. He saw Riley and I's hands and Riley smacked my hand away.

"Riley……who's this?" He said, sizing me up.

"This is Peter. You've met him before." He gave me another look.

"Yeah. Nice to see you again." He said slowly. I was honestly afraid right now.

"You too." I replied.

"Peter and I have a physics project to work on, so uh, we're just gonna head up to my room to work on it." Riley wouldn't make eye contact with his dad. There was so much tension in the room, I felt like I was going to explode.

"Alright. Don't spend too much time on it. You've got a couple of hours until dinner. Is he here for dinner?" He pointed to me rather than actually asking me. Uh oh. I think he knew what was going on.

"No, Peter will be gone before dinner. Right?" He asked. I nodded.

"Yeah, my mom will want me back." His dad nodded.

"Well, I don't wanna keep you from your school work. Go ahead." We started up the stairs when his dad stopped us again. "Oh, and Peter……maybe you can try and talk Riley into getting a new girlfriend……I think he's well over Fiona by now."

"Sure thing, Mr. Stavros." Riley barely let me finish my sentence before dragging me up the stairs to his room. He slammed the door and collapsed onto his bed, throwing a pillow over his face.

"They know. They absolutely fucking know." He said. I joined him on the bed and pulled the pillow off of his face.

"So maybe they do know? Who cares? They're going to have to find out eventually. And if they aren't cool with it……then they don't really love you. Because any parent who doesn't like that their kid is gay, doesn't like their kid."

He turned to me and placed a soft kiss on my lips. He started playing with my hair and stared into my eyes.

"I love you." He said. That's it! That's what he was going to say earlier! Jesus, I was an idiot.

"I love you too." I said, returning the kiss. The kiss started off slow and progressed as Riley rolled over on top of me. I grinned through the kiss and opened my mouth some to allow his tongue to enter.

I could fell him moving his hands down my body and he eventually pulled my shirt off. I did the same to him, and next he was headed for pants.

Crap. What if this was it? What if this was the moment? I wasn't ready, I didn't have any protection……wait a minute. I don't have to worry about that. I didn't have to worry about getting him pregnant and neither of us had any STD's……damn. I loved being gay and in love with my best friend! Sex was worry free. Plus we both knew we wanted to do it with each other, so we didn't have to worry about the emotional baggage either. How did I not always know I was gay? Gay sex rocks!

He was undoing my pants and I could feel him start to slide them off, when the door to his room swung open and his mother was standing there.

"Oh dear! I'm sorry!" She said, turning away. Riley flew off the bed(legitimately flew……I'm not joking) and pulled his shirt on.

"Mom, please don't tell dad!" He yelled. His mom came back into the room and I fixed my pants quickly. Riley was panting heavily and was about to burst into tears any second.

"Relax honey, I'm not gonna tell him anything.

"Mom, I'm serious you CAN'T tell dad about this……please." He was actually crying a little bit. His mom walked over to him and gave him a hug.

"It' alright sweetie, I won't say a word. Your secret's safe with me." He pulled away from his mom's embrace and sat down on the bed.

"How long have you known?" He asked. She sighed and joined him on the bed.

"I don't know……since you started junior high, I suppose. You never talked about girls or commented on how cute girls were like all your friends. You never had any girlfriends up until your senior year of high school and even then, they didn't last more than a few days……I guess I always knew. Mother's instinct." See? I told you.

"Does dad know?"

"Lucky for you, no. He still thinks you're straight as a ramp. Riley looked relieved. There was a brief silence before his mom turned to me.

"Well I must say, you made the right choice in choosing a boyfriend." She winked at me and I blushed. That was only slightly creepy……

"It might be best if you DON'T hit on my boyfriend, mom." He joked.

"I know, I was kidding." She stood up and headed towards the door. "Well I need to go start dinner. I'll let you finish your "physics project." She winked again and shut the door behind her. Riley and I just turned to each other and laughed, completely relieved.

Fin


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