"This is absolute bullshit!" Darren threw his copy of the special contract back on Ryan's desk. "'Being open to be paired up with other people, if scripted. The off-screen relationship can't infect the on-screen relationship. No sex in trailers.'" He quoted then the turned to Ryan. "Kurt and Blaine are strong, there's no need to pair us up with others. Our off-screen relation can only be an improvement." Darren explained. "And why the hell are we not allowed to have sex in our trailers?"
"Actually, that's in your normal contract already, it's in this one just to be sure." Ryan said, taking off his readingglasses. He pushed the contract back to Darren. "Sign it." He said in a warning tone.
Darren was staring angrily in Ryan's eyes, hoping he would give in. Chris knew Darren was going to lose this discussion and he just wanted to get it over with. "Just sign it, Darren. There's nothing too unreasonable in it." He muttered while signing his own contract.
"Fine." Darren sighed and scribbled his autograph on the paper.
"Thank you, guys. That was all I needed you for. You're excused now." Ryan said, making a neat pile of the two contracts.
After they had left Ryan's office, Chris and Darren were on their way to the picnic tablets outside to have lunch together. "I don't see why you just agreed on those stupid rules. We could have at least tried to lose the rule about trailer sex." Darren said.
"Darren, you can't argue with Ryan." Chris told him. Darren would find that out sooner or later, but why did he want to do it the hard way instead of just listening to Chris? "And please stop talking about sex." Chris said. He checked if there were any people who could have heard Darren. Luckily, there were no people around.
"Why?" Darren half laughed. "Are you ashamed of talking about sex?" He saw a light blush creep its way up to Chris' cheeks.
"No," Chris answered. "but we're in public." He pointed out. "And I don't put out until the third date, so." Chris trailed of and rolled his eyes at Darren's snort.
"Oh, playing hard to get, are we?" Darren smiled.
"Totally." Chris said sarcastically. He obviously wasn't playing hard to get. He agreed on dating Darren after one drunken kiss and told his friends about their relationship the day after they had gotten together. "Now shut up and buy me an ice cream." Chris demanded and pointed at the little ice cream shop that provided everyone on set with ice cream.
After Darren had bought them both an ice cream they sat down at one of the picnic tables. "Does this count as second date?" Darren asked and licked a melted drop of ice cream off his hand.
"I'm not that easy." Chris laughed. He didn't notice someone walked up to them both.
"Hey guys, mind if I join you?" Chris heard Jake ask.
"Of course not, Jake. Have a seat." Darren said in his ever so kind and cheery voice. This is going to be awkward. Apparently, Jake doesn't know about Darren and me. And Darren probably thinks everybody knows by now.
"Thanks. So, what were you guys talking about?" Jake asked. He sat down next to Chris. Maybe a little too close.
Darren smiled smugly at Chris. "Oh we were just-"
"Darren was being the horny teenager he always is." Chris interrupted him. He didn't want to have this inappropriate conversation at work with Jake sitting next to him. "But he was gonna change the subject anyway." He said, shooting Darren his 'play along or I'm going to kill you' smile.
Luckily Darren did. They talked for a while, but after they had had all the topics on the standard small talk list, Darren asked "So Jake, do you have a girlfriend?"
Chris couldn't help but laugh at that. "No, god no." Jake let out a small laugh. Darren just looked confused. He didn't get what was that funny. "I'm gay." Jake explained.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Darren said. "Do you have a boyfriend, then?"
"Ehm no." Jake answered, blushing slightly, he was suddenly shy.
"Jake!" Ryan called. "Mark is late, again! Go get him!" Jake gave Ryan the thumbs up and gathered his belongings.
"See you later, Chris." He waved. Then he realized Chris was not the only person at the table. "And bye Darren." He said awkwardly and ran off.
"So, Jake seems to like you." Darren stated without making eye contact with Chris.
"Mmm?" Chris asked, focusing on his, half melted, ice cream again.
"He was sitting dangerously close and he was practically drooling over you." Darren explained. Chris heard an unfamiliar emotion in Darren's voice. He figured it must be jealously.
"Oh come on, you can't be jealous of him. Jake is totally not my type." Chris tried to calm him.
"Well, at least he is out of the closet." Darren said quietly.
Chris didn't know why that would be an issue at the moment. "So?" He asked, a little confused.
"I'm not." Was Darren's explanation.
"You think, just because I'm gay, I fool around with every other gay man I meet?" Chris asked. "You are such a hypocrite. You are just as much in a gay relationship as I am." God I hate it when my voice gets highpitched like that. Chris thought.
"No, I didn't mean it like that. I was just saying that it must be hard for you that I am not out of the closet." Darren took Chris' hand in his and stroke the back of it with his thumb.
Chris smiled. "I don't know if you've noticed, but you are pretty much out of the closet here on set." He told Darren and covered Darren's hand with his own.
"No I'm not." Darren said and shook his head. "I haven't told anyone that, apparently, I'm into guys too."
"But holding hands with a guy," Chris lifted their hands for a moment. "kissing a guy and dating a guy basically does that for you." He explained.
Darren's expression turned into thoughtful. "It does?" He asked Chris.
Chris just shook his head and laughed. "Do you even have a brain?" He knew what Darren meant. The way he had been raised was that it didn't mean that you're gay when a guy is dating a guy. It just means that you can be happy. Chris loved the way Darren thought. He wished the whole world thought like that.
"Oh shut up. At least I went to college." Darren teased and stuck his tongue out.
"Hey I was famous at the age of nineteen. What were you doing back then?" Chris asked. "Oh yeah, you were writing a musical about a penis." He answered his own question.
Darren just laughed at Chris' comment and leaned over the table to place a sweet kiss in Chris' lips. At that moment Jake walked by, looking for Mark. He stilled at the sight of his crush and his, apparently not so straight, friend kissing over the table he had just been sitting at.
