A/N: WHOA guys all of you were pretty impressed with last chapter's ending weren't you?
Well...here's next chapter without further delay...and I sure hope you guys don't want to kill me by the end of it, lol.
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Ch. 21: Dirty Little Secret
Both James and Sean pulled away from the heated kiss flustered and breathless.
"I-" James seemed at loss for words.
Sean shrugged and gave him a small smile.
"I'll call you later," he said before winking at him.
"I-uh-Kendall-" James said, his thoughts all jumbled and confused.
"You said so yourself," Sean whispered in James' ear "You don't know, not really, how Kendall feels about you. For all you know, he might be playing with your emotions…you deserve someone who loves you back,"
"He's my best friend," James whispered his eyes wide, very aware of Sean's hot breath on his neck.
"So he doesn't have to find out…" Sean purred before nipping his neck playfully, earning a moan from James.
"I-I guess…" James accepted weakly.
"It'll be our dirty little secret," Sean whispered in his ear, causing shivers to run down James' spine.
"Shit," James said softly before pressing his lips back to Sean's.
They made out for a little while before Sean decided he had to get back to his other friends before they came looking for him and left James very obviously aroused.
Not five minutes after Sean had left, Kendall plopped down in the sear next to James, grinning broadly.
"Hey," he said, smiling widely at his boyfriend, James returning his smile half-heartedly "This party is amazing, I have no idea why I had a bad feeling about it, it's been awesome so far!"
James looked away from him guiltily.
'Oh Kendall' he thought 'You have no idea about how right you were when you said this party would mean trouble'
"Having fun?" Kendall asked him, unaware of his boyfriend's guilty thoughts.
"Y-yeah," James said "I guess…"
"You don't sound too excited…" Kendall observed "What's wrong Jamie baby?"
"N-nothing's wrong Kendall," James answered shakily "You're just imagining things,"
"Okay…" Kendall said slowly "There's something I'm not buying in here…James, have you been drinking?"
"Huh-what? How did you know?" James exclaimed, he thought he'd done a good job at hiding his beverage from Kendall.
Kendall raised his left eyebrow.
"Your speech is slurred, you're sweating like crazy and you seem anxious- as if you were hiding something, it's not that hard to notice something's up with you. Besides, your breath stinks of alcohol- it's a dead giveaway…James, why would you do something so stupid after you specifically promised me you wouldn't?" Kendall asked.
"I only drank two cups, besides, I'm not that drunk," James defended himself 'Not drunk enough not to know I'm cheating on Kendall' he thought.
"You weren't supposed to be drunk at all…" Kendall said reasonably "Come on James, I'll take you home, I knew this party was a bad idea…"
"My mom will kill me," James moaned.
"Not if you tell her you're sleeping over at my house due to how late it is," Kendall answered "My mom will give you grief about this tomorrow but at least she won't kill you,"
"You're right," James mumbled, pulling out his phone and calling his mother.
After he'd hung up, he turned to Kendall, still avoiding his boyfriend's gaze, afraid that Kendall would see through his lies.
"So…" he said with a sigh "Seems like you're stuck with me tonight…"
"Doesn't sound bad at all…" Kendall said with a laugh, giving James a short kiss before pulling away, a disgusted look on his face.
"Blech, you taste bitterly-whatever you were drinking, it's strong…let's go home and brush your teeth and give you some coffee so we can make out…"
"You're amazing, you know that right?" James asked, feeling like a complete hypocrite for pointing that out while he'd kissed another guy not twenty minutes ago.
"I know I'm amazing but then again, so are you," Kendall said, nuzzling James' nose with his affectionately before adding "When you're not drunk!"
"Oh come on!" James said "I'm not THAT drunk either,"
"Tell that to your staggering steps," Kendall commented "You're practically clinging to me for support."
James blushed, realizing that what Kendall said was true.
After briefly explaining the situation to Carlos and Logan, who arranged for Logan's mom to pick THEM up, Kendall drove him and James to the Knight's Minnesota house and then helped James through the door.
"Oh my God, what's wrong with him?" Jennifer Knight exclaimed upon opening the door and finding her son and his boyfriend, who was very obviously drunk and leaning on Kendall for support.
"I'm sorry Mama Knight," said James softly "Won't do it again, promise…"
"We'll talk more about this tomorrow," Mama Knight said, her eyes narrowed before adding "Kendall, have you drunk any alcohol tonight?"
"No mom, just him," Kendall answered honestly while helping James get to the bathroom.
"Okay then…what happened to make him do this?" Mama Knight asked concerned.
Kendall shrugged.
"I've honestly got no idea," he said "I only left him alone for about twenty minutes and when I came back he already had the drink in his hand…"
"Okay then, we'll talk this over with him tomorrow," Mama Knight said, her son nodding in agreement.
"Mom?" he added "Not a word to Mrs. Diamond right?"
"No way I'm telling Brooke Diamond her son got drunk, uh-uh, I value my life, thank you very much…" Mama Knight said with a gentle smile for her son.
Kendall smiled back.
"I love you mom," he said.
"I love you too sweetheart," Mama Knight said "Now go take care of your boyfriend…WITH your clothes on!"
Kendall rolled his eyes.
"Sure, sure mom, whatever," he said.
The next morning...
James woke up and groaned.
His head hurt so much! Plus, the light hurt his eyes.
He groaned again.
He was annoyed when he heard a small chuckle next to him.
"Good afternoon sleeping beauty," Kendall said in a sing-song voice "Glad to see you didn't die on me…"
"Kendall?" James asked with another groan "Don't fucking tease me idiot, it hurts!"
"Hangover much?" Kendall asked, eyebrows raised.
"What do you think?" James mumbled miserably.
"Well I think," Kendall said "That this should teach you not to drink when you specifically promise not to!"
"Oh shut up already will you?" James said burying his face in his pillow.
"Here, take these, these should make you feel better," Kendall said, handing James some pills and a glass of water which he took gratefully.
"You're a life-saver, you know that right Knight?" James said gulping down the pills.
"You owe me big time for covering up for you yesterday…" Kendall said "You better make our next date worth all the trouble…"
Guilt crashed into James as soon as Kendall mentioned their next date for he remembered, all too clearly, what had happened yesterday. Even more so when Kendall brought out his breakfast in a tray besides the pills.
"What time is it?" he asked, anxious to switch the topic. Munching the delicious scrambled eggs and toast that Kendall's mom had made him.
"Nearly 1 pm. You slept the entire morning," Kendall said.
"Shoot!" James exclaimed "Kendall, Gustavo's going to kill us!"
"He's not," Kendall said "Kelly, Carlos, and Logan covered up for us, they told him I was feeling sick and you stayed home taking care of me…"
James sighed with relief.
"Get dressed," Kendall said "My mom still wants to talk to you about the whole incident last night, she's pissed off as hell at you AND I did promise I'd meet with Carlos and Logan in the park in half an hour so, if you want to come…"
"Yeah, yeah, I'll go," James said, beginning to stretch out.
"By the way," Kendall added as he gathered up James' dirty off the bed "You better check your phone, you got like a dozen messages last night while you were asleep…"
"From whom?" James asked curious.
"I don't know," Kendall said with a shrug "I didn't have time to check, I was busy taking care of you…"
"Mm…" James said "You might still want to take care of me if you know what I mean, Kendall?"
Kendall laughed and threw a pillow at James' head.
"I see you're feeling all better now," he said "Now get dressed you horn dog!"
"Aw, you don't want to play with me?" James asked with a whine.
Kendall laughed.
"I do, idiot, you left me all horny after last night's not so innocent dancing but, it's late and everyone's awake and I don't want to scar my sister for life because she heard us both have sex…"
"She's heard us before," James muttered.
"All the same, not right now James, later," Kendall promised.
With no more words he left the room to take the dishes to his mom.
James meanwhile pulled out his phone and his smile faltered at what he saw.
They were all text messages from Sean.
Taking a shaky breath he dialed Sean's number.
"Hey," Sean picked up at the other end of the line "Glad to see you're alive, I was worried by the way you and Knight left so suddenly last night,"
"Yeah, yeah, I wasn't feeling that good…" James lied, running a hand through his hair nervously.
"What's wrong James?" Sean asked concerned.
"N-nothing's wrong Sean, listen, I-I just wanted to talk to you…about last night…"
"No regrets James," Sean said "At least not from me- what about you?"
"Sean I- we can't do this," James whispered urgently, looking over his shoulder to make sure the door was closed and Kendall wouldn't overhear.
"Why not?" Sean asked.
"Because!" James said "I have Kendall and-"
"And he has no idea about whether he loves you or not, it only seems fair to me that, while he's uncertain, he allows you to be loved by other people as well!" Sean said.
"I-I" James was at loss for words.
"Tell you what…" Sean said "I'll go to Starbucks- the one round the corner in my street in about an hour, we can meet up there…if you come then I'll assume you want to give us a second chance, if you don't then, I'll know…"
"No-Sean-I don't think-!" James said but Sean had already hung up.
James sighed and ran a hand through his hair, when did life get so complicated?
Kendall came back a few moments later and smiled at James.
"So," he said "You joining me, Carlos, and Logan at the park today?"
James sighed, guilt eating away at his insides as he gazed into his boyfriend's adorable eyes and cute smile.
"No thanks," he said "I'm still getting over the hangover, besides, I have some stuff to do…"
"Oh well," Kendall said, unaware of the betrayal behind James' response "Next time then?"
"Next time," James agreed, faking a smile.
He was a really good actor…
A/N: On a scale of 1-10, how much do you all hate me right now? Lol. I bet I scored a 20 in all you guy's minds. Anyways so...is James really thinking about continuing his "thing" with Sean? If he is, will Kendall find out? If he does, will Kames survive? And how about Brooke? Will she ever find out about what her son is up to-?
JAMES- Oh, shut up with the questions already will you? You're annoying them and you're annoying me...just say you'd like about 8-10 reviews to make you happy and be done with it!
ME: Ouch...someone's grumpy today...
JAMES: Well of course I am! I have to pick between two guys now! And Kendall STILL hasn't told me he loves me yet, will he ever?
ME: O_O Well...we'll see about that. Anyways, yeah, if you guys could leave around 8-10 reviews, that'd really make my day but, as I've said before, it's merely a suggestion and if it doesn't happen you'll still have next chapter up next Friday.
JAMES: Just for curiosity's sake, where are the other guys?
ME: They're all over at the park, remember?
JAMES: Oooh...yeah, that's right...
ME: Okay, 'till next time guys!
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