Chapter 29:
"Psychology again eh, Price?" James smirked as he took his usual seat next to Kevin in the hall.
"Seems like it," he smiled a little, "Why'd we take this again?"
"Cause psychology is fun? And this is the first year they're teaching a second level of it."
"Yeah so?"
"That means we're test subjects and this is probably gonna be the easiest thing for our senior year ever. They'll note what they did wrong with us and then make it ten times harder for the incoming students. Duh," he explained.
Kevin blinked a few times before shaking his head, "Ok, just the fact that you had a prepared speech worries me greatly."
"Oh shut up," he yawned.
"No Elle to get us coffee this time," Kevin smirked a little, "We'll actually have to do it."
James groaned, "Awesome… We lost Elle and we gained-"
"Hey guys," Eric sat next to Kevin.
"-that asshole," James concluded.
"Missed you too, buddy," Eric nodded to James, "Really."
"You know I hate dealing with you in the early morning hours."
Kevin looked between the two, trapped in the middle. He shook his head, "Guys, it's 10:30!"
"I'm not awake yet, I just woke up like ten minutes ago," Eric yawned.
"See!" James exclaimed, "I told you!"
Eric rolled his eyes at his friend. He was way too tired to deal with his crap that early in the morning. James, on the other hand, decided it was bed time and grabbed his backpack and put it on the desk top and snuggled up on it. To bother James while he slept before class was like a death sentence.
Kevin looked over at Eric, who was busy scribbling something down in his notebook. At once, he groaned.
"Damnit," he groaned.
"Huh?" Eric asked
"I forgot my laptop in Connor's room. I was in a rush leaving and forgot it on his desk."
"Call him and see if he can bring it to you," Eric suggested.
"Good idea."
Before Kevin could grab his phone, it already began to ring. "Collide" filled the empty hall which caused it to sound louder than it actually was. Kevin nodded approvingly at the caller ID.
"He's good."
"What?" Eric finally looked up as Kevin answered his phone.
"Yes, love?" he smiled. Eric couldn't help but smirk. "Yeah, I know I forgot it. I'm dumb." Kevin's smile broadened, "Some jerk was trying to rush me out of his room too early. Maybe you know him?"
"God, you're such a loser," James mumbled through his backpack.
"Yes, I'll meet you outside for it. I owe you one for this," Kevin smiled, "Love you too, bye."
He hung up his phone and slid it into his pocket. Eric was too busy giving him a look.
"What?"
"I can't get over how much you've changed since I met you. When we met, I thought you were an uptight Mormon who was a goodie goodie who would never even consider being with a guy. Now, here you are three years later saying "I love you" to a guy whom you've been with for over a year. And you have a ringtone set for him with, what I'm guessing, your song."
"Yeah? So?"
"You've come a long way, Price," he patted his shoulder, "You're one of us now."
"That kinda worries me," he nodded a little to Eric.
"It's not so bad, Kevin," James mumbled, "You get used to it."
"So, what were you rushing around for this morning, huh?" Eric wiggled his eyebrows at Kevin.
"Don't worry about it," he stood up, "I'll be back in a few minutes."
"Don't do a quickie in the bathroom, class is gonna start soon," James lifted his head enough to yell to his friend.
"Use protection if you do!" Eric noted.
"I hate you both," Kevin turned red while he descended the stairs leading out of the room.
Connor was waiting for his boyfriend outside the hall, his back to the doors. Kevin's laptop case was flung over his shoulder like a messenger bag. He felt silly carrying a backpack and a messenger bag. Students kept going in the building and only a few coming out.
Thankfully, someone was walking in the door when Kevin was able to grab it before it closed. He smiled when he saw the back of his boyfriends head. A devilish smirk on his face, he ran up behind him and picked him up.
He let out a playful yelp, "Put me down right now, Kevin Alexander Price!"
"Hi there," he smiled.
"Put me down!" he laughed, "I won't give you back your laptop!"
Kevin laughed a little and put him back on the ground. He had angered the ginger. Connor was fixing up his shirt when Kevin placed a gentle kiss on his cheek. Despite him still being a little mad at his boyfriend for messing up his shirt, Connor couldn't help but smile at the kiss.
"I'm still mad at you," he huffed, finishing fixing his shirt.
"I don't care," Kevin smiled.
Connor couldn't help but smile. He rolled his eyes and handed him his bag, "Here, take your damn laptop."
"Thank you, love," he smiled.
Connor wrapped his arms around his waist, "You're welcome." He stood on his toes a little to give his boyfriend a light kiss on his lips. "Are the boys playing nice?"
"They're being mean to me," he pouted a little.
"I'll make sure to scold them later," he smiled, "Don't worry."
Kevin smiled, "I gotta get back to class."
"Can't you skip?" Connor whined a little.
"I'd love to, but I can't."
He sighed, "Alright, alright."
"I'll make it up to you later?"
"If you tell me what they were making fun of you about?"
"Eric and James were just being Eric and James. James was under the assumption that we were gonna have a quickie in the bathroom. Eric simply said to use protection."
Connor rolled his eyes, "Not all relationships are based around sex."
"Exactly," he smiled and kissed him again, "I gotta go, ok?"
"You owe me for this," he smiled.
"I know," he started up the stairs, "Love you."
"I love you too," he smiled to his boyfriend as he disappeared through the doors.
Kevin made his way back to the hall. It was fuller than it was when he left. His seat was still open between his two friends. James, still sleeping, and Eric, busy working on a song. Kevin squeezed past Eric and sat back down and got out his laptop.
"That was fast," Eric noted, not bothering to look up.
"Didn't take long. Was just getting my laptop from my boyfriend."
He nodded, "So you claim."
Kevin rolled his eyes and waited for his laptop to start up. He was up a good portion of the night working on a new concept idea for a novel. Sometime around one or so, a pissed off Connor took his laptop, shut it down, put it on his desk and forced his boyfriend to cuddle with him before they fell asleep.
He cracked his knuckles and resumed where he was forced to stop last night. A few lines down, the door opened then slammed again. James shot up into his usual military position like last year. Kevin and Eric looked over to him, to make sure he was ok. As usual, James waved them off. Kevin typed something down on his laptop and slid it towards James.
Why do you do that every time the door slams? Just curious.
James frowned a little and typed back his response.
The sperm donor would always slam the door when he came home drunk. Slamming always meant bad news in any situation. Just a trigger I guess.
Kevin looked over to James who simply shrugged. James took the laptop and added: don't worry, I'm fine when that happens. Promise
He read it and nodded to him. Realizing he is ok, it's just a very bad habit. James groaned a little and slid down in his chair, wishing he was asleep again. Time for another semester of sleeping through class, distracting themselves with other activities and then cramming for exams later. Fun stuff.
Outside, Connor and Oliver were sitting around under the usual gathering tree. Oliver looked up from his book at Connor. He was laying on his back, backpack as a pillow, looking up to the sky.
"You ok?"
"Fine," he responded.
"You're thinking," Oliver put his book down, "Do tell."
He sighed and sat up, "Do you think it's weird that Kevin and I haven't had sex yet?"
"Weird question," he responded nonchalantly, "Why is that on your mind? From what I've seen, that's something far from what you two usually discuss."
He shook his head, "James and Eric were picking on him as usual. I asked him what and he said that they were under the impression that we would be doing a quickie in the bathroom. Then I said 'not all relationships are based around sex'. Now I'm being a dumbass and thinking why we haven't done it yet. We've been saying we love each other for a while now. Shouldn't that mean something? I mean, the topic's come up once before last semester, but that was how many months ago… What should I do?"
"I don't mean to keep bringing this up, but you are Price's first boyfriend. He might not know how that particular kind of sex works. Do you blame him? Hell, I didn't know the first time I did it."
He nodded, "True. Very true…"
"He's done it with a girl and probably thinks that mentality, but with another guy is a lot different," he laughed lightly.
"Should I talk to him about it again?"
"If it's bothering you," Oliver pondered over the thought, "Then yes. I think you should. If something like this is bothering you that effects the both of you, then yes."
"You're right," he nodded, "I'll mention it to him again sometime soon."
"Good for you. Now, did you read this book? I've been reading this for an hour and I have no idea what it's about."
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"Well that was… boring," Eric yawned as the three emerged from the building once the lecture was over.
"Damn right," James nodded in agreement.
"Why'd we take that again?" Kevin asked James.
He shrugged, "No clue."
"Kevin!"
Eric groaned, "Ultra Mormon alert."
The other two groaned in their agreement to Eric's. Abby bounded up to the three guys. Her pig tail braids bounced against her shoulders. It actually pissed James and Kevin off because she kinda looked like Anna from Frozen with the braids. That only made the two dislike the movie a bit.
"Hey guys," she nodded a little to them.
Eric and James mumbled an inaudible 'hi' while Kevin merely nodded.
"Can I talk to you, in private?" she asked Kevin.
"Uh, sure," he nodded, probably regretting this decision later.
Both James and Eric patted his back like he was going to go into a glorious battle and not return. Once they bid him ado, they booked it the hell outta there so they weren't roped into it somehow. Kevin glared at his friends half running off. With a head shake, he looked down at his crazy ex.
"What do you wanna talk about?" he asked.
She gestured for him to follow her. Eyes rolled, he followed her to a table next to the hall. They sat across from one another. Abby took a deep sigh before looking him in the eyes.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for all that crap I said to you about you being a disgrace to your family. It was wrong and uncalled for," she paused for a moment before continuing, "I guess you realized that I still had feelings for you, even though I'm with Noah."
He nodded, "Yeah. That was obvious."
"I do apologize for that too. It wasn't fair to Noah or you and your boyfriend. I guess I was just shocked and scared that you said you were bi and had a boyfriend. I was just kinda thinking that I was the one who made you gay… bi, sorry."
Kevin nodded a little, "I get it. Abby, no one made me bi. It's just something I discovered on my own. It was long after we had sex, so you had nothing to do with it. It was just college and freedom making me think about who I really am as a person. I'm not the same guy from high school."
She nodded, "I know that now. When I found out you went here, I begged my parents to let me transfer here. I thought that we'd still have a chance," she sighed, "And I see that we'll never be a thing again."
"Sorry, but no," he shook his head, "I'm in a happy relationship with Connor. And I don't have feelings for you like that anymore."
"I get it," she nodded, "And I shouldn't have done that to Noah. We talked about it and felt the need to apologize to you. I shouldn't have done a lot of the things I was doing. I shouldn't have put you above the rest, tried to convert Eric and Oliver so much, called you out on your sexuality, completely lost my mind and made a fool of myself…"
Kevin sighed, "I should apologize then too. I shouldn't have called you ou-"
"No," she stopped him, "You should have. I needed to hear that. I really did. I should be thanking you for that."
"Really?"
"Yes, really."
Kevin nodded, not really sure on what to say next. Abby smiled a little to him, "So? Can we start over?" she held out her hand for hand shake.
He smiled, "Yeah, that sounds good," he grabbed her hand and shook it.
"Hi, I'm Abby Delaney," she smiled.
"Kevin Price, nice to meet you."
"Sorry to cut this introduction short, I'm meeting my boyfriend for lunch," she smiled.
"Don't wanna keep him waiting," he nodded.
She gathered her things and stood, "Kevin, I'm really glad we settled this all out."
"Same here," he gave her a smile, "Next step is the other guys."
Abby groaned a little with a smile, "Alright, fine. I'll see ya, Kevin."
"Bye."
She skipped off towards Noah's dorm room. Kevin sat there for a few minutes, taking their conversation in. Everything was cool between them, for now. He just prayed that it wouldn't go backwards and go back to high school days. They were past that now. Adults in college getting ready to graduate soon.
After a while, he stood up and grabbed his stuff. With no more classes for the day, and nothing better to do, he decided on going back to his dorm and grabbing a book. He got up there and dropped off his bag and went into his closet to find a book or something to read. After sitting there for a few minutes, he narrowed it down to three. Flipping through them, Kevin heard a light knock at the door.
"It's open," he called.
Connor opened the door slowly and walked in, "Kevin?"
"Closet," Kevin responded to his boyfriend.
He shut the door behind him and set his stuff on Kevin's bed. Connor crossed his arms with a small smirk, "What are you doing in the closet? I thought you came out already?"
"Oh, ha-ha, very funny," he responded sarcastically.
"Whatchya doin in there?"
"Book," he finally made his choice of Three Musketeers and began to put his books back in order, "What's up?"
"I was wondering if we could talk?"
Kevin stopped what he was doing and stood. Quickly, he sat down on his bed next to his boyfriend. "What kind of talk? Like, 'we need to talk' or 'we need to talk'?"
Connor smiled at his boyfriend's way of putting it. He rolled his eyes and kissed him. Once he pulled away, he smiled, "We're not breaking up, talk."
"Oh, thank god," he let out a breath of relief.
"Can we talk though? Somethings been bothering me, that's all."
Kevin nodded, "Of course, of course."
He took a deep breath, "It was from what you said James and Eric made fun of you about. I'm bringing this up again cause we've been dating for over a year now and we still haven't had sex and I was wondering if it was me or what…? It's a dumb question but I'm just wondering."
"Remember what I said earlier and didn't have a real answer for that?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, I lied," he looked down to the floor, "I did have an answer, I was just too afraid to tell you. Truth is, obviously I haven't done it with a guy before so I don't know how to do it with a guy…"
Connor smiled at his awkward boyfriend and slid closer to him. He put his arm around him. "You could've told me and I wouldn't have thought any less of you."
"It's not that I don't want to, I just don't know how."
Connor raised an eyebrow and smirked at him devilishly, "I can show you."
"Now?" Kevin looked up at his boyfriend.
"Yes, why not?" he shrugged.
Kevin pondered over the thought for a moment. He didn't have anything better to do. A smile slowly spread across his face as he stood to put a TARDIS sticky note on the door. He closed the door and locked it. When he turned around, he smirked to his boyfriend.
Connor didn't say anything. He merely gestured to Kevin to come to him with his finger. Kevin smiled and joined him on the bed and cupped his face and kissed him with a fiery passion. Connor was taken back at the kiss, but melted into it nonetheless.
Clothes began to come off one article at a time. Connor was on top and breathed into Kevin's ear, "I love you so much."
"I love you too," Kevin kissed him again.
"You sure you wanna do this?" Connor asked before they started anything.
"Yeah, I'm sure."
Connor nodded, "I'll go easy on you."
