"Hey, so how was rehearsal?"
Daphne dropped her bag on the stairs. "Hell." She walked into the living room. "This girl keeps throwing herself at him, it's super annoying."
"What does Will do?"
"He tries to keep her away as much as he can, but she's our boss and we need the money. So he can hardly tell her to fuck off."
"When was this party?"
"Three weeks. So me and Will have to rehearse together another 5-8 times or something." She let herself fall back onto the couch. "It's just so hard."
"I know, but you'll get through it. Just take it one rehearsel at a time."
"I am, we are.. but I can feel myself getting closer again. I was sitting next to him on the stage last week and I.." Daphne sighed. "There was nothing I wanted to do more, and I knew he was thinking the same thing. I was losing control so I left."
"In a couple of months you'll be graduating and everything will be fine."
"I hope so, but before that happens there's the pool party, and nationals, which are in fucking LA. Which means the beach, and shirtless Will."
Elise chuckled at the last part. "Shirtless Will is hard to resist?"
"Torture, pure torture."
…
"This is becoming too hard for me Will." Daphne said as they were sitting in his office, making the set-list.
He looked up, surprised. "You wanna finish the list tomorrow?"
"Not the list, this, us."
"Me too. I can feel myself slipping. I just want to spend time with you, I try to make up excuses to keep you longer after class, here." He rubbed his face.
Daphne looked at the set-list. "If this was Sue's evil plan, it's working."
"Yes, it is. How did she become so evil.. You should go."
"I should, shouldn't I?"
Will nodded. "I'll finish the set-list. I'll mail it to you tomorrow."
"Okay." She stood up and grabbed her bag. "See you tomorrow at glee."
...
"What's up with you and Mr Schue lately?" Tina asked her.
"Nothing I know of? What do you mean."
Tina looked at Will. "You're acting weird around each other. Like you can't stand do be in the same room." Tina had no idea how true that was. "Did you have a fight?"
"No, I don't know what you're talking about. As far as I know, we're fine."
"Mr Schue!" Tina yelled.
"Yeah Tina?"
"You and Daphne are doing some girls sweet sixteen right?"
Will nodded. "To bring in money for the glee-club."
"If you ever need a test-audience we would love to hear."
"Thank you Tina, I will keep that in mind. I'm not done with all the choreography yet so I might take you up on that offer."
…
"So I edited the set-list a little." Will said as Daphne walked into the choir-room the next day. "Charlotte wanted more slow songs."
"What, so she can dance with you?"
Will smiled "You're still worried about that?"
"Of course I'm worried about that!" Daphne sighed. "I'm not worried about you doing something but about her.. You have seen her throw herself at you right? You got that part?" She put the weird voice on again. "Oh Will, you're such a good teacher."
Will smiled. "Are you saying I'm not a good teacher?" He smiled at her suggestively. "Because I think I taught you a lot."
"You're definitely a good teacher. A very, very good teacher." She took a step closer. "Not just glee and Spanish." She looked him up and down.
"Oh? What other subjects are my specialty?" He tucked some hair behind her ear and looked at her lips.
Daphne took a step back. "Inappropriate subjects." She walked towards the piano to take a look at the set-list. "So, the songs?"
"I can't do this." Will said. "Come over tonight."
"Will.."
He looked at the hallway, the bell had just rang and students started walking past the choir room, looking inside. "I'm serious, screw this. Come over tonight."
"We can't, you're the one who told me that."
"Daphne.. I'm about this close." He held his fingers half an inch apart. "To kissing you here, please come over tonight so I can look forward to that."
"You're making this so hard for me."
He walked towards her, standing a little bit too close. "I'm coming very close to not caring about my career anymore. I'm begging you, come over tonight." He saw she was still hesitating. "Do you want me to beg on my knees? I will."
"We can't. I don't want you to risk your career." She grabbed her bag. "I gotta go. Before this happens." She walked towards the door. "You'll thank me tomorrow."
Will watched her and sighed, grabbing his bag. He didn't have any classes the rest of the day. He'd bring the tests and papers that needed grading home with him. He needed a shower, a very cold shower.
…
Daphne was sitting in her room, she had been staring at the wall for an hour now. "Will was the one who said we needed to end things, if he wants to rekindle why am I stopping it?" She asked herself out loud. "Because he might lose his job and resent me for the rest of his life." She had been thinking about this way too long. Will was begging her to come over, so what was stopping her? Morals? Those flew out the window as soon as she started sleeping with her teacher. But what if she did go over, and Sue found out. Would he resent her afterwards? That sure as hell wasn't a solid base for a relationship. But then again, he was begging her, begging. That's how much he wanted her, it was just as hard for him as it was for her. They were supposed to do this for another 4 or 5 months. They were never gonna make it, she knew that now. So if they weren't gonna make it, wasn't it better to screw up, screw him, now? Save themselves a couple of months of torture. Daphne nodded. "That makes sense." She got up, took a super quick shower and changed her clothes before walking down. "I'm going to take a drive grams, I really need it."
"Sure sweetie, be home before 12."
Daphne nodded and grabbed her car keys before driving over to Will's. The light in the livingroom was burning, so that's a good thing. She rang his bell and waited a minute, no answer.
Meanwhile Will was in the shower, concentrating on thinking about everything but Daphne, and failing miserably. Even the 60 degree shower wasn't helping him tonight. He heard the doorbell and ignored it, he was in the middle of something right now. He thought about turning the shower hot, he'd be done and out of the shower in 5 minutes. That would keep his mind off of Daphne for at least 30 minutes. He heard the doorbell again. "Go away.." He softly groaned, the shower still freezing. "Wait, what if that's Daphne and she changed her mind." He immediately shut off the shower and grabbed a towel.
Daphne sighed. "Seems like he isn't going to answer. Maybe it's for the best, god's will or something." She grabbed her car keys and turned around to her car.
Will ran towards the door, when he opened it he could just see Daphne's tail lights. "Fuck." He walked back inside to grab his phone and call her, make her turn around and come back. If he did that they would be in his bedroom within two minute. He groaned softly at the thought of Daphne in his bed. "That sounds amazing." Another part of his body had already woken up. He quickly dialed her number.
"Daphne's phone, she's not here at the moment." It was Elise.
"Oh, hi Elise. It's Will." He sighed.
"Hi Will, she's driving to clear her head. Is everything okay?"
"Fine, I just wanted to talk to her for a minute but it can wait."
"I'll tell her you called."
"Yeah, thanks. I gotta go, there's some stuff I need to do."
"Have a good evening Will."
"Thanks, you too. Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
Will threw his phone on the couch and walked towards the shower again, a hot shower this time.
…
"Hi grams, I'm back." Daphne said as she hung her coat.
"Hey sweetie, you forgot your phone. Will called."
Daphne looked up surprised. "Will called? When?"
"Half an hour ago."
"Fuck." She softly cursed. "Okay, thanks grams."
"Is everything okay?"
"I don't know anymore, we.. we're not gonna make the next couple of months."
Elise got up. "You're both very strong, you'll get there."
"Maybe.. I'm gonna go to bed. See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
…
"A week until your big party Charlotte, are you ready?" Will smiled at her as he and Daphne walked in for the final rehearsel.
Charlotte nodded. "Yes! I've been practicing every day."
"Good. Let's get started then."
Daphne followed him inside. They hadn't talked about last night yet. This must be the worst 24 hours in the past year. If she'd seen him last night this meeting would be a lot more tolerable.
"Can we change one move?" Charlotte asked as they walked into the dance studio. "I want a lift."
"A lift?" Will asked surprised.
Charlotte nodded. "I want it to be all about me."
Will scratched his head. "I guess we can work that in somewhere."
Daphne watched as Charlotte stood closer to Will and suggested a couple of dance steps that would happen before and after the lift, she was practically grinding against him.
"That might be a little much." Will said. "How about we just work the lift in, that I can do."
"But this looks so good, don't you think Daphne?" Charlotte asked raising her eyebrows at Daphne.
"Not really, it doesn't fit with the song at all. The lift should be kinda okay."
"Fine." Charlotte said. "Just the lift than."
Daphne tried to keep her cool for the next hour as Charlotte and Will rehearsed the lift. "I think you got it Charlotte." Will said. "Let's run through the whole thing once more and then we're ready for your party."
"Great!" Charlotte said enthusiastically.
…
"That was great everybody." Will smiled as he walked towards his bag to get the water bottles he'd brought. "We are definitely ready for the party."
"Awesome. Thank you so much Will, and Daphne of course." She walked towards Will. "I'll walk you out." Will nodded, smiled and grabbed his back. "Unless you want to take a shower here first."
"I'm good, but thanks."
"Your loss." She walked them out and saw how they drove off in Daphne's car, Will had lost his car keys this morning.
Daphne was gripping the steering wheel tight.
"Are you okay Daph?"
"No." She turned right. "I need to make a stop first."
"Okay." Will watched as the turned into a parking garage and Daphne drove to the top floor. "What are we doing here?" Daphne didn't answer, instead moved his seat all the way back and climbed over the console to straddle him. "Are you sure? Because yesterday you told me this was a bad idea." He put his hands on her ass.
"It is a bad idea." She kissed him and unbuttoned his shirt. He quickly pulled her sweaters zipper down and pulled it off. He softly pushed her back so he could take off her shirt before kissing her neck.
"I've missed this so much." He groaned as she opened the zipper of his jeans. He lifted his hips so she could pull them off before doing the same to her.
"Just shut up and fuck me."
Will smiled and softly kissed her neck. "You're one on top babe." They heard a car horn one floor down. Stopping them in their tracks, looking at each other.
"We're at a parking lot.. If we don't wanna get caught we should move this somewhere else." Daphne said. Will nodded and pulled his shirt back over his shoulders, starting to button it.
They were just dressed again when Daphne's phone started ringing. She didn't recognize the number but decided to answer it.
"Hello?"
"Is this Daphne Smith?"
"Yes?"
"This is Dr Payton, Lima medical centre. I have Elise Smith here with me."
"My grandmother? Is everything okay? What happened?"
"She got into a car accident, it's nothing big but she can't drive herself home."
"Yeah, I'll be there ASAP." She hung up the phone. "Grams got into a car accident. Do you mind coming to the hospital with me? I have to pick her up."
"Sure, is she okay?"
"Yeah, I think so." She looked at Will briefly before driving off. "What the fuck are we doing?"
"I don't know, I can't stand this any longer. I need to be with you."
"Yeah, me too. I tried last night, I tried now.. try again tomorrow?"
Will nodded. "My place, 8?"
"Sounds good. If it doesn't happen soon we will have to lock your office."
Will smiled. "We might have to, yes."
A/N That's it for today. Sorry I've been long gone. Leave me a review? :)
