Synopsis: Will is at Charlie's house for the first time, and he already got in bed with him.
Arms wrapped around Will's shoulders, Charlie kissed the top of his boyfriend's head. Will smiled up at him, and kissed Charlie on the lips,
"What was that?" Will broke away quickly, hearing an odd sound,
"Nothing, probably just my neighbors," Charlie replied, moving towards Will for more. Will shrugged and embraced Charlie,
"Dad! Dad are you sleeping?" the voice of a teenage girl became audible as the door to Charlie's bedroom slowly opened,
"Whoa!" the girl jumped, seeing the two men in the bed together. They were unclothed on top, but the blanket covered all the rest, fortunately thought the girl, "Okay, I s'pose you're the new boyfriend," she retained a level head and walked over to the bed, holding out her hand for Will to shake, "I'm Sydney, and you must be Will,"
Will shook her hand awkwardly,
"Yeah, I am,"
"Will, this is my incredibly outspoken daughter," Charlie said scathingly, as Sydney smiled proudly and nodded in agreement,
"Daughter, wow," Will breathed, "That's, that's something,"
"I'm so sorry for not telling you, I just wanted to wait until the right time to tell you," Charlie apologized, his pleading face genuine,
"No, it's fine, don't apologize. It's just a bit of a shocker," Will said,
"Thanks," Charlie said, "Now, Sydney weren't you supposed to be spending the night at Margaret's, the girl from your play?"
"Well, we were at the cast party until like a half hour ago, and then it turns out that Margaret has relatives over so I figured it would be polite to not stay over, and I didn't think it would be a problem to come home," Sydney explained, her words pushed together quickly, but very clearly, "That was assuming of course that my dad wasn't at third base with his boyfriend,"
Jerking his head sharply in Sydney's direction, Will was surprised at this last statement of hers,
"Good story, but next time a call would be nice," Charlie suggested coolly,
"Okely dokely," Sydney said cheerfully, "G'night. Oh, and dad," she said before departing, "Buy a bigger blanket next time you go to the store,"
Charlie hastily pulled the covers over the lower portion of his body, his cheeks turning red.
"So, you have a daughter," Will broke the silence that followed the exiting of Sydney,
"Yeah," Charlie looked at Will with eyes filled of anxiety,
"How does that work?" Will asked,
"Well, my girlfriend in college some how got me into bed with her. I don't know how, she must have drugged me up a bunch and convinced me that she was a man or something," he began, "After that I came out of the closet to her. She was pretty mad at me and didn't even tell me she was pregnant. I had no idea until I got a call from one of her closest friend's seven months later saying that Sarah had died in child birth,"
"I'm so sorry," Will said, taking in the dreadful story,
"Don't be, it wasn't your fault. Well, anyways with her mother gone, I was the legal guardian of Sydney and have been ever since," Charlie summed up the rest of the story,
"Wow," Will marveled, "So, how old is she?"
"14, she'll begin 9th grade this upcoming week," Charlie said,
"At your school?" Will asked,
"Yep, she's in my 4th period class," he nodded,
"What's that gonna be like?" Will wondered,
"Well, the school is 6th through 12th grade, so I've taught her a couple of other years before, and let's just say it's very interesting, but everything with Sydney involved is," Charlie told him,
"Yeah, I sort of sensed that. I mean most teenage girls don't just calmly shake hands with a man they just found in bed with their dad,"
"You got off lucky, I was sure she would get in bed with us or perform a tap dancing routine or something outrageous," Charlie said,
"You're kidding," Will retorted with a chortle,
"Not a bit, she once got sent to the office in 7th grade for singing along to her musical Christmas socks during History class," Charlie recalled,
"Quite an eccentric one, eh?" Will chuckled.
"That's Sydney," Charlie responded, almost in the tone of a cheesy television advertiser. Then after a moment of awkward silence said in a furtive tone, "You're not angry are you? I mean, I really am sorry, I hope this doesn't change anything between us because it was going so well,"
"No, don't be sorry. I like you a lot Charlie, I don't think anything could change that," Will responded
"Thanks," Charlie said, "Now, where were we?" he locked his lips with Will's in a passionate kiss as Will retaliated with the same vigor.