Title: A Little Jealous
Author: SneetchesToo
Pairing: TK/Carlos
Rating: General
Summary: Day 2: "Wait, are you jealous?" + romance
Author's Note: It's not romance, because I got this angle and ran with it. That and I like the idea of TK and Michelle bonding over Carlos.
TK couldn't believe his eyes.
He just really couldn't.
"What's taking so damn long?" He growled out his question as he watched Carlos make small talk with some guy at the bar. "Does it really take that long to get a freaking drink?"
He couldn't believe that he was up there, talking to, him.
"He's probably having to wait." Michelle didn't seem the bit phased as she responded, her eyes never leaving her phone. "It is pretty busy tonight."
"I don't get it." He huffed as he sank back against the booth and crossed his arms over his chest. "If he'd stop chatting that guy up he'd be back here already."
He watched as the woman across from him finally lifted her head and turned toward the bar.
She let out a chuckle and he sighed.
"That's just Carlos being, well, Carlos." She shrugged her shoulders as she turned her attention back to him. "You know how he gets, always making friends everywhere he goes."
"Well he needs to stop!" He didn't know where that came from but the crooked smile on Michelle's face told him all he needed to know.
He sounded downright ridiculous.
"Wait a second…" She crossed her arms over her chest and mirrored his pose. "Are you jealous?"
There was no way he was jealous.
Nope.
Never.
"No!" He couldn't possibly be.
Yet, sitting here, watching his boyfriend talk and flirt and God knows what else with that cutie at the bar, he was feeling some kind of way.
"Liar." She reached down and grabbed her straw wrapper before throwing it at him, his attention finally turning back toward her. "You're totally jealous of that guy."
"Shut up Michelle." He hoped she didn't take offense to his words, he honestly had no idea what he was doing.
"TK, really…" She gave him that fixed stare that always wore his dad down and he sighed.
She was good.
Really damn good.
"Fine." He turned back toward the bar, sighing when Carlos laughed at whatever was being said to him. "Maybe I'm a little jealous."
"Why?" If he knew, maybe he wouldn't be feeling this way. "You know you have nothing to worry about."
He let out a sigh as he gave up and turned back to face her.
"Carlos loves you TK, you'd be insane to think otherwise." So maybe he was overreacting a little.
"I know." He really did know that, honestly.
So why this was bothering him so much he didn't understand.
"Look," Michelle reached across the table and grabbed his hand from where it rested, squeezing it tightly as she spoke, "I have known Carlos for almost 18 years. If he is anything, it's loyal, and faithful, and ridiculously friendly."
He knew all those things were true and yet…
"I know. I just…" He couldn't help himself from worrying, it was what he did. "I've been cheated on before."
"I know." She squeezed his hand again and offered him a smile. "But I can promise you that it would never happen with Carlos."
He believed her, 120%, so why was it so hard to make his head and his heart see eye to eye?
"I can't lose him." He sighed out the confession like it was the biggest thing he'd ever said.
"And you won't." This time she patted his arm as she pulled back. "Now go get your man!"
He couldn't help but laugh at the expression on her face as she gestured for him to leave.
He supposed, as Carlos' boyfriend and all, that he had every right to go interrupt.
So that's exactly what he did.
He stood up from the seat and marched his butt right on over to the bar.
And then he slipped his arm around the man's waist and pressed a kiss to his cheek without a second thought.
He could practically hear Michelle cheering him on from across the room.
Carlos seemed shocked by his arrival but he stepped into his embrace and turned to greet him.
But TK stopped him with a kiss, a very intense kiss, and the next thing he knew the other man was forgotten.
Maybe being a little jealous wasn't always a bad thing.