"Nico, do you mind telling me why we just left like that?" Leo asked angrily as he flopped onto the bed.

"Just drop it Leo, I don't want to talk about it." Nico retorted, a hint of scorn in his voice.

Leo moved his head to stare at Nico, noticing the blush from before had grown despite the contempt Nico held.

"Did you two used to have a thing or something? What gives?"

Nico hesitated for a moment, then fell onto the other bed in the room.

"So what if I did, it was a one time thing."

"what happened? Will didn't look so sad to see you, happy even." Leo stated as he moved himself upright to sit.

Nico groaned, "Look it didn't end bad, in fact, he ended it, but I don't want to go back, so let's drop it."

Leo felt tense, something about the situation just didn't sit well, he was angry, but didn't know why.

"Fine, have it your way. You still disobeyed me back there, so I think it's about time I did something to train you." Leo almost spat.

"Really, Leo, I don't think that you can really do that anymore, unless you want everyone to know you're on bottom."

Leo blushed, "I can top, I just didn't expect you to be into well..." Leo shivered.

"BDSM, yeah, it's an acquired taste for somethings, others..." Nico trailed off with a smirk, knowing the topic made Leo squeamish.

"If you were a girl, you would have definitely been under me, not that I'd ever do it with you." Leo pouted.

Nico shrugged, "Is this your way of saying I'm too strong for you as a guy?"

"No! I'm way stronger either way!" Leo yelled, then he pulled the sleeve of his shirt up to reveal his muscle, "see?"

Nico let the jacket he wore fall off, revealing equally as toned arms, "You were saying?"

Leo let the sleeve fall back into place, "I can still use my blackmail, I don't care much about what the others think anyway, besides, I don't see you as the type to just openly state that you had sex, the details of it, and so on."

Nico blushed, he had no idea how he would use it to embarrass Leo, and when he thought about it more, it actually was just equally embarrassing to both of them. Leo saved him the need to change the subject,

"So, why did Will leave you?"

Nico now wished they could just go back to the topic of BDSM, he had gotten somewhat used to talking to Leo about that, but not something so personal to him. It may have been almost 6 months, but Leo was not someone he could trust yet. Leo also seemed too keen to bring the blackmail up whenever he was upset, but he did it less often as time went by. Nico had almost thought that maybe Leo had grown to see him as a sort of friend, the way they teased one another behaved in these circumstances.

"Some girl, peer pressure, some other stuff, look Leo, it's over now, I don't want to talk about it."

"Do you still like him?"

Nico blushed, "It was years ago, why do you care?"

Leo pulled back some, "I don't, I mean, I do, but... I'm just curious, ok?"

Leo held a faint blush on his face, he looked away trying to hide the pink tint from Nico and failing.

Nico raised an eyebrow, "Leo, you're not jealous are you?"

"what? No!" Leo cried, moving himself further onto the bed.

Nico rose to his feet and walked over to the bed Leo was on, but Leo continued to scoot away til he was on the edge of the bed.

"Nico, what are you doing?"

Nico got onto the bed, deciding to do an all or nothing move, he moved closer to Leo, and with one hand, pulled him into a kiss.

Leo pressed his hands against Nico's chest, his eyes opened wide. Nico only continued, climbing over him, and wrapping a hand around his cheek. Leo's eyes slowly closed as he started to return the kiss, pulling Nico closer to him. Nico parted for a moment to catch his breath, but Leo wouldn't have it as he quickly closed the gap once more. Nico bit Leo's lip, asking for entrance, which Leo gave. The two would pull apart to take a shaky breath when the other would pull them back in hungrily. Nico was completely in Leo's lap now as Leo trailed his hands down Nico's back.

Nico was the first to pull back, "Sure you're not jealous?"

Leo looked him in the eyes, his breath ragged, "Maybe a little bit."

"I don't want him."

"Does that mean you want me?" Leo asked, analyzing their positions.

"Maybe, but..." Nico pushed Leo down on the bed, "I just wanted to see if given the chance, if you would even try to top."

Leo blushed, looking away from Nico.

"You kissed me just to test that?"

"No, I wanted to see if you were really jealous or not," Nico smirked, "I'd say pretty jealous, you really wanted that kiss."

Leo mumbled a "shut up" to Nico, to which he ignored.

"So, what do you want?" Leo asked slightly sour.

Nico shrugged, "I don't know. What do you want?"

"I mean, are we actually a thing now? Not a pretend thing?" Leo asked, his voice sounded grim.

"That depends Valdez, do you actually like me that way?"

Leo looked off to the side, remembering each time he wanted to know more about the side of Nico kept hidden from everyone but him, he thought of the times of passion shared between them alone, and he remembered the way Nico reacted to his teasing, he loved it. He loved all of it. He loved Nico's soft dark hair and deep dark eyes, he loved his scowl, and though he hated to admit it, he loved that Nico could read him like a book, knowing how he felt and understanding it like no one else.

"Yes, Nico, I do. Alright, are you happy?"

Nico hadn't expected Leo to outright say it, but he felt glad. Nico, without realizing it, found he felt the same way. Nico pecked Leo's lips, and nodded, "mhm, I guess the feeling his mutual."

(( This is not the end of the story, you're maybe a bit more than halfway, so don't fret! I will also continue editing previous chapters, many of them are not to my liking. Thank you for your support. }}