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Roman took a deep breath. Once, twice. Should he really do that? Talking to him would mean to admit his feelings to himself. Yes! He had to talk to Seth about it. After all he was his best friend. Hopefully he wouldn't judge him negatively. But what if he did? He had no idea what his friends' attitude regarding a relationship between two men was. What if he hated him? Another breath. Hesitantly he knocked at the door.

Nothing happened. Maybe he wasn't there? Or had Seth just not heard him? Roman knocked a second time on the hotel room door, this time a bit louder. "I'm on my way, for god's sake!" it came muffled and annoyed out of Seth's room. Roman saw his shadow appearing underneath the door. After a short while, Seth likely looking through the spyhole, he heard the door chain unlock and his friend opened the door. The younger man looked shining as always. With his distinctive face and the black-blond colored hair you would recognize him everywhere. His hair fell in damp locks from his head. "Come in." Seth greeted his longtime friend. "I'll just put on some clothes." Only then the Samoan realized, that Seth only wore a towel, loosely slung around his waist. Seth had an amazingly slim waist for a man his height and beautifully trained muscles, highlighted even more by his damp skin. But even though Seth was a thoroughly attractive man, Roman had never felt anything else than friendship for the younger man.

Roman looked around. Somehow all hotel rooms just looked the same. Sterile and uncomfortable. It was equipped with a big bed, a small fridge, a table with two chairs and a wardrobe. Seth's clothes were lying around everywhere, on the chairs, the bed and even on the floor. Roman shook his head: "You're feeling right at home, hm?"

"Sure! You know that I'm not comfortable without all the chaos." Seth laughed and emerged from the bathroom in cozy black sweatpants. "Where is it?" he said scanning the room. "Ah, there it is!" He pulled out something between a pile of other stuff. A black shirt with his signature logo. "What else?!" Roman grinned and felt his nervousness decrease.

"You fancy a drink, Big Dog?"

"A beer would be nice."

Seth laughed and took two cans out of the fridge. "So what's the matter? It's quite late for a visit." Seth looked interested at his friend.

"Uhm, well…I…I wanted to talk to you about something." Roman smiled uneasily and shifted nervously from one foot to the other.

"Okay?" Seth still looked curiously but now also slightly concerned at his friend, never before having him seen that insecure. "What's the matter? Has something happened? Sit down and tell me." He cleared a chair, carelessly dropping everything onto the bed, part of it of course ending up on the floor, and slumped onto a chair. Hesitantly Roman sat down on the chair opposite of Seth's.

"So? What's going on?"

"Uhm…", Roman started nervously poking at his shirt and tried to avoid Seth's glance. "It's…It's about Dean. I…I think I'm in love with him."

With a short glance at Seth he could see a grin brightening the face of his friend. Then Seth started laughing. Startled by this action Roman flinched. Thousands of thoughts raced through his mind in split seconds. What was going on? Why was he laughing? Did he think this was a joke?

"But I already knew that! In fact, everyone seeing you two together more than five minutes knows it!" Seth grinned at Roman. "I'm really happy that you finally realized that, too!"

Uncertain about that information Roman looked over to Seth. "Why haven't you approached me all that time? When apparently it was that obvious?!" the Samoan asked his friend slightly confused.

"Well, I thought that you would come to me by yourself when you were ready for it." Seth was still smiling from ear to ear. "Since when did you have that feeling?"

"Actually….since the first time I saw him." Roman answered while now also laughing and rubbing his neck.

"But what are you going to do now with Stephanie?" Seth asked. "She'll be so pissed when she finds out that you are breaking up because of someone else. Especially because it's a guy!"

Roman looked at his friend helplessly. "I don't know. Most likely tell her the truth. At least she won't be able to accuse me of lying then. But it definitely will be bad…hopefully she won't take it as badly as we think. It's not going well with us anymore anyway." Roman answered with an insecure look.

"Well, can't see a reason for that!" Seth replied smirking with a sarcastic tone in his voice. And with a friendly smile he continued "I'm so happy for you, Ro! It'll be great!"…He stood up and patted his friend on the shoulder. "So now you just have to talk to Dean about it."

Stiffly Roman looked up to his friend. Then with a grin he said: "Yes! I just need the right moment for that."…His face darkened. "But first I have to get rid of Stephanie…"

To be continued…