Naturally, two guys dancing with each other attracted a bit of attention, but only a bit. Gilbert decided that the homophobes must have been drunk or absent, because no one openly pointed him and Matthew out or made trouble. Either that or people though either he, the Totally Awesome and Ever Impressive Gilbert Beilschmidt, or his companion, the Overly Cute and Adorably Shy Matthew, was a girl. Well. No one could possibly mistake his Awesomeness for being female! So maybe Matthew looked like a girl...?
Gilbert almost laughed aloud at the thought. Matthew didn't look like a girl! Sure, he was cute and shy and had what seemed to be a permanent dusting of pink across his cheeks, and sure his hair was soft and smelled like apples, and sure his eyes were a brilliantly light shade of lavender... but he looked nothing like a girl!
"You're cute, Mattie," Gilbert declared, smiling proudly.
Matthew blushed, obviously not used to being lavished with attention, at least not attention from someone who was most certainly not desperate. (And if Gilbert was desperate, then Matthew was a rainbow unicorn.) "Th-thanks..." he murmured, eyes facing downwards.
"We should totally exchange numbers! Then you can call the Awesome me whenever you want and versa vice!" Gilbert's smile was an unwavering beacon of pride and happiness.
"V-vice versa..." Matthew corrected quietly.
"That too," Gilbert nodded. "Come on! Someone around here has got to have a pen and paper, right?"
"Um..." Matthew found that he didn't actually have a choice as Gilbert half-dragged him from the dance floor and around the room a bit. Gilbert stopped at each table, asking (obnoxiously) for a pen and paper but achieving nothing more then a few frowns from the people he tried to ask. Eventually Gilbert just used the back of one of the Congratz cards on the back table (and one of the provided pens), ripping the card in half and writing his number on one half and handing the pen to Matthew along with the blank half of Congratz card.
Matthew quietly wrote down his number, accepting Gilbert's and wondering what the heck he was getting himself into.