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Disclaimer: No, I don't own Glee. Obviously.
"...And the time we tied Wes to the chair and made him watch us destroy his precious gavel?" Jeff was laughing so hard he could barely speak. Nick was gasping for breath in between giggles and snorts.
Jeff, Nick, David, Wes, Trent, and Thad were all gathered around the lunch table. The Warblers were reminiscing about all the pranks they'd ever pulled. Well, maybe not ALL of them, because you could practically write a book about them.
"I still haven't forgiven you guys for that one." Wes mumbled, glaring at the two, lovingly known as 'Niff'. The two were practically inseparable, and it was just too much work to say Nick and Jeff, so the fellow Warblers gave them the couple/best friend - whatever you wanted to call it - name Niff. Ever since then, when speaking of the two, they are always classified as Niff.
"Oh come on man, we do it out of love." Nick smiled innocently, finally recovering from his laughing attack. Wes just sent another death glare Niff's way, which only made them burst out laughing again.
The laughter only started to die down when Blaine and Kurt joined the table. "Hey guys, have you met the new guy?" Blaine asked, sitting down alongside David.
The Warblers looked around at each other, shaking their heads no, confused looks on most of their faces.
"New guy?" Trent asked. Blaine nodded. "Yeah. He's a junior. I think he might be interested in joining the Warblers. I invited him to join us today."
Wes frowned slightly. "Okay, I'm all for being welcoming and all, but this is our table."
"Oh come on Wes, loosen up." Kurt rolled his eyes. "He probably won't want to stick around you crazy baboons anyway."
The other Warblers chuckled and Wes just made a face.
"Oh look, here he comes." Blaine motioned to the entrance of the cafeteria.
"Try to act normal. Make a good first impression." Kurt smiled smugly, who was lightly smacked on the arm by Trent.
The boys looked across the room where a tall figure walked- no - strode towards their table. Jeff slightly raised his eyebrows.
He looked quite like Jeff. He was Jeff's height, but had a bit of a more muscular build, though he wasn't beefy or anything. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and messy blonde hair. He had the air of the badass type, if he wasn't in the Dalton uniform, he'd be wearing skinny jeans and a leather jacket.
As he approached the Warbler's table, Blaine stood up politely and greeted him. He smiled, a dazzling smile, and took the seat across from Nick, next to Thad.
"Everyone, this is Lucas Peterson." Blaine announced.
"Hey." Lucas smiled.
"These are Warblers Kurt, Thad, Nick, Jeff, Trent, David, and Wes." Blaine pointed each boy out as he named them.
"Nice to meet you all." Lucas said politely but sincerely. His eyes traveled around the table, lingering on Nick's for a while longer than the others.
Nobody else seemed to really notice this, or didn't seem to care, but Jeff.
It was normal for Jeff to over-react over little things, only knowing the tip of the iceberg and over-analyzing the situation. Only when he stops and slows down does he realize he's being irrational and tries to let it go.
But still. Why was Lucas doing that? Even now when he and the Warblers were already deep in conversation, he kept glancing over at Nick every now and then.
Jeff's heart dropped. Why else would he do that? He's interested in Nick. Already. Even though he just met him. Okay, who wouldn't be interested in Nick, even in that short amount of time? Nick is a very attractive guy. He's kind of on the shorter side, which makes him even more adorable - at least Jeff thought - he has a dreamy smile, and his hair - oh my god - his bangs when they are right over his forehead but not in the way of his eyes - oh, his beautiful brown eyes...
"Jeff!"
Jeff blinked, snapping out of his little trance. Everyone was staring at him, and he laughed nervously. "Yeah?"
"We were just going around the table telling Lucas about how the Warblers work," David explained. "Anything else... you'd like to add?"
Luckily, even though he didn't know, Jeff was the last one to "share their little bit of info". Considering he had missed the whole conversation though, he just smiled and shook his head. "No, I think you guys covered it."
Nick eyed him suspiciously but shrugged it off. He knew something was off, he knew Jeff more than Jeff knew himself, but it wasn't a big deal and he could be dealt with later.
"Cool, I'd love to join - if of course, you wanted me to." Lucas replied.
"Well of course we want you to, there's always room for a new Warbler." Trent expressed his friendliness.
"But you'd have to audition," Kurt butted in. He wasn't trying to be snobby; he just wanted to make it clear that Lucas wasn't just going to come in and have it easy.
Lucas made a little of a 'duh' face. "Well, yeah, that's only fair."
"Then we welcome you." Kurt beamed.
"You can audition at next Monday's meeting," Wes declared. "That gives you a week. Does that give you enough time?"
Lucas merely shrugged. "Plenty." And there, he smiled his dazzling smile again.
Jeff shifted uncomfortably in his seat once again. It wasn't Lucas himself that made him uneasy. Or his stupid ridiculously attractive smile. It was the fact that every time he seemed to smile, he looked at Nick. Not in his direction, or passed him, but straight at Nick. Like he was... un-dressing him with his eyes.
Whoa there, Jeff. Slow down. You're just being crazy now.
Jeff mentally slapped himself. He had to be over-reacting. Lucas was looking at all the other Warblers the same way, and for the same amount of time.
"Alright, speaking on behalf of all the Warblers, we will be looking forward to it." Wes said, and as a habit, he went to bang his gavel (even though there was really no reason to at this current moment), but ended up smacking the table with his fork.
All the boys started cracking up, except for Lucas, who just looked completely confused, and threw sarcastic comments about Wes and his romance with his gavel around the table.
Next class period was about to start, so everyone got up to gather their things and clean up the table.
"Hey, does anyone have history now?" Lucas asked. "I need a tour guide." He chuckled.
Oh shit. Jeff thought.
Nick, being the dork he was, raised his hand and waved it around high in the air. "I do!"
Lucas laughed, and that stupid blinding smile of his spread across his face. "Look at that, I'm in luck."
Okay, that time, Jeff wasn't just imagining it. Lucas was clearly in to Nick.
And Jeff suddenly felt like he was stabbed in the heart.
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