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Make My Heart Start Beating

21

It's been two days since I've last seen Sebastian, I've gone from euphoric 'I've got a boyfriend and he brought me a pear' to 'He only wanted me for sex, the complete fiend'.

Just one more shift at the Lima Bean after this and I'm free to spend more time studying or going for runs, and I've been thinking about cycling too. It's summer after all, the perfect weather to take up riding around outside.

"Tiger," his voice is soft and I glance up mad that he's left me for so long but he looks absolutely wrecked.

"Sebastian! When was the last time you slept?" I'm horrified he's put himself through that and I'm ashamed to admit I automatically think of him out partying having a good time while I'm left at home being good.

"Got all the damn things she wanted done, no more editor to annoy me for a while," his smile is more of a grimace.

Tapping in an order I pay for it and on impulse put his name as 'snuggle monster', "Go grab your drink and food, I'll be off in a minute," I point and he doesn't even argue which worries me.

Twenty minutes later and I'm sitting next to him, he lifts an eyebrow and taps his drink, "Is it me or is that decaffeinated?"

"It's decaff, you need to go home and sleep," checking out the small cake I'd gotten for him too I can see it's been demolished. "Come on Sebastian, I'll drive you home, you can put your bike in the back."

"But I came to see you," he pouts at me.

"Well you've seen me," I say firmly and then stand up, "Up, home, sleep."

Grumbling he does as he's told taking his empty cup with him and slinging an arm around me to pull me close to him. Guiding him outside I get him to unlock his bike, then I put it and him in my car. He gives me the address and I take him home.

It's not what I was expecting, for a start it is an apartment above a shop in the older part of town. Getting him and his bike out I let him lead the way up the stairs to the set of tiny pokey rooms. It's tidy, mainly because there's nothing in there, a desk with a laptop, no TV, a doorway to a cramped kitchen, no table or chairs, not that they'd fit.

Leaning his bike against the wall I glance into the bedroom, which is a single bed and a rail of clothes with a box on the floor for his other clothes to be sloppily piled on top of.

The bathroom is a squeeze of a shower, a toilet and a sink. You wouldn't be able to get more than one person in here without having to call someone to help you both back out.

Sebastian's leaning on the wall near his bike watching me being nosey.

"Right let's get you to bed," I help him over to his little bed and catch sight of my once t-shirt. Picking it up I drag his current t-shirt off and then put this one on him. Tugging off his pants I leave his underwear on and I can see he's tenting the material.

Oh.

Tucking him in I stroke his hair, "Now sleep."

"Bossy," he grumbles but his eyes close. The empty coffee cup is next to his bed and I'm intending to throw it out when he says, "Kurt, just put it with the others please."

"Okay," I walk into the kitchen and on top of the cupboards he has kept his coffee cups, all two of them, 'meerkat' and 'Sebastian' are sitting up there so I wash this one up turning it so 'snuggle monster' is on show.

Raiding his cupboards I find them pretty bare.

That won't do.

Stealing a key I let myself out and then nip down to the small mom and pop corner store. I only need a few things to tide him over, like tins of soup. I arbour tinned soup but I don't have time to make it from scratch for him. There's some bread and a few other staples including apples and pears.

Smiling I tiptoe back into his apartment. Filling up his cupboard with my meagre offerings I leave an apple, pear and a tin of soup out, along with a bowl, a spoon, the tin opener and a plate for the bread. Scribbling a note telling him to eat I also put my cell number down telling him to call me when he wakes up.

Then I leave him to sleep it off and lock myself out of his home.

Going home I'm back to my euphoric 'I've got a boyfriend' mood. Plus I have a surprise party to finish organising.

A party I can't plan due to David noticing my good mood and then stalking me to my room to close the door with us in it and then jumping onto my bed and grinning like a Cheshire cat, "Okay spill."

"What?" I cross my arms.

"The grin, the humming, the happy dancing on clouds look in your eyes," he smirks at me and pats the bed, "Spill."

Perching next to him I giggle, "I saw Sebastian again."

"And?" He flops to lay down on my bed tugging me with him.

"And he says he's been working on his writing, he was exhausted so I took him home, tucked him into bed and then bought him some soup to eat," I tell him, "Oh and the coffee cups he got when I was working? He kept them, they're in his kitchen on a cupboard."

"Cups?"

I explain and David's back to grinning, "Cool, so you're dating then…"

"Yes." I sigh, "David was it this confusing with Kyle?" I also can't believe I'm in my bedroom talking guys with David Karofsky. My how our lives change.

"Kinda. I'm a guy he's a guy, you'd think we'd be fairly similar, we both like sports but the man hasn't got a damn romantic bone in his body, and sex isn't romance. He did get me butterscotch candies though," we share a look and nod at that.

"Which reminds me," he pokes me with a finger, "Why were you limping around the house a few days ago? You being such a good boy and everything…"

Face palming I hold my hand out, "Pinkie promise, I know you'll tell Kyle but no one else, ever."

"'Kay," and we pinkie swear. The look of shock on his eyes as I tell him about the night of cuddling and then dessert on the kitchen table, "Dude I eat off of that table!" and then he makes me fist bump. And then I break down and tell him about the supply run with resulting disasters, he laughs so hard he cries and then asks, "Why the fuck didn't you ask me? I got unopened lube and plenty of condoms, idiot, you could have avoided all that."

"Oh, I didn't think of that," why didn't I think of that?

"Let me see this supply," he goads. And he takes his time pawing through it, making the odd comment, "Wow Kurt, I know it's been a while bro, but as athletic as Sebastian seems to be, you'd kill him trying to use all of this up in one go."

We degenerate into a pillow fight and Kyle comes up to see what all the fuss is, he then has to know about the supplies scattered over my bed and decides I'm a sex fiend and that he really needs to warn Sebastian about me. I smack him with a pillow and chase them out of my room.

Clearing up I go back to planning their surprise party. It would serve them right if I made it overly girly and pink, but Kyle wouldn't care less and would just order in pizza and it would hurt David's feelings.

Dammit.

Instead I do it properly and glance at my phone now and again to see if Sebastian has text me yet. Nothing.

A/N: Sorry for any and all mistakes, I've tried to catch those I could, but I'm only human.