Luke was woken up by his three younger siblings, Ethan being held by his dad, and parents singing him happy birthday. He yawned and rubbed his eyes then broke out in a wide grin. Even if his parents were getting a divorce, they could all come together and celebrate his birthday which made Luke smile even brighter.
'Thanks!' He said once they had stopped singing. Natalie and Faith sat on his bed next to him. Suddenly he was glad to have changed the sheets the previous night after his recent activities while thinking about Reid.

'Hey guys! Did you bring my present upstairs?' He asked. They shook their heads and he smiled.
'Can I go see him?' He asked eagerly.

'Of course, but first have your breakfast. Grandma Emma has made you pancakes especially!' His dad said.
He got out of bed and hugged both of his parents.
'Thank you both!' He smiled and ran down the farm stairs followed by his sisters.

His friends had organised him a giant birthday party with all of his friends and family at Metro. He was ridiculously excited.

The moment he stepped into the common room the entire room burst out into a loud, out of tune and unsynchronised rendition of 'happy birthday'. Casey walked over and clapped him on the back and Maddie, Alison and Noah all congregated around him.
'You're finally eighteen, Luke! Finally catching up with the rest of us!' Luke laughed. He had moved up a year in junior school and was always a year younger than the rest of his friends. Maddie, Casey, Alison and Noah were almost nineteen. He smiled at his friends and accepted hugs from the rest of his class.

The rest of the day was filled with hugs and more singing from his friends and Luke ended up with a permanent grin fixed to his face. When he entered his Biology class he was sure that Reid wouldn't have remembered his birthday but that little bit of hope was burning a hole inside of him.

The moment Dr Oliver entered his class, a stack of textbooks in his arms and his expression distracted and cold; Luke knew that he hadn't remembered his birthday. He was sad for a second and then realised that it wasn't that important and he should just get over himself.

'Class, I'll hand you a textbook in a minute and I want you to flip to page thirty-seven and start the questions and take notes on the experiments explained.'

He begun to hand out textbooks and Luke was given his. He opened his book and saw, in the top margin of the page Reid had written,

Happy Birthday, Luke.

Luke looked up to see Reid looking at him.

'You didn't forget.' Luke mouthed to Reid.
'How could I? You told me about a thousand times.' Reid mouthed back, smiling.
Luke smiled back and got on with his work, his day now a hundred times better.

That night he was dressed in a navy suit with a light blue shirt. His hair was gelled and twisted at the front and his jaw had begun to hurt from all of the smiling and laughing. As he entered Metro a huge shout from about seventy people rung through the club and he stepped back from the shock. He was shocked to see so many people there.

'Even more are expected. Half of your classmates couldn't make it till later, so they should arrive in a couple of hours.' His mom said.

Luke mingled and greeted as many guests as he could before he saw Katie and ran over,
'Hey Katie, I'm glad to see you here.'
'Half your school is here, Luke.' She replied, smiling.
'I know! Half the teachers are here too.' He realised. He couldn't see Reid though as he looked around the room.
'That's true. This is probably the social event of the term so who could turn it down? Except Reid of course.' Katie shook her head and pushed back her fringe.

'How do you know that he's not here? He might be hiding behind the buffet!' Luke laughed.
'I live with him, silly! He's my new roommate. He got kicked out of his apartment so he's staying with me for a while.'
'Wow. Well stick around Katie, I'm assuming Jacob's around here somewhere.'
'Yeah, Margo's looking after him at the moment. Letting mommy have a little glass of champagne.' They laughed and Luke walked towards the door. No one had realised he'd opened the door. They all seemed to be having a brilliant time whether he was there or not. He walked through the door and shut it behind him, heading for Katie's apartment.

Reid was sitting at home nursing his first bottle of beer. He'd barely had a sip. He didn't want to get drunk tonight.
'That's why you didn't go to Luke's party. Because you didn't want to get drunk. Let's stick to that excuse.' He said to himself.

He heard a knock at the door and stood up from the sofa to open the door on the one person he'd been wanting to see on his doorstep for months.

'Luke? What are you doing here? Why aren't you still at your party?' Reid barely asked the questions without stuttering. He was raking his eyes up and down Luke, whose shirt was partially undone with more than a little chest hair. He was looking directly at Reid, his brown eyes determined. Reid was suddenly worried that his boundaries were going to be pushed back more than a little this night.

'Just answer me this: Do you want me?' Luke didn't stutter, didn't stammer or hesitated; he just looked at Reid, searching his eyes for an answer.

'I, um, Luke…er. You can't just, um,' Reid was shaking at the thought of having Luke alone, in his apartment.

Luke just stood there, more of a man than Reid was being at that second.

'Yes.' Reid whispered. 'But we can't Luke. We can't.' Luke pushed past him into the apartment and turned around to face Reid.
'It's my job, my reputation, potentially prison. I can't, Luke.'

Luke walked forwards and pushed Reid into the door and kissed him senseless. When he pulled away they were both breathing heavily.

'Who's going to know?' Luke whispered. Reid moaned and grabbed Luke's neck and crashed his mouth into Luke's soft lips. Their tongues battled as their feet tumbled around as Reid pushed Luke into his bedroom. Once Reid kicked the door shut, Luke practically jumped on him trying to take of his shirt and pants. Reid undid all of the buttons on Luke's shirt and latched onto his neck causing Luke to groan. He undid Luke's belt buckle and pulled down the zip. Luke was gasping into Reid's ear and Reid could feel his heartbeat speed up when he cautiously begun to stroke Luke through his underwear.

He lightly pushed Luke back onto his bed and took off his pants. He fumbled with his own pant zip but Luke brought his hand up to steady Reid's. Luke leant forward from the edge of the bed and pulled the zip of Reid's pants down with his teeth. He used his hands to pull down the material revealing Reid's cock. Luke wasted no time and took the head into his mouth. He tentatively kissed and licked the top, placing the tip of his tongue in the slit to suck at the precome. Reid was restraining himself from bucking above him, intent on having more of Luke's mouth around him but not wanting to push him. Luke licked up the underside and took all of Reid inside his mouth, hollowing his cheeks and using his hand to pump the part of Reid he couldn't reach.

Reid bucked and came into Luke's mouth with a groan, most of which Luke swallowed but the remnants of the most mind-blowing orgasm Reid had ever experienced were kissed away as Reid crawled on top of Luke. They kissed hungrily until Luke's head hit the pillows.

For a while they just kissed while Reid regained composure and became hard again. He fished around in his bedside cupboard, looking for condoms and lube. Luke was sucking on one of his nipples which was incredibly distracting but he found himself unable to tell Luke to stop. He finally found what he was looking for and laid them on the pillow beside Luke's head. Luke's lips were kiss-swollen and his cheeks were flushed. His neck was covered in hickies and Reid was sure he was in exactly the same state. He traced his index finger across Luke's bottom lip causing it to quiver in anticipation.

Once Luke and Reid were prepared Reid placed the younger man's legs over his shoulders. He kissed him quickly and pushed into Luke slowly. Luke seized up for a moment but Reid leant down again and kissed him so hard he felt Luke's toes curl against his back. He pushed in once more and he found himself fully immersed in Luke. He groaned at the warm pleasure that surrounded him. He looked at Luke whose jaw was open and Reid leant down and licked a stripe up beside Luke's Adam's apple.

He began moving slowly a first but Luke started calling out for him to go faster and soon he was pounding into Luke with reckless abandon. All Luke could feel was Reid and he felt fantastic. He pulled Reid down for another kiss and they grunted into each others mouths.

Luke came first with a shout but Reid shortly followed and he fell, slumped on top of Luke.

'Wow.' Reid said.
'Seconded.' Luke replied. Reid lifted himself off Luke to clean them both up before spooning up behind Luke and lacing their fingers together.
'We should probably get some sleep.' Reid kissed Luke's neck and tightened his grip around Luke.
'Reid, that was amazing. You were amazing.' Luke was still basking in the afterglow.
'As were you.' He felt Luke yawn and snuggle back into his arms.
'Night, Reid.' Reid kissed Luke's shoulder.
'Night, Luke.'

In Luke's suit pocket his phone began to vibrate as his dad tried to ring him. His dad and best friends were all sitting around a large table at Metro.
'He didn't pick up.' Holden said after leaving a message. He quickly rung Lily.

'But, Lily, if he's not here and he's not with you or his friends, then where the hell is he?'