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Of meerkats and moving forward.

Chapter 12

Dave awoke to the sound of knocking at his door, and a mumbling growl coming from his warm chest. Disorientated, he looked down to find Seb, face pressed into Dave's warm body, mumbling about never getting up.

"David." His father called from behind his closed door. "David, you and your friend have school this morning. You might wanna get out of bed, if you feel up to going today son."

Dave didn't exactly feel like getting up. The words spoken by that random Dalton dude circled his mind and Seb's warm body curled against his, made him wish to stay in bed for eternity. But he knew he needed to get up and face the world.

Dave smiled down at the boy, curled cat like on his chest.

"Seb I need to get up, gotta get ready for school." He chuckled.

"Screw school. I won't make it there in time now anyways." Came the muffled response. "I can think of much better things to do with my time then school." The boy looked at him smirking, crawling his way up Dave's body, and kissing him heatedly.

"Seb." Dave pushed him away gently. "First; your breathe's gross." He laughed at Sebastian's scowl."Second; you said we could take this, whatever this is, slowly."

Sebastian huffed. "I don't like these rules... And my breathe is fabulous."

"Tastes like something died in your mouth." Dave laughed as Sebastian tackled him, tickling him into a squirming, flailing mess.

"Tell me how fabulous I am!" Sebastian giggled as Dave cried in laughter.

"Never!" Dave squealed.

"Say 'I'm amazing'! Say it, or this won't end well." Sebastian teasingly threatened.

"I'm amazing!" Dave laughed hysterically.

Sebastian rolled his eyes. "Not you, you great buffoon, m-"

"Everything okay in there David?" Paul's concerned voice drifted through the door, the boys immediately ceasing all movement.

"Fine dad, out in the minute." Dave yelled.

"Well alright, ju- okay. You boys just hurry it along, okay?" Dave listened to his father's footsteps fading away, then leaped from the bed, charging out of the room for the bathroom, before the smirking Sebastian could try anything else.

...

Paul sat himself at the kitchen table, coffee and paper in hand, and smiled. He hadn't heard his son laugh like that in a long time. It was a nice sound, something he'd been desperately missing.

...

"I'm going to have to leave some clothing at your house I think. I can't keep wearing your clothes all the time." Sebastian gestured at the sweat pants and hoodie combo he'd borrowed from Dave. "People will start to talk. Can't give them the wrong idea, can I?" He smiled.

"You could've just chucked on what you wore yesterday if it's that big a deal." Dave muttered. Sebastian wrinkled his nose and Dave couldn't help smiling, he looked so adorable like that.

"Eww, no! I much prefer my idea." He said, strutting his way over to a table at the Lima Bean, currently occupied but two of Dave's closest friends.

...

Jimmy whistled as they arrived. "Had yourselves a bit of a sleepover I see." He smirked.

Dave scowled at him. "Mind keeping it down yeah?"

The boy's didn't miss Seb's flash of a frown, before he masked it with a sneer. "He's not the brightest on the best of days Dave, give him a chance to catch up with the rest of us."

Jimmy narrowed his eyes as Alex broke the awkwardness with a nervous chuckle. "So...How'd yesterday go?" He smiled.

"Seb, what do you want?" Dave asked, getting up from the seat he'd just grabbed. He nodded as Seb listed off an order and quickly left after making sure his friends didn't need anything either. The last thing he wanted to do was discuss yesterday.

"Wow... You boys sure no how to clear a table. Nice job." Sebastian laughed sarcastically.

"Wow... You really are a massive asshole. Nice job." Alex smiled.

"Touche'." Seb nodded.

...

"Seriously dude, stop staring!" Seb watched Jimmy jump as Alex scalded him. "You look like a creep."

"No I don't." He mumbled. Alex scoffed at him. "Like you're any better." He sneered.

"While I'm sure it won't interest me, please explain to me what you two are bickering about?" Sebastian drawled in a bored tone.

"I'm not telling y-"

"He sits here every morning before school, staring at that girl over there... Like a creep." Alex laughed as Jimmy kicked him from under the table.

"I do not!" Jimmy huffed.

"Yes you do! You don't even drink coffee." Alex chuckled.

"Were you ever planning on talking to her, or is your plan to sit here and stare from afar forever?" Sebastian laughed.

"I'll talk to her... Eventually." Jimmy murmured.

"Oh for fu- That girl over there you say?" Sebstian pointed to the pretty brunette girl, sitting alone with a coffee and book. At Alex's nod, Sebastian jumped up and sashayed over to the object of James Cooper's affections.

...

After a few minutes of well placed lines, a few jokes and cheeky smiles, Sebastian strutted his way back to their table, Dave now returned with his coffee.

"And that's how you do it, little boy." Seb smirked, passing a napkin over to the embarrassed boy, the name Candice and a phone number printed out on it.

"I could've done it. I didn't need your help." Jimmy whined.

"Pfft... I'm gay and I still have more game then you with the ladies." He smirked. "A thanks would be appreciated though. I don't do this shit for nothing."

"Thanks!" the smaller boy bounced in his seat happily. "Now someone just needs to help Alex here get his girl."

Alex simply huffed at him.

...

The whole trip to school, Dave had remained quiet. He was nervous. What if everyone knew what he'd done now? What if they figured out his big secret? How did that guy know in the first place? His dad had tried to keep it all quiet for Dave's sake.

"So ... What happened yesterday? The way you stormed off made it look like you and Seb didn't have the best of times. But you two looked pretty happy when you came in." Alex questioned.

"No... It was good... Mostly." Dave smiled at the memory of what they'd gotten up to in Seb's dorm and blushed. Then remembered that boy's words and scowled. "Someone from Dalton knew about me, about after prom."

Alex leaned forward from the backseat and planted his hand firmly on Dave's shoulder. "I'm sorry for whatever he said and that he found out, but whatever happens Dave, me and J have your back, okay?" His face showed nothing but sincere kindness, it lifted Dave's heart.

"Yeah man." Jimmy nodded from the driver's seat. "You're not alone anymore. We'll look out for you."

...

When Sebastian finally arrived back at Dalton, after missing most of his morning classes, he decided to ditch the rest of the day and made his way to his dorm room.

Entering he found Trent, his bubbly and annoying roommate, still pouring over his paper's, looking stressed.

"And why aren't you in class?" Seb sneered. He'd really just wanted to spend the rest of his day alone with his thoughts.

"Where have you been?" The sassy boy asked, ignoring Seb's question " was asking about you first period. I believe you're gonna be school bound this weekend again. You can't just ditch class and not expect punishment, especially after your little display of aggression, although for that I must commend you, Zach's a disgusting ass and he never should have said those things. Violence is never the answer in my opinion, but ho-"

"Enough rambling, your irratating voice is giving me a headache." Sebastian rubbed at his temples. "And what do I care if I'm not allowed to leave school grounds for the weekend? It's not like I can go home anyways." He mumbled.

At Trent's concerned look, Sebastian huffed and flopped face first on his bed. Being school bound meant he couldn't go out and see Dave. Fuck it, he thought, it's not like he'd ever snuck out of school before.

That's if Dave wanted to still see him ofcourse. The way he'd acted at the Lima Bean, Sebastian couldn't be sure if Dave was even ready to do this, whatever this was. Sebastian could understand Dave's fear in coming out, he'd been through it aswell, but it all just seemed to put Dave under so much stress, which turned to self hate and anger, and Sebastian didn't want to put Dave in that mind frame. After what he'd found out last night, he was scared of pushing Dave back to that place, pushing Dave to far.

But he didn't want to lose Dave. After years of throwing his body around and breaking hearts, he'd finally found the courage to put himself out there again, to give his heart away. He just prayed that Dave could look after it for him.

...

"You know." Came the annoyingly shrill voice of his unwanted roommate. "Come to think of it, I've never heard you talk about your home life. Or even heard about you going to visit your parents. Even school holidays you only mention relatives. What's the deal with that?"

"You haven't heard me talk about it, because I refuse to lower myself to speak to you about anything." Sebastian mumbled, his face still squished into his blankets.

"I heard about what Dave did from the other guys. And kurt also explained to me why he transferred to Dalton, told me about Dave and his past. A bit of it at least, the bullying side of it. Didn't occur to me that he was actually gay." He mumbled. "I'm happy to know he's got someone looking out for him though, even if that someone is you."

Sebastian threw his head up at that and narrowed his eyes at the boy. "And what do you mean by 'someone like me'?" He sneered.

"I just meant-" The boy hesitated a moment- "don't use him like you've done to countless other people. He's obviously struggling with himself, and some guy using him for sex just to dump him right after will only make his situation worse. Just don't hurt the guy, Sebastian." He pleaded.

"I don't plan to." Sebastian stated bluntly.

"Good, I'm glad." Trent nodded.

"But, I"m scared for myself too." Sebastian whispered, suprised at speaking those words out loud for the first time.

"Scared of what?" Trent asked, picking himself up and crossing the room to sit next to the boy he'd never thought of having a civil conversation with.

"Of getting hurt again." Sebastian whispered.

...

Dave had spent the last few days at school in a state of nervousness. Even the slightest of whispers had him jumping and constantly looking over his shoulder. He'd stuck to Alex and Jimmy; who'd been obsessively texting his new girl; every chance he could, panicking whenever he found himself alone.

This was one of those times. After Jimmy had run his mouth, he'd been held back after class, and Alex had text Dave to tell him his class was across the grounds and would meet him at the cafeteria in a few minutes. He hated the fact they felt the need to almost hover over him, he didn't like being babied, but he hated the feeling of being alone more. And right now he felt very much alone.

He ducked his head as he saw Ben, Emily and Maddie heading towards him, the girls chatting to each other, Ben with a sombre look on his face.

"Heard a couple of rumours about you Karofsky." The boy announced, standing over Dave in an intimidating stance that Dave recognised as something he used to do to others. "Reasons why you left your old school." The boy continued with a scowl. "And one of them-" He shook his head- "don't let me find out it's true." And with that he walked off, Emily giving him a fleeting sympathetic look.

Dave had thought they were friends. He hadn't expected everyone to be as understanding as Jimmy and Alex, but he'd thought Ben, with his quiet kindness, would have stood by him. He was saddened to find out he had been wrong.

...

As he saw Alex striding through the cafeteria doors, a determined look on his face, he felt his phone vibrate.

KURT: Call me as soon as you get home from school. I don't care how busy you are, we need to talk.

It was at that exact moment, just as Alex reached him, a concerned look on his face, that Dave came to the conclusion... Everyone knew.

With the bile rising in his throat, Dave raced out of the cafeteria, Alex charging after him.

As he threw up what little food he'd eaten over the last few days, Alex rubbing his back, Dave knew the life he'd been leading was over. His tough, football playing, straight guy persona he'd created was gone. And he had no idea what to do now.