Two Steps Beyond
Part 120
When Sebastian got home from classes on Friday he was still in a horrible mood. The loss the previous night was still bothering him as he believes they should've won and that shotty officiating was the cause. So when he walked through the doors, he was all set to just mope, but forgot they were going to have an apartment full that evening. "Hey." Blaine said once Sebastian appeared at the end of the hallway, looking just as miserable as he'd been when he'd left that morning. He got up on his toes and kissed him, before wrapping his arms around him. "Guess you're not feeling better."
"Not really, but I will try not to bring everyone else down."
"Well, since we know how you'd be feeling we thought we'd unwind a bit tonight."
"I don't want to go out nor sing."
"That's not what we're doing." Blaine said to him. "Go put your bag away and then meet me in the dining room."
"Why?"
"Just do it for me Bas, please." Sebastian smiled down at him as Blaine had the sweetest look on his face when he asked.
"Alright." Sebastian then leaned down and kissed him before heading towards their room. With it being after six he was surprised to not see anyone else there yet. So after putting his bag away, and taking off his shoes he made his way to the dining room. When he rounded the corner he was surprised to see that everyone was already there. "Uh, hey."
"Nice greeting Seb." Beat told him.
"I'm just surprised to see you, all of you. What are you all doing here?" As Sebastian spoke Thad handed him a shot.
"Well, those of us that had the honor of going to school with you know how pissy you get after losing so we knew we needed to get you out of your funk before rehearsal tomorrow. So, tonight is all about cheering you up and well, we haven't had a night of drinking in a long time."
"And they were more than happy to ask us to make the alcohol run." Flint added.
"Cool. Um, where are the girls?" Sebastian said as he walked towards Blaine.
"They are at a fitting." Jeff replied. "But they will be here later and are bringing food with them as they don't want us drinking all-night on an empty stomach."
"But we were reminded not to get trashed as we've got a lot of work to do this weekend." Dave said. "All of them were pretty adamant about it."
"Well, then let's get our drink on so we have more time to sober up." Beat said as he raised his shot. "So, here's to cheering Seb up!" Once he spoke, they all downed the shot they had in their hand. By the time the girls arrived back at Blaine and Sebastian's the guys all had a really good buzz going on. They were all so caught up in their own world that they didn't even notice the girls standing in the doorway.
"Do they often do it like this?" Hailey asked.
"If you mean toasting each shot then yes." Santana replied. "I'm pretty sure it's a Dalton thing as they did it all the time and the rest of the guys seem to be a part of it as well."
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Hailey said. "So, what now?"
"I say we make dinner and then find out." Rachel said.
"Uh, but that means they'll continue drinking till them." Santana said. "We need to get them to take a little break."
"Let me." Hailey told them before stepping forward. "Guys."
"Oh, the lovelies have returned." David said. "Come, join us!" Hailey looked back over her shoulder at the girls and smiled. So they all walked towards their significant others. "I say we let the ladies lead the next one."
"What do you say?" Wes asked as Hailey got comfortable on his lap and all the girls were given a shot.
"Who are we to argue with Dalton tradition, right? I know it's so dear to you." Wes cocked his eyebrow at her, slightly puzzled by what she said.
"We demand clarification." Thad said before hitting his hand on the table.
"That only works when you have the gavel of power." Trent said. "And you turned yours over Logan and Jacob."
"Are you saying they don't have a replica?" Hailey asked.
"No we don't." Dave replied. "But from that comment, I'd guess Wes does."
"That's not important." Wes replied before wrapping his arms around Hailey and whispering in her ear.
"I think it is." Jeff replied. "Please, continue talking."
"I second that." Nick said causing the others to laugh.
"All those in favor of the motion presented by Sterling and seconded by Duval say aye?" James asked and everyone responded in unison, including Brody and Hunter. "Carry on Hailey. Wes's better half has the floor."
"Yea, Wes has a replica gavel. It sits on top of a book on Dalton's history."
"Wait, so you took that fucking book with you?" Thad said. "Dave and I looked all over for it."
"Come now, quoting that book and Warbler tradition was special to Wes." Nick replied as Jeff was laughing too hard to speak.
"Trust us, we know." Dave said. "We were going to carry on said tradition but the book vanished. We should've known."
"Oh, come on guys, give Wes a break. As amusing as it is, none of us, well none of us that went to Dalton can deny what that place means to us." Sebastian said causing Blaine to look at him and smile.
"If you want Bas, I'll get you a book of your own." Blaine said before running his fingers through Sebastian's hair.
"That's sweet, but not necessary." Sebastian then kissed Blaine on the cheek. "Come, let the drinking resume!" Sebastian said before raising another shot.
"Hold it." Santana said. "You boys are cut off till you eat something."
"Nick, Santana's being mean." Sebastian huffed before resting his head on Blaine's shoulder.
"True, but I think we'll be thanking her in the morning."
"Still, I'm feeling better and I don't want to stop."
"Blaine, please quiet your boy." Rachel told him.
"It would be my pleasure." Before Blaine even had a chance to kiss Sebastian, Beat stopped him.
"Not so fast, we all remember the last time you two were drinking and started making out."
"That only happened once." Blaine replied.
"Yes, but we don't need a repeat performance."
"Well, you wouldn't get one because we're not drunk, just buzzed."
"Blaine's right neither was this coherent that time." Trent said.
"Should we even ask?" Brody chimed in.
"Let's say Blaine and Seb lost any bit of decency they had during a night of drinking and got a bit carried away." Hunter, Brody, and all the older guys started to laugh.
"And just how carried away did they get?" Hunter asked.
"I'd say we could show you but they made us delete all the footage."
"Trent." Blaine said.
"Okay, they still had their clothes on, but if Thad hadn't tripped and fallen on them who knows how far things would've gone. I have a feeling Thad falling caused…
"Trent." Sebastian stated as he looked at him. "I'm pretty sure they've heard enough. And the girls are blushing."
"No we're not." Santana said as she looked at the other girls. "I don't remember hearing about this. Nicky."
"They were in the midst of a serious make-out session, that's all. And let's say hands were wandering. Nothing worse than they've caught us doing, or Jeff and Britt."
"Is that true guys?"
"It is. We were pretty far gone and ended up having to watch it the next morning after we sobered up." Sebastian told her. "And at least it happened at my house and not say…the Warbler common room."
"True, but you two made out in there as well." Thad reminded them.
"Not denying it. But at least when we were busted it never caused either of us to give you the evil-eye." Thad looked across at Nick who just leaned his head back and tried not to laugh.
"What is Sebby talking about?"
"One of Wes's finer moments when he wasn't being quite the gentleman." Jeff told her. "Wes's girlfriend at the time didn't take kindly to the interruption."
"Wes?" Hailey asked, clearly amused by what she was hearing. "I thought you were always such a gentleman, now hearing this." She feigned hurt, but couldn't hold back her laughter. "I don't know what to think."
"You are all loving this, aren't you?" Wes said as they were all laughing. "You just had to bring that up."
"Hey, if they're going to air our laundry, it's open season." Sebastian replied.
"Then air theirs, not mine."
"I think it's cute." Hailey told him before kissing him. "As it must've been something to get you to blush like this."
"It's the alcohol."
"Nice try." Thad replied. "Now, I thought we were getting fed?"
"Who's thinking with their stomach now?" Nick told him.
"Touché. So, food."
"Alright, we'll cook as long as you promise us you'll all take a break on the drinking." Santana told him.
"I think that's possible." James replied. "Plus it'll give us some more time to share embarrassing stories. It seems we missed quite a bit after we graduated."
While the girls made dinner, they couldn't stop themselves from looking into the dining room sporadically, as the laughter coming from the room seemed to be getting louder. "Should we be worried?" Rachel asked.
"No, if it was quiet, I'd be worried." Santana replied. "This means they are carefree. When they're quiet, it means they don't want us to know what's going on."
"I've got to agree with Santana." Hailey said. "When Wes gets together with James, Flint, and David it's always loud. And he's always in such a great mood. But when they get quiet, you know things are getting serious."
"Nick and Jeff do that too. Whenever they don't want me and Santana to hear what they are talking about. Same goes for Blaine and Sebby."
"While it's frustrating, I think it's sweet how they think they need to take care of us." Rachel said. "Though, I think they now know they need to be more open."
"True, but we also need to accept that more often than not, they're going to talk things through together before including us." Santana added. "And while I wish they didn't. They are doing it to control the situation. I mean, I don't know about you Hailey, but Rachel and I tend to overreact, while Britt gets emotional."
"I'm like Britt, I get emotional."
"See, I tend to babble while Santana threatens people."
"Aren't we an interesting group?" Hailey said.
Since the girls had made spaghetti for dinner the guys offered to clean up since there were a ton of dishes considering how many of them were there. "So, what did we miss?" Rachel asked as everyone gathered in the kitchen.
"Stories that wouldn't have been shared had you girls been around." Brody replied. "I'm certain almost everyone in the room was embarrassed at some point."
"That's not fair." Hailey said.
"You've heard some of them." Wes told her.
"Still, that's not fair. Just because Hailey has heard them, doesn't mean me, Britt, or Rachel have." Santana said as she leaned against Nick. "I love embarrassing stories."
"Trust me; there are plenty to go around." Dave told her. "So I'm sure you'll hear them sooner or later."
Considering the empty bottles the girls saw when they arrived that night, they were surprised that when they took their little get-together into the living room the drinking had calmed down considerably. It's not to say they weren't drinking, but they weren't pounding shots like they were earlier. "So, what's in store for us tomorrow?" James asked. Brody looked toward Brittany and gave her a smile.
"Well, we're going to run through the numbers we've already taught you and if things go well, we'll start teaching the finale. But that doesn't mean we won't still rehearse the other numbers. Plus I'm sure Blaine's got some stuff he wants to go through. Right Blaine?"
"That is correct Britt. I figured we'd start with vocals, do a bit of dance. Mix it up a little."
"Works for me. So everyone make sure you're ready to work."
"That means comfy clothes guys." Jeff reminded them. "And depending, extra t-shirts to change into after last time. Though, I'd highly recommend them as I've seen the finale."
"I've gotta agree with Jeff, the finale is a workout." Hunter said. "And I doubt the girls will want to be up close to us if we're all sweaty."
"You can say that again." Rachel replied with a smile. "Especially with the moves we'll be doing together in the finale. Right ladies?" All the girls nodded. "So, what's next?"
"I say we watch a movie." Thad said. "Because right now I feel so good, I just want to chill."
"Works for me." Dave said. "So, how about we all change and meet back here in ten?" As everyone got up and headed towards the spare rooms Sebastian looked at Blaine who was sitting next to him.
"You want an explanation, don't you?"
"That would be nice."
"Let's go change and I'll fill you in." Once they were in their bedroom, Blaine told Sebastian that since they'd all decided on drinking that evening that everyone brought their stuff with. As no one wanted to be out and about depending on how much they drank. "You okay with this?"
"Yes, it makes sense. Last thing I'd want is any of the guys busted for underage drinking if they over did it. Yet, so far we've been good tonight."
"That's because everyone knows Britt won't show them any mercy if they're hung-over tomorrow. The goal was to get a good buzz going and cheer you up."
"You know there are other ways to cheer me up."
"Oh, I know. But I couldn't necessarily tell Thad that his idea was horrible as he was right, we haven't done this in a while. For college students we don't drink that much."
"That's true, we have been good." Sebastian said as he stepped up behind Blaine and wrapped his arms around him, pulling him close. "Though you know I prefer when you're bad."
"Bas, being good doesn't apply to us in that sense."
"I'm offended, it's always good B." Blaine couldn't help but laugh as Sebastian began to nuzzle his neck. "Let me remind you just how good." Sebastian whispered into his ear before moving his hand into the top of Blaine's sweats.
"Not now Bas."
"Are you saying I can later?"
"You can do whatever you want later as long as I can still dance tomorrow. But we better get back out there or we'll be sitting on the floor in our own place or one of the guys is going to come searching for us."
"Alright." Sebastian said before giving Blaine a kiss on the cheek. When they got back out into the living room, they were surprised that only about half of their friends were out there. "And here we thought we were going to be last." Sebastian said as he took a seat in the corner of one of the couches so that Blaine could curl up next to him.
"Oh, the girls will be last as they still want to look cute." Thad told them as he stretched out on the floor.
"And how do you know this?" Blaine asked.
"I overheard them talking. While everyone else has taken their contacts out and glasses will be on, they're all still worried about looking cute."
"Does that honestly surprise you?" Sebastian asked.
"No, I was just relaying what I heard."
"What did you hear?" Jeff asked as he walked into the room.
"That the girls still want to look cute." Jeff shook his head as he sat down.
"That doesn't take much as they always look cute. You should've seen Britt and Santana the other night when Nick and I went out. They had an evening of watching chick flicks and when we came home they were both wearing pigtails and were wearing footie pajamas."
"Are you talking about chick flick night?" Nick said as he walked in.
"He is." David replied. "But it started after Thad said the girls are going to be a bit cause they still want to look cute."
"Do you realize how long it took for the two of them to just relax around me and Jeff at home? The fact that we're all here it doesn't surprise me that they're taking their time getting comfy."
"Yet you love the end results Nicky." Nick turned his head at the sound of Santana's voice and couldn't help but smile. "I hope you don't mind, I brought one of your t-shirts home with me. I felt bad leaving it for your Mom to wash."
"Nope, no problem." The other guys all just looked at each other as Santana walked over towards Nick and wrapped her arms around his neck before kissing him.
"I still wish I could figure out why a girl looks so hot wearing a guy's shirt." Dave said.
"Stop thinking, it's just fact." James replied. "And those little red shorts don't help matters."
"We can hear you." Nick said as the kiss broke momentarily. "And stop staring at my girlfriend's ass, no matter how perfect it is." Once he was done talking, the two went back to kissing and slowly managed to make their way to the other couch. After they were seated they stopped kissing. "Anything else?" Nick asked as Santana curled up in the crook of his arm.
"No, but I can tell you she looks better in that Dalton t-shirt than you ever did." Jeff told him.
"And Britt looks better in them than you did."
"Guys, admit it, all the girls would look better in them than we did." Thad said. "It's a fact, so why bother debating it."
It wasn't much longer till everyone was out and comfortable. The process of picking a movie was going better than anyone could've imagined considering how many people there were. "Blaine."
"Yes Britt."
"Could you make me another sundae; it was really good the other night?"
"I think that's possible. Come on." Blaine then gave Sebastian a kiss before getting off the couch and heading to the kitchen with Britt.
"When did Blaine make her a sundae?" Santana asked.
"The night Tasha came over and tweaked our uniforms." Jeff replied. "When the rest of us came back out after putting on our regular clothes they were sitting on the couch and she was eating a sundae." The rest of the girls all looked at each other before getting off the couches and heading towards the kitchen. "Guys, before you even think about it, Blaine will make you do it yourselves."
"Jeff's right, he wouldn't even make one for Seb the other night."
"That's because Britt was comfortable and I'd never displace her. And given the circumstances, I'm glad I didn't."
"Seb, what are you talking about?" Hunter asked and the rest of the guys just looked at Sebastian. Sebastian ran his fingers through his hair before looking across at Jeff and then at Nick.
"It's up to you Jeff as I don't know where she stands in all this."
"I'll tell you guys tomorrow while the girls stretch since they like to do that in private. So Nick…"
"I'll tell her tonight."