Chapter 28 – Hot Dogs

"I did exactly what you did once…" Seth heard a voice and he shrieked and jumped but soon noticed Dean sitting on the 5 feet wall that surrounded the house, his back leaning against one of the taller posts in the wall.

"You scared the crap out of me." Seth complained now but his heart was still beating way too fast and it picked up speed again when Dean jumped off the wall, grabbed his duffle bag and walked back to the garage.

"What are you doing? That's my stuff. Hey!"

Dean threw the duffle into the garage, closed the door and turned back to Seth.

"Let's take a walk Seth."

For a moment Seth thought about bolting, to hell with his stuff but Dean simply put his hands in his leather jacket and started walking without looking back. He radiated some kind of authority that made Seth run up to him and fall into step behind him.

After Seth had caught up to him Dean walked on for a while without saying anything. He stopped at a hot dog stand because he knew Seth liked them. Why that was beyond him but for the sake of it he got them each one and after they had topped them off, Seth with a disgusting amount of ketchup, Dean led them to the nearby park. It was almost close to sunset and there were not many people in it anymore so Dean found them a quiet corner where he sat down on a bench and Seth plopped down on the table in front of it, crossing his legs Indian style completely ignoring Deans chastising gaze.

"Why did you run?" Dean asked after he had finished his hot dog. Seth and food was a whole different story. It was like he said goodbye first to every bite. Or he made love to the food or whatever. It took him a ridiculous amount of time just to finish a bowl with cereal.

"I don't want to cause trouble. Between Roman and you? You know my secret...maybe I was embarrassed as well."

"So you are gay?" Dean asked surprisingly calm and Seth nodded munching on the last piece of bun.

"Since when?"

Seth rolled his eyes swallowed and pressed out. "Forever." Dean nodded thoughtfully.

"So you kept it a secret because you felt like what? Roman and I would fight about you? Break up with each other? Because of you?"

Seth nodded and Dean laughed out loud.

"You must think highly of yourself Seth." Dean snorted. Seth noticed that he didn't call him kid anymore. He was Seth now. What had changed?

"Yeah well I am very pretty." Seth fluffed his hair a little.

Dean looked at him and said nothing for a long while. His stare was intense and Seth started to bounce his leg in a nervous fashion until a big hand dropped down on it stilling it effectively. Every hint of a smile was gone from Dean's face.

"You are." he whispered but it was like the words broke the spell and he dropped his hand from Seth knee. The truth was he heard Romans voice in his head At least I don't make up excuses to touch him.

Dean sighed heavily.

"Look Seth. We will figure this out. Don't run. Nothing good ever comes out of it. I tried and almost died. Damn near lost the love of my life. So let's go back. Give Roman and me a bit of time to deal with the news. It doesn't need to be awkward between us. What the bloody hell?" Seth jerked at the last angry sentence and could not figure out what he had done wrong but then Dean pulled out his phone and answered it.

"Stop it. I feel like I have a fucking vibrator in my pocket. No the k...Seth is with me. We had one of those bloody awful hot dogs. Yes Dad, we will come back now. No, I understand that it is busy. Yes I take you serious..." Dean rolled his eyes at Seth and the younger man chuckled.

"No I didn't roll my eyes at you. Bye."

Dean put his phone away. "It was buzzing the whole time. Stupid vibration alarm."

He rubbed his calf before he got up.

"The big guy says we should come back the place is buzzing tonight. Let's go Seth."

"Dean?" Seth called out when Dean had already turned to leave.

"What is it?"

"Why don't you call me kid anymore?"

Dean's eyes widened. The truth was he thought about Seth as something else now. And wanting to sleep with a kid was wrong. But luckily Seth was no kid anymore. He was Seth.

"That's your name, isn't it?" Dean just shrugged and walked away, Seth hot on his heels.

Once they got back to the restaurant Dean walked up to Roman turned him away from the stove and kissed him hard.

"We're good?" he whispered questioningly and Roman pressed his lips on his again.

"Always. Everything else we will figure out." Roman intertwined his fingers with Deans for a moment before he slapped his ass with his free hand which made Dean yelp.

"Go to work."

Roman smiled at Seth shortly and then everyone turned back to go to work.

A/N: Sorry for the short chapter. The next one will be longer. Promise.

Oh and…Happy Easter to everyone. Hope you all have your eggs painted.