DISCLAIMER: Hello everybody! You know all this stuff, right? Well, I'll repeat it just to be sure. I do not know the sexuality of any celebrities in REALITY, however, in this little fiction world of mine, they are what I choose them to be. =0) Once again, what I come to call it, the Duh Factor: If you are not old enough to view this material, go away. If you are offended by homosexual material, why are you here?
Reminder: Lance's thoughts are in greater than, less than arrows <> and Joey's are in regular brackets []. Charlie's thoughts are in parentheses (,). =0)
Special Thanx: Okay, lets try to list all the people I want to thank. Chris and Daniel of course, that is a given. Kyle, Savannah, James, Joel, Mike.... if I left anybody out, I am soooooo sorry, but I'll be sure to get you next time. =0)
Okay, this is going to be long because there was a lot that happened in the last chapter =0)
In the previous chapter:
Cooper takes Charlie home from the hospital to his surprise "Welcome Home" party. All the guys of Nsync are there along with AJ from BSB. Charlie is surprised, no duh. Hence the 'surprise' party =0) The guys get to know one another a lot better and Charlie suggests the idea of a Truth or Dare game. Well, after that, they watch a movie and some of the guys start paring up ;0) AJ and Lance are hitting it off really nicely during the movie. Charlie is snuggling up to Joey. Cooper is getting a little friendly with JC. While Chris and Justin are just left out of the action =0). Once the movie is over with, everybody separates. Chris and Justin stay downstairs. JC stays in Cooper's room. Lance and AJ share a room. Joey stays with Charlie. =0) There, that wasn't too much. Now, without further adieu.
Chapter Eleven
Sunlight was pouring into the room...that much was obvious. Charlie blinked his eyes several times, allowing them to adjust to the light. He was about to move to get up when he felt something pull him back. He looked around and saw Joey, who was still asleep.
(God, he is so cute when he is asleep. I wish I could stay like this forever...how long can we stay like this? What are we going to do when he has to go back on tour? When he has promotional stuff?)
Worry was spreading across his face. Charlie managed to untangle himself from Joey's arms and walked over to the window. He stared out at the sunlight spreading across the lawn. He knew he had to call somebody, somebody who he knew he could trust. He had to tell somebody. Cooper was there, that was a given, but he knew what Cooper would say. 'Don't worry about that now, just enjoy it!' Charlie grinned, he knew his best friend way too well. He looked back at the bed and smiled yet again, Joey had grabbed a pillow and was holding onto it like it was life or death.
He decided at that exact moment he needed to call his sister. She would know what to do, but he would have to put it off for a little while, he needed to get everybody up. He went and sat down next to Joey on the bed. Charlie began to trace the outline of Joey's face ever-so tenderly. Joey smiled and opened his eyes, staring up into Charlie's crystal blue eyes.
[My God he is beautiful]
"Hey cutie, you decide to wake up finally?"
"Finally? You haven't been up that long have you?"
"Nah, I'm just picking." Charlie grabbed the back of Joey's head and pulled him forward, while lowering himself. Their lips touched and it was like a spark. The both were a little shocked by the intensity of such a small gesture, but it wasn't over yet. Charlie just grinned as he pinned his lips to Joey's and let his tongue slip into Joey's mouth. Joey moaned, almost in protest as Charlie backed away.
"Sorry, I'm a sucky kisser." Charlie said.
"No, you're not. That was nice," Joey replied, causing Charlie to blush. "So does this mean what I think it means?"
"And what would you be thinking Mr. Fatone?"
"That we are officially a couple?" Joey asked, a hint of eagerness in his voice.
"Hmmm..." Charlie said, bring his hand to his chin, as if he was contemplating it. This caused a quick flash of hurt to fall across Joey's face. "Of course we are, you dork." Charlie replied as he leaned in for yet another kiss. This one, Joey was more of an active participant. He pulled Charlie down closer to him and slipped his tongue along Charlie's lower lip before making his way into his mouth. They kissed passionately for a minute or two before Charlie pulled away, trying to catch his breath. "Damn." Was the only word that came out of his mouth.
Joey just laughed and smiled. "So what is for breakfast?"
"I let you sleep over and you are wanting breakfast too? Gosh, what did I get myself in to?" Charlie asked sarcastically.
"Well, you forget, you do have other guests."
"Oh shit, I totally forgot about everybody else!"
"Haha, don't panic, I'm sure they are all still snoring away the morning. How about me and you go get breakfast started?"
"Sounds like a plan to me." Charlie said as he pulled Joey up out of the bed, "But first you need a shower."
One of Joey's eyebrows rose up in a questioning look.
"No way Joey. That's another one of my rules."
"Well, you've already broken your first one." Joey stated.
Charlie just grinned and pushed him toward the shower. On the way, Charlie grabbed some of his clothes that looked like would fit him. "You can wear these, I'm going to go get some coffee started, you come down whenever you're done, okay?"
"Yes mom." Joey said sarcastically.
Charlie just laughed, pulled on his robe, and left the room. He was going to wake up the others, but decided to allow Joey the honor. He walked down the stairs and heard Justin snoring loudly on the couch.
(Gosh, it's a wonder that Chris got any sleep down here at all.) That is when he noticed Chris wasn't there. He heard a noise in the kitchen and proceeded to investigate. He peeked in the kitchen to see Chris rifling through his drawers.
"And what do you think you're doing?"
"Holy shit!" Chris screamed while he jumped. "Don't fucking scare me like that," Chris had put a hand on his chest.
"Sorry, but you are rifling through MY kitchen." Charlie just laughed.
"Yeah, whatever, want to help me make some coffee?"
"You read my mind, if you're looking for the filters, they are on top of the fridge." Charlie pointed.
"Why do you put them there?" Chris asked as he grabbed one.
"Because I want to."
"Smart ass." Chris grinned, then smiled wider. "Soooo...where's Joey?"
"Upstairs taking a shower."
"A shower, ehh? What does he need a shower for?"
There was no answer, Chris turned around to see a stern face Charlie staring at him. "Please, do you think I'm some kind of a slut?"
"Huh?"
"You were just implying that we did the freak-nasty last night."
"Was I?"
"Don't play stupid!" Charlie was getting very aggrevated.
"Okay okay, chill out dude. I was just picking." Chris obviously knew he had gone too far.
"Well I'm not! I care way too much about Joey to jeopardize anything, okay?" Charlie said, trying desperately to fight back the tears. This always happened, it always did. It had happened with Billy before. Everybody had assumed they had jumped right into sex, but they hadn't. He hated how everybody did that, just because he was gay he was supposed to be addicted to sex or something?
Chris noticed Charlie's eyes watering up and went over to him. "Dude, I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything by it, honest. I wasn't thinking."
Charlie was going to say something more, but decided he had made his point. "It's alright Chris, I'm sorry I jumped you like that. I just really aggravated when people assume that kind of stuff."
"I'm sorry hombre, I shouldn't have gone there...so you really do care about Joey?"
"Yeah, I do...more than you can possibly imagine."
"Good, because I'm sure he feels the same way about you."
Charlie just smiled and quickly wrapped Chris up in a hug. "Thank you."
"Hey, that's what brothers are for."
"Since when did we become brothers?"
"Since you started dating Joey."
"How did you...?"
"Umm...hello? Its plastered all over your face."
"Am I that obvious?"
Chris just laughed, "I'm just good like that. All I've got to say is that you got yourself into something big."
"Are you insulting my man's weight?" Charlie asked in the most sarcastic tone he could.
"We are NOT going there," Chris said, seriously. They both looked at each other and busted out laughing. There was a brief silence and then Chris started laughing again.
"What are you laughing at this time?"
"You said 'freak-nasty' earlier." Charlie thought about it some more and laughed along with Chris.
Chris and Charlie started making breakfast and were soon joined by Joey. Joey walked in and sat down at the table while the two guys prepared everything.
"Just what do you think you're doing over there?" Charlie asked.
"Sitting, what does it look like?"
"Nope, sorry sweetie, but you have the pleasure of waking everybody up."
"Ohhhhh man, why me?"
"Because I said so," Charlie responded, then added, "Because you look really sexy in my clothes."
Chris looked up at this comment and noticed that Joey was indeed wearing Charlie's clothes. He just put a hand to his head and shook his head, then continued to prepare breakfast.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Joey asked, oblivious to the looks he just received from Chris.
Charlie walked over to Joey and traced his hand over Joey's face. Charlie lowered himself and whispered in Joey's ear. "If you do this little favor for me, there might be a reward involved." Just as discretely, he flicked his tongue out and glanced over Joey's ear.
Joey jumped up rather quickly after that motivation and ran back toward the stairs. Chris looked up as he heard the chair being pushed back. He gave Charlie this quizzical look, along with the raised eyebrow, which seemed to be a growing tradition with these guys. Charlie just smiled back, "I have my ways." There was a brief silence and then they both busted out laughing again.
(I can tell that Chris and me are going to get along great)
While all of this was going on, in Cooper's Room
JC was awake and was smiling down at Cooper. He had come to a revelation last night. Cooper was a really nice guy. He was really caring...something that he wasn't used to. He knew the guys all cared for him...but something had been missing. He wasn't sure what it was until he met Cooper. Last night he came to the realization that his supposed 'boyfriend' was just using him...he thought he was in love. He was dead wrong and was being used. He knew he was going to have to call it off, it was going to happen, sooner or later anyways. They hadn't been spending time together like they had originally. Plus the feelings were gone...were they ever there? That was the question going over and over in his head right now. He knew the answer, but he didn't want to admit it to himself.
He had feelings, because he felt something last night when Cooper was holding him. It was definitely a spark. Something was telling him that Cooper was THE guy for him. He knew it when they had kissed last night. It was so tender...
JC got up and walked to the window. He really didn't want to think about all of this right now. It had been jogging his brain for a while, he knew what the conversation was going to be when Cooper woke up...and he was dreading it.
JC was so deep in thought that he didn't even hear Cooper come up behind him until he spoke up. "Morning sunshine."
JC jumped and turned around to see Cooper's blue eyes look back at him. "Geesh, don't scare me like that."
"Looks like you were deep in thought, a penny for your thoughts?"
"I was thinking about last night..."
"What about it?"
"The kiss."
"Ohhh, that." Cooper also dreaded this conversation because he knew what JC would probably do. "Listen, we seriously need to talk. I'm going to start because I really need to get this off my chest."
Cooper walked over to the bed and sat down, Indian-style, in the middle of the bed, while JC sat down at the end.
"I have serious feelings for you Joshua. I didn't realize it until last night when you were so lost and afraid. I genuinely felt hurt for you. I wanted to do anything I could to protect you and to help you...I still do. I mean, I just...don't want to ruin any chance that I would ever have with you. If I have a chance at all."
"You have a chance Cooper. Its just...I need a little time. I need to break it off officially with my boyfriend. I need to tell the guys...I need to do a lot of stuff before I'll be able to pursue anything...I just hope that you will understand."
"So, you want to pursue something with me? I mean, after you have all of this other stuff out of the way?"
"Of course I do...I've never had anybody there for me like you were last night. The kiss was just so...nice...I really do have feelings for you, but I have to clear the ice with everything else first. I know it is asking you a lot, but do you think you could wait for me?"
"Joshua Chasez, I've been waiting for you my entire adult life, I've just never thought it would happen like this," Cooper ended in a grin.
"Thank you."
As soon as the words were out of his mouth, they heard a knock at the door. "Come in," Cooper yelled.
"Hey, you guys up yet?" Joey asked as he stepped into the room. "I was persuaded to wake everybody up, I was also told to spread the word." Joey stopped and stood like a butler to finish off his last line. "Breakfast will be served shortly in the dining room, and you are invited."
"Thank you sir, tell the master that we will be down shortly." Cooper responded in his best English accent.
Joey just grinned and left. JC and Cooper giggled for a little bit and then Cooper went into full blown laughter.
"It wasn't THAT funny, was it?"
"No, it isn't that. I just realized something."
"What's that?"
"He was wearing some of Charlie's clothes." Cooper said, with a grin spreading across his face.
While all of this is going on, in AJ/Lance's room
Lance was dreaming. He was walking down a pathway toward an arch. Everything was white, including his tux. Yes, he was wearing a tuxedo. He looked down toward the arch and saw somebody, as he got closer, he saw it was a man whose back was turned to him. The man turned around and it was AJ...then everything else lit up too. It suddenly all made sense. They were getting married. He looked around and saw everybody else there, all the guys, Britney, his sister, and lots of friends. He smiled as the wedding proceeded without a hitch, then it came time for them to kiss. He leaned in and touched lips with AJ, who responded by letting his tongue slip into his mouth. Lance was really getting into this when he finally woke up and noticed that AJ was really kissing him. Lance's grin just spread further as he wrapped his arms around AJ's waist and pulled him tight. AJ finally broke the kiss and looked down at Lance.
"I was wondering when you were going to wake up."
"Well, with that sort of persuasion what did you expect?" Lance asked, feeling a little embarrassed. "I had the best dream ever."
"Oh really? Want to share?"
"Maybe some other time." Lance grinned as he pulled AJ down for yet another kiss. "Mmmm...I like that."
"I'm glad that you like it. James, sit up for a second, okay?"
Lance's face got really serious all of a sudden as he sat up. "What is it?"
"I was doing some thinking before I woke you up. I feel so strongly about you, I don't know where it came from, but spending that time with you last night...I honestly think that I'm in love with you...I know I might be going kind of fast..."AJ stopped dead in his tracks whenever he saw that Lance saw crying. AJ pulled him into a hug, almost out of reflex. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to rush anything..." He would've continued, but Lance cut him off.
"No, Alex...its not that. Its just that I feel the same way, I love you too." AJ pulled Lance back to get a good look into his eyes and smiled. Then he pulled him tightly. He was about to pull him into another kiss when there was a knock at the door.
"Wakey wakey, people." Joey said as he poked his head in the door. He noticed that they were sitting pretty close together and he just smiled. "Hey you guys, breakfast is almost ready, get your lazy butts up and come get some."
"Thanks Joey." AJ said, "We will be down in a minute, okay?"
Joey just smiled and left. As he was walking down the hallway he was trying to figure something out.
[What is wrong with me? Am I in love with Charlie? If I am, then what did I just feel seeing those two together? Is that going to bother me? Are they a couple now?]
*** Questions and more questions, lol. It is taking a little while to get going...gosh...I never knew it would end up like this, lol. I honestly didn't think I would end up going in this direction, but it has given me the opportunity for stuff later on. This long for one morning, lol. I'm going to try to speed it up because I know a lot of ya'll are going, 'what is taking him so long?' I'm just glad that most of everybody is enjoying it. FEEDBACK pleeez! I love getting email, keep reading and I'll keep writing.
Luv ya'll...Charlie...grandbaykracker@hotmail.com