totallyinaband | #42

Yeah, I'm around. See you soon.

[Ten minutes later...KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK]

[Curt opens the door and steps back, grinning. In his excitement over having a girl drummer--just like the Velvet Underground--he didn't really notice Stephen having anything on his mind yesterday.]

Hey.

[Having Kim in the studio was a nice distraction. Okay, more than a distraction. It was fucking awesome. But he just knows if he puts this off any longer it's going to become a thing and well... he'd rather not have things hanging around them. Especially considering how well things have been going until now. In the mean time, though... he holds up a paper bag he'd stuffed with Styrofoam containers before leaving work.]

Hey. Brought leftovers.

Awesome. I'll clear the table off.

[Curt's not even sure what's on the table right now, but considering how messy he and Campbell are, odd are good it's something that doesn't really belong on the kitchen table.]

[Stephen clears himself some counter space (by shoving everything else to the side) and starts getting plates down.]

Look man. Um... there's kind of a reason I wanted to see you today.

Yeah? [Curt looks over, slightly concerned but still relaxed.] What's up?

[Stephen jams his hands in his pockets a little sheepishly, still pressed up against the counter.]

Kim wasn't the only friend of mine from home who came for the weekend. Well, uh... Joseph was here.

Joseph Joseph?

[As if he needed clarification and if that was somehow a helpful was to ask. Curt's tone is mostly neutral, but his whole body tenses up a little.]

Yeah, that one.

[He notices the tenseness. How can he not? He's been so fucking nervous about telling him all day now. He moves a little closer, hands still firmly in his pockets.]

I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I just didn't -

[Know where we stand? Think it was cheating if we've never talked about what exactly we're doing and what it might mean? Instead he goes for-]

really know how to bring it up.

Okay. So...what?

[He's not even sure if he's asking "what happened?" or "what does it mean (for us)?" but if he can get away with leaving the burden of this conversation on Stephen, he will.]

We didn't sleep together.

[Getting that part over with...]

But we kissed. A few times.

[He runs over his face, buying himself a little time.]

Seeing him again, it brought a lot of stuff back. But... man, I really like you. And I like what we have and I really don't want to fuck everything up. Even though it's generally something I'm pretty good at.

So just thought you should... know.

[Way to wrap that one up nicely, Stills.]

Oh. Oh.

[He thinks about this for a moment.]

I'm not mad or anything.

[Actually, he's kind of smiling. He hadn't really thought anything about what might happen if Joseph showed up, but...well, Stephen pretty much chose him, right?]

I was kinda hoping you wouldn't be. I just... I don't want to start keeping secrets from you.

[Curt's smiling. Smiling is good. He saunters a little closer until he joins Curt at the kitchen table.]

Honestly, that's kind of the most important thing to me. I don't really like being kept out of the loop.

[He turns to stick shove several comic books and guitar picks into the odds and ends draw (well, one of them.]

So I guess this means this thing we have is definitely a thing?

Do you want it to be?

[Fuck, that's a cop-out answer. Try it again with a spine this time.]

'Cause I would. Like that a lot.

[Your apartment is way too warm, Curt. That's the only reason why he's flushing so much right now.]

Yeah. Me too.

[Curt turns around and reaches out to draw him into a kiss.]

[Stephen kisses back, slowly and happily, content to just draw this moment out for a while longer. He pulls back eventually. The corners of his mouth are threatening to bloom out into full-on dorky grin, so he's reigning them in at the moment.]

We're probably going to have to tell Campbell and Demyx soon.

Mmm. [Curt settles back into a chair. After all, he can kiss Stephen pretty much whenever now.] Campbell would catch on eventually, anyway. Demyx...I dunno.

I'm not saying we should make an announcement or anything, but we probably owe it to them.

[Stephen grabs the two plates of leftovers and sits down next to him. maybe a little closer than he would normally so that their legs are touching under the table. It's still sort of new and exciting, alright? He's get over it eventually. Possibly.]

No giant sparkly public announcement?

[Curt gives him an on-so-innocent look.]

But yeah. I feel like Demyx might get weird if he though it would change anything with the band. [pause] I guess I'm going to have to tell Lucy she was right.

[He looks worried.]

She might make high pitched noises.

Yeah, she does do that sometimes. I feel bad for any bats in the area.

[...slight pause]

Right about what exactly?

Well, I didn't tell her anything, but she did ask if I'd left with you the night of the party. So, uh, despite my very smooth deflection I think she suspects.

She might a little more than suspect considering I kinda told her about that time...

Oh, well never mind, then.

[Curt shrugs and goes for a mouthful of food.]

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