Part 7


Eventually exhausted in the middle of the day the boys fell asleep, all wrapped in each other’s arms. They started to stir in the late afternoon. The atmosphere was a little tense until Joey reached across to where Justin lay and slapped him hard on the ass, leaving an impression of his hand in Justin’s tender flesh.

“Ow! What was that for?”

Joey replied with a twinkle in his deep brown eyes and an incredibly fake southern hick accent

“Boy, get in that kitchen and make me a pie!”

The rest of the guys fell about laughing and joining in telling Justin to prepare them other pastry based snacks. When the laughter died down, JC went to each of them in turn and kissed them lightly on the lips.

“Are we all O.K?”

The answer from everybody to the entire groups relief was yes.

“O.K. I’m bored entertain me”

Justin lounged back and prodded Lance with his foot, Lance replied by whacking him over the head with a pillow.

“Oh it’s on now punk!”

A huge pillow/tickle fight ensued which was aborted prematurely when JC ‘accidentally’ kneed Chris in the groin when he refused to stop.

“I feel like doing something normal for a change and we’ve got to get up early tomorrow so how about we go to the movies?”

“Yeah right! I don’t fancy getting groped to death by screaming teenagers tonight”

Joey smiled a devilish smile and the group all shouted in unison

“Perv!”

“I don’t think you guys can ever say that to me again after the night we had!”

“We could always pay for the entire theatre to ourselves that way we’ll need security in and out but we can watch the movie in peace”

“Won’t that be really expensive?”

Everybody looked at JC

“Dude you are the cheapest multi millionaire in the known universe!”

JC looked a bit sheepish but stuck up for himself.

“It’s not cheap to be careful with money”

“JC there’s a little stingy, there’s Scrooge and then there’s you. I bet moths would fly out of your wallet it gets used so little”

“O.K. then we’re going to the movies”

They got ready and left the hotel taking care to leave an hour for fan interruptions, it had been a while since anybody could recall them being this happy. They went in to the theatre and bought the entire range of snacks. Justin arranged them all around him

“What are the rest of you guys having?”

“Give me some popcorn you ass”

They bickered a little, with security seated at the front of the theatre it felt like they were normal people for once and they could imagine that they’d gone to a theatre that just happened to be quiet in the middle of the afternoon. They all sat relatively still for the first few minutes of the movie then Lance felt another hand in his and looked across to see Joey looking at him with the most open, vulnerable, hopeful expression Lance had ever seen on the older man who was usually always joking. Lance gave Joey’s hand a little squeeze and they both smiled.

The movie ended and they went back to the hotel. The other guys went off for a swim but Lance and Joey went in Lance’s room.

“Lance”

“Yeah?”

Joey looked into Lance’s eyes and Lance looked right back, Joey blushed and looked at the ground. He muttered

“This is weird”

“Lance I really like you”

“I really like you too”

“No I mean as in, I like you more than the other guys, who I find sexy but I wanna spend some time getting to know you better.”

“I know what you meant Joey”

Joey stepped into Lance’s space and they slowly kissed, Joey brushed Lance’s cheek and looked deep into his eyes.

“I love you, oh damn I wasn’t meant to say that, god I’m such a girl!”

Lance laughed from deep in his belly, he laughed so hard tears were streaming down his face and he doubled over.

“Alright, it wasn’t that damn hilarious”

“I’m sorry Joey”

Lance propped himself up, his hand on Joey’s shoulder

“It’s just that, I think that may have been the least convincing declaration of love ever”

“You know what I meant Lance. I do love you but a sane person wouldn’t have said it 2 seconds after getting together with the other person. If a girl did that to me I’d run a mile”

“I’m not going anywhere, come here”

They hugged and kissed and laughed and went to find the other guys. They were all in Chris’ room playing Xbox, the game de jour was Halo and from what Lance and Joey could tell Justin was winning and the others weren’t very happy with the situation.

“You cheating ass!”

“I’m not cheating, just skilful old man”

“Yeah you weren’t saying that last night”

Chris looked at Justin with a smirk on his face until Justin pounced on him, practically swallowing him. It was more of a fight than a kiss until Justin pinned Chris and kissed his nose, he started singing ‘I am the champion’

“Guys can we have a chat?”

The other’s all looked up to see Joey and Lance holding hands and JC gave Lance an extra big smile.

“We’ve decided that we wanna have a relationship, but we also that it wouldn’t be cheating to sleep with any member of the group”

“Alright celebration orgy!”

“No Justin, we have to get up early tomorrow”

“I can be quick!”

“Yeah we know”

“Shut up”

Justin threw pillows at everyone just to be sure. As they all went to their separate rooms they knew that it was all going to be O.K. Maybe not happily ever after but somewhere pretty damn close.

THE END



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