by Trina Solet
Theo grumbled. "Because I'm a grouchy grouch? Even Butter thinks I'm a grouch," he said pointing at her on Seth's lap.
"She doesn't mind you," Seth said and he combed his fingers through her fur.
"And what about you?" Theo couldn't help asking.
"I don't mind you," Seth said but he kept his eyes on the cat. "But for a smart guy you sure misunderstand me a lot. That's my doing 'cause I don't know how to say things the right way."
"No, it isn't you," Theo said and he sat down next to him. "I didn't used to be like this, but dealing with my aunt, I learned to expect the worst from people."
"Sorry," Seth said and touched his knuckles to Theo's.
"No. I'm sorry. Until her, I didn't have any experience with how bad people can disappoint you. After losing Dad then Mom, the way she treated us hit me hard. I got cynical."
"You're not that way with Ace. That's what matters," Seth told him.
"My aunt failed us, that means I can't let Ace down. I can't," Theo said.
"You're doing good, Theo," Seth told him.
"I still need to do better."
Seth reproached him with a smile, "You're too hard on yourself." He placed Butter on Theo's lap. "Show her some love."
That made Theo think that he would rather get his hands on Seth and show him some... He stopped at the next word, stopped himself from making any moves.
Why couldn't he just keep things easy between them, get each other off, not worry about any deeper feelings? But it was like he already crossed some kind of line and got too close to Seth without even realizing.
Chapter 24
Theo wasn't sure when he and Seth would be able to go to the club until Julian and Rob invited Ace to a cake tasting and a sleepover they were having for the kids. That decided it.
Ace was already at their house along with Butter because Danny had asked him to bring her. Theo was helping Seth get ready for their night out. He gave Seth one of his own t-shirts to wear, and he smiled as he put it on. But looking in the mirror, Seth started pulling on it.
"It's tight," he said.
"Yes, it is, and that makes it just right," Theo told him. It was dark blue like his eyes and it stretched across his powerful chest perfectly.
"If you say so," Seth said. For now he was willing to go along with Theo.
"Your leg is all better, right?" Theo asked as they set off. He didn't see any sign of a problem, but they could always take it easy.
"It's all good now. And they gave me my final test at the tearoom. Andy's great-aunts came by and they put me through the wringer. But I did OK."
"OK? They were gushing about you so much they embarrassed Andy."
"Umm. And that's good?" Seth asked.
"Yes. You have their seal of approval."
As they were driving down the dark road, Seth looked toward Peach Tree Hill. "I bet Ace is having fun at that cake tasting."
"They got the idea when they did a tasting to choose their wedding cake." Theo looked at Seth out of the corner of his eye. "Don't tell me you would rather go to that?"
"No," Seth said unconvincingly.
"What is it with you and cake?" Theo wondered.
"And ice cream," Seth added. "Just something I remember from when I was little. At every birthday party for every kid I knew, they had cake and ice cream, but that kind of thing stopped for me after my parents went to prison. I guess I just didn't get my fill."
"Then we'll have to treat you to some," Theo said with a smile.
Seth smiled too. "Are you gonna dance tonight?"
"Sure, and you will too."
"Only if you promise not to make fun of me," Seth told him.
"No promises."
The drive took a while but they arrived at the club at a good time. Since the truck didn't make the best impression, Theo parked a few blocks away and they walked to Club Nuevo. The stairs leading down were dimly lit then the door opened and the music got loud. Going inside, Seth took a step back as he was hit by the flashing lights and the pounding beat.
Theo urged him forward with a hand on his lower back and grabbed some sodas at the bar. He picked a spot that gave them a good view of the dance floor. After they had a look around the place, Seth leaned in to speak in Theo's ear.
"I thought..." Seth started then he looked unsure so Theo prompted him.
"What?"
Seth shook his head. "I thought you were taking me to a gay club."
"There are gay people here. There is a gay bar, but it's over 21." Theo pointed out some gay guys hanging out together and a few lesbian couples among all the straight seeming people.
Seth accepted his answer, but actually Theo wanted to bring Seth to a place where he could choose between girls or guys. "See anything you like?" Theo asked him but Seth just kept staring at him.
***
The club was a bit much at first, but Theo was there with him and that was all Seth cared about. But Theo kept pointing out different people in the club, asking, "What about her? What about him?" It was always someone good-looking, but Seth didn't really want to look away from Theo.
Seth wondered if he would get to see him dance, but he didn't actually want Theo dancing with someone else. As guys were giving Theo interested looks and smiles, it worried Seth that he might go off with one of them. But he couldn't spend all night acting like Theo was his territory and all trespassers would be shot on sight.
A gorgeous black girl gave Seth a quick smile, but she saved the brighter version of that smile for Theo. He caught it but then turned and gave a tall, muscular guy an appreciative once over. Maybe he was sending that girl a message that she was barking up the wrong tree. Or maybe the message was for Seth.
Theo kept pushing him to go after different people and Seth had to wonder what the heck he was up to. Was Theo trying to get rid of him so he could have his own fun?
With the noise of the club, he couldn't exactly ask Theo about it. Seth knew he couldn't do things with anyone else though. A lot of people played at sex, just did it for fun, and that might be fine for them, but Seth knew he couldn't go about it in that way. Theo was on his mind all the time, wanting him was eating him alive. This was not the kind of thing Seth could play with or it would kill him.
Theo didn't feel the same way. He wanted to let loose and maybe do something with one of these guys. Seth had no right to stop him, but he knew his face was still wearing the All Trespassers Will Be Shot sign every time any guy looked at Theo.
Turning his eyes away, Seth noticed that some people were going somewhere in the back. It was probably where people went to make out, but it had to be quieter there.
Grabbing Theo by the arm, Seth dragged him back there. Theo glared at him but didn't shake off his hand. Out of the corner of his eye, Seth saw couples pressed together in the shadows, but he ignored them.
His attention was on Theo as he demanded, "Why did we come here, Theo?" He knew he was picking a fight, but he couldn't leave it alone. There were just times when Theo made him feel like he had to prove he had a spine.
"To have fun if you can figure out how," Theo told him crossly.
"I'm thinking you just wanted to get me laid so I'd leave you alone," Seth said and hoped Theo would deny it.
"What? I don't need to get you all the way out here for that."
Seth tried again. "Maybe you wanted to bring me here to show me you have plenty of other options when it comes to guys."
"I need to show you that? You couldn't figure it out yourself?" Theo asked him raising his chin. "You sick of being wrong yet or you want to keep going?"
"You're the one who's wrong about me. I don't need to be with other guys or girls."
"I'm enough for you? Am I that special?" Theo's eyes challenged him, but Seth didn't say anything. He couldn't tell Theo that he was. "You don't even want to dance with any of them?"
"I can't really dance," Seth told him.
"So if I ask you to dance with me, you'd say no?" Theo asked.
That wasn't something Seth could refuse. "I would with you, but I'd end up embarrassing you."
"There are plenty of straight guys here, at least half of them don't know what they're doing on the dance floor," Theo told him.
"I'm not straight," Seth said a little too hotly, but Theo just raised an eyebrow.
"Come and prove it then, or do you have some reason you want us to stay right where we are?"
Seth did consider it, but he didn't want to be doing things with Theo with all these other people around. "I'll dance with you," Seth told him, and Theo took his hand to lead him back to the main part of the club.
Theo backed toward the dance floor pulling Seth along with him. Mesmerized, Seth didn't take his eyes off him. Theo drew him close, not an inch between them. When Theo started moving, Seth moved with him. Seth tried to dance the best he could, so he let Theo's body guide his movements.
Here he was dancing, but he didn't feel self-conscious because all he saw was Theo dancing in front of him, against him.
Theo was incredible and Seth wasn't the only one who noticed. The DJ smiled and winked at Theo, and Seth pulled him in tighter though there was already no space between them.
"Not getting possessive, are you?" Theo asked right in his ear, but Seth didn't let go.
Theo was dancing with him and only for him. Other guys eyed him, but didn't approach.
They danced until they were exhausted and then headed back with Theo at the wheel. Now that he wasn't watching and feeling Theo dance, Seth had to consider how he behaved. He always wanted Theo to think he was better than he was. He sure failed at that tonight.
"I know I was acting like some territorial beast. I wasn't trying to keep you from having fun. Sorry."
"Is that what you were doing?" Theo said and gave him a teasing smile.
"I was trying not to, but I saw how other guys were looking at you. They wanted to dance with you and maybe get with you."
"And no one was looking at you, were they?" Theo asked.
Seth thought about it. "I think one guy did, but that must have been because I was dancing with you."
"Really? One guy?" Theo said like he couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"And the bartender smiled at me, but I think that was professional."
Theo sighed. "So how did you like dancing?"
Seth smiled big. "It was hot. I got hard."
"I know," Theo told him with a smirk.
"You were hard too," Seth accused him.
"You do that to me," Theo said and Seth looked down at his lap, embarrassed. "Now what do you want to do about it?"
Seth was halfway to asking Theo to just pull over somewhere, but then he remembered that they would have the house to themselves, if they ever got there. The drive seemed to take forever, and Seth was horny as hell.
Somehow he managed to keep his hands off Theo while he was driving, but as soon as he pulled up in front of the house, Seth was on him. His kiss was deep while he gathered handfuls of Theo's hair and moaned into his mouth. Theo pushed his hand under the t-shirt he let Seth borrow and fondled his chest.
While Seth kissed him, his hands on Theo were greedy, tugging on his clothes like he wanted to get him naked right there in the truck. It didn't help that Theo was gliding his lips over his throat, running his hand over his chest, teasing his nipples with his fingertips.
Somehow Seth gathered his wits enough to gasp, "We should go inside." But he didn't stop groping Theo or kissing him everywhere he could.
Then Seth realized that he could get Theo naked once they went inside, and he let him go. The whole way to the front door and while Theo unlocked it, Seth had to fight to keep his hands to himself.
Inside, with the door shut and the light on, Seth watched Theo take off his jacket and throw it on a chair. Then Theo spun around and took Seth's breath away slamming him against the door.
His hand slid around to the back of Seth's neck and he kissed him hard. Theo rubbed him over his jeans and Seth felt his knees buckle. He braced himself against the door, but Theo's hand was gone.
"If you can't stay on your feet, we better move this to the bed," Theo told him.
"I can stay on my feet," Seth said, but Theo only chuckled. He was leading the way to the bedroom. Seth followed and grabbed his hand. Theo raised an eyebrow at him over his shoulder then squeezed his hand giving Seth a sweet feeling on top of how horny he was.
In the bedroom, he swung Theo around and laid him out on the bed. Taking his jacket off, Seth was on top of him, kissing his neck.
"I thought you liked light," Theo teased him.
"Right." Seth kissed his mouth real quick and told him, "Don't go anywhere." He then climbed off Theo and went to turn the lamp on. When Seth got back to him, Theo was sitting up, kicking his sneakers off. Seth toed off his own then leaned over Theo and pressed him back on the bed with a kiss.
They kissed and took each other's clothes off while Seth tried to touch Theo everywhere. He felt so good, Seth couldn't wait to go down on him, but Theo wouldn't let him.
He raised himself up so they were both kneeling on the bed, breathing hard and hanging onto each other. Their hard cocks were brushing and that was all Seth could think about.
"We have the house to ourselves, we should take advantage," Theo said. He was pressing his naked body against Seth's, making him lose his mind.
"What should we do?" Seth asked eager for doing anything with Theo.
"I want to fuck," Theo said in a low, husky voice, but his eyes questioned Seth.
"Yes," Seth said before he even had time to think. His hands on Theo's lower back gripped him tighter then slid down over his ass.
"So have you been thinking about fucking me all this time?" Theo asked.
Seth couldn't deny it. "I had dreams, but I want it the other way around."
Theo was surprised. "You want me to fuck you?"
"You've done it before, haven't you?" Seth asked, but he wouldn't have been disappointed if Theo said no.
"I have," Theo said and Seth tried not to let him see how much he minded.
Jealous as hell, he challenged Theo, "Then you should know what you're doing. Show me." He placed his hands on Theo's waist but he couldn't keep them from moving, rubbing down his hips as he was grinding against him.
"You don't know what you're asking for," Theo said shaking his head. He might be saying that, but his chest was rising and falling with excitement, and when Seth pressed his lips to the side of his neck, he felt his pulse race.
Kissing his way over his jaw, he then put his mouth to Theo's ear and whispered, "You don't think I know what I want, but I do." It was true, but that didn't mean he wasn't scared, not of Theo fucking him. He was scared of wanting him too much, of losing his head over him.
"Are you trying to prove something?" Theo asked.
Pulling back just enough to be able to look into Theo's eyes, Seth tried to explain himself. "I might not be able to name or explain it, but it's like this. I look at you and I want to touch you. I touch you, I want to kiss you, I want to go down on my knees for you. And yeah, I want to fuck you, but I want you to fuck me first." When Theo didn't say anything, just stared back at him, Seth wondered if something else might be standing in the way. "Is there someone else you want to be doing this with?" Seth asked, his voice pained and hushed.
"You're going to need to let me go," Theo told him.
"What? No," Seth protested and only tightened his hold on him.
"I need to get condoms and lube unless you have them," Theo told him evenly.
"Ah, no," Seth said feeling embarrassed as he let him go.
But as Theo was gone, Seth felt tension ratcheting up, his head swimming, his nerves buzzing with need. When Theo got back, Seth tried not to be all over him, but he couldn't resist the crook of his neck or the smell of his skin.
Going to him, Seth buried his face against him, let his hair tickle him, then he kissed his mouth. He was dying to show Theo what he felt, but he wanted to
tell him too. Panting the words between kisses, he said, " I want to know what it's all about, I want... I want every part of you."
Wordlessly, Theo walked him back toward the bed then maneuvered him where he wanted him while letting Seth kiss him.
"I like kissing you too much," Seth said, knowing he was slowing him down.
"Or just enough," Theo told him with a grin.
Seth smiled up at him and watched him uncap the lube. Theo was watching him too, like he was waiting for Seth to change his mind.
That wasn't going to happen. Seth was ashamed at how little experience he had, but at the same time, he was glad he hadn't been with anyone else. It seemed right to feel everything with Theo for the first time.
Theo pushed one of his legs up and Seth hooked his arm under the knee. With a slick finger, Theo traced circles around his hole, teasing him then he pressed in. The feeling was strange then Theo's long finger was deep inside him and Seth shuddered then groaned as another finger went in.
"Does that feel OK?" Theo asked while stroking inside him.
"Feels good," Seth managed to say. It felt too good and he was ready to scream out to Theo to do anything he want to him.
His cock was getting so stiff now, all of him tight, all of him concentrated and pulsing around Theo's fingers. Theo pumped his fingers in and out despite the tightness of Seth's hole, then he asked, "You think you can take more?"
"Please," Seth breathed. He just meant to say a simple yes, not beg, but that's what came out.
One more finger made Seth let out one moan after another. The tight, aching feeling was so strong now. Seth knew he would come if Theo didn't stop it. But Seth couldn't speak only moan and rock his body into Theo's fingers.
Seth was close, and Theo wasn't stopping him only making sure his fingers were aimed just right. Then Theo bent down to take his cock in his mouth, and it was too much. The suction of Theo's mouth, his fingers thrusting in and out, he couldn't take it.
"I can't...I'm..." Seth couldn't get out the warning. He was coming. "Damn. Oh, damn," he groaned as he watched Theo swallow.
Seth dropped his head back and felt Theo's fingers leave him. Raising his red, sweaty face to Theo, Seth gasped, "Sorry. It took me over. I couldn't stop."
