Seven

I stumbled into the studio the next morning late.

“Sorry, sorry, I know,” I muttered pulling my baseball cap over my eyes.

The others were sitting at the mixer and the lounge chairs behind it.

Lance and I locked eyes the minute I walked in.

“Yeah, I know why you’re late,” Justin smiled, “JC got some last night!  You go dude!” Justin put out his hand for a high five.

I glanced at Lance who was now bright red.

“What?  JC got some?  Shit, that’s so unfair,” Joey muttered.

“How’d you know he got some Jup, unless it was you,” Chris cracked.

“’Cause I called him, he was fuckin’ gone,” Justin snorted.

“Okay!  Okay!  I did not have sex, calm yourselves,” I snatched Chris’s bottle of water and began drinking it.

“Dude, you damn near orgasmed on my phone!” Justin laughed, Joey and Chris cracking up.

I just smiled as I watched Lance rub the back of his head uncomfortably.

“Can’t a man jerk off without being bothered,” I set down the bottle of water and peeled off my sweatshirt.  I tossed it on a chair and plopped down next to Lance.

“Whatever, you were not jerking off, I’ve spent many nights with a bunk next to yours and you’re quiet.  You were damn near incoherent last night,” Justin tossed a pillow at me.

“Blow job, had to be,” Joey laughed, “C’mon C, fill us in!” Joey yelled.

“Y’all are horrible,” I shook my head.

“That’s a fucking hickey on his shoulder, look,” Chris pointed out.  I dropped my head down and strained to look at my shoulder, sure enough the bright purple marking was there.

I shot a look at Lance, who looked for sure like he was going to die.

“God Chris, grow up,” I threw a pillow at him.

“Damn, that’s purple too, man, I hope you got a blow job, cause she can SUCK,” Joey laughed.

I thought I saw Lance about to fall over out of the corner of my eye.  The thought of him sucking made me smile goofy.

“What do you think Lance?” I asked and looked at him.

“Huh?” he shook his head.

“Yeah, don’t you think the girl can suck?” Chris chuckled.

“Uh…sure, I suppose,” his eyes were bugging out as he just shrugged.

“Well, at least tell us this, was it good?” Justin sat up and stared at me.

I smirked to myself and watched Lance again as I replied, “what happened was absolutely amazing – nothing like I’ve ever experienced in my life and that’s the truth.”

Lance damn near choked on his spit, his face switching from shades of white to red in an instant.

“Lance, don’t you have anything to say about our young lad JC who finally got his jollies…it’s been a while?”  Chris asked, patting me on my back as he got up.

“I’m sure he’s had better,” he looked at me, my eyes playfully dancing with his.

“He just said it was amazing Lance, do you need proof?” Justin laughed as he stood up as well.

“Oh, trust me, there was proof when I woke up this morning…I was quite…well let’s just say last night stuck with me,” I stood up and stretched.

“After effects are always a good sign JC,” Justin sighed, “I’m so jealous, man.”

“I guess we could go do a mike check,” Joey led everyone into the studio.

“Water first, be right there,” I stayed behind, just Lance and I in the sound proof room.

The others found their way on the other side of the glass and began adjusting their headsets and mike’s. 

He casually said “so you woke up with some ‘after effects’ this morning, huh?” his grin was wide as he picked up some pillows off the floor.

“Yeah, you do bad things to me Bass,” I replied, noticing the others were signaling for us to come in.

“I like that, I like to see the things I can do to you, especially since no one else has ever turned me on the way you do,” he replied.

The sound technicians entered and we began to leave.  I stepped past him and seductively whispered in his ear: “no one can freak you like I can.”

He stopped dead, his eyes following me as I smirked and walked into the studio.  As he followed me in I saw him quickly adjust himself.  I was finally getting my edge back – no way was I going to let him be naughtier than me, especially after the shit he pulled last night.  If he only knew what I had in mind for him…

Two Days Later

“So, am I the only one you talk to about her?” Justin asked as I tossed some clothes in my suitcase for New York.  I felt bad because I really wasn’t paying much attention to him, I was thinking about Lance.  He couldn’t come over tonight because he was going to be away from Trin for a week, so he was spending time with her.  I hated being away from him like this, it felt like torture.

“Yeah Jup, just you,” I answered robotically as I heard the doorbell ring.

“Who’s at the door?” Justin asked.

“I dunno, let’s see,” I replied as I hooked in my microphone and latched the phone onto my belt.  I ran downstairs and yanked open the door.

“Joshua Scott?” the guy asked.

“Uh…yeah?”

“Delivery, sign here,” the man handed me a clipboard.

“What is it?  What is it?” Justin kept asking over and over.

“Shut up,” I replied, the man looking at me strangely.

“Here you go,” he took the clipboard from me and handed me a vase filled with three dozen yellow and red roses.

“Oh my God,” I gasped, reaching into my pocket for some money.

“Thanks,” he took the money from me, I hadn’t even noticed I gave him a twenty dollar bill, “have a nice day.”

“What is it?!” Justin screamed as I shut the door.

“Roses, a ton of them,” I set down the vase and plucked out the card.

“And you really haven’t had sex with her yet?” Justin asked in disbelief.

“No…we haven’t…let me call you back.”

“Alright,” Justin hung up.

I opened the envelope and pulled out the card.

Sylvester –

Missing you with every minute that passes.

Love, Taz

I had to laugh at his creativity, it’s not like he could send flowers from Lance Bass to JC Chasez.

I stared at the card for a long moment with a big goofy smile on my face.

I hope he knows that he is the only person allowed to refer to me as a cat/kitten.

I smiled even brighter…God I am so in love it’s pathetic…

New York

I felt a pair of arms slide around me as I unpacked my suitcase.  I hadn’t felt those arms in what seemed like forever.  Lance and I had flown up separately because of some junk Joey and I had to do with the Today Show.

“Mmm…” I moaned as I turned around to kiss him.  Our lips locked passionately, neither one of us wanting to stop.  “How’d you get in here?” I asked.

“It’s amazing what a little bribery with security can get you,” he snickered.

“Mmm, I like it when you surprise me.  Like with those flowers,” my hands held his waist as he brushed a bit of hair out of my eyes.

“So you really did like them?” he asked, his face lighting up.

“They’re beautiful,” I whispered, my lips kissing his nose, “not as much as you of course,” I kissed both of his eyes, “because I’ve never seen anything more perfect than you,” my lips met his.

“Now, that’s not true,” he laughed through our kiss.

“Sure it is…the only thing that sucks is I can’t show you just how perfect you are because we have a dinner to go to,” I bit down on his lower lip.

“I know, ugh…” he moaned as his hands worked up my shirt and caressed my stomach.

“I have an idea though…” I kissed him briefly.

He looked up at me curiously.

“How about we make an appearance,” I kissed his nose, “and we come back here and I…” my eyes locked on his, “spend the entire night exploring your perfect body with my lips.”

His eyes glossed over at the thought.

“I guess we better get to dinner then, huh?” his smile was goofy as he laughed.

“Guess so…”

Later That Night

We mingled with some record execs and spent most of the evening just sitting back, relaxing and discussing over the new album.  There were some MTV people there interviewing us, mostly just asking us for a tentative date.  Lance hadn’t made the announcement about the wedding yet…I suppose neither of us really wanted to think about the fact that it wasn’t too far off and the fact that we were in fact cheating.  Every time I tried to think about the reality of us never really being together I just pushed it as far away as I could.  I knew when the time was right we’d talk about it…but I was falling in love with him more and more every day and at this point, I really didn’t know what our future was like and what we were going to do once we said those words to one another.

He looked at me from the other side of the large table.  Joey and some MTV guy was talking to him and he wasn’t even listening.

“JC, you miss her, huh?” Justin asked next to me, taking me out of my gaze.

“Huh, who?” I asked.

“Her, you know…that’s why you’re all withdrawn tonight, huh?” Justin asked.

“Yeah Ju, yeah,” I mumbled.

“So is she going to break off the engagement or what?” he pushed.

“Justin, I can’t just ask her to break it off…”

“But you love her right?” he asked.

I smiled weakly, “yeah, I do.”

“Does she love you?”

The words hit me hard…does Lance really love me?

“I think so, we’ve never said it,” I shrugged.

“Well, I think once you figure that out then it’s time to reevaluate the situation with her engagement.  I mean, I’m happy for you and her, but she’s engaged, so there’s an innocent victim in all of this JC,” he patted my back.

“I know Just, I know…” a deep sigh escaped my mouth, “we’re just not ready to tell anyone yet.  I don’t think we can until we at least know what we feel for one another.”

“I understand dude, it’s going to be okay,” he replied.

Yeah…right.

I noticed Lance heading for the bathroom, so I excused myself and followed unnoticed.

There were quite a few people in the men’s room when I entered.  Lance stepped in afterwards, both of us standing next to one another at the wall.

“I think it’s about time to go back to the private party,” I told him, people walking past us.

“Yeah, this one’s not too exciting,” his eyes followed the passing guys.

Once we were done I passed by him at the sink.

“You go first – gimmie twenty minutes,” I whispered and walked out.

A few minutes later Lance excused himself and blamed some form of jetlag.

I watched him head out and damn near counted the minutes until I could leave as well.  It’d been forever since I could touch him and any longer I thought I’d combust.

“JC, you okay man?”  Justin asked.

“Yeah, just distracted,” I shrugged.

“Her?  I hate women, they always do that to me,” he chuckled.

“I was thinking about saying I love you tonight, do you think I should?” I looked at him softly.

“Are you sure JC, you’re not the type of person to throw words around or take them lightly,” his face looked concerned.

“I just want to express how I feel Jup…”

“Are you sure you’re in love with her?” he asked.

“More than I’ve ever been with anyone in my life,” I answered.

“Wow…if you don’t think you’re gonna get hurt…”

“I know I will Jup, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take.”

He smiled.

“I’m gonna go make that call…” I got up.

“Good luck dude,” he replied.

“Thanks man, see yah in the morning.  Good night everyone,” I yelled.

“Night C,” they all called.

Upstairs

I knocked on Lance’s door impatiently.  I was hoping I could slide in without anyone seeing.  I had to go to my room and wait for security to go to his room before I slid out into the hall.  We we’re getting way too sneaky and too good at hiding our relationship, especially under the roof of our bandmates and security, let alone the same town as our record company.

He opened the door and I quickly slid inside.

The room was dim with a few candles lit.

I smiled brightly as I ran a hand through my hair.

“Mmm, scruff,” his hand found the side of my face and rubbed it.

“Running late this morning, no time to shave,” I smiled.

His hands fell around my waist, his fingers finding my belt loops and tugging lightly.

“This feels so weird, you know, having the whole night to ourselves,” I continued to tug on the loops.

He looked at me bashfully.

“So, can I take you up on that offer that you mentioned earlier?” his lips briefly kissed my neck.

“Of course, but you have to do one thing for me first,” I let go of him and led him to the middle of the room.

“What’s that?” he asked.

I stood back and looked him up and down.

“Strip…” my voice was deep, my eyes bright.

He smiled and looked away shyly with a laugh.

“Lance Bass the stripper, huh?” he asked as he pulled his shirt up over his head and allowed it to fall to the floor.

My eyes fell over his broad shoulders and curvy waist.

I smiled at him as he pulled me into him, our lips immediately connecting.  His fingers then yanked at the bottom of my shirt, our lips only parting long enough for him to pull my shirt over my head. 

I unfastened his pants and let them fall to the floor before pushing him back towards the bed.  He fell down and crawled backward until his head hit the pillows.

I crawled slowly on top of him as I kicked off my own pants.

I smirked as I saw him playing with the waistband of his boxer-briefs.

“Did you want these off too?” his eyebrows raised as he stared up at me.

“Of course,” I replied, a bit nervous, we’d been unclothed a million times in front of each other, but not since we discovered how we felt for one another.

He looked up at me nervously.

I then stood up and walked to the side of the bed.  I yanked the covers out from underneath him and pulled them back.

He watched intently as I slid my fingers inside my waistband and slowly began to peel off my boxers.  His eyes looked up at me as I sprang free – obviously aroused by the whole experience.  His eyes locked with mine as he reached out and touched me lightly.

Seconds later he pulled off his boxers, grabbed my hand and slowly pulled me into the bed.  I hovered over him and pulled the covers over the top of my body.  My lips met his neck.

“I want to feel you…” he moaned, his hands grabbing at my back.

When I laid down on top of him and our bodies were pressed together I could of swore my heart skipped a beat.

He shook under me.

“God Jayce, you feel amazing,” we both just laid there taking in how it felt to just be able to touch each other without any clothes on.

We must of laid there for five minutes without moving and just enjoying the feel of one another.

Just laying there feeling how much this was turning him on made me smile all goofy.

“What?” he asked.

“You’re poking me,” I teased.

He chuckled a bit, “you’re poking meeee.”

I reached down between us and adjusted myself so that my issue was touching his.

I watched his eyes roll back in his head.

My lips found his collarbone and I began kissing and biting all along it and his shoulders.  At the same time I began moving up and down just slightly.

“Jayce…I…” I grinded into him as I felt him begin to twitch under me.

“Are you going to come?” I whispered in his ear as I bit down on it.

He could barely form words.

“I…I…yeah…NOW,” his body jerked up into mine.

“I love you…” I whispered in his ear.

“JC…” was all he could manage.

I felt the warmth between our bodies and it instantly set me on fire.

“Fuck, you feel so good,” I began moving up and down against him.

He quickly flipped me over on my back.

“Lance…I…” I began to climax.

“Shh…” I saw him slide down the bed.

“Lance…” I tried, but air was cut off the minute he put me inside of his mouth.

I cried out loudly, my hips jerking into his mouth.

His lips slid up and down on me, his hand right below them.

My fingers dug into the bed, my legs slowly tightening.

My moaning was so loud I was almost positive someone next door could hear.

My fingers found his blond tips and I tugged on them lightly.

I tried to make my body stop falling, but it wouldn’t.

“I…” I tried, but I couldn’t speak.

A sudden overwhelming feeling of the utmost pleasure swept over me.  My whole body jerked into his mouth.

The instant I stopped moving, he looked up at me with a smile.

“I love you too,” he crawled on top of my shaking body.

I ran a hand through my hair.

“Where the FUCK did you learn how to do THAT?” my eyes locked with his, nearly bulging.

He just smirked.

“Let’s just say I’m more experienced than you may think,” his green eyes were so bright they were almost blinding.

I plopped down on the bed and pulled him in my arms, soon enough we were a huge mess of tangled limbs as we sat talking.  It was quite strange the things we talked about.  We’d known each other for so long and spent so many nights with the group talking about our pasts and our families that it’s almost like we’ve run out of things to talk about, so we say silly things instead.

“Don’t you remember that time we were on the bus and Justin knocked me into you and I totally almost broke your arm?” Lance laughed, “I fell into you purposely because I like wanted to touch you or something flirtatious like that.”

“So you almost broke my arm?!” I joked.

He just smacked my chest.

“Okay, well do you remember the time we were all drunk and with that huge group of people and we played spin the beer bottle?”

“Yeah,” he answered.

“And the bottle when I spun it landed on you?” I asked.

“Yeah.”

“I was going to do it, but I figured being drunk wasn’t a good enough excuse,” I shrugged.

“No way, you were going to?  I was hoping you would,” he laughed.

We both chuckled and then it was silent for a few minutes.

“Okay, I have one for you?” he asked and sat up.

“What?” I asked with a big smile.

“When did you fall in love with me romantically?” his green eyes studied my blue intently.

I thought for a moment.

“I don’t think I could put a time frame on it Lance…it just sort of happened.  Like one day I knew for sure, I really don’t know how to explain it…”

He just smiled acceptingly.

“So…uh…you…love…me…too?” I carefully replied.

He smiled goofy now.

“I’ve loved you longer than you could ever imagine,” he kissed my chest.

“And you’re, or you were, willing to marry Trin to hide that from the world?”

“Not the world, just, well…”

“The people you love,” I finished his sentence.

He cleared his throat.

“It’s weird how we always put ourselves through such hell to protect the ones we love.  What’s worse is no matter how famous we are I would shout it from the rooftop of the VMA’s before I told it my own mother,” he quietly replied.

“That’s because what the world thinks doesn’t ultimately matter, how your mom thinks…well, THAT does,” I ran my fingers through his hair.

“Sometimes I wish nights like this would never end,” he sighed.

I scooted him out of my arms and laid him on his back.

“Let’s pretned it doesn’t have to for a little while,” my lips kissed his eyes, nose and then mouth.  “Let me take you away from here…”  I then kissed, licked and sucked every inch of his body from the top of his head, to his small toe, not one centimeter was left uncovered.  And that’s how we spent the rest of the night, making each other feel so amazing we didn’t have to think about the rest of the world.

Eight