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A Star Is Rising
Made for @seblaineaffairs SEBLAINTINE BINGO 2019 card 1 and the prompt “All Night“.
Blaine is a rising star of stage, but he finds the more popular he grows the harder it is to know who to trust. Having reconnected with Sebastian who is studying in New York, he finds him refreshing compared to those who never say no to him – he can trust Sebastian to tell him exactly what he thinks, something that is proving invaluable.
As time goes on, Sebastian mellows a little in his company but never loses his bite. For which Blaine is glad, he appreciates the change of pace, Sebastian keeps him on his toes. On more than one occasion he invites Sebastian to watch a rehearsal, desperate to know what he thinks as one of the few people who will give their full and uncensored opinion. When he wins yet another award it seems like a natural thank you to take him along… Sebastian makes light of it, an opportunity to mingle with lots of drop-dead gorgeous famous guys, but he definitely doesn’t refuse.
Despite what Sebastian had implied, he sticks with him the whole night, joining him for several after parties, getting increasingly disheveled as they drink and dance the night away. He might be Sebastian’s ticket to these behind the scenes gatherings but Blaine keeps expecting him to disappear, to find someone more appealing to end the night with. Rather unbelievably, that moment, or the opportunity, never comes, something that leaves Blaine with an odd feeling in his stomach. Sebastian crashes on his couch, too exhausted to even undress.
The next morning Blaine wakes up to a barrage of notifications on his phone. The one thing he hadn’t properly thought through is what everyone attending, and the press covering the event, would make of his “mystery date”. As he clicks through to the articles to see what fiction they have dreamed up, his gaze flicks over the candid photos of them both, the looks captured he doesn’t expect to see there on the screen and he wonders how much of what they are assuming is really a lie.
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