Song for Broken Hearts (malexmale)

Chapter Twenty-Nine

I ended up spilling the details to my friends after I recovered from sloppy New Years sex. I left the sex part out. I ended up telling Sebastian about it, too, but I didn't get too explicit with him. Rowan and I established ourselves as boyfriends, but we agreed to keep it to ourselves. I was lucky my friends understood and they kept it to themselves because at this point we would have gotten some serious backlash if people not in our circle knew.

And by the "we," I mean Rowan would have gotten some serious backlash. He was a hybrid and kind of gay, and since the LGBTQ community wasn't making much strides with hybrids at the moment, he would get literal hell. Luckily, my friends were cool and pretty much supported hybrids themselves and supported us. Though, the one condition they had was that they wanted to meet Rowan in person. Darick had been the only one to meet him in person at the time, and the others were curious to meet him, since they had only ever seen him in blurry pictures. One could only imagine how that conversation went.

But other than that, we started going back to the lake. We went out on our normal lunch dates to our favorite little diner to talk and have a good time. I actually started spending way more time in his bedroom — not to fuck or anything — to start sleeping with Rowan at night. I read online that people develop stronger bonds when they've slept together and I think it worked pretty well because I got to wake up to Rowan spooning me almost every day. We never did anything more than hold hands and sit close together, as much as I wanted to explore non-drunk induced sex, I was satisfied just being with him. He didn't make big fancy gestures either and I appreciated the simplicity of our relationship. Well, at least that part. I wasn't a fan of his reluctance to meet my friends because they were practically my substitute parents here on earth, and Rowan decided to be difficult, avoiding the very idea of meeting them.

"No way."

I sighed in exasperation, "Rowan, please! All they want to do is meet you!"

"I refuse."

I grabbed onto his arm and whined loudly, "Oh, come on! It's not like I'm asking you to meet my parents."

"I don't like being in crowds." he replied flicking my forehead and I squeaked.

"It's not going to be a crowd! It'll be me, you, Heather, Harnold, Allen, Amber, Natalia, and Darick. That's six people. I can ask Sebbie to come as well if you'd feel uncomfortable since they're all humans." he frowned and I put my hands together. "Please? Just for a lunch gathering? We can go to a big restaurant or something? That way we aren't crowded in our place?"

He glanced down at me and made a face. I was giving him my best puppy dog eyes and I knew he was caving in because he started to do the whiney-moan noise kids make when they're trying not to back down, "Mmmmmmmh... fine. Fine! But not for more than two hours and Sebastian has to be there."

I squealed and kissed his cheek as I ran off to make some calls, "You better get changed then because we need to get there in half an hour!"

"Wait, what?"

I laughed as I called Heather to her know we were on our way. Sebastian was actually there with Allen and the others now. I had purposely waited until now to let Rowan know, so he couldn't try to back down later. He had a habit of doing that when he didn't want to go out, on dates that is, because he was still bashful about going out and spending time together. I purposely dressed cute for this day, too.

"Rowan, come on!"

Rowan came out scowling, wearing a nice button up, slacks, and his fancy dress shoes. I wanted to style his hair, but he only huffed and covered his head when I tried to get close. I smiled and dragged him out, glancing around for Cucuy to coming running out after us, but I guess he was staying in. Lately, Rowan hadn't been bringing Cucuy out as much as he used to and I don't think his dog seemed to mind it either, which I thought was weird. Rowan only shrugged when I asked him about it. Perhaps Rowan didn't need Cucuy to keep him calm anymore?