And here it is. The end of By The Way, I Love You. This is the first story I'm ever finishing. I mean, I've done Seblaine and Niff week but they're only supposed to last seven days and they're not an actual story like this one is. And I've done two (?) one-shots but that's not the same either. Aaaaand this is the first thing I ever posted on this website. Okay, enough now, I'll get emotional at the bottom lol. Well here id the epilogue. The conclusion to the story. I hope you enjoy :)
"Nick, are you almost ready?" I hear Sebastian ask me from out in the bedroom.
"Yeah!" I shout back as I finish up my hair in the bathroom mirror. It had to look just perfect. This was prom after all. The most important night of our high school careers. Okay, so it was junior prom but still. Sebastian and I were getting ready in Sebastian's room while Jeff and Blaine got ready in mine and Jeff's room.
"Hurry up, the limo is going to be here in five minutes!" Sebastian called after me. I roll my eyes at his impatient attitude and keep working on my hair. Our prom was off campus because technically girls weren't allowed to do more than visit at Dalton and the same for us at Crawford. Plus it was just better that way. Who wants to be in the same foul smelling gym that they're in everyday for prom? I finally get my hair just perfect and I pull back to look at myself as best as I can in the tiny mirror. I look good. I smirk to myself before walking out into the bedroom.
"Finally!" Sebastian says when he hears the door open. He turns around to look at me and his jaw drops slightly. "Damn, Nicky…" he says, openly looking me up and down. I can't help but blush under his gaze and self-consciously fix my suit jacket.
"T-Thanks, Seb," I say, walking over to pick Jeff's boutonniere from Sebastian's bed. It was a nice green color that I thought would look amazing with his eyes.
"Shall we go get our dates?" Sebastian asks, smoothing down his hair with his hand. I smile and nod. Sebastian picks up Blaine's boutonniere and we head out into the hall and down to my room. I knock, even though it is my room, to make sure they were both ready. Blaine opens the door and peeks his head out. He smiles when he sees us.
"Come on in boys," he said, opening the door wider. Sebastian smiled and kissed him on the cheek before taking his hand and walking inside the room. I followed them both in. I looked up and I saw Jeff standing there. He looked so perfect. Standing in his tux, bright blonde hair, styled just perfectly into that wind swept look that he knows I love so much. He looks at me and his eyes widen as a bright grin appears on his face. I blush, knowing I'm the reason it's there. It's the best feeling in the world.
"W-Wow, Nicky… You look amazing," Jeff says, walking forward towards me. I smile and blush even deeper.
"You look very handsome yourself, Jeffy," I say, pecking his lips quickly. He smiles and pulls me into his arms. I hug him back, laying my head on his shoulder. Every time we hold each other like this I know that it's exactly where we belong. In each other's arms forever. It feels so right and so wonderfully perfect. We usually don't even pull away until someone else has to break us apart. So Sebastian decides we've been hugging enough and clears his throat rather loudly. I pull away from Jeff, a light blush spreading across my cheeks. Jeff smirks and playfully pushes Sebastian's shoulder.
"Ass. We don't interrupt when you and Blaine are basically making out on my bed!" Jeff says, playfully shoving Sebastian around. Sebastian smirks and starts pushing Jeff back just as playfully. I smile at them, loving that they've become good friends because of me. Blaine blushed at the mention of his and Sebastian's activities that we walked in on once.
"That was one time!" Sebastian said, going for Jeff's hair.
"Watch the hair! It's prom dude!" Jeff said, guarding his hair with his hands. Sebastian laughed and clapped Jeff on the shoulder. Jeff walked over and wrapped his arms around my waist.
"Oh! Baby, let me pin this on you," I say, showing Jeff is boutonniere. He smiles at me and pecks my lips.
"That's beautiful, Nick. Wanna see yours?" he asks and turns around to pick the one he bought for me off of my bed. He opens the top of the small box and I look down at it. It was a beautiful white on with a light blue ribbon.
"I love it, Jeff. It's perfect," I tell him with a smile, taking his out of the box so I can pin it on him. He smiles and gets mine out of the box as well, his eyes never leaving my face, making me blush once again under his gaze. He moves his arms out of the way so I can pin his boutonniere on. I saw the flash of a camera out of the corner of my eye as Blaine snapped a picture of the two of us. I smiled to myself as I pin the flower on Jeff's tuxedo pocket. Once I'm done Jeff kisses my cheek and I move my arms so he can pin mine on next. More flashes appear as Blaine takes more pictures. Jeff gets it on successfully and we smile at each other.
"Okay, turn around so I can get a proper prom picture of the two of you now!" Blaine said, waving his hand at us to get our attention. Jeff turns me around in his arms and wraps his arms around my waist. I smile and feel the butterflies fluttering around in my stomach at his touch. We smile for the camera as Blaine snaps a few pictures of us.
"Okay, now let me take some of you two," I say, reaching for the camera in Blaine's hands. Blaine hands it to me with a smile right before Sebastian grabs him by his hips and pulls him back against himself. Blaine smiles and blushes so lightly. They pin their flowers on each other and then I take some posed photos of them like Blaine did for us.
Once I snap the last picture of them Sebastian's phone begins to ring. He picks it up off of the bed and puts it to his ear.
"Hello? Okay, thank you, we'll be right down," Sebastian says and then hangs up. "Limo is here guys."
Jeff takes my hand and all four of us make our way into the hall, down the stairs and outside to the limo. Sebastian talks to the driver to make sure he knows how to get to the hotel that the prom is taking place at as the remaining three of us climb into the back.
"Okay guys, make some silly faces," Blaine says, aiming the camera up at us to take more pictures. So we do. We take pictures where we're sticking our tongues out, where Jeff looks like he's about to attack me and eat my face off, and my favorite was the one where Jeff sprawled out across my lap, taking over my entire body. I laughed and pulled Jeff in for a kiss so Blaine could get a shot of that as well. Sebastian opened the door and began to climb in. He rolled his eyes when he saw the flashing of the camera and me and Jeff doing all of the poses.
"Blaine Devon Anderson, how many pictures are you going to take?" Sebastian asked, sitting himself down next to his boyfriend. Blaine laughed and turned to take one of Sebastian. Sebastian smirked and took the camera from Blaine, pulling Blaine in for a kiss and taking a picture of them like that. "Now that's a keeper."
Jeff rolls his eyes and steals the camera from Sebastian and starts taking pictures of himself and then pulling me on his lap so they're of the both of us. We spent the whole twenty minute car ride just taking pictures with each other, the four of us laughing, having a great time. The limo finally pulls up in front of the hotel and we all climb out and make our way inside.
"Hey guys, over here!" we hear David call from across the room with his date, Trent and Trent's date. The four of us walk over and we greet the other Warbler's and their dates, telling each other good we all look.
"See, Mercedes? I told you to give David a chance," Blaine said, nudging David's date's shoulder. Mercedes smiled and rolled her eyes.
"Yes, yes, I know Blaine," she said as David bent down and kissed her cheek. She smiled and took his hand.
We all walked into the room where the dance was taking place and it was magical. There were lights and decorations everywhere. It looked like we had just stepped into a fairytale. There were girls in princess dresses and guys in suits and ties. Everyone called the Warblers dapper but tonight, everyone looked quite dapper. The twinkling lights above the dance floor were probably my favorite part though. They were so beautiful and contrasted against the dark ceiling, they looked like stars shining in the night time sky.
"It's so beautiful in here," I say dreamily. Jeff smiles at me and squeezes my hand.
"Mhmm, beautiful alright," he says, still looking at me. I turn my head and smile at him, blushing and ducking my head bashfully. He smiled and wraps his arm around my waist, kissing my cheek lightly. The eight of us find an empty table and claim it as ours, Mercedes leaving her purse there and Trent leaving his drink there. The song changed to a fast beat one and Jeff began to tug on the sleeve of my jacket.
"Come on, Nicky, let's go dance!" he pleads, giving me his adorable puppy dog look. He knows damn well that I'm never able to resist it. And it is prom. So he knows I'm going to say yes. I smiles at him and peck his lips.
"Let's go dance, Jeffy," I say, and we make our way to the dance floor.
I'm always amazed at how well Jeff can dance. I could see him dance one hundred days in a row and on the one hundredth and one day, I'd still be in such awe of his skill and grace when he moves. I always felt a little insecure dancing with him just because he's so good. But he always assures me that I'm pretty good myself. We dance until the end of the song and then we run off and grab Blaine and Sebastian to come dance with us. Blaine gladly comes but Sebastian takes a little coercing. It's not that he doesn't dance, he does. Very well in fact. Not quite as good as Jeff but definitely better than me. We all danced to a couple of songs together, Blaine getting particularly excited when a Katy Perry song came on, and then the music began to slow down. Jeff turned to me with a smile on his face that made my heart melt.
"May I have this dance?" Jeff asked, bowing slightly and extending his hand out to me. I grinned widely and took his hand.
"Yes, you may," I say, doing my best impression of a British accent. Jeff chuckles and brings me against his body, his arm going around my waist. I sigh contently and absolutely melt into his touch. We sway softly to the music; me letting Jeff guide me in the steps. He always leads because he's the better dancer. If I ever led I'd be like the guy in Grease who told Frenchie to shut up so he could hear himself count.
For the majority of the night they play fast songs that we all danced to as a group, dragging the other four into our circle with us. I think Mercedes liked that she was the only girl there. I know I would've if I was her. But she fit right in with us guys and we acted as if she was one of the guys, only in a dress.
"Alright, now everyone grab that special someone you brought here tonight cause this is the last slow song of the evening, ladies and gentleman," the DJ announced, beginning to play Now and Forever by Richard Marx. It is an incredibly romantic song and perfect to end this incredibly romantic night with. Jeff pulled me into his arms and I laid my head on his shoulder as we swayed along to the song. Jeff hummed softly in my ear as he placed a soft kiss on my cheek.
"I love you so much, Nicky," Jeff whispered in my ear. I smile and pull back to look at him.
"I love you too, Jeffy. For as long as I can remember," I tell him and he gives me a chaste kiss on the lips.
"And I hope you know that I'm never letting you go. Like, ever. You're stuck with me and we're going to get married and have ten children and live in a big old house for the rest of our lives," he tells me with a grin on his face. I smile at how adorable he is and how he's already planned out our entire future.
"That sounds wonderful to me, my love," I tell him as he dips me. I giggle and wrap my arms around his neck, holding him close.
"You know what?" he whispers softly in my ear.
"What's that?" I ask, closing my eyes, enjoying the moment.
"We're meant to be together. I know it," he whispers, his lips tickling my ear. I pull back to look at him, a smile gracing my face. I already knew that, but to hear him say it makes it all the more real.
"I know we are, Jeffy. I know," I tell him. "Anything else you'd care to share?"
He pretends to think about it for a minute before shaking his head. I chuckle and shake my head in amusement. He smiled and kisses me tenderly. I return the kiss with the same intensity, fighting the urge to take it deeper. But Jeff pulls back as he remembers one more thing he wants to tell me.
"By the way, I love you."
And it's done! I was not ready for this. But I guess it's time to move on...to the sequel lol. The first chapter of the sequel will literally be posted as soon as I post this so if you're done reading this and it isn't up yet, it'll be up soon, I promise.
Oh, and I wanted to tell you that I have a new section of my tumblr ( StarGleekAmyR5 ) for my fanfictions now. There's a section called 'Fan Fictions' which has a short description of each story I have up and a gif/picture to go along with it. And at the very bottom of that page, there's a link to a page that says 'Faceclaims?' and that shows you who I see as the original characters in my stories. Like, for Juliette and Jack in this story I see Rydel and Ross Lynch so you will find their pictures there as well as Mrs. Sterling who I see as Patricia Clarkson (mom from Easy A). And if you go there there's actually some face claims for a new story I'm working on, that's not publushed yet. Maybe you can see who it's about and get some ideas about what it's about just by the character's names? ;) Go check it out.
I'd just like to thank all of you for reading this. It means soooo much to me that people actually like what I write. I can't thank all of you enough and if I could thank all of you indiviually, in person, I would. I thought maybe I'd give you some facts about this story.
Originally, I had not planned on Sebastian being such a big part of this. I planned on him being just a side character like the other Warblers who was just in love with Blaine. But I needed this story to go somewhere and Sebastian seemed to be the way to go with it. So then he got involved and the drama came into play.
This idea came to me through a role play, actually. I was roleplaying Nick on twitter and I was RPing with a Jeff and basically, the beginning of the story was what happened in the RP. Nick was in love with Jeff, they didn't know each other was gay, they went to the arcade and Nick spilled his guts out to Jeff who said he had a boyfriend. In the RP it was Rory though and I thought it better to make it a Warbler. And then after the arcade there was a scene in the RP where they went to the park but I figured Nick would be too heartbroken to do anything else, let alone spend more time with Jeff. And then that night Nick had a bad dream and Jeff refused to comfort him. But then the RP just dropped off for some reason, I don't really remember. So I just came up with the rest on my own. So I have to thank whoever that Jeff RPer was for the inspiration for this story. That would be kind of funny if they read this, wouldn't it be? Anyway, yeah that's how this story evolved but I promise I came up with the sequel entirely by myself lol. I mean, this was partially me just with some nudges from a RP that I was in lol.
But once again, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for reading this and all your reviews have made me smile and have meant the world to me. Now go ahead and find the sequel. It's called Better Together and in the description it will say that it is the sequel to BTWILY. The title is from the song form Austin & Ally. Plus, I think it is a really fitting title for them. I hope you all enjoyed By They Way, I Love You! :)