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It Has Always Been You 12 - Drake In The Loop
It's Friday night and everyone was in the mood to let their hair down and the four friends decided to go down to the club for some drinks and chilling. They had made planned to meet at the entrance of the club. Today Mikael had no gig but his boyfriend Drake will be in to spin the DJ console later that night.
It was still early and the party crowd has not arrived yet. They met at the entrance and proceed to enter the club and straight away went to the pool table near the back of the club. Nick and Mikael decided to play some pools while the girls, Amy and Sandra, went to the bar to get them drinks.
Mikael was waiting for his turned to shoot and was sitting at the table alone drinking a mug of beer. Sandra saw the opportunity to get close to Mikael and slowly walking to where Mikael was sitting. Amy doesn't notice that Sandra was already not by her side as she was focusing on Nick, cheering him on every time he pocketed a ball.
"Hey, fancy another drink?" Sandra said sounding sweet and girly despite her dislike of Mikael. He felt so uncomfortable when Sandra acted like that. He rolled his eyes.
"It's ok though... I will get it later." Mikael replied monotonously.
Sandra tries to continue with the conversation when she heard the pub door open and in came her most hated man on earth, Drake.
Drake casually walks towards Mikael and planted a kiss on the nape of his neck, sending shivers down Mikael's spine. Mikael giggled and reached his hand to touch Drake's face. He turned to face him and planted a soft kiss on his gorgeous man Drake... his boyfriend. "Hmmmm...you taste like beer..." Drake gave another kiss to Mikael.
"You know what? If you don't stop studying all the time, for sure you are gonna get student burnout." Drake cheekily teased Mikael.
"What... like people say... all work and no play?" Mikael teased back.
"It depends whom you are playing with." Drake kissed Mikael again. Winking at him seductively, making Mikael blush deep red.
Amy looked so pleased with Mikael and Drake. She was so happy that Mikael had put all the crap that had happened lately behind him and moved on with a hot guy... he he.
Nick just doesn't bother and rolled his eyes couple of times. But his heart was crushed seeing his guy being manhandled by Drake. He wanted to move in between to separate them...but didn't have the guts to do it and would not want to create a scene. Secretly he was hoping that at least for the night he could get to be with Mikael alone.
The most annoyed person was Sandra. Her face was red with anger. She thought she had the opportunity to be close with Mikael, but the idiot Drake just won't leave Mikael alone.
Mikael and Drake were giving each other loving eyes without realizing the tension of their two friends, Sandra and Nick.
"Look here... let me do my set first... and I might join you later, okay love?" Drake pecked Mikael on the cheek and left him blushing. Mikael turned to look at his friends beside him. All of them were looking at him, more staring at him.
Amy was grinning widely and Sandra was annoyingly frustrated...and Nick...hmmm. Whenever Mikael set his eyes on Nick, he could sense unhappiness showing in his eyes. He saw Nick trying so hard not to be bothered, but Mikael could see that Nick's eyes reflected sorrow and sadness. He wanted to get close with Nick...but...but... Should he do it?
The silence was awkward between the four of them, as though it could be cut with a knife. Mikael tried to act as normal as though nothing happened. But why must he be bothered with their feelings and reactions? He was just kissing lovingly with his boyfriend Drake, the same way like Nick kissing Amy. But why is there this guilty feeling in his heart? Did he do anything wrong? He didn't think so.
He stands up and walked away from Sandra to the pool table and he grabbed a cue stick, looking at the colored balls on the table. He took aim and shot one of the balls into the corner pocket. "I think it is all over." Mikael mumbled to himself loud enough that Sandra could hear him and took another shot and pocketed another ball.
Silently under her breath she said, "Yeah, it is now completely." Feeling dejected she stood up to leave for the ladies room. She knew that she had lost Mikael to Drake. There were a saying, "Once you are gay, you will always be gay."
When she left the ladies room, she saw Drake at the bar ordering drinks. She smiled devilishly and stood beside Drake. Drake jumped a bit from the sudden appearance of Sandra beside him. He tried to be friendly as much as he could and smiled little at her. "Eh, Sandra...you fancy a drink?" Drake halfheartedly asked Sandra and was hoping that she said no.
"Do not worry, I've got mine covered." She was not looking at Drake when she answered him but she was sheepishly looking at Mikael who was now sitting and drinking alone at the table while Nick and Amy were being touchy with each other on another table.
Mikael looked lonely and bored out there. Sandra hurriedly wanted to walked away to be with him. She had bought two mugs of beer, while she kept on glancing at Mikael. She had a motive in doing all of this. She wanted to get Drake to be jealous and she knew that she had succeeded. She noticed Drake was rather quiet standing beside her and slowly she turned around to look at Drake. She realized that Drake was throwing dagger stare at her. She just kept her composure and turned to look at the bar and then at Mikael again.
Drake was furious and cannot take it any longer with Sandra giving Mikael slutty smiles and glances. He knew that Mikael did not get to see all this and he felt relieved but he was still not happy with Sandra eyeing his boyfriend.
"You can stop, Sandra... it's never gonna happen," Drake snapped at Sandra and trying to divert her attention back to him.
Sandra pretended to be shocked but she knew her planned to make Drake jealous was working as she had imagined.
"What? I do not know what are you talking about." she said smirking at Drake.
"You do not get it does you... he does not like you and he is not your type from what he said to me." Drake can feel his face burning with anger. He tried to control his emotion and not to flare up at Sandra but he still gave her the deadly stare.
"Give it a rest Sandra and leave him alone." His voice was rather low and yet threatening.
" You know what?" By this time Sandra was standing facing Drake and he can sense that she was angry. "You simply act like a bad rash that won't just go away... he does not need you and never did in the first place." Drake sighed deeply, "Please just leave him alone and move on." he chided at her.
"Don't you worry... I am already over him...." She replied with her teeth clenched, "But I'm not sure if he is." Sandra was smirking at Drake and it makes him felt more frustrated with her.
"Look, I am not trying to mark my territory. I am just doing you a favor." Drake toned down his voice, sounding sympathetic for a moment.
"You really don't know anything do you?" Sandra snapped at Drake. Staring him directly into his eyes while She was flaring at him.
"No?" Drake was puzzled with Sandra's words. "What?" his forehead frowned, anticipating for her answer.
"Well, because you don't." Sandra was spitting viper venom at Drake. She knew that she was getting the attention she wanted from Drake and it suited her very well. "Look, the thing is, Mikael is the one who can't let go and move on."
"Like you always keep telling yourself." Drake was jeering to her face.
"Oh oh... I am not talking about myself, I am talking about Nick. He was deeply in love with him." She giggled a bit, intimidating Drake in the process.
Drake's face showed confusion and disbelief and Sandra saw this opportunity to turned around and walked away smiling with the beers in her hands and left Drake at the bar, trying to process what he just heard.
He went back to the DJ console to start his gig but could not concentrate. He fumbles with the records and was cursing under his breath.
Mikael saw this and went to Drake's side.
"Hey, is everything alright?" Mikael was concerned about Drake. He did not know what happened and he was trying to help.
"Yes I am!" His voice was rather strong and Mikael could sense that he was angry.
"I'm not stupid, you know. Is it me?" But before Mikael can finish his wording, Drake snapped at him, "What... Now you think everything is all about you? Wake up will you and welcome to my world."
"What is wrong with you? I am just trying to help!" Mikael also had his voice raised. As confused as he is, he was also angry at Drake for snapping at him for no reasons at all.
"Well... I will make it simple for you: 1, there is your best mates, 2, there is Nick, 3, you're in love with him." Drake was feeling frustrated, annoyed and angry. All these feelings were jumble up in his heart.
Mikael was perplexed and shocked with what Drake had said. "Who's been telling you all this?" asking for answers.
"Who do you think? Who else if it is not your little miss laptop? I have been trying to ask her to stop barking at your leg and she comes up with all this shit about how you cannot get over him because you are in love with him." Drake breathed deeply and tried to make himself calmed.
"What do you expect me to say, huh?" Mikael was looking at the floor sounding sad and dejected.
"I just want you to be honest with me, can you do that to me for once Mikael?" Drake demanded from Mikael.
"I am Drake. Yes it is true, that I used to fancy Nick but he just would not want to do anything about it because he is straight and he had Amy with him... So what does it make me? Rejected goods, eh?" Mikael was pleading for Drake to understand. Mikael neglected to mention the abuse and harassment he got from Nick after sharing his feelings with him.
"So what? You mean it was just like a school boy crush? Sorry, Sorry, there're no rings on our fingers and just to let you know I don't do serious!" Saying that, Drake put his headphones on and tried to ignore Mikael.
"What? What? You don't do serious? But you do JEALOUS, right?" Mikael was crying now. He reached out to grab on Drake's hands and pulled him round to face him.
Drake was heartbroken looking at Mikael with streaking trails of tears on his face. He did not want this to happen and Mikael was right about him being jealous. He lifted off his headphones and waited for Mikael to speak. They had their fingers wrapped with each other. He let go of one hand and wiped away the tears on Mikael's face.
"Mikael, I did not want to say all this to you. You know I love you so much. But please tell me if you still love Nick. Just tell me the truth and I won't be angry with you." Drake had softened his voice. He saw how silent Mikael was so he pulled Mikael to him and planted a passionate kiss on him.
Mikael was taken aback as he did not expect Drake to kiss him. He kissed Drake back deeply with tongues colliding with each other in the full view of the pub patrons while the hot music was playing in the background.
Nick saw and heard all that happened between Mikael and Drake. He was grinning to himself as he saw the smallest cracks that developed in their relationship. With that he knew what he needed to do.
Nick wanted to have Mikael back and he would do anything to get him back beside him.
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