Steven's Pov:

We just finished dinner and I watched the waiter bring the dessert to our table. I was more nervous than I can ever remember being but I wasn't going to second guess this.

This is what I wanted and I just hope Eric doesn't freak or think it's to soon. I waved the waiter away once he set down the creme brulee.

I dug in my pocket and got out the little gift I got Eric. I cleared my throat but smiled and grabbed his hand when he looked up with his sweet half smile.

I rubbed my thumb across his palm lightly. "So I got you a little something and have been waiting for the right time to give it to you and it finally is." I said smoothly not hinting at the extreme nervousness I felt.

I handed him the little Tiffany's box and laughed when he glared at it and then me.

"You didn't need to get me anything and please tell me it isn't jewelry. Because it would make me feel like a whore. Well a male one cause then you would get the impression that I'm sleeping with you for the things you can buy me and that sooooo isn't why I sleep with you. I sleep with you cause you're sexy and I like you and soooo please don't make me feel like a tramp by buying me-"

"Just shut up and open it. I swear you pick the most random times to revert back to your spastic word vomits." I teased snickering at his pinked cheeks.

He opened the box with a sigh of relief then stared at it for a second before pulling it out and looking at me like I was completely stupid.

"I'm probably not understanding this but please tell me this isn't some trite way of saying I have the key to your heart or the key to your cock. Although I don't mind the idea of being the only person to have access to either of those but uhh I'm lost. What the hell is this exactly?"

I intertwined our fingers and looked at the silver key chain from Tiffany's and smiled. "Well you're not too far off the mark actually. I was hoping you'd say yes to being my official boyfriend and since lately you're at my apartment more then your's. It seemed logical to give you a key so you wouldn't have to wait for me to get there. Now you can just let yourself in."

I watched, my breath held as I waited to see his reaction. Would he freak out because it's too soon? Or say he was just in this for the fun and doesn't want anything more then hooking up? I sincerely hope not because my feelings for him are real and very intense and it'd hurt me more then I'd like to admit if this was just sex to him.

His reaction surprised me though. Never in a million years would I have expected it and truthfully I wish we'd had it recorded. It was damn hilarious and just another example of his adorable-ness.

He squealed and launched himself at me to hug and kiss the hell out of me. The force caused us to tumble back and the chair to fall to the ground with us still in it. I heard a suspicious crack and think we might have damaged the chair. But it didn't matter and I couldn't help but laugh and kiss him back.

The waiter came over and discreetly cleared his throat. "Sirs umm Sirs?" He asked quietly.

I pulled back from Eric and smiled. "Sorry about this, could you please get our check and tell Luis to bill me for any damage we may have caused." I said looking at the chair still over turned on the floor.

Now it was time to take my boyfriend dancing and I knew the perfect place.

I took him to Libero Amore and pulled him to the VIP section upstairs. He looked around and rolled his eyes. "Lemme guess. Another of your places?"

Before I could answer Alejandro the owner answered from behind him. "Actually this is one of mine. Buenasera Steven long time no see! You should have told me you were coming into town." He greeted kissing my cheek.

Eric rolled his eyes and discreetly pulled me a little closer. I bit back my smile at the little show of jealousy. Alejandro noticed too and smiled before dropping a kiss on Eric's cheek also.

"Hello I'm very good friends with Steven and you must be.. The boyfriend I've heard so much about! Glad to finally meet you."

Eric lost some of the tension in his shoulders and smiled politely. "Eric and it's nice to meet you too. How long have you known Steven?"

Alejandro whispered to a waiter and led us to a private lounge area towards the back of the VIP section. A bottle of forty year old scotch was delivered with three whiskey glasses. He poured us each a glass and sat opposite us.

"Well we met freshman year at University and as we were roommates we became very close. He's like the gay brother I never had. My wife Mira adores him and will be so pissed he didn't give us a heads up so she could meet the guy that..." He trailed off at my warning glance but smirked and leaned over to Eric and whispered in his ear. Still loud enough for me to hear.

"Has his ass so whooped! It was about the funniest thing I ever heard when he was whining about crushing on this boy he teaches. How he might be a little slow because he rambles on an on about really random things and how he thought it was so sweet but the guy thought he was straight. I cant wait until Del finds out. After graduation of course. Wouldn't want anything getting in the way of you finishing your schooling."

"I did no such thing. I just said there was this interesting kid that had a problem with keeping his mouth in check." I grumbled rolling my eyes at my friend's snicker.

Eric patted my chest and smirked at me. "Sure you did. Ha you probably called him and talked for hours about how awesome I was and how I was out of your league and-"

"Eric shut up"

He laughed and leaned over to stage whisper to Alejandro. "Did he tell you about how much crap I put him through trying to get out of his class? Or when I told the chick at the ice cream place that he was my high functioning retarded brother that pisses his pants all the time?"

Alejandro nodded and shot me a smirk. "I swear he called me at least once a week to give me a status report. I feel like we're already best friends because he's told me so much about you."

"Bro you're about two seconds away from getting your Italian ass stomped in your own club!" I groaned.

He laughed but Eric gave me a big smile. "Be nice, I like him. He's refreshingly open, since some people around here want to be closed mouthed about certain things."

Alejandro looked over my shoulder and groaned. "I swear I never get a few minutes just to chill! Ughh I should have done what you did and just hire people to take care of all this shit. Sorry guys but my head security man looks like he's about to piss himself if I don't go over there." He explained getting up.

I stood up and gave him a hug. "It was good seeing you. Give Mira my love."

He looked at Eric. "Sorry I couldn't get to know you better bambino, but maybe another time. Si? Anyway you two enjoy your night and as you are family, everything is on the house. Enjoy."

He turned to me and grinned. "Sono molto felice per te fratello. È ovvio che lo amate. Vorrei che tu sia una vita molto felice insieme. Te lo meriti!"

A/N::: Translation::: I am very happy for you brother. It's obvious you love him. I wish you both a very happy life together. You deserve it!

I grinned but rolled my eyes. "È troppo presto per amore, ma si preoccupano di lui molto. Non smettere di essere così sappy e mettersi al lavoro. Ti chiamerò in pochi giorni."

A/N::: Translation:::It's too soon for love but I do care about him very much. Now stop being so sappy and get to work. I'll call you in a few days.

He leaned in to hug me one last time and whispered in my ear. "Si tratta di amore idiota. Tu lo sai e lo so. Egli non ha ancora capito come si sente su di lui ancora, ma ho avuto la netta impressione che egli si sente allo stesso modo su di te."

A/N::: Translation::: It's love idiot. You know it and I know it. He hasn't figured out how you feel about him yet but I got the distinct impression that he feels the same way about you.

I looked over at Eric and he was staring at the key chain I gave him with a little smirk. I smiled and looked back at Alejandro.

"Spero davvero che lo fa, ma io sto tenendo fuori dicendo nulla così che lui non freak out. Non voglio perdere lui. Egli è diventato molto importante per me."

A/N::: Translation:::I really hope he does but I'm holding off saying anything so I don't freak him out. I don't want to lose him. He's become very important to me.

He gave me a little grin then rushed off to fix whatever was so urgent. I turned to Eric and laughed as he gulped the expensive scotch down like a cheap beer. Pretty soon he's gonna feel it kicking his ass.

"Let's dance baby." I cooed pulling him up and slamming my lips to his.

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I stretched my arms out but my yawn was cut short by a laugh. Eric was still sleeping and when I moved he'd grumbled and held me tighter. It was cute and made my heart go pitter patter. I was hooked on him and I knew one day when this ended it was going to crush me.

I shook my head and rolled my eyes at my thoughts. We barely became official and I'm already stressing about the end. No I'm not going to think about that. I'm just going to enjoy this and my time with him until he's not mine anymore. But I'm going to do my damnedest to make sure that doesn't happen for a long, long time.

"Morning, so I thought we'd go through Central Park and snag some food from the vendors, see the performers, then maybe do the touristy stuff and tonight if you want we can see a Broadway show."

He groaned and buried his head under the pillow. I held back my laugh and rubbed his back soothingly. "I told you to go easy on the scotch." I tutted

'Shuddup, it's too damn early in the morning for 'I told you so' Ughh my head hurts." He grumbled.

I bit my lip but nodded along with him. "Eric it's after 2 so take some Advil, drink some water, take a shower because you smell god awful and get your ass dressed so I can take you out."

He rolled his eyes. "Wow and they say romance is dead. That Steven was just soo damn sweet!"

I raised my hands up in surrender and sent him a smirk. "Hey at least I didn't say your breath was atrocious" I teased, laughing when he smacked me with his pillow.

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Eric's Pov:

We'd eaten the street vendors surprisingly good but way overpriced food and walked around the park stopping to watch all kinds of performers. We listened to people play music, act out Shakespeare's sonnets, watched performance artists dance interpretation of famous music, magic show's and yeah even mimes. Who are kind of freaky and weird but I felt bad for them. There is no way I could do that, just imagining having to stay absolutely quiet all day makes me want to, I don't know but I do know I couldn't pull that shit off.

"So, you own a hotel and apartment here, and apparently speak Italian very fluently, any thing else?" I asked as we fed the ducks the last of our bread.

"An arcade and one of Leather and Lace's sister clubs are here. I don't speak Italian all that fluently really so it's no big deal. So have you decided if you want to go to a Broadway show?"

I snorted and elbowed him. "In all the months that you've known me what the hell makes you think I'd wanna see a bunch of people in costumes and tons of make up singing show tunes? How about I take you out tonight but it's a surprise."

He smiled and pulled me to him to kiss me lightly. "You want to take me on a surprise date in a town you've never been in? That's really sweet but are you sure you don't want any help?"

I rolled my eyes. "Oh I'm gonna get help but not from you. This is a surprise so umm be ready at 9 and in the mean time I need your phone."

He quirked his eyebrow but handed it over.

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I kissed his lips and made a shooing motion with my hands. "Seriously, you're band from this apartment for at least an hour. I don't want you overhearing my plans."

He gave me the hottest pout ever. "But I don't want to spend the hour alone. This is supposed to be our weekend getaway." He grumbled.

I giggled in a totally man kind of way and shook my head. "Please just do this so I can surprise you." I pouted and did my puppy dog eyes at him and smiled the instant I saw him cave to it.

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I grinned as the town car promptly pulled up to the curb at 9 sharp. The doorman moved to open the car door for us but Steven politely declined.

He opened it for me and discreetly caressed my ass as I got in. I shook my head but was secretly thrilled that we could be so open.

"So are you going to give me any hints?" He asked as he wrapped his arm around my shoulder. I smiled and shook my head no.

"Not even just one little hint?"

"Well, here, this is the only hint you get." I said handing him a blindfold.

He stared at it blankly then shrugged and put it on. Twenty minutes later we arrived at our destination and the thrill of anticipation made my body thrum.

It took me almost the full hour to plead with Deborah to help me out for her to finally agree. From there it was really all her doing. She arranged for the car and informed the manager that we would be coming and that it was a surprise for Steven. So we're being escorted through the back so he doesn't figure anything out just yet.

We were silently led through the back door down a long hallway to a row of doors. Each was open so I could take my pick and the fifth one is the one that really caught my attention.

The walls were midnight blue and the silk sheets matched perfectly. There were several candles around the room that were the only source of illumination. A leather bondage sling sat in one corner of the room next to a wooden paddling bench.

On the opposite side of the room was a chest of drawers that I assume held different toys and spanking implements. Lastly and most importantly there was a Saint Andrew's Cross.

I nodded and the manager led us in and handed me a small remote before silently leaving and discreetly closing and locking the door for me.

Steven huffed impatiently and I rolled my eyes. "Just one more minute then you can see your surprise." I said as I stripped down as quietly as possible. I hit the button on the remote and low music filled the room. The rhythm was earthy, almost intoxicating and the low Gregorian chant made me want to get down on my knees and praise the sexy man that was now officially all mine.

"Okay you can take your blindfold off." I growled out already beyond just being turned on.

"What. the. hell?" He breathed quickly running his gaze over my nude body then scanning the room.

A/N:: Quick question and I really want y'all's opinion. Should Steven like this and the two of them get their kink on OR should he shoot it down, explaining of course why it's a bad idea.... Please, please pretty please let me know what you think!