The Heart of Seasons

Chapter 18: Surprise

~Blake's POV~

“Adam!”

“Coming!”

“Not fast enough!”

“What do you mean? I’m right here.” Blake spun around to face Adam wearing an innocent smile on his face. It was two minutes until live playoffs and everyone was running around backstages. The judges were on the side ready to run onto stage and were jumping around nervously. A moment later Carson was saying their names and they were doing their thing to each of their own chairs, the audience going wild. Blake loved the playoffs the most because the crowd was extra excited and the fact that it was live gave the show a different thrill. It wasn’t choreographed or planned. Everything just happened.
He shot a look over to the other end of chairs, the slender man bouncing up and down in his seat like a child on Christmas. It was beyond cute. Blake grinned at him and Adam caught it, grinning back. He knew the cameras would catch their cheeky exchange, and it only made him smile more.

Their relationship had been quiet for the past few weeks since Miranda had last shown up, but they decided they needed to end the rumors and come out in the open eventually. And Blake had a feeling they were going to use The Voice to do so.

Each team’s remaining contestants sang and for a solid portion of the show, Blake forgot all about him and Adam. His team was doing amazing and he was heading straight for a four-peat. However, as it came to a close and Carson was saying the goodbyes to the camera, Adam was suddenly on his lap, arms wrapped around him neck and head buried in his chest.

Instead of making a snide comment, he wrapped his own arms around the tiny figure and kissed his head. As if on cue, the crowd got ten times louder. He felt Adam’s rumbling laughed before he looked up at Blake. The devilish look in his eyes made Blake’s heart leap.

“I bet we could make at least half this crowd drop...” The side of Adam’s mouth curled up as he spoke and Blake suddenly knew what he was thinking.

“Do you, do you want to? Are you sure? Cause I mean, I’m down for giving these people a show.” Blake held his breath, unbelieving what they were about to do on public television.

“Hmmm...only if you can catch me!” He finished loud enough so the cameras would pick it up and then he was off Blake’s lap and running behind the chairs to the other side of the stage. Unable to turn down a challenge with such a sweet reward, Blake flew out of the chair and ran after Adam, catching up to him behind Carson who was almost finished.

“Got you!” he yelled as slung his arms around Adam and stopped him dead in his tracks. Spinning in his arms, the smaller man turned to look up at him.

“Yes you did.”

There was a solid second of silence in the whole room when Blake leaned forward, centimeters from Adam’s face.

“And I’m here to stay.”

When he finally closed the distance, the sound in the room was deafening.