An unexpected love || Ant x Stephen

The morning after - Chapter Two

Stephen woke up the next morning too his alarm on his phone going off, as he switched it off, he rubbed his eyes to get sleep out and was trying to recall the events of last night whilst being extremely hung over. He sat up on the bed and looked around to see he was still at ants house, which meant he didn't make it home last night.

It suddenly hit him. "Shit!" he said quiet enough to make sure not to wake ant up. He was starting to remember what happened and the first thing he remembered was pulling ant into a kiss. "Shit!" He said again slightly louder this time when he chucked his hand over his mouth to shut him up.

He checked his phone to see what time it was and he read 8:00am. He was thinking to himself 'I wonder if ants up? Maybe I can't sneak out without him noticing' when Stephen noticed he wasn't wearing his suit trousers, he was wearing a pair of ants sweatpants. He quietly got up out of bed and walked over to the chair in the corner grabbed his clothes changed out of the sweatpants and put his shirt on.

He very slowly opened the bedroom door and quietly closed it, he snuck down stairs and started to make his way to the front door, he almost got there when he heard the familiar Geordie accent from the kitchen. "Not even saying goodbye." As Stephen heard him he sighed and walked into the kitchen. "Uh hey.." the tired man said reluctantly. "How'd you sleep?" Ant asked. Stephen Started to think 'maybe he just wants to forget what happened, maybe he doesn't even remember..?' It kind of broke Stephen to think that but he also felt sort of relieved. If Ant didn't want to remember then that means that Stephen almost ruined their friendship but if he doesn't remember then maybe Stephen doesn't need to worry so much over it. He was having a internal debate with himself on whether he should bring it up or apologise for it when ant snapped him back to reality. "Stephen!" Ant yelled slightly making him jump, "what? Sorry...I was uh thinking." Ant let out a small giggle which made Stephen feel weak in the knees. "I said how'd you sleep?" He asked curiously. "Oh uh yeah..good I think, I don't really remember much of last night if I'm being honest"

When Stephen said that it made ants smile fade slightly, part of him didn't know why it made him suddenly feel sad but the other part did slightly. He didn't know how to feel but one thing he did know was that he liked when Stephen kissed him. He liked Stephen. Ant didn't know what to do with his feelings though, he's never really had a proper 'crush' on a guy before. I mean either that or he's never met a guy who's made him feel the same way Stephen does, he always thought that these 'feelings' that he had around Stephen was just because he's one of his best mates.

Ant never admitted to anyone, not even himself, that he liked Stephen. He's always said to himself that it's just because he's one of his best mates, because they spend half the year together, for BGT and BGMT and then with Saturday Night Takeaway, so their pretty much always together, but after last night ant spent most of the night just lying in his bed, just thinking about what just happened, he thought about how it felt...right, how he wish he didn't stop it. He couldn't help but smile thinking about it. Then he remembered Stephen was drunk so he probably wouldn't remember in the morning, or he didn't actually mean it. Eventually ant fell asleep, but he fell asleep thinking about Stephen and what might happen in the morning.

Ant started to think the same as Stephen 'should I bring up last night?' Eventually both of them tried to speak up at the same time "I uh.." they both started to say when they started to laugh. And Stephen said "sorry you go" ant shock his head "no, no you go it's fine" they both laughed nervously again. "I uh.." he started again, trailing off. Ant sat there hoping he was going to mention what happened. "I...should probably go, you know we've got work today." Stephen eventually said. Ant tried his best to hide his disappointment. "Oh- okay yeah sure. I will see you at the studio" ant mumbled, but loud enough for Stephen to hear.

Ant got up from the table to give Stephen a hug goodbye, whilst in the hug Stephen took a deep breath in, inhaling the scent of the Geordie man. "Yeah see ya later" he nodded as he left in a slight hurry.

As he shut the door behind him, he took a deep breath out. He hit himself in the head saying quietly "why the fuck didn't you ask him!" That's when he remembered he was slightly hungover and probably shouldn't of hit himself in the head. "Shit that hurt" he said under his breath as he stepped into the street he bumped into Dec "Stevie!!" He shouted over to him and Stephen put his hands over his head as to show the hangover without saying it. "Oh sorry..bit to much to drink huh?" Dec apologised feeling slightly cocky for not having a hangover. Stephen didn't reply in words he just nodded. "Well Phil and holly just left so, where you off?" Dec asked curiously. "Home." Stephen said rather bluntly. "Why?" Dec said confused. "Because we've got work today, remember dress rehearsal before the live show tomorrow?" Stephen replied even more confused. Dec rolled his eyes slightly "yeah I know that, I mean you could get a lift with me and ant." No matter how hard he tried, Stephen started to smile when he mentioned ant but the smile quickly faded once he remembered what happened last night. "It's fine, I've got to go home before I go to the studio anyway." He said trying to give his best fake smile to dec. "you sure stevie?" Stephen nodded "yeah, but thanks for the offer." Dec just nodded and went to walk over to ants house and just before, as he was walking past Stephen, he clapped in his ear just to be annoyed. Stephen just jumped and covered his ears as Dec walked off laughing cheekily.