Colby Brock x Jake Webber

Coming Out

*The room mates all decided to have a party the following weekend, inviting most of their friends to come.*
Jake's POV:
"Jake! Come here for a second!" Jake went over to Corey's room after texting some more people about the party.
"I just wanted to ask you something, please don't freak out on me if I'm wrong though." Although he was confused he said "Okay, ask away." Somewhat sceptically.
"Do you like Colby?" Jake was baffled by the question, standing there for a few seconds with a shocked look coming over him. How did he even know that? He thought to himself. No one even knows that I'm gay...
"What? Why would you even think that?"
"Jake, I see the way you look at him. I don't even know if you like guys but I just wanted to know, you don't have to tell me..." I have to now, at least it's just Corey that knows...
"Fine, I like him; but you can't tell anyone!" "What about Devin? I asked her if she thought you liked Colby already and she knows I'm asking you now. I'm sorry. I didn't think you would actually say yes."
"I guess you have to, but not anyone else okay?" Jake sighed as he said this, looking down at the ground.
"I swear." Corey put his hand on Jake's shoulder, realising this must have been a hard thing to say.
"I'm gonna go to my room." Jake left to his room, blasting music in his headphones as soon as the door closed. About an hour after what he told Corey, he texted him.
Corey:
I know you don't want to talk about this but can I ask one more thing?
Jake:
Just one more.
Corey:
How long?
Jake:
How long have I lived in this house?
Corey:
I'm sorry man.
Corey:
That's gotta be hard.
Jake:
It's fine, I know he's straight anyway.

Jake got another text but he didn't look at it, he knew it would just be Corey saying he's sorry. Why should he be sorry? He didn't even do anything. It's not like he made me like Colby. Since he had his music blasting he didn't hear his door open, nor did he notice when Colby came into his room; camera in hand.
"Boo!" Colby yelled as he grabbed Jake's shoulders. Unluckily for Colby, Jake grabbed onto Colby's arms flipping him onto his back, on Jakes bed.
"Christ Colby, your lucky I didn't just punch you." Jake laughed as he pulled his headphones out.
"Um, ya. Thanks for that." Colby laughed getting off of Jake's bed.
"Suck on that Colby, you can't prank me!" Jake said to Colby's camera.
"Ha. Ha. Very funny." Colby grabbed his camera back from Jake walking out of the room as Jake laid back in his bed putting his headphones back in, eventually falling asleep.
Colby's POV:
"Damn it, well I'll just have to get him better next time." I said to the camera, turning it off and going to my room to film the outro. Laying on my bed I got to thinking about who to invite to the party. What about Danny? Maybe. Heather? No, Corey hates her. Mike? Ya, Jake likes him, he's good. This went on for another 20 minutes before Sam came into Colby's room.
"Are you gonna invite Danny? Cause I don't think Jake likes him."
"What? Why do you think that? Danny is one of my best friends!" I ask confused.
"Every time he's here Jake either glares at him or avoids him completely." Really? I had no idea he did that.
"I'll ask him." With that I got up from my bed going into Jake's room again.
"Hey Jake, I just wanted to ask..." He's asleep...
What now? I walked over to him and grabbed his phone to check the time. It's only 5! I should probably wake him up or he won't be able to sleep tonight...
"Jake..." I started shaking and leaning over him. "Wake up so we can go get food."
"Mmm... Colby..." He rolled onto his other side hiding his face from me. "Don't look at me, I look bad when I first wake up..." No he doesn't, what's he talking about?
"No you don't, and what do you want for dinner?" As soon as I said that Jake sat up and looked at me confused.
"Whatever you want." He yawned and stretched while saying this.
"Tendergreens?"
"Sure, who else is coming?"
"Probably just you, me, Sam, and Kat."
"Okay, I'll get dressed."
"Oh ya, and also why don't you like Danny?" And why did his face turn red? Wait. Does he like Danny? Wait! He likes guys?!
"I don't not like Danny..."
"Do you... like him?" His face is even more red, great. He likes Danny, Danny's straight though!
"N-no, I'm gonna get dressed now..." Jake grabbed his clothes and ran to the bathroom to change. I didn't even know that Jake liked guys... but is he gay or bi like I am? Walking out of Jakes room I texted Sam to come down stairs.
"I know this is gonna sound weird but I think Jake likes Danny." Sam didn't look as surprised as I thought he would.
"I thought he hated him though?"
"That's the part that's surprising to you? Not that he likes guys?"
"Okay, but so do you; and no one else knows. So it's probably a secret, like yours is. Why do you even care if he does anyway?" Why do I care? It's none of my business anyway.
"I don't know..." I said looking down.
"Oh..."
"What do you mean? Why oh?"
"Nothing." I know he is lying but Jake is coming down the stairs so I can't really ask him right now.
"I'll go get Katrina." Sam goes back upstairs and Jake is just awkwardly standing there.
"It's okay if you do like him you know..."
"I know it's okay."
"So you do then, like him that is."
"No, I don't." Jake seemed a lot more sure this time, maybe he doesn't like guys after all. Maybe he was just surprised with the question... Sam and Kat came down the stairs and Sam looked at me weirdly. It was like he knew something I didn't. I'll ask him about that later... We all went out to the front to get into the car.
"Me and Kat in my car, Colby and Jake in either of theirs?" Before I had a chance to answer Kat said it was fine with her and they were already walking to their car.
"Yours or mine?" I think Jake realised how that sounded, as he began to stutter and blush red.
"I-I mean... um... cars, not-not like that. Which car do you want to take..."
"We can take mine." I chuckled at him and started getting into the car. Jake got in the passengers seat and got buckled, staying silent as he did so.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"I don't know..."
"It's fine if you don't want to, but I'll tell you a secret if we can talk." Am I really gonna tell him that I'm bi?
"Really?"
"Ya, I've only told Sam."
"Okay, um... I don't really know how to say this. Um, I'm... I'm gay..." Why is he so nervous about saying that? Does he think I'd judge him?
"That's cool, I'm bi."
"What? You... are?" He looked baffled, so I just smiled at him and nodded.
"Why haven't you told anyone, Colby?"
"Why haven't you?"
"Fair point." He laughed at that as we pulled up to tendergreens. As we got out of the car he asked me "can... can I hug you?"
"Of course you can."
"Thank you." He whispered as he put his arms around my neck and mine around his waist. "What's going on over here?" Kat joked, not realising what we had talked about.
"Do you want to tell them Jake?" I whispered to him, and he nodded.
"When we get inside I want to tell you guys something..." He seemed nervous but I could tell he really wanted to get it off of his chest.
"Okay..." Kat was obviously confused, but Sam looked like he knew exactly what was coming. We walked inside, ordered our food, and sat down; Sam and Kat on one side Jake and I on the other.
"So what did you want to tell us?"
"Um... I, uh... I'm..."
"It's okay, you can do this Jake." I hope that actually made him feel better about doing this.
He took a deep breath before beginning again.
"I-I'm gay." He said it. He did it. Should I tell Kat? I mean Sam and Jake know so I might as well tell Kat.
"Is that all? We don't mind that you're gay! We all love you no matter what."
"Thanks Kat that means a lot." Jake looked over at me as of saying "Are you gonna tell her or...?" I guess I should tell her too...
"Oh, and I'm bi."
"Oh, are you two together?" What!?!? Why would she even think that?!?!
"What? No! Why would you think that?" Jake sighed when I said that, probably in agreement; but Sam looked... surprised by my answer? Why does he look surprised that we aren't together?
"Sorry, it's just the hug in the parking lot-"
"Colby and I had just told each other about this."
"And you two coming out together..."
"It just seemed like the right time, right Jake?"
Jake just nodded looking back at Kat and Sam. Why hadn't Sam said anything yet? Maybe because he thought we were together... The rest of the dinner went smoothly, accept for paying. That went something like this "I'll pay, don't worry about it."(Sam) "No, I'll pay."(Jake) "Hell no, it was my idea. I'm paying."(Me) "How about I pay?"(Kat) When the waitress came over, Sam and I handed her our cards before Jake and Kat even knew she was there. "Just split it between the two cards. Thank you." Sam politely told her as Kat and Jake told us how next time to let them pay. (Which isn't happening by the way) We got into our cars, the same way as before.
"Why didn't you let me at least split it with you and Sam?"
"I invited you, you shouldn't have to pay."
"It's not like we're dating Colby. I should have payed too." Why is he so upset about this?
"I just wanted to do something nice for you, I'm sorry..." I could tell Jake immediately felt bad for being upset. The way his face fell and how wide his eyes opened told me everything I wanted to know.
"I'm sorry Colby... thank you for dinner, and giving me the courage to come out."
"I only came out because of you." I patted his shoulder smiling at him. I like Jake's smile, it just makes me smile too.
"Why is traffic so bad right now?" Jake whispered, probably to himself  but I'll answer anyway.
"There was an accident farther up, plus it is LA."
"Ugh, can we just go back to Kansas?" I chuckled at that, and started to think about telling Corey, Devin, and Aaron.
"What's wrong Colby?"
"Nothing, I was just thinking about how to tell the rest of the roommates."
"I'll do it with you, but Corey and Devin already know that I'm gay." How did they know and not me? Why did he tell them, he's known Sam and I longer...
"When did you tell them?"
"Earlier today... Corey told me not to freak out if he was wrong then asked me-" Why did he suddenly stop?
"Then he asked you if you were gay?"
"He asked if I... um, if I liked guys. At- at first I told him he was crazy but I could tell he... I could tell that he already knew. So I kind of had to come out... and he asked Devin what she thought before he came to talk to me... so she would have known either way..."
"Oh, okay. Can you still come with me to tell them though? I think it'll be easier for me if you do come." I'll be fine if he doesn't come, why do I care if he does so much? What's wrong with me today?
"Ya, of course I'll come. We can both tell Aaron after that." After we pulled up to the house Jake and I headed straight for Corey's room. I hope this goes okay.
"Corey? Can we come in? It's Jake and I."
"Ya! Doors open!" Here goes nothing.
"I'm bisexual." That came out faster then expected... Jake looks surprised too, whoops?
"Cool, so are you and Jake like a thing?" Why does everyone think that?
"Why would you think that?"
"Because Jake said-" He stopped talking as he looked at Jake. I looked over at him as well, he looked scared. I wonder why...
"Jake said that's he's gay, and he came with you to tell us that you're bi. Sorry for assuming things guys." Jake looks somewhat relieved, I'll ask him about that after we tell Aaron.
"Aaron, can we come in?"
"Sure, I'm live streaming right now though!" How's this gonna work?
"We have something to tell you when you're done streaming... We'll be in Colby's room." Walking back to my room Jake let out a huge breath I didn't know he had been holding.
"It's okay Jake. We don't really have to tell anyone else if you don't want to."
"I do though, I have to tell my family. No one knows, and I don't know how they will react."
"But they're your family, they'll accept you!"
"But they're religious people; and religious people tend to hate gay people." We didn't realise Aaron had walked in until he spoke.
"Oh, is that what you wanted to tell me?"
"Um... y-ya... I'm sorry." Jake whispered under his breath.
"Hey, don't be sorry. You aren't gonna change at all, you're still you."
"I told you you'd be fine Jake. I'm bisexual by the way."
"That's cool too, I'm happy for you both." Aaron smiled at us going back to his room, but stopping in the door way.
"Are you guys gonna tell the fans, and do the roommates know?" I didn't think about that.
"The roommates know, I didn't really think about telling the fans though." When I looked over at Jake he was almost ghostly white, and looked even more terrified then he was when telling the roommates.
"They're gonna hate me." Jake whispered putting his head in his hands.
"It'll be okay Jake, they won't hate you."