To Be So Young And In Love

Chapter 24

Chapter 24

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Warning: Bad language present in this chapter, including one homophobic insult.

They arrived at the hotel they were going to stay in. It was four people per room. They all dragged their luggage upstairs and went to their room. John and Sherlock had managed to get a room together, though they had no idea who they would be sharing with.

They arrived after their roommates and found that they would be rooming with Stuart and Piers. They barely knew them, but they were very popular and loud in class.

"Oh. We get you." Piers said as he and his friend was sat on the bunk beds.

In the room there was one set of bunk beds, which Piers and Stuart had obviously already taken as their own. Then there was a single bed and a double bed. Obviously this room usually held families.

"Problem?" Sherlock asked as he closed the door behind himself and his boyfriend.

"It's fine." Stuart mumbled.

Sherlock and John both put their suitcases and bags at the end of the double bed.

"Hey, we're meant to have one bed each!" Piers objected.

"Piers. Sherlock and I have shared cots, toddler beds and single beds over the years. Sleeping in separate beds while we are in the same room would just be weird for us." John explained.

"What? You sleep in the same bed every night, even at home?" Stuart asked with raised eyebrows.

"No. We live next door to each other. And it isn't every night. It's just if we're too tired to go to our own home, or if we're having a sleep over." John said while Sherlock got a book out, sat on the bed and began reading.

"How do your parents allow you to do that?" Piers asked.

"They trust us." Sherlock said absent-mindedly from where he sat against the headboard of the bed, reading.

John sat next to him, stretching his legs out and said "How far along are you with the book?"

"I'm thirteen chapters in. It is incredibly obvious what the ending is already." Sherlock stated.

"Well to you it is, but I enjoyed not knowing." John said.

"What book are you reading?" Piers asked politely.

"Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone." Sherlock stated.

"Oh, I love that book!" Stuart smiled.

"It's my favourite series of books!" John grinned.

"I wouldn't have thought that you would read fiction." Piers said to Sherlock.

"He's reading them for me. He wanted to know why I'm so crazy on Harry Potter." John explained.

"Ah, well that's nice, I suppose." Stuart smiled.

"Hey, if you saw the Mirror of Erised, what would your reflection be like?" Stuart asked, looking at them all.

Sherlock sighed and put his book on the side table.

"Girls." Piers said.

"That is so typical!" Stuart laughed at his friend.

Piers shrugged with a smile.