Cigarettes and Sass (reupload)

Chapter 9

"Ah, so this is the bed I used to dream about." Gerard turned to frown at Brian as the younger man propelled himself backwards onto Gerard's bed, bouncing a little on the mattress before resting his arms behind his head. "Mmph, this is comfy. I could get used to this."

"Please don't." Gerard smirked, shaking his head as he turned back to his open wardrobe. He sighed as he stared at his array of clothes, trying to get inspiration from the items.

"Brian, I thought you were here to help me." He whined, glaring again at the younger man as he wriggled about on the bed.

"I know, I know." Brian smirked, reluctantly sliding off the bed to help Gerard select an outfit. "Your bed is nicer than Matt's I'll give you that much. I'm gonna go with him on the weekend to buy a new mattress." Brian sounded ridiculously proud of this fact, his grin wide as he beamed at Gerard.

"Great." The artist scoffed, pouting a little as he folded his arms. "His mattress can't be that bad anyway if you guys are having so much sex." He pointed out, Brian laughing at his tone of voice.

Since having breakfast together on the Monday morning Brian and Matt had been meeting each evening since. It may only be Wednesday but already Brian was incredibly smitten, and the ache in his ass was not enough to keep away his girlish fantasies. He'd been driving Gerard crazy telling him, in great detail, all about his nights at Matt's place and it was starting to make the older man crack. He needed to get laid... If Brian and Matt could form a relationship based around sex then he sure as hell could.

"Do I detect a hint of jealousy?" Brian purred sweetly, nudging Gerard aside so he could start rooting through his clothes. "It's not like you didn't get the chance." He pointed out, Gerard only able to whine in response.

Gerard still felt like he shouldn't jump straight into sex with Frank, but after listening to Brian all day everyday talking about his bedroom habits he was starting to feel a little needy. He'd even started watching Frank's videos again and he'd promised himself he'd stop. Ashamed of himself Gerard had come to the decision that Elena was right; If Frank was prepared to wait for him then that told him everything he needed to know, so what was the point in torturing them both?

Gerard tingled all over at the thought of getting to experience Frank's skills first hand. But more than this was a crushing nervousness that made his whole body tense and grow nauseas... What if he wasn't good enough? What if he was actually so bad that Frank just decided he couldn't be in a relationship with someone so useless in bed and then just left? Gerard had only really had one night stands before, so whether he was bad or not it hadn't mattered since he'd never planned to see those people again... But Frank was different.

"Okay, let me see..." Brian was oblivious to the internal battle going on in Gerard's head as he raided the older man's wardrobe. "Is this date tonight a casual thing or more formal?" He asked brightly, pulling out a pair of jeans and holding them up to scrutinise them for a second before he shook his head and put them back. Gerard bit his lip as he watched him, wondering what on earth had been wrong with the denims.

"Erm... I don't know really, he didn't exactly specify." He sighed, running a hand through his hair. "I don't want to end up over dressed but I still wanna impress him, ya know?"

"Got it." Brian chuckled, selecting a pile of clothes before he wandered back to the bed and laid them all out into carefully thought over outfits. Gerard kept silent as he watched him, wondering what it was that made Brian so good at dressing people. Without him Gerard knew he would have been agonising over what to wear until the moment he had to walk out the door.

"Okay. If you try all of these on then I'll decide which is best." Brian grinned, turning to face Gerard with one of the shirts in hand. "Strip."

"Can't I just dress in the bathroom?" Gerard asked uncertainly, though he walked towards Brian anyway. He knew it was silly to feel self conscious, especially when he knew that Brian found him attractive.