Drunk Mistake

Let's Just Be Honest

Brent POV

I woke up to the sound of a beeping heart monitor and the soft snoring of my bandmates who were spread out around the room. Zach was on my right with his head resting near my leg on the bed. Barry was in a chair by the door, and Eric was in the corner by the window. I moved my arm to wake up Zach and was met with some serious pain around my ribs. I groaned loud enough to wake everyone up. "Yo! You're up! How ya feeling?" asked Barry. "Ugh, I'm sore, so sore... but I think I'm alright." Zach looked up at me and suddenly he was on top of me, squeezing me in a very painful hug. I yelped, and he jumped back. "I'm so sorry Brent! I'm just so glad that you're up! I'll go get someone and tell the you're awake." "I'll come with you, we should grab some coffee too." said Barry as he got up from his seat. They left and I was alone with Eric. "Brent..." he started, "what the fuck were you doing at that hotel?" I knew we would have to have this conversation, and I knew I owed him an explanation, but I was dreading it. "Listen, I'm not proud of this, okay? I was hooking up with this guy, and things didn't go as planned." Eric looked mildly concerned. "So what, he just decided the sex wasn't really doin' it for him and decided to beat the shit out of you instead?" he asked sarcastically. "Well, no. It more that his monster of a boyfriend wasn't really happy about the sex..." I answered a little embarrassed. "Oh my God, Brently! This is what Barry and I were so worried about." Eric exclaimed while rolling his eyes dramatically.  "Besides, I thought you were only sleeping with that one guy?" he said questioningly. "Well yeah, but I decided to mix it up a little bit. At least it wasn't drugs this time, right?" I said jokingly, trying to lighten the mood. "That is what we were most worried about, yeah..." said Eric.  "Don't worry, it wont happen again. I promise I've learned my lesson. Mediocre sex is not worth this bullshit." I said while gesturing to my battered body. Eric just smiled as Barry and Zach returned with the coffee and a nurse. She took my vitals and told me that I had some deep muscle bruising on my back and abdomen as well as several lacerations on my legs, buttocks, and face. I had two black eyes and  my nose was broken. As she listed each injury I checked to see how bad it was. The bruising was definitely the worst, but my whole face was pretty sore, too. I looked at myself in my phone camera after she left, and confirmed my suspicions that I looked beat to absolute shit. A little later, when it was just me and Zach in the room, the nurse came back. She said she had some potentially sensitive information to tell me and asked if I was okay with my friend being there. "Of course, he can hear anything." "Given the circumstances of your incident at the hotel, we felt it was best to run a rape kit, and..." My eyes widened. I didn't feel anything wrong down there, and I was pretty sure I remembered everything that happened in the hotel room, but there was always a chance. "we found no evidence of anal penetration. I just thought it would be best to tell you that we ran the kit." she finished. "Oh thank God! you scared me!" I said, relieved. She smiled and left, leaving me with Zach.

Zach POV

This was my chance to talk to Brent about his mystery hookup. "Speaking of rape kit..." I started while looking at him with a raised eyebrow. "why were you hooking up with some random guy? I thought you frowned upon that sort of thing?" My voice dripped with sarcasm. "Zach, I need you to know that I feel awful about how I reacted that night. I decided that it would be a good idea to show you that I know I was being selfish and that it's totally fine to hook up with other people." I immediately felt better. "So just to clarify, you're not mad at me, you still want to keep this thing we have going, and I'm still the best lay you've ever had?" I asked, only half joking. "You got it. Let's just stick with each other for now alright? I don't really want to get my ass beat again or have to deal with you in this position." "Yeah, you like the other positions better don't ya?" I said suggestively. Brent tried to laugh but all that came out was a painful wheeze. "Aw geeze, I'm so sorry you're in pain." I said pityingly. I gave him a quick peck on the lips, hoping to make him smile. He did and said "Zach, why don't we just admit to ourselves that we're more than just fuckbuddies at this point?" My heart started racing. Honestly, I had been thinking about it since we got to the hospital. "We don't have to tell anybody else, but why not just be together  when we're together, ya know? We'll keep it on the down-low, but let's stop lying to ourselves and to each other." "Yeah, I'd like that." was all I had to say. He grimaced as he reached up to grab me by the front of my shirt and pull me down into a much deeper kiss.

Eric POV

"BARRY" I whisper yelled. "WE WERE RIGHT, LOOK!" I pointed through the window of Brent's hospital room that looked out to the hall. We could see Zach and Brent blatantly making out. I jumped into the room and said "Ha! I knew it! You two have been fucking!" Zach stood up real quick when he heard my proclamation. He and Brent both turned an alarming shade of red. They just stared at me and Barry with this look of sheer terror and embarrassment. Brent spoke first. "Guys look it's just... it's not... ah..." for once he didn't seem to be able to find the right words, so Barry took over. "You two are not as discreet as you think. Eric and I have suspected that you were goin' at it behind our backs for a while now, we were just trying to catch you in the act so there could be no denying it." he explained with a chuckle. "You know that it's fine, right? It doesn't really change much anyways." I said, shrugging my shoulders. "Can we discuss this later in a more private setting please? Like in the bus where there's no possibility of anyone hearing us?" suggested Zach. "Yeah of course." I said. "Do you two think you can control yourselves for a couple of days while Brent is healing up?" Brent rolled his eyes and said "Yeah whatever..." The next two days were spent hanging out in Brent's hospital room. Things were normal between all of us because as Barry said, whatever Zach and Brent were now didn't really change much. They had always been really close and I wasn't surprised that it had escalated to this.