Hi! I just read your last prompt (Leo feeling insecure about his age) and I really liked the idea of him having friends from college (like Amanda). Would love to read more about him and that friend group if you ever feel the inspiration strike!
This was so much fun to write! A little goofy, a little silly, very innocent college fun! There is alcohol consumption, but it is safe, and everyone is mindful.
Character credits to @lumosinlove !! <3
“No, no, Regulus, it’s gonna-”
Regulus let out a loud laugh as the coke ran over the red plastic cup and onto his hand. “Oh no!”
Leo giggled, shaking his head fondly. “You’re so fucking drunk.”
“Sh, don’t tell my brother. He’s so grumpy.”
“He’s not grumpy.”
“Is to!”
“He’s not even here, he’s in Gryff. And what are we, five?”
“Ouais, Leo, allez, I need help!”
Leo sighed, setting his own solo cup down on the sand to take the bottle of coke from Regulus and twist the top closed. He then took the rum and coke and held it gently to Regulus’ mouth. “Just a little sip off the top, okay? So it doesn’t spill.”
With comically wide eyes and flushed red cheeks, Regulus gingerly drank, confidently taking the cup from Leo when the liquid sank down further and further away from the rim. “Merci.”
Leo patted his back softly. “Any time.” He looked around the beach. “Where are the others?”
Regulus shrugged. “I don’t know. Swimming, I guess?”
Leo sat up suddenly. “Are they drunk?”
“Non, non,” Regulus said, waving his hand. “I am. They aren’t. They only had a drink each, I made sure of it.”
Leo narrowed his eyes. “Are you sure?”
Regulus’ eyeroll could only be called impressive. “Ouais. I made sure, then I drank enough for each of them.”
That made Leo snort. “You sure fucking did.”
Regulus made a noise, then took another sip of his drink. When he pulled his hand back, he looked contemplative. He smiled at Leo softly. “I’m glad you’re here.”
Leo raised his eyebrows in amusement. “Well, I kind of have to be. It’s my boyfriend’s Hamptons house.”
“Non, non, not that,” Regulus said. “Mais, ouais, that, but also…” He glanced up at the stars, bright in the cool May air. His eyes lit up and he pointed. “Allez, look,” he said with a wide smile. “The Leo constellation.”
Leo turned his gaze upwards. He grinned at the cluster of stars. He could imagine the mane, the tail, the claws. “Would you look at that.”
A head thumped on his shoulder. “I’m just really glad we’re friends, Le.”
Leo rested his head against Regulus’. “Me, too.”
“Thanks for being my first friend when I first got to Gryff. My first real friend.”
“Thanks for being mine.”
Regulus sat up and scoffed at him. “I was not.”
Leo shrugged. “You kind of were.”
“Finn and Logan were your first friends.”
“They’re my boyfriends, they don’t count.”
“Let me tell them that, see what they think.”
Leo laughed. “I just mean… I don’t know, they were my first friends, yeah. But then they were- are- my boyfriends, and the loves of my life. And the rest of the team were also my friends in the beginning, but…”
Regulus nudged him with a kind elbow. “But what?”
Leo bit the inside of his cheek. “You were my first- normal friend, I guess.”
“Oh, so I’m just ‘normal’, am I?”
Leo wrapped an arm around him and jostled him. “I never said you were boring, shut up. You were just my first friend outside of hockey. Like, did you play it? Yes. Does your brother? Yes. But you don’t play it anymore, and you live this-” He raised his fingers in air quotes. “‘-normal’ life. You go to college and stuff.”
“‘College and stuff’, the fuck does that mean?”
“It means exactly what I said it means, you weirdo,” Leo retorted, scuffing Regulus in the back of the head. “I’m trying to tell you I appreciate you.”
“Sorry, sorry.” Regulus clumsily patted Leo’s back in consolation. “But I get it.”
“I know you do.” Leo looked back up at the constellation for a moment and sighed. “Thank you. For introducing me to your NYU friends.”
There was a pause. Regulus leaned his head back on Leo’s shoulder. “They’re yours, now, too, Le.”
As if on cue, a body crashed into them from behind, an arm thrown around each of their shoulders. “You’ll never guess what just happened to me!” Amanda whispered excitedly in their ears.
Leo leaned back slightly and turned to face her. “Oh? What happened?”
She came around in front of them and flopped dramatically on the blanket. “She smiled at me!”
Regulus’ eyes rolled so far back Leo swore he saw his own skull. “Seriously? This again? You’re absolutely pathetic, you know that?”
Amanda pushed herself up onto her elbows and pointed her finger at him with a scowl. “And you are homophobic.”
Regulus looked unimpressed. “That is not true. You are the one who’s been pining after a girl for two years, and we’ve finally become friends with her and you still do nothing!”
John appeared from behind them and sat down beside Amanda. “It’s true. Aadhya is just being friendly and you are the one that’s blushing and stammering. Pull yourself together, man.”
“But she’s gorgeous!”
John just bonked his head on his own knees with a groan.
Leo smiled, shifting to sit up slightly and looking down at Amanda’s still blissed-out face. “Have you tried just telling her you like her?”
Amanda looked at him with wide eyes. “That’s so scary, absolutely not.” She crossed her arms petulantly. “I can sit in my own sapphic misery, thanks.”
Leo rolled his eyes playfully. “No you’re not.”
“I so am.” She looked out to where Aadhya was still talking with Harper and their other friend Ezekiel by the shore. “I just don’t want to be rejected, you know? My last relationship didn’t end so well.”
Leo smiled sadly. “I know a thing or two about that.” When her eyes darted to him, he bit his lip and continued. “But you can’t let that stop you from looking for love again. Even if it’s scary.”
“Yeah, says the guy with two boyfriends.” She winced at her accidentally bitter tone. “I’m sorry, that was uncalled for.”
“It’s alright.” Leo thought for a second, then a mischievous grin took over his face. He looked to Regulus. “You know…”
Regulus sat up straight, looking cautiously back at him. “What? Knut, what is going on in your head?”
Leo waggled his eyebrows at him, then turned back to Amanda and John. “Finn’s house has a lot of bedrooms. The boys and I are in his old one, but there’s his parent’s bedroom, Alex’s room, and a guest room.”
John looked to their friends still by the ocean, then back at him, a wicked smile on his face. “Are you saying…?”
“Oh, I’m definitely saying that.”
Amanda pushed herself into a sitting position. She looked determined. “I am not just going to have sex with her.”
Leo shook his head. “I’m not saying that.” He patted her knee. “I’m actually advocating that that not be the goal, however fine it would be if it happened.” At her playful glare, he laughed and continued. “I’m just saying it’d be a private place for you two to talk! You guys can have a room, Harper and Regulus can have one, and John and Ezekiel.”
Regulus nodded along. “Yeah, and if it goes to shit, you can just come to ours.”
Amanda considered this for a minute. Her brow was furrowed in anxiety, but she was resolute when she met Leo’s eyes. “Okay. Okay, yeah, let’s do that. I’ll talk to her.”
“Oh, thank God!” John said. “Fucking finally, I don’t know how much more I could’ve taken.”
Amanda smacked him on the arm. “Shut up.” She turned back to Leo with a grateful smile. “Thank you, Leo.”
Leo smiled widely. “Anytime.” He reached behind him for the rum bottle and a stack of cups. “Now, I don’t know about you, but I need to let loose, and we don’t have to drive tonight because my boyfriend’s house is right there. So I’m having a fucking drink. Who wants one?”
***
“Leo, I have to pee, I have to pee!”
“Me, too! I’ve gotta shower, my boyfriends won’t let me sleep in the bed if I don’t!”
“Then let me go first!”
“Sh, okay, fine, hurry up, hurry up.”
Leo bounced on his toes anxiously outside the bathroom while he waited for Regulus to empty his bladder. He could hear John and Ezekiel talking lowly with Harper in one of the other bedrooms. Amanda and Aadhya’s room was fairly quiet, but they had gone in ages ago and nobody had come out yet. Leo took that as a good sign.
The door to the bathroom clicked open and Regulus slipped out, toothbrush hanging from his mouth. “M’kay, ‘oo goh’uh go.”
Leo furrowed his eyebrows. “Don’t you have to spit?”
“Ou’ ‘uh ‘indow.”
Leo just stared for a moment. “I- okay, wow, okay. Sure, spit it out the window, that’s fine.”
Regulus just leaned in and hugged him. He smelled like mint and sweat. “‘Uv ‘oo. G’ight.”
Leo smiled. “Love you, too. See you in the morning.”
Regulus squeezed him one more time before staggering tiredly towards his bedroom. Leo shook his head fondly as he entered the bathroom. He caught himself humming and smiled at his reflection. He looked happy, young, tipsy- free, he realized. Leo liked that look on himself.
His vision was a little fuzzy in the shower, and he maybe dropped the soap too many times and almost choked on his toothbrush, but he managed to stumble his way out clean and (hopefully) smelling better than he had fifteen minutes ago. When he opened the door to Finn’s bedroom, he found both of his boyfriends snuggled up shirtless under the covers, each of them dead asleep. He tiptoed his way through pulling his boxers on before standing to take a look at them with his head tilted. Logan’s head was tucked under Finn’s chin like it normally was. His hair was a bit of a mess, but it looked adorable on him. Finn always looked so good when he slept, all sharp features and freckles shining in the moonlight. Leo giggled to himself. Two. He had two boyfriends.
His laughter must have woken them up, because their bodies started stirring. Finn lifted his head up and stared for a second before he broke out into a smile. “Hi, baby,” he whispered. His voice was rough and low with sleep. “Have fun?”
Leo felt giddy. “I have friends.”
“Oh? Good, baby, I want you to have friends.”
Leo nodded eagerly as he knelt on the end of the bed. “Uh huh.” He shimmied a little to sit back on his heels, gazing at them excitedly. “And I have boyfriends.”
That made Logan laugh, low and happy in the dark room. “Ouais, you do.” He didn’t bring his head up, but he reached around to pat the empty mattress behind him. “Ici, soleil.”
Finn opened his arm. “C’mere, baby.”
Leo complied, snuggling against Logan’s back and leaning into the hand Finn settled in the dip of his waist. He sighed into Logan’s hair. It was so warm here. “It’s so warm here.”
“Good.” Finn’s hand came up briefly to scratch through his hair. “Everyone in the house okay?”
Leo nodded. “Ouais.” He smiled and buried his face in Logan’s shoulder. “Amanda and Aadhya are in a room together. Doing lesbian things.”
Finn snorted. “Lesbian things?”
“Well, hopefully doing lesbian things. That’s the goal. That they do lesbian things.”
Finn and Logan’s giggled were muffled into the pillows. Logan tangled their ankles together. “And did you help them do those lesbian things?”
“What? Ew, no.” Leo wrinkled his nose. “I don’t like lesbian things, but they do. Well, Amanda’s bi, so she likes both lesbian and not-lesbian things I guess, but that’s just technicalities.” He settled further against the mattress. “The point is, I just provided them the place to do those lesbian things, if they so choose. Which, again I hope they do. They’re just talking first, though.”
Finn ran a hand up and down his ribs. “Well, I’m glad that they’re hopefully doing lesbian things.” He pinched Leo’s hip. “You’re chatty when you’re drunk.”
“I’m not drunk. I’m tipsy.”
“Sorry, my bad. You’re chatty when you’re tipsy.”
“I’m just excited. I’ve got friends. And boyfriends.” He wrapped his arms tighter around Logan’s waist and kissed his upper back. “Have I mentioned how excited I am to have boyfriends?”
“Ouais, once or twice.” Leo could imagine Logan’s smile. “We’re excited to have boyfriends, too.”
“Mm, good.” Leo nuzzled into Logan’s neck. “One day I want us to be not-boyfriends, though.”
Finn made a confused noise. “Huh? Sunshine, that’s not an option.”
“Uh, yeah, it is.” Leo propped himself up on one elbow to stare down at them. They looked confused, and slightly panicked, so he smiled. “I want us to be not-boyfriends. Husbands, silly.”
Logan’s expression morphed into one of pure joy. “Ouais,” he whispered, his smile all teeth. “Ouais, husbands sounds good.”
Finn winced. “Yeah, but let’s not call it ‘not-boyfriends’, okay? That’ll just confuse me. Emotionally.”
Leo cocked his head. “But then we wouldn’t be boyfriends. We’d be husbands, Fish.” He reached out to squish Finn’s cheeks. “Fishy fishy Fish. Huh, you’re not actually that squishable.”
Logan rolled onto his back and pressed his palms to the side of Leo’s round face, applying pressure. “But you are.” He drew Leo down to look him in the eyes. “And when I make you my husbands, you’ll still be my boyfriends.”
“Yeah, sunshine,” Finn agreed. “It’s a three-for-one deal sort of situation. When we get married, we are boyfriends, fiancés, and husbands all in one. Times three, for each of us.” He looked to Logan. “Yeah, so really, nine-in-one.”
Logan nodded in agreement. “Ouais, that’s right.” He looked back to Leo. “C’est bon?”
Leo smiled. “Oui.” He leaned down to kiss each of them, a little sloppy in his tipsy state, but they melted back into the pillows for it nonetheless. “I love you.”
“We love you so much, Le, baby.” Finn scooched back and rested a palm on the space in between himself and Logan. “Come lay down, sweetheart, it’s bed time.”
Leo made a happy sound and flopped in between them, a little heavily, if their grunts and laughs when he hit the mattress were anything to go by. “I’ve got two boyfriends,” he sighed contentedly.
Logan ran blunt nails up and down his back. “Ouais.” He kissed Leo’s curls at the same time Finn kissed Leo’s forehead. “Now, go to sleep, mon coeur. We’ll order breakfast in the morning.”
“Yay,” Leo whispered, halfway asleep. “Love you.”
“Love you,” Finn replied softly. “Love you, love you, love you.”