The Little Things Pt 66/? (Forever After Sequel)
Flash Forward 2032
“What is that smell?” Jacob asked as he looked up from his designs.
“Smell?” Gabe asked looking around the apartment.
“Is that you?” Jacob asked moving forward in the sofa to smell Gabe’s jeans. “Why do they smell like oil?”
“They’re my work jeans,” Gabe answered as he snuggled closer to Jacob.
“Oh my god,” Jacob screeched standing up from the sofa. “Please tell me you’re not wearing those dirty jeans and sitting on your sofa?”
“Okay. I’m not wearing these dirty jeans and sitting on my sofa,” Gabe said.
“Please tell me it’s the first time you’ve done it.”
“It’s the first time I’ve done it,” Gabe repeated.
“Oh my god It’s not,” Jacob complained as he moved around the apartment. “I’ve been sitting on a sofa with oil stains. My clothes have been on oil stains.”
“Your clothes are fine,” Gabe sighed. “The oil stains are dry.”
“Are you sure this job of yours is worth it?” Jacob asked taking seat on the coffee table.
“Its money,” Gabe shrugged. “Plus no one’s hitting me anymore.”
“So you’re happy?” Jacob quizzed.
“I am,” Gabe smiled. “I thought I would miss boxing, but it hasn’t happened. I get to work on these cool cars and the guys at the Garage are really great.”
“I guess that’s a good thing,” Jacob smiled. “I want you happy.”
“Even if your clothes get ruined just by sitting on my sofa?”
“Oh there will be no sitting on your sofa in your dirty jeans anymore,” Jacob remarked standing up to unzip his jeans.
“What are you doing?” Gabe smirked as he watched Jacob closely.
“Removing my clothes and placing them in a safe place,” Jacob answered as he tugged his boxers down.
“And what are you doing after that?” Gabe asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Do you really want to know?” Jacob asked as he unbuttoned his shirt.
“Uh huh,” Gabe nodded letting his hands run down his thighs.
“I’m cleaning your sofa.”
“That’s so… wait, what?” Gabe asked confused.
“Get your ass up,” Jacob ordered as he now stood naked in front of Gabe. “And go get me a pair of your old sweat pants. Now where did I put those cleaning products I bought you?”
“What’s happening?” Gabe asked looking around. “This isn’t normal. Teenage boys don’t do this.”
“Sweatpants, Gabe,” Jacob ordered before disappearing into the kitchen.
“Why is this my life?” Gabe complained as he walked into the bedroom.
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“That’s the third time this week,” Adam frowned as he closed his cell phone.
“What?” Kris asked looking up from his guitar.
“Sebastian just called.”
“Did you tell him it’s takeout for dinner tonight?”
“He’s not coming home.”
“Again?” Kris frowned. “That’s like the third time this week.”
“I said that,” Adam said sitting down. “Have you noticed how quiet he is lately?”
“He’s always quiet.”
“But I’m noticing it more lately,” Adam remarked. “And the affection is getting stronger. He can’t walk out of a room without saying he loves us.”
“I think the whole walking out drama is still bothering him,” Kris said sitting his guitar down. “I think he knows he scared us that night.”
“He shouldn’t punish himself over it,” Adam sighed. “We’ve all moved on. Plus he’s got what he wanted. We’re going to that stupid open day at the college.”
“Maybe he’ll get better after that,” Kris shrugged.
“But where is he going all the time?” Adam sighed. “He’s never home.”
“Maybe there’s a new girl,” Kris remarked. “He’s not mentioned Mia lately.”
“Which is a good thing,” Adam smiled.
“I bet it’s a new girl,” Kris said standing up from the sofa.
“So why all the secrets?” Adam asked. “Why not just tell us he’s got a girlfriend?”
“Maybe we embarrass him.”
“Maybe she’s older,” Adam said. “Oh god I hope it’s not a teacher. Oh he’s dating a teacher.”
“He’s not dating a teacher,” Kris sighed. “Don’t be so dramatic.”
“Well its something,” Adam sighed. “And I’m going to get to the bottom of it.”
“Let me know what you find out,” Kris said walking towards the stairs. “I’m going to go tell Elle its just the three of us for dinner tonight.”
“I will figure it out,” Adam frowned as he sat down on the sofa.
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“What are you doing here?” Jackson asked peeking around his front door.
“I figured we could watch last night’s fight,” Sebastian shrugged as he pulled his bag strap over his shoulder.
“Yeah… its not exactly a good time right now, son,” Jackson said looking over his shoulder. “I sort of have a guest.”
“Jackson, are you coming back to bed?”
Sebastian frowned at the sound of a woman’s voice from behind the door. “Is that… is that my Mom?”
“Not exactly,” Jackson smiled. “She’s from the coffee house around the corner.”
“You’re cheating on Mom?” Sebastian frowned.
“Hey, it’s not cheating if you don’t get caught, kid,” Jackson smiled.
“Honey, what’s going on?”
Sebastian stepped back at the front door opened fully to reveal a half naked woman. “Hi,” Sebastian said shyly.
“You invited a friend over to watch?”
“He’s my kid,” Jackson laughed. “Sebastian this is…”
“Amy,” the woman interrupted. “Seriously, you’ve forgot my name already.”
“Of course not,” Jackson smirked.
“I should go,” Sebastian said taking a step away from the door.
“Don’t be silly,” Amy smiled taking Sebastian’s hand to pull him into the apartment.
Sebastian walked fully into the apartment as his eyes instantly landed on the coffee table where a tray of white powder lay scattered. “I really should go. My Dad’s probably wondering where I am.”
“Dad?” Amy frowned sitting down. “I thought you were his Dad.”
“I am,” Jackson answered wrapping his arm around Sebastian’s shoulder. “Can’t you see the family resemblance?”
“You do look familiar?” Amy mused before grabbing a rolled up twenty dollar and snorting a line of coke from the tray.
“I live with my adopted parents,” Sebastian winced as he watched Amy snort another line.
“But you’re his real Dad?” Amy asked pointing the rolled up note at Jackson.
“Exactly,” Jackson answered accepting the note before snorting a line himself.
“You know who you look like,” Amy said wiping her nose clean.
“Me?” Jackson asked snorting another line.
“No,” Amy said shaking her head. “You look like Adam Lambert’s kid. You know, the little one.”
“Who do you think the adoptive parents are?”
“No way,” Amy said standing up. “No fucking way.”
“I’m going to go,” Sebastian said moving backwards to the front door.
“I thought you wanted to watch the fight,” Jackson said standing up. “You can watch boxing, can’t you Amy?”
“I should study,” Sebastian said opening the front door. “I’ll come back later.”
“Okay, son,” Jackson smiled throwing himself down beside Amy. “Love you.”
“Yeah,” Sebastian said before closing the front door behind him.
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“I’ve decided that pizza is the best food ever,” Elle announced as she took another bite of her pizza.
“Why don’t we leave some for Sebastian and Jacob,” Kris said as he watched Adam and Elle grab another slice each.
“Screw them,” Adam said. “This stuffs too good to give it up.”
“Yeah, I think denying your own kids food is called bad parenting,” Kris pointed out causing Adam to roll his eyes. “I’ll order another one when they get home.”
Kris looked through the kitchen door as the front door slammed shut. “Or you could stop eating. Who’s that?”
“Me Dad,” Sebastian called out before appearing at the kitchen door. “I’m just going to my room.”
“No you’re not,” Adam said. “Sit. Eat.”
“I’m not really hungry.”
“You can’t study on an empty stomach,” Adam said pulling out the empty chair beside him.
“One slice,” Sebastian said sitting down.
“So how was your day?” Kris asked wiping the tomato sauce from his lips.
“Okay, I guess,” Sebastian shrugged.
“You’re home early,” Adam remarked.
“I’ve got a big history report to do,” Sebastian shrugged.
“How was your friend?” Kris asked.
“Is it okay if I eat this in my room?” Sebastian asked standing up. “I just really should start that report.”
“Sure,” Kris frowned.
“Thanks.”
“I’ll bring you up some ice cream after,” Adam called out as Sebastian walked up the stairs.
“Cool,” Sebastian called back.
“Okay, what’s that about?” Adam asked looking between Kris and Elle.
“No idea,” Kris shrugged. “Elle?”
“How should I know?” Elle shrugged. “He’s weird.”
“What have you heard?” Kris asked looking at Elle.
“Heard about what?”
“What’s going on with your brother,” Adam pressed. “We know you know.”
“I don’t know anything,” Elle frowned.
“You know everything,” Kris remarked. “Every secret in this house you know.”
“I gave up spying months ago,” Elle shrugged taking another bite of her pizza. “It was cute when I was young, but I can’t get away with it now.”
“So you’re saying you don’t know what’s going on with Sebastian?” Adam asked looking Elle in the eye.
“That’s exactly what I’m saying,” Elle nodded.
“Well fat lot of use you are,” Adam sighed.
“I do know one thing,” Elle said causing Adam and Kris to lean in.
“What?” Kris asked quietly.
“The shoes Papa bought yesterday were about four thousand dollars more expensive than he said they were,” Elle answered.
“Elle,” Adam scolded.
“You called me useless,” Elle pouted.
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“I should go,” Jacob said stretching out on top of Gabe’s bed.
“I don’t want you to,” Gabe pouted pulling Jacob closer.
“But I have to,” Jacob whispered. “It’s almost midnight.”
“You know, if you still lived here this wouldn’t be happening,” Gabe remarked. “We would already be curled up together asleep.”
“No,” Jacob said shaking his head. “We would probably have fought over your dirty clothes on the bathroom floor, and I would be laying here sulking while you watched a game on TV.”
“Yeah we did do that a lot,” Gabe frowned. “I thought it was going to be great living together.”
“You’re going to have to learn a whole lot before we ever get married,” Jacob pointed out. “I will not put up with dirty clothes on my shiny bathroom floors.”
“I’ll try to remember that.”
“And you’re getting a den,” Jacob remarked. “Where your messy friends can come and visit you, and I don’t have to enter.”
“You really don’t like my friends, do you?” Gabe smirked.
“I like them from a far,” Jacob answered causing Gabe to laugh.
“I’ve missed you.”
“I haven’t been anywhere.”
“But we haven’t been ourselves,” Gabe remarked. “We’ve been so busy arguing with each other that we’ve forgot about us.”
“We’re not arguing now,” Jacob pointed out as he ran a hand over Gabe’s bare chest. “Do you know what you should do?”
“What?” Gabe smiled lazily.
“We should wax your chest hair,” Jacob answered tugging on the hair on Gabe’s chest.
“Get away from me,” Gabe yelped. “I’m not waxing my chest.”
“But you used to wax it all the time.”
“I shaved it,” Gabe corrected, “and I don’t have to now.”
“Why not?” Jacob pouted.
“Because I don’t have a boxer trying to pull it out with his teeth during a fight,” Gabe answered.
“Okay, that’s disgusting,” Jacob gagged.
“Anyway, I like my chest hair,” Gabe smirked. “It makes me look manly.”
“Whatever,” Jacob sighed. “I really should go now.”
“You like it too,” Gabe said as he leaned over Jacob to rub their chests together. “You like how it feels when I do this.”
“Okay, I’m going to have to leave very soon, so you can’t do that,” Jacob said as he shivered.
“Call your parents and tell them you’re staying the night,” Gabe whispered before running his tongue over Jacob’s chest.
“If you waxed your chest I could lick you too,” Jacob remarked causing Gabe to roll onto his back.
“You’re like a dog with a bone.”
“Does that mean you’ll let me wax your chest?”
“Whatever,” Gabe shrugged.
“Cool,” Jacob smiled standing up. “I’ll go get my wax kit from my bag.”
“You carry around a wax kit?” Gabe frowned lifting his head from the pillow. “Why?”
“Emergencies,” Jacob called out before running towards the living room.
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“Yeah hold on, Adam’s just walked through the door,” Kris said pulling his cell from his ear.
“Alright Kris Allen-Lambert that’s the kids in school,” Adam announced as he walked into the living room. “Now you get naked, and get your butt back to bed.”
“Adam,” Kris whispered holding the bottom of the phone. “Ryans’s people are on the phone.”
“Ryan who?” Adam asked tugging his jeans and boxers down.
“Stop that,” Kris hissed. “Ryan Seacrest.”
“What does he want?” Adam asked as he stood with his hands on his hips.
“Put your clothes back on,” Kris ordered. “I have no idea what they’re calling for.”
“So tell him to call back,” Adam said pulling up his jeans.
“He said it’s pretty important,” Kris remarked. “They want us to go down to his office.”
“Okay,” Adam said waving his hand. “Tell him we’ll come down.”
“Yes that’s fine,” Kris answered into his cell. “We’ll be down as soon as we can. Okay, thanks bye.”
“It’s problem some weird Idol reunion again,” Adam said pulling his jacket back on.
“They said it was pretty important, Kris remarked. “It’s been what? Twenty-three years since we were on it?”
“Thirty years since it started I think,” Adam said walking out of the front door.
“It must be a reunion then.”
“If it’s a tour our answer is no,” Adam said climbing into the car.
“You wouldn’t want to revisit Idol 09?” Kris asked with a smile.
“A fifty date tour?” Adam asked with a raised eyebrow.
“True,” Kris said putting on his belt. “Plus you would probably kill Gokey.”
“Exactly,” Adam said pulling the car out of the drive.
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“Sebastian Allen?”
“Yeah?” Sebastian asked looking toward the front of the class room at the teacher.
“Your Dad’s here to take you to your dentist appointment.”
“Dentist appointment?” Sebastian frowned.
“He’s in the parking lot waiting for you,” the teacher answered. “Grab your things and go.”
“Okay,” Sebastian said unsure as he stood up from his desk.
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“Hey son,” Jackson smiled as he leaned on his car.
“What are you doing?” Sebastian frowned.
“Taking my kid to the dentist,” Jackson shrugged. “Which is actually code for breaking you the hell out of here.”
“My Papa will kill me if he finds out I’m skipping school.”
“How’s he going to find out?” Jackson smirked. “For all the school knows, you’re at the dentist.”
“How did you even convince them you were my Dad?” Sebastian frowned.
“I told them I was his driver,” Jackson answered. “Mr Lambert doesn’t feel it would be best for security if he was to enter a school with teenage girls.”
“My Papa doesn’t say that,” Sebastian frowned. “He’s always showing up at our schools.”
“None of that’s important,” Jackson said waving his hand. “What’s important is that you and I get the hell out of here.”
“Where are we going?” Sebastian asked climbing into the car.
“Wherever you want,” Jackson smiled before starting up the car.
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“You know, this is your fault if you think about it,” Kris remarked as he looked at the pictures on Ryan’s wall.
“How do you figure that one?” Adam frowned.
“If you weren’t so damn famous, no one would care about Idol twenty odd years later,” Kris pointed out. “It’s you and your damn album sales that has our season repeated constantly on TV.”
“Yeah at like three in the morning,” Adam said. “The only people that watched it are drunk people coming home from the clubs.”
“Whatever,” Kris shrugged. “How are we going to say no to him?”
“No,” Adam said. “Its easy really.”
“He’s going to try and convince us.”
“Then its hell no,” Adam shrugged. “Leave it to me. I’ll deal with it.”
“Adam, Kris,” Ryan smiled walking into his office. “Glad you guys could come down so fast.”
“We’re not doing your tour,” Adam said before Ryan could take a seat behind his desk.
“What?” Ryan asked with a confused laugh.
“You put us all on a bus together again, there will be a murder,” Adam explained. “And I don’t think you want Gokey killed.”
“Yeah,” Kris agreed. “That was all fun when we were young, but I just don’t have the patience for it these days.”
“I would probably kill them all,” Adam said causing Kris to nod his head.
“And he’s including me in that too.”
“I’ve not brought you here to talk about an Idol tour,” Ryan frowned.
“So why are we here?”
“We’re not doing a reality show either,” Adam added. “There’s no way I’m letting camera see me first thing in the morning.”
“Yeah, its bad enough his family has to,” Kris laughed causing Adam to look at him. “Sorry. That was a little bitchy of me.”
“You think?”
“Guys,” Ryan sighed. “This has nothing to do with your careers. I asked you both here because you’re friends. I got a call early this morning. Well the news team at E got the call. A woman saying she had a story about your guys.”
“What kind of story?”
“No normally I would just run a story,” Ryan said. “You guys know the fame game rules, but this seemed a little too important.”
“Ryan, what’s going on?” Kris asked reaching over to take Adam’s hand.
“This waitress called this morning saying she had a story about one of Adam Lambert’s kids,” Ryan said looking at Adam.
“My…who?” Adam asked gripping Kris’s hand tighter.
“Sebastian.”
“Oh god,” Kris sighed.
“Ryan just tell us what she said,” Adam pressed.
“She told this story about hooking up with this guy and going back to his apartment,” Ryan began. “They had sex and shared some coke that he had, and then there was a knock at the door and a kid came in.”
“Oh god,” Kris repeated.
“The guy introduced the kid as his son,” Ryan said causing Kris and Adam to look at each other. “Apparently the kid seemed quite friendly with the guy, but the girl seemed to recognise him. He admitted his adoptive parents were you guys. When the kid left, the girl asked the guy about it, and he told her this story about coming to LA to get his son back. He was arranging for them both to head to Mexico together. He says Sebastian hasn’t been happy with you guys for a while, and that he was planning to keep him once he had everything sorted.”
“The guy,” Kris said after a few seconds of silence.
“What about him?” Ryan asked.
“What’s his name?”
“Jackson.”
“Fuck,” Adam yelled as he stood up. “I’m going to kill him.”
“We should contact our lawyer,” Kris said standing up.
“Fuck the lawyer,” Adam snapped. “Ryan get the girl on the phone and get her to tell you where the fuck this asshole is now.”
“We can’t just run in and deal with this ourselves, Adam,” Kris snapped. “This is Sebastian’s biological father. We need to see what our rights are.”
“We’re his parents,” Adam snapped. “That’s my right.”
“Adam it was an open adoption,” Kris said. “I don’t know how these things work. We can’t just run in there, and do something wrong.”
“I can’t just sit here.”
“Ryan what does this girl want?” Kris asked.
“Money.”
“Okay,” Kris breathed out.
“Look guys I’m not going to run the story, but if I don’t she might go somewhere else.”
“Pay her,” Adam said. “I don’t care how much. Pay her and I will pay you back.”
“I can do that,” Ryan said. “But what are you two going to do?”
“We’ll figure it out,” Kris said taking hold of Adam’s hand. “Thanks for this, Ryan. I know you could have ran the story.”
“It’s your kid, Kris,” Ryan shrugged.
“Thanks,” Kris smiled before leading Adam out of the office.
“I feel like I’m going to explode,” Adam hissed.
“Let’s just hear Sebastian’s side first.”
“I’m going to the school to get him.”
“I think we should,” Kris nodded. “Then we go home and call the lawyer.”
“Do you think he wants to go with him?”
“What?”
“To Mexico,” Adam answered. “Do you think Sebastian wants to go with him?”
“Don’t torture yourself, baby,” Kris sighed. “Let’s just go get him.
“Right,” Adam breathed out as he followed Kris out of the office.
End of flash Forward 2032
“What is that smell?” Jacob asked as he looked up from his designs.
“Smell?” Gabe asked looking around the apartment.
“Is that you?” Jacob asked moving forward in the sofa to smell Gabe’s jeans. “Why do they smell like oil?”
“They’re my work jeans,” Gabe answered as he snuggled closer to Jacob.
“Oh my god,” Jacob screeched standing up from the sofa. “Please tell me you’re not wearing those dirty jeans and sitting on your sofa?”
“Okay. I’m not wearing these dirty jeans and sitting on my sofa,” Gabe said.
“Please tell me it’s the first time you’ve done it.”
“It’s the first time I’ve done it,” Gabe repeated.
“Oh my god It’s not,” Jacob complained as he moved around the apartment. “I’ve been sitting on a sofa with oil stains. My clothes have been on oil stains.”
“Your clothes are fine,” Gabe sighed. “The oil stains are dry.”
“Are you sure this job of yours is worth it?” Jacob asked taking seat on the coffee table.
“Its money,” Gabe shrugged. “Plus no one’s hitting me anymore.”
“So you’re happy?” Jacob quizzed.
“I am,” Gabe smiled. “I thought I would miss boxing, but it hasn’t happened. I get to work on these cool cars and the guys at the Garage are really great.”
“I guess that’s a good thing,” Jacob smiled. “I want you happy.”
“Even if your clothes get ruined just by sitting on my sofa?”
“Oh there will be no sitting on your sofa in your dirty jeans anymore,” Jacob remarked standing up to unzip his jeans.
“What are you doing?” Gabe smirked as he watched Jacob closely.
“Removing my clothes and placing them in a safe place,” Jacob answered as he tugged his boxers down.
“And what are you doing after that?” Gabe asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Do you really want to know?” Jacob asked as he unbuttoned his shirt.
“Uh huh,” Gabe nodded letting his hands run down his thighs.
“I’m cleaning your sofa.”
“That’s so… wait, what?” Gabe asked confused.
“Get your ass up,” Jacob ordered as he now stood naked in front of Gabe. “And go get me a pair of your old sweat pants. Now where did I put those cleaning products I bought you?”
“What’s happening?” Gabe asked looking around. “This isn’t normal. Teenage boys don’t do this.”
“Sweatpants, Gabe,” Jacob ordered before disappearing into the kitchen.
“Why is this my life?” Gabe complained as he walked into the bedroom.
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“That’s the third time this week,” Adam frowned as he closed his cell phone.
“What?” Kris asked looking up from his guitar.
“Sebastian just called.”
“Did you tell him it’s takeout for dinner tonight?”
“He’s not coming home.”
“Again?” Kris frowned. “That’s like the third time this week.”
“I said that,” Adam said sitting down. “Have you noticed how quiet he is lately?”
“He’s always quiet.”
“But I’m noticing it more lately,” Adam remarked. “And the affection is getting stronger. He can’t walk out of a room without saying he loves us.”
“I think the whole walking out drama is still bothering him,” Kris said sitting his guitar down. “I think he knows he scared us that night.”
“He shouldn’t punish himself over it,” Adam sighed. “We’ve all moved on. Plus he’s got what he wanted. We’re going to that stupid open day at the college.”
“Maybe he’ll get better after that,” Kris shrugged.
“But where is he going all the time?” Adam sighed. “He’s never home.”
“Maybe there’s a new girl,” Kris remarked. “He’s not mentioned Mia lately.”
“Which is a good thing,” Adam smiled.
“I bet it’s a new girl,” Kris said standing up from the sofa.
“So why all the secrets?” Adam asked. “Why not just tell us he’s got a girlfriend?”
“Maybe we embarrass him.”
“Maybe she’s older,” Adam said. “Oh god I hope it’s not a teacher. Oh he’s dating a teacher.”
“He’s not dating a teacher,” Kris sighed. “Don’t be so dramatic.”
“Well its something,” Adam sighed. “And I’m going to get to the bottom of it.”
“Let me know what you find out,” Kris said walking towards the stairs. “I’m going to go tell Elle its just the three of us for dinner tonight.”
“I will figure it out,” Adam frowned as he sat down on the sofa.
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“What are you doing here?” Jackson asked peeking around his front door.
“I figured we could watch last night’s fight,” Sebastian shrugged as he pulled his bag strap over his shoulder.
“Yeah… its not exactly a good time right now, son,” Jackson said looking over his shoulder. “I sort of have a guest.”
“Jackson, are you coming back to bed?”
Sebastian frowned at the sound of a woman’s voice from behind the door. “Is that… is that my Mom?”
“Not exactly,” Jackson smiled. “She’s from the coffee house around the corner.”
“You’re cheating on Mom?” Sebastian frowned.
“Hey, it’s not cheating if you don’t get caught, kid,” Jackson smiled.
“Honey, what’s going on?”
Sebastian stepped back at the front door opened fully to reveal a half naked woman. “Hi,” Sebastian said shyly.
“You invited a friend over to watch?”
“He’s my kid,” Jackson laughed. “Sebastian this is…”
“Amy,” the woman interrupted. “Seriously, you’ve forgot my name already.”
“Of course not,” Jackson smirked.
“I should go,” Sebastian said taking a step away from the door.
“Don’t be silly,” Amy smiled taking Sebastian’s hand to pull him into the apartment.
Sebastian walked fully into the apartment as his eyes instantly landed on the coffee table where a tray of white powder lay scattered. “I really should go. My Dad’s probably wondering where I am.”
“Dad?” Amy frowned sitting down. “I thought you were his Dad.”
“I am,” Jackson answered wrapping his arm around Sebastian’s shoulder. “Can’t you see the family resemblance?”
“You do look familiar?” Amy mused before grabbing a rolled up twenty dollar and snorting a line of coke from the tray.
“I live with my adopted parents,” Sebastian winced as he watched Amy snort another line.
“But you’re his real Dad?” Amy asked pointing the rolled up note at Jackson.
“Exactly,” Jackson answered accepting the note before snorting a line himself.
“You know who you look like,” Amy said wiping her nose clean.
“Me?” Jackson asked snorting another line.
“No,” Amy said shaking her head. “You look like Adam Lambert’s kid. You know, the little one.”
“Who do you think the adoptive parents are?”
“No way,” Amy said standing up. “No fucking way.”
“I’m going to go,” Sebastian said moving backwards to the front door.
“I thought you wanted to watch the fight,” Jackson said standing up. “You can watch boxing, can’t you Amy?”
“I should study,” Sebastian said opening the front door. “I’ll come back later.”
“Okay, son,” Jackson smiled throwing himself down beside Amy. “Love you.”
“Yeah,” Sebastian said before closing the front door behind him.
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“I’ve decided that pizza is the best food ever,” Elle announced as she took another bite of her pizza.
“Why don’t we leave some for Sebastian and Jacob,” Kris said as he watched Adam and Elle grab another slice each.
“Screw them,” Adam said. “This stuffs too good to give it up.”
“Yeah, I think denying your own kids food is called bad parenting,” Kris pointed out causing Adam to roll his eyes. “I’ll order another one when they get home.”
Kris looked through the kitchen door as the front door slammed shut. “Or you could stop eating. Who’s that?”
“Me Dad,” Sebastian called out before appearing at the kitchen door. “I’m just going to my room.”
“No you’re not,” Adam said. “Sit. Eat.”
“I’m not really hungry.”
“You can’t study on an empty stomach,” Adam said pulling out the empty chair beside him.
“One slice,” Sebastian said sitting down.
“So how was your day?” Kris asked wiping the tomato sauce from his lips.
“Okay, I guess,” Sebastian shrugged.
“You’re home early,” Adam remarked.
“I’ve got a big history report to do,” Sebastian shrugged.
“How was your friend?” Kris asked.
“Is it okay if I eat this in my room?” Sebastian asked standing up. “I just really should start that report.”
“Sure,” Kris frowned.
“Thanks.”
“I’ll bring you up some ice cream after,” Adam called out as Sebastian walked up the stairs.
“Cool,” Sebastian called back.
“Okay, what’s that about?” Adam asked looking between Kris and Elle.
“No idea,” Kris shrugged. “Elle?”
“How should I know?” Elle shrugged. “He’s weird.”
“What have you heard?” Kris asked looking at Elle.
“Heard about what?”
“What’s going on with your brother,” Adam pressed. “We know you know.”
“I don’t know anything,” Elle frowned.
“You know everything,” Kris remarked. “Every secret in this house you know.”
“I gave up spying months ago,” Elle shrugged taking another bite of her pizza. “It was cute when I was young, but I can’t get away with it now.”
“So you’re saying you don’t know what’s going on with Sebastian?” Adam asked looking Elle in the eye.
“That’s exactly what I’m saying,” Elle nodded.
“Well fat lot of use you are,” Adam sighed.
“I do know one thing,” Elle said causing Adam and Kris to lean in.
“What?” Kris asked quietly.
“The shoes Papa bought yesterday were about four thousand dollars more expensive than he said they were,” Elle answered.
“Elle,” Adam scolded.
“You called me useless,” Elle pouted.
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“I should go,” Jacob said stretching out on top of Gabe’s bed.
“I don’t want you to,” Gabe pouted pulling Jacob closer.
“But I have to,” Jacob whispered. “It’s almost midnight.”
“You know, if you still lived here this wouldn’t be happening,” Gabe remarked. “We would already be curled up together asleep.”
“No,” Jacob said shaking his head. “We would probably have fought over your dirty clothes on the bathroom floor, and I would be laying here sulking while you watched a game on TV.”
“Yeah we did do that a lot,” Gabe frowned. “I thought it was going to be great living together.”
“You’re going to have to learn a whole lot before we ever get married,” Jacob pointed out. “I will not put up with dirty clothes on my shiny bathroom floors.”
“I’ll try to remember that.”
“And you’re getting a den,” Jacob remarked. “Where your messy friends can come and visit you, and I don’t have to enter.”
“You really don’t like my friends, do you?” Gabe smirked.
“I like them from a far,” Jacob answered causing Gabe to laugh.
“I’ve missed you.”
“I haven’t been anywhere.”
“But we haven’t been ourselves,” Gabe remarked. “We’ve been so busy arguing with each other that we’ve forgot about us.”
“We’re not arguing now,” Jacob pointed out as he ran a hand over Gabe’s bare chest. “Do you know what you should do?”
“What?” Gabe smiled lazily.
“We should wax your chest hair,” Jacob answered tugging on the hair on Gabe’s chest.
“Get away from me,” Gabe yelped. “I’m not waxing my chest.”
“But you used to wax it all the time.”
“I shaved it,” Gabe corrected, “and I don’t have to now.”
“Why not?” Jacob pouted.
“Because I don’t have a boxer trying to pull it out with his teeth during a fight,” Gabe answered.
“Okay, that’s disgusting,” Jacob gagged.
“Anyway, I like my chest hair,” Gabe smirked. “It makes me look manly.”
“Whatever,” Jacob sighed. “I really should go now.”
“You like it too,” Gabe said as he leaned over Jacob to rub their chests together. “You like how it feels when I do this.”
“Okay, I’m going to have to leave very soon, so you can’t do that,” Jacob said as he shivered.
“Call your parents and tell them you’re staying the night,” Gabe whispered before running his tongue over Jacob’s chest.
“If you waxed your chest I could lick you too,” Jacob remarked causing Gabe to roll onto his back.
“You’re like a dog with a bone.”
“Does that mean you’ll let me wax your chest?”
“Whatever,” Gabe shrugged.
“Cool,” Jacob smiled standing up. “I’ll go get my wax kit from my bag.”
“You carry around a wax kit?” Gabe frowned lifting his head from the pillow. “Why?”
“Emergencies,” Jacob called out before running towards the living room.
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“Yeah hold on, Adam’s just walked through the door,” Kris said pulling his cell from his ear.
“Alright Kris Allen-Lambert that’s the kids in school,” Adam announced as he walked into the living room. “Now you get naked, and get your butt back to bed.”
“Adam,” Kris whispered holding the bottom of the phone. “Ryans’s people are on the phone.”
“Ryan who?” Adam asked tugging his jeans and boxers down.
“Stop that,” Kris hissed. “Ryan Seacrest.”
“What does he want?” Adam asked as he stood with his hands on his hips.
“Put your clothes back on,” Kris ordered. “I have no idea what they’re calling for.”
“So tell him to call back,” Adam said pulling up his jeans.
“He said it’s pretty important,” Kris remarked. “They want us to go down to his office.”
“Okay,” Adam said waving his hand. “Tell him we’ll come down.”
“Yes that’s fine,” Kris answered into his cell. “We’ll be down as soon as we can. Okay, thanks bye.”
“It’s problem some weird Idol reunion again,” Adam said pulling his jacket back on.
“They said it was pretty important, Kris remarked. “It’s been what? Twenty-three years since we were on it?”
“Thirty years since it started I think,” Adam said walking out of the front door.
“It must be a reunion then.”
“If it’s a tour our answer is no,” Adam said climbing into the car.
“You wouldn’t want to revisit Idol 09?” Kris asked with a smile.
“A fifty date tour?” Adam asked with a raised eyebrow.
“True,” Kris said putting on his belt. “Plus you would probably kill Gokey.”
“Exactly,” Adam said pulling the car out of the drive.
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“Sebastian Allen?”
“Yeah?” Sebastian asked looking toward the front of the class room at the teacher.
“Your Dad’s here to take you to your dentist appointment.”
“Dentist appointment?” Sebastian frowned.
“He’s in the parking lot waiting for you,” the teacher answered. “Grab your things and go.”
“Okay,” Sebastian said unsure as he stood up from his desk.
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“Hey son,” Jackson smiled as he leaned on his car.
“What are you doing?” Sebastian frowned.
“Taking my kid to the dentist,” Jackson shrugged. “Which is actually code for breaking you the hell out of here.”
“My Papa will kill me if he finds out I’m skipping school.”
“How’s he going to find out?” Jackson smirked. “For all the school knows, you’re at the dentist.”
“How did you even convince them you were my Dad?” Sebastian frowned.
“I told them I was his driver,” Jackson answered. “Mr Lambert doesn’t feel it would be best for security if he was to enter a school with teenage girls.”
“My Papa doesn’t say that,” Sebastian frowned. “He’s always showing up at our schools.”
“None of that’s important,” Jackson said waving his hand. “What’s important is that you and I get the hell out of here.”
“Where are we going?” Sebastian asked climbing into the car.
“Wherever you want,” Jackson smiled before starting up the car.
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“You know, this is your fault if you think about it,” Kris remarked as he looked at the pictures on Ryan’s wall.
“How do you figure that one?” Adam frowned.
“If you weren’t so damn famous, no one would care about Idol twenty odd years later,” Kris pointed out. “It’s you and your damn album sales that has our season repeated constantly on TV.”
“Yeah at like three in the morning,” Adam said. “The only people that watched it are drunk people coming home from the clubs.”
“Whatever,” Kris shrugged. “How are we going to say no to him?”
“No,” Adam said. “Its easy really.”
“He’s going to try and convince us.”
“Then its hell no,” Adam shrugged. “Leave it to me. I’ll deal with it.”
“Adam, Kris,” Ryan smiled walking into his office. “Glad you guys could come down so fast.”
“We’re not doing your tour,” Adam said before Ryan could take a seat behind his desk.
“What?” Ryan asked with a confused laugh.
“You put us all on a bus together again, there will be a murder,” Adam explained. “And I don’t think you want Gokey killed.”
“Yeah,” Kris agreed. “That was all fun when we were young, but I just don’t have the patience for it these days.”
“I would probably kill them all,” Adam said causing Kris to nod his head.
“And he’s including me in that too.”
“I’ve not brought you here to talk about an Idol tour,” Ryan frowned.
“So why are we here?”
“We’re not doing a reality show either,” Adam added. “There’s no way I’m letting camera see me first thing in the morning.”
“Yeah, its bad enough his family has to,” Kris laughed causing Adam to look at him. “Sorry. That was a little bitchy of me.”
“You think?”
“Guys,” Ryan sighed. “This has nothing to do with your careers. I asked you both here because you’re friends. I got a call early this morning. Well the news team at E got the call. A woman saying she had a story about your guys.”
“What kind of story?”
“No normally I would just run a story,” Ryan said. “You guys know the fame game rules, but this seemed a little too important.”
“Ryan, what’s going on?” Kris asked reaching over to take Adam’s hand.
“This waitress called this morning saying she had a story about one of Adam Lambert’s kids,” Ryan said looking at Adam.
“My…who?” Adam asked gripping Kris’s hand tighter.
“Sebastian.”
“Oh god,” Kris sighed.
“Ryan just tell us what she said,” Adam pressed.
“She told this story about hooking up with this guy and going back to his apartment,” Ryan began. “They had sex and shared some coke that he had, and then there was a knock at the door and a kid came in.”
“Oh god,” Kris repeated.
“The guy introduced the kid as his son,” Ryan said causing Kris and Adam to look at each other. “Apparently the kid seemed quite friendly with the guy, but the girl seemed to recognise him. He admitted his adoptive parents were you guys. When the kid left, the girl asked the guy about it, and he told her this story about coming to LA to get his son back. He was arranging for them both to head to Mexico together. He says Sebastian hasn’t been happy with you guys for a while, and that he was planning to keep him once he had everything sorted.”
“The guy,” Kris said after a few seconds of silence.
“What about him?” Ryan asked.
“What’s his name?”
“Jackson.”
“Fuck,” Adam yelled as he stood up. “I’m going to kill him.”
“We should contact our lawyer,” Kris said standing up.
“Fuck the lawyer,” Adam snapped. “Ryan get the girl on the phone and get her to tell you where the fuck this asshole is now.”
“We can’t just run in and deal with this ourselves, Adam,” Kris snapped. “This is Sebastian’s biological father. We need to see what our rights are.”
“We’re his parents,” Adam snapped. “That’s my right.”
“Adam it was an open adoption,” Kris said. “I don’t know how these things work. We can’t just run in there, and do something wrong.”
“I can’t just sit here.”
“Ryan what does this girl want?” Kris asked.
“Money.”
“Okay,” Kris breathed out.
“Look guys I’m not going to run the story, but if I don’t she might go somewhere else.”
“Pay her,” Adam said. “I don’t care how much. Pay her and I will pay you back.”
“I can do that,” Ryan said. “But what are you two going to do?”
“We’ll figure it out,” Kris said taking hold of Adam’s hand. “Thanks for this, Ryan. I know you could have ran the story.”
“It’s your kid, Kris,” Ryan shrugged.
“Thanks,” Kris smiled before leading Adam out of the office.
“I feel like I’m going to explode,” Adam hissed.
“Let’s just hear Sebastian’s side first.”
“I’m going to the school to get him.”
“I think we should,” Kris nodded. “Then we go home and call the lawyer.”
“Do you think he wants to go with him?”
“What?”
“To Mexico,” Adam answered. “Do you think Sebastian wants to go with him?”
“Don’t torture yourself, baby,” Kris sighed. “Let’s just go get him.
“Right,” Adam breathed out as he followed Kris out of the office.
End of flash Forward 2032