Eli and Carmine - The Pianist AU
An AU with Eli being a famous concert pianist and Carmine is his biggest fan.
It was a lovely night, Carmine and Tyler walked to the concert hall. Eli Ainsworth was playing there tonight and Tyler had bought the tickets, a little reluctantly though, when Carmine had asked. Carmine hooked his arm on Tyler’s and leaned his head against Tyler’s shoulder,then pressing a quick kiss to his cheek, just out of happiness.Tyler grunted something to response but Carmine didn’t let it turn down his happy mood.
They got seated and waited for the concert to start, Carmine looked at the concert program on his hand.
There, from the cover of the program, he stared at him, Mr. Ainsworth, and for Carmine it felt like his blue eyes stared straight on to his soul.
The lights went out and the hall was silent, Carmine’s heart started to beat faster. A moments silence still and then in a bright spotlight, he walked on the stage. He looked a bit grumpy, like he always did, but Carmine couldn’t help thinking if he had some troubles on his mind and how it would feel t comfort him, to make those lines of stress disappear. Carmine shook his head, why an earth he thought things like that?
Mr.Ainsworth sat down, stretched his fingers and started to play. Carmine closed his eyes, enjoyed, flowed with the music and smiled. Songs followed another and Carmine sat his eyes closed listening with a little smile on his face. Time and place disappeared, it was just him, Mr. Ainsworth and music.
"Sir…? Sir !!!" someone said loudly and Carmine opened his eyes. "Mmmhhh…what?" he yawned. "Sir, you must leave, the concert has finished almost an hour ago." the guard said to him. Carmine took a quick glance around. Everything was dark, Mr.Ainworth wasn’t playing and even Tyler was gone. "You can use the backstage door, Sir. You go just straight froward from the stage. "The guard continued. Carmine got up. "Thank you very much, " he said and blushed a bit from embarrassment.
Carmine walked on the silent backstage, suddenly he spotted a string of light coming under a door. From curiosity he walked to see if someone was still here. Once he got to the door he gasped a little. On the door stood “Mr.Ainsworth” and the door was a bit open and Carmine could hear someone mumbling inside.
Suddenly someone yelled and before Carmine could do anything, the door was slammed open and he stared right in the face of Mr. Ainsworth. His bow tie was open and two buttons from his shirt. He looked handsome, handsome but annoyed,
"Who are you?" he asked loudly. "Carmine Boyle, I am sorry, I was just looking a way out." Carmine said quickly. "Can I just say that I enjoyed this night’s concert very much and I have been admiring you for a long time now. " he continued in the same breath.
The annoyance melt away from Mr. Ainsworth’s face. “Really?” He said.”In that case, thank you. But why you are sneaking here at this hour? The concert was over an hour ago.” he continued , raising his eyebrow a little. Carmine blushed.”I..I think ..I fell a sleep…”he stuttered back. Mr. Ainsworth stared at him for one second and then burst into laughter.
"You fell a sleep, well Mr. Boyle. May I offer you some coffee before you go home?" He asked surprisingly. Carmine nodded, swallowed and nodded. Mr. Ainsworth turned over. "I was in need of a company anyway, just had a really frustrating phone call with my manager." he explained
He went to the little kitchen corner , looked at the cabinets and then turned onto Carmine. “Sorry, no coffee….but…let me check…” he said mysteriously and opened the fridge looking fro something there. “Yeah, I remember right! “he exclaimed and walked to the Carmine with a bottle of champagne and two glasses in his hand. He poured champagne on the glasses and then raised his glass as he sat next to the Carmine on the couch.
" To music" he said shortly and took a sip from his glass ad Carmine did the same. "And now, Mr. Boyle, tell me what is your favorite song of mine?" he asked and smiled to Carmine. Carmine swallowed, his heart felt restless , his stomach was odd and his hands started to shake a little. He buried them in his lap and swallowed again. "The..Serenade.:"he said quietly and looked nervously at Mr. Ainsworth.
Mr. Ainsworth looked at him, continued smiling and asked the next question, soon Carmine wasn’t so nervous anymore. They talked until the last drop of the champagne. Carmine felt a little dizzy, probably from the champagne and he found himself staring at Mr. AInsworth, who had now tossed away his bow tie opened more buttons and was stretching his neck in almost sexual way Carmine had ever seen someone stretching.
"What are you staring?" he asked softly and turned his blue eyes to look at Carmine. Carmine blushed and looked at his toes. "Nothing..sorry..It ‘s just the champagne…"he muttered, twisting his hands in his lap. Suddenly Mr. Ainworth tilted his jaw with his hand, forcing him to confront those blue eyes. "Well…if that’s the case, Mr Boyle…you put this on the champagne too." he said his voice being silent and and a bit threatening, in a way that made Carmine more dizzy his heart pound faster and his stomach feel fluttery. He was almost sure he’d squeal as Mr. Ainsworth’s lips almost touched his.
"Mr.Ainsworth..we shouldn’t…" he gasped. Mr. Ainsworth stopped for a moment."Please…Call me Eli.." he breathed and pressed his lips on Carmine’s.
At that moment, Carmine forgot it all, who he was, who Tyler was, where he was, his arms flew on Eli’s neck, fingers played with the hair on his neck. Eli swept his tongue along his lower lip, deepened the kiss and Carmine moaned in his mouth.
"Carmine!!!….Carmine! Wake up!!!!." Tyler shook his arm and tapped angrily his shoulder. "I thought you like this guy and yet you fell a sleep at his concert? Come on, Carmine. It’s over now, so let’s go home." Tyler grunted and got up. Carmine tried to understand what, where and when.
The it hit him, he must have dreamed the whole thing. He glanced at the concert program at his hand, Mr. AInsworth was still there smiling at him, the same way that he was before, Carmine sighed. It had all been a dream but then something in the cover caught his eye.
The bow tie of Mr.Ainsworth wasn’t tied neatly anymore, it was open
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I hope you liked my little AU story :)