Tyler's POV

I am going on a date with CESAR KINDERMAN! With just the two of us. Hannah and Tammy are my dorm as I get ready to for it. 

"What about this?" I lift up. Both of them shook their heads. 

"Why are you freaking out so much you guys are already in a relationship." 

"But this is our first date and we haven't like spent romantic time alone like that so i'm freaking out." 

"Have you guys even like kissed yet?" I nearly choke on my spit. 

"NO!?" Tammy and Hannah said in shock. "How is that possible?!"  

God help me. 

"You are going to be fine! You have had your first kiss right?" I bury my face in my hands. 

I am doomed. 

Hannah looks at Tammy for confirmation. Tammy shakes her head. 

"WAIT!!! SERIOUSLY!? You have had boyfriends right?" 

"Yeah but we would never get THAT far." 

"I should have asked your for experience in dating. Now we got to push everything into an hour!" Hannah says. "Come on Tammy!"After an hour of extensive dating advice I feel more nervous than before. I open the door and find Cesar smiling. He waves at me. 

"Are you ready?" I nod. We go out on in the city with his hand in mine. Our fingers are intertwined in each others. "We are going to an event that I actually wanted go to." 

"What is it?" We  went into this club with like a lot of people. Like over 300 people. What the heck did he bring me too. 

We get a piece of paper with lyrics on it. I look at him terrible confused. He walks in me in to the middle of the crowd. There was a stage with musician's. I look at him. Am I at a concert?

"Who is singing?" He looks at me and smiles. He whispers in my ear.

"We are."

https://youtu.be/fQhj_aKQkBY

  What!? We start the learning portion of the song. It was so cool seeing children and people who are signing too. Cesar is even signing and singing simultaneously. 

There is something so wonderful about singing with a group of people. The uniformity makes me feel like that there is hope for the world. 

When the song ends everyone is cheering and i am over the moon excited. I think that everyone's vibes are making feel a little more excited than usual. Cesar holds me in his arms as he cheers and claps with the audience. 

I have now officially have known Cesar for a less a little less than 3 years. He is so different than when i first met him. He is still shy but he willing to get out of comfort zone more and try new things. He is a lot more vulnerable with me. 

I wonder what made him change so much?

We end up eating out for dinner.

"My family wants you to come back as often as you can." He says as he takes a bite from his appetizer. 

"Your family is so loving. It's almost overwhelming."

"That's usually how it is. Both of my parents came from broken families. My mother having it the worse. She always over compensates. "

"Does your mom still talk to her parents?

"My mom's dad died when she was young. She had a step dad who was terrible to her and her mom went to his every will. She doesn't talk to her much. I only talked to my grandmother a handful of times. But my aunts come every now and then whenever they can. They have their own lives so..." 

"I see..." 

"But  My mom wants you to come back... Every time I call her she always asks how you are."

"She is really sweet." Cesar plays with his water. Then something changes. It was like he changed the way he was looking at me. Like....He wanted me to be his... I knew it because when he looked at me. My heart fluttered. 

"Stop looking at me like that."  I say shyly. 

He pulls me closer in the booth and kisses my ear and cheek, "Like what?" he whispers softly.

Him kissing my ear was enough to make my toes curl. Uncontrollably I place my hand on his thigh and squeeze it tightly. He chuckles in my ear,  "You like it that much?" He places my hair behind my shoulder exposing my neck and collar. He takes one of his hands and puts it on the other side of my neck as he brings it closer to his mouth. 

I want to call out to him. I grab his leg tighter. He kisses me from my collar bone to my ear and back down again. I pull away from him so I could cup his face with my hands and kiss him on his lips. He takes my hands off of him and pulls me in closer to him as he deepens the kiss. 

My heart wasn't ready for that it felt like it skipped a beat or two. With his weight slides my body against the wall of the booth I play my hands around the back of his neck as his hands slide up my thighs. He pauses from kissing me to see my facial reactions to his touch.  

Then we hear someone clear their throat. Immediately Cesar jumps off of me and sit back up a waitress stands in front of me, "I take it you are ready for the check?" 

I turn away from the waitress, I can feel my face turning bright red.

Cesar clears his throat, "Yeah thank you." 

The waitress smirks, "You two have a good night." 

Cesar slides beside me again to see my face we slowly start chuckling. Never in our lives did i think the two of us would have done something like this. 

We  end the night walking around Central Park talking and just being in each other's arms. Cesar Kinderman is absolutely everything I wanted in a best friend. Someone who is patient, understanding, and goes out of his way to make me feel comfortable in any environment. Its crazy to think that we met because of wrong turn on campus. But I don't think about it that much because the idea of never knowing him is just too painful to think about. I knew the moment I first saw him he was something special. He might not have seen it in himself yet but i will always cherish my time with him. 

We both get into the car and Cesar sit there and looks at me. I look at him confused, "What's wrong?" 

"I don't want you to go home tonight."  He responds back. 

My heart starts to pound, "We can't go to your place Asher is there with Hannah. " I respond. 

"Hotel?"  His ears are turning red. Immediately I look down at my hands. He grabs them into his, "I'm not asking you to have sex with me. I just want to spend more time with you." He finally says. "I'm not ready for this to end. Unless you are ready to go home." 

I finally look up at him, I can tell he is worried I misunderstood something. "I understand. I'm not really for this to end either. But we don't have clothes or anything..."  

"Say less." He starts the car and drives off, No idea as to what he is planning he takes us to the nearest hotel a nice average one. We check in and head to the nearest Walmart and grab basic necessities. Something to sleep in, some food for breakfast, things like that. We are scurrying to whole store like idiots running through aisles so we can get back as soon as possible. We even picked up some wine on the way. 

We finally got to the hotel room. I took a shower and see a freshly showered Cesar in his pajamas. I was only wrapped in a towel. 

"I forgot my clothes." I say quickly. He nods and hands them to me. I scurry back to bathroom to get dressed. 

I finally get out and sit on the bed with him as he was on the phone. "Thanks, Can you tell Tammy that Tyler won't be back till the morning. Thanks." 

"All good?" I say as I sit beside him. He nods. He grabs me into a hug and lays me beside him under the covers. 

"We are going to be late for our classes in the morning." He says as we chuckled. 

"Missing one day of class won't kill us." 

"Thank you." 

"Why are you thanking me?" 

"For saying yes. I promise to make you happy." 

"I promise to make you happy too." He goes in for a deep slow kiss. He cups the side on my face as I rested my hands on his chest. I start to straddle him while kissing him gripping his hair on the nape of his neck. 

"You know I said we don't need to have sex right -" i place my lips gently against his lips. He stops. 

"I know... I just.. i dunno."  She rolls over to the side as we spoon each other. We both relax as Cesar pulls me in close to him, "You know I have never done this with anyone else."  

" Going on dates?" 

"Spending the night with someone." 

"Wait seriously?" 

"What did you expect? That I was this cassanova bringing girls to hotels all the time?" 

"No, Its just you are attractive and talented... Many people would be interested in you."  

"Its not them... It's me." 

"You?" 

" I don't find a lot of people worth being around... For one reason or another. Most of my past relationships never went past making out." 

"I have been meaning to ask you this but why me? What do you find interesting about me that you decided that I was worth keeping?"  He pauses for a moment as he pulls me in close to him. He kisses me softly. 

"You are my comfort. You make me feel safe." I can feel his chest pounding  against my skin. " I feel like when i'm around you, i don't have to play it up. If i don't feel like talking We both fall fast asleep until the next day.  You wouldn't press me on it. Though more often than not, I always want to talk to you. " He sighs deeply, "I love how brave you are and you give me strength everyday." 

"I'm not that brave." 

"Are you kidding me?! Socializing, meeting new people, having to deal with the bull shit people throw your way... You are so brave more than what you give yourself credit for." 

"Well you wanna know why I like you?" 

He smiles, "Why?" 

"Your determination, your love for your family even though at times you feel like you don't fit in. Your constant need to want to mend and make relationship whole. For just honestly being you. For not making me feel like a freak just because I can't speak." Tears fall down my face his face softens as he rest his hand on the side of my face. His thumb tenderly rubs against my cheek. "I remember seeing you at the talent show freshman year and thought that you were so captivating. My next thought after was he would never be with a girl like me. So why bother even thinking about it. I thought you were like every guy that I have came across. That day when I saw you enter into my classroom and the way you looked at me when my professor was talking to you. I felt like maybe there a chance. That maybe I would be wrong." 

He begins to sign, he took a moment to process what he wanted to say, "I was caught by your professor because I stopped to look at you." My heart starts pounding again. "I was so mesmerized by you I couldn't look away. I think about that day a lot. Its scary to think that it happened because I got lost and couldn't find my class." 

"I told my parents about us..." 

"Yeah?"

I laugh embarrassingly, " Apparently they said that it was about time. They had known about you since freshman year. I wouldn't stop talking about you."

"You should invite them to spend the holidays with us. My family would love them." 

"I just..." 

He looks at me concerned, "Whats wrong?" 

"I just thought that Nathan would really like your family... And I know he would have loved you too." He pulls me in tight and kisses me on my head and whispers, "Estoy seguro de que lo habría amado también. (I'm sure I would have loved him also.)"

We both sleep in each other's arms for the rest of the night.