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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:44 pm
"Scared," Rodney admitted, the words trembling. He knew he was going to be in trouble. The longer he took to get back, the worse it was going to be.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:49 pm
Lawrence edged a little closer still to Rodney. "What are you scared of?" he asked gently, going as far as to reach out to pet Rodney, the way he might a frightened animal. "I'm not scared."
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:57 pm
"Being in trouble," he said, as if talking too much would get him in trouble too, but he couldn't let Larry's concern go unanswered.
Larry moved so slowly that he didn't flinch away. He stopped trembling.
"For being here. And for losing my clothes."
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:00 pm
"Who'll give you into trouble. Is anyone even here? Maybe you didn't lose them, maybe they got stolen." He looked down at himself. "I had on my favourite pjs, they were mint, its all really shady."
He kept petting Rodney affectionately. "We just won't get caught to get in trouble. We'll sneak away, we'll be like cowboys, we won't need anyone."
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:06 pm
"They take you back," Rodney said.
He lowered the sheet slightly. It was a regular room. He didn't think they would make it. They always found you. And then it was so, so much worse.
Maybe they'd gotten tired of him.
Maybe they'd sold him, like Joseph.
He looked a long time at the door.
"Is it locked?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:11 pm
Lawrence shook his head. "They won't." he said. "No one will get us." He found himself feeling liberated rather than afraid at the idea of getting away from Leif and his father for ever. He didn't have the capacity to feel bad about never seeing Lars or his mother again.
He eyed the door, there was a sliding bolt on it on their side which was closed.
"I think it's locked from in here." he said, looking suspicious. "I don't remember locking it, but maybe we did? It's dead weird."
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:05 am
Rodney shook his head again. He'd gone to sleep. He'd been where he was supposed to. He wouldn't have been disobedient.
But it left the same problem.
Looking a little braver, he gathered up the sheets around him, then dangled his legs over the side of the bed. He slid off carefully. There was more than one door in the room, and he went to one of these, pulling the sliding shutter to reveal. closet. Inside was a mix of clothes in varying colors, pressed brand shirts, and perfectly white silk. He touched the sleeve of a suit, exploring it like a very timid rabbit.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:57 am
Lawrence was left without sheets, looking alarmed as Rodney got them on the floor as he went to explore the room, he didn't like mess but the floor was clean and carpeted without so much of a smudge on it.
"Wow." he said at the sight of the closet past the other boy. "I've never seen anything like that before." His house had had nowhere near the space for clothes to be hung up, the wardrobe had been for his parents use and everything else had been drawers. "Whoever lives here must be rich."
The room fit everything he could imagine about wealth and order. "Is that a bathroom?" he asked, pointing at another door, slightly ajar which led to an en suite. "A bathroom in a bedroom!!"
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:02 am
Rodney followed Larry quietly, peeking over his shoulder at the cleanly laid tile.
Would anyone mind if they took a shower, or borrowed some clothes?
"Are there pictures?" He asked. "Of the people who live here."
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:10 am
"Maybe? We should look." And he was back out of the fancy bathroom, wandering across the room to investigate. The paintings and art on the walls weren't of people but on the bedside table there was a photo in a large frame. It had four people in it, dressed up for some kind of event, two of them were older, all of them had light hair.
One of them looked like his dad.
"Uh." he said. "I think this might be them? They look like us? This one looks like me, but not." And he pointed to Mikael, holding the frame up.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:21 am
"Are...they gay?" He asked, in an even more hushed voice. They looked nice otherwise, like a normal family.
There was a faint call from the hall, that sounded like Mom?
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 12:15 pm
It hadn’t even occurred to the blonde boy that it was possible to interpret such a thing from the image he was holding. The world he came from was a lot less open and a great deal more hostile towards anything so much as bordering on unconventional relationships. Still, maybe here it was different, maybe this was okay. His dad would hate it; he’d be so mad at even the idea of two men living happily together. “I think so.” Lawrence said, touching the picture. “And no one’s stopped them and they have a big nice house.” It didn’t make any sense.
He heard the voices outside and glanced at the locked door. “Do you think it’s someone from the photo?” he asked Rodney. “Should we see? Will they pass by?”
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 6:21 pm
Rodney reddened, and went back to the closet, plucking a few items from their hangers before handing Larry one of the softest shirts and a pair of white beach khakis. They had a drawstring. On a taller man, they might have stopped at the calf.
He knew stealing was wrong, but not having clothes on was...more wrong.
He was in trouble anyway. He was going to be in trouble for everything.
Rodney looked anxiously at the door as whoever it was called for "Mom" again.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:08 am
Lawrence got dressed in the luxuriant clothes, more fancy than anything he'd ever worn before. They fitted surprisingly well other than the fact that on him they were pretty tight about the belly and shoulders. He felt a bit self concious in them, remembering Leif's insults rather acutely.
"We'll just borrow them." he said. "I'm sure they won't mind."
He wondered if you could catch gay like his dad said.
--
Mik paused, looking at the closed door on the landing. "Did you hear someone?" he said, sure he heard voices.
He moved over to bang on the locked door with his fist.
"Hey! We are lost, who's in there??"
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:19 am
Rodney took a sweater for himself, feeling out of place without any shoes.
He started at the banging, leaping to hide behind Larry.
The voices sounded about their age.
--
Malkam didn't know what to expect, but he thought that at the very least, it couldn't get any weirder.
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