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 Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:27 pm
"Last present, I guess," Harrison said, crawling back onto their bed to open Cass's sizeable box.
"From Cass," he said, reading the card.
Inside, to Harrison's amazement, were stacks and stacks of twinkie boxes.
"Sh...she must have paid a ******** fortune." He picked them up, heavy and still-sealed, before cracking open a box excitedly. He liberated a golden cake, passing it under his nose like an expensive cigarette.
"I...I never thought I'd see one again," he said, getting choked up.
With great reverence, he distributed one to each of the guys, and set the rest of the box carefully on the floor.
"Don't let anybody else know we got these," It was a good haul. "This is definitely ******** better than last Christmas." Which he'd spent nursing a Joy-induced hangover. He folded back the plastic, and bit into the twinkie. It was better than he remembered, soft and sugary with that savory baked edge that always left him wanting another bite.
"Mmmn," was his only blissful commentary on the subject.
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:34 pm
Jordan reclaimed his spot on the bed to watch Harrison open the last big box; his eyebrows went up when he recognized the boxes inside. "Damn," he said. "She really went all out on that. That'll last a while." He accepted the Twinkie that Harrison handed him and peeled the wrapper open, nibbling the cake like it was a delicacy.
Once they'd finished the Twinkies, he took a deep breath. "Not quite the last one," he said, and retrieved the small box he'd saved for last, setting it on the bed between Rep and Harrison.
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:40 pm
Rep wasn't sure he could hold any more happiness. He felt like there was a vague danger of him bursting into contented tears as he was handed a twinkie, he had no point of comparison, he'd never been spoiled this much in his life, surrounded by so many nuanced and thoughtful gestures of friendship and love. He was feeling especially sappy and colliding that with his deep and overwhelming love of sugary things was almost unfair. He tucked in, with a very similar approving hum as he finished it off in a few bites.
"So ******** good."
Jordan got a slow baffled blink. "More?", he said incredulously. "Like we aren't spoiled enough." He laughed with an edge of giddiness. "Best day ever."
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:55 pm
Harrison licked the last pasty cream and gooey crumbs off the packaging.
"Something else?" he echoed, sucking his thumbtip clean too.
Harrison, too, felt deliriously happy, not sure if it was the Joy or everything in combination. The bed was just the right kind of soft, the room was just the right shade of Christmas, and he wasn't alone.
B0nez mostly wanted Harrison to stop getting distracted and go bask in the laptop's startup menu.
"Who's it for?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:00 pm
"All of us." Jordan took the lid off the small white box, revealing three rings inside. He took a quick breath and continued, "I mean, it's not a proposal or anything, but I wanted to have, like, something to show that I really mean this, that it's not just messing around or something. So you guys know and so other people know." He looked up at them, trying to keep his nerves in check. "I, uh. Guessed at sizes. I hope I wasn't wrong."
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:08 pm
Rep wasn't sure what he was expecting, every gift thus far had met and then exceeded whatever expectations he had, and he figured whatever Jordan had been withholding would be no different. When the box was opened though, he froze, eyeing the three rings in an instant of numb delight. He didn't know how to react, so didn't right away, giving himself time to process it.
Matching rings said one very clear thing to him, but that ran contrary to the signals Jordan was giving him. Not a proposal.
"Why not?" he asked flippantly, grinning. Today was apparently a day for speaking out loud before he had time to run the comment past his better judgement.
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:10 pm
Oh.
Harrison's heart skipped a beat.
I mean, they'd talked about it. Some. Idly, and were...buying furniture together and all. So it wasn't like it hadn't crossed his mind, but-
Jordan clarified quickly.
Oh.
So like. A commitment ring, kind of thing. And it made sense, folks assumed all the time that since there were three of them, they must fool around all the time, that adding a fourth or fifth wouldn't be any big deal. Like three meant fidelity was out the window.
But it was a discussion they'd all had a long time ago. Almost a year, in the spring.
Harrison picked up the ring. For a second, he thought it looked a little like a twinkie, and had the good sense not to share that thought out loud. He tried it on, and it fit snugly around his finger.
"Fits," he said, sliding it off to admire it again. "It's got gold and silver. Like the Sun and Moon." He smiled softly. "Like two suns."
Rep asked a question, and it took him a second to process what he was asking. He opened his mouth, started to speak. Lost his nerve. He looked at Jordan instead.
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:20 pm
"Two suns and a moon," Jordan agreed, his nervous smile relaxing a little. Rep's question made him freeze, though, and he turned a little to look at Rep, then at Harrison. "I'm - I guess it's not that much different," he said. "I mean. Still comes down to, I don't want anyone else. Just you guys."
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:30 pm
The grin had frozen the moment Rep opened his mouth and his brain registered what exactly he was saying, immediately guilty for putting Jordan on the spot the way he had. He had let his attention flick to Harrison and the way the other man seemed to have stopped in his tracks made his stomach twist. He was suddenly acutely anxious that he'd finally tried to push things too far and had said the entirely wrong thing and spoiled something else.
Only when Jordan spoke again did he even remember to breathe. "I like. I didn't mean to. Sound like this.. wasn't enough like." He stammered and tripped over his words, setting his jaw and resolutely putting his own ring on his finger as a distraction from the sudden onset of nerves. It fitted.
He kept his eyes locked on it as he said. "I was just. I don't want like. Anyone else either. So I was just. I. I mean."
He cleared his throat.
"I would say aye if it was, is all."
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:52 pm
"We've been through a lot. So like. Sometimes it feels like we..." He paused, still holding the ring. "...like we already are."
He looked at Rep meaningfully at the aye.
"I can't...I can't picture s**t without you guys. And I've said my piece before, and we're- we're together. No matter what happens. So. I don't know. If there's like, if there's some kind of commitment that's still got to be made. Sickness and health, rich or poor, until death. I've already made it. So. Something formal. ...I guess I'd like that."
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 4:00 pm
Jordan smiled a little. "Then, well - " he had to pause and take a breath, "wanna get married?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 4:14 pm
Rep twirled the ring on his finger, feeling his confidence ebbing back from wherever it had slunk off to in those moments where he'd almost regretted opening his mouth. Now though, he was glad he had, they were on the same page. It was hard to process, he had never considered at any point in his life he'd find himself in this position, let alone with two guys. But it fit. His life was unpredictable, fraught with obstacles and unexpected delights. Highs and lows, twists and turns. He was okay with it, it no longer scared him. Wherever s**t took him, he wanted it to be in company.
His smile was one of those rare, honest ones people seldom got to see, unguarded slightly mischievous delight.
"Aye, ah dae." he said.
Just like he said he would.
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:53 pm
"Yeah," Harrison said, "...Yes. I love both of you. I'd be...it'd make me real happy, being beside you."
Normally Harrison would have needed the time to think on it, especially broaching something so serious. But it was already serious.
He carefully and deliberately replaced the ring, then returned the smile.
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 6:59 am
A huge, giddy smile stretched across Jordan's face, and he slipped his ring carefully on, then moved to pull both of them into a hug. "I love you," he said simply.
After a moment, he added, voice full of half-suppressed amusement, "Ferros says to be sure you guys know he made a special exception to his rules about not wearing rings besides him. Just for you."
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:24 am
Rep leaned into the collective hug, happier than words could really begin to say, though he tried, even despite his usual hesitancies to at least fit words around it. "Mhhm. And I love you bastards too. A whole ******** lot." To anyone else the tone might have sounded flippant, but he figured they knew him well enough to spot the solemn honesty in his words.
Jordan's comment on Ferros made him grin. "Thank you Ferros." he purred in a sing-song sort of way. "Tracey's less fussy, he said as long as I wasn't putting it in his ear, we are good."
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