woo another album based book.

kalanthony mainly, with iancorn. i'd split it maybe 60:40 or 55:45 over all.

based off Moving Up Living Down by Eric Hutchinson

Talk is Cheap

"The flight has landed in Sacramento, California. Enjoy your stay."

Anthony grabbed his things and smiled at the flight attendant as he walked out. He saw a girl whose suitcase wheel got stuck on something, and she was struggling to get it out.

He walked over to her, "Need any help?"

She looked up, brushing her hair from her face, "Oh, yes please!"

He smiled at her and gave the suitcase a good tug.

"No!" She frowned, swatting his hands away, "I have valuable clothes in there. Please be careful."

Anthony normally would've rolled his eyes at all the cute girls who are concerned about their outfits all the time, but something was different about this one. He didn't know if it was her teal colored hair, her eyes, or the way she didn't oggle at him like most girls did.

"I know you mean well, but do you know how much of a mess you could make if my clothes went flying all over the room?" She crossed her arms.

He shook his head, grinning, "The wheel is stuck. Nothing in your bag is going to go flying out."

She blinked, "Well, could you please help me get it unstuck?"

Anthony looked at her and held his hand out, "Anthony Padilla."

"Kalel Cullen." She shook his hand, "Nice to meet you."

He pulled his phone out of his pocket and saw several messages from Ian.

running late so sorry

david was held up at his stupid work, hes an asshole, i know

David was held up at his important work where he makes money to satisfy living with Ian and he is most definitely not an asshole.

david sent that last message if you couldnt tell he's being a complete douchenugget and you should know youre lucky to not know him yet

we're stuck in the traffic that david fucking moss didnt warn me about so itll be a good twenty or so minutes til we get there

sorry

blame david when you meet him

"You have a lot of messages…." Kalel noted, "Not that I'm actually reading them, I just saw."

Anthony shrugged, "My friend Ian is running late. He's going off about some David guy he's been dying to introduce me to."

"David?" She grinned, "Ian? You can't mean Ian Hecox and David Moss, can you?"

He frowned and checked his phone, looking for the text with David's last name, "Yeah. What about them?"

"I work with David." She answered, "The local news channel."

Anthony nodded, "How do you know Ian?"

"He's…." She stifled a laugh, "He's a really good friend of Ian's. I'll let Ian introduce you guys. Hang on. David said he'd pick me up from the airport."

Anthony frowned and checked his phone. He had gotten several more messages.

we're also taking this girl from david's work

ps you're going to love david he's awesome

that was also david by the way. i give him my phone for two seconds while i'm driving and he sends that

Anthony looked up at Kalel before texting Ian quickly, if you're driving, maybe you shouldn't be texting

david's doing most of the texting for me because he's the best ever

also, ian is being dangerous and texting during traffic but technically we arent really moving so i guess it's okay?

Anthony pocketed his phone and turned to Kalel, "Still need help with that suitcase?"

Kalel looked relieved, "Yes please."

Ian turned to David, "We're going to have to tell him, you know."

"I know." David put his hands up, "I was the one who came up with the idea. You're the worried one."

"Came up with the idea?" Ian rolled his eyes, "David, Anthony's living with us. He would've found out eventually."

"I know." David repeated, "Why are you telling me all this? It's what I've been saying to you all week."

He shrugged, "Look, you know I love you, right?"

David nodded, "Of course I know that."

"I think we should tone down the couple stuff completely until we tell Anthony." Ian frowned, "Which we'll do after we drop Kalel off."

"Fine." David crossed his arms, "I'll keep my hands to myself."

"I wish you wouldn't."

He leaned across the unzip Ian's pants, "C'mon. We're stuck in traffic. Might as well have fun, right?"

"Where are they?" Kalel frowned, "They've got to be here somewhere."

"Ian said he'd be here in twenty minutes….thirty minutes ago." Anthony sighed.

Anthony saw the all too familiar car drive up. Ian seemed to be yelling at the man in the car with him, and he could barely make out what it was.

"Let go let go let go!" Ian swatted at the other man, "We're here."

Kalel's eyes were wide and Anthony could see she was trying not to laugh.

Ian adjusted something out of Anthony's sight and rolled the window down, "Always room for one more."

"There's two of us." Kalel grinned.

Ian looked at the man, "What do you say, should we let them both in?"

The man looked up at Anthony, "Yeah, we should. It would be the polite thing to do."

"Alright then." Ian sighed, "Both of you, get in. I popped the trunk so you can put your shit in there."

Anthony sat behind the other man so he could talk to Ian more easily.

"Who's your friend, Ian?" Kalel grinned, "You should introduce him to Anthony."

Ian glared at her through the rear view mirror before looking at Anthony, "Well, this is David. He lives with me."

David seemed to be busy wiping his hand on his jeans, "Hey. I'll be properly introduced later. When we're not in the car."

Ian frowned and pulled David aside, "Lunch with Kalel was not on the menu today."

David made a face, "Was that some kind of pun?"

"No." Ian was exhausted, "Look, we'll tell Anthony when we get home, okay? Then you can do whatever you want."

"Whatever I want, huh?" David raised an eyebrow.

"Not….whatever you want-oh, you know what I meant!" He hit David playfully before going to sit with Anthony and Kalel at the only outside table.

As they were waiting for their food to arrive, David grabbed hold of Ian's phone, looking through pictures on it. Ian watched him, smiling, until he opened up the messages.

"Nooooo!" Ian reached for his phone.

David held it above his head, trying to get it out of reach. Ian desperately kept trying to get his phone back, but David was always just a little out of reach until finally, Ian grabbed David's wrist above his head. Their faces were inches apart and he was breathing heavily after freaking out over David reading his messages.

Ian did the only thing he thought necessary. He pulled David down into a kiss. David set Ian's phone on the table and wrapped his arms around him.

"Ha!" Ian grinned, pulling away and grabbing his phone, "I win."

Anthony stared at him, "What the hell just happened?"

Ian frowned, "Shit."

Kalel was grinning.

David shrugged, "Ian, you've got to tell him. He's your friend."

"Yeah, but…." Ian sighed, "If you couldn't tell, David's my boyfriend."

"How long has this been a thing?" Anthony asked.

David and Ian looked at each other.

"Uh…." Ian scratched his chin, "A year and a half almost. When was it….spring break, senior year of college?"

"Senior year college for me." David shrugged, "Junior year for you."

"That." Ian nodded, "It was literally your cheesy spring break romance where we fucked like every night and-"

"Ian," Anthony grinned, "I accept you fully for this, but please, don't go into detail. Even if you were straight, I wouldn't want to hear it."

Ian rolled his eyes, "I'll tell you the story later. It's complicated."

"Ian, we fucked and then I told you I wanted to date you and you said yes." David looked at him, "That's really not that complicated."

Ian crossed his arms, "Way to ruin all my fun."

After lunch, Kalel and Anthony talked while David and Ian were busy with each other. Anthony ended up really liking Kalel, and he couldn't wait to see her again.

She gave him her number before getting out of the car at her house.

"Dude." Ian looked back at Anthony, "You just scored big time."