Carlos fiddled with a leaf in his hands as he listened to Cecil talk. Cecil loved to talk. A lot. Carlos closed his eyes as Cecil fingered through his hair barely scraping his scalp. It was mandatory for Cecil to play with his hair whenever possible. Carlos nearly fell asleep to the sultry sound of Cecil's voice until a random chain of thoughts triggered his memory causing his eyes to suddenly open wide.
Cecil took notice of the small twitch from Carlos and looked down with a smile and waited.
"Hey Cecil…" Carlos said stretching his neck up to look his boyfriend in the eyes.
"Yes Carlos." Cecil stated slowly as if savoring the words on his tongue.
"What do you think you'll be doing for thanksgiving this year?"
"Oh you know…"
"No. I actually don't Cecil." Carlos' face scrunched in a small bit of frustration.
"Are you wanting to spend it with me?"
"Well if you didn't have anything planned.. I was wondering if you might want to have thanksgiving with me…maybe?" Carlos gave a smile with too much teeth and not enough cheek and furrowed his eye brows; already wincing for the worst possible out come.
"Well of course! We could make a turkey and have all the traditional food like eel and pie and.."
"Cecil... I meant also with my family"
"Oh.. Well I don't see a reason why we couldn't do that either my darling Carlos." Cecil chuckled and began to start a new topic.
"Wouldn't you want to spend it with your family too though?" Carlos stopped him before he could go any further than opening his mouth.
"…." Cecil turned his face away as it flushed slightly.
"Cecil…?" Carlos noticed he struck a sour note but didn't know what to do. He wasn't exactly good with people.
"I… Don't have any… family. I don't have... anybody." Cecil's eyes watered.
"Now stop that" Carlos sat up and tossed the leaf to the ground. "You have me." He began to hold Cecil. "And you have the interns at the station" Cecil choked a laugh through sniffling. "And you have all of Night Vale… except Steve Carlsberg" Cecil frowned at the name but began smiling after Carlos kissed his cheek. "We're your family. I'm your family."
"I think I know... what I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving" Cecil whispered with a smile. Carlos leaned his head on Cecil's shoulder.
"Me too."