Kai, Tala, and Ray sat in the living room watching TV. Kai was on the couch, Tala on the armchair, and Ray was laying on the floor. They could hear the sound of the other three boys in the kitchen, and dining room, getting their food and sitting down to eat and talk. In the living room there was no talking, and it was a little awkward, though. Tala had apparently been bugging Ray more about his sleep while Kai had been gone. Kai had heard a comment about it come from Tala just before he walked in the room and saw Tala grinning and Ray red in the face. Kai and Ray still hadn't talked about what had happened that night, or when they woke up, and Kai defiantly didn't want to talk about it while Tala was around to bug them. So they stayed silent, Tala too scared to start a conversation feeling the slight annoyance coming from the two boys.
Soon they could hear the sound of clanking dishes coming from the kitchen again, and knew that the other boys were now cleaning up after eating. When the sound of dishes stopped the voices died away, and Kai let out a sigh. It seemed like Bryan wouldn't be coming to talk to Tala just yet. But he was proven wrong when Bryan walked into the living room a second later. Kai, Ray, and Tala looked over to him from where they were staring at the TV, and he seemed to freeze a little. When he didn't say anything, and just continued to stand there, Kai spoke up. "What do you want?" he asked Bryan. This seemed to jerk him back to his senses because he blinked a few times and looked over at Kai, and then at Tala.
"I need to talk to you," he said, looking him in the eyes.
"About what?" Tala asked hesitantly, biting his lip a little.
"I just need to talk to you," Bryan told him, a slight annoyance in his voice. "Come with me." Tala sat there frozen, staring at him for a few second before looking over at Kai. Kai just nodded and turned his attention back to the TV. Tala uncurled himself from the ball he'd been sitting in on the arm chair, and stood up, Ray watching as he walked over to Bryan and they left the room.
Ray continued to look out of the door where Tala and Bryan had disappeared while Kai kept his attention on the TV. Ray waited a few seconds before moving so he could look at Kai. "Did you say something to Bryan?" he asked him, looking at him suspiciously. Kai shrugged.
"Maybe," he told him. "Maybe I did to help him with his problem since he helped me with mine."
"What was your problem?" Ray asked, although he was pretty sure he already knew what it was. He moved so his back was against the couch, and he was sitting by Kai's head, looking at him.
"You being mad at me for things that weren't true," he told him, looking away from the TV and at him now.
"What if I'm actually still mad at you?" he asked. "Then you did it for no reason." Kai gave a little chuckle.
"No, then I did it because he's my best friend and I want him to be happy," he told him. "And if you're still mad at me I think you should just sleep on the couch the rest of the time you're here, so what happened when we woke up this morning doesn't happen again." Ray blushed, looking away from Kai.
"Well it's a good thing I'm not still mad at you than, because I don't really want to sleep on the couch," he told him, and then mumbled. "And I liked how we woke up this morning."
Kai's couldn't help but smile at what Ray mumbled. It was defiantly awkward that morning, waking up like they did, and Kai had been doubting that Ray was having a good reaction to it after he'd found his room empty without Ray really saying anything to him before he left. "That's good, because I liked it too and was a little afraid it wouldn't happen again," he told him, sliding down the couch a little so his head was even closer to Ray. Ray looked up at him, flinching away a little surprised at how close Kai's face had gotten but he moved back quickly, and then even a little closer.
"Why did you think it wouldn't happen again?" he asked, turning so he was facing Kai more.
"Because we didn't really...well it was kind of awkward when we woke up," he reminded him.
"I guess that's true," Ray said as he moved closer to Kai, so that Kai shivered a little when his breath touched his face.
"Ray," Kai practically whispered. "You know I really like you, right? And that I'd never be able to like Tala the way I like you, because I can only think of him as a friend?"
"I know that now," Ray said quietly back, closing the gap between their lips.
The two boys looked up when they heard footsteps coming into the living room a few minutes later. They say Tala standing in the door way, alone, but with a smile on that went from ear to ear. He looked at Kai and Ray who were sitting on the couch together, Kai with his arms around Ray's waist while he sat in his lap leaning against him. Tala didn't seem to find anything strange about this though, because he just walked back over to his armchair, sitting down and taking a few deep breaths. Kai and Ray watched him, waiting for him to talk first. He looked up at them, his smile still on, although slightly smaller now. "Bryan apologized to me for being a jerk, and he told me that he really liked me! And he asked if I'd date him! And I said yes, of course!" Tala told them happily, before adding, "And I also see you two have gotten closer," with a smirk. Kai and Ray just smiled at his comment, ignoring the smirk. "I just don't know what got into Bryan. He was completely nice about it the whole time too. Usually he can't go for more than a few seconds before getting angry," he told them.
"Kai talked to him for you," Ray told him. Tala went a little wide-eyed.
"You really got him to talk to you about it?" he asked Kai.
"Well, he kind of brought it up himself," Kai told him. Tala's smile grew wide again.
"I'd hug you right now if you weren't busy holding your boyfriend," he told him. A light blush crossed Kai's face, and Ray laughed.
"I could move for you," he told him. Tala shook his head and brought his feet up, making himself into a comfortable ball again to watch TV.
Dinner that night was the first meal all six boys could eat together. Ray had cooked for them all again, Kai protesting up until Ray was halfway done cooking and then deciding he might as well help him if he wasn't going to listen. Kai set the table while Ray dished out the food. Tala had left them earlier, after one show on the TV, to go downstairs and train with Bryan, Spencer, and Ian, and hadn't come back at all since. Kai finished putting the cutlery on the table, and then helped to put the plates of food out just as everyone was starting to come upstairs. That's when Kai noticed a problem. There were only enough chairs at the table for five people. They'd never had more than that eating at one time because they'd never had any guests over, Kai was even a little surprised that the group had decided to keep his space at the table after so long. Kai put the last plate that would fit on the table down, thinking for a moment. Then he turned and took the plate Ray was bringing over out of his hands and brought it over to the counter. He was glad they had a place with barstools in the kitchen where people could eat. "Kai, what are you doing?" Ray asked staring at him with crossed arms. Kai turned around on the stool to face him.
"There isn't enough room in there for everyone," he told him plainly. Ray turned and looked at the table Kai was looking, where the other boys were now seated.
Ian was poking at his food with a fork averting his eyes from Bryan and Tala, who were sitting together both looking happy and Tala laughing for some reason, and occasionally glancing up at Spencer, who wasn't paying attention to anyone or anything. Ian looked away from Spencer and over towards Ray. When he noticed Ray, and even Kai, had been looking at him he turned a slight pink and stared down at his food. Ray let out a little sigh and picked up the plate at the only empty spot left at the table. "What, you don't want to sit with us?" Bryan asked, sounding slightly annoy.
"I just don't want Kai eating alone," he told him, turning and putting his plate down at the place beside Kai's. Bryan and Ian watched the two of them for a few seconds before Bryan went back to paying attention to Tala, and Ian went back to glancing at everyone else.
After dinner Spencer, Bryan, and Tala took the task of cleaning everything up. Kai stuck around the kitchen, sitting on his stool and talking to the boys while Ray and Ian disappeared together. No one seemed to notice them leave though, and by the time the dishes were done they were back, so no one really had any time to notice. Tala took the last glass out of the sink and handed to Bryan to dry, than he dried his hands off and turned to the other three boys. "We should watch a movie," he said. Everyone agreed to this idea. He smiled and went over to the other side of the counter, grabbing Kai's wrist. "Come on, let's go pick one!" he said excitedly, dragging Kai out of the kitchen and leaving everyone else behind.
Tala dragged Kai into the living room and over to the movie self. He let go of his wrist and scanned the movies quickly before pulling one out and showing it to Kai. "What if the others don't want to watch it?" he asked him. Tala shrugged.
"They didn't follow us to help pick one, so they don't have a choice now," he told him, sticking a James Bond movie into the DVD player and setting it up so it was ready to play when everyone got there. Kai let out a sigh turning to go to the couch to sit down, but after a few steps he felt a tug on his wrist again. He turned and gave Tala a questioning look. "Where are you going?" Tala asked. "We always sit on the armchair when we watch movies."
"Why don't you get Bryan to sit with you?" Kai asked him.
"Because you always sit with me," he reminded him.
"What if I want to sit with Ray this time?" he asked.
"But we always sit together during movies," he repeated.
"That's because we only have enough seats for four people, but if you sit with Bryan and I sit with Ray than there will be enough room," Kai told him.
"I want to sit with you though. I always sit with you," Tala told him with a frown. Kai took a deep breath and let out s sigh.
"Fine," he said grabbing the DVD controller and sitting down on the armchair, Tala smiling, sitting sideways on his lap, and leaning back on the armrest.
Ray, Bryan, Ian, and Spencer walked into the room a few seconds later, Spencer, Ian, and Bryan glancing at Kai and Tala for a few seconds, and then going over to sit on the couch as Kai hit play. Ray, however, continued to stare at Kai and Tala in confusion. "They always sit like that during movies," Bryan informed Ray after no one else seemed to want to give him an explanation.
"Doesn't it...make you mad?" Ray asked him cautiously, not really wanting to set him off.
"It use to, but after today it'll probably just annoy me," Bryan told him, saying the last two words a little loudly. Tala looked over at him and stuck his tongue out, grinning after. Bryan let out an annoyed sigh.
"Just ignore them and come sit down, there's room," Spencer told Ray.
"Where?" Ray asked him, and Spencer picked up Ian with what looked like a lot of ease.
"Hey! Put me down! What the hell are you doing?" Ian yelled.
"Shut up," Spencer said, placing the boy in his lap. Ian blushed and went quiet instantly. Ray went and sat down in Ian's former spot, giving him a slight smirk. Ian glared at him quickly, and then went back to watching the movie.