"Noooo!" Ted screamed as he ran away from the giant marshmallow chased him around in circles. He had entered the store looking for Fruity Pebbles goodness but then had run into a giant evil marshmallow that was looking to steal his soul before he ever got to his precious cereal. "Go away! Go away go away!" He grabbed a random box off the shelf and chucked it at the evil marshmallow. The box simply bounced off it's fat puffy body and it laughed at his attempt to hurt it.
"Mallow hungry!" the thing exclaimed as it opened its jaws real wide. "Mallow eat you!" It lunged forward, just milimeters away from swallowing him whole.
"NOOOOOO!" Ted screamed as he woke up so violently he fell off the bed. He looked around wildly, expecting to see the marshmallow there trying to eat him. Thankfully though, it wasn't there. He let out a huge sigh of relief. That marshmallow thing was the last thing he had wanted to deal with. It had been pure evil and didn't deserve to exist at all.
He got himself untangled from his blankets and tossed them back up on the bed before getting up himself. He was about to get back into bed himself when his phone went off. "Ugh…" He grabbed it and answered it, although he did come close to just ignoring the call. "Hello?"
"Yo it's me." The "me" was James and he sounded wide awake, which just baffled Ted given what time it was.
"What do you want?" he asked as he barely stifled a yawn.
"I need help sneaking into Shawn and John's wedding."
"…You weren't invited?" Ted laid down on the bed and let his eyes slip close. Hopefully he could get back to sleep without having anymore nightmares like the one he had just had.
"No." James sounded way beyond miffed about that fact. "I wasn't. And it's not fair Teddy. I want to get into that wedding."
"You want me to talk to Shawn?" Ted's voice was starting to get all light and drifty because he really was drifting off to sleep.
"No. I need you to help me sneak into the damn wedding," James said impatiently. "Weren't you just listening?"
"Oh. Sorry." Ted didn't actually mean it. He was just talking and not really even listening to what was coming out of his mouth. "I'll help you then."
"You will?" James sounded kind of surprised. He had been expecting more of a fight really.
"Mhm. Just let me go sleepy bye." In the very very back of Ted's mind he knew that he was probably going to regret this later but at the moment he really didn't care. If agreeing to this would make it so James left him alone so he could go back to sleep then he would do it.
"Fine. Go sleepy bye and I'll talk to you later."
"Mmm…" Ted hung up without any other warning and tossed the phone aside. He rolled over on to his side and curled up into the fetal position, completely passed out once more in a matter of a couple of seconds.
….
Randy looked back and forth between Cody and the cop, who was obviously a young rookie and was just as embarrassed as he and Cody were about this whole situation. If he himself wasn't so mortified by the situation he would have busted up laughing over the look on the other two's faces. "Um…Officer we really are sorry about this," he finally said. He figured an apology was a good way to start off this conversation. He was looking for him and Cody to avoid getting in any major trouble at all costs.
"Yeah," Cody quickly agreed. His face was more red than some tomatoes could ever hope to get. "We really are. We were just on a date and um…well things just kind of went uh…"
"Yeah, I get the picture," the cop said quickly. "I do…" A long awkward silence followed that statement. "Look, I was looking to break-up teenagers that were doing this," the cop confessed, his eyes darting back and forth between Cody and Randy nervously. "Or teenagers like drinking and smoking pot. But you're um…you're not teenagers."
"No," Randy confirmed. "We're not."
"You don't have any pot do you?"
"Of course not," Cody quickly assured him. Like they would tell him anything else.
"Okay…look, this is awkward and I'll just give you a warning and then we'll go our separate ways. Does that sound fair to you?"
"Yes Officer," Randy and Cody said at the same time. Randy didn't know whether the guy really embarrassed about finding two grown ups up here or it was because it was to grown males…either way, it wasn't working against them so they were going to go with it.
"Thank you!" Cody said as they got back in the car and drove off. For a few minutes they sat in silence, Cody still blushing and fiddling with the radio and Randy just staring straight ahead, biting on his lower lip and eventually busting up laughing because he couldn't take the awkward silence anymore.
"I'm glad you find it so funny," Cody said as Randy laughed away, tears springing up behind his eyes he was laughing so hard.
"Oh come on, it's funny!" Randy said as he gasped for breath.
"It's not funny."
"Yes it is!"
"We were busted by a cop. How was that funny?"
"Because we were busted by a twitchy rookie that obviously didn't know whether to scold us or ask to join in."
Cody's face twitched. "He was not looking to ask to join in."
"I'm pretty sure he popped a boner when he caught us."
"I'm pretty sure you're just being a crude bitch because we got off with a warning."
"A crude bitch? Is that what you think of me?"
"Maybe. But if I do, you're my crude bitch so it's okay." Cody leaned over and gave Randy a kiss on the cheek. "Let's just never get caught by a cop again. That was about as bad as being caught by our parents."
"But not worse than being caught by our friends," Randy pointed out.
Cody paled at that. "Oh God. We can NOT tell them about this. They'll never shut the fuck up about it."
Randy nodded in agreement. As funny as the cop thing was, their friends finding out about it would be beyond not good or funny. The tormenting would never ever stop if this incident became known to them. "We take this to our grave," he declared with a nod. "That sound good to you?"
Cody blinked and slowly shook his head. "Well…I would have gone with a saying that was a little less dire but okay. We take it to the grave."
"And if anyone else finds out about it, we kill them before they tell Ted."
"And if Ted's the one that finds out?"
"Well then we kill him. Swift justice, Orton and Rhodes style."
Cody snorted and rolled his eyes at that. That was so corny and bad that he almost didn't believe it came out of Randy's mouth.
Randy noticed that reaction and shook his head. "You didn't like that?"
Cody shook his head. "That was bad. Like worse than what Ted wanted to call his Marine movie."
"What did he want to call that?"
"The Marine 2: Let Me Show You How It's Done Bitches."
That was followed by a very very long silence before Randy had to literally pull the car over so they could laugh until they cried and not wreck in the process.
…
"Jeff, for the last time, I'm NOT changing my mind about this," Shawn said for what felt like the hundredth time in the past half hour. Jeff was trying to plead James's case to get invited to the wedding but Shawn wasn't buying into any of it. He had too many bad James experiences to even consider having him at the wedding.
"But he'll be good!" Jeff insisted, like Shawn would actually believe that one for a second. "He will. Mark and I will make sure of it."
"No."
"But Shawn-"
"Jeff are you forgetting this is my wedding?" Shawn folded his arms across his chest and shook his head slowly. "And that I don't have to invite anyone that I don't want to?"
Jeff sighed and put his hands on his hips and pouted his lips. He hadn't forgotten that but he wasn't letting facts like that discourage him. "Please?"
"No."
"Pretty please with sugar on top?"
"No."
"Please-"
"NO!"
"You suck!" Jeff declared, stomping his foot and turning his head away in a show of anger. Now normally he was used to getting his way when he did that but Shawn wasn't going for it like a good boy. He was a prima donna himself so he was immune to Jeff's ways.
"Yes I do," he admitted proudly. "And I do it quite well if I may add." He chuckled at the look on Jeff's face and patted his shoulder. "I love you man but keep Lawson away from my wedding. Okay?"
Jeff sighed and reluctantly nodded. "Fine." He wasn't one for giving up like this but he really had no other choice. Fighting with Shawn was a lost cause and he was just going to have to somehow learn to accept defeat.
"Good boy." Shawn patted Jeff on the head and walked off so he could go back to his locker room. Before he got even halfway there though, he felt someone grab his arm and yank him into one of the other room. "What the-"
"Ssshhh!" A large hand went over his mouth and Shawn only slightly relaxed; it was Hunter, who he did know very well and that's why he couldn't relax completely. "We need to talk."
Shawn shook his head and wiggled out of Hunter's grip. "Dude, don't do that!" he said in exasperation. He smoothed his shirt down and shook his head angrily. "What is with you you lummox?"
"We need to talk," Hunter repeated. "And did you just call me a lummox?"
"Yes I did," Shawn confirmed.
"Why?"
"Because you're a lummox. Now what do you want?" Shawn was not someone that liked to be kept waiting, especially when he wanted answers.
"The wedding. You can't go through with it."
Shawn groaned loudly. "Not again Hunter." They had had this conversation way WAY too many times before and he was absolutely sick of it. "We've been through this before and you know my answer."
"You're making a mistake."
"How? How am I making a mistake?" Shawn folded his arms across his chest and looked at Hunter expectantly. "I love John. John loves me. We want to be together forever. How is getting married a mistake?"
"I love you," Hunter said lowly, grabbing on to Shawn's arms and unfolding them so he could pull him closer. "I've always loved you."
Shawn shook his head. He couldn't trust that. Hunter loved playing games. It was what he did. He loved to control, he loved playing with people's minds and fucking them over; it was his addiction. Even if he actually loved him Shawn didn't delude himself to think he would be safe from that. "I don't love you Hunter. Can't you understand that? I love John, not you. I'm sorry okay? But it's just how it is."
Hunter shook his head, just not wanting to accept that at all. When Shawn tried to walk away he pulled him back and smashed his lips against his. Shawn's eyes widened and he was so shocked that he couldn't even pull away at first, which allowed Hunter to shove his tongue into his mouth. That snapped him out of it though and Shawn shoved Hunter away and slapped the younger man across the face as hard as he could. Hunter's eyes widen and before he could react Shawn had stormed off, slamming the door shut behind him.
