Gin, Kisses, And Cigarettes
Walking down the street together Blink and Mush turned the corner and paused as they started to pass the old and empty house. The yard was covered in fallen dark leaves and the old fence around the yard was broken or breaking. The rusty gate leading to the back rocked on its hinges in the strong wind, a slow creaking sound emitting as it did so. Blink smiled and started walking towards the house, Mush glanced around and followed reluctantly. The house had always reminded him of that old children's book he use to read back in elementary school. The one about: a house in the deep dark woods, and in that deep dark house in the deep dark woods was a deep dark room with a wooden box. He shook his head, it creeped him out too much. Especially the part where there was a girl whose neck would fall off if she didn't keep her scarf on.
Blink on the other hand had always wanted to go in it, but his mother usually kept a tight leash on him especially after she found out about him and Mush. She monitored who came over and where he went. It was starting to get annoying. More so when she had called Mush's parents had told them to keep their dirty son away from her kid. He didn't get to see Mush for almost two weeks after that. The two of them usually spent their time together wondering around town now. They passed this place so much, Blink couldn't pass by it one more day and not go in.
"Mush, chill, it's only a house."
"I know that," he clung to his arm nonetheless.
"Whoa," looking around the house he noticed the carvings on the banister leading up, "I wonder why no one lives here?"
"The place is old," muttered Mush noticing the familiar stench of mold.
"You have no appreciation for old homes. I mean, it's awesome. Besides, I remember you saying you always wanted to know what it looked like on the inside."
"No, that was you," he stared at the steps as they started up them.
"Oh, yeah, but I mean, I see you staring at it every time we pass by it on our way home," Blink slid his hand up the rail.
"I know, but it-" he stopped mid sentence when they neared the top.
"Whoa, does someone live here or what?" asked Blink letting go of Mush and walking further into the room.
"I hope not," Mush walked over to the couch and shoved the empty bottle onto the floor and sat down.
Blink was walking in and our of all the rooms and opened the door to a room and just down a hall and slammed it shut. He rushed back to where Mush was and grabbed his hand and dragged him quickly down the stairs. Mush, having no idea what was going on kept glancing back.
"Blink, what's wrong?"
"You remember that Junior who trash canned me last year?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, I just saw him."
Just as they reached the halfway mark of the steps, it collapsed beneath them. There was a loud crash and dust and pieces of wood went everywhere. The two of them looked up from their position on the ground and saw two people staring down at them. Neither of the pairs spoke for a minute, both stunned at what had occurred. Then finally the dark haired boy spoke from atop.
"Are you guys ok?"
"Uh..." Blink looked at Mush.
"I'm fine," he smiled at Blink.
"We're fine," managed Blink getting up and helping Mush.
"What the hell happened?"
"Old wood?" suggested Mush.
Blink shrugged, "How do we get out?"
"There should be a latch behind the metal lions skull," said the dark haired guy.
"What lion?" coursed Blink and Mush.
"Oh boy," the two boys up-top quickly conversed then looked back down, dark haired boy answered, "We'll be down in a minute."
The two of them disappeared and Blink and Mush were left alone in the fallen mess.
"So, uh, what did you see, Blink?" asked Mush dusting off his pants and then reached to brush some spider webs and dust out of Blink's hair.
"No, no, no, no! I'm not even gonna talk about that with them seconds away from saving us."
"It was dirty wasn't it!" said Mush smiling.
"You can be quite the pervert, you know?"
"I blame that on you, really, I do."
"And I- have no one to blame..." he laughed.
They heard noise on the other side of the wall and stopped talking. For a while all they heard was the sound of the door being shook. It took a few minutes, but eventually the door started rocking more. Finally a loud crack resounded through the room and the door was moved, revealing two boys on the other side, both holding onto the door.
"You sure you're ok?" asked the older of the two boys.
"Yeah, nothings broke," said Blink stepping over the rubble.
"So uh...don't I know you somewhere?" said the older boy.
Blink turned and raised an eyebrow at Mush, then looked back at the guy, "I believe you introduced me to a trash can last year."
The younger looking of the two turned and stared wide-eyed, "Jack, you didn't. Did you?"
Jack shrugged, "I was a young and misguided soul, plus everyone else was doing it," he paused, "you're Banana Peel, aren't you?"
Blink glared.
"Jack!"
"Actually, this is Blink and I'm Mush...er I mean, well, they're not our actual names. Something we acquired in Boy Scouts."
Blink tapped him upside the shoulder and hissed, "You promised we'd never speak of that again."
"Oops," Mush smiled and shrugged.
The dark haired boy slightly chuckled and smiled, "I'm David, the often misguided jerk is Jack."
Jack waved seeming disinterested.
"Come on, uh, you can rest on the couch for a bit," said David motioning them through the kitchen to the other set of stairs.
Mush looked at Blink, who shrugged, "'k."
They followed the other two up the back stairs. Blink kept glaring at Jack's back as they climbed each step. Mush slipped his hand into Blink's and held onto it. These steps were less decorated then the front ones, simple and plain old varnished wood. Wall paper pealed off the walls and was brown in places seeming to hide the fact that it use to be a pale blue with tiny white daisy's. Blink looked over at Mush and down at their hands and smiled.
"I guess I could look on the bright side, new place for us to hang around."
Mush nodded, "And I'm sure our parents wouldn't think to look here for us."
"I can already imagine my mom calling the police," Blink tilted his head to the side for a second, letting the mental image seep in.
"Ah, nothing like sirens in the evening to end a good day," Mush slightly tripped as they made it up the last step and into the corner around the hallway.
"This is the weirdest constructed home ever," muttered Jack having also just almost tripped.
"I'll second that," said Mush letting go of Blink's hand and hopping onto the couch.
"So, I didn't know you were gay," said Blink smiling.
David turned a light shade of red.
Jack stared opened mouthed.
"Blink, that's what we call an inappropriate thing to say," Mush stared awkwardly to the side.
"Um..." David stared at Jack, "Not so much gay as, say uh, experimenting..."
Jack raised an eyebrow, "What happened to your speech about deviating?"
David rolled his eyes, "So you're saying you're gay?"
"No, just saying," he smiled.
Blink turned to Mush, "You're gay?"
"Sure as the sun can blind you when you stare too long," he smiled brightly and nodded, "how 'bout you Blink?"
"Do you know me?" he flung his arms in the air.
Mush turned to Jack and David, "That's a yes, by the way."
"You guys are fucking insane," said Jack smiling as he reached for his pack of cigarettes.
Blink perked up, "Give me one."
"Banana Peel smokes?" Jack raised an eyebrow.
"Hey, Gay In Training, you going to give me one or not?" Blink held out his hand.
"Wow, they're gonna be just the best of friends, I can feel it," said David moving to sit next to Mush on the couch.
"Oh yeah, I can feel it too," said Mush nodding.
Jack tossed the pack to Blink and reached for the bottle of Gin under the couch and opened it up and took a long drink. He offered the bottle to David who shook his head no and then he offered it to Mush who also shook his head. He finally turned to Blink, an eyebrow raised as if daring him to shake his head no. Blink scoffed and took the bottle and also took a long drink from it.
"Blink, if your mom finds out you were drinking, she'll kill you," Mush frowned and took the bottle from him.
"I'm so tired of her keeping tabs on me and not letting you in the house, I just want to be normal for once," Blink took a long drag from his cigarette.
"You're gay, I'm pretty sure that doesn't constitute as normal," said David.
Jack laughed and Mush just tried to hide his smile.
Bink pointed to David, "Touché."
An hour later and as well as an empty bottle of Gin, both Blink and Jack were pretty out of it. Blink had tossed his cell phone across the room down the hall after telling his mom to fuck herself and Jack, had cheered him on. David was trying to console Mush who had his face buried in his hands. Mush was sure that Blink's mom was not only going to kill her son, but also blame him, for the way he'd been talking to her on the phone. She liked to place blame on him whenever possible. Son's gay, Mush's fault, bad grades, his fault, Blink's late coming home, his fault, her flowers out front died, his fault, her favorite TV show gets canceled, yo, his fault.
"Mush, calm down, I'm sure everything's going to be fine, its not like-"
"Sweet, found another bottle!" cheered Jack raising the bottle victoriously in the air.
"Open it!" Blink bounced around the room arms in the air once again.
"I spoke too soon," David dropped his head.
"Its how things always go," said Mush getting up and grabbing the bottle and took a long drink from it.
"Whoa," Jack whistled as Mush kept drinking from it.
"You're gonna make yourself sick!" said David reaching for the bottle and taking it from him.
"Quick, take it away from Davey, he's a kill joy!" yelled Jack lunging forward.
"I don't get it," said Blink.
David walked over to the window and chucked the bottle out the window, "There."
"NO!" yelled Jack and Blink diving to look out the window.
"I need to go throw up," said Mush walking down the hall and into a room then back out, "I need a toilet."
David sighed and ushered Mush a little further down the hall and into a room shutting the door behind him.
Blink turned to Jack, "I can't believe he just tossed a whole bottle out the window."
"He does mean things like that, he's Jewish that way," muttered Jack lighting up another cigarette.
"He's Jewish?"
Jack shrugged.
"You're so messed up," said Blink as he went to sit on the couch and sulk.
"So," Jack moved to sit on the arm of the couch, "sounds like your mom is the sole cause of your problems."
"She's a control freak hell bent on having a picture perfect family, a nice house, white picket fence, a good husband, two point five kids, and a puppy. Only problem is, we're in debt, dad cheats, we have three cats, and she has a gay son, she's trying to at least save some part of her dream," Blink took the cigarette from Jack.
Jack whistled.
Blink just nodded and the two of them sat there waiting for David and Mush to come back out of the room.
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A/N: I was always creeped out by that darn book, I can't even remember what it's called.
Wow, these two had a longer chapter then the others, there are more chapters beyond the short pieces of each pairing, just so you know. It's sort of like a slowly intertwining introduction, leading to semi larger pieces, I don't have all the specific's worked out per-se, but I'm working on it.