Gin, Kisses, And Cigarettes
Blink, Mush, Anthony, and Shawn were all sitting on the couch. Jack, David, Specs, and Dutchy stood in front of them. Blink shifted uncomfortably, Mush just chewed on his bottom lip while looking off to the side as if he was contemplating something. Anthony cleared his throat and Shawn looked bored and uninterested as he popped his fingers one by one with his thumbs.
David cringed then looked to Jack.
Jack rolled his eyes, "So exactly what was going on and lets try this one at a time, Blink?"
Shawn snorted and Anthony coughed out a laugh.
Mush rolled his eyes.
"He attacked me!" Blink shot his finger at Anthony.
"You broke the stairs!" yelled Anthony.
"And that gives you a reason to attack someone!?" Blink had launched himself into a standing position on the couch, still pointing down at Anthony.
Mush yanked him down.
"So why were you two fighting?" David looked to Mush.
Mush shrugged, "Don't ask me."
They looked to Shawn who shrugged.
"Seemed like the appropriate thing to do at the time."
Dutchy scoffed.
"Look, whine and moan-" Jack got cut off.
"Bitch and moan..." muttered Shawn.
He whipped to jab a finger in Shawn's direction, "Don't interrupt the adults."
Anthony snorted, Shawn outright laughed.
"David, so help me god," growled Jack looking to David.
David sighed, "What Jack is trying to say is that, if we all want to keep coming here, we have to be cautious."
"That's what he was trying to say?" Shawn pretended to sound astonished as he smirked in a cocky manner.
"Sure didn't sound like that to me. Dork with a nickname, did it sound like that to you?"
"Nope!" he paused for a second, "don't call me a dork!"
Blink reached over and punched Anthony in the arm, causing Shawn to glare and yank Blink's arm before he had a chance to pull it back and tossed him to the ground and hit him. Mush leaped off the couch and tried pulling Shawn off Blink. Anthony just watched before trying to rest his feet on top of Mush's back.
Specs turned to David, "I think it's going pretty well."
Jack turned and arched an eyebrow at him.
Dutchy tugged on Specs' shirt, "I'm hungry."
That caused Shawn to jerk his head upwards knocking Mush in the jaw whose hand flung to his face. Anthony's feet fell to the floor and Blink tossed Shawn off him and started trying to get a good look at Mush's jaw.
It didn't seem to faze Shawn much, "If you hadn't wasted the Bacon Bits!"
"IT'S NOT FOOD!"
"Christ, you don't need to yell," said Jack.
"Ok everyone, shut the hell up!" yelled David, everyone stopped and stared at him, "good."
"Ooooh, you made Davey yell," Jack was smiling.
"Can it Jack," muttered David somewhat fed up.
Jack's whole body seemed to deflate, but he didn't say anything after that.
"Let's try to be civil, I'm David," he gestured to himself then to Jack, "that's Jack, and over there is Blink and Mush."
Jack refrained from saying Dean and Addison. He simply crossed his arms and nodded.
Shawn sighed and stood up properly then took a seat next to Anthony, "The bifocal brigade over there is uh," he tried not to laugh, "Specs and Dutchy."
"Respectively Fletcher and Robert," said Anthony somewhat mimicking when they'd first been introduced.
"And you're names are?" asked David looking and sounding a little too stern for his own liking.
"Shawn and Anthony, everything you found in this place, is ours," said Shawn cocking his head to the side.
Anthony smiled and whispered something to him, which caused Shawn to smile lewdly and mumble something that wasn't low enough.
Jack and Dutchy cringed, everyone else looked somewhat uncomfortable.
"So uh..." there was a long and painful silence in which everyone just stared at one another.
"We could uh, share?" everyone turned their heads to stare at Specs whose face tinted, "Well, we know who the lamest person in this group is!"
David squeaked out an odd laugh and half of everyone smiled then seconds later burst into laughter.
After the laughter died down Shawn spoke, "Yeah, I ain't sharing shit, and neither is Anthony. This is like a sanctuary home away from shitty home, not a fucking self help group."
"I have to second that motion!" said Blink.
"You don't count, Davey and I already know your problems," said Jack walking over the mini fridge as he just noticed it, but when he found nothing was in it, walked back over to David.
Blink turned to Mush who was in fact fine, "You're right, I don't know how to keep people out of my business."
Mush's face heated up for a second, "So! Specs and Dutchy? Were you guys in Boy Scouts?"
"No, we're art students," said Specs smiling.
"And that should be reason and explanation enough," Dutchy flashed a peace sign.
"Simply saying your art students is reason enough, isn't that a bit insulting? You could be offending millions of normal art students," said Jack.
David smacked him against the chest, Jack looked deflated again, Shawn laughed and David pointed at him sharply causing Shawn to glare.
"Normal and art student...does not compute," said Dutchy waving his hand in front of his ear like it was a normal hand gesture.
"You think if we ordered pizza they'd deliver it here?" asked Blink rubbing his stomach.
"You seem to be forgetting the fact that no one's supposed to be living here," said Anthony.
"We could tell them we went for a walk and got hungry halfway home!"
"Wow, you should come up with all the plans," said Shawn smirking, genuinely amused.
"Don't mock him! It's a great plan, come on Blink, lets go wait outside, I'll pay for it," said Mush taking his hand as they walked out, you could see Mush flexing his jaw and wincing.
"Can we have pizza? We didn't mock him!" Dutchy was about to follow them, but Specs caught hold of his wrist keeping the blond from bothering the obvious couple.
"Cocky, sarcastic, and bitchiness aside we all have to get along if this is going to work," said David finally getting tired of standing and sat down on the table.
"You break it, you gotta find another one," muttered Shawn.
"Ah, I see, these are the furniture guys," said Jack taking a seat next to David as he pulled out a cigarette.
"We also bring food now, but we ain't your caterer's," said Shawn staring at Dutchy.
Specs had no idea how Dutchy was able to not care when the younger boy gave off looks like that.
"Nag, nag, nag, nobody cares!" Dutchy made a talking hand puppet trying to mock him.
Shawn picked up the empty Bacon Bit's bottle and chucked it at him, Dutchy squeaked but easily dogged it. Though Specs had still been in the line of fire and got hit in the right side of his head by the empty bottle. He really hated looking uncool.
"Can we stop being immature now?"
"Nope!" coursed Dutchy, Anthony, and Shawn.
Downstairs outside Blink and Mush sat on the curb waiting for the pizza delivery guy to show up. Apparently you could get someone to deliver to an address even if you didn't live there.
"So, your mom, how'd she take it when you got home, you never told me," Mush leaned against his shoulder.
"Oh, you know, the usual," Blink shrugged.
"By usual, you mean, blamed me?" Mush sighed.
"I'm sure she doesn't really hate you, just the idea of you..." he paused, "for some reason that doesn't sound quite right out loud."
"It's okay, nothing you say makes sense half the time," he smiled.
"So, how about you?" he took hold of Mush's hand.
"Oh, you know, the usual," Mush smiled and shrugged.
"Muuuuush..."
"Whining is so hot," he laughed.
"Come on, I told you."
"You know how it is at my house. Parents are too busy fighting each other to give a damn about what I do with my life. Just toss money at me," he sighed and closed his eyes.
"Still trying to make you choose who's the better parent?"
"Best tug-of-war ever..."
"I'm sure when the fighting comes to an end-"
"They'll be divorced?" he sounded mock hopeful.
"Mush, you really want your parents to not be together?"
He shrugged, "I just think some people are better off alone then they would be together. Its not like they don't love each other, it's just destructive love. The longer they stay together the worse it gets."
"I guess you're not that worse off then I am. Mom is spending all our money, charging it on cards, dad's getting more pissed and leaves more often. I'm afraid we're gonna lose the house, I mean where the hell am I supposed to go?" Blink started biting at his short nails and the skin around them.
Mush cringed and pulled his hand down, holding both now, "Well, if it happens you can just secretly live in my room. It'll be the best worth thing to happen ever! Best because, and worse...well obviously."
"I love half backed choppy sentences," Blink smiled at him and gently tilted his face up and kissed him.
"Mmmm, painful, but very good," mumbled Mush.
"Car! Pizza, pizza, pizza!" Blink hopped up.
Mush just stared at him, his lover was just way too energetic sometimes...well, all the time but no matter what he loved him. The white car pulled up to the curb and parked, the guy got out and handed Blink two boxes of large pizza's and two bottles of two liter soda.
Up stairs Dutchy stared out the window with Jack.
"Ha! They really bought pizza!!" yelled Dutchy.
David turned to Shawn and Anthony, "Seriously you two, you have to be a little more nicer."
"I'll goddamn well act however the hell I want," Shawn crossed his arms.
Anthony sighed and hung his head, "I'll behave, but as you can tell he doesn't like people telling him what to do. Let alone people telling me what to do."
"He also doesn't seem to like people hitting you," said Specs.
"The Dutchy withstanding," said Dutchy.
"That's because you're a pansy art student," said Shawn.
"Hey!" yelled Specs and Dutchy.
"I'm sorry, a pansy masculine art student," Shawn waved his hand in the air dismissively.
"I give up," muttered Specs finding a chair for he and Dutchy to sit on.
"It's probably for the best," said David pinching the bridge of his nose.
Jack turned to David, "Can I talk now?"
"You going to stop acting like those two?" David pointed in Shawn's direction.
"No," Jack smiled.
"I think I give up now," muttered David.
Jack slung his arm around him and smiled, "It was inevitable."
"There are so many clashing and intertwining personalties I think I'm going to go crazy," David leaned into Jack resting his head on his shoulder, then realized there were still people around them.
Shawn and Anthony both had their eyebrows raised. He was saved when the sound of heavy foot steps came up the stairs, there was a brief moment of yelling and a loud crashing sound.
Anthony glared, "If you broke those stairs, I will kill you."
Specs and Dutchy went to the hall, when they came back Mush was helping Blink and Specs and Dutchy were carrying the pizza and soda.
"I tripped and crashed into Mush," Blink smiled sheepishly.
"At least I saved the sodas," said Mush as he set Blink down on the couch next to Shawn who frowned sidelong at him.
"So wait, I still get pizza?"
"You're a bastard, but yeah," said Mush chipper tone.
"Sweet, I'm thirsty," he reached for one of the bottles of soda and twisted the cap open.
Everyone watched as the soda bottle practically burst open and covered Shawn, Anthony, Blink and Mush in Root-beer. Well, Mush thought he'd saved them...
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A/N: ha, I love the ending, an indignant looking Shawn covered in soda makes me smile. Also, don't ask me why, but I love saying The Dutchy! I guess this story is mostly of them and their moments they entertain me to no end.