Gar felt like he could walk on air. Even though Roy had pulled a shabby excuse and left a little earlier than expected, he just felt so smitten. He was on his way home, when he heard someone call to him from behind.

"Gar! Hold up!" Gar turned to see a drenched Garth, in all his shirtless glory. Now Gar knew exactly what a swimmer's body really was. And he just had to agree that it really was a great thing. Garth had a beautifully toned six pack as well as a sleek, drenched, dripping silhouette. He wore just a pair of swim trunks and a towel around his neck. His hair was slicked back from his nicely tanned, nicely chiseled face.

Garfield blushed heavily, "Hey… wet, dripping… Gar the second."

Garth laughed. "Swim team had a party today. I placed first in a meet." he grinned a pearly white grin. Confident Garth was fully back in throttle. "How are you? Did football run late? You should already be home by now."

Instead of answering the question, Garfield decided to dodge it for now. "And what are you sir? My time keeper?" He asked, a hint of flirtatiousness in his voice.

"More like time manager, as in, I'd like to manage more time with you." he smirked, taking Gar's hand as he did the previous day.

Garfield felt his cheeks blush and get all familiarly hot. "Ooh, is that so?" He challenged, as if he didn't think Garth was serious.

Garth nodded. "It is so. I'm determined to get that kiss that was so strangely interrupted yesterday." he looked forward as he always did. "but not yet, it has to be spontaneous of course."

Garfield nodded, "Oh… oh I see. So, you think you got this, all figured out do you?"

Garth squeezed Gar's hand and walked in front of him, so they were face to face. He quickly took Gar's other hand and pressed his lips to the other male's in a sweet, soft, sensual kiss. He pulled away after a moment. "Yeah. I think I do."

The blond male gave a smirk, "Mmm, I don't know if you do…" he stated, walking a little faster, teasing the other male.

"Hey, don't ignore my mind blowing kissing skills!" he jogged a bit to catch up. "Y'know you want some." he laughed a bit. "Let me pop your personal space bubble!"

Garfield let out a laugh, "Ooh no you don't! Not so fast!" He joked dramatically, teasing Garth once more by getting so close to kissing him, but pulling away, taking off down the street. "You want it? Come get it!"

"If this was in a pool, I'd so be able to catch up!" he playfully ran after Gar, snapping his towel at him whenever he got slightly close. Finally he caught up and hugged Gar from behind, "I got you, you little track star!"

He couldn't help but to laugh, but before either adolescent could notice – a familiar voice hollered out to them, "HELLO PERSONAL BUBBLE POPPING BOY!" None other than Cole greeted with a wave, little Emma also waving.

Garth let go of Gar and looked up with a wide smile. 'I'm going to do it right this time,' he thought to himself. "Hello, Sir! How's it going?" he set the towel over his shoulders.

Cole grinned as Garfield face palmed, "Chip chip cheerio boy and all a bunch of chapstick."

Even little Emma, her dark brown curls cascading down her back, looked up at her father curiously, "Daddy, what the -"

Looking down at his daughter he picked her up, "Aye' top of the mornin' to ya's."

Garfield face palmed once more and looked back at Garth with an apologetic smile, "He thinks he's cool and loves doing accents." The blond male chuckled to himself in thought. 'You'll get to know that Cole is just that... Cole. No words to describe him what so ever.'

Garth nodded. "Not a problem. Well Blimey, so do I!" he laughed, nudging Gar and giving a smile. He wanted to make this as comfortable as possible, considering how awfully it went the other day.

The other smiled softly, he could tell that Garth was putting much more of an effort today than he did the other day and this was probably his way of trying to make up for it. He thought even the attempt was so, so sweet.

Cole grinned from ear to ear, "I have an accent making friend? Really?!" Garfield resisted the urge to face palm once again.

Garth grinned from ear to ear. "Yes, sir you do! We should have tea time together sometime! Fancy a crumpet?"

Cole chuckled and shook his head, "Nah, I'm not a fan of trumpets."

Garfield gave a shrug of his shoulders as the male beside him raised an eyebrow.

Garth just nodded. "I completely understand. Neither am I." He just kept his smile on his face. Not much else he could do.

"COLE – are you bothering the kids?" None other than his wife Hillary stepped outside the door, her dirty blond hair swept up into a messy bun from doing house work most of the day. Cole having been at work and Emma getting back from preschool.

Cole shrugged, "No I hate kids."

Hillary laughed, "You are a big kid." She looked to see a dark haired male standing next to Garfield. "Oh hello there, don't mind this lug nut, he's harmless."

Cole gasped, "Hillary! Talking about lugging my nuts in front of the kids?"

Garth cracked up, trying his best not to laugh but he just couldn't help it. "Oh, he's fine Mrs. Logan." at this point, Garth just wished he had worn a shirt... And some pants.

Garth didn't know exactly why, but a slight… estranged silence filled the air. Had he said something wrong? "Well, that's good." Hillary spoke up, relieving the silence. "Must you go home right away or, do you have some spare time? Maybe you'd… like to stay for dinner?"

Even Cole didn't have a crack to use right now, he was slightly shocked that the young male did assume they were Garfield's biological parents, but then again he was flattered because it seemed that they had a nice, tight bond that was believable. Just then Cole spoke up, "Actually Hill, I got some shit to take care of tonight, kinda bad timing."

She gave a dark smirk, "You can take care of me later."

He dropped his mouth agape for a moment, "Ooh girl you's a freaky thang aren't you?"

Garfield felt this right now, was utter social suicide. "Don't… don't do that…" He mumbled to himself.

Emma, in her father's arms bopped his nose. "Daddy, listen! … maybe Garf can come over tomorrow and stay tomorrow?"

Cole shrugged, "That doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. We can grab groceries then, maybe out and about, what says you half – naked, personal bubble popping boy?"

Garth nodded. "Sure. I'd love to. But for now I best be going, my uh...my parents might worry." he said slightly bitterly. "Take care guys." he waved and went on his way feeling that somehow he screwed that up a second time in a row.

Garfield's green eyes followed Garth as he walked down the street; he couldn't help but to notice the bitter sounding tone in his voice when he mentioned his parents. It wasn't until Cole started talking to Gar, that he snapped out of his daze. "So, do you always walk home with half – naked, personal bubble popping boys?"

Garfield's face fell flat. "Not cool." He mumbled.

Hillary nudged her husband playfully, "Why, are you jealous?"

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