"Come on guys, this isn't fair! I was only kidding around! Is this really necessary? Don't you think you're taking this just a little too far?"
Jeff giggled. Matt and Chris had caught Shannon and had tied him upside down to a telephone poll and were hitting him with sticks. "Maybe you shouldn't have been such a little brat Shanny," he said wisely. "This could have been avoided if you had knocked your shit off."
"But I didn't do anything!" Shannon protested.
"Yes you did, you little bastard," Adam replied. "You poured water on me and Jeff."
"You told Matt and the Legend that I got a disease from a chair," Chris added.
"And you ruined our romantic moment down by the pond," Matt finished.
Shannon did his best to look innocent. "Okay, first of all, Adam, I was just trying to cool you and Jeff off. Chris, I was just trying to warn everyone of your deviant nature. And Matt, I'm sure you or Chris would have ruined that moment all by yourselves."
Matt and Chris started beating the Prince of Punk with their sticks again, making him yell and cuss. Adam and Jeff watched them, laughing at poor Shannon's expense. "Do you think this will do any good?" Adam asked quietly.
"Maybe for a day or so," Jeff replied. "But Shannon will be back to his annoying self after that." He stepped away from Adam and started trying to grab Matt's left hand. "Matty hold still for a second. I want to see the ring."
Matt rolled his eyes and held up his hand. "You've already looked at it a whole bunch already Jeff."
"I don't care. I want to look at it some more." Jeff grabbed Matt's hand and looked at the beautiful ring very closely. "Aw, it's so pretty. It's almost as nice as mine."
Chris snorted. "Please, the ring I got Matt is so much better than the one Adam got you."
Adam frowned. "Yeah, maybe in your dreams it is. But this is the real world Jerky, and in it, Jeff's engagement ring beats Matt's."
Matt glared at him. "No it does not. You want to know why?"
"Yes Hardy. Tell me why."
"Because mine was not given to me by a total jackass."
Jeff let go of Matt's hand and smacked his older brother on the arm. "Matty! That's mean!"
"It's also the truth," Matt replied.
Jeff pouted and hit Matt again. He didn't understand why Matt had to be such a jackass. "You're mean! You take that back right now!"
"No," Matt refused. "I won't. And if you hit me again, you'll be sorry."
Jeff hit Matt again, not believing the raven haired man for a second. That turned out to be a big mistake on his part, because the next thing he knew, Matt punched him in the chest really hard. "Owie!" he whined. He looked at Adam. "Did you see what Matty did? He hit me!"
"I saw it," Adam said with a nod. He glared at Matt. "Are you looking for trouble Matthew?"
Matt rolled his eyes. "Oh come on, I barely touched him Copeland."
"Yeah, well still, on behalf of my fiancé--" Adam punched Matt on the chest. Matt growled and punched him back. Then, before anyone could do anything to stop them, the two of them had tackled each other and were rolling around on the ground.
"Go Addy!" Jeff cheered. "Get my mean older brother!"
Chris snorted. "Oh please. We all know that Matt can kick Adam's ass any day of the week."
Jeff glared at his ex-boyfriend. "What did you just say?" he asked dangerously.
Chris raised his eyebrows. "You heard me."
Oh that was it. Jeff wasn't going to take that laying down. He launched himself at Chris, but Chris managed to catch him over his shoulder. "Hey Copeland! Look what I've got!"
Adam looked up and glared at Jericho. "You put him down right now!"
"Or you'll do what?" Chris asked.
Jeff struck first before Adam could. He kicked his feet wildly, managing to catch Chris right in the groin. As the older man doubled over in pain, he wiggled his way back down to the ground. "I win!" he announced.
Matt glared at him while he went over to check on Chris. "No you didn't! That was cheating!"
"Oh boo hoo," Jeff said sarcastically. He walked over to Adam and pulled his lover back up to his feet. "You got dirt all over you baby."
"Yeah, I'm such a dirty boy," Adam said with his Rated R Superstar grin on his face.
Chris and Matt made gagging noises.
Jeff flipped them off. "Screw you guys. Addy's my dirty boys, and if you don't like that, you can go straight to hell."
"Oh that's sweet," Shannon said. "Now can you please untie me? All the blood is starting to rush to my head here."
Jeff let his long time friend down from the pole and then helped him get settled on his feet. "You better behave now Shanny. You don't want mean old Matt and Chris to tie you up again, do you?"
Shannon looked at him like he was insane. "I'm not a child Jeff. You don't need to talk to me like that."
Adam snorted. "In case you haven't figured this out yet Shannon, you are the youngest person here. Therefore, you are the baby."
Shannon glared at the older blonde. "Dude, I will punch you in the face if you keep calling me that."
Jeff whined and stepped in front Adam protectively. "Don't do that! You can't do that to my Addy! That will get you a grade A ass kicking from me Shanny."
Matt, who's sense of reason was coming back to him a little bit, put himself between Jeff and Shannon. "Okay guys, let's settle down just a little bit. We don't need to be doing anything we'll regret later."
Jeff folded his arms over his chest. "Who said I would regret doing anything to Shannon?" he asked childishly.
Matt glared at him. "Jeff come on. Dad's insisting on having a double wedding for us, and if he said if we didn't start getting stuff planned out for it, he wasn't going to feed us."
"Matty, there's nothing more to plan," Jeff insisted. "I already called the people who are going to be bringing food for the reception and told them to double the amount of food, I--"
"You doubled amount of food?"
"Well it's a double wedding?"
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean there's going to be double the people! Your friends are my friends and we have the same relatives! The only extra people will be Chris's family."
"Yeah, but they're Canadian."
"So is my family," Adam said defensively. "Is there something wrong with Canadians?"
"No," Jeff replied. "It's just that all the Canadians I know eat like pigs."
"Okay, just because Chris, Adam and Jay eat like pigs--" Matt started to say.
"Hey!" Chris and Adam yelled at the same time. They both glared at Matt.
Shannon chuckled. "If someone doesn't kill someone before the day of the wedding, I swear, I will wear a dress to the mother fucking thing."
Jeff grinned evilly. Shannon really shouldn't have said that out loud. Now Jeff was determined to make sure they all got through the wedding in one piece just so he could make Shannon do just that.
