The View - Modest Mouse

Iancorn

David crossed his arms and leaned on the side of his chair so he could see the screen. Anthony had chosen that they play Jillian Michaels Fitness Adventure. However, he found himself not looking at the screen, and instead looking at the butt in front of his face.

Ian was flailing around in front of him yelling, "Get it!"

He grinned; that was exactly what he wanted to do. Ian was not even thirty seconds into the game when he already looked exhausted. He was whining about it not counting any of his squat jacks.

"You're not going low enough." Matt pointed out.

"Yeah." David smiled, "Drop it low."

Ian finally got through the obstacle and lunged his way through the spikes.

"Scoot back!" Anthony laughed.

"Got to get right in Lasercorn's face." Ian winked at him.

"Yes." David grinned.

"Lasercorn loves it." Anthony smirked.

"I do." He nodded, "I can't deny it."

David nearly got a kick to the face, so he stood behind the chairs while Ian went on kicking back. He leaned against the back wall and clapped for Ian when he was done.

David went next and collapsed when he was done. Any joke he made, he could hear Ian laughing at him, and it only fueled his need to impress him even more. David wasn't sure why he wanted to impress Ian so bad, he just knew that he wanted to.

Matt went and Josh was just starting.

Ian picked up a water bottle from next to him and offered it to David. Ian knew well that David already had a water bottle, but he just wanted to interact with him some more.

"No, I'm good." David held up his bottle, "Thank you."

"Oh." Ian smiled and set it back down.

They had interacted. They hadn't said much, and Ian totally got denied, but they had done something that wasn't really a joke. Ian figured that the whole 'enjoying the view' thing was just a joke, but he still couldn't help but get flustered by it. He just pretended to be more angry at the game so it didn't look like he was blushing so much.

David laughed at Josh as he claimed he felt like he was drowning, "You're drowning? Listen, I've drowned lots of people and this feels just like that."

Ian laughed, and he felt embarrassed when he noticed he had laughed the hardest. He began drinking from his water bottle to cover it up.

David smiled at him, then went on to talking with Anthony.

When it was over, Ian sat beside David, "Good work out there, today."

"Are you kidding me?" He laughed, "I sucked."

"I meant with jokes. You said some good things. Thanks for being a good sport about me shoving my ass in your face."

David raised an eyebrow, "Yeah? It's not hard to be a good sport when I've got that hunk of ass in front of me."

Ian couldn't tell if he was joking or not, but when David began laughing, he realized it was a joke.

"I enjoyed the view too." Ian grinned and stood up, holding out his hand, "Now let's go enjoy the view over dinner."

David looked up at him before grabbing his hand and standing up.