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FILL - Lipstick Traces - Darren/Chris - friends-to-soulmates RPF AU (PART 5b)

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"So what if you loved more than one person?"

Darren shrugged. "You'd probably love one a little more than the other."

"And if you had no interest in sex?" Christopher asked as Marla dropped a plate of fries and gravy onto the table.

"If you have no interest in sex, I'm Steve Jobs."

Christopher glared at her. "Steve Jobs is dead."

"And here I stand," she said, taking out her order pad. "Decide on anything yet?"

"Chicken fried steak," Christopher said, handing the menu back to her. "You?"

Darren scanned the menu, sucking air through his teeth until he came upon something and let it all out in a whoosh. "Ah, there we go," he said, jabbing at it with a finger. "Grilled cheese. Perfect."

Christopher smirked as he took Darren's menu and handed it to Marla. "Apple juice and grilled cheese. No wonder you're such a true believer."

"What's wrong with grilled cheese and apple juice?"

"Nothing. They're just so…wholesome. Innocent."

Darren drank the last of his juice and tapped at his glass as he winked at Marla. "I'm hardly innocent, but what's so wrong with wholesome? A lot of good things are wholesome." He ticked them off on his fingers. "Puppies. Kittens. Giving your mom flowers on her birthday. Playing catch with your dad - or your kid, if you have one." He slapped the table and laughed. "It's in the word! Things that are wholesome help make the world more whole."

Christopher stared at him like he'd just sprouted another head. "You really think apple juice and grilled cheese make a difference on the world?"

"Why not?" Darren asked. "If you believe everything happens for a reason, then yeah. Of course. I drink apple juice and eat grilled cheese, and it makes me feel happier about the world I live in. That happiness motivates me to put more awesome into the world. That awesomeness rubs off on other people, and that makes them more awesome. It's like a beach, you know? Everyone thinks of beaches like they're these things, right? But what they really are, is millions and millions of other things that make up something pretty fantastic."

Christopher reached for a fry from the plate Marla was placing in front of him and dragged it through a pool of gravy. "I've never left the beach without a sunburn and sand in uncomfortable places."

Darren shook his head. "There's nothing you can't complain about, is there?"

Christopher contemplated this for a few seconds, carefully dropping the fry between his open lips and taking care to leave them untouched. He chewed carefully, then repeated a few times before answering. "Llamas." He nodded. "I love me some llamas."

"You're shitting me."

"What? You can make an argument for bettering the world through grilled cheese, but I can't like llamas?"

"Touché," Darren said, laughing as he twirled his straw in his glass. "So why llamas?"

Christopher shrugged and shoved another fry into his mouth. "No one knows what to do with them. I identify with that."

Darren dropped his elbow onto the table and rested his head in his hand. "You're really into this 'forever alone' deal, aren't you?"

Christopher grimaced. "It isn't a deal if you don't have a choice."

"Look, it can't be that bad. It'd be one thing if you didn't have one, but-"