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It's a long weekend, it's raining, and I'm working on two stories, but doing that thing where instead of stories you have documents full of weird notes and halves of sentences. In other words, nothing is getting done. So let's have some fun
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The ring makes Nate uncomfortable. He’ll forget he’s wearing it until it clicks against the fridge or he washes his hands and the skin under the band gets clammy and cold.
“So don’t wear it,” Brad says, thumbing spilled jam off the counter into his mouth. “This is a marriage of conveniently getting five grand. I’m not gonna be offended or some shit.”
That’s easy enough for Brad to say; he’s got a wedding ring tan already. They’ve only been doing this for a week. He doesn’t even need to wear the ring.
“It’s fine,” Nate says, wiping the leftover jam off the counter. “Ray would suspect something if I didn’t wear it.”
Brad considers him. “You’re right. You look like the kind of guy who’d be in Emerg, hand mangled from some tool he never knew how to use and yelling about how they can’t cut it off.”
Nate snorts even though Brad’s probably right. “Yeah, and you look like the kind of guy who “accidently” drops his wedding ring down the drain until he gets out of wearing it.”
Brad grins, fishing around in his pockets, until he pulls out the ring he bought at a pawn shop when he and Poke decided to roll Ray out of half of his retirement savings. He blows the lint off it and slides it down his finger, slotting it over the pale ring already there.
He holds it up for Nate to see, twirling his car keys with his right hand. “Come on, sir,” he says, his teeth gleaming along with the ring. “I’ll drop you off at work. I have to go buy food.”
“What’s for dinner?” Nate asks automatically. It’s only been a week, but he’s been spoiled. Brad can cook, when he wants to.
Brad shrugs. “I’ll think of something. Suggestions?”
Nate shrugs too, under the strap of his bag. “No. Whatever’s fine with me. Everything’s been really good.”
Brad holds open the door for Nate, wedding ring clicking against the edge. “You’re sweet,” he says, smirking, ushering Nate out of the house and one day closer to the easiest twenty-five hundred dollars Nate’s ever made.
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You are a genius who has made Brad and Nate pretending to be married completely gen. Bravo (two)!
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I also love how 5 grand is half of Rays retirement savings! :P
So many questions now - how long do they have to do it for? what are the terms of the bet? I'm sure Ray is sneakily thinking of ways to get around paying up :D
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Also, how telling that Brad doesn't wear the ring, but has it on him, even still. I also so dig the idea that he's a chef in his spare time. Because Brad's already unreal, that just completes it, really. (And I adored the unfinished, long-ago chef AU, so.)
Which should all translate into LOVE. In case I'm not being clear. SO much love.
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He's an honest man! Also Brad probably bought it from a janky pawn shop so who knows what's up with it.
I also so dig the idea that he's a chef in his spare time.
He eats a lotta store-roasted chicken and bagged salad, but has skills. When he wants to use them. Which is rarely.
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