Happy Thoughts: Brendon/Cash
So I have feedback to respond to (which I will be doing tonight!) but I wrote this to Amy in an email during a break in my very long day, and she said it made her smile, so I'm sharing. Total sap--although, is anything in this 'verse not? I don't think so.
Keltie starts it.
Three weeks after Mock Rock, and she's been over at the FBR house at least four times a week since, and for the first week, Ryan's all, "Yeah, we're just hanging out." ("In his *room*," Spencer says, "with the door *closed*, what the fuck." Like Spencer has any room to talk at *all*, what with, you know, Haley, and the fact that she's pretty much a constant fixture in the life of the FBR house now.) Week two, they go out to dinner twice, at nice enough restaurants in town. Week three, though, and someone lets Keltie into the house, and pages Ryan over the intercom, saying, "Ross! Visitor!" and Ryan, who's down in the basement, watching TV with Brendon and Jon, says, "Okay!"
He gets up, presumably to be a gentleman and greet her at the door? But Keltie's bounding down the stairs, wrapping her arms around Ryan and saying, "Hi, boyfriend!"
Jon snorts, and Ryan blushes a little, but Keltie's also giving him a kiss on the cheek, at the corner of his mouth, so Brendon doesn't think he minds too much.
*
The thing is, fraternities and sororities have their own speech patterns that develop in the houses. Like, there was that month-long period that everyone went around attaching "Yo" to the end of every sentence, yo. There's the way that Toro and Bob Bryar have of saying, "You know?"--inflections and apostrophes, and when Brendon thinks the phrase, that's the way he hears it in his head now.
So, because Haley is Keltie's little sis, he's not really surprised when Haley starts calling Spencer 'boyfriend', too.
He laughs at (with!) them about it, because--well, *he* finds it funny, anyway, the way they just immediately answer.
The thing is, though, that Brendon's been hanging out with Haley and Keltie, too. And after awhile, it just starts to be, well, normal, and when Brendon thinks it about Cash, maybe not so funny.
Because, well. Because.
Because it's been two weeks since Cash let Brendon back into his room, and they've eaten lunch together six times and Brendon spent the night at Cash's that first night, and while he's come close a few times since, he's made himself leave. They've spent several hours making out on Cash's bed, and they'd gone to the Midnight Movie in the quad the previous weekend. So, dating yes. But, there's a difference between casual and not, and school's ending in another two weeks, and Brendon, well. He wants to know where they stand.
So: they're meeting for dinner at the SU, and Brendon's sitting on the stairs that lead up to the second floor. Cash isn't late, but Brendon's early, and his leg is jittering, and he keeps thinking *two weeks*, and that's the reason why, when Cash comes to stand in front of him, sneakers wedged between Brendon's own, and he extends a hand to help Brendon up, Brendon says, "Hi, boyfriend," as he stands. Just to test the waters. Just to see.
And Cash, well. His grin is pretty fucking blinding, actually, and Brendon thinks he maybe has his answer. He knows he has it when Cash says in return, "Hi, boyfriend." Because that, apparently, is the way they're rolling. Which makes Brendon smile, too, and want to kiss Cash.
So he does.
End.
Keltie starts it.
Three weeks after Mock Rock, and she's been over at the FBR house at least four times a week since, and for the first week, Ryan's all, "Yeah, we're just hanging out." ("In his *room*," Spencer says, "with the door *closed*, what the fuck." Like Spencer has any room to talk at *all*, what with, you know, Haley, and the fact that she's pretty much a constant fixture in the life of the FBR house now.) Week two, they go out to dinner twice, at nice enough restaurants in town. Week three, though, and someone lets Keltie into the house, and pages Ryan over the intercom, saying, "Ross! Visitor!" and Ryan, who's down in the basement, watching TV with Brendon and Jon, says, "Okay!"
He gets up, presumably to be a gentleman and greet her at the door? But Keltie's bounding down the stairs, wrapping her arms around Ryan and saying, "Hi, boyfriend!"
Jon snorts, and Ryan blushes a little, but Keltie's also giving him a kiss on the cheek, at the corner of his mouth, so Brendon doesn't think he minds too much.
*
The thing is, fraternities and sororities have their own speech patterns that develop in the houses. Like, there was that month-long period that everyone went around attaching "Yo" to the end of every sentence, yo. There's the way that Toro and Bob Bryar have of saying, "You know?"--inflections and apostrophes, and when Brendon thinks the phrase, that's the way he hears it in his head now.
So, because Haley is Keltie's little sis, he's not really surprised when Haley starts calling Spencer 'boyfriend', too.
He laughs at (with!) them about it, because--well, *he* finds it funny, anyway, the way they just immediately answer.
The thing is, though, that Brendon's been hanging out with Haley and Keltie, too. And after awhile, it just starts to be, well, normal, and when Brendon thinks it about Cash, maybe not so funny.
Because, well. Because.
Because it's been two weeks since Cash let Brendon back into his room, and they've eaten lunch together six times and Brendon spent the night at Cash's that first night, and while he's come close a few times since, he's made himself leave. They've spent several hours making out on Cash's bed, and they'd gone to the Midnight Movie in the quad the previous weekend. So, dating yes. But, there's a difference between casual and not, and school's ending in another two weeks, and Brendon, well. He wants to know where they stand.
So: they're meeting for dinner at the SU, and Brendon's sitting on the stairs that lead up to the second floor. Cash isn't late, but Brendon's early, and his leg is jittering, and he keeps thinking *two weeks*, and that's the reason why, when Cash comes to stand in front of him, sneakers wedged between Brendon's own, and he extends a hand to help Brendon up, Brendon says, "Hi, boyfriend," as he stands. Just to test the waters. Just to see.
And Cash, well. His grin is pretty fucking blinding, actually, and Brendon thinks he maybe has his answer. He knows he has it when Cash says in return, "Hi, boyfriend." Because that, apparently, is the way they're rolling. Which makes Brendon smile, too, and want to kiss Cash.
So he does.
End.