Kira sits back behind his cigarette, behind the still-full bottle rounding the circle. There's no real interest for where the neck points, at the end, until it leads back to Delilah.
"Oh that's fucking rich," he says, "I'd say make sure the condom's fresh, but your kids will probably fix the hole in the ozone."
Another swig as Vivian sneers agreement and shoves the side of his head, turns to a choke when Delilah foregoes the rude gesture to turn the bottle so it points at Kira. That's not fair meets At least you can't get pregnant over the noise of ten other people egging him on, and Kira pushes the bottle down on the floor to boost himself upright.
"Fine, but I'm taking this with me." He kicks away a grasping hand and holds the bottle over his head, walking across the gap to Ty. "Seven minutes, lover boy."
When the bottle pointed to Delilah, Ty felt his heart leap up into his throat, meeting her eyes levelly but still holding his hand out for another shot. He had no illusions that anything that would happen in that seven minutes would be close to heaven. Mostly it would be about his college prospects, what was he going to do with his life, and maybe if he was lucky, they could spend some time laughing at how ridiculous this whole night was. But he supposed Delilah wasn't his childhood best friend for nothing, and with the sort of neutral expression that would serve her well in politics, she pointed the bottle to Kira. He wasn't sure if he should kiss her for it anyway, but he supposed his laughter was repayment enough.
"Try to last seven minutes Ty!" Vivian catcalled after them, and after lovingly giving her the finger and getting one more shot, Ty followed after Kira. What else was new?
As the door was shut behind them, the closet spacious enough they could have both sprawled out on the floor on opposite ends and not touched, he took a seat, holding his hand out for the bottle.
"I never thought I'd say this, but I'd rather talk college prospects than be fingerbanged by you. It seems too cliche on prom night." Because Kira wasn't interested, and Ty could be a gentleman and give him an out.
Being shut in a closet with Ty is less a new experience than a literal translation of what it feels like to be alone with him, even in an open room. Four walls, dim light, hanging coats and hotel robes. With more than one room attached to the suite, the others will probably keep spinning until they're full, and maybe claim a bathroom as well--and plenty of couples are going to surpass the seven minute mark. At least they've gotten first pick of the night.
Kira makes no effort to set a timer on his phone; that's up to the rabble rousers outside. He's contained, with nothing but a bottle to distract him from the press of Ty, the fact of the walls.
With a final swig and a casual pass, he doesn't even have the bottle anymore. "I'm still not going, and I honestly don't care about your future education--so if you don't want to make out because of cliches you'll need to find another way to entertain me."
"What, don't tell me you actually want to make out." Ty joked, heart twisting in his throat even as if he tried to pass it off as casual. He knew he hadn't been subtle about his feelings all night, hell, probably since he had met Kira and started getting along with him. But he also respected the boundaries that Kira had erected around them, as well as himself too much to go chasing after someone who wasn't interested in him that way. And though Kira would probably roll his eyes at it, his friendship really did mean more to him. Moreso than the difficulties of dating outside of one's financial class was finding lasting friendships. One where Ty was more important than his money or connections.
He closed his eyes, feeling too buzzed to move, lazy and boneless.
Normally he wouldn't - or he would, because he'd always prefer to be making out with someone - normally he'd say no. But he has seven minutes in a closet, trapped not just with Ty but with Ty's wanting it. And he has all the minutes after that, where they're forgotten, where everyone in the damn suite has paired off or gone to bed, and if he says no, he might as well slip out now and just go home.
He'd take Ty with him, but - he's not staying in this hotel all night and guarding his fucking virtue.
"I mean, I did ask for the full prom experience," he says, leaning back on both hands like it costs him nothing at all to entertain the prospect. "And you're graduating soon, off to some Ivy League with Delilah. We should probably make out at least once."
The thing about him and Kira was this: Ty would be fine if they were just friends. In fact, he'd probably relish having something concrete about what their relationship is instead of all the little things it isn't. He falls in and out of love quick and easy, so long as there's a definite get together and a definite break up. But with Kira, there's none of that. There's the constantly touted 'it's not in the cards' but there's never a 'no'. There's never a confession, but there's a way that Kira looks at him sometimes.
Vivian would call it being kept on the hook and Felix would call it stupidity, but there's just enough to keep Ty cycling back. He should be offended that Kira was acting like kissing Ty was something on some checklist to be done, but it was difficult to be too mad when Ty had been wanting to kiss him all night and longer.
"Who says I'm going anywhere? Maybe I'll just take advantage of my family's wealth and bum around here forever." But even as he was saying it, he already knew it wasn't going to happen. He was restless even now, ready to do something, anything. He just needed to find his direction.
"But if it's just for prom, then fine." Ty said, hopefully equally blase. "But you have to come over here, the room is spinning a bit."
The Rhodes' wealth is its own hook, an old point of contention, a line to tug on that will unravel this moment into a petty fight. Or, at least, a fight all of the people in the joining room will find petty, and that Kira's own friends would understand too well.
Ty is his friend. Is and will be and--
And it doesn't change the fact that he might only be here, at this rich kid prom and in this closet bigger than certain rooms of the family apartment, because if Ty's going to fuck somebody on prom night, he wants Kira in the running. So Kira tugs the thread, but silently - unraveling something inside of himself instead of the moment closing them both in.
Whatever this is, it's fine so long as it hurts them both.
Rolling forward, he shrugs against the stretch of his white shirt over his back and crawls into Ty's corner. "You'd better not bum around here forever," is all he says, a little dry and worn, before guiding Ty in with a hand at his chin, knelt to kiss him from above.
For someone that Ty called one of his best friends, he could hardly tell what Kira was thinking. Delilah just had to give him a look and he felt like a whole conversation had taken place, Felix just had to drop by with a 'so I need-' and he already knew he was going to get in trouble, and Ronan just had to clap a hand on his shoulder and he knew things would get better. But Kira was different than anyone else he had ever known, in an uncountable number of ways.
Was he doing this because it was a whim? Because he felt like he had to repay him someway and this was the easiest way? Or were Ty's feelings not as one sided as he wanted to believe?
Either way, he watched him crawl over, feeling dizzy, before grasping onto Kira's shirt to pull him forward. Ty kept it chaste for a moment or two before pressing further, hungry for more.
"Or what?" He teased against Kira's lips, afraid to open his eyes to see something like regret or disgust on his face.
If he regrets this, it's in the doing - not the quality. Now he knows, in the haze of too much champagne and vodka, what it feels like to have Ty tug on his shirt. How carefully Ty can start a kiss, and how warm it is, how gently he can deepen it.
In the moment they're both dizzy, but Kira has his eyes open, for how little he can see in the dark. Pieces of Ty's face, shapes made by dim light. When he presses in for another kiss, when he opens his mouth and slides his tongue against the back of his teeth, shadow swallows as much as he does.
"Or you'll never be happy." It isn't a jab, isn't even a rejoinder. A little truth, a little Akiyama foresight as he gathers the back of Ty's head in his hands, shifts his knees to straddle part of his lap, and leans into a moment that feels so easy to have, for how impossible it will be to keep.
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"Oh that's fucking rich," he says, "I'd say make sure the condom's fresh, but your kids will probably fix the hole in the ozone."
Another swig as Vivian sneers agreement and shoves the side of his head, turns to a choke when Delilah foregoes the rude gesture to turn the bottle so it points at Kira. That's not fair meets At least you can't get pregnant over the noise of ten other people egging him on, and Kira pushes the bottle down on the floor to boost himself upright.
"Fine, but I'm taking this with me." He kicks away a grasping hand and holds the bottle over his head, walking across the gap to Ty. "Seven minutes, lover boy."
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"Try to last seven minutes Ty!" Vivian catcalled after them, and after lovingly giving her the finger and getting one more shot, Ty followed after Kira. What else was new?
As the door was shut behind them, the closet spacious enough they could have both sprawled out on the floor on opposite ends and not touched, he took a seat, holding his hand out for the bottle.
"I never thought I'd say this, but I'd rather talk college prospects than be fingerbanged by you. It seems too cliche on prom night." Because Kira wasn't interested, and Ty could be a gentleman and give him an out.
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Kira makes no effort to set a timer on his phone; that's up to the rabble rousers outside. He's contained, with nothing but a bottle to distract him from the press of Ty, the fact of the walls.
With a final swig and a casual pass, he doesn't even have the bottle anymore. "I'm still not going, and I honestly don't care about your future education--so if you don't want to make out because of cliches you'll need to find another way to entertain me."
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He closed his eyes, feeling too buzzed to move, lazy and boneless.
"Okay, then what about me getting a tattoo?"
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He'd take Ty with him, but - he's not staying in this hotel all night and guarding his fucking virtue.
"I mean, I did ask for the full prom experience," he says, leaning back on both hands like it costs him nothing at all to entertain the prospect. "And you're graduating soon, off to some Ivy League with Delilah. We should probably make out at least once."
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Vivian would call it being kept on the hook and Felix would call it stupidity, but there's just enough to keep Ty cycling back. He should be offended that Kira was acting like kissing Ty was something on some checklist to be done, but it was difficult to be too mad when Ty had been wanting to kiss him all night and longer.
"Who says I'm going anywhere? Maybe I'll just take advantage of my family's wealth and bum around here forever." But even as he was saying it, he already knew it wasn't going to happen. He was restless even now, ready to do something, anything. He just needed to find his direction.
"But if it's just for prom, then fine." Ty said, hopefully equally blase. "But you have to come over here, the room is spinning a bit."
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Ty is his friend. Is and will be and--
And it doesn't change the fact that he might only be here, at this rich kid prom and in this closet bigger than certain rooms of the family apartment, because if Ty's going to fuck somebody on prom night, he wants Kira in the running. So Kira tugs the thread, but silently - unraveling something inside of himself instead of the moment closing them both in.
Whatever this is, it's fine so long as it hurts them both.
Rolling forward, he shrugs against the stretch of his white shirt over his back and crawls into Ty's corner. "You'd better not bum around here forever," is all he says, a little dry and worn, before guiding Ty in with a hand at his chin, knelt to kiss him from above.
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Was he doing this because it was a whim? Because he felt like he had to repay him someway and this was the easiest way? Or were Ty's feelings not as one sided as he wanted to believe?
Either way, he watched him crawl over, feeling dizzy, before grasping onto Kira's shirt to pull him forward. Ty kept it chaste for a moment or two before pressing further, hungry for more.
"Or what?" He teased against Kira's lips, afraid to open his eyes to see something like regret or disgust on his face.
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In the moment they're both dizzy, but Kira has his eyes open, for how little he can see in the dark. Pieces of Ty's face, shapes made by dim light. When he presses in for another kiss, when he opens his mouth and slides his tongue against the back of his teeth, shadow swallows as much as he does.
"Or you'll never be happy." It isn't a jab, isn't even a rejoinder. A little truth, a little Akiyama foresight as he gathers the back of Ty's head in his hands, shifts his knees to straddle part of his lap, and leans into a moment that feels so easy to have, for how impossible it will be to keep.