You Just Met, Now LOVE EACH OTHER (Squishy, Dimple-face)

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"I didn't complain that much," Phoenix... complained, pouting at Oriel. Well, he knew he spoke about his headaches a lot, but... It wasn't complaining! Just... Letting Oriel know he didn't feel good. Yeah. He shot a look at Gryphon, looking guilty and amused, and shook his head when Oriel put his hand on his face. "Stoppit!" he... complained again, laughing. He was happy with his boyfriend. Really happy. Even though he had told Gryphon about Oriel's possessiveness and such, Phen... Well, he secretly got a kick out of seeing just how much the boy would scowl and keep him close whenever he found a new friend or something. Maybe he shouldn't, but he did. He just felt kinda bad that Gryph had to see all this, but.... Theywould have had to meet eventually anyway. Phoenix wanted them both in his life.

He cocked an ear to the short conversation behind him, sighing. "If you'd get along if you kissed, I'd... I'd be fine with it," he mumbled, not sure if they would even hear it. He knew Oriel would probably do it out of spite, if nothing else - and he had no idea how Gryph would even react, if he would want to kiss either of them at all. It was sorta weird to think about. Gryphon had been too young back when they had gone their different ways for Phoenix to know how open he was about romantic and sexual situations - he was curious, if only so he could know how much Oriel and Gryph might get along... That way if it came to it.

Phoenix's mind was wandering. He shook his head and snapped out of it just as Gryphon's wing wrapped around him, with very welcome warmth. His teeth stopped chattering and he looked up at his friend thankfully, huddling as close to the feathers as he could manage. "Those're really useful... Thanks, Gryphy," he said quietly. The only problem was he couldn't see Oriel. He frowned, knowing his boyfriend was probably fuming, and heard Oriel's voice a moment later. "You should feel it, babe," he called back, keeping his voice light. "It's really warm." Ahh, what he would give for them all to just cuddle up together in these nice comfy wings and all be content...

As soon as they reached the building, Phen hobbled inside as fast as he could, pecking Oriel on the cheek as he walked by. "Thanks, Squishy," he smiled, waiting for the two of them to come inside. "I can take the stairs!" Phoenix protested, but the truth was, he was very tired, and the elevator sounded nice, so he didn't complain any more and followed obediently over to it. Once inside, he relaxed his crutches and leaned into a corner of the elevator, waiting to reach their floor.

He looked between the two boys tiredly, wondering if he should say something in the sort of tight mood. Something random popped into his head, and he went with it. "So, um, I'm pregnant!" he chirped out of the blue, hoping to diffuse the tension.

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Gryphon continued to listen to the pair's back-and-forth banter and only joined in with facial expressions. It was... difficult. Now that he had made the final decision to actually be friendly, he had to stop any snide remarks or similar falling out of his mouth accidentally. He laughed a little at the whole conversation, but mainly just stayed out of the way.

He smiled at Phen's reaction to the warmth; Gryph was glad that Phen was at least a little bit more comfortable. "You wouldn't even believe." His wings were indeed extremely useful. They were, like he was demonstrating now, good at keeping himself and others warm, and he could use them to knock or hit things from a distance. He was oh-so-tempted to flick his other wing Oriel's way, but he was happy leaving it where it was, wrapped around his own body. Gryphon looked back when the boy made a comment, "I'll try my best, Jack Frost." How could he just be able to walk around in a long-sleeved top and jeans? Gryph would barely be coping if he hadn't got his wing around him.

As they approached the door, Gryph began folding his wings back for spatial reasons, but before he could make it through the door, it had closed in front of him. He took a deep breath... and opened it again with a laughing smile. "Yeah, thanks. I love having doors shut in my face." He had tried his hardest, they would have to give him some credit on the amount of terrible sarcasm and nasty comments he had avoided. He followed the pair over to the elevator and stepped inside, sending a look as cold as the air outside Oriel's way as soon as he could.

He would've laughed at the pregnancy comment, but he was trying his best to get over his temper. "Who's the father?" he said, as if there would be an obvious discrepancy.

And as if Phoenix being pregnant was actually possible.

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Yes, Oriel would kiss Gryphon simply out of spite and Phoenix ought to know that by now. Though clearly Gryph didn't know Oriel. Maybe he'd heard rumors about how he was a violent slut, maybe he hadn't, but those ones were probably true. Oriel'd like to hear what some of those guys were saying about him sometime.

Oriel kept his eyes on them. "I'm good. I ain't like you, little bit of cold don't bother me." At least not while he was awake. So long as Oriel was moving, he could make his own body heat. He just snorted at Gryphon's comment, though.

He couldn't help but smirk at that small victory, leaving Gryph behind like that. Wasn't the first time he'd done that to someone, wouldn't be the last time either. It was a shame that he managed to keep up to join them in the elevator. The air was cold and tense between them, sure, but Oriel thought that Phoenix's attempt to break it was both ridiculous and unnecessary. But fine, if Phoenix wanted him to, he'd play along.

Oriel looked down at his boyfriend then promptly groped his chest. "Yeahhh….last I checked you weren't a woman, but if that ever changes…" He removed his hand and pat him on the head. "…yeah, let me know first." Mmmm….Phoenix with breasts. That was still Oriel's own private fantasy…..which promptly turned into something even more disturbing…pregnant, male Phoenix with breasts….. Sometimes even Oriel thought his own tastes were disturbing….

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Boys.... Phoenix sighed again; the tension between these two was thick enough to cut like butter. Phen didn't know what to do - on the one hand, of course he wanted his Squishy to be happy and smother him in affection and attention. But on the other, his best friend from childhood was back in his life, just a few hours ago - and Phen sure as hell didn't want to risk losing him again so soon. He felt like he was walking on a fine line, with the risk of stepping off of it at any misplaced word.

"It's true... You're like a fuckin' heater," he called back to Oriel. Which he didn't complain about, at all - he was so skinny and meat-less he was always cold, unless he packed on enough layers until he looked like an eskimo or something. Oriel's body heat was a welcome presence in the night; he couldn't sleep without it now. "You're awful warm too, though," he told Gryph. He wouldn't mind getting cozy in a nice pair of feathery wings sometime.

He was all set on following Oriel when.... The door shut in poor Gryphy's face. Before Phen could backpedal and open it for him, the featherbutt reappeared, all fake smiles. "I'm sorry Gryphy," he mumbled, hands hovering. He felt awful, even though it was obviously Oriel's doing. "I'm sorry..." He didn't know what else to say, so with a guilty look at his friend, he waited until they were walking beside each other to get to the elevator.

As soon as he said that dumb little quip, he blushed deeply, staring at the floor. When Gryph played along and asked who the father was, Phen was going to say the obvious when something better came to mind. "Junpei!" he declared, giving the biggest fake smile he could manage. Oriel had to laugh at that, right? It was the most absurd thing ever. He let out a small squeak as his boyfriend unexpectedly grabbed at his chest, puffing out his body pecs as much as he could manage. "You'll be the first t'know," he promised, snickering. Ahh, if only he knew Oriel's imagery... "Oh, and Gryphy will be the godfather." He pointed at his friend just as they reached their floor, grabbing his crutches and quickly leaving the tense little room. "So um... Do you guys wanna do somethin', or just go back to our rooms, or...?" His little pinky found Oriel's, while his opposite hand came up to stroke one of Gryphon's feathers. "We could watch a movie or somethin'."

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

When it came to the topic of gossip, Gryph wasn't one of those at the top of the food chain, you could say, feeding in the news or making the rumours, nor was he disinterested with gossip all together. He was more of a middle man. He didn't pass on anything that sounded serious or spiteful, but he did catch a lot of the buzz, and he would judge it as it came.

He had, because of this, heard Oriel's name once or twice before. But he wasn't interested enough to remember anything, since at the time.of hearing these things, he didn't think Oriel was of any importance to him.

Well, that's changed at least.

It wasn't a little bit of cold, it was fucking freezing! Oriel had to be Jack Frost or some cold-blooded reptile to withstand the stupidly low temperature. He came back to his senses at Phen's words though, smiling and wrapping his wing around just that little bit more.

It was more than obvious that Oriel didn't want Gryph there. He couldn't have been more blunt if he had a bright, flashing neon sign in his face that said 'GO THE FUCK AWAY.' in multicoloured lights. He continued to smile though, waving Phen's apologies off, it was not his fault at all, "It's fine, Phennie." He tried to warm up his gaze so it wasn't so fake and annoyed, but it was difficult to do with an asshole around.

Gryph smirked and snorted out a laugh at the mention of this 'Junpei'. It was a name he'd heard, but there wasn't a fact he could recall to go with it. His smile drooped into a small grimace as the scene unfolded infront of him; the winged boy really didn't need to see that. His grin returned at the godfather comment, but he made no reply.

Once they were out of that elevating tin can, Gryph breathed a little heavier. He felt so tense, it was like this whole meeting was suffocating him. He was about to suggest that they parted ways when Phen made contact with his feathers. He tightened slightly from the touch, and then relaxed. It was quite soothing, he had to stop himself from accidentally cooing out loud and looking like a bozo. His speech came out calm, "I dunno, Phen, whatever you wanna do, I'll tag along."

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That's what bird-boy got for snuggling up to close to Oriel's boyfriend, like he wanted to get cozy with him or something. And it certainly wasn't Oriel's fault that he was too slow to get through the door, or too dumb to grab the door before it closed. Guess some people just lacked common sense. So Oriel just continued to ignore the exchange between Phoenix and Gryph. He expected Phoenix to go rushing after the guy. He really was a nicer person that Oriel could ever be.

Indeed Oriel did snicker at the mention of Junpei being the father of this imaginary child. "Phoenix, honey," he started, giving the boy a teasing pat on the head, "I don't know if you heard yet, but you can't get pregnant from just a kiss. So whoever told you that is a liar." At least he wasn't threatening to go and murder that yellow-bellied nerd for trespassing like he done.

"Hmph," was his immediate response to Gryph being declared the godfather of their child, however pretend it might be. "Fine, but only if Tak gets to be the godmother." Oriel leaned over more into Phoenix, wrapping an arm over his shoulder and latching his wrists on Phen's collarbone. "Oh, I have a couple of things I want to do, if he really wants to tag along, but…" He leered over at Phoenix's "best friend", "I don't think our 'friend' here is up for that kind of involvement…..yet." Oh, yes he went there. And he wondered how long it'd take for Gryph to snap out of his feigned pleasantries with Oriel pushing him like this.

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Why couldn't these two just get along? Phen was getting exasperated with them both (mostly Oriel, because at least Gryph seemed to be trying to be pleasant, while Oriel was just taunting and teasing left and right); he was on the verge of sticking them in a room together alone and just having them talk out their problems. Hah... Like that would happen. Whatever, Phoenix was still determined to have them be friends, or at least be able to stand each other. Because even if Phen was playing innocent and paying attention to them both, even he was starting to notice the tension, despite his crap ability at reading people.

His lips set in a pout as Oriel started patronizing him, still playing along with the joke. "But I thought...." he trailed off, eyes wide. "Everything I know is a lie!" He couldn't hold up the act long, though, and burst into giggles a few moments later, turning his smile to Gryphon. "Good thing that isn't true, because when we were young Gryph and I-" Oops, nope, definitely not going there, not with tensions this high. Shit, why had Phen said anything? His lips snapped shut and he pointedly dropped whatever he was going to say, letting his gaze fall to the floor.

"Of course she can, she'd be a great godmother," Phoenix chirped. Tak was already a mom of a not-so-imaginary child anyway, so who better, even if this was all a joke? Phen sunk in against Oriel's chest as his arms wrapped around him, and he winced at what his boyfriend was saying, sending an apologetic look to Gryphon. "Um... I don't think that would be a good idea, Squish," he mumbled. As much as he wanted to hang out with his friend more, he realized having these two together for any longer might make one of them explode eventually. Might be best to just wait for another day. "Gryph... Maybe we should plan t'do something tomorrow?" He offered a weak smile, petting the boy's wing a few more times before dropping his hand.

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Gryphon was reaching the end of his tether, slowly but surely; he was in some kind of midpoint between being absolutely furious and just giving up. Mainly, he was just getting confused and he felt like he needed to get away as soon as possible before he got too angry... or showed more weakness to Oriel. That kid was unbearable, like seriously? How hard is it to be friendly?

He chuckled along quietly, the conversation the couple were having didn't relate to him, so he didn't really understand what they were on about, but it sounded funny. He was beginning to feel like that had been happening a lot... until Phen spoke again. That he could most definitely relate to. And Oriel probably wouldn't be too happy about it, even if it was ages ago. Gryph blushed slightly and scratched the back of his neck, unsure of how to salvage the situation. He could only wait.

Aaaaaand another person Gryph didn't know. It really felt like he needed to get out more. But it was nice to be accepted as the imaginary godfather, at least, he thought.

...this guy didn't know when to lay off did he? Gryphon knew it was on purpose, Oreo was just playing games with his temper, but he wasn't having it, any of it! He pushed his wings against his back to stop them from flying out, making his whole body tenser. He tried to listen to Phen, but he only caught the last thing he said. Gryphon forced himself to stay using English, which used up a lot of mental power.

"Whatever." As much as he was glad to see Phen, he couldn't spend another second around Oriel. He turned on his heels and approached the stairs to go to his floor and get away from it all.