Should Have Seen This Coming (Oriel)[Trigger Warning]

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Oriel wasn’t drunk yet either…well, he was, but not nearly enough for his own taste. Though maybe it did settle in him a lot faster than it used to. Aside from the shit-tastic carnival from last year, Oriel had been pretty near sober since he’d been at Hammel. A drink or two here and there, but Kodi was right, it was hard to get your hands on that stuff. Oriel really shouldn’t be complaining, he was lucky to have anything to suck on at all.

Clearly alcohol removed the filter between his brain and his mouth. Oriel had already learned that taking shots at Kodi’s sexuality was off limits(same with Erik), yet that wasn’t stopping him at the moment. No, Oriel was just… enjoying himself? Yeah, sure. He was feeling pretty good. Why not call it that?

“Hmph, ain’t a bad idea,” he muttered, slurping in another mouthful of fruity goodness. This shit was going to make his stomach sick on syrup. Oriel already had thoughts about scaling down out the window and belting his way down to the nearest corner store or something. Oriel had a mature face on him, maybe they’d get away with it?

“Uh-huh,” he said dismissively. “Whatever, ain’t like I asked t’be collared.” If it were up to Oriel, he’d still be banging whatever person caught his fancy. Even Kodi. Oriel didn’t give two shits if he was “taken”. Oriel smirked and propped himself up on his haunches, tilting his head so that his hair fell in waves over his shoulder, covering the ‘sleeves’ of his white tank. “Or what? That a cry for help I’m readin’ there? Ain’t gettin’ enough from your pet turkey, now that he moved out?” Oriel could get that, since it was the shit he went through when Phoenix’s time became limited due to his job. “Hey, why don’t you clear me up something here ‘bout you too, it’s been buggin’ me awhile.” Oriel snickered through his nose as he leaned in closer. “Which one of you’s the fucker and which is the fuckee? Or do you guys just switch it off every other go?”

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It really was fortunate Kodi tended to be a happy, dumb drunk, otherwise he might've already taken a swing or two at the stupid hypocrite already. As it was, he was downing the alcohol as fast as he could take it, hoping he would just get too fuzzy-headed to care the least bit about the shit that came out of Oriel's mouth.

"Right, well, you go ahead an' go get whatchu want then; if you get caught, it ain't my fault," Kodi snorted. He wasn't dumb enough to try to get stuff directly from a shop, he had connections. Unless he was desperate and managed to steal something; it wasn't too hard, the guys that worked those places were usually too zoned out and depressed to notice anyway.

"Then why'd you let yourself be?" Kodi snorted. "Your pet's a pushover, just give him the rules, instead'a the other way around." Although the dentokinetic couldn't talk, it wasn't like he expected Gryph to want an open relationship like that, as much as Kodi wouldn've liked it (wellll.... as long as he got to mess around and Gryphon was just his, because he was possessive like that). He watched Oriel warily as he propped himself up, but didn't move away. "Fuck, you know, you look like a hippie with your hair that long," he mumbled distractedly. His teeth gritted and he looked back down again as Oriel poked at him, wishing he could say no, he was just fine, but that would be a lie. "I thought it'd be easy t'sneak out an' see him often, but it's harder than I thought," he grumbled. "It's like a twenty minute drive so I gotta take a bus, after I have t'sneak outta here in the first place..." Mumble grumble. He took another swig. "It's stupid."

Kodi blinked as Oriel came in closer, almost making his eyes cross. "Eh?" he grunted. "That ain't any of your business." Kodi's cheeks flushed a faint pink against his will, and he leaned slightly away. "'Sides, what's it matter t'you? You wanna know if he turns into a crazed sex monster in bed or somethin'?" He huffed out a laugh. "Guess you'll just have t'keep usin' your imagination."

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“What? You’d hang me out to dry like a ball-less wanker? And here I thought we was friends.” Oriel rolled his eyes dramatically, as if it were the most disappointing discovery of the decade. Whatever, alcohol was alcohol, no matter how fruity it was. “You’re fucking boring when you’re buzzed.”

Oriel growled at Kodi. “Oy, you ain’t got room to talk. Turkey-Boy had you completely celibate for who knows how long ‘fore he finally decided to stop being a fucking weenie ‘bout it.” At least Oriel got to enjoy the blessings of an open relationship for a little while before Phoenix invoked the “exclusive” rule. Oriel might not have been happy about it….no, he just plain wasn’t happy about it. Wasn’t like he didn’t love Phoenix or nothing, Oriel just wasn’t a one-person kind of guy. Why wasn’t he allowed to have multiple people who were special to him? And half the time, the people he fucked who weren’t special only got to taste him once ‘fore he moved on to something else.

So Oriel liked sex!? What was the big deal? It was like…like trying out different soda flavors, or candy at the supermarket! You try a whole bunch, but usually always go back to your favorite. Because your favorite is the super special one.

Fuck, whatever. “I know you like it,” he said with a snark. Because Oriel’s hair was fabulous!

“Hmph, I don’t know. I think if he wasn’t such a damn ditz, he’d’ve realized and got a place closer…or failed on purpose so he’d have to stay another year.” Yeah right. Gryph was too much of goody-goody to even consider that.

Oriel held his hands out, shrugging his shoulders in a nonchalant manner. “Hey, I just wanna know if he took any of them tips I gave him way back when.” Oriel leaned in closer. “I mean…how else is he s’pposed to live up to the memory of me pummeling your ass if he don’t at least get a few hints from the competition?” Oriel chuckled again and took in another drink.

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"Yeah, we're friends, but I ain't gettin' into that shit for your sake," Kodi shot back with a small smirk. Sober, he never would have outright said they were friends, but the buzzing in his head told him it was fine, whatever. "An' shut it, people tell me I'm easier t'be around when I'm drunk."

He growled and glowered as Oriel turned the tide right back on him, squirming uncomfortably where he sat. "Yeah, well, it was worth it," he finally grunted. "You seen his body? He's like a fuckin' god. An' we did other shit 'fore he finally let me stick it in." Honestly, Kodi was really humbled about being Gryphon's first; he'd just never admit it. "So shut up, moron." He hadn't meant to use the endearing term he'd given Gryphon, but it came out as Kodi shoved Oriel's shoulder again.

He took several more gulps after that. Kodi was really starting to feel it now; his mouth felt kinda thick, and he was smiling too much.

"Yeah, well, he's gotta be a fuckin' smartass an' get accepted to that university that's like forty minutes away," he growled, swirling around the remainder of his drink. "An' that slut's livin' with him too, which just adds a whole 'nother issue." Kodi sighed and peeked up at Oriel. "Why do relationships have t'be so hard? It was easier when I just got t'bang whoever I wanted." Kodi hadn't been as happy then, though. Hadn't had someone to sleep with at night. Granted, he didn't now...

"What? You gave him tips?" Kodi barked, then he laughed a little too loud, bumping his forehead into Oriel's shoulder. "You prob'y scared him half t'death with it, knowin' you." He sighed and met his friends gaze for a moment as he spoke, smile wavering. "He... He does good 'nough," he finally mumbled. "Just takes practice's all. He, ah... Well, he ain't as aggressive as I'd like sometimes, but I think we're gettin' there." Kodi was someone that enjoyed more than a bit of pain with his pleasure, something Oriel knew very well. He shook his head and scowled again, trying to get the fuzz out of his head. "You... You ain't competition," he said belatedly. "Get over yourself." His voice quivered.

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Oriel wasn’t about to call him out on that friends deal, though his demonic grin did spread wider as he cackled into his drink. “If ‘easier to be around’ means ‘boring’, then I’m inclined to agree.” Oriel was, if hadn’t noticed by now, the exact opposite. Though that’s not how Oriel saw it. He was just…hanging out, feeling good, talking. Why was he so worried about this shit again? Oriel could handle himself, no problem!

“Other stuff? You sure you ain’t just covering for him? You act like it’s some kind of magical bullshit, or something.” Oriel scoffed. Kodi really had gone soft. Or was it just the alcohol and his ‘easier to be around’-ness? “Sure you taken it from other dudes before, right? Can’t be all that special.” Oriel certainly wouldn’t know what that was like. Both he and Phoenix had given it up when they were young, long before they’d met each other, so they’d never really understand the whole ‘save it for the one you love’ bullshit.

He’d taken it from plenty enough, though. And none of it was particularly special. Nope. Not a single one. Not even Madison.

Fuck.

“A fucking smartass, huh? Being smart ain’t got nothing to do with it,” Oriel grumbled. If it did, then some idiots he’d seen would still be here and other idiots would have already graduated by now. “I mean, you’re a fucking nerd,” he said a bit despondently. “You could’ve been outta here already if you really wanted to…” Not like Oriel, who had to fucking climb mountains to get anywhere.

He swigged down another gulp of peachy goodness. “I don’t know…relationships’re just…work, I guess. It’s exhausting…” Oriel didn’t like doing work if he didn’t have to…unfortunately, everything he was doing lately seemed to require some amount of work.

“Yeah, fuck, he didn’t tell you?” That was hilarious and Oriel made sure Kodi knew it with his never ending cackle. Then again, Kodi seemed to be in agreement, judging from his own laugh. “You should’ve seen his face. Fuck, I should’ve snapped a picture.” Which would have only increased Oriel collection of blackmail-able pics. Oriel kept his eyes on the Chinese boy, thinking his meek little obstinance was a hella lot more adorable than his usual willfulness. “Kinda hard when you keep gazing like you want me.” And Oriel knew better. Of course Kodi was a sucker for a perfect, rough guy like him. It was so obvious.

Oriel didn’t bother asking for permission. He snatched Kodi’s chin between one hand, arching his head upwards, and pressed their mouths together. Mmm…tasted like peaches.

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"Fine. I'm borin'. Get over it," Kodi scoffed with a furrowed brow. Even so, he couldn't muster up the will to snap back with his usual retorts. So maybe he was boring. Whatever. It made his life seem more bearable, so he did what worked.

"Stop talkin' 'bout him like that," he said tiredly. Now Kodi realized how Oriel must feel when he talked about Phoenix in a bad way. He felt defensive, protective, he just couldn't bring it in himself to be overly aggressive in his responses. "I ain't taken it from anyone before," he mumbled. Not that he knew, at least. "I'm too mean t'take it from anyone. I'd break 'em." Gryphon was only different because Kodi had cared enough to be careful. "So... Don't pretend like y'know what it's like." He grumbled into his drink.

"He graduated a year late as it was. I ain't got any good 'nough reason t'make him stay any longer than that," Kodi sighed. "He needs to... Fuck, get on with his life. Maybe he'll meet someone at University that turns out t'be a helluva lot better for him anyway." Now Kodi was bumming himself out. "I may be a nerd, don't mean I give a shit 'bout the stuff they're teachin' here," he grunted. Kodi was of the belief that he could learn anything he wanted or needed about anything from books or the internet. He was probably smarter than most of the people that had graduated this year anyway.

Relationships... Work... Kodi sighed again. Some days he wondered how he'd ended up being where he was, but then Gryphon would give him that dumb, dorky, moronic smile and he'd just go all fuzzy...

His laughter simmered down into a half-amused smile as he sipped at the drink. "I bet it was amusin'," he agreed quietly, already planning on asking his boyfriend about it. Kodi was musing about this when Oriel responded to his protest, and his cheeks darkened as his eyes widened the slightest bit. "I... Dunno what you're talkin' 'bout," he lied, gaze shifting to the side. He was about to take another drink to distract himself when-

The dentokinetic jerked at the touch, but before he knew what to do he felt Oriel's breath against his mouth and they were kissing, and Kodi's head spun and buzzed and he sat there flustered for a moment not knowing what to do-

"D... Don't," he grunted, shoving Oriel weakly away. The light in his eyes, though, and the sharpness of his now panting breaths, gave away how he really felt about it. Kodi didn't move away. "I told you, you ain't..." The sentence fumbled off into nothing, and the protests died in his throat.

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“Ha, I bet that’s a fucking lie.” With the way that Kodi rampaged around, there was no way he didn’t peg a virgin or two. Then again…Erik said he didn’t do that shit either, so guess Oriel was the more twisted fuck out of these guys? Whatever, if they weren’t so fucking gay, they’d probably have gotten a girl or two somewhere, sometime.

“You really hoping he finds somebody else? You give up quick. Thought this shit was supposed to be your born-again-true-love experience?” Oriel dazzled his hands in the air, keeping his thumb gripped around the nozzle of the “water” bottle.

Oriel shook his head at Kodi’s idiocy. “You don’t have to fucking care, just do the bare minimum. A ‘C’ is still passing, guy with a brain like yours could probly swing that, no problem.” Was Oriel jealous? That Kodi had the smarts and ability and didn’t bother to use them? No shit.

Oriel continued the kiss with urgency, as if it were the last thing he ever had to do, invading the fang-pire’s mouth with his tongue and plunging deep into his throat, ignoring any nicks he might have gotten from the dentokinetic’s teeth. The hand he’d grabbed Kodi’s chin with slid back to wrap like a noose around the trunk of Kodi’s neck. Oriel moved so that his legs were place on either side of Kodi’s legs and squat down, disengaging the kiss only to reinitiate it. If Kodi were as sensitive to Oriel’s intentions as he hoped, then the other boy would already be backing further into and onto bed. If not then…that was fine. Oriel had other ways to get him to move.

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"Ain't a lie," Kodi mumbled. Well... Okay, there was that one guy, but... But, fuck, he hadn't said he was one, actually he'd denied it, but... Whatever! It didn't matter! So he just humphed and drank and was done with the conversation.

"Course I don't hope he finds someone else!" he snapped, glaring over at Oriel. "I just don't fuckin' deserve him, so sorry if I'm freakin' out over the fact that he's gonna be surrounded by older, probably hotter guys that don't have all my problems, all the time." It was something that was a very real fear that Kodi had, but he didn't know what to do about it other than hope and trust that Gryph really was as attached to him as he said he was.

He grunted at Oriel's words, knowing he was right. "Yeah, yeah, I'll prob'ly do that this year so I can get outta this place," he sighed. At least then he should have enough money from his bookstore job to get an apartment (with Gryphon, as long as they were still together, which Kodi desperately hoped they would be). "An' you better graduate with me, or... Or else I'm gonna come back an' tutor you myself," he humphed.

Everything stopped mattering, though, when Oriel continued his onslaught, ignoring Kodi's weak protests and immediately sucking him in deep. It took very little for Kodi to break down and return the kisses, the bottle in his hand dropped and forgotten as he clutched onto the younger boy's shirt. "Oriel," he panted in the small break. "We shouldn't-" He fell silent as his breath was taken away again. Kodi was too drunk to think of the consequences of kissing just yet, but already his mind was whirling with where this would inevitably lead, and... And he couldn't. Not with... Gryphon...

He attempted to pull himself away again and disengage, shoving a hand on Oriel's chest with wild eyes. "What about Phoenix?" he slurred. "We shouldn't... We..." Why was his gaze falling down to the boy's mouth again? Kodi trembled and pushed himself up to sit on the bed, unintentionally going right where Oriel wanted him to. He just... He needed to get away before he broke what little self-control he had and just said fuck it all.

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“Heh, ‘Kodi’s Private Tutoring Sessions’…I kinda like the sound of that.” Oriel followed up with a short, sinister chuckle before enjoying more of the liquor that he was hardly even tasting anymore.

That is, until he was tasting it through Kodi. The faintest hint of peaches swarmed over his tongue as it slid over the smooth, roughness of Kodi’s own. A trail of saliva started to dribble between their locked lips. Oriel merely slurped it up and dove in for another delicious helping.

Oriel ignored Kodi’s protests. Sure there was a small nagging of rational in the back of his mind telling to get the fuck over himself, take a fucking pill and chill, just back off of this ‘game’ before he did something stupid….but Oriel was enjoying himself too much. It was definitely too easy for him to get lost in the game, and for the first time in a while, Oriel was playing the game with someone who was normally too head-strong to crumble this easily under Oriel’s persistence. Oriel the cat, Kodi the mouse. Before it was Oriel the cat and Kodi the mouse pretending to be the cat. And he did it quite well.

Oriel crawled over Kodi, still pushing the boy backwards onto the bed and slowly creeping his hands down to work on the buttons of Kodi’s pants. Oriel was faintly wondering how far he could take this before Kodi finally pushed him off….and if he didn’t….well, Oriel was never one to back down from a game of chicken.

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Gryphon didn't get to see Kodi as much as he would like after having left Hammel, which sucked. It was a bit of a leap, going from being... literally 10 seconds away from each other, to being a 20 minute bus ride away. Likely matters was that it was probably further or more difficult for another pair somewhere, but it was still hard, and annoying.

Kodi came to see Gryph a lot, but he didn't always return the favour, so today, he was gonna surprise him, and he was looking forward to it. The winged boy walked through the familiar campus and towards the dorms. He wasn't sure how Kodi would react, but he definitely wouldn't be expecting it. When he reached the room, he couldn't stop himself from smiling as he knocked once on the door and let himself in.

...

He froze, his heart sank and his face dropped. He couldn't... he looked at the two of them and he felt like his head would explode. He was angry, so angry, and upset, and confused, and he felt physically sick. Without a word, his face turned cold and he escaped from the situation, leaving the door wide open. There was a difference between fight and flight or submitting yourself to mental torture.

His head span and ached and he felt like he was gonna be sick. Gryph bolted it as fast as he could to try and find somewhere to hide. He kept going at full speed until he was outside, the calmer atmosphere seemingly cushioning his outburst of energy. He stumbled over to a wall of the building and leaned against it, curling in on himself and forcing his breaths to regulate before he vomited or had a panic attack or made himself worse off than he already was.

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Kodi couldn't deny that this felt... Really good. There had been chemistry between the two boys since the day they'd met, vicious, carnal chemistry that ended up exploding between them time and time again back when they'd both been free enough to keep hooking up.

Now, though... The weigh of guilt laid heavily upon him even as he continued to accept Oriel's rough, demanding kisses, trying and failing to push himself away from the onslaught. He knew where this was going, he knew what was going to happen if he didn't put his foot down, and knew Oriel might continue on regardless of whatever weak protests he could make...

It wasn't until Oriel actually started going for his pants that Kodi managed to break away a little. "Stop," he rasped, eyes wide. He wiped the saliva from his chin and was just about to shove Oriel away with whatever he could manage when -

The door opened, and Gryphon was suddenly there, and panic seized Kodi's heart. No.

"Gryph, wait, this ain't... I'm not...!" Kodi barely managed to get out half-excuses when the older boy turned around and fled. "No!" The dentokinetic shoved the other drunk boy off of him and stumbled to his feet, nearly toppling over as the world spun around him before he managed to find a wall and push himself along, out to the hallway, trying desperately to keep up with the running boy. "Gryphon, please!" he pleaded after him, his voice slurring.

But before long, he lost sight of him. Kodi wailed and tried to determine where he'd gone by the wake he'd left in the dorms, finally managing to stumble outside and nearly faceplant down the steps. "Gryphon?" he called out weakly. "Please, let me explain, it was him that came onto me, an'... An'..." Kodi didn't even know if Gryph was close enough to hear him, and even if he was, he doubted he would listen. "Please!"

He finally just slumped against the wall and breathed hard, on the verge of tears himself. What had he done?

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Kodi’s protests were nothing in the face of Oriel and his game, he barely even heard them. Kodi may be saying ‘no’, but his body sure was saying ‘go’, as cheesy as that sounded. And Oriel was more than willing to comply.

He continued to press forward, his excitement already showing through familiar bulge in his pants, keeping his lips very near sealed over Kodi’s if just to keep him from objecting further to Oriel’s oncomings. Oriel was prepared to take this all the way just for his own selfish kicks. Because he found it amusing. Because he wanted to see Kodi shivering beneath him as he tried oh, so hard to not give into his body’s own desires. How fun to see him betray himself!

Oriel would have laughed if he wasn’t too busy sucking face.

Having Gryphon barge in on them was not part of this plan, however….well, there had been no plan to begin with, Oriel was just doing what he wanted. And it didn’t matter to him if he succeeded, it was fun either way. Gryph coming in right at that moment was just…an oversight. An amusing oversight. So when Kodi finally worked up the will to shove him off, Oriel didn’t fight it and allowed himself to fall loosely onto the floor, his face twisted into something of evil glee.

Oh, this was funny. And Oriel made sure that they all knew it with his condescending cackles. He rolled, not caring that the remaining liquor they’d just been drinking had spilled and soaked into the carpet and was thus soaking into his blue-jeans. He watched with continuous laughter as Gryph took off and Kodi stumbled on after him, like some vomit-worthy clip from a tv show.

A few moments after they left, Oriel finally started to calm, snorting disdainfully into the room, irritated that his fun-times had been cut so short. Oh, well. Let them figure themselves out. Oriel gripped the side of the desk to pull himself up onto unsteady feet, holding himself frozen there a moment before straightening and swaggering his way uncaringly out of the room, out of the dorm, and down the hall. Any who had the misfortune of encountering him got what was coming to them.

Oriel wandered his way like that back to his own dorm room.

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Kodi's protests just made Gryphon run faster. He wasn't ready to confront this, yet. He was so overwhelmed, yet completely and utterly blank and numb that anything he said now... well, no, he couldn't think of a single word to say. And Oriel's laughter was not helping in slightest. He could still almost make it out, and it just made something more twist in his chest, this utter hatred. This was just... unbelievable.

But now he was hunched over, breathing heavy and hard as his body struggled to function. After what happened with Nick, he felt worthless. Like he wasn't good enough, like he was a fucking piece of trash that people would kick about for amusement. It took him time and energy, but his confidence eventually came back and he believed in himself again. So this... this was scratching at old wounds and they were starting to seep. He wasn't ready for that, he wasn't ready for that at all.

Gryph coughed and heaved in another breath, covering his face. He felt his body physically tighten up at the sound of Kodi's voice, and his back slid down the wall, so he ended up sat with his knees pulled tight up against himself, his arms propped up on top of them, hiding his face. He heard Kodi stumble and try to explain, but Gryphon didn't have the patience to be understanding. His fists clenched and he lifted his head to reply, looking over at the boy who had crumbled down near him.

He couldn't. His throat seized, the words wouldn't come out. He didn't even know what to say. His hands grasped onto his hair and he made a sound of anger and frustration, at what he'd seen, at himself for not being able to speak, and his hands covered his face again, his body shaking harshly as he tried to avoid breaking down into tears. He looked up at the sky and his jaw tightened.

"No." The avian boy didn't really realize he'd said anything, and at first, he didn't think it was himself speaking, because of how different his voice sounded, but that was all he said. It was all he could said. He couldn't think straight enough to say anything else.

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Kodi was going to get Oriel for this later. Because... Because it was his fault for initiating everything in the first place, for forcing Kodi into something Oriel knew he wouldn't be able to resist despite his desire to stay loyal to Gryphon (no matter how hard it was, when Kodi was... Kodi). For laughing at the two of them as though this entire ordeal was some big joke when the dentokinetic's heart was hammering in his chest and he was only breathing through panicked little gasps as he tried to think of an excuse, any excuse to explain away what had been going on. But nothing came to him over the panic.

He was too caught up in it to even notice how close to his boyfriend he'd crumpled down until he heard the other boy's painful coughs and breathing over his own. Kodi's head snapped up and he focused on the sound, barely seeing the top of Gryph's head over some foliage between them.

He needed to say something. But before he could, Gryph made an awful noise, and Kodi winced, feeling as though his chest was physically ripping in two. He'd never known he could feel so... Guilty and sick. When that one word came out, the panic took hold again. No, no... He had to say something!

"Gryph, p-please," he finally managed to stammer. "W-we're both drunk, I-I didn't want that t'happen, he just... He came at me an' pinned me an' I couldn't move..." Partially the truth; Kodi could have tried harder to get away. "I was just about t'push him off when you c-came in, I swear! I wasn't gonna let him... We weren't gonna..." Kodi swallowed and tore his hands through his hair. His voice was slurring so much, he wondered if the boy could even understand him. "It didn't mean anythin'. I don't care 'bout him! I care 'bout you!"

Yeah, and he sure had a brilliant way of showing that, didn't he? Kodi tried to muster the energy to go closer to the older boy, and all he managed to do was crawl. "Please..."

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Fuck Oriel. Just generally, fuck him. Gryphon didn't really hate anyone, except his dad and Nick. And now also Oriel. Fuck him. Maybe he was overreacting, maybe he wasn't, but he was allowed to be upset about this.

As much as Gryph could be seen as forgiving, kind, friendly, whatever, possibly to the point where he would put himself in harm simply for the sake of another's happiness, this was crossing a line. Hell, this was dancing across the line like it wasn't even there. He would forsake his happiness for someone else - he would not put himself through unnecessary pain to keep someone else free of it. There was a part of his mind that thought of going a little easier on his boyfriend, simply because both he and Oriel were drunk and maybe it was just an accident. Yes, Gryphon could tell they were drunk, he wasn't as stupid as some people might believe - but he was not going to be light about this. Drunk or not, it shouldn't have happened anyway! And it just made Gryph suspicious when he didn't want to be that way.

He hid his face again between his knees, listened to Kodi's slurred words and trying to make sure he could make sense of them through all of his emotions. He wondered for a moment why he was even giving Kodi the opportunity to explain - it was clear as day. He and Oriel had almost fucked, and the only reason why it didn't happen, it seemed, was because Gryphon interrupted. And he was not glad of that.

He scoffed a laugh, a darker, colder, more sarcastic side of him poking through and giving him a voice, "Sure, you care." He spat, "I can really see that."

Once he heard movement, his head shot up and he glared right at Kodi, eyes cold, face sharp. "Jeoliga." He hissed, unintentionally switching languages. He closed his eyes and took a breath again, face relaxing a little, but his brows still knitted together in anger. He wanted to... urgh, fight his side, show that he couldn't be messed with, or something, but... he couldn't. And this time, not because he couldn't speak, even if he was struggling with words anyway and not because of his emotions, which were slowly making him numb over everything else. It was because his concern for Kodi rose up. What was the use in arguing with him when he was drunk? Gryphon didn't even know if he would remember this.

He opened his eyes and looked at the other boy, before shaking his head and rubbing his face, "We can't do this right now." He mumbled.