Stalker's Delight (Kodi)

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Kodi honestly didn’t care (couldn’t care) about any relationship woes that Oriel might or might not be dealing with. Well… Okay, that wasn’t exactly true, he cared about the younger boy, and had somehow started to like Phoenix enough not to roll his eyes at their relationship, but whatever past-nonsense he had dealing with Rue was just… Stupid. If he knew it had been him that had beat up his friend, he would have been pissed at the guy. Whatever. Kodi sighed dramatically and rolled his eyes at Oriel’s vanity. “I guess it’ll make you stand out more in a sea of men with perfect noses,” he quipped back, feeling some of his familiar snark returning. Of course Oriel was gorgeous, but he wouldn’t say that out loud.

He wasn’t looking all that graceful and pretty, though, when he was toppling over into the bushes from his bike. Kodi snickered and laughed quietly at the sight, for a few moments forgetting his own woes and struggles. “If you ain’t done it before, it can be hard. That’s why kids use trainin’ wheels, idiot.” He wondered if he should actually go in and ask for some, if they wanted to get further than a few feet on their little trip. How quickly could Oriel catch on? Didn’t it take most kids, like, weeks? He couldn’t remember. “Alright, alright, quit your whinin’,” he snorted, reaching down and grasping Oriel’s forearms firmly to help pull him back to his feet again. “You wanna learn the hard way, or make this easy on yourself and just get the trainin’ wheels so we can get goin’?” Kodi bit his lip. “I dunno how easy it’d be t’catch onto it in a day.” At least this was turning out to be a very distracting distraction.

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“Just what I always wanted~” Oriel said, dreaming up to the sky with stars glittering in his eyes. He was more thankful to hear just a little bit of what was considered normal banter from his best friend. If Kodi wasn’t dishing out insults, then the world would be doomed to eternal damnation. By coming to cheer up Kodi, Oriel was just doing his part to save the world. Obviously. “Or! People’ll be so amazed by my gorgeousness despite the nose, and it’ll be a fashion trend or something?” Yup, that was Oriel, a total trend setter. The pinnacle of elitist fashion!

He wasn’t going to be catching many eyes with his killer biking skills, though. Or if he did, it was only those of pure pity for the pathetic tumbling he was doing after launching himself over the handlebars of the bike into a bush. “Training wheels….?” he asked, trying to catch his breath. “Is that what those are for?” Oriel had always assumed they were just for decoration. He whined and grunted as he pulled himself out of the bush courtesy of Kodi’s arm. Mmm…Oriel toppled onto the boy lazily, feeling up his bicep. “Oh, my…what strong arms you have~” he praised with a tee-hee-hee. Though he looked up to the sky, pondering away over how they should proceed. “Mmm, can’t be that hard to learn. I mean, you can do it, right?” And if Kodi could do it, then so could Oriel! No this was not just Oriel’s brainless bravado talking….maybe it was.