Play Nice (Gene)

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Grayson and his father had always been extremely close, it was unfair but probably correct to say that he might have even been his favored child. Which was unexpected considering Gray had always been a troublemaker (though not as bad then as he was now). Some of the things he had taken great joy in with his father were baseball and their collections. The collecting had been a way for his father to get Grayson on board with something that wasn't destructive and to also connect with him more.


Even after his father had died Grayson remained very invested in continuing his father's substantial accumulation of comics and his own collection of pokemon cards. It was a little humorous he was sure, as most people probably would not assume him to be that kind of guy and for the most part he didn't talk to much about those particular interests. Though, that was not to say he was embarrassed by them, as he was very rarely embarrassed by anything he did. He liked himself far too much for that.


On occassion he did wander into the local shop to browse and see if there was anything he didn't have already or if anything at all reached out to him. Which was what he was doing on this particular day, lackadaisically scanning the store's offerings in his usual bored fashion.


Though his expression brightened significantly when he noticed a familiar face, though he'd only been introduced to him recently he recognized him immediately. After all they'd already shared such a great experience torturing Kodi together.


"Hey chew toy~" Grayson greeted, a taunting smile on his face as he sidled up next to Gene, hip bumping against him playfully.

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Gene was very deeply engrossed in a comic book at that moment. Not so much reading it as he was admiring the center two-page spread of the big-bosomed superhero girl in a costume that literally clung to her body and tits to much that things could be quite clearly be seen through that cartoonish fabric. He still didn’t know if he was going to buy it yet, though. It was a new issue, so he might, but he still had yet to read the actual story. If it sucked, then he’d turn his search to something else. Maybe he should just get another bust for his collection? Hmmm….but he already had all the ones worth owning. The rest were….boys.

Anyway, his eyes were still fixed on that giant unrealistic chest when someone called out nearby him. Since he didn’t associate ‘chew toy’ with himself, Gene ignored the greeting completely, not recognizing the voice it belonged to.

When he was bumped, however, Gene jumped slightly and turned snapped his head over to the one who’d done it, his eyes wide in bewilderment as he shrunk backwards slightly from the boy who’d settled himself next to him. It took Gene exactly three seconds to recognize that ugly face…and he returned Grayson’s chipperness with the irate scowl it deserved. “Oh,” he said boredly. “It’s you.” Gene turned away again, returning his gaze back to his centerfold spread. He still didn’t know what to think about this character, so the best course of action was to ignore it.

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Of course, it was pretty obvious what Gene was looking at when Gray made his way next to him, and a brief look of confusion crossed his face as he looked from the rather showy spread to Gene's face. He had been pretty sure the kid was super gay. Ah, well. Couldn't be right all the time.

"Oooh, so you remember me," he spoke in the way he typically did with people when he hadn't quite decided if he liked them yet, which was condescending and demeaning, "Now... try and remember my name and I might give you a cookie." He barely remembered his and only did because he remembered the haughty way he had introduced himself like he should actually give a shit who he was.... which he hadn't and still didn't really.

Grayson poked his tongue out teasingly, wrapping an arm around the boy because he had seemed to hate when he touched him last time he met him. But he was ignoring him which meant he deserved to be annoyed in any way Gray could manage. "I suppose this is the closest you'll get to a pair, huh" he clucked his tongue and shook his head in a show of fake pity for the younger boy.

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Some may say that Gene ought to have been ashamed of what he was so obviously leering at. Maybe even try to hide it when someone happened to look over his shoulder. Gene, fortunately(or unfortunately) gave no shits about whether or not someone knew that he was a teenage boy who liked to look at girls. It wasn’t any of their business, after all.

Just like it wasn’t any of this guy’s business regarding anything about Gene, including his relationship with Kodi(yes, he was still holding a grudge over that argument). “How could I forget?” he said blandly, already wishing that this person had just kept on walking to whatever trouble he was no doubt going to make. Gene didn’t want any part of it. “I’d rather not,” he quipped. “And keep your cookie. I imagine anything from you is likely to be tainted with your filth.” And Gene would rather not catch whatever disease this kid was carrying.

The touching though….if Gray’s objective was to irritate the younger boy, then he found the best way to do it. Gene cringed and tensed underneath the ugly fiend’s draped arm, trying to shirk himself away as much as possible. The knit in his eyebrows deepened. The comment about the breast, however, was not as scathing as Gray had hoped. “Probably,” he replied, leering at the offending hand hanging off his shoulder. “Girls are hot. They’re more irritating than you, however.” As far as he could tell, all they ever did was squeal and whine about unimportant things, and chatter endlessly with all the intelligence of an amoeba.

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It had been pretty obvious, unfortunately, that the two of them had a few similarities between them. Namely not being overly concerned with other people's opinion and just being giant, terrible brats. He didn't particularly /care/ what Gene spent his time looking at, but that didn't mean he wouldn't give him hell for it either.

"Aw," he teased, still grinning at him and lifted his hand to ruffle his hair, "good to know I made an impression on you." Grayson lived for that kind of thing really, riling someone up so much that they had no choice but to remember him. He pouted playfully so that it didn't quite change the taunting look in his eyes, "Not any more tainted than your little boy toy," his voice didn't sound quite so playful as his expression suggested.

Grayson held onto him initially as he tried to shake away before eventually letting him get out from underneath his arm but not before gently patting the side of his head in an attempt to annoy him further. "Mmmm, I could see that," he didn't hang out with many people in general and only expanded his social circle when he was intoxicated. "Now, if I remember correctly," he said as he backed away slightly, looking the boy up and down with a predatory smile, "You rather liked those old pictures of Kodi that I have."

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Gray had, unfortunately, caught Gene at a bad point when they first met. His possessiveness over a certain depraved mutt had gotten the better of him and made him lash out like a child, when he usually wouldn't have(ha!). Gene, however, had no plans to apologize as he still felt that he was perfectly justified in his reaction to Gray’s sudden claim over that stupid, ugly dog-face.

Though the hair ruffle... While Gene was used to people calling him ever single name to describe a stuck-up, pretentious brat ever created, and thus paid no heed to it because they only said such things because they were jealous that they weren’t as advantaged as he was, touching was one thing that Gene would give dagger eyes to whomever tried to do it. Even worse if they succeeded. And that was exactly the glare that he was giving to Gay-son(see what I did there?) as he jerked himself away from that hand and swatted it. “Don’t. Touch. Me.” He said firmly. Only special people were allowed past that personal bubble, and Gray was far from being one of them.

Kodi just happened to get lucky, that’s all, to be able to get that far when they barely knew each other. And even then, Gene uncomfortable with it the whole time. “I make sure to hose him down quite thoroughly before letting that filthy mutt into the house.” A smirk touched his lips. Trashing Kodi always seemed to brighten his day.

This guy seemed hell bent on ruining it though. “I said don’t touch me!” he repeated with a slight whine in his tone, trying to swat the hand away again like the annoying fly it was. Gene closed the comic book and started to browse for another, figuring that he wasn’t going to get the chance to read it while this guy was buzzing in his ear. Though Gene was quick to take the bait laid out by that pesky gnat. “Yeah? And?” he quipped, raising a single eyebrow in slight interest. “Unless you’re actually going to show them to me, keep your trap shut.”

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Honestly, it didn't matter one way or another to Grayson if Gene had been in a good or bad mood because he had given the lie detector exactly what he had wanted, a reaction. He'd allowed himself to be goaded and riled up so easily, and while it had been a little annoying at the time he always preferred it over being ignored.

The truth was the two could probably fight every day and every hour over who had more of a claim over Kodi and still not arrive at any accurate answer. Grayson was just as possessive and while he was not /as/ active sexually with Kodi as he had been in the past he still felt that the male very much belonged in parts of his life and he wouldn't let him slip out easily.

A lip curled upward in a sneer at Gene's glare before morphing to a look of obvious self-satisfaction. The Gay-son joke had already been made though, several times, by himself. He used it as a means of introduction and a really shitty pick up line at times (it had a pretty good success rate). "What?" he asked innocently, pouting at the younger teen, "I'm trying to be friendly you know."

Lies. He just wanted to piss him off and get him all riled up so he could bait him along. "Oh~ That's a new one." Grayson did have a healthy appreciation for Gene's insults for Kodi, but he wouldn't let him know that too much, "I like to just rely on Tubs honestly. Simple, easy, and it aggravates him."

Grayson waved his hand dismissively as it was swatted, "Jeez your voice ranks on a scale of fucking deafening." His nose wrinkled in disgust as he shook his head a little though his expression brightened as the kid bit on the line he'd thrown. "No need to be hostile. I'll show 'em to you... with the right incentive."

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Luckily for Gray, Gene was very bad at not responding. He could ignore people right up until the point where they spoke to him, and after that, it was mostly Gene trying to get them to leave him alone through insults and sour words. Unfortunately for Gene, that tactic didn’t work against people like Gray. And Kodi. And some other people he’d come across.

As for Kodi….well, Kodi had said Gene was his favorite, so Gene was inclined to believe he really was the special snowflake he thought he was. Kodi’s special snowflake, apparently, though Gene wasn’t about to start giggling like a schoolgirl over that. Why would he? What did he care anyway? Kodi could just go eat dog-shit for all he cared!

Gray could too, in fact. “’Friendly’ implies actually respecting personal boundaries when they’re set straight before you,” he growled. Gene distinctly told him to not touch, and he did so anyway. That did not equate to ‘friendly’. At least Kodi never went that far when they first met. (No, he just took it about a dozen steps further.)

Gene couldn’t help feeling self-satisfied at the brief compliment Gray made over his snark. Very brief, but a slight pink did touch his cheeks from that. “It’s only the truth,” he grumbled. Though he was a bit unsettled at the nickname Gray chose for Kodi(Gene’s nicknames were often variations of ‘stray dog’, since that’s exactly what Kodi was), mostly because it was to describe a Kodi that Gene would never know. The thought made him scowl immediately. “It’s lazy, if you ask me,” he said sourly.

“Good! I hope your eardrum bursts!” he snapped, his voice still slightly pitched in exasperation. Really, this guy…. If it weren’t for the pictures he was dangling in front of Gene(figuratively), then Gene would have stormed off already. Not that that would’ve done any good, most likely. Gene snorted in disdain. “What? Do you want money?” He had plenty of that, at least.