Breakdown One Shots

You're So Gross

(Just a little Menace short. Jules and Kamei being domestic for Valentine's Day. Jules is a morally grey masked man and Kamei is a rich kid, transgender, runaway. Enjoy)

Eris hadn't a clue when his alarm was supposed to have gone off. Truthfully, the fact that it didn't, leads him to wonder how he woke up at all. He'd been out so late last night that he could have probably slept for years. Except for the part where he actually had places to be this afternoon.

"Shit."

That's the only thing he could think of to mutter as he threw himself out of bed. He didn't really give much thought to fixing the blanket. He got distracted when he noticed Kamei wasn't in bed. Granted, his sleep schedule was nowhere near as bs as Eris' but it was still odd to see him nowhere in sight.

That's when he heard the shower running. He let out a small sigh. It's not that he had any reason to be relieved, but it was comforting for some reason to know that Kamei was in the flat. Then he remembered his own issues that he had to take care of.

He thought for a moment of pros and cons to his current idea and then disregarded all of them for the sake of not really caring. Jules walked to the bathroom and opened the door carefully, but loud enough to be heard.

"Jules?"

"Yea, it's me. Just running late as hell, Doll."

"We can swap if you want?"

"Nope, I'm good."

Before Kamei had much time to think about it, the curtain moved and Eris was in there with him. Kamei tried not to glance him over too much but he did blush a little bit. Eris was no stranger to the looks, but for once in his life he struggled to hide a smile.

The thing finally distracting Kamei was that Jules was brushing his teeth in the shower.

"I could have gotten out."

"Ya, but technically you were here first handsome. I'll manage" he said through the brush in his mouth. He pulled out the stick and planted a gross kiss on Kamei's cheek with a mischievous smile. Kamei gave him a look of feigned shock before wiping the toothpaste off his cheek.

"Ugh, you are disgusting."

"What do you think showers are for?" Jules stuck his tongue out at Kamei.

Kamei couldn't help but let out a loud laugh at his dork. Eris was practically a disaster. The idea that he functions like this on the daily made Kamei shake his head in disappointment. If his father could see him now. They'd prolly loose their god fearing mind. At some point in their little spat, Kamei had ended up just smiling at him softly till Jules raised an eyebrow. He looked almost a little flustered by the gaze before temporarily looking away.

"Jules? What exactly do you have to do today?"

Eris tried to point out that he couldn't rly talk right that second but obviously he couldn't open his mouth to say that. When Kamei realized what he was trying to say, he let out an "oh."

"New question. Where are you going to spit that?"

Eris shrugged and then swallowed. He smirked at Kamei before taking a step and a half towards him, pushing Kamei out of the line of warm water and up against the back wall. He put an arm up beside their head and put the toothbrush on the shelf beside them.

"I'm a good swallow, so there's always that."

Kamei blushed like a moron and Eris pulled off him to put his face directly into the water. He ran his hands through his hair a few times and then took a deep breath as he wiped water out of his eyes. When he opened them again, Kamei was closer now and he had soap in his hands. Eris cocked his head to the side and Kamei carefully reached up and pulled his face down to meet him.

Eris smiled and kissed back. The feeling of Kamei's hands running through his hair gave him an uncontrollable joy. After a gentle moment, Kamei leaned back a little to pull Eris' face under the water to rinse the soap out of his hair. Kamei let go of him after that with the kindest smile.

Yet it was too late for smiles. Eris couldn't bring himself to emote at all. He was so unbelievably lost in Kamei now that nothing could bring him back.

"Minty" Kamei said out of the blue. It took a few seconds, but then the boys were giggling like the criminally insane.
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(Bonus)

When Eris showed up to Ian's later that day, the sun couldn't warm him anymore than the glow in his chest. He was leaning up a little taller, smiling a little brighter and was quite literally "bop-ing" down the street. On lookers watched the giant as he did a dorky spin on the sidewalk in tune with his music. As if he'd forgotten that no one else could hear it.

It was about thirty minutes into the moving process of getting Ian from his apartment to his new dorm room that the boys finally stopped to ask the question they were all thinking.

"So who's the guy?"

"Hmm?"

Eris' smile dropped temporarily as he looked questioningly at Ian. Ian was leaning over a tall stack of boxes with a smirk on his face. When Leo and Daylnn heard him ask the question, they wandered over too.

"The guy? You've been smiling like a fucking idiot all day."

"Can't a guy just smile once in a while?"

"Good lord he's rhyming now" Leo added with a facepalm.

"Ok that was unintentional" Eris defended.

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