Ray and Daisuke are giving a hand at the Shoal and they also take this opportunity to flirt, a lot.
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"Why are these always so high ?"
Daisuke raised his head, stopping tidying the main counter of The Shoal for a second and saw Ray struggling to get a box at the top of the lockers. He couldn't grab it because it was too high and even on his toes he couldn't manage to catch it. So he tried to jump but it absolutely didn't work either. Ray frowned, upset and this made Daisuke chuckle.
"Want some help with that Manta ?" He proposed.
"Yeah, you should do better than me with your height." Ray gave up. "But remember you don't have your orcas on today."
Indeed, they decided to wear matching hoodies of their respective colors : black and yellow for Daisuke and gray and blue for Ray since he felt like switching ink this morning. And to have the exact same fit as him, Daisuke also stole a pair of Ray's collection of squidkid shoes, which obviously meant that he didn't have any platform today.
"Oh shut up, the fact that I usually put on soled shoes doesn't mean I'm completely disoriented when I don't wear them."
"That's what I'm saying, you're not cheating for once."
"Hey, I'm still taller than you by five centimeters without them."
"Whatever. Can you get me that box, pleeease ?" He asked, falsely innocent.
Daisuke rolled his eyes and forsook his own business to help him out. He walked up to Ray with a small side eye and stood beside him, gently shoving an elbow in his ribs on the way to which Ray stuck his tongue out to Daisuke.
"Only because you're my bf, shortie."
Ray smirked and watched Daisuke pulling down the box without any difficulties just by straightening up a little. Daisuke then handed it to him with a smug look that literally said 'told ya' and Ray gladly took it.
"Here you go."
"Thanks, but I'm not that short." He referred to what he previously said.
"Still shorter than me, and you can't do anything about that." Daisuke teased.
"Maybe. But I can carry you whenever I want."
"Unless you let me carry you, buff stuff."
"Make me." Ray dared him, putting the box on the nearest tableturf battle furniture before looking at him over his shoulder to add with a flirty tone : "Pretty boy."
Daisuke's gaze softened at the compliment and he went to hug him while kissing him on the cheek, which made Ray's smile grow bigger. Daisuke then gently caressed his face with his hand as Ray rubbed the back of it with his thumb, melting his heart even more.
"Y'know I love it when you tell me that, don't ya ?"
"That's why I do it."
Daisuke hugged him tighter and Ray's ears wiggled out of contentment. Suddenly, the sliding doors of the Shoal opened with a mechanical melody and they both looked at the entrance to see the newcomer. It was a rather tall inkling, with icy cyan eyes and white cold tentacles tied in short cornrows. She was wearing black and white boyish clothes with silver jewelry.
She was humming the Nasty Majesty song from Off The Hook, lazily tilting their head to the beat of the melody while carrying a package in their pale bony hands. She glanced at the place and noticed the boyfriends, who let go of each other, before coming to meet the inklings.
"Sup dudes, I'm back from my break." But she stopped, lifting their glasses up to raise an eyebrow after taking a closer look at the two. "Oh sorry, did I interrupt you or something ?"
