That other exception

Part 3

I watched out of the corner of my eye as Cartoonz sat next to Evan, my plan was to sit on the other side of him just so that I could be close, but by the time I'd passed out the drinks  Brock had settled himself in the spot I was going to take.  I felt a twinge of disappointment and the now familiar jealousy, it was something that I'd been feeling a lot over the last few months, everyone other than myself had been going to LA and meeting up with Evan, so they had been organising dates, times and places to meet up when we had had recording sessions.  Of course I had to be careful about how I reacted, a couple of our friends where hyper observant little fuckers so they would of picked up on anything if I had reacted any different than I usually did.  Cartoonz had noticed before anyone else had, he called me on my cell so that I'd have an excuse to mute the skype call and take off my headset so that I couldn't hear anything, we organised to meet up and get coffee the following day so that I could get it all off my chest.

I sat next to Cartoonz and looked over at Evan who was deep in conversation with Brock, I quickly turned my attention to Cartoonz so that it didn't look like I was leering.  The conversation rambled on for a couple of hours, I didn't really pay attention to any of them unless someone asked me a question or asked for my opinion, the days of driving was starting to catch up with me and I was zoning out of pretty much everything.  I was forced back into the conversation with the aid of Cartoonz poking me in the side.

"You have to state what you think someone is, top or bottom and why you think that...the person you are talking about can't comment on what you have to say....so we will go from left to right...and I will start" Nogla seemed to be pretty excited as he explained to Mini the rules of this particular game. "I think your bottom because you seem to always give in to the more dominant personalities of the group...Now you have to label Tyler"

This got my attention, we all knew Tyler was the Dominant type, even when he was following one of us around a map on a mission it always felt like he was just indulging us until we got him killed or ourselves in enough trouble that he had to step in to save us. What I was interested in was Mini's reaction to having to say it, I wanted to be sure those two where into each other before I played cupid.

"Top, ninety-nine, point, nine, nine, nine percent of the time" Mini was scowling at Nogla but there was a slight uncomfortable fidget as I watched him.

"Elaborate Mini those are the rules" Nogla seemed to be enjoying  the awkwardness he was forcing on his bruised friend.

"oh gawd...it's pretty obvious he's top do I have to give a reason?" There was a slight whine to Mini's tone that made me smile, the guy was trying very hard not to let his feelings show in front of his friends and was failing in a rather spectacular manner.

"Yes" we all chorused and I saw his cheeks darken a little as he fidgeted where he sat, he glanced sideways at Tyler as he began picking at the carpet.  I quickly looked over at Evan while everyone was focused on Mini,   Evan was frowning at Mini but his gaze slide over to meet mine, he seemed to be thinking the same thing as me and cocked one eyebrow before subtly indicating back at Mini.   I nodded in confirmation, if I was a betting man I would have put money on the fact that Mini's mind was currently playing the in gutter and was finding it difficult to come up with reason's that didn't sound sexual.

"Because he takes control, organises everyone and everyone knows what they should be doing" he seemed to be forcing himself to speak slowly.  I had to agree with what he said, other than Evan and Lui, Tyler was one of the only people that could get everyone to focus and get them organised when we were all screwing around.  "ok so now it's Tyler's turn right?" Mini whined and made a deliberate effort to avoid everyone's gaze by getting a bottle off the dresser to refill his glass.  Mini was definitely interested in Tyler but I got the impression that he wasn't aware that he was sending out signals that were coming across as an invitation.  Tyler was picking up on those signals, you'd have to have to be blind not to, I wondered if he was as clueless as Mini about how they were reacting to each other.