That other exception

Part 22

"Who knows...I doubt he knows either"Tyler shrugged and pushed both Evan and Mini towards the table the others were sitting at and then turned to me and made shoo'ey hands which effectively ended the conversation about what had happened between us after they left the hotel and us getting to the restaurant.  thankfully I was able to sit beside Evan, which did help a lot to keep my jealous side under control.  The meal went as it normally did, everyone was talking about different subjects making it hard to hear one single conversation unless you focused completely on that specific one.  Mini got me into a conversation about travelling by asking how many videos I had had to make to be able to attend the convention, I did notice that on more than one occasion in our conversation he became slowly more distracted and apparently so uncomfortable that he had to squirm in his seat, eventually he would lose the thread of what he was saying and I had to prompt him before he would continue. 

I had a vague suspicion that Tyler was messing with him under the table and had to admire the guys balls for playing with Mini with all the guys around, especially Lui and Nogla who could spot a slip of the hand from across the room.  I wished I could do that but it would make Evan uncomfortable rather than turned on, which kind of ruins the whole reason for doing it. We ate and then moved back to the convention center  for the rest of the afternoon, the guys did a meet and greet and a couple of the guys went off for a meeting and met up with us again an hour later, but mostly we walked around the convention floor and tested out some of the games and gear on offer. some of the presentations distracted everyone enough and where dark enough that we could take the immense risk of hooking the tips of our fingers together in a weird kind of almost holding hands thing, he looked at me side ways at me and licked his lips, giving my fingers a squeeze before turning back to the video being shown.  It didn't last though, it never does, before I could really enjoy being out in public with my boyfriend the lights came back on and we had to go back to the whole no touchy and definitely no feely.  This whole hiding thing sucks sometimes but it's better than the snide comments and jokes at our expense, I already heard some of it when Tyler and Mini would log off at the same time or if they shared a joke that only the two of them knew about.  I felt sorry for them and at the same time relieved that the guys didn't know about Evan and me.

By the time the convention was done for the day we were all tired and hungry so we went to get some food at a near by dinner, unfortunately it seemed as though everyone else was doing the same thing because the only table we could get was meant for four people and there was seven of us, it was only after we squeezed into the booth that I realized that Evan was squashed against Tyler, my jealousy started to get the better of me, I mean who wouldn't be jealous having their partner almost sitting on another mans knee and smirking at you like he knew what you were thinking about. The fact that Evan did know what I was thinking about didn't help and of course neither did the angle I was seeing them from, it looked like Tyler had his arm around Evan, every now and then I would hear Evan giggling and I knew he was going to torture me with this, he knew I couldn't do anything for a few hours so he was going to make my life hell until then.

After what felt like hours of being tortured by my own mind our food finally came, giving me a welcome distraction.  I made myself focus on my food rather that how close the guys were getting on the other side of the table.

  "Hey mini are you ok?...your kinda quiet" Lui asked, making me look up from the last of my meal and focus on Mini.  

"Huh?...oh... yeah I'm fine just tired" Mini yawned, he did look like he was going to fall asleep on anyone close enough to lean on but he was fighting it like a kid that didn't want to go to bed yet. " I only got a couple of hours sleep after we got back from the hospital." 

"So you won't be coming out with us tonight?" Lui barely kept the disappointment out of his voice, Mini looked like he was trying to decide if he wanted to go out with the guys or go back to the hotel with Tyler, I saw him glance over his shoulder before he replied.

"I'll be coming with you guys...not going to promise I'll stay awake for all of it" Mini yawned again but smiled at Lui, I could see the mischievous glint in his eye and realized the little shit was trying to tease Tyler by delaying the time when he could get his hands on him.  These two couldn't make it more obvious that they were screwing each other.  I looked over at Evan and saw him shaking his head in disbelief, he was obviously thinking the same thing as I was.

  "Well I'm sure if you do your knight in shining armor over there will make sure you get back to your ivory tower" Nogla laughed as he pointed at Tyler, I chuckled to myself, the imagery of Tyler dressed as an old style knight tickled my brain the wrong way.

  "Knight in shining armor?" Mini repeated while biting his lip making it sound like he was trying not to laugh. 

  "I'm not sure I could handle the pressure of such responsibility" Tyler grumbled but I could tell that he actually liked the idea, he wanted to be the one that kept Mini safe and rescue him when he was in danger.  I cleared my throat as I realized that I was doing the same thing towards Evan, I glanced over to the man in question and saw him looking at me with narrowed eyes, as if he was accusing me  of something. Did he know what was going through my mind?

  "Retard in tin foil then" I heard Mini retort and looked back in time to see the flirtatious over the shoulder smirk.  I inwardly groaned, all that he needed to do to complete the look was bat his eyelashes and pout, did these guys really not see how they were acting towards each other?  

  "Possibly...Ask me again when I've slept for a week"  Tyler yawned looking like he wanted nothing more than to go back to the hotel and just chill.

"Are you sure Mini I mean...with your ribs and stuff, I don't want you getting hurt again" Brock sounded like he was convinced it would be a bad idea. "And...we don't know if the guys that did that to you are still around"

"if it starts getting that crowded we'll just leave and as for the guys that beat him up...we'll all be there they won't get close to him" Nogla waved his hand dismissively as if none of it was a big deal.  I felt my stomach clench, if there was a chance that the guys that did this to Mini were going to be at the club I was sure as hell going to be there so that I could end this shit show in one foul swoop.  I saw Evan straighten up in his seat and looked over to him, he looked back at me with a look that I recognized as concern and dread, I hadn't seen this look in his eyes for years, he knew what I was thinking and he knew he couldn't stop me unless he kept me under close observation for the rest of the trip and stayed close enough that people would question our relationship.