easy as cake (Matty/George)

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A studio day is just what Matty needs, he thinks. When he sings, he doesn't remember anything else. It's a lot like being drunk actually. And he's good at both those things.

Hann is the only one who shows up besides them, but Matty doesn't mind. Now that Ross has got a boyfriend, so soon after the girlfriend with the lipstick or whatever. He and John already lived together anyway, so it's not like much as changed.

Practice is still not like it used to be, but Matty will accept anything as long as he gets to see his boys.

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Matty is aware that he's not doing completely well. He's been moping for the last week and getting drunk for most of it. George wants to fuck him, but he doesn't want him. Him, as himself. It makes sense to Matty, but he's also had a bottle of brandy. Well, not the whole bottle. There's a precious amount left and he's saving it.

George is out again. Probably fucking girls or hanging out with Hann or generally avoiding Matty.

He turns on one of George's Nigella recordings and settles in.

George doesn't hook up. He could be right now, be he's not the kind of person to do so, which makes Matty feel a bit better. But George is gorgeous and could accidentally get a girl to go to bed with him. It's ridiculous. Matty is so in love with him. That's also ridiculous.

Nigella gets a bit blurry. Matty wonders if there's a possibility he could get alcohol poisoning. He considers calling Gemma, but she's probably busy avoiding him too. Everyone hates him.

The door opens and closes. Matty looks at his bottle of brandy and wonders if he could knock someone out with it.

"I haven't seen this one yet and now it's spoiled for me." Oh it's George.

Matty turns his head. George is in the kitchen.

Nigella stirs her cake batter in what is supposed to be seductive.

"Would you fuck a cake?" He finds himself asking. Zero filter when sober, negative twenty when drunk.

"Of course I would," says George, because he's Matty's best friend and soulmate. "Would you?"

"Yes, I suppose." Matty lays down on the sofa. He's starting to get a bit woozy. His alcohol tolerance is impressive, but there are limits, he supposes.

George comes to sit next to him, lifting his legs up and setting them back down into his lap. His thumb presses into the bone in Matty's ankle. "Reckon I could be sexy making a cake."

Reckon you're sexy just when you're standing there. Matty snorts instead of saying that. "Sure, George."

George pinches the skin on his foot. Matty kicks him in the leg. "Piss off, George."

Nigella begins talking again. Her great hair is distracting Matty. So is George's hand on his ankle.

"You're distracting me."

George laughs. "Oh, from Nigella? Love her more than me, do you?"

Matty rubs his nose on the sofa pillow. "She's probably much better in bed than you."

"Oh, I don't doubt that for a second." Matty can hear the smile in George's voice.

Matty sighs. "I wish we had some cake."

"As do I, love." George stands up and grabs the blanket from the chair. He manhandles Matty until he's in George's lap. George wraps the blanket around the both of them and focuses back on Nigella.

Matty touches his lips to George's jawline. "Am I sexier than Nigella."

George laughs as Matty begins sucking a mark. "Of course you are, Matthew." He sighs when Matty's lips leave his skin. "You'll have me looking a slattern."

"You always look like a slattern."

George huffs. "Right laugh, you are. See if you get any tonight."

Matty laughs, too loud. He buries his face in George's neck, to quiet himself down.

George hums and slides his hand down Matty's back. "Maybe tomorrow, we'll get some things to make a cake, hmm?"

That sounds very wonderful. Matty could kiss George right now. But he doesn't. He says, "You're doing all the work."

"Since when do I not do all the work?"

Matty hits George's chest. George catches his hand and kisses his palm until Matty's squirming away.

short chapter because I'm feeling like a shirty shit

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