little things :: zeroyalchaos au

bromances during rough times

ugh yhe ending is shite but im too tired to fix it or edit this sorry for the mistakes lololol
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"Okay... Who has Park Place? I got three hundred dollars that I am willing to give up for it," Ze announces, waving the pretend money in his hand.

Chilled, besides him, groans loudly. "Fuck, Ze, you don't need that! You already own Boardwalk, do you really wanna fuck me over that badly?"

Steven grins and nods. "Yup! These two are pretty much all I own, anyways. Minx owns like half the board."

"Bullshit," Minx counters. "Bryce charmed Smarty into going bankrupt, he owns whatever Adam and Cathy don't."

Adam raises an eyebrow, then leans over and whispers to Cathy. He then looks out at all of them curiously. "Who's turn is it?"

"Yours," Max says.  "You guys go after Ze, remember?"

Cathy smiles sweetly as she takes the dice from Bryce and gives them a little shake as Adam cheers her on. She throws them down onto the board, and her smile grows. "Ooh! Look, sweetie, we got a nine! Guess where that puts us?"

Adam grins evilly. "Where's that gonna put us, huh?"

Cathy giggles as she pushes their little cat piece onto a brown property. "It puts us after the start! Give us our money so we can buy another hotel!"

The entire room groans except for Adam and Cathy, who giggle gleefully to each other and kiss.

Ritz gags from besides Bryce. "Ew. Get that out of here, Adam. There are children around, you nasty."

Ohm snickers softly, covering Bryce's eyes. "Yeah, Adam. Bryce is ten. No kissing in front of Bryce until he hits puberty."

Bryce gives a small sigh as Ritz also moves to cover Bryce's ears. "Guys, I wanna play monopoly. Can't do that if I can't see, you know."

For all that Ritz and Ohm insisted that they were a "team" with Bryce, it was really Bryce who did most of the business between the three. Ritz and Ohm were more so there to complain or comment on Bryce's actions.

"It's okay baby, I'll move you around the board. What did you roll?"

"I haven't rolled, Ritz. You and Ohm kinda blocked me off from the world."

Ohm giggles. "Well, that doesn't mean you can't play. Just roll the dice."

"Minx," Bryce complains. "They're bullying me."

They all laugh, even more when Bryce is left to fumble around blindly for the dice, making a mess of the board in the process. Bryce complains about "bad boyfriends" and "not being cutesy like Adam and Cathy were" and calling Minx "a bad sister for not defending him."

All around, everyone was having a wonderful time. Monopoly was such a good friendship builder, especially when you get to kick your boyfriend's ass. And frankly, Steven couldn't be happier at his situation.

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It was down to three people now. Steven, Anthony, and Minx.

Smarty had fallen a long time ago due to some unfortunate rolls and Bryce's love of railroads.

Bryce had been the next to go, having gotten frustrated with Ritz and Ohm's poor advice and continuous poking and messing with him. He had dropped all of his properties and cash into the center of the board, saying that they were up for grabs and that he was gonna go be sad in a corner for a while.

Ritz and Ohm both followed, probably planning on cheering him up.

Adam and Cathy fell next. They had decided to go and "expand their empire" as much as possible, throwing caution to the wind and buying twenty houses to spread across their properties. This lead to Minx destroying them both.

And now Steven was here, doing relatively well, just trying to live with his two properties and wad of cash.

Anthony, it seems, wasn't doing well at all. For all that he insisted he was good at Monopoly, he seemed to be struggling quite a bit here. With nothing but five hundred dollars in his possession, Anthony began to whisper to the dice in his hand.

"Come on, prison. Prison, jail, drug bust. Come on, come on.... Give me a six!" Anthony rolls the dice. There's a moment of suspense as everyone looks down at the dice, and then Anthony is up cursing loudly at the numbers.

He rolled a nine, sending him directly onto one of the green places. Minx's territory, in other words.

Steven laughs along with everyone else as Anthony tosses the last of his money onto Minx's pile of stuff, grumbling quietly for a minute.

Minx smiles sweetly, and Max is practically dying of laughter for some reason.

"Ooh," Ritz coos. "You're about to get fucked, Ze."

Anthony shakes his head, leaning forwards and wrapping his arms around Steven. "Listen, baby. You love me. I love you. Please kick her ass."

"Sure, Chilly Willy. I got you, just you watch, Steven says softly. "I'm gonna beat Minx at monopoly."

-

He did not beat Minx at Monopoly. In fact, Steve lost so badly he had to go sit in the backyard out of shame.

"Gay jail is in the back," Ohm had joked. "It's where shitty Monopoly players go."

Cathy had giggled happily and smirked at him. "At least he actually played, you know?"

Everyone seemed a bit stunned at Cathy's sudden sass. Adam quickly recovered and clapped gleefully, yanking Cathy close to cover her face in kisses. "Aw," he cooed. "You're so cute when you're sassy."

Steven sighs softly, closing his eyes as he feels the slight chill in the air.

He really should be wearing a jacket if he's gonna come outside in the middle of February.

Thankfully, he has to worry no longer, for Anthony comes out and slips a blanket around his shoulders.

"Hey, cutie," he says. "How's my little Ze berry doing?"

Ze laughs. "Ze Berry? That's new."

"I know. Though, it did sound a lot better in my head, if I'm being honest. That doesn't matter though," he says softly, sitting besides him. "How you doing?"

"I'm good," Steven laughs. "Just thinking."

Anthony smiles at this, squeezing Steven's hand gently. "About what?"

"The weather. It's almost springtime, I mean. That means that summer is coming, and I can't wait for summer so I have an excuse to stay in all day. You can come over and we can sit in front of the fan and play video games all day, yeah?"

Steven smiles over at Anthony hopefully. It was a simple offer, but one he hoped that Anthony would accept.

Anthony simply chuckles in response. "Yeah, buddy. But let's start with spring first, alright? One season at a time."