my tight-knit family

Five / 5

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"He thinks of me as a g i r l," Whizzer rolled his eyes crossing his legs and arms. He pushed back a lock of his silky hair. Which was highly hard to maintain and look amazing for everyone. "Which I find totally unfair - make the dinner, check your hair line! And worst of all - love him," he grumbled.

"Really?! I work all day, you can't even make dinner for me, you have to get Chinese everyday." Marvin glanced at Mendel who was rapidly taking notes, he looked up when the flow of conversation stopped.

"This is good - verbal communication good good good," Mendel praised, "How did you two meet? I have to wonder..." Mendel spaced out a bit eyes glancing from his notebook to Whizzer who was wondering how he would explain it all.

"Well it was a Friday night," Whizzer grinned, like he always did before he told a story, Marvin sat up straighter eyes burning with something that Whizzer couldn't quite place. Marvin shook his head, laughing sourly.

"No it was a Saturday,"

"It was a Friday,"

"No - I'm pretty sure it was a Saturday,"

"Anyways," Whizzer rolled his eyes glaring over at his boyfriend who had shut up at Whizzers tone. "It was either a Friday or a Saturday." Whizzer glared at Marvin for a few seconds before continuing, "It was late, maybe 2 in the morning,"

"Try 6pm,"

"That too," Whizzer looked down at his hands, "I was bored and I had just gotten into a fight with my soon-to-be EX so I went to the ball park to watch a ball game, because I love baseball, I really do," Whizzer glanced over at Mendel not wanting to see Marvin's reaction, he never really told Marvin about his EX until now.

"And I hate baseball, but I went with my EX wife and her son, hoping that maybe would could be a tight-nit family like I always wanted. But then - ha - I saw Whizzer," Marvin said it in a dreamy sort of way. "He was sitting by himself, and looked lonely so I offered to buy him a pretzel, my wife and son had already sat down at their seats and I had gotten up and wandered around a bit." Marvin laughed awkwardly, he didn't like how Mendel was kinda staring at Whizzer.

"And I of course accepted the pretzel request because - duh - who wouldn't get a free pretzel from a cute guy?" Whizzer paused, "unless you where like allergic then I fully understand why you would turn down a random stranger to a pretzel request." Whizzer rambled.

"But he wasn't allergic so I bought him a pretzel, we talked and before long we realized the game was over. We exchanged numbers and left in opposite directions. We texted and after I broke up with my wife I decided that I wanted to meet in real life again-" Marvin laughed, remembering all those thrill-of-first-love feelings.

"IRL, if you wanted the modern way of saying it," Whizzer smiled, "OK," he added when both men glared at him to continue the story. "So we went to a fancy restaurant and ended up dating, some how we moved in with Trina and her son - how we did that I have no idea?" Whizzer looked to Marvin for help but he just shrugged. "I think she wanted me to move back in and I told her we were a package deal, so she accepted you too. I think she was desperate to have me back in her life, because Jason needed a father figure."

"Well," Whizzer glanced back to Mendel who was frantically writing as fast as he could, 

"he got two father figures, for the price of one,"

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"I hate baseball I really do," - Marvin