A mole's behind

1. A mole's behind

Setting: Grian and Iskall are in a newly formed relationship. They've just asked Mumbo to be a mole.

POV Iskall

"...believe it? Mole duties before he's even recruited. This is gonna be so much fun, ..."
"You've been checking out Mumbo's butt, sweetie," Iskall interrupted calmly.
Grian gliding next to him fell silent.

The pause continued as they were flying towards Iskall's base. He gulped. Grian never shut up this long. He was bursting with ideas and thoughts, Iskall sometimes found it hard to get his own ideas across in the constant blabber. He shouldn't have said that, what was he thinking? Well, there was no going back now.
"Grian..." He began slowly, but the mention of his name seemed to wake the other from his stupor.
"I'm sorry Iskall, this all is new for me. I've never really been in a relationship and I've never thought about not checking people out and..."
"It's OK. I'm not mad." Iskall interrupted him again.
Grian seemed startled. He actually forgot to shoot rockets and started to slowly sink towards the waves. Iskall slowed down, making circles. He didn't want to disturb the other's thoughts, much less did he really know what he would have said, anyway.
"You're not mad?" Grian said, seeming to twist his tongue around the words, as if their order didn't make sense this way. He seemed to finally realise, that the ocean was drawing closer and he propelled himself with new rockets. Iskall followed suit, only to notice that he was running low on rockets.
"I'm not mad. Uhm G, can we stop somewhere around here? I'm almost out of rockets."
They landed on a small island, where Grian dropped off some rockets, which Iskall picked up. Grian didn't fly off again just yet.
"What do you mean, you're not mad?" Insecurity shone through Grian's words, as he spoke to his feet. Iskall hadn't answered yet. How could he explain what he was thinking?

A/N:
I'll be including little comments, tales, resources and explanations down here. If you're interested in understanding polyamory or relationship theory, or just want to read about the author of this story, this might interest you. If you're just here for the fluff, feel free to skip these paragraphs at the end of the chapter.

Definitions:

Open Relationship – a relationship, in which the partners are in some way allowed to have sexual and romantic encounters outside of the relationship

Polyamorous relationship – a relationship where one person can have multiple partners. A polyamorous relationship does not have to be an open relationship

I found, that checking out people and discussing that with your partner is not something unique to polyamorous or open relationships. It feels to me, as if in monogamous relationships it's a sign for huge trust between partners. As in "this person looks good, but I'm staying with you" or "I'm trusting that you won't be jealous or mad for something I have no control over". Though some people just find it funny and enjoy it with their partner the same way stereotypically a group of single girls would do. Fun and giggles and such.

Note that not everyone even feels attraction to people outside of their relationships. It's not a sign that you're polyamorous or not, I've met both kinds of people (being happy) in both kinds of relationships. Someone described their experience to me like this: When they were in a relationship, they didn't look at people in that way, didn't consciously or even subconsciously assess their looks. Only when they were "allowed to", they would look. A comic that sort of fits this, can be found here: 

http://kimchicuddles.com/post/63168087734/shopping

Btw, I am influenced a lot by Kimchi Cuddles, so you might see some more of it here.

As I said, attraction outside of established relationships is not limited to people in open relationships. To me, discussing it with your partner(s) means not hiding your feelings from them and being true to yourself.
What do you guys think about checking out people while you are in a relationship? No interest, no-go, perfect opportunity to giggle with your partner, something else?