Teenage Crime Affairs (Ninjago Mafia AU)

Chapter 15: Bros Before Garden Tools

~Jay's POV~

Thirty minutes after the girls left, Ronin and Dareth went somewhere without saying anything, and Lloyd sent Zane after them because it wasn't responsible for them to do that. It's now nine at night and no one has came back, leaving just Cole, Kai, Lloyd, and I at the penthouse. Surprisingly it wasn't awkward or weird at all being alone with each other. Kai has Lloyd in the theatre and I have Cole here in the game room with me.

The game room was pretty huge too, different TV's hooked up to different gaming consoles, arcade machines, shelves and drawers stacked with games and controllers. Even a mini fridge with snacks and drinks. I guess you could say this is pretty much heaven for me.

"You're too good at this, what the hell." Cole groaned out loudly as we just finished a game of DDR, aka, Dance Dance Revolution. I look over at Cole, panting and wiping his forehead, "Maybe if you didn't eat so much you could have a better chance of beating me." I teased, poking his muscly arm. "Or maybe I'm just not as agile as you." Cole mocked back, poking me too.

"You could be flexible and agile like me if you practiced." I barked back, getting off the machine to walk over to the mini fridge. "I rather not have the chances of pulling my hamstring or hurt my dick doing a spilt." I hear him reply back as I turn around and toss a water bottle at him.

"Practice and ya won't."

Cole chuckles a little as he caught the water bottle, opening it and chugging it like a bottle of vodka, which I'm pretty sure he's done before. "Was it really that tiring?" I opened my own bottle, only to take a long sip of it and close it back. Cole took a long sigh after downing a good portion of his water, "Kinda. I don't dance. You know the story behind that and lifting weights is way different." I hummed at Cole's response for me and thought for a few moments. "I need a break sparky but we can play it again later."

Before I could respond, I heard the doors knob being turned and opened, causing both of us to turn our heads towards the door. "Uh...hey?" I hear, seeing Lloyd come into the room. "Hey! Wanna join?" I perk up. I didn't think Lloyd would leave Kai, must've gotten tired or something. "I mean..kinda??" Lloyd cleared his throat and sighed. "I, um..know you guys and Kai aren't really on good terms right now but we're bored as hell and was wondering if you guys wanted to do stuff together? Kinda like what the girls do, but with just us boys." Lloyd walked all the way in and my eyes travel behind him, seeing a Kai follow him with a awkward smile.

I didn't really mean to but on instinct I stepped back a bit, and held onto Cole's bicep using my hand. I know we can't stay mad at each other forever but that was traumatizing for me. One day I'll forgive Kai for forcing me to kiss someone I didn't want to kiss but today and right now is not it. I didn't really say anything and I guess Cole must've noticed my emotions as I gripped onto him, "Jay isn't comfortable with that." He simply said and Lloyd raised a brow.

"How do you know that? He didn't even say anything."

"He always holds onto the nearest human around him when he's scared or anxious. He's my best friend I would know that."

I stayed quiet, keeping my eyes on Kai as he moved next to Lloyd and looked down at the ground. "Look. I admit what I did really wasn't the coolest, but we're gonna be stuck working together for weeks here and if this little play fight is gonna ruin any chances of bonding or succeeding the mission then we can't dwell on it right now." Kai sighed and I saw his eyes travel upwards to meet mine. "I'm sorry, Jay. Let's just have a bros night tonight without any fighting or stupid shit. Lloyd and I are bored, I'm pretty sure you and Cole is getting tired of playing dance dance gay and I swear to the First Spinjitzu Master nothing's gonna happen."