Guilty by Association

Raf smiled and nudged his elbow back into his brother’s ribs. “Jerk…” He shook his head then looked over at Gabriel curiously. “Um… no. He’s not. I had a couple of male lovers in college and med school, I’ve had relationships with both genders. What about you? Strictly hetero?” He smiled, nodding. “Yeah, I’ll come to you, for sure… and you come to me. If you need anything.”

"You know, like a song or something?" Cori bit her lower lip, suddenly unsure if he would be interested in the offer. He wasn’t like Noah, no obvious broadcasting of musical preference. "If you don’t want to that’s fine." She shrugged. "What do you mean? I like you. How can anyone not like you? You’ve been nothing but nice to me?"

"Yeah sure! Do you know how to play something?" He smiled at her. "I play guitar." He shrugged as he put a cigarette into his mouth. "I'm nice to you because I like you. I've been kind of a dick to everyone else. I guess I deserve it."

"Well, it would be nice to have someone to ride with, you know? I don’t think Topher’s ever seen a horse in person before." Smiling over at him her brows went up as he dumped a healthy pour into her cup, pursing her lips as she took a sip and cringed. "Oh… wow… yeah, plenty." Looking up at his suggestion, Charlie set her drink down and shrugged. "Sure. Though everyone’s rules are different. How do you play it?" She was already more than a little drunk from the shots before and the sips after, that each sip just made her a little fuzzier in the head. "Do we have to tell our secrets or guess them?"

"You just ask each other questions...whatever you want and you have to answer it." Blanco smiled as he finished his drink setting the cup down on the table. He was drunk enough right now and he decided to wait a bit for another drink. "I didn't know there was different ways to play...how do you play it?"

Vivien turned and looked at him with a heavy-lidded smirk. She flicked his joint into the darkness and said sweetly, “Fetch, boy.”

Blanco watched her flick his joint into the forrest. He turned his head back tot he red head,"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? ARE YOU CRAZY?!" He yelled shaking his head his head, and he was so angry right now. That was almost the last of his marijuana and it was the first time he wanted to hit a girl so bad. "Fuck you, Ginny Weasly!" 

Who is in there?

"I hope so, I would love for Luca to bring Luke and I back together. I miss being as close to my brother as I used to be." Her brows lifted in surprise when he said that he’d ridden horses before, and she turned and shifted so she was facing him. "Do you think you could help me learn to ride? Parker is teaching me, like I said, but he’s busy, you know?" Her excitement showed on her face, which flushed once more. Beautiful Charlie. He said it like it was part of her name, like a title, like Captain or Princess. It was flattering and all she could do was smile. Looking down at her drink, still half full of the weak mixture, she picked it up and took another small sip, shaking her head. “Nope, still have plenty. See…?”

"I could...but I'm not that great at teaching anyone but I can definitely try." Blanco smiled at Charlie as they talked about her horse. Blanco looked at her cup when she showed him and poured some more whiskey into it. "Now that is plenty." He laughed and took another drink. "Want to play a game? Like 20 questions or something?"

Blanco got up from the ground really fast and pushed Jackson against the tree. "FUCK YOU." He yelled in the younger males face and raised his hand like he was going to punch the other male. He was breathing heavy and he was feeling so angry right now because he wanted to cry. He hadn't cried about his brother yet, and he hated the fact that Jackson was about to see it. He could feel the wetness in his eyes and turned his back to Jax,"Just fucking go, man. GO!"

"You’ll just have to make it up to me later." Cori shrugged. "Well if you want I can always play something for you, and I’m sure someone in this camp needs some sort of help."

"Play something for me?" Blanco asked confused and nodded. "Yeah but...I'd rather just do work on my own. I hate working with other people." He smiled. "I don't think anyone really likes me either so.."

She stood up, edging closer to him with a hard glint in her eyes. Once close enough, she stole the joint from his hands and took a deep hit. She turned her back on him as she exhaled and slinked away, saying, “Thank you so much for the weed, kid. I’ll remember your generosity as I watch you tuck your tail between your legs and run far away.” She took another hit of his joint for emphasis, staring into his eyes as she did so.

Blanco stared at the red head with his mouth open. He blinked and reached out for his joint back,"Okay you had enough...hand it back now."

Don’t call him that, Gabe… Rafael cut his brother a look then sighed and shrugged his shoulders. Yeah, I guess so… some things I’m going to have to slowly learn again. It’s hard, it’s really hard.

Okay..okay. I'm sorry. I won't call him that from now on..except in my head." Blanco smirked at his brother and nudged him with his elbow. "Is he the the first dude in your life or?" He asked wanting to know more about his brother. He had no idea and he waited for Raf's reply. "If you ever need anything..and it's something you don't wanna let him help you with. I'm your brother...you can ask me. Okay?"

I totally would if I had to, Rafael. You have your bitch to do it anyway. So. Blanco laughed and shook his head, I don't want to talk about it anymore. How are you holding up though? Are you able to not do some things?

"About to cry? Hah. You’d have to be a touch more human than I am to cry. Regardless, it would please me greatly if you were to remove yourself from my vicinity. As quickly as possible.”

Blanco didn't expect her to be so mean right back but she was. And he liked it. "Well since you want to be such a bitch...I'm gonna smoke right here." He pulled his joint out of his pocket and lit it with his lighter inhaling a bunch of smoke. After he inhaled for a moment he blew the smoke towards the red head and smirked at her.

Are you about to cry? Because I will totally go somewhere else.

"Why do you hate him so much?" Rafael asked, finally. "What has he done to you to make you feel this strongly…? Even before I lost my hand, you hated him." He paused for a moment then smiled, putting his arm around his little brother’s neck, pulling him into a headlock with the handless arm before giving him a noogie. "You wouldn’t wipe my ass, huh?"

Hell no I don't want to wipe your ass. That's fucking weird.

Don’t be mean, Gabriel.

I'm sorry.

Blanco shook his head and the more he listened to Jackson talk the more it pissed him off. "Just...stop talking. Figures you can't just be on my side, right?" He glared at the younger male and grabbed a cigarette out from behind his ear. "You probably want to fuck him thats why...just leave me alone. I was better off alone, okay?"