( *& IDK MAYBE;;)

Gray chuckled when Finn nailed his order, giving his thigh a quick squeeze under the table to signal his approval before turning his attention back to Finn’s dad. Was this a trick question? No. This was easy. “Sir. I hope you don’t take offense to this, but… Do you think your son would even go near somebody who wasn’t a Seahawks fan?” He laughed, shaking his head, “Seattle Seahawks all the way.”

Finally, Gray was able to hold a smile again as he let his guard go down. “Sounds good. Also, order for me; I’ll just have whatever you do.” He told Finn as he put his menu down, his grin widening at Finn’s dad’s fleek comment. “I’m not even going to try to guess what it is. Shoot.”

“… Murdered? I– I mean– Well… I– That wouldn’t happen, would it?”

“It could if you aren’t careful, but it sounds to me it might be more of a porn thing than a murder thing.”

“It’s nothing bad, I feel like you think of me like this horrible person sometimes.” Joey said with a shrug. “I only want to know some of your favorite baby names.”

“I just--- Worry about you, Joey.” Finn smiled, “Baby names? Is this for another dog or an actual baby? I obviously didn’t get to name my baby, but I’m a huge fan of nicknames over real names. Like I go by Finn when my real name is Griffin. Gray and I call Phoenix, Phe. Even our dog goes by a nickname. Alexander, but goes by Alex for a boy or Olivia, but goes by Livvy for a girl.”

“That’s… Cool.” Gray slowly told Finn’s brother before taking one more confused look around the table. Finally, he took a breath and looked over at Finn. Gray knew this couldn’t be easy on him; even if the blow was somewhat mitigated by the rest of the family. “Are you okay? Do you want to stay for brunch?”

grffiin:

His mother stayed quiet thinking of her next argument. Finn turned his attention to his father to help out Gray. “Phe was a case I had. Her parents actually. Really bad drug addicts, I was doing welfare checks on them. One check I found that they had OD’ed. I had taken care of Phoenix until social services took her in. I thought about her all the time, though. About how she was alone and scared. I– We fought like hell to be able to foster her and now we are in the process of adopting her. She will legally be our daughter soon.” He turned to his mom. “See you will still get grandchildren.” She let out a scoff. “I can’t– I just can’t believe you are doing this to me again, Griffin.” His father arched his brow. “Again?” Finn sat back in his chair, with a no care attitude even though his heart was racing and his hand was fused to Gray’s.

Gray didn’t know what else he could say or do at this point in time. He focused his attention on Finn instead, holding his hand tighter still yet using his thumb to caress the other’s hand in an attempt to bring him down some. His eyes scanned the table, looking at some of Finn’s brothers to try and rally some kind of support. He cleared his throat some as his eyes found Finn again. 

grffiin:

“Yup,” Finn said quickly to Gray. While waiting for his family to overcome the shock and say something, Finn pulled out a chair for Gray to sit in and then sat next to his boyfriend. His father coughed and his mother was the first one to say something. “Griffin, this isn’t something very funny to joke about. Y’know people from church eat here too, what if they heard you?” At this point, his father was just staring at Gray. “So what if they heard me? Not everyone thinks like you, mom. The Carter’s daughter is gay. Member the Poyles’? Both of their sons are gay. The church still excepts them.” Finn took Gray’s hand, using it as a security blanket to help him speak to his mother. “How do you have a kid if you are gay?” His father directed to Gray. “Was it a drunken night?” His brother pitched in.

It certainly made Gray feel a bit uncomfortable that Finn’s father was staring at Gray, but he didn’t let it show. If there was one thing he had experience in, it was standing up to authority and hiding any kind of weakness. Under the table, however, he was squeezing Finn’s hand pretty tight. Gray coughed before speaking again, shaking his head. “If you’re talking about Phe, she’s obviously adopted. Well— not completely. We’re still fostering her, but we’re getting there.”

grffiin:

Finn smiled when he looked up to the door of the restaurant and say his boyfriend walk in. He excused himself from the table and met Gray. “Thanks for coming, baby,” Finn whispered to him while he wrapped an arm around the other’s waist and guided him to the table his family sat at. “Mom, dad–” He started, getting confused faces from both his parents. “You both know Gray. Well, not only is he my roommate, but he is also my boyfriend.” Finn paused after, waiting for the reactions of his family.

“Oh. We’re doing this? Right now?” He couldn’t help but look at Finn incredulously for a moment, but he merely shrugged and nodded his head after a second. He smiled at Finn’s family, clenching his teeth jokingly and using his thumb to point at Finn, “This one. Awful at warning folks about stuff, am I right?”

“Can you risk something like that? Won’t someone be upset about you being late?” Xavier asked raising an eyebrow slightly. “I’d offer my button up but I don’t know if you’d rip it or not,” he couldn’t help but tease the other.

“I can, people will look but it’s better than not showing up.” Finn laughed, “Okay whatever, I guess I’m not the Hulk. But I think I still have bigger muscles than you.”

“A helicopter parent is pretty much the same exact thing as a lame one, Finn.” Joey said with a groan. “No, no you go do your boring dad stuff. I’m going to go spend time with my pets.”

“Naw-uh. They are a little less lame than lame parents.” He shook his head. “Nope, now we are doing something. Wanna go to a bar? Or we can go get Starbucks and take the dogs to the park.”

“It’s a mom thing, I think. If my mom actually ever tried to give me the cold shoulder it would probably work.”

“Wait so has your mom never actually gave you the cold shoulder? What about a scorn?”

Gray had been walking over to the brunch place; it was only five minutes from their apartment, so he didn’t feel like taking his car. He called Kai to come over to his place and to bring Kali, that way they could all hang out after brunch. He stepped into the restaurant, wearing black jeans and a dark button up shirt. Eyeing Finn and his family, he waved to his boyfriend and walked over, suddenly feeling extremely nervous.