Gabe might have overdone it tonight.
This morning?
Fuck, what time was it?
The maleâs arm lifted as he attempted to focus his stare on the watch at his wrist, but the hands and numbers only swam together enough that he couldnât decide if it was three or four am. âDoesnât matter,â Gabe mumbled to himself as the arm dropped away and instead, his focus was on walking. He was positive he was simply imagining how much he weaved back and forth along the sidewalkâ it was dark, he couldnât see! That was the problem. Probably why he couldnât make heads or tails of the time, too, in fact. After a few moments, those hazel eyes began to observe the many town homes as he passed by, before he came to a complete stop.Â
Which one was it?
Ah, that one.
With renewed self-assurance, Gabe stumbled up the few steps towards one of the nicer-looking ones and wound up falling against the door. His face squished against it as he groaned briefly, patting down his jeans jacket until he located a set of keys. It took another few seconds before he began to jab keys into the lock one after anotherâ that one didnât fit, this one fit but wouldnât turn, and that was the key for his shitty truck that got left behind at the bar tonight. Not because heâd been too afraid to drive home, but because the piece of crap hadnât started. Again. After many fruitless attempts to find the key, because truth was none of them belonged to Maddoxâs house, Gabe slumped into the door once more. âMaddy, hey man..â Pounding on the door now several times. âCâmon, lemme in. I canât.. My fuckinâ keysâ itâs missing,â his said, lips practically kissing the door at this point as he stage whispered through it.
@inspiraatioâ
"Okay, okay, okay. I'm up." The muttered words came first before he did anything to crawl out from under the mountain of bedding on his bed. Maddox wasn't even bothered by the knocking - his house was really nice, but not terribly big. He lived alone, what the hell did he need space for? So he did hear the knocking, but noises didn't really bother him - Maddox grew up with six siblings, he could sleep through anything. His Frenchie on the other hand could not, and climbing onto his face with a lot of licking was a very strong argument to getting up.
"Buongiorno", Maddox said, pulling the front door open. He didn't give too much thought for how much of Gabe's balance was relying on the door - whether the kid faceplanted or not, possible injuring himself, it didn't look like Maddox was getting to go back to bed any time soon. He wasn't even really that much of an asshole, he really was mostly amused.
Monkey the Frenchie was barely containing himself, padding to Gabe's feet to greet him. "Couldn't bring breakfast, could you", Maddox said with a low hum. They were barely related, but Maddox was a family guy through thick and thin. It might have been years since his divorce, but him and his ex-wife still got along just fine, it wasn't weird at all to keep hanging out with her side of the family. As barely as this counted as hanging out.