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“This is stupid.”

“You’re stupid.” Ian’s immediate retort was rather childish, but so were Caddy’s complaints. It was supposed to be a fun outing, help welcome Hana into the club, but things had ended up not working out. Instead of the night on the boardwalk everyone had wanted they were stuck out on the beach, the boardwalk closed for repairs. Really it wasn’t all that bad, but Caddy’s grouching was putting everyone down.

“Well, I’m sorry if I just wanted to have a good time!” Caddy shook his head, taking off down the beach. The club exchanged a look, Hana reaching out to Ian gently.

“He’s disappointed. Maybe…” Ian turned to her, nodding.

“Yeah… I’ll go try to… something.” He began walking after Caddy, smacking himself lightly. The point was to celebrate, arguing wasn’t going to help anything. Really, he knew how Caddy felt. He hadn’t necessarily been looking forward to the rides, but… the boardwalk would have been better than the beach.

“James…”

“What?” Caddy was sitting quietly on the sand, swirling patterns with his fingers. Ian sat down next to him, waiting quietly. Caddy sighed. “Look, I know I’m being stupid, okay? I just… whatever. It doesn’t even fucking matter.” He spat the words bitterly.

“James…”

“I wanted to ride the Ferris Wheel with you.” Caddy stared hard at the ocean, refusing to look at Ian. Ian paused, Caddy’s outburst unexpected but… He leaned over to kiss him on the cheek, Caddy’s face heating up with his touch. Ian gazed out onto the ocean, his own face flaming as he spoke.

“Oh my god.” Ian couldn’t stop the sigh that escaped him as he took in the room. It was absolutely horrid, blankets and pillows and… were those Christmas lights?

“Movie night!” Luke flung himself onto the layer of pillows covering the floor, grinning up at Ian.

“Luke… You really didn’t need to do all this. We could have just watched the movie on our beds.” Ian’s mind was already racing, thinking of how long all of this would take to clean up and return to it’s proper places. All the blanket folding that would need to be done….

“What’s the fun in that? Besides, you don’t need to worry about anything. Just sit down and enjoy the movie!” Luke reached up to pull Ian down with him, Ian sitting down grumpily. He had to admit, the pillows were pretty comfortable…

“Fine. What are we watching?” Ian watched warily as Luke pressed play, turning off the lights before returning to his previous spot.

“You’ll see. It’s pretty recent, Jeff told me it was pretty good!” Ian’s eyebrow raise in suspicion. Anything Jeff said was good could range from the stupidest movie on the planet to the scariest thriller. And knowing Jeff, he wouldn’t tell Luke what type of movie it was.

“Did you look up-” Ian was silenced by a hand over his mouth, Luke’s attention on the screen as the picture began.

“Shhhhh no talking.” Ian rolled his eyes, removing Luke’s hand from his mouth. If it was a thriller and Luke hadn’t looked it up and got scared it certainly wasn’t Ian’s fault.

Honestly, Ian wasn’t even fazed at this point. He had totally called it, and Jeff was an ass, and Luke was incredibly dumb.

“I should have looked it up I should have-” Ian shook his head, pressing his lips to Luke’s gently in an effort to soothe him. Luke returned his focus to Ian, seemingly much calmer.

“You’re an idiot for not looking up what kind of movie it was.” They hadn’t even gotten five minutes in before Luke was a scared mess, curled up against a rather bored Ian. It wasn’t even a good horror movie, four out of ten at best. Luke looked down dejectedly, nodding slightly before smirking.

“Well, I may be an idiot, but I’m your idiot!” He seemed entirely too pleased with himself. Ian couldn’t help the smile that crossed his face.