A Birthday Boy

[onebetter]

Who: James, Keith and the people invited to James' birthday party (Toki, Ana, Adelaide, Nana, Ruby, Nadia, Allura & Yuya!)
When: August 13th (Keith part), August 18th (Party)
What: James' birthday (spent at home in Arizona) & James' Soleil birthday party, spent at a Café de la Lune in Soleil.
Warnings: None for party, mentions of NSFW in Keith & James', though anything explicit will be moved off-comm.

[ All people listed above will have received a text message on August 15th. ]

Hey there!
I'm currently out of the country, but my birthday passed recently and I'd like to celebrate with my friends a little once I return home. Are you free on August 18th? I'd love to get a group together and go down to Café de la Lune for the afternoon. It'll be my treat.

No worries if you're not free that day, but I'd love to see you there!

[ On the actual day of, everyone will find that James has reserved the biggest table in the café so everyone can fit comfortably. He's already ordered a few pastries for everyone and is more than willing to order more. James is pretty much beaming. Also his toad is here. Just sitting on his shoulder. Occasionally being fed bits of cake from a special toad-reserved spoon. ]

Thank you all for coming! If I'm honest, I actually had a bit of trouble making friends when I came here. That was new to me. I'm all the more happy to have met all of you. You made me look forward to coming back to France after vacation.

((Feel free to post open top levels and just chit-chat with one another / interrupt conversations, as it tends to happen at group tables. Also no pressure to tag in, anyone who doesn't will just be seen as having been busy that day and not as having skipped his party, haha.))

Comments

[marmoron]

[Keith takes a deep breath. He doesn't know why he still feels so wound up or why this conversation about virginity has throw him for a loop, but he tries to push both of those back as he looks up and sweeps his hair off his forehead.]

Ok. So who's wearing the condom.

[The mood's gone. Why not just be blunt about it.]

[onebetter]

[ That just gets coughing from James who is trying to finish his snack. The bluntness of the statement effectively messed up the computing space his brain needed for proper swallowing.

He already feels his ears getting hot again and he hates it. He should be able to be cool and suave about this, really.

The coughing at least resolves itself in a few seconds and he clears his throat to answer. ]

I know it's my birthday and all, but... did you have a specific fantasy in mind when you bought all that?

[marmoron]

[So long as it's James that's the one that's floundering through all this, it makes Keith feel a little more composed. Or at least it gives him something to laugh at which is a distraction from his own thoughts. For right now, he can just keep filing this away as a conversation about logistics rather than fantasies and it's fine.

That facade falters a little when James says "all those things" and instantly he blurts:]

I got two things!

[STOP MAKING IT SOUND LIKE HE WENT AND BOUGHT OUT A SEX STORE.]


...rrgh. [Grumping, then clearing his throat.] Look there's more than one condom. As long as we both get to try at some point, I don't mind.

[onebetter]

[ James just keeps getting redder, but he does manage a small grin nevertheless. ]

Busy night, then?

[ Before Keith can get defensive about that, he adds: ] I know we'll just take them home, but... well.

[ Who knows? Maybe it will be a busy night. Through confusion and embarrassment, James is beginning to get excited here. ]

[marmoron]

[....Ah. That just gets Keith to miss a beat, pink starting to dust his cheeks again.]

Do you want it to be a busy night?

[onebetter]

[ A moment of weakness. Something to latch on and regain a bit of control over the situation. James scoots closer to Keith. ]

It sounds pretty nice, doesn't it? We're all the way out in the desert, that's basically the first time we've truly had privacy.

[marmoron]

[Ah, goddamn it. He hates it when James smirks like that. Time to make him go back to blushing up to his ears.]

Put that way it makes it sound like you want me to fuck you on the porch.

[onebetter]

[ James is still red-faced from before so there isn't much change, but at least Keith is doing well in making certain that normal skintone is a far-off dream. ]

T-that... sounds terribly uncomfortable. It's hardwood! And cold.

[marmoron]

[That's getting a laugh.]

Uh-huh. Don't think that'd stop a real warrior.

[But there's a softer grin as he reaches out to pinch the tip of James' red ear between his thumb and index.]

This is a good look on you.

[onebetter]

Hey!

[ Though he protests verbally, James doesn't actually flinch away from the pinch. ]

You better be looking no different in a little bit.

[marmoron]

[He releases James' ear with a grin.]

That mean you gonna work for it?

[onebetter]

Have I ever shied away from effort, babe?

[ Now encouraged, James scoots closer again and then just climbs onto Keith's lap because he can and it feels natural to do. ]

It may be my birthday, but I'll have some mercy and be good to you too.

[marmoron]

[continued here]