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What the hell was I thinking?
Title: Loop de Loop (and tie them up)
Character/Paring: Brendon
Rating: G
Words: 685
Notes: Just to be clear, this is all![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
of_silverandsky's fault. She asked to discuss this picture of Brendon and this came out. Also, unbetaed.
Brendon has been abandoned.
He and Zack and Spencer were strolling in New York, not even checking out the stores, just aimlessly wandering around. Spencer and Zack were walking ahead of him and Brendon was thinking about snapping a picture to send to twitpic. He glanced down to take his phone out of his jeans pocket and noticed one of his shoelaces had slipped out of its shoe. Brendon was a klutz as it was. Leaving laces like that was practically asking to fall flat on his face.
He huffed out a "Hold on" to Zack and crouched down to stick the shoelace back into the sides of his shoe.
Spencer had been telling him to just tie his shoes like a normal person since forever, but Brendon didn't like for the strings to bounce around when he walked (also, when he was younger, the other kids always teased him about his "bunny ears" tying method and he had taken up the habit of just sticking them inside his shoes before slipping them on). The only problem was that sometimes the laces slipped out and he had to take off his shoe to put them back in their place.
Brendon slipped his heel out of the shoe, flipped the ends of the strings back inside and slid his foot forward to put the shoe back on. The whole thing couldn't have taken more than a minute, but when he had stood up again, Zack and Spencer were nowhere to be seen.
Brendon blinked. "What the hell?" he said to no one. He turned his head from side to side, looking for Zack's bulky frame or Spencer's shiny hair, but the only thing he could see was the moving crowd around him, walking purposefully and ignoring him completely.
Brendon's not one to panic easily (ahah) but finding himself suddenly alone in the middle of New York City... well.
He took out his phone and scrolled the names on his contact list until he found Zack's and pressed "call", worrying his bottom lip. It rang four times before going to voicemail. Brendon tried Spencer's right after with the same result.
He stared at his phone in confusion and then launched his Twitter app. As he waited for the page to load, thinking about a clever way to ask Zack and Spencer why they thought abandoning him in front of the Apple store was a good idea (without alerting a horde of fangirls of his whereabouts), he scanned the crowd again. When he looked back at the screen, he saw Zack's tweet:
@zackdft The ONLY good thing about NYC. http://twitpic.com/djjh1"
Brendon touched the link and stared, surprised, at a picture of himself, standing in front of the Apple store, looking for his friends. "What the..."
"You should have seen your face, Urie." Brendon looked up as he heard Zack's laughing voice over the traffic noise "That's the only good thing about New York". Him and Spencer were on the other side of the road grinning like loons, Zack still clutching his phone.
Brendon put a hand on his hip and scowled, "You guys are assholes. What if I had been attacked by a horde of fangirls?"
"Less people for me to corral around" answered Zack, already crossing the street, Spencer at his side.
"You'd be completely devastated" Brendon replied, "you would cry".
"Yes," Zack said once he stepped onto the sidewalk, "tears of joy." He slapped Brendon's back and then started walking again, flicking his head to tell the other two to follow him.
"So," Spencer said, drawing out the vowel, "will you start to tie your shoes right, now?"
Brendon looked at him out of the corner of his eye "No, I won't."
Spencer bumped his shoulder against Brendon's "You know, if it's about the 'bunny ears'... I could teach you the other method".
Brendon snorted to cover his reddening cheeks "What, we are going to sit down and you're going to tie my strings?"
Spencer smiled wickedly, "Strings are not the only things you can tie, you know."
Brendon stumbled, his shoelaces still in their place.
Fin
Character/Paring: Brendon
Rating: G
Words: 685
Notes: Just to be clear, this is all
of_silverandsky's fault. She asked to discuss this picture of Brendon and this came out. Also, unbetaed.
Brendon has been abandoned.
He and Zack and Spencer were strolling in New York, not even checking out the stores, just aimlessly wandering around. Spencer and Zack were walking ahead of him and Brendon was thinking about snapping a picture to send to twitpic. He glanced down to take his phone out of his jeans pocket and noticed one of his shoelaces had slipped out of its shoe. Brendon was a klutz as it was. Leaving laces like that was practically asking to fall flat on his face.
He huffed out a "Hold on" to Zack and crouched down to stick the shoelace back into the sides of his shoe.
Spencer had been telling him to just tie his shoes like a normal person since forever, but Brendon didn't like for the strings to bounce around when he walked (also, when he was younger, the other kids always teased him about his "bunny ears" tying method and he had taken up the habit of just sticking them inside his shoes before slipping them on). The only problem was that sometimes the laces slipped out and he had to take off his shoe to put them back in their place.
Brendon slipped his heel out of the shoe, flipped the ends of the strings back inside and slid his foot forward to put the shoe back on. The whole thing couldn't have taken more than a minute, but when he had stood up again, Zack and Spencer were nowhere to be seen.
Brendon blinked. "What the hell?" he said to no one. He turned his head from side to side, looking for Zack's bulky frame or Spencer's shiny hair, but the only thing he could see was the moving crowd around him, walking purposefully and ignoring him completely.
Brendon's not one to panic easily (ahah) but finding himself suddenly alone in the middle of New York City... well.
He took out his phone and scrolled the names on his contact list until he found Zack's and pressed "call", worrying his bottom lip. It rang four times before going to voicemail. Brendon tried Spencer's right after with the same result.
He stared at his phone in confusion and then launched his Twitter app. As he waited for the page to load, thinking about a clever way to ask Zack and Spencer why they thought abandoning him in front of the Apple store was a good idea (without alerting a horde of fangirls of his whereabouts), he scanned the crowd again. When he looked back at the screen, he saw Zack's tweet:
@zackdft The ONLY good thing about NYC. http://twitpic.com/djjh1"
Brendon touched the link and stared, surprised, at a picture of himself, standing in front of the Apple store, looking for his friends. "What the..."
"You should have seen your face, Urie." Brendon looked up as he heard Zack's laughing voice over the traffic noise "That's the only good thing about New York". Him and Spencer were on the other side of the road grinning like loons, Zack still clutching his phone.
Brendon put a hand on his hip and scowled, "You guys are assholes. What if I had been attacked by a horde of fangirls?"
"Less people for me to corral around" answered Zack, already crossing the street, Spencer at his side.
"You'd be completely devastated" Brendon replied, "you would cry".
"Yes," Zack said once he stepped onto the sidewalk, "tears of joy." He slapped Brendon's back and then started walking again, flicking his head to tell the other two to follow him.
"So," Spencer said, drawing out the vowel, "will you start to tie your shoes right, now?"
Brendon looked at him out of the corner of his eye "No, I won't."
Spencer bumped his shoulder against Brendon's "You know, if it's about the 'bunny ears'... I could teach you the other method".
Brendon snorted to cover his reddening cheeks "What, we are going to sit down and you're going to tie my strings?"
Spencer smiled wickedly, "Strings are not the only things you can tie, you know."
Brendon stumbled, his shoelaces still in their place.
Fin
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I feel Brendon's pain, I can't tie my shoelaces in the other way either.
Next step: More fic! :D?
(Why do they both have the kind of hair that doesn't cover kissing? I'll have to play with perspectives or framing... )
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....I'm editing the moneyfic so it can be read without your eyes leaving for Papua New Guinea... *headdesk*. Can someone render me illiterate? So I won't even try anymore? Please?
(Well, it's bad for drawing, but think of when the paps will get them kissing! There won't be anything to hide their kissing \o/)
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And then you're going to post it for all the world to see!
No way that would be a huge loss, and then who would tell me stories about mobster boyfriends?
(That is a very happy thought! \o/
But... If the paps caught them kissing would they just roll with it or would they be upset about being outed? I think it might be Pete who accidentally outs them. It's their last day of the Blink-182 tour, and just before they go on Spencer gives Brendon a quick kiss on the lips for luck.
The people who're there to see it already know, Dallon and Ian don't care and Pete, who's planning god knows what in the corner, has known since the day one. Only Spencer didn't think about Pete and his obsession with documenting the tour ("for the fans", Pete says even though Spencer thinks it's more for Pete himself). He regrets this when Pete posts the video and the internet explodes. On the foreground of the video is Pete with a blond blow-up doll and in the upper left corner are Brendon and Spencer, blurry but clearly identifiable to anyone who knows them, kissing.
(Spencer is already reading the through the comments on Pete's blog when Pete runs into the bus yelling "close all the laptops, I can explain!"
Spencer just raises an eyebrow and Pete deflates. "I didn't think about it.")
and maybe Spencer will be the one stressing out about it. After the pictures surface Spencer will be totally nervous about what Brendon's parents will think about him. He's the person who seduced their son with his feminine... or well, not that feminine wiles, after all. What will his own parents think! ("I can hear your brain voice, Spence. Come here so I can shut it up", Brendon calls from the other end of the couch then, effectively stopping Spencer's train of thought.))
Oops, I have no idea where that came from. I apologize for the horrendous grammar and commas all over the place.
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Well, yes. As soon as I can contact the girl who offered to beta...
Oh, right. We musn't forget the mobster boyfriends!
(\o/ commentficcing with you is a delight!!!! THIS IS AMAAAAAAZIIIIIIING
It totally happens like that! Yes, Spencer is extremely upset because he doesn't know if Brendon was ready to come out, and it's not that they were keeping it secret, but they liked the fact that it was just theirs, right then. It's not the apocalypse, but Brendon's parents might be a problem (Spencer's already know, because a mom always knows these things about her baby and Spencer's dad's already a member of PFLAG, because he had an inkling...)
TELL ME MOAR!!!!
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This is my first time actually writing commentfic! My commentfic cherry has been popped :D Ugh, I'm sort of bad at this.
I think that the first thing Brendon does after hearing about the accidental outing is calling his parents and inviting them to dinner at his and Spencer's place.
"We'll figure out how to break the news to them by Friday, right?" he asks Spencer later when they're laying on the living room couch. Spencer takes a moment to trace idle patterns on Brendon's lower back where his shirt has ridden up and makes a soft affirmative noise near Brendon's temple.
(I think Brendon's parents are pretty unsurprised by the revelation and mostly happy that it's not Ryan he's dating. When they actually say this to Brendon he can feel Spencer tensing up next to him, ready to defend Ryan, so Brendon lays a hand on his arm to stop him, because as much as Brendon loves Ryan, he gets where his parents are coming from.)
Spencer's parents have always just known, so when the news break it's mostly just his mom and sisters teasing him about how he chose the most ungraceful way to come out of the closet. (Spencer does point out that he didn't exactly choose to be outed by Pete Wentz and his ridiculous blow-up doll involving shenanigans.) :D?
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(\o/ we are geeks!)
I feel honored to be popping your commentfic cherry :D And no, you're totally awesome at it!
So much love for this!!!! Tell me about Brendon's parents asking them about marriage >:D
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(And proud of it!)
Hmmm. The marriage probably doesn't come up until the 2nd dinner they have with Both of their parents. Even though they weren't particularly surprised, it still took some time for Brendon's parents to get used to thinking about Brendon&Spencer rather than Brendon who's living with Spencer until he finds a nice girl and settles down. After the initial weirdness though, Brendon's mother starts planning their future with a great fervor, enlisting the help of Ginger Smith. Brendon and Spencer are left staring at each other bemusedly, while the two women discuss tablecloths and flower arrangements.
"We aren't even engaged yet, you know that right?" Spencer asks his mother when they go to get tea from the kitchen.
"Yes, I know that. What I don't know is what on earth are you two waiting for?"
Spencer goes to stand in the kitchen doorway, looks at Brendon who turns to see him when he walks in and thinks, what are we waiting for?
Oh noes, I have a feeling this is going to be totally sappy! How do you think Spencer will propose? Or will Brendon beat him to it?
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I LOVE SAPPY
Yes, what are they waiting for? Thye've known each other for years! Spencer knows that it works.... But how to bring up the matter with Brendon?
Brendon may be an asshole sometimes, but he doesn't fool anyone: he's a total girl when it come to these things. That means that Spencer has to come up with a very romantic way to ask Brendon to marry him (because if it's perfect, Brendon won't be able to say "no") (Spencer is terrified that Brendon will say no. He's stupid).
Spencer starts to plot.
They are going to start recording soon, so Spencer doesn't have a lot of free time to go scout restaurant for the romantinc dinner or dreamy locations where to go down on one knee or the perfect promise ring to present Brendon with, but that's why man invented the internet.
So, with the help of his laptop, Spencer has managed to find a really nice restaurant, but things are going pretty slow because he still hasn't found the other to pieces of his masterplan and he's pretty upset about it because he loves Brendon so much and today Brendon has been smiling no-stop and swooping in with little kisses everytime Spencer is in his general vicinity.
They wrap up things at the studio, and Spencer is ready to go home when Brendon asks him if he wants to go to "their place to have dinner". "Their place" is a little, quiet bistro near the beach where they usually go to relax. Spencer is grateful for the suggestion, looking for things on the internet is pretty vexing.
So they go there and have a nice meal, and afterwards Brendon makes noises about going for a walk because he ate too much and maybe walking will help him digest the delicious tiramisu? Spencer, who's all for healty habits lately, agrees. Brendon pays for the meal and then takes Spencer's hand in his and pulls Spencer out of the bistro and walks them down the steps to the sand, near the water but out of reach of the waves.
Can you see where I'm going with this? :)
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Stealthy Brendon is stealthy! My very favourite thing is how they have a "their place". They couldn't be more like a married couple even if they tried!
I can definitely see where you're going, and I enjoy the direction. Please continue going there? :D
(fail delay /o\)
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A.hem... where were we? (this is going to get really really sappy)
...They are far enough form the street lights that Spencer can see a few stars up in the black sky and everything is bathed in blue.
They walk for a bit in silence. Spencer is slowly relaxing, the waves are crashing on the shore and Brendon's hand is warm in his. Spencer is thinking about maybe taking his shoes and socks off when Brendon says "I don't really need a Disney scene, you know?". Spencer freezes, turns around to look at him and Brendon's eyes are shiny and there's a small, soft smile on his face.
"What...I mean. I don't-"
"Spence," Brendon moves in front of Spencer and grasps both of his hands in his, "I don't need a perfect restaurant and a perfect ring and the perfect words"
Spencer's breath stutters.
Brendon swallows, bites his lip, "I just need you to say yes", he takes a step forward, his hands slightly damp. Brendon goes up on his toes and brushes his nose against Spencer's, his lips hovers over Spencer's mouth when he whispers "Marry me, Spencer".
Spencer's "Yes" is lost between the slides of their mouths.
*goes into hiding*
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\\o// SO MUCH AWESOMENESS!
Brendon doesn't need a Disney Scene, he just needs Spencer.
Excuse me while I make ENDLESS HEART-EYES at you ♥♥__________♥♥
This already feels sort of like a full ficlet! Though I'm left wondering who organizes the wedding and how it will go! Maybe Pete offers to do it because he thinks it will be fun and he still kind of wants to do something to fully make up for outing them. The actual wedding would probably go surprisingly well, but there would be a lot of shenanigans happening in the parentless afterparty :D
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I am in love with this thread :D You should poke at it and write actual fiction so I can make heart-eyes at it for the rest of eternity!
Mhmmmm. Spencer will probably convince Brendon that they can hire a professional wedding planner (they are rockstar, they can pay someone to take care of stressing stuff like that) while they relax on the beach and play darts blindfolded and using a giant map of the world as a board to decide where they should go on their honeymoon (the first time, Spencer's dart hits Las Vegas, Brendon's hits Reykjavík. They look at each other and decide that those throws were just for warming-up.)
Anyway, the wedding itself ends up being amazing: nobody's late or doesn't show up, their moms cry like very happy moms of the grooms, the best men (Ryan and Shane) leave out the too-embarassing stuff from their speaches and there's no blender in the presents pile. Th only glitch in this picture-perfect wedding is the blow-up doll which shows up in most of the pictures (because Pete insisted that "she was there from the beginning! You can't leave her out of your sweet happy-ever-after").
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Me too, such a great thread to get my comment cherry popped in! I wouldn't even know how to start poking at it! I'm really not a writer or at least not yet. You, however, should try!
(see how I'm smiling at you? :) It's totally innocent, I would never try to persuade you with smiles! :) Neverrrr :D)
Or, you know, you could write more WASP!
The blow-up doll :DDDDDD I have nothing to add except hi, you are AWESOME.
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This is your brainchild! You're the one who came up with it, therefore you're the one who's going to poke it! Don't worry if your not a writer ( I'm not one either!), just copy/paste the thread into a document and rework and connect the comments until it doesn't look anymore like a comment thread (this is what I did with the moneyfic and it turned out ok). Just give it a go! You'll have fun, I promise! Plus, as you said, I'm busy with WASP, which I aim to finish for Christmas...
The blow-up doll was my favourite :DDDD
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this was amazing!
very, very, very well done, sweetie♥
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Thank you sweetie :D
PS I'm reading your amazing piece right now! Commenting in a few!
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This is adorable ♥♥♥
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Thank you Milly ♥
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Anyway, those people are wrong and I bet they take forever to get their shoes tied because of how wrong they are :)
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Oh, of course they are! Their bows are all lopsided and have no personality *mphf*
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Exactly, floppy laces are jaunty and fun!
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Floppy, jaunty mismatched laces FTW!
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That is all. ♥
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ps. Gonna post the other thing later. You are awesome btw *smooches*
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p.s YOUR ICON. I AM IN LOVE. Flower :D
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I'm still baffled that Disney didn't make a Flower spin-off... They made ones for Tigger, Piglet, Tinkerbell and freaking Patch! >:(
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*is still waiting for the "Boomer and Dinky" tv series*
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*waits with you* you think we're gonna be here a while?
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