“Of course you can and you know I will,” He answered as he climbed off the bed with Louie, following him into the closet. “I’ll finally put some of Turbo’s diving practice to work,” he teased, shredding his clothes almost immediately after walking through the archway into his closet. The night before he was a nervous mess about showing himself to Louie in tight briefs but the nerve was entirely gone. He felt no embarrassment about being nude with Louie and he loved that. Searching for his own shorts,he eventually settled on a pair of simple, yellow board shorts. In the corner of his eye he could see Louie looking for a shirt that would fit and he knew exactly where he’d kept it. “Third drawer down… but I want it back.” He slept in that shirt 90% of the time, especially after he and Louie called it quits.
Searching for a pair of sunglasses, he shuffled through a handful designer lenses and eventually settled on standard Ray bans. “I’ll keep you safe,” He promised. “Alright, let’s go.” Landon found Louie’s hand and immediately headed down the stairs. When he came down the stairs, Landon found most of his family already gone. Poking his head into the garage, Landon found Kyle, Brittani, Devon, and Andrew hanging around Kyle’s Benz. “We’re ready!” He announced, giving Louie’s hand a quick squeeze before loading into the SUV with his siblings and cousin.
“Louie’s got shotgun,” Andrew announced, climbing into the back seat next to Landon and Brittani before Louie could join them. Landon mouthed a quick apology before Kyle shut the door on them.
“We don’t bite.” Kyle assure him before patting Louie on the back and walking around to climb in the driver seat. As Louie as Louie was in the car, Kyle backed out of the garage and started en route to the marina. “So, Duck, I have to ask… We’ve known each other how long? Three years? And you never tried the gay thing on me? I’m hurt.” He teased, glancing at Louie with a quick smirk before returning his eyes o the road.
“Yeah, plus, you’re like, really hot so why Landon? He’s cute n’all, but let’s be real, he has no followers on Instagram.” Andrew added, giving a small laugh as he scrolled through his phone.
“Be nice! I think Landon is just cute enough,” Devon added from the third row, running her fingers through Landon’s hair.
“Can we not do this right now?” Landon asked, embarrassed beyond all measure by the exchange going on in the car,looking to Brittani for some back up.
“Don’t look at me… I don’t entirely care,” Brittani added, giving an indifferent shrug. “He’s cute, you’re cute. You’re cute together. There’s my opinion.”
There was continued small talk before Kyle brought his car to a halt, pulling up beside Adam’s Lincoln. The rest of the family appeared to already be on board and Adam, Daniel, and the Thalassa staff had the boat ready to leave. “We’re late,” Andrew huffed, hurrying out of the car and heading up to the causeway with Brittani. Once Devon, Louie, and Landon were out of the car, Kyle locked it and followed his sister and cousin with Devon walking with him.
“Well,” Landon laughed, motioning to the boat docked alongside a few other slightly smaller ones. “That’s Thalassa. Shall we?” He offered, extending his hand to Louie’s once again.
After entering Thalassa, Landon and Louie stopped to talk to a few people before they encountered Landon’s father, Adam. “Well good morning,” He smiled, closing the space between them to embrace Landon in a hug and offer his hand to Louie. “Louie, I’m glad you could join us. I mentioned to Rick,”
“Ariel’s dad,” Landon quickly murmured to keep Louie up to speed.
“You might join us today and he said you were pretty useful to have on deck on the Athena.” He looked around the ship he so proudly owned before continuing. “Thalassa’s a bit different from Athena but it shouldn’t be any less entertaining. There’s breakfast set up on the stern, so help yourself. I’m sure I’ll see you later.” He moved his eyes to Landon with something of a proud smile before giving each of them a nod and moving on.
“Hungry?” Landon asked, turning to stand toe to toe with his boyfriend, lacing their fingers together on both hands.
Louie was grateful that Landon told him where a shirt that he’d left here before was, because otherwise he could have been digging around in that closet forever. Landon had a ton of clothes, more clothes than Louie had even seen him where in all the time he’d known him. “Don’t worry, you can have it back.” He nodded, smiling at the Dane. Luckily the shirt was grey, to go with the bright blue trunks he’d borrowed from Landon. He knew the Dane wasn’t exactly subtle with the clothes he picked, but Louie would have guessed he would have at least one pair of plain, dark trunks. He should have known better.
As he followed Landon out of the closet he swiped a pair of sunglasses as well, they were designer -- far nicer than anything Louie owned -- and he was sure they would probably look stupid on him but he was going to need them if they were going to be out in the sun all day. He was happy that Landon held his hand, though he didn’t know why the blonde wouldn’t have held it. “I’m actually kind of excited for the boating part. No so much the things your siblings might ask, but yeah.” He joked, laughing a little, though he was actually kind of nervous. Yesterday he hadn’t been nervous at all to answer the questions thrown at him, but today was different.
He followed Landon out of the house and towards a nice looking SUV, okay so it was definitely one of the nicer cars Louie had seen, but he had seen all the Marin’s driving nice cars, it was no secret that their father had money to spend on them. Louie was just happy he could afford his Jeep. He was ready to hop into the back with Landon before suddenly Andrew was cutting him off, calling something about how he had shotgun. “Guess I got shotgun.” He laughed as Kyle patted his back, he took a deep breath for preparation and slid into the passenger seat.
Louie looked over at Kyle when he started asking why he had never done the gay thing for him before, and he wanted to laugh but it didn’t come out. “I, uh,” he started, unsure how to finish his reply, “guess I thought with all your big fancy money, someone like you wouldn’t be too interested in me Kyle.” He retorted back, not sure if it was even a sound reply, seeing as Landon had just as much money. God this was gonna be a long day.
“Because it’s not about how good looking he is, which I happen to think he is, but about his personality.” He replied quicker this time, much more confident about his reply.
Louie wouldn’t admit it, but he was a little relieved when they pulled up at the dock and he could exit the confines of the car. At least on the boat he could politely excuse himself and go talk to a different Marin. He hopped out, suddenly thankful for the boating experiences he had gotten with Max, at least this would be a time to shine in Adam’s eyes.
“Well I’m here already, so I don’t think there is any backing out at this point.” Louie joked, because even though some of the conversation would be awkward, he actually quite liked Landon’s family and was looking forward to the experience with them.
Louie smiled as Adam scooped his son into a hug, admittedly a little sad that he never had that with his father, but he happily shook the mans’ hand as it was offered to him. “Thanks for letting me join you, sir.” Louie replied, before nodding his head a bit. “Yeah, Ariel’s boyfriend is actually a pretty good friend of mine, and of course she’s taught him all there is to know about sailing, and he gave me a few lessons. Luckily I pick up quick because boating is a lot more complicated than I ever though.” He laughed. “I’m sure you will, thanks again for the invite.” He turned back to Landon once his father was gone, and nodded almost immediately to his question.
“Landon. I’m always hungry.” He laughed, not even waiting for Landon to lead the way, he knew where the stern was on a boat, and he was already starving even though they had just woken up, what, like 20 minutes ago.
He was happy to find the arrangement of food when he got to the stern, and wanted to stuff his face quite honestly, but he knew that was rude, and that this arrangement also had to feed the million Marin’s that were also on board, so he settled for a smaller portion that what he usually ate.
“Don’t eat all the food Louie, you look like you could do some damage to our set up here.” Kyle joked, and Louie felt a little embarrassed because at first he though Kyle was calling him fat, and then he remembered that he had spent the last 2 years of living here growing in size from how much he’d started kick-boxing and working out. “I could probably eat like, 6 Marin’s worth of food. But I won’t. I promise to behave with the food.” He retorted to Kyle after swallowing the bite he’d already stuffed in his mouth. He probably looked like a slob to the wealth, prim and proper bunch, but he was Louie and that wasn’t going to change.
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