FIC: Intricate Rituals
3k // mac and dennis construct intricate rituals to touch each other’s skin // porn but not very detailed and with feelings // no warnings for once!
In the car, after Guigino's. Mac bounces his leg up and down. Guigino's is normally it. It's the night, the night where they both pretend. The dinner, well. That's them. But after the dinner—on a normal night, they go home, like they always do, but they're full on good food and good wine and in that pleasant place of drunkenness where everything is just a little shinier. They've split a dessert, sugar still in their mouths. In the car they let their hands touch on the console between them. When they come back they walk shoulder-to-shoulder into the apartment, and there is where the pretending begin: Dennis always says something like, "I think I'm gonna take a shower, baby," and Mac says, "okay," and it's like Mac's room doesn't even exist, because he goes straight to Dennis's. He undresses, socks and boxer shorts, and relaxes on the bed, staring at the ceiling. He cracks the windows open just a little bit and listens to the sounds of the street below. Mac likes those sounds. It's not like Charlie's apartment, with the awful alley cat chorus, but the soundscape of Mac and Dennis's nicer place, the roll of tires on the street and the intermittent breeze. Then Dennis will come in the room—or if he didn't shower, though he usually did, they'd be together, talking to each other on their sides about the dinner they'd just had and whatever else they had experienced that day—and it would begin.
Tonight, though, Mac knows better than to suggest that. Dennis deflects the gang's invitation to head back to the bar after Guigino's, says he's tired, the food didn't settle well on his stomach Mac nods along with him, believes him. Mac wonders if the rest have figured it out, and there's really only two possibilities: they don't care or they're completely oblivious. Mac feels like it's as obvious as the two colognes he's put on, what this is, how this usually goes down. They've stopped asking why Mac always goes with Dennis, why Mac always rides shotgun, why Mac and Dennis have lived together since Dennis graduated. Oblivious or apathetic. Mac flips the tip of tie up and down. He doesn't know which one would be better.
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