@beachesgetpeaches saw a mouse in the house, i told her about mouse!charles, and now 5k words later, here we are. (do you guys remember this post? yeah, this is it.)
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe here on AO3.
Maybe it’s because of the heat and the low energy level in the room that Carlos doesn’t particularly pay attention to what Charles is snacking on, or maybe he just tuned out the ceremonious explanation of what each hors d’oeuvre represents earlier because he wasn’t going to have any either way. If people are going to accuse him of zoning out no matter what, he might as well take advantage of it sometimes and actually not listen, right? Who can blame him? Either way, his brain doesn’t alert him something’s wrong, even though Charles starts complaining while simultaneously steering them toward the dessert station.
