Egg Dying

[asoncalledgabriel]

Easter is coming, and Gabriel wants to do something... Eastery. But his entire family is in another world. So after spending a little bit of time feeling depressed and lonely, he started planning. He sent text messages to people he thought might come, telling them that he was going to dye eggs for Easter and he wanted company.

Then he'd gone out and gotten everything he needed: too many eggs, cheap dye kits that were being promoted in every grocery store, vinegar, extra plastic cups. When he came home, he cleaned off his kitchen table and set the dye cups up, measuring out everything carefully as he followed the directions on the boxes.

Then he put on water for tea and checked his phone, hopeful.



[Small gathering-type post! If your pup knows Gabriel, he probably invited them, feel free to tag in and tag around. Set for any time Easter weekend. I'll post it to the main community in April!]

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[shadows_have_offended]

Neil groans softly and leans his forehead down, down, against Gabriel's shoulder. "Between you and that guy that brought the liquor, I'm gonna be a blush-furnace. You're...you're both terrible. I know you're really going to blow the eggs, but all these blowing jokes?"

He laughed a little, though. "Terrible."

[asoncalledgabriel]

Gabriel grins and nudges against Neil. "Kavinsky," he says, giving the name just so Neil would know who to reference. "And he started it, I'm only trying to keep up."

[shadows_have_offended]

"I don't know if that makes it any better," Neil says, glad he has his head down on Gabriel's shoulder, but he can hear him grinning.

He's flustered, and his boyfriend and this cute guy have been nudging and laughing and making flustering jokes, and it's terrible. But he went to a boy's school for years, and he can manage for a night.

Can't he?

[asoncalledgabriel]

"C'mon, let's dye some eggs, mate."

He jostles Neil towards the table. "You want hard-boiled ones or ones we'll have to blow?" Gabriel really isn't trying to fluster Neil, he's just asking.

[shadows_have_offended]

Neil gives Gabriel a tiny swat, nothing at all, because he knows he's not trying to tease. He pulls himself together as best he can. There are people here, laughing and talking and having fun. He can't be a mess--or drag Gabriel away for a moment of privacy.

"I'd hardly know what to do with them either way," he admits.

[asoncalledgabriel]

He gives Neil a nudge. "Mum and my grandmother would decorate with them. C'mon, do you eat hard boiled ones? We'll send you home with some of those."

At least then Neil would get something out of them, rather than just having pretty, empty egg shells.

[shadows_have_offended]

He'd only ever really had ones that were already peeled and all that, so he didn't really know what to do with them when they were still in the shell, but he didn't say that. It sounded silly.

"That sounds good, yeah," he said. It did. He'd figure out what to do with them from there.