Post by eli on Dec 16, 2011 1:28:49 GMT
RUN BECAUSE THEY'RE CHASIN' ME DOWN !
It was probably a good thing that Eli had had enough common sense to keep the Instant Messenger window open while he attempted to order Charlie's... whatever-it-was. He had the warm drink in his hands - free of charge, of course - but he couldn't remember the name of it for the life of him. At least the coffee people knew what they were selling, though that was likely a requirement. Eli wouldn't have remembered the name of the drink if he'd logged off the computer and then gone up to the counter to order it. Luckily, it was fresh in his mind when he headed up, and only after the damn thing was safely in his grasp did he retract his business from the public computer and head out: back to the buses. All of the buses were around the same place, but somehow the bands still didn't all know each other. Then again, everyone had their own personalities, and even some rockstars were just unsociable. Eli wasn't exactly a social butterfly, but it would be a stretch to consider him a recluse, too. He got plenty of social interaction... even if there was a lot of it that didn't necessarily involve talking, just... noises and... exercise... but it was the thought that counted, right? Took two to tango and all that.
Speaking of two to tango, he had to wonder, on his way back to his temporary home, if Char had been serious about the whole thing involving his bed. He was fairly sure that she wasn't, but sometimes it was hard to tell with Charlie. He'd been kidding... for the most part. In his defense, it wasn't as if he could be completely joking. For one, he liked sex. It was a favorite thing of his, maybe even a hobby. And for two, Charlie was, well, gorgeous. He'd be lying if he said he'd never eyefucked her before. Surely he wasn't the only one, but she was picky about who she slept with... unlike Eli. The only time he was picky was when whoever wanted to sleep with him was a friend of his. That exact thing seemed to be happening lately: his friends wanting to sleep with him, and it was almost starting to get on his nerves. Maybe for some people, they could resist, but sex was still sex, even if it was with one of his friends. And, of course, Eli dared hope that maybe they wouldn't get attached to him. Even if they didn't, there was still that chance, and that was probably the only thing that kept him hanging on sometimes. Serious relationships and Eli simply did not mix. He always ended up fucking things up one way or another, so he'd just stopped having them. It wasn't as if he liked breaking hearts. It just... happened. The simplest solution was just to not have serious relationships. He could have tried not cheating or drinking less, not snorting anything, but those were all kind of... hardwired, almost. It was just easier this way.
Eli shook his head to himself as he reached Alpha Bravo Charlie's tour bus. He knocked once on the door and waited a second; it was like a warning, just in case anyone was up to something that may disturb one of the others' eyes. By knocking on the door and waiting for a few seconds, they had time to knock it off, clean up a little, whatever they wanted to do. The idea had come around after Emery had waltzed in on Eli and one of his "friends" fooling around with minimal clothing on the couch. He'd been mortified, and so they'd come up with the knock-and-wait rule as a guideline for one's own eye safety. Eli was fairly sure Char wasn't up to anything that would require the rule, but he always checked. For him, finding one of his friends nearly naked would just not end well. After all, he had urges just like anybody else. Granted, they were maybe just a little stronger and hard to control (because he'd never tried to do so before), but they were still there. And he really didn't need his hormones screaming at him to fuck his friends. No, it was best to avoid that.
So, after about a minute had passed, Eli opened up the door and headed inside, letting it fly shut behind him. Char was lounging on the couch with a movie playing on the small television set, and Eli flopped down next to her, passing the warm coffee over to her. "Special delivery for Her Royal Highness," he said in his usual dry tone, smirking faintly at her. He pushed his sneakers off, kicked his feet up onto the coffee table in front of the couch, threw his arm around her shoulders, and let his head gently knock into hers. Just like that, it was as if he'd been there for hours instead of having just arrived. Eli had a way of making himself as comfortable as he wanted to, no matter how uncomfortable it might have made anyone else feel. Not that Charlie would feel uncomfortable - by now, she was used to this type of behavior from him. Maybe it had been shocking the first few times, and that was probably due to the... somewhat... aversion he had to being in contact with people. Eli didn't even really talk all that much, let alone touch people (in a way that didn't mean sex later), so even his and Char's first hug had probably been rather unexpected. But now Eli was much more comfortable with her, which meant that he was more touchy-feely with her than he'd been at first... just not in a sexual way.
Considering the way they'd been talking, though, how long that lasted would remain to be seen. Eli didn't want to think about that right now, though - leave it for later... or never. Preferably never. Friends with benefits deals never ended well. He'd seen enough movies, read enough books to know that, and that was why it was something he avoided at all costs. Or, at least, whenever he could. It wasn't like he was a difficult person to persuade. When it came to sex, Eli was probably one of the easiest people ever to get into bed. It wasn't really something he was proud of, but hey, he was the one who was currently winning in his and Grey's competition of "who can sleep with more people". There was a whiteboard in the kitchen area to keep track. And, okay, so Eli wasn't winning by much, but winning was winning, and he was totally going to have to remember to rub that in Grey's face later.
music,, glass to the arson by anberlin.
words,, 1,124.
tag you're it,, charlie/jazzie! <3
lyrics,, i just wanna run by the downtown fiction.
notes,, bleh. rambly post is crappy. D: also, if allie happens to stalk this thread and that isn't how emery would react, then i'm sorry for making inferences and let me love you? <3 at least i don't have to apologize for the competition between greyson and eli because i already got confirmation that that would totally happen. >D