tampered | Log; Fast Times at City High Dance

Log; Fast Times at City High Dance

When; March 28, sunset into evening and beyond!
Rating; G to PG-13?
Characters; anyone and everyone
Summary; The dance is upon us and the deities have done their very best to light up the Square. Students and staff alike have been invited, date or no date. Those who aren't cursed may still come to take in the decorations, the food, the entertainment, and the merriment... or they can take pictures for blackmail when this is over.
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[ooc: This is an open log for the Fast Times at City High Curse Dance event! Tags can be open or directed specifically to another character, label those subject lines accordingly. Feel free to NPC wait staff and what not. Oh and have fun!]

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"That's what I mean too," Kyle said, becoming a little frustrated. He didn't understand where the disconnect was coming from.

"I didn't think you wanted to just be a one-night stand."

Ianto was beginning to wonder if maybe it was a cultural gap.

"But you're not supposed to sleep together before you even have one date."

Kyle stared at him. "That's...what dating is."

Ianto's eyebrows furrowed.

"Sleeping with people straight away?"

"Well, yes." Kyle squirmed, suddenly uncertain in the face of Ianto's incredulity.

"...Isn't it?"

But then Ianto was beginning to wonder himself. He never had been one to jump straight between the sheets, and the people he'd been with had never minded.

"Um. Not for me... so far?"

"Huh. It's always been that way for me." From his very first boyfriend and onwards. Kyle couldn't really wrap his head around the idea of dating someone who wasn't expecting you to offer your body to them at the end of the night.

After that, Ianto sort of wanted to hold Kyle, but he wasn't sure if it would be welcomed, so an arm went around his waist instead.

"I've generally found it lasts better long term..."

Kyle blinked hard. "You want something long term? Really?"

He leaned willingly into the arm around his waist.

He would the arm a little tighter.

"I'm willing to entertain it as a possibility."

"Oh," he said, flushing red at the unexpected news and a little at a loss for words.

"I don't know if I'm any good at it," he confessed finally. "The waiting, I mean. You might get bored."

Giving up, Ianto pulled Kyle in for a hug.

"I wouldn't get bored."

Now it was Kyle's turn to stiffen in nervousness. He hadn't been hugged often before, it wasn't the kind of touching his partners usually indulged in or encouraged, and he wasn't sure what was expected of him as a response.

He relaxed after a moment though, resting his head on Ianto's shoulder.

Although he was a little unused to it as well, Ianto hugged Kyle a little tighter when the man relaxed.

"What kind of relationships have you been in, hm? It's supposed to be equal, not you doing whatever the other person wants."

"I wanted it too," Kyle protested weakly.

He had, hadn't he? Wanted all the attention and affection, the pettings and praising when he was doing it right. He always got what he wanted didn't he? At least for a little while.

"Did you ever get anything without them expecting something in return?"

Ianto hoped that the fact he was giving this affection freely, his hands gently rubbing Kyle's back and not expecting anything in return would help Kyle.

Kyle huffed a laugh into Ianto's shirt. How ridiculously naive.

"That isn't how the world works," he informed the other man in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Not the world, no. But it is how relationships are supposed to work." And that's how all Ianto's had been, so far, "it's supposed to be give and take, not all give or all take."

He drew back to look at Kyle and held his shoulders gently. "Don't answer if you don't want to, but how long has your longest relationship lasted?"

Kyle thought back, counting off weeks in his head.

"Six months."

"Do you think six months is a long time?"

It probably showed that Ianto didn't think it was.

Kyle considered anything longer than a few weeks to be a long time, truthfully.

"It's half a year," he pointed out.

Ianto had been with Lisa for years before...

Now was not the time for that.

"What about those people who are married for years, and are still happy?"

"What about them?" Kyle said with a shrug of his shoulders. "Marriage is different.

"Or people that aren't married and still together for years," Ianto amended.

"I don't see what you're getting at. We're here now and you like me, yes?" Kyle said.

"Why not just have fun with me?"

Log; Fast Times at City High Dance

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