Dated to June 2nd

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My day hasn't exactly been anything incredible thus far. I'm not sure exactly what I expected of twenty-four. There's no great milestones that come with this day and I'm not getting large checks from my family nor am I getting a large celebration of any kind, which is for the best because large crowds still make me entirely too uncomfortable. My nose is in a book as I push my way into the back of the Homestead and head into our room, dropping the clothes I've laundered down and still reading while putting graded papers on the desk and turning to hang up my light coat.

It's just another day. That suddenly I'm older does mean something. It means I'm grateful to be alive in order for it to happen, but I never did expect fireworks. Eventually, I mark the place in my book and duck into Joe's room to check my hair in his small mirror, fixing it with a wrinkle of my nose at my distaste over the way it's been curling in the heat.

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"You do know that's my plan, right?" I say, not making it evidently clear at first whether I'm joking or not. "Get you so absolutely healthy looking with meat on your bones instead of wasting away. Make you so ridiculously svelte that no one will have you," I note with heavy sarcasm, settling back in my seat and returning to eating, looking up at Joe.

"Are you at least going to sit?"

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"You're an ass," says Joe, leaning in over the places to graze his lips against Web's cheek before he slides into his seat.

"It's a good thing I fuckin' love you, Davey."

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I lean in to press my cheek to his harder against the kiss and close my eyes to indulge in the intimacy, letting out a quiet sound of pleasure. "Joe, I love you," I say, more seriously as I settle in the chair and lift my glass to him. "It means I love you no matter what you look like." I pause. "It'd just be nice if you maybe put a little more weight on."

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"I love you too," says Joe, utterly sincere. "But I have not the faintest fuckin' idea why you're obsessed with gettin' me fat."

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Sometimes, it genuinely perplexes me as to how Joe sees himself. I take another few bites and swallows of food before getting up from the table to lean around him and top up his drink, brushing my lips against his cheek, forearms resting on his shoulders. "Because you're a skinny bastard," I exhale in a slightly wry voice. "And I get you, so I get you how I like you. Besides, you don't let me grow my hair or a beard. That's irrational, too."

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"I have to kiss you," points out Joe, leaning his head back against Web's belly to look straight up at him.

"Which is why you're not growin' a beard. And I got through thirty-two years being this skinny. I think I'll be okay."

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I idly keep Joe's head where it is, though I stand up straight and let my fingers drift idly into his hair to push forward and stroke my thumb thoughtfully around the shell of his ear, distracted while I lean my weight forward. "I have to sleep with you," I echo his tone before sitting back down in my place. "And your elbows can hurt when they dig into my body."

I'm well-done dinner by now, having devoured it in one go as if the food was going to vanish in the blink of an eye.

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"Mmhmmmm."

Joe rolls his eyes and leans in across the table to kiss Web again, full on the mouth this time.

"Fine. No birthday sex for you."

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I let out a whine of a sound against Joe's lips when he says that and press in harder than before, nipping at his lower lip before slowly drawing away. "I didn't say it was during sex," I point out pedantically, arching my brow.

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"Yeah, but if it happens in your bed, maybe I oughta stay out of it all together," says Joe, tracing his tongue against his bottom lip and leaning up to press a kiss between Web's eyebrows.

"Play it safe."

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There comes another little sound from me, this time of desire and whining and I ease back and look at him with a pleading look in my eyes. "Joe," I protest. "What if I told you how much your elbow-marks on me turned me on?" I ask, maybe a hint of desperation in my voice, but who cares?

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Joe snorts.

"It's your fucking birthday, Webster. Of course I'm gonna let ya fuck me."

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I falter only slightly because the truth is, I'm not sure when Joe's mercurial moods are going to sneak up on me. "You're so selfless, lieb," I deadpan, starting to clean up the dishes so no one stumbles onto a mess and then decides to interrupt while we're preoccupied with more important things.

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Automatically, Joe starts helping, gathering plates, putting away left-overs.

"Any way you want," he says, blithely, lightly, like it's the most innocent thing int he world that he's talking about in the kitchen.

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I bite down on my lower lip while my hips rock forward slightly, pressed up against the counter at four words that Joe's said, innocent as you please. I take a deep breath to try and calm myself down, but it's not working so much. "I want you to fuck me," I say, head bent down, hands scrubbing the dirt from the plates.

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It's sort of funny how they're having this conversation, straight faced in the kitchen like they're talking about the price of tea or somethin'.

"I'll do that any way you want too."

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I can't help my small smug grin and I set the plates in the sink to soak, pouring some water in from the creaky pipes before turning to glance Liebgott over, leaning back against the counter. "I kind of want to do it here. What would you say to that?"

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"I'd do it happily if I didn't think Trisha'd walk in any fuckin' time." JOe grins at him. "Try again, buddy."

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I let out a rueful laugh, but I'm grinning like mad as I study Joe and lean against him with my hip nudging against his, the warmth of his body impossible to ignore the way we're standing. "How about..." I start thoughtfully and bite down on my lip while I look him over. "You bend me over the desk and learn something new?"