Rainbow Snippet Feb 22, 2020: Experimenting with Love

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“You know what we should do?” Avery slurred.

“What?” Kenji asked, a slightly amused smile on their face.

“Have a snowball fight.”

Kenji chuckled. “Don’t you think it might be too cold for that.”

“Nope.” They said. “Lets go. I’ll take you both on.”

“Oh really?” Koda remarked.

“Really.”

“Well then Kenji, it seems we’ve been challenged to a dual.”

“That it does” Kenji chuckled. “I hope its not to the death.”

“Nope, only to the pain.”

“Huh?” Kenji replied looking between the two.

“In this case it means until someone is too cold to continue, haven’t you ever seen “The Princess Bride though, that’s where the line is from.”

“Ah” Kenji remarked. “Can’t say that I’ve seen that one.”

“Dude, we have got to have a movie night.”

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Rainbow Snippet 2/9/2020: Experimenting with Love

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“You are an unbelievable bastard,” they growled, shoving past him into the house and out of the rain. “Of all the nerve to call Koda unambitious and an underachiever when you have no clue just how hard he’s been working on his art to get it to where he wants it to be so he can have a chance to sell it. You have no clue how many hours him and I have sat at craft fairs and street festivals talking to people and explaining pieces and you know what, he’s always sold more than what it cost for the booth space. He’s gone to every art class he could take in school and every single one that he could afford afterward. He scavenges for materials and imagines all that they can be. He’s got more creativity and talent than you could possibly imagine. How dare you make him feel like shit for not being as successful as you think he should be.”

They took a breath and Kenji rushed to explain before they could launch into a tirade again.

“I fucked up, I know that. I do, and I plan to make it right with him. I just need to catch up with him. He’s kind of made sure to be gone by the time I come home each day.”

“Well no shit,” Avery growled. “He’s been crashing at my place. You really hurt him. How the hell could you be so fucking cruel.”

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Rainbow Snippet 2/1/2020: Experimenting with Love

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*** Current Project ***

Koda was still studying the floor though, and that just wouldn’t do. Laying the knife he’d been slicing the basil with on the cutting board beside the thin strips he’d already made, Kenji turned towards Koda and lightly touched his shoulder.

“Hey,” Kenji said, closing the distance until they were chest to chest. “I wasn’t trying to snap at you, honest.”

“Then why’s it keep happening?”

Kenji frowned and studied the way Koda was shuffling from one foot to the other and biting his lower lip. “Has it?”

“Yeah,” Koda said softly. “Yesterday morning, when I asked if you were staring at me because I had paint splattered all over my clothes again, and the other night, when you were staring out the kitchen window for so long you charred the onions to the bottom of the pan.”

“Oh,” Kenji replied, feeling sheepish. He’d been staring because Koda had been wearing a tattered pair of shorts with enough holes that Kenji had been busy admiring each patch of skin they revealed. The onions he’d burned watching Koda planting the last of the flowers in the flower bed, imagining him on his hands and knees for an entirely different reason and so lost in the fantasy that he hadn’t noticed the other man come in until Koda was drawing his attention to the smoke filling the room.