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Jay sat in Alex's bedroom, waiting for the boy to come back. He was visiting on the grounds of helping Alex with his film. He was helping him with the script after all; he figured Alex was trying to find it to review it. But while he waited, he was starting to get a little bored. And he didn't feel like trying to find Alex. Knowing his luck, Alex would come back the second he'd left and he'd get scolded for being impatient.
So he did the next best thing. He started looking through Alex's stuff.
Maybe he was a bit too nosy, but could Alex really blame him? He thought Alex would be back by now, but he was still nowhere to be found.
He started with the closet, which turned out to be a bust. Just clothes resided, none of which were worthy enough to bring up for possibly embarrassing stories.
The bookshelves had nothing too interesting either, and Jay was starting to believe that there was nothing of proper interest in here. Then he looked on his dresser.
The dresser was messy, which made Jay hopeful. Maybe under all this stuff there was something exciting.
Lo and behold, Jay found what he was looking for. He picked it up, and nearly snorted.
It was a bunch of cute little cat stickers laying flat underneath all of his stuff.
Why on earth Alex would have these was beyond Jay, but he thought it was cute.
"What are you doing?"
Jay whipped around to see Alex at the doorway, holding the script in his hands. He scrambled to hide the stickers behind him and act like he wasn't snooping around, but Alex had already seen it.
Alex sighed, shaking his head. "You just can't sit still, can you?"
Jay smiled sheepishly at him. "Sorry."
"It's whatever. Just put them back."
Jay brought the stickers back out into their field of vision. "Why do you even have these?"
"I think I won them at like, an old school fair or something."
"And you haven't thrown them out or given them away?"
"Forgot they were there. Can you put them down now?"
"Can I have them?"
Alex paused. "What?"
"The stickers, can I have them?"
"Sure, I guess? I'm not gonna use them for anything."
Jay smiled. "Thanks."
Alex rolled his eyes and waved the script. "Now that that's settled, can we work on this now?"
"Yeah, yeah, of course."
Alex took a seat on his bed, and Jay followed, sitting next to him.
Alex was just going over the script he had written, asking for Jay's opinion. Jay nodded along, as he didn't think there was much to change. Though he was a little distracted with the stickers still in his hands. He had the urge to put them on something, but he didn't know what. It wasn't even his house, so he couldn't just start placing stickers anywhere he wanted. He looked over at Alex.
Alex was looking down at the script, cheek turned to him. Jay got a bright idea then, slowly peeling a sticker off the sheet. He then placed it right on Alex's cheek, promptly stopping him from speaking.
Alex looked over at him disappointedly. "Are you even paying attention?"
"I've been paying attention," Jay promised. "Your cheek just looked empty, and I had the stickers in my hand, so..."
Jay couldn't quite be sure, but it looked like Alex was fighting back a smile. Alex shook his head instead. "Watch it, Merrick. Or I'm taking your sticker privileges away."
Jay gasped dramatically. "You wouldn't dare."
"Wanna find out?"
Jay was silent as a response. Alex nodded almost smugly. "That's what I thought."
He turned back to the script, and Jay pretended to be interested in the words as he wordlessly peeled off another sticker before quickly placing it on Alex's jaw.
Alex huffed, glaring with no real malice. "That's it, give me the stickers."
"No!" Jay quickly shoved his hands under his armpits so Alex couldn't possibly pry them from his hands.
Alex groaned. "Jay, please, we only have a few pages left. Then you can do whatever you like with the stickers. Just, keep them off my face for now."
Jay narrowed his eyes at him. "You better not take them off."
"I won't if it means you actually work with me here."
Jay took it into thought. On one hand, he could fuck around and play this cat and mouse game with Alex until all the stickers were on him, though he knew of Alex's recent temper and wasn't sure if he wanted to witness it happening to him. On the other hand, if he waited Alex did say he could do whatever he wanted and that he would keep the stickers on...
"Fine."
"Thank you."
Jay actually focused again until the end of the script, in which he declared their work finale by sticking a cat sticker right in the middle of Alex's forehead.
He finally caught a smile from Alex, though it was quickly pushed down to a frown as Alex tried to keep his composure. "You're awful, you know that, Jay?"
"You love me," Jay teased, sticking another sticker onto his friend.