I’ve just noticed Lewis has a Michael Jackson tattoo. That’s a bit off putting ! Just sayin
Yeahhh, it's relatively new as well.
I guess people's thoughts on it will depend largely on what their thoughts are on Michael Jackson's innocence/guilt. I personally wouldn't want it on my body, but then I guess there's plenty of people who believe he was a pure innocent soul and therefore would see no issue with it.
Lewis has always been a Michael Jackson fan though. He had a tribute helmet back in 2013, and he made a slightly odd comment about wishing he had his life a few years back, so it's not really a new revelation that he feels that way about him. It's certainly... a choice.
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Could you do 28 (proposal) and 37 (coming out) for galex?
send me a prompt from this or this list
“We should get married,” George says and Alex drums his fingertips on George’s ribs, says: “Yeah, Georgie, okay.”
“I’m serious,” George blinks and his eyelids feel too slow. He tries to blink faster, but it’s like his body is set on a delay.
“Oh, me too,” Alex says. “You book a church for this Sunday, I’ll buy the flowers and we’re set.”
His arm is warm and careful around George’s body as he keeps him steady while he tries to unlock George’s front door with his free hand. When he gets the door open, he gently drags George through it, down the hall and to his bedroom, George’s unwilling limbs rattling after them.
“I’m --” George says again and he has to force his voice through a thick lump that’s suddenly stuck in his throat. “Alex, I’m serious.”
Alex hums while he unzips George’s coat and slides it off his shoulders and then pushes him down on his bed, kneels to take George’s shoes off.
“Alex,” George says again and Alex snorts.
“Shit, Georgie,” Alex says and George lets his elbows slide out from under him until he’s on his back, legs dangling off the side of the bed. “You’re even drunker than I thought.”
“‘M not,” George murmurs. “I’m just sad you’re not--you won’t--”
“First of all,” Alex says as he starts hoisting George’s legs up the bed to get him situated in the right direction. “You’re straight, so that’d be a rough start to our marriage.”
“Ha,” George says and when Alex looks at him George can see his easy expression sluicing down the creases of his eyebrows, knotting together.
“Georgie?” Alex says and then he stops rearranging George’s limbs, sits down on the mattress. “Are you okay? You’ve been--I mean this in the nicest way possible, but you’ve been kind of a mess tonight."
With difficulty, George manages to wrench his phone from his pocket and navigate to the right email thread to hand it to Alex. As he reads, George lets his eyes slip down the familiar lines of Alex’s body, his hunched shoulders and the bend of his knee, one long leg pulled up and folded under himself.
“Jesus Christ” Alex says, more to himself than George. The furl between his eyebrows has smoothed out, his face entirely blank now with pale shock. “Georgie, this is--Jesus Christ.”
“My team is trying to handle it,” George says. It’d been the worst part of it, when he’d finally laid it out in front of his PR officer. Sitting opposite from her, watching her quietly read the messages and the emails with the photos, face impassive throughout it. She’d put down the phone, sighed and said we’ll handle it. George would’ve taken her getting mad--disappointed even. Anything but this; dispassionate professionalism. Then again, he’d been so mad at himself already, for the previous two weeks. Maybe there wasn’t anything left anymore and George’d used up the continent’s supply for the rest of the year.
“Didn’t even go through with it,” George murmurs. “We met up at some pub and I didn’t--something was feeling off, so I thought--”
He almost smiles when he remembers it; walking home and feeling so proud of himself, trusting his gut, not following his dick into trouble like some other guys did. Not even thinking about the messages; the photos that maybe didn’t have his face in it, but more than enough to tie the threads neatly together for anyone sufficiently motivated by the thought of a quick payday.
“Thought I was so smart,” George coughs out a wet laugh. “Such a fucking--”
“Stop,” Alex says. His knuckles are white around George’s phone. “George, this is--you didn’t do anything wrong.”
“Oh, please,” George says. His eyelids feel heavy suddenly, like someone has gently put their fingertips on top and is sliding them closed. “Say that to the--to the fucking overtime bills my team is sending me."
“It’s that fucking guy’s fault for being a piece of shit,” Alex says. When George wrenches his eyes open again, his face is pale, mouth a thin line. “George, this is--this is fucking horrible, are you okay?”
“Want to know the stupidest part?” George says. He lets his eyes slip closed again, so he won’t have to see Alex for this. “My team--this afternoon they said they think he found a buyer so we need to start thinking about PR strategies for when he--after publication.”
George swallows and suddenly, a warm hand appears at his forehead, brushing his hair off it.
“And my first thought was, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad that people knew,” He reaches up and strokes his thumb down the bumpy ridge of Alex’s knuckles, stops at his ring finger. “If it meant--if maybe.”
Alex’s hand freezes mid-movement and George breathes out. He trails his thumb down the back of Alex's hand, all the way from his broad fingernail, past the fragile metacarpal bones to the bumps at the base of his thin wrist. Then he turns on his side so Alex’s hand slips off his forehead and he presses his face into the pillow; cool fabric against hot skin.
“Said it was stupid,” George murmurs and Alex doesn’t say anything for a long time, before tugging the cover out from under George so he can pull it over him.
“I’ll stay on the couch tonight,” Alex says quietly.
“You don’t have to,” George says and Alex touches the skin of George’s bicep, just under the hem of his t-shirt and then pulls away immediately, like he’s unsure in which way he’s allowed to touch George now.
“I don’t think I want you being alone tomorrow,” Alex says and George pulls his knees up to his chest, makes a vague, assenting noise. He’s almost asleep already, can only barely hear Alex standing up and walking away, then the clink of Alex setting down something on the night stand besides him before he tips over the edge. In his dream, he’s driving a car with Alex in the passenger’s seat, past endless rows of palm trees as on the radio, an Elvis song is playing.
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