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<div align=center>William giggled softly, scratching the cheetah under the chin for a moment and smiling as she purred, before turning his attention back to what was going on. He'd much rather have spent the rest of the day with August and Gisa, though. He wanted to see her run. Cake was something he would gladly take to put up with this 'double date,' though. He wove his fingers through Gabe's and pulled him close for a moment, and the boy nestled happily up against him when they were able to sit down. He nodded enthusiastically when asked if he had met August before, "yeah!" He chirped, clapping his hands, "he let me into his blanket fort and showed me his fire." His eyes flickered between Gabriel and August for a moment, beaming, "I really like to cuddle him because he's really warm and he smells nice."

Bill idly played with a strand of his hair while Gabe made conversation with the other two, pushing himself just that little bit closer up against his boyfriend, dropping his head sideways to rest idly on his shoulder. His hand drifted over the cardboard menu on the table, and picked it up, glancing across the items on it for a moment. Tea and cake. Two things that could more or less be considered the boy's staple diet.

"I'd like strawberry sponge cake and green tea." He finally decided, placing his menu down on the table and looking expectantly up at Gabriel as if he had the power to make those things magically appear. "And a cookie if they have any." He added, with a confirming little nod. "Please." Was tagged onto the end, just for good measure.</div>

With a smug little expression on his face, August slid into the booth after Sebastian. Gisa took her cue, and curled herself by August's side.
Nodding sagely at the question posed to him, August didn't offer up any more information other than the confirmation of a previous meeting. He was spared that task as William plucked up with the synopsis of their meeting. Amusement grasped him, and the memory of being huddled under the blanket fort, pressed into a hug with the other boy made him smile. Trying not to give himself away, August rested his chin in his hand, fingers artfully covering his mouth. Yes. You smell nice, too.

Taking a menu as well, August scanned the list first for anything that might interest Gisa. They didn't have too much by way of meat products, but they did serve small plates of tiny ham sandwiches, and he figured the ham would make her happy. He could pick out the ham for her and try to eat the rest of the sandwich. "Coffee. And those tiny sandwiches. Gisa can eat the ham." At the mention of her name, the large cat had lifted her head, and bared her teeth up at her familiar in a pleased smile. "I almost forgot how much she likes ham."

Gabe listened as William described his meeting with August. He wasn't sure what to make of it, on one hand he was glad they had met before it made this whole thing slightly less awkward but on the other hand he couldn't help but feel a few nasty pangs of jealousy.

'I really like to cuddle him because he's really warm and he smells nice' Bill had always told Gabe that he liked him because he was warm and smelt nice and now August seemed to be a good substitute. Gabe didn't want to start anything here now though, so he just shuffled in a little closer beside Bill, wrapping an arm around the boy.

"Alright, sounds tasty," Gabe nodded as Bill told him what he wanted. "Yeah they've cookies, look it says it down here." He let his finger slide down the menu to the mention of cookies. William was showing Gabe the same affection as usual though, playing with his hair and cuddling, so Gabe's jealously was fading away, for now [/i.]

Gabe laughed a little at Gisa's reaction to the mention of ham. "Man she sure seems to love ham." He thought Gisa was pretty cool. It was amazing how well behaved she was for August, he couldn't help but notice.

"I'm happy to wait, " Gabe answered Sebastian's question. He didn't much feel like getting up, even if it was only a couple seconds walk over to the counter."They should be over in the next few minutes, shouldn't they?" He shrugged, if no one came to take their order soon it would be verging on the line of bad customer service.

<div align=center>"What do you mean what's that about?" Bill asked, frowning a little. "We made a blanket fort." He shrugged, some things happened, they had fun. William had made a new friend above all, something that he appreciated very much when it did happen. William giggled at the cheetah's reaction to being promised ham, that was cute. William pushed himself into Gabriel, pressing an affectionate little kiss to the boy's cheek and beaming at him. "Can I have a cookie, too?" He asked, "you can have half of it, okay?" He offered, Bill most likely wouldn't eat all of the things he'd ordered, anyhow.

William didn't mind waiting, he didn't think the staff would avoid them, anyhow. There were all kinds of people that came into this café, William was pretty sure the staff didn't care if they had an animal with them or not. His suspicions were confirmed when a chirpy sounding girl approached them, notepad in hand and an overly wide smile upon her face. The boy stuck a hand underneath the table to scratch the cheetah underneath her chin, he liked the way her fur felt. She was soft and warm, "I bet you're nice to cuddle at night, Gisa." He mumbled, "you're so beautiful."

"August and I had fun." He said, a smile crossing his face for a moment. "His fire is so pretty..."</div>

August made a noncommittal noise when Sebastian shifted closer to him. His attention was focused on the other menu items, as he wondered what else might be okay for a cat to consume. Deciding that it would probably be best to stick with just the ham, he was glad that he had brought a little extra money with him for the sandwiches.
Wincing a little as a too-happy girl approached their table, August wrinkled his nose, wondering if waitresses needed to go through training to get that sickly sweet smile just right.
"Don't pet her too much, she might try to crawl up and groom you."

Even though the cat was nearly being 160lbs, Gisa enjoyed crawling onto laps, forcing her victims to sit still with her paws as she roughly groomed through their hair. It definitely didn't help that cheetah's couldn't retract their claws, and August had learned this fact the hard way.
"It was fun. I'd do it again." Despite himself, he felt something akin to affection grow towards Billy. Usually people called fire destructive or too hot, but pretty wasn't an adjective he normally heard.
Giving his order to the perky woman, August tossed in an order of chocolate cake at the last minute, deciding that he wanted something sweet, after all.

The act of building a blanket fort wasn't what was strange to Gabe, it was the fact that Bill and August had built one together even though they didn't know each other all that well.

Although he wasn't as outright about his jealously as Sebastian was, he could definitely understand where the other man was coming from. It seemed like a more intimate activity, however he supposed it was something that could be done with friends. Leave it Gabriel, it's probably nothing to worry about. They're just friends . So far he didn't have anything to suggest there was anything more going on, building a blanket fort was hardly evidence of cheating. Besides he wouldn't expect Bilvy to cheat on him.


"Of course you can, " Bill's question snapped Gabe back to the conversation. He smiled, "I meant I'd get a cookie for you anyway." He hadn't wanted to get a whole one for himself, although he sure wouldn't mind eating half of Bill's. "Thank you Bilvy, that's really kind of you. " He leaned against Bill, smiling when the boy kissed him. It was some reassurance at least that there was nothing else going on between Bill and August.

Gabe tried to imagine Gisa crawling on top of William. It most likely would not turn out well, as he was pretty sure Gisa weighed a ton more than William. Gabe had almost said something in reply to Bill complimenting Gisa, before he realised it was directed at the cat.

When the waitress approached them Gabe ordered for both himself and William. She wasn't all that bad, although perhaps a bit overly excited about taking an order. She was just trying to get tips though, he knew that.

<div align=center>William scowled at Sebastian, "because it's fun? Duh?" He didn't see any other reason to build a blanket fort. They were fun and cosy. William would very much have liked to turn his bed into one if he was any good at making them. Perhaps August could come into his room and build one for him, that sounds like a good idea. "Come and build a blanket fort in my bed, August?" He asked, "you're real good at them!" He chirped, standing up and pulling himself away from Gabriel, shuffling around to the other side of the booth to worm himself closer to the cheetah sat on the floor. His hand went to the top of her head again, and he resumed a steady pattern of petting as it did so.

He turned to look at August for a moment, beaming at him and shuffling a little closer. He liked his new friend, he was fun and William felt quite comfortable around him. The boy looked between the boy and his cheetah for a moment, before leaning down and pressing a small kiss to the cat's nose, as if he were kissing a pet dog. He then shuffled back to August and went to match the action with a friendly kiss to his cheek.

But everything went downhill from there. As the older boy moved his head William found himself locked in a full frontal kiss that seemed to last for a life time. It was strangely pleasant, he'd only ever really kissed Gabriel before, there was no thought in his head whatsoever that this might be wrong in any way, though when the boy pulled away he clapped a hand over his mouth and hunched his shoulders. "Oh goodness. Uhm. Oops." Perhaps now would be a good time to have a bathroom break.</div>

Throwing a glance at the man sitting next to him, August folded his hands tightly in his lap, feeling a little awkward and wondering why Sebastian seemed a little snippy so suddenly. Nothing had happened, in the conversation, had it? He had been oblivious to anyone disliking the pillow fort idea.

Coughing lightly, August threw Billy a crooked smile. "Yeah, maybe I will build you a fort in your bed. We can have cookies, just like last time." Scooting over to make room for William, August quickly settled back in, semi-enjoying the feeling of being so close to people. He turned his head, about to say something to William, when his mouth connected with another. His eyes popped open, and his hand came up automatically to hold the other boy in place before he realised exactly what was happening. Jerking backwards, his mouth gaped open as he stared down at his younger friend uncertainly. Was that intentional? He didn't think so. "I ... Uh. I'm gonna go to the restroom. I'll... Be back..." His face was flushed pretty deeply, and he wormed his way out of the booth, striding quickly towards the bathroom, trying very desperately to keep his breathing under control. It was a couple seconds of Gisa looking longingly up at William before she followed August to the restroom.