Lilacs drabble
Apr. 19th, 2008 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrGene liked dressing up. He spent good, hard earned money on real suits. No one ever believed it, since he most often wore jeans and t-shirts, but he did. Part of it was his dad, whom he remembered in his pristine suits, or relaxing over dinner in vest and tie. Dignified and classy, like.
Six of his tie pins had belonged to his dad; his mother had given them to him the Christmas after dad had died. He owned way more ties than anyone, even his mother, thought healthy. The last person to fuck up his dress shoes still crossed the street whenever he saw Gene.
He didn't often dress up, because it was a lot of fucking work when people so seldom appreciated his effort, but he had fun when he did.
Of course, sometimes it behooved him to be a little more awake when he got dressed.
What could he say? It had been a long, satisfying night. Games, tequila, and sex.
So he'd gotten up late, and hadn't really been what he would call awake. He'd gotten showered and then decided on the dark blue with gray pinstripes, a gray and silver tie, shoes polished to a shine.
It totally wasn't his fault Teddy had stayed in bed and so hadn't been awake to point out that Gene had forgotten to strip off his nail polish.
Really, though, the English Department should be used to him by now.
And bright pink nail polish wasn't half so bad as the incident with the high heels freshman year.
Six of his tie pins had belonged to his dad; his mother had given them to him the Christmas after dad had died. He owned way more ties than anyone, even his mother, thought healthy. The last person to fuck up his dress shoes still crossed the street whenever he saw Gene.
He didn't often dress up, because it was a lot of fucking work when people so seldom appreciated his effort, but he had fun when he did.
Of course, sometimes it behooved him to be a little more awake when he got dressed.
What could he say? It had been a long, satisfying night. Games, tequila, and sex.
So he'd gotten up late, and hadn't really been what he would call awake. He'd gotten showered and then decided on the dark blue with gray pinstripes, a gray and silver tie, shoes polished to a shine.
It totally wasn't his fault Teddy had stayed in bed and so hadn't been awake to point out that Gene had forgotten to strip off his nail polish.
Really, though, the English Department should be used to him by now.
And bright pink nail polish wasn't half so bad as the incident with the high heels freshman year.
