Roy Visits (Part Two)
-might do more of these...-
Roy was the team's badass college-aged brother, the one who could score you weed, but won't, and sometimes lets you taste his beer.
The arrow kids passed each other in the hall, both instinctively raised their hands. Artemis immediately assumed it would be a high five, Roy wanted to pretend he was going to punch her. Things got awkward.
"Re-do." She said. They both drew back, assuming the other was adjusting to them. Roy went in again to punch, and Artemis to high-five. "Fuck it." She changed direction and grabbed his wrist, shaking it up-and-down.
"You're fucking weird." He drew back, and walked past her to the living room. "What's up, kids." He tapped the back of Conner's head as he passed, grabbed Wally's off-brand BBQ chips, and leaned on the back of the couch. "Watching Disney channel?"
"Disney channel?" Dick asked. "Is that still a thing?"
"Oop, I forgot, you're all BABIES and don't remember the golden age." The older redhead rolled his eyes. "Classic Disney channel was sick!"
"Dude? Disney+ is where it's at." Wally said, queuing up another episode of Highschool Musical the Musical the Series, in which they were all invested.
"This the highschool musical show?"
"Yea." Conner was trying to ignore them, invested in the drama.
"Have you watched it?" Kaldur asked.
"Naw, I don't fuck with new Disney." He leaned pver the couch, shoving chips in his mouth and watching with interest.
"Can you cut it out?" Robin snapped, brushing crumbs out of his hair. Roy's response was to reach down and rub his Barbecue chip dust covered fingers in the boy's hair. "Dickhead!" The bird exclaimed, pulling away.
Roy snorted, turning back to the screen. "Is that the Timothee Chow-mein guy the kids are into?" He joked.
"He's named Joshua Bassett." M'gann tried not to sound like she was swooning.
Roy swallowed a handful of chips. "I don't see the appeal."
"Me neither." Conner frowned, he felt like his girlfriend was a little to focussed on this actor instead of the plot.
The older redhead was also interested in the show, so things mellowed out, except for everytime Carlos came on screen. "Hey! Rob! It's you!"
"Screw off!"
Roy actually stood there, eating Wally's chips, for half an hour, until the credits started rolling. "Oh, fuck, right." He jerked back to conciseness. "I was coming in to ask what y'all want for dinner."
"There's a Chinese place near the mountain that delivers." M'gann commented.
"There's also delivery Pizza and Wendy's does pickup." Her and Conner were beyond familier with the local food places.
"And that Greek place." She reminded him.
Her boyfriend shook his head. "The greek place is bad."
Roy inspected his Skip the Dishes app. "Let's order in Pizza, what do you want?"
"Dominos meat lovers pizza." Wally glanced up.
"I'm not surprised that Wally wants 'meat lovers'." Roy snickered at him, starting to list their orders. "Arty, what'd'ya want?" He yelled as the girl entered.
"I wanna fucking die!"
"What do you want on your pizza, you fucking weirdo?"
"Anything." Artemis shrugged, pulling on her sweater. She crawled over to where Wally was sitting, and crouched, right in the corner of his peripheral, staring at him.
"Sup." He asked.
"Your breathing is manual."
"BITCH!" Wally yelled.
Robin scowled at her. "Artemis, why"
"I swear to god, I can, and WILL eat your hands." The younger redhead threatened.
"Go at it, then."
"Aqua L, can you shut up the kiddies?" Roy warned; Dick, Wally, and Artemis hated being called kids. Kaldur gave the youngest trio a patient 'don't be dumb' look, they stopped talking, but started giggling a bit. They were very immature for people who wanted to be treated like grownups.
Forty-eight minutes later, Roy payed the delivery guy, and waded into the field of hungry youths.
Kaldur offered to help carry something, so Roy said he could carry the drinks and sides.
"Gimme, Gimme, GIMME!" Robin shouted, bouncing up and down, putting on the cutsie act, and hugging the older redhead's hips.
He tried to kick the kid off him, holding about five pizza boxes over his head so the shorter kids couldn't reach them.
M'gann followed in his train. "Do you want help carrrying those?"
"Which one's which?" Conner asked, following.
Artemis paused the show. "Food!" She called. "God bless!"
Wally was half-chanting, half-beatboxing the word pizza over and over again.
"Food's coming guys, chill!" He laughed, "hey- back up, satan." He finally succeeded in kicking the youngest teen off of him. "Everyone stay, Stay, stay..." He cautiously put the pizza boxes on the table. "Go!" He threw himself back, kids racing past him to ravage the pizza. "Save some for me!"
Wally grabbed a whole pizza box and ran off. Conner, M'gann, and Kaldur took what they needed and left the table. But Artemis and Dickie stood at the table, tearing open boxes and eating everything they could.
Roy cracked open a soda, catching Robins attention.
"Roy?" He fluttered his eyelashes as if he hadn't just been gorging himself. "Can I please have some?"
"No. That's 46 grams of sugar too much." He downed some more. "I don't want to have to call batman to come pick you up."
Robin dropped the cute attitude. "I just wanted Pepsi."
"Tough." He moved the twelve pack on top of The fridge so the younger couldn't reach it. "How about you have a Caprison, or a juice box or something?"
"Roy, I thought you were on OUR side?" Artemis Complained through a mouthfull of pizza.
Roy mocked her. "Your side? Like, kids vs. Grownups?"
"See? I thought you rebelled at the league for being treated like a kid." His replacement groaned.
"Because I was legally adult. I just pity Rob for being controlled by bats, he's too subservient for a teenager." Robin knew he was joking, but still... "Also, I'm here to support any of you if you want to go rogue. Fuck the league!"
A few minutes later, after scarfing down a whole-ass pizza, Wally sprinted off the rinse his fingers off. He returned slowly, looking confused. "What's this?" He held up a huge aerosol can.
"That's mine." Robin said in a small voice.
"Yo! Walls." Roy held his hands up, signalling for Wally to throw him the can. He caught it easily. "Hairspray?" He teased.
"Well, I can't tie it back, I can't use a head band!" The younger complained. "Also, let me demonstrate." He jumped and took the can back, grabbing a lighter from the drawer. Roy realized what was happening, and tried to stop him.
There was a swooshing sound, and the space was lit with a huge flame.
"FWOOSH!" He cackled, mimicking the sound of the makeshift flamethrower. "That's why I love hairspray... also Zeffron."
Wally looked impressed. scared, but impressed. M'gann's instincts kicked in and she backed against the cool wall. Conner hurried to his girlfriends side, and ordered; "turn it off."
"Okay, Rob, let's just put that down..." Roy's hand flew out and slapped the ligher from the boy's hand, he pried the hairspray from the boys hand. "You are grounded from these for the rest of the night."
Robin whined, "But it's MY hairspray!"
"Should've thought of that before nearly murdering Ms. M."
"Oh, yeah, sorry M'gann..."
Roy put the can, and every fire starting instrument he could find, on top of the fridge. "Also, aerosol canisters are super bad for the environment. It isn't 1966 anymore."
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