Secluded Spot on the Beach [Sunday Evening]

[bridge_carson]

There's a Bridge on the beach with a blanket and a basket of food. Now all he needs is the boyfriend.

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[needsaparrot]

Now he's got one of those too. Well, he already did, obviously, but now said boyfriend is present and accounted for and dropping down ontosaid blanket. "Hi there."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Bridge looks over with a grin. "You made it!"

[needsaparrot]

"Complete coincidence. Of all the secluded spots on the beach, I had to walk into yours..."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge tilts his head. "I'm pretty sure that's a reference to something," he says. "I just have no idea what."

[needsaparrot]

"Movie. Everybody Comes To Rick's." Xander gives him a look. "And you're gonna say you're too young to have heard of it."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"We didn't have time to watch a lot of movies at the Academy," Bridge makes the token protest.

[needsaparrot]

"It's kind of before my time too," Xander admits. "But it's like, on the list of top 100 classic black and white love stories that are acceptable for guys to like because they've got Humphrey Bogart in 'em."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Ohhh," Bridge nods. "..There's a list?"

[needsaparrot]

"Well, it's pretty much 'anything Humphrey Bogart's been in with a chick...' "

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I... see." Bridge says. "So there's not an actual list that someone's made, right?"

[needsaparrot]

"A list? Probably. But I may have made that particular one up."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"You? Make stuff up?" Bridge looks shocked.

[needsaparrot]

"I am sometimes surprisingly sneaky that way. You have food." This is not a non sequitur; it hasn't been that long since Xander was a teenager.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I do," Bridge says. "There's sandwiches, and pizza, because first I thought maybe sandwiches would be good. But then I was like no, maybe pizza. Then I decided to save myself the trouble of deciding and just packed both."

[needsaparrot]

"Food-efficency - number 7 on the list of Top 100 Things Xander Likes In A Boyfriend, and yes, I just made that one up too." Xander snags a sandwich.... and a slice of pizza.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"And somehow I knew you wouldn't have a problem with that," Bridge says, pulling out a sandwich for himself.

[needsaparrot]

"Psychic would be on that list too." ....Yeah, pretty much that list consists of 'Things I Know About Bridge.'

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hey! So far I'm two for two," Bridge looks immensely pleased about that.

[needsaparrot]

"You do seem to be beating out all the zero other contenders."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Good," Bridge says. "Not that I don't think there couldn't *be* other contenders because I know that if I wasn't already dating you I'd... be contending for you, which in fact for a period of a couple months I was, if you remember,"

[needsaparrot]

Xander studies the sandwich in his hand, thinking of how to answer that. "There wasn't really any competition, you know. It wasn't like, a choice between you and somebody else."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I know that *now*," Bridge says, reaching past the blanket and idly tracing a pattern in the sand with one finger.

[needsaparrot]

"I kinda suck at not being in love with you," Xander says with a shrug.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Not objecting," Bridge says, smiling brilliantly at Xander. "Cause if you haven't noticed, I'm sort of head-over-heels for *you*, you know."

[needsaparrot]

"I may have picked up a few hints in that direction." That doesn't stop Xander's head from ducking when he hears it, though. Probably won't ever.