Chilly

Did winter have to be so damn cold?

He was standing with his hands buried in the warmth of a pair of gloves, fingers wrapped around the thick paper cup of hot, steaming coffee. Shoulders haunched in the thick winter coat as if it would help provide him with some kind of warmth. Feet stamped in the snowy ground, trying to keep his toes warm.

And Lake was dancing.

Freaking Fairy.

Raleigh didn't handle the cold very well. He should have at least built up some tolerance to it - schooling in New York should have reminded him that winter's were freezing and the summer's so hot one could strip down to barely nothing. But, no, that little detail had been tossed out the window in favour of just being back in New York, instead of the dreary little town in the middle of nowhere that he had once called home. He frowned at his young friend who was blissfully enjoying the snowfall while they waited for the queue to actually reach the interior of the building they were standing in line outside of.

"I told you that you should have just let me order the damn thing online," Raleigh mumbled around the rim of his cup. "If I freeze to death here, I'm coming back to haunt you."

Lake stopped his spinning on the spot and turned around to face his tall companion. "If you freeze, I'll freeze too!"

"Well, I'll haunt that big lug of a Russian you call a boyfriend," Raleigh replied with a smug grin. "And don't say you'll haunt Eli, because you will anyway - and Zak, and Martha. Hell, you'll haunt every person you've ever come in contact with."

Both being geeks, the pair were waiting in line for the release of a game they were both waiting on. Normally, Raleigh would just order what he wanted online, but Lake had insisted that they buy it the moment the store opened. Apparently, there were quite a few other people with the same intentions.

"I think I'll just haunt this store," Lake said thoughtfully. "As punishment for making us wait."

"Big corporations enjoy watching the little man suffer."

They'd been in the queue for well over two hours by the time they got inside the big double doors and into the warmth. At least they managed to buy the game before the store sold out. It was now later than Raleigh wanted it to be. The pair had told Elliot they'd meet him much earlier than the time they did arrive.

The first thing Raleigh did when they got into the warm little cafe was scoot right up close to Elliot and wrap his arms around him, chuckling as he heard the younger male complain - and then squeak as cold fingers found his warm skin. "You're colder than ice!" Elliot exclaimed, batting Raleigh's fingers away from him, but pulled the long arms around his shoulders, not wanting him to not be touching him.

Raleigh grinned, and leaned in to press cold lips against Elliot's warm pair. "But you're all warm," he purred against those lips. Raleigh often held back when it came to a public display of affection, but the two of them had been getting closer over the past few weeks that he was starting to show it a little more beyond the closed doors of his aprtment.

"Awh, you two are in the cute couple stage," Lake announced from across the table, watching his friends kissing like it was the cutest thing in the world. Even cuter than kittens nuzzling babies.