How Green Becomes Wood

The incomming text quickly interrupted Dark and Daizi from their flirty games. Raising his lips from the crook of Daizi's neck, he released her hips and, after reading the text to her, went and opened the door curiously.

When he saw them, he stared at them in silence before asking, with confused concern, "...Did something happen?"
 
"Not a thing. I just really like sitting on his bony back," Xander grumbled grouchily.

"You're lucky I started working out more so I could carry you. You're so heavy!" Alec panted, getting them both through the door.

"It's called muscle," Xander shot back.

Alec snorted and carried Xander in to drop him on the couch, not stopping for shoes or salt. "He twisted his ankle."
 
"What happened?" Dark asked, stepping aside to let them in, not questioning their decision not to stop to take off their shoes first, "Spider, will you get an ice pack?"

"You sprained your ankle?" Daizi asked, getting the ice pack as requested, "How?"
 
"I was trying to do this cool flip," Xander started.

Alec sat on the floor and pulled off his shoes. "Truth."

"But it's stupid!" Xander whined.

Alec batted his leg. "Truth!"

Xander sighed. "I wasn't looking where I was going and stepped sideways off the curb."
 
"Truthfully, had you sprained your ankle attempting a flip, it would have been more stupid than merely tripping," Dark chided, instructing Xander to prop his ankle up on a pillow. Daizi passed the ice pack to Dark, who handed it to his son.

"At least you and your brother are even now," Daizi said, before asking, "How did you get home?"
 
"It would have made for a better story than face-planting into the asphalt in front of a bunch of freshmen," Xander grumbled as Alec helped him out of his shoes. He winced as Alec pulled off his left shoe. "I drove. It's the left ankle, so I could still do the peddles."

"True, that does make us even!" Alec said cheerfully as he helped Xander arrange the ice pack on his rapidly swelling ankle.

"Wonderful," Xander huffed.
 
Seeing how it was swelling, Dark turned to leave the room to go fetch the first-aid kit, "Let me bandage that."

"I think if you failed to land a flip, you probably still would've face-planted in front of the freshman, habibi," Daizi said gently, sitting down on the edge of the couch near her son. "At least this way, they won't remember it by next year."

Ivy, meanwhile, stood off to the side, watching the commotion but not knowing what to do about it as she chewed on her fist.
 
Xander sighed and slumped into the couch. "It'll be annoying to listen to their sniggering until they do forget."

"Should I bring you the salt bowl to touch?" Alec asked, picking up their shoes to take to the front door.

Kiki came trotting in, summoned by the sound of Alec's voice. She called to him excitedly, and then was very confused when he started walking to the door again.
 
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