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It was hot out, blistering hot, but this wasn’t unusual for Arizona weather. What also wasn’t unusual was for the eldest brothers to dip inside a gas station to escape the heat and snag some food while simultaneously leaving their other brother and the one girl he didn’t know how to act around outside to bake.
“It’s too hot,” Adam complained, leaning his back against a metal railing despite the heat he was whining about. “Do you think anyone would give me looks if I took my shirt off?”
Salem gave him an odd look. “What?”
“It’s too hot to have a shirt on,” Adam responded. “Do you think people would think I’m weird if I did?”
“People already think you’re weird,” Salem pointed out. “You’re going to burn yourself if you do, your pastie,”
Adam grinned. “Oh but I just can’t—“ the boy struck a pose, his back arching over the railing. “help myself,” He dragged out lowly
It was as if a painter had done Adam in a portrait, moisture making his face slick and his shirt pulled up to expose his midriff. Adam could’ve very well been leaned backward over an Angel, whose wings would have been splayed out on either side of him and his lips caressing his head.
Adam was good at messing with Salem. But no one could prove the pink on her cheeks wasn’t from the heat.
“You want me shirtless, I think,” Adam teased, standing up again.
“Im getting a hard on just thinking about it,” Salem responded dryly, though she wasn’t sure she was kidding. Adam was silent, watching Salem’s face as his own expression turned suspicious.
“What?” he finally said, slowly, watching Salem.
“Y’know, girls can get hard too,” Salem responded, her muscles carefully flexing and relaxing.
“Uh huh,” Adam said skeptically. “Not really.”
“They can, you’re just an idiot.” She crossed her arms and looked away “This is why you don’t have a girlfriend, you know nothing,”
“I mean girls with dicks can get a hard on,” Adam disagreed.
“Whatever, you know what I mean, ” Salem snapped, eyeing the door to the gas station. hopping her bother would hurry up “Are we really arguing over a joke?”
“What, Do you want a dick or something?” Adam crossed his arms “I mean I get it, ‘what’s the point of living if you don’t have a dick’ and all that”
“Drop it,” Salem said impatiently. “The heat’s getting to your head.”
"I think you. have a dick and are just trying to hide it," Adam continued trying to just joke but Salem seemed unappreciative just as Hayes exited the gas station. He cleared his throat which made Adam jump from the railing. Hayes’ expression turned neutral as he nudged Salem with a bag in one of his hands.
"I have water,” he said. “Stop wasting oxygen and go stand in the shade."
The last comment was probably aimed more towards Adam than Hayes' sister.
"I was just jerking around,” Adam said in his defense, his embarrassed smile earning him another side eye from Hayes.