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“Keeping presents your exes gave you is weird. It’s a weird reminder of them. When you break up with someone you should get rid of the stuff. It’s only right.” Nancy defends. She’s been having his argument on and off with people all night since she found out Mateo wears a watch his high school girlfriend gave him.
No one expected Nancy to be the jealous one out of the two of them.
She has an ally in Paul but Marjan disagreed. Mateo doesn’t see the issue and TK claimed he was Switzerland on the issue to get out of it (but he sided with it’s a little weird after Nancy threatened to hit him with a cushion).
She rounds on Carlos. “What do you think? You’ve been quiet. Weird or not weird.”
“Not weird.” Carlos says instantly but he wishes he kept his mouth shut as soon as TK snorts.
“Carlos would say that because if he felt the other way he would have to give back the fancy, shiny, car his old sugar daddy gave him.” TK teases. Carlos shoots him a look that screams you are so dead but TK only smirks at him.
Now everyone is looking at him and the old argument is over.
“You used to have a sugar daddy? How did we not know this.” Marjan practically yells. She abandons what she was doing with Paul to come over for more information.
“He was not a sugar daddy, he was just a guy I was dating who happened to be older.” Carlos defends. The more he defends the more the group are going to double down on this. They’re like a hyena pack with an injured antelope.
“And just happened to buy you a fancy car.” Marjan points out. “That screams sugar daddy to me.”
“And he took him to Europe one summer.” TK cuts in, sounding gleeful at everyone’s reaction.
Carlos rolls his eyes and takes a sip of his beer. These people are impossible sometimes.
“No, no, no, you don’t get to shrug this off.” Nancy says, she links her hand with Mateo all previously argument forgotten. “Spill.”
“There’s nothing to spill. It’s actually very boring.” Carlos says. He cannot believe TK dropped him in this because he was bored of hearing Nancy argue about a watch. Little shit.
“I met a guy when I was in the academy and he was older than me and we dated.” He hopes they drop it but he knows they won’t. “When I graduated, yes, he bought me a car as a gift.”
Paul let’s out a low whistle. That’s ironic from a man who got a firehouse bought for him but whatever Carlos isn’t going to fan the flames of this.
He catches TK mouthing sugar daddy at the group.
Fine, he wants to play, they can play. Carlos leans back in his chair and crosses one leg over another to get comfortable. He smiles at TK then addresses the room.
“There’s nothing wrong with liking older men.” He says. He can see the second TK clicks onto his train of thought and he pouts. “It’s just a preference I have with the men I date.”
“Except TK.” Mateo points out. TK looks at him sourly and Carlos feigns innocence.
“No, I’m including TK in that.” Carlos can feel everyone doing the maths in their heads. There’s some realisation dawning over their friend’s faces. Carlos would laugh at the way Nancy’s mouth drops open if he wasn’t trying so hard to it together to annoy TK.
TK has always hated when Carlos points out that he’s the older of the two.
“It’s six months.” TK says in a huff. “I’m six months older.”
“That’s enough for me, baby.” Carlos winks at him.