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Jayce rang the doorbell.
One second, Two.
Then the door opened.
“And who are you supposed to be?”
Sigh, not this again. “Come on, Jinxie.” Said Jayce as he pushed past her into the apartment.
“Seriously, I don’t get why Vi called you, or why I’m supposed to be babysat in the first place. I’m sixteen.” She said as she closed the door.
“Where is Vi, by the way?”
Powder stared at him. “Wait, she didn’t tell you?”
Jayce gave Powder a clueless look. “No? Is she not here?”
“Ugh, she’s at Cait’s. That’s why you're here. To ba-by-sit me.” She dragged out the last words.
“What.”
“Yeah, she was scared I’ll burn the kitchen again trying to make mac and cheese. That’s why you’re here to babysit me.” She said as she rolled her eyes.
After a few seconds of silence Jayce finally said “That horny bitch.”
“Hey! only I can call my sister a bitch!”
“But yeah what a horny bitch.”
They both end up sitting on their phones in silence for an hour before Powder pipes up.
“Hey, have you tried makeup before?”
“Um, no? Why would I?” Said Jayce, not looking up from his phone.
“Do you wanna?” Said Powder with a mischievous look in her eyes.
“I’ll pass, thanks.”
“No! Come on, Jayce!” Says Powder as she slumps back on the couch.
“No.” Jayce still looks at his phone.
Powder is quick, Jayce doesn’t even notice her getting off the couch and snatching his phone. Before he can react she dashes into the apartment corridor and into one of the rooms.
“Give me my phone back!” He yells after her, but to no response.
He gets up from the couch and walks towards the corridor where Powder is standing.
“Nuh uh.”
“Not until you let me do your makeup.” She says with a shit eating grin.
“Powder, did you seriously hide my phone?”
“First of all, just like only I have ‘calling my sister a bitch’ privileges, only she has ‘calling me Powder privileges’. second, yes I did.” She finishes and puts her hand on her hips.
Jayce stares at her blankly. “And you’ll give me back my phone after?”
“Mhm.” She nods and raises her brows.
“And you won’t take pictures. I don’t want any proof of this ever happening.”
“Yeah, sure, how gay you really are will stay a secret between you and me. And that little boyfriend of yours.”
Jayce’s lips stretch into a thin line before finally speaking. “Fine.”
They end up sitting on Powder's floor surrounded by all kinds of makeup Jayce really couldn’t name even if he was being held at gunpoint. At some point Powder gets up and walks over to her desk and takes out a glue stick for some reason.
“That’s it? Can I look?”
“What? No! All that was just skin prep, now we’re getting into it.” She said with a smirk.
“Why the glue stick?” Jayce was confused.
“Trust the process baby.” Was all she said before smearing the glue all over his brows.
“So Jinxie, Vi told me you and Ekko went out on a date last week.” Jayce says as he wiggles his sticky eyebrows.
“How about we stop talking for a while.” Says Powder.
They stay in comfortable silence as Powder works on Jayce’s makeup, the only noise being music from Powder’s phone.
“Aaaand that’s it, I'm done.” She says with a smirk, getting up from the bed.
Jayce looks up at her with a look that says ‘Can I look?’
“Yes, you can look.” She answers the unasked question.
Jayce hops off the bed and runs to the bathroom. He is greeted with a full face of drag makeup. His mouth falls agape.
Powder is leaning at the bathroom doorframe, chuckling to herself. “So, do you like it?”
Jayce is speechless, his real eyebrows are glued down and are the color of his skin, above them is a pair of the blockiest sharpie brows he had ever seen. On his eyelids is a bunch of amber glitter that matches the color of his eyes. And the lipstick, oh god, mega overlined lips the color of blood. He leans on the sink to get a closer look at himself in the mirror. He’ll never admit it but he looks gorgeous. Then he wonders what Viktor would think if he saw him.
Click.
Jayce turns around to find Powder holding her phone and pointing it in the direction of his reflection, clearly having just taken a photo of him.
“JINX! You said! You promised!” He says as he launches in her direction trying to pry her phone from her hands, but he’s too late, he can already hear the sound of a notification coming from her phone, then another, then another.
“WHO DID YOU SEND IT T-O?!” Jayce’s voice cracked at the last word, he mentally punches himself. Luckily, Powder is too engulfed in her phone to notice.
“Relax! Jeez! Remember? I said it’ll stay between us and uh… what is it that you call him? Vikie. I sent it to him. He was fast to answer too.” She looks up from her phone and wiggles her eyebrows at him.
“W-What did he say?”
Powder glances back at her phone and reads the three texts from Viktor.
“Hot. Then he asked what tome were you planning on getting back. Then he corrected the last text from tome to time.”
Huh.
Hot?
Then the front door made a sound. It was being unlocked. Jayce looks at Powder, panic in his eyes, he can’t let Vi see him like that, she’ll never let him live it down.
Then it got worse, it wasn’t Vi, it was Cait, she was calling their names.
Seriously, why did he agree to this.
But Powder thinks fast, she points at the small window above the toilet, and Jayce immediately understands, this can work since Vi’s apartment is only on the first floor, then he only has to climb down the fire escape.
“Jinx? Jayce?” Cait’s voice rings through the apartment again. Jayce looks at Powder before getting on the toilet and climbing out the window. Now, only the fire escape left, and luckily Jayce is pretty athletic, so he makes the jump easily and lands onto a bush. He stays in the bush for a few seconds catching his breath. Then, just as he gets out of the bush he is startled by a police siren. Then police lights. Jayce looks in the direction of the lights and sees a police officer getting out of the car and walking towards him, holding a flashlight.
“Sir, what were you doing?” The police officer cautiously asks Jayce, continuing to get closer to him.
Fuck his life.
“Police officer, sir, I was leaving my friends apartment through the window, sir!” Answers Jayce honestly, but he knows how this looks.
“Because from my POV this whole ordeal looks an awful lot like a whole different kind of thing.” Says the police officer. “Mister, I’m going to need you to come with me.”
“What? Why?”
“Because I’m arresting you on suspicion of breaking and entering.”
That’s when Jayce remembers that Powder never gave him his phone back too.
Back at the apartment, Cait finds Powder in the bathroom. “Where’s Jayce?” She asks her.
“Oh, he uh- left just a few minutes ago he had an emergency.”
“Okay, Jinx, listen, I need you to come with me right now.”
“What happened?”
“Vi got arrested.”
The police officer opens the car door for a handcuffed Jayce and gestures to him to get in. It is dark but Jayce can see another figure sitting in the backseat of the car, then the police officer turns on the car and it lights up. Jayce is greeted by a familiar batch of pink hair, the person’s face turned away from him.
“Vi?”
She turns to him, a sour expression on her face, a few seconds pass and she finally recognizes him. “Jayce?” He says, her eyes opening in disbelief.
“Why are you here?” They both say in unison.
“Stop talking back there!” Yells the police officer from the driver's seat.
“We know each other! The apartment I was leaving was her’s!”
“I don’t want to hear any of it, clown face. I’m taking you both to the station.”
Powder quickly grabs her coat as Cait explains the situation to her, they were walking back to the apartment, holding hands and just as they were around the block from the apartment some dude decided to yell slurs at them. So Vi punched him. She didn’t see the police car that was parked right there and the officer inside saw it all, prompting her immediate arrest. They quickly made it down the stairs in hopes of catching the police officer but when they got out of the complex, the street was empty, no police car.
Cait quickly orders an uber to the police station.
Only when they’re in the uber Powder finally remembers she forgot to give Jayce his phone back.
The police officer processes them quickly before throwing them in the holding cell.
“So why are you here?” Jayce asks now that he got the chance to talk freely.
“I punched a homophobe and didn’t see that the police car was right there.” She says with a sigh.
“Huh. Good for you.”
“Yeah. But you, that’s the interesting part. Why did you leave my place through the window, and why are you in drag?”
All Jayce can do is chuckle at this point. “Jinx stole my phone and said she’ll only give it back if I let her do my makeup. Then Cait came in, and I couldn't let her see me with all this so I climbed out the window and the police officer thought I was breaking and entering. Also Jinx never gave me my phone back.” He said the last part and deflated.
“She also sent a picture of me looking like this to Vik…”
Vi bursts out laughing at this point. “HA- And what did he say?”
“He said and I quote: ‘Hot.’”
Vi is laughing again. “You guys are so weird.” She says between laughs.
“Alright, each one of you gets a single phone call.” Calls out the police officer. “Who’s first?”
Jayce takes the first call since Vi couldn’t decide whether to call Cait or Silco and Vander, since Cait saw her getting arrested she must be on her way anyways so she didn’t want to waste her call, but on the other hand, calling her dads meant getting the yelling of her lifetime.
Jayce calls Viktor.
Viktor answers on the first ring.
“Hello?”
“Vik! Um- Hey! How are you?”
“Jayce?” Viktor sounds confused. Right, this is an unknown number to Viktor, Jayce almost forgot he was calling from the police station.
“What is this number Jayce?”
“Um- I need you to promise you won’t get mad.”
“Jayce.”
“I’m at the police station. They arrested me.” Goddamn, Jayce sounded like a kicked puppy.
“What?!” Viktor’s accented voice answered. “What? Why? Jayce! What happened?”
“I- Um- Climbed out of Vi’s apartment and the police officer thought I was involved in some B&E, can you please come?”
“Jayce… How… Fine doesn’t matter, I’m on my way.”
“Thanks Vik.”
The line goes silent and Jayce thought Viktor hung up.
“Are you still wearing that makeup?” Viktor finally asks.
“Oh! Uh- Eh-“ Jayce is stumbling on his words. “Yeah.”
“Oh my god.” Was all that Viktor said before hanging up.
Fuck, he forgot to tell him to not call his mom. This is going to be a disaster.
Vi ends up calling her dads and Jayce can hear their screams from the phone. Yikes. This is going to be one hell of a reunion.
They both sit in silence in the holding cell as they wait for the inevitable.
Vi breaks the silence. “You know what? It suits you.”
“Shut up.”
“No, I’m serious! The glitter looks really good with your eyes.”
Jayce sighs. “I know…”
“You two!” The police officer says as he fumbles to get the holding cell keys. “You two are lucky. And your families are insane.” He opens the holding cell and lets them out. “You’re free to go. And please do it quickly. If I get yelled at by your parents again I’m going to quit.”
Jayce and Vi share a look.
They walk towards the familiar sound of Silco and Vander fighting.
“Hey guys…” Is all that Vi says.
Jayce is standing behind Vi, suddenly very aware of how he looks.
They all turn to face the pair. The room is awfully quiet. For a few seconds no one speaks. Then Cait is hugging them both tightly.
“Oh my god! Vi! And uh- Jayce..! Why?-“
“Cait. Don’t.”
“Jayce!” The familiar sound of his mom’s voice rings throughout the room. She walks over to his ear and pulls him by the ear and drags him. Viktor gives him a sorry look.”
Silco walks over to where Cait is hugging Vi, and Cait steps away, looking back and forth between them.
“Vi…” Begins Silco.
“Da-“
“Nicely done.” He says and pulls her for a hug. Vi gives Cait a confused look over Silco’s shoulder.
They stay like that for a few seconds, until Powder breaks the silence. “I’m hungry. Jayce didn’t even feed me.”
“Jayce? Why was Jayce watching over you?” Vander asked Powder, who had realized her mistake. Vander turned to Vi. “Vi. Why was Jayce watching over Powder?”
Vi stays quiet as she looks between Vander and Powder, not knowing what to say. The room fell silent again.
“I’m also hungry.” Suddenly piped Viktor.
“Yeah! Why don’t we go get Jayce and his mom and go out! It’ll be like a fun family reunion!” Joins Powder.
Vander sighs. These kids. “We’ll talk about this later young lady.” He tells Vi.
“I’ll go get Jayce and Ximena.” Says Viktor.
Viktor makes his way outside the station and he can hear Ximena say “Mijo- And what did he say?”
“He said I looked hot.” Jayce says embarrassed.
Viktor felt his cheeks fire up.