What: Talk about marriages and sleeping on the couch
When: Today
Who: Billy/Dom
Rating: PG
Billy: *I am alone at home and getting a bit bored so I decide it is time to
call Dom. I check my watch and make sure not to call him to an
unearthly hour, but it should be late evening in Hawaii now. I dial
his number and wait*
Dom: *I'm just heading into the house, having stopped at the market on the way home from the set when my phone rings. Shifting the bags in my hands I manage to get the phone open and trapped against my shoulder* Hello?
Billy: Hey! It's your all time favourite Scot. How are you? *I grin happily*
Dom: Busy as usual. Seems like all I do anymore is work. *I manage to get in the house, dropping my bags on the floor* Better than no work at
all I suppose.
Billy: Tell me about it *I snort, still trying to get some work* So how have
you been lately, apart from busy...
Dom: Not too bad. Hannah came out for a last weekend for a few days so that was nice. *I can help but smile, remembering her visit*
Billy: So it is really serious with you two?
Dom: Is that a bad thing? *I purposely don't answer your question,
suddenly worried about how our friends and family see this
relationship*
Billy: No, not at all! I mean, she could have someone smarter and someone better looking, but if she is happy with you... *I tease, trying to
sound serious*
Dom: Thanks for the vote of confidence. Yeah, things are kinda serious.
It's a strange place to be in though, you know? I've known her for so
long but everything is just shifting and changing.
Billy: *I nod before realising that you can't see it anyway* I know what you mean, but as long as both of you are alright with it. And she seems to be really happy with you.
Dom: I hope she is. Sometimes I wonder if it's all happening too fast.
Like maybe we should just both take a step back for a little bit. *I
move around the kitchen putting my groceries away as we talk*
Billy: Well, you`ve had lots of time to get to know each other, that`s for
sure. I am just glad you two are happy, I wish you two all the best *I
grin*
Dom: Well enough about me, how are you doing?
Billy: Great. Karl and I will marry at the beginning of December and that's
actually why I am calling. It would be great to have you there.
Dom: I'd love to be there! Where is the ceremony going to be held? *I
stop what I'm doing, standing in the middle of the kitchen with a big
grin on my face.*
Billy: Well, we had the choice between Scotland and New Zealand and as it is fact that NZ has to offer much better weather in December, we chose NZ. It will be in Wellington to be more exact.
Dom: Sounds like it's a popular time to get married. I'll have to get lots
of time off work between you and Karl and Sean and Debbie. Have you
picked an exact date?
Billy: Yes, the fifth. Maybe you should just try to get that whole week off *I smile*
Dom: Not terribly likely to happen, but I want to be there for you. Even
if it means having to fly in and turn right back around and fly back.
Billy: Actually, I want you to be my best man. I would be really happy if you could make it, even if you have to get back immediately after the
ceremony.
Dom: Billy, I'm honored that you would ask me that. I'd be so happy to be your best man. As soon as I get to the set tomorrow I'll start
working on getting my schedule rearranged so I can be there.
Billy: Thanks. *I grin happily* You are my best mate, it is only natural that
I ask you, isn't it.
Dom: I suppose. *I grin* So is Karl wearing a dress?
Billy: I am not sure. I think he has not warmed up to that idea yet, but I am trying my best. *I laugh* I think a white one would suite him
perfectly.
Dom: You keep working on him. He'd look stunning in white. *I laugh,
picturing Karl in a floor length gown*
Billy: Mh, he would. I know that he does but that probably counts as TMI *I laugh*
Dom: Yeah, that definitely something I didn't need to know. *I finish
putting away my things and grab a bottle of beer from the fridge and
sit at the table.*
Billy: You know that if I lose and have to wear the dress that you will then
be my bridesmate and you too will have to wear a dress.
Dom: Can't we go with kilts? Much more manly.
Billy: Sure, if that counts as dress. *I laugh* We should be really happy
that Karl and I will marry in NZ then, cause a wearing a kilt in
Scotland in winter could get really... uncomfortable. With no
underwear and stuff.
Dom: That's true. Hopefully we won't have to worry about it either way.
Let's go with an all trousers wedding. No dresses allowed.
Billy: Well, I'll be wearing a kilt, that's for sure, but you can wear a
trouser. *I smile* Wimp *I add after a short pause and with a very low
voice*
Dom: I heard that. If you are enough of a man to wear a kilt, I can manage it as well.
Billy: I know that all you English people are wimps so you really don`t have to.
Dom: Do you want me to hang up on you? *I laugh*
Billy: *I laugh with you* No, I am sorry. When will you have a break from
filming? They don`t keep you on that island 356 days a year, do they?
Dom: If they could, they would. I think our hiatus starts about the 15th.
Just in time for all these weddings to be over, and everyone to be
gone on trips and leave me with nothing to do over the holidays.
Billy: Well, I am sure Hannah will be more than happy to keep you entertained
and you can be sure that I will come and pester you cause we really
should go out again.
Dom: I figured you and Karl would still be too busy celebrating to have any time for me. And Hannah only has a short break from school, and I'm sure she will want to spend part of it with her family. *I try not to
sound sad, but it really had become rather lonely living so far away
from everyone*
Billy: Karl has work to do too so we will only be able to have a short holiday. If any at all. He already took some time off to go to Scotland with me to propose to me. When Karl is at work and Hannah at school we should meet up and fuck to console each other.
Dom: I'll keep that in mind. *I start to laugh, picturing the look on
Hannah's face if I ever told her what you just said*
Billy: I won`t tell Hannah, you won't tell my Kiwi *I grin*
Dom: It's a deal. You should come out here, the surfing is amazing.
Billy: Mh, surving. Haven't done that for ages. There is no beach near
Manchester, but you probably know that.
Dom: Yeah I remember. *I grin* All the more reason for you to come out
here. You can ask Hannah, the couch is pretty comfortable.
Billy: You mean you plan to fuck me and then let me sleep on the couch? I am not that cheap. *I pretend to sulk*
Dom: Oh, in that case you can stay in the bed with me. *I finish off my
beer and toss the bottle in the trash*
Billy: Thank you. *I grin as I hear the front door open* Karl is home and I
should probably let you sleep anyway.
Dom: I'm glad you called, and I'm looking forward to coming out for the
wedding. Let me know the rest of the details as soon as you can ok?
Billy: I will. Talk to you later. *I grin as I hang up and get up to greet
Karl in an appropriate way.*
Dom: *I hang up the phone and head out of the kitchen on my way to bed*