kinda stuck meme

[memegasm]

THEKINDASTUCKMEME
Well, at least it's not glue.

RULES:
o1. Put down your character ( name | series | any preferences).
o2. Those replying can pick / rng / ask Snape on the astral plane to choose one of the prompts below.
o3. You know what they say: birds of a feather get stuck in questionably legal situations together!

Hope you enjoy your enforced quality time, when you're both stuck -

o1 in traffic, after an atrocious argument.
o2. distracting this person, while your partner in comedy/crime organizes their surprise party, or slashes their car tyres.
o3. defending the base for the next vicious 42 min, until your cavalry to get here. Ladies, gentlemen: good luck.
o4. on a raft, idly drifting the way of the nearest deserted island, a surely cute shark in tow.
o5. in an air vent, after fruitlessly stalking this person, whom you thought to be a serial killer. They don't make friendly neighbours like they used to.
o6. trapped in a codependent relationship with your bed / pet / really domestic hobby, from which this person hopes to break you by way of alcohol a social intervention.
o7. in a waiting room, while you're hanging around for the results for a highly embarrassing disease test, and would really rather not run into anyone you kno - ...God damn it.
o8. trying to safely navigate through a department store, after carelessly forgetting you were out on your measly errand during Black Friday / the year's biggest one-day sale.
o9. standing guard in front of a bedroom with this nigh-stranger, so your Romeo-Juliet-like friends can finally get it on in behind closed doors, thematic noises included. Get the small talk going.
10. with your hair in one of their zippers. You pick which. Everyone else just points and laughs.
11. delivering some pretty terrible news to them.
12. with your hand in their mailbox, just as they're coming out of their house, or apartment.
13. doing the dishes, when you both forgot your wallets and can't foot the bill.
14. playing moral support for your friend, who's stuck in a magician's box, while said magician goes off to look for the key. And coffee. And dinner.
15. reading a manual on how to defuse a bomb, or a very sensitive alarm system. Tick-tack. No rush.
16. waiting for the movie reels to get changed over from an accidental porn showing, courtesy of teenagers in charge of the screening room. You're also out of popcorn.
17. under the only stone building around for miles in the middle of an acidic rain. And then you wonder whether pollution's really on the rise.
18. on the roof, after the ladder's snapped in half. Your neighbour's particularly irritable cat might also be out on the prowl.
19. in a bdsm swing. Look, no one's judging.
20. baby-sitting, pet-sitting, or car-sitting. Yes, that new Ferrari needs day and night surveillance.
21. in a lake, because this person caught you skinny-dipping and won't. Go. Away.
22. on the phone for an important interview / business conversation, while this person tries to distract you.
23. waiting to be ransomed, while in the actually quite loving care of especially incompetent criminals.
24. with your and this person's thumbs engaged in a dysfunctional Chinese finger trap.
25. waiting for them to make the Important Announcement they've been hinting at all week, while they taunt and tease you with it.

Comments

[manhandled]

Obviously that method isn't working!

[Okay, so he might be panicking a little.]

Get this thing off of me!

[gyaruo]

It's the only method I know!! [Saya wouldn't call that level of panic "a little"! But...he can't blame him.] Uwah, don't pull it!

[manhandled]

Then stop pushing your thumb in! It can't go in any further!

[gyaruo]

[Even still, Saya is trying.]

It's supposed to let us pull out...! [That tone totally is not whining, it's frustration.] Uwah, I'm so sorry about this...

[manhandled]

Well obviously that isn't working!

[Inigo yanks back on the finger trap -- or, rather, he tries to.]

Do you have a knife? Or something to cut this with? We can't very well leave this on here!

[gyaruo]

[Saya almost loses his balance there, but thankfully narrowly manages to not bump his head against Inigo.]

Yanking it makes it worse! And do I look like someone that carries a knife around??? [Dammit, he's a party animal and occasional part-time cook, not a delinquent!

Admittedly, the fact that the two of them are yelling and acting like the classic comedy duo is a little funny. Saya has enough in him to laugh at himself once in a while. He holds himself back for Inigo's sake, but lets out a chortle anyway.]

[manhandled]

[That laughter isn't contagious, however. At least, not in Inigo's opinion. It just makes him paranoid and, above all, humiliated, believing that he's the one being laughed at despite the two of them being in equal distress over here.]

Wh-what? What's so funny? I see nothing funny about this!

[His face burning, he bites down on his lower lip and tries to, I dunno, somehow force the finger trap into ripping somehow? Maybe? Possibly?

Nah, he just ends up doing more of that yanking and pushing from before. Just a little more desperate this time.]

Confounded...thing!

[gyaruo]

S-sorry...! I was - [Saya makes the mistake of looking at Inigo because he ends up laughing even more, even pointing at him with his free hand.]

Pffft! Your face just now! Hahaha! [His arm jerks from being pulled along. That's enough for him to reduce his laugh to a series of giggles instead. (...better?)]

[manhandled]

[Not even a little better! Saya wasn't pointing and laughing before!]

Stop laughing at me! There's nothing funny about my face!

[Nope, he's not grumbling and pouting. No way, no how. He's so pouting.]

[gyaruo]

Sorry, sorry! [The sight of a grown man pouting...funny and cute. He'll never say that out loud though.] There isn't, but...uwah, you're so red. [Another laugh almost happens but Saya bites it down. His own face is red also and he knows it.] Well, mine too.

[Okay, okay. Now that he's laughed hard enough for his stomach to hurt, BACK TO THE MATTER AT HAND...]

Let's try one more time before we ask someone for a pair of scissors. [Or a knife...he'd rather not use that.] On the count of three, we'll push slowly, okay?

[manhandled]

[Inigo wouldn't know what to do if another man told him he looked cute. He can barely handle someone staring at him!

For now, though, he's just focused on the task at hand, nodding in acknowledgement of Saya's plan.]

Alright, then. One. Two...

these innuendos make me cringe ahaha

[gyaruo]

[They're likely staring because they think he's cute.]

Three! Slowly... [And slowly, Saya pushes his finger in and stops when he feels their tips touch.] Ah! It's loosened like it should've! [With his free hand, he holds his end and looks up at Inigo.] You can pull out now.

Sorry, I'll stop!

[manhandled]

[It feels a little weird but also kind of relieving to feel Saya's finger pushing up against his. That means this little slice of hell on earth will be over soon!

At Saya's request, Inigo nods and carefully pulls his finger back away from the trap. There's some resistance and bumpiness but, lo and behold, he's free at last! Thank the almighty gods, he's free at last!]

There!

what no not at all! Sorry, I meant that in a good way! A good cringe! XD It's amazing.

[gyaruo]

[Once Inigo's finger is out, Saya does the same for his, letting out a relieved sigh now that they're both no longer stuck.]

Uwaaaah...I'm glad. Sorry for distressing you. [It never was Saya's intention. He only meant to demonstrate! This is why he shouldn't be a magician...

He chuckles.] We both looked pretty ridiculous. I almost wish I had recorded it!

Oh, whew. Okay. :)

[manhandled]

[Inigo stretches and curls the offended finger, just to make sure it's okay after that ordeal. His face is still scrunched up but not unhappy, anyway.]

I'm glad you didn't.

[That's definitely the last time he'll ever let someone talk him into any kind of trap.]

Whatever happened to a simple card trick? Or bragging about your accomplishments and money to flirt? It works for me!

[No it doesn't.]

<3

[gyaruo]

[Saya puts the toy away and checks his finger too. All good. In fact, he recalls there being some health benefit to it although, let's be real, people use it more for pranks.

The look on Inigo's face makes Saya smile. He'll behave this time and not laugh again.]

I can't and I don't have any of those things~ [Saya isn't much of one to brag either, even if he had stuff to brag about. A high school dropout-turned regular club goer (and thus goes his money) with no particular talents outside cooking...BUT:]

Ah, but I can flirt! That's easy! [He winks playfully.] Girls love me.

[manhandled]

[He frowns because, well, he flirts all the time and while he finds the act of it easy...]

Girls love you? Then why are you even alone and wasting your time doing silly finger-trap tricks with me?!

[gyaruo]

Wasting time? [It's Saya's turn to frown a little before he forces a smile on himself.] What? Have I been a bother to you?

[manhandled]

No, you haven't been a bother.

[A small sigh. He didn't mean to sound that way...]

I meant, you ought to be out and enjoying yourself with the ladies and all that, instead of...

[And he gestures to their hands and the little finger trap.]

...this with me. It's certainly a more productive way of passing the time, don't you think?

[gyaruo]

[Saya studies Inigo's face, unsure why the other feels that way. He's a little more conscious about how the other sees him than girls do but he can at least be a little more like himself around him.]

Ahaha, I'm pretty sure if I use this with a girl, I'd be slapped silly. [He holds up the finger trap, his smile turning sheepish.]

I still don't get why you say that. I like killing time with you! You're a funny and interesting guy. [Intentionally or otherwise.]

[manhandled]

Funny and interesting, eh?

[That's not something he hears about himself everyday. At least, not directly. Most of the time, it's implied.]

I suppose that might be a reason to avoid the ladies...

[gyaruo]

[Saya nods. From the look on his face it sounds like he doesn't get complimented much, does it? ] Yeah, yeah. Have some more confidence in yourself. Ladies love that.

[Take it from Saya...! ...okay, no. He can barely look at himself in the mirror without seeing something awful. But Inigo's different! Or rather, he's normal compared to Saya.]

[manhandled]

Believe me, I know.

[It's not his confidence that makes him tank with the ladies. It's his approach. And a host of other things but in the end, this isn't a problem Saya can solve for him, so Inigo simply shakes his head with a slight smile.]Anyway. I appreciate your taking the time to, ah, entertain me, as you will. Strange and even flattering as that may be.

[gyaruo]

[Saya notes that there could be more going on, but he won't press the issue if there isn't one in front of him.]

Well, yeah. It's what friends do! Just hanging out and doing stupid things...sometimes. [Right?]

Ugh, html fail!

[manhandled]

Sometimes.

[A louder laugh this time, with a small nod, yep.]

Right.