Ménage á Trois
an excerpt

"Maybe." James eyed him. "I refuse to answer, on the grounds that I may incriminate myself."
Phil laughed. "No dinner?"
"Not a scrap."
"That's fine love. I was actually thinking, we should take Leon out to dinner. Sort of as a 'welcome to the family' sort of thing."
Phil was startled by the pouncing hug he recieved from James. "That's perfect! Thank you so much! You've utterly saved my skin. This is exactly the reason I love you so much."
Phil smiled, kissing James back, a short but sweet kiss on the lips. "I love you too, and you know that. Promise me that no matter what happens with Leon, that will never change."
"I promise." James returned the kiss. "I always have, and always will love you. Nothing's going to change that."
Phil laughed. "This has got to be the wierdest relationship ever."
James laughed back. "Oh, for sure. Though the fact that people still voluntarially date Paris Hilton surprises me. I surpose it's just a fame thing."
Phil snickered back, wrapping his arms around James' waist, and snuggling his face in the taller man's chest. "I love you."
"I love you too." James smiled, kissing the top of Phil's head. They then broke apart, smiling, and just as they went to do separate things, there was a knock on the door.
"Leon." James sighed, eyeing the much taller man amusedly. "You don't need to knock. You live here."
Leon shrugged. "It feels weird though. Like I'm invading your space somehow."
"It's your space too, stupid." James smiled, reaching up to rap his knuckles on Leon's head. "Anyway come on in, and put on some nice clothes. Phil and I decided we're gonna take you out to dinner."
Leon blinked. "What? Why?"
James shrugged. "I dunno, I guess so that you can feel more welcomed. This whole thing isn't gonna be easy, but we figure if you spend some time with us, doing nice, normal things, it'll feel more right. So get something nice on, Phil's already gone to shower and get changed."
"Okay." Leon smiled. "I was gonna say anyway, I dropped by mum's house after work, and grabbed some more of my clothes and stuff."
"That's good, I forgot to do laundry today anyway, I was busy writing."
"Writing?" Leon blinked.
James shrugged. "You're a librarian, Phil's a banker, and I'm a housemaker and amateur novellist. I'm doing National Novel Writing Month right now, so I'm gonna be spending a lot of time doing that, though I'm ahead right now, so I can relax."
"Neat." Leon smiled. James nodded.
"Well go on, you go get changed. I'm gonna kick Phil out of the shower, and get him into something nice." James smiled, and headed off to the bathroom, leaving Leon to wander over to 'his' bedroom, and remove his regular work clothes, revealing a pale and slim, yet finely muscled body, before sliding into a black shirt with blue pinstripes, and a pair of nice black pants. After changing he brushed his hair, tying it back in a ponytail, applied some eyeliner, and then went out into the loungeroom to wait.
After five minutes or so, Phil exited his room, hair still slightly wet. He had combed his hair nicely, and was wearing a cream and blue shirt, and relaxed brown trousers, with a pair of dark brown sneakers.
"Hey." He smiled, his breathing catching slightly at the sight of Leon. Gods... he was beautiful. Phil sauntered over, sitting down near him. "You look amazing."
Leon blushed. "Thanks. So do you."
Phil shrugged, kissing Leon on the cheek. "Not as good as you. Trust me."
"Mhm. I could never manage to look as good as you."
"Are you kidding? You're gorgeous!"
This went on and on, both of them becoming more and more silly, giggling madly, until James emerged. His chin length brown hair was brushed back into a short stump of a ponytail, and he was dressed in a powder blue shirt and black pants.
Phil giggled. "Oh Jamesiepoo, you look simply edible. I want to tear those clothes off you, they look so good!" He cried, and he and Leon fell about laughing.
James raised an eyebrow. "I'm just... not going to ask. Now come on. While Phil was in the shower I made a reservation at the Cat 'N Suit restauraunt. It's fancy, but not -too- fancy. Just right for us." He smiled.
"It sounds fantastic." Leon smiled, and James nodded.
"Now come on! Hurry hurry hurry!" James jumped up and down pleadingly. Phil laughed.
"Haha jumping midget."
"Shut up you." James smacked him on the arm. "I'm five foot four, damnit!"
"Mhm. And yet I'm five foot nine."
"Five foot ten." Smirked Leon, and they both glared at him.
"BWAHAHAHAHA! Leon added an evil laugh.
"Kill him?" James asked, not taking his eyes off Leon.
"Yep." Phil nodded. A second later, Leon found himself being tackled, and tickled mercilessly. He choked and laughed, screaming for mercy, but none came.

000

"It's all good, we're only ten minutes late for dinner." Phil smiled. "Though it was totally worth it."
"Yeah, but I had to straighten myself back up."
"Oh, I'm sure there was no straightness there." James smirked, and they all laughed.
"Um, yeah... table for three, under the name James Mitchell?"
"Right this way, sirs." The waiter smiled, leading the threesome to their table.
"You're right, this place is gorgeous!" Leon exclaimed, sitting down at the table.
"Wait until you try the food." Phil smiled. "James and I eat here all the time, don't we Jamie wamie darling?"
"Oh god." James laughed embarassedly. "Don't remind me of that..."
"What?" Leon blinked.
"Oh, this one time we ate here, this girl came over, and started hitting on James. He just got really embarassed, and then..." Phil burst out laughing.
James blushed. "Phil hopped onto my lap and started licking my neck, and calling me Jamie wamie darling."
Leon laughed. Phil nodded. "The girl just ran for it. It was hilarious."
"The staff didn't freak out or anything?" Leon asked, snickering slightly.
"Nah, most of the people who work here are gay too, or at least bi sexual. This place is pretty much entirely frequented by gays, if you look around. That girl was just an idiot."
Leon did look around, realising that Phil had been right. At the nearest table, a woman was whispering saucily into another woman's ear. At a table not far from them, two men were giggling and playing footsie. Near them, a man and a woman were quite openly discussing another man's arse.
"See?" Phil smiled. "This place is pretty much all gay."
"Neat." Leon smiled. "So we won't stick out like a sore thumb."
"Well we may, since there are three of us. But we won't stick out like a sore thumb when all the other fingers have been brutally chopped off by an axe murderer."
Leon laughed. "Where did that come from?"
James shrugged. "I'm a writer, remember. Words are my bitches."
Leon laughed. Phil nodded. "I'm a writer too, but not novels, I'm not that good. I write fanfictions about a few book characters I like."
"Cool." Leon smiled. "I'm more of a reader, really. That's why I got a job at a library."
James nodded. "Always good to do what you love."

They sat in comfortable silence for a few minutes, before Leon spoke up again.
"How did you guys meet, anyway?"
Phil and James shared one of those warm, couple smiles, like all couples who have been together for years do, and then James began to talk.
"Phil and I have actually known each other since kindergarten. We were best friends right through primary school, since our parents were really close. In intermediate school, I came out of the closet."
Phil laughed. "It was actually quite funny. He showed up at school one day wearing his mother's makeup, tight leopard skin pants, and a pink shirt. Everyone was just confused, and then he stood up in the middle of lunch, and announced that he was gay."
James snickered. "It was really funny. Everyone just froze up, and then they all started clapping, and I think one or two other people actually came out as well."
"That's really cool." Phil smiled. "It's nice that your school was so accepting..."
James nodded. "So yeah. After that, I had a couple of boyfriends, but none of them were really very serious for me. And then... Well, as you know, I'm a few years older than Phil, so by the time he started High School, I was in year eleven. One day we were just hanging out at my house, and Phil kissed me." James smiled fondly. "It was kinda weird, since I didn't even know he was gay, but we sorted it out and... yeah." James shrugged. "We've been together since."
"Except for that time..." Phil snickered.
"Oh god! I had forgotten! With the two guys!" James laughed.
"Yeah! And their uncle was like thirteen!"
James choked. "Yeah! And he kept on hitting on my sister!"
"And then... and then..." Phil looked like he was dying of laughter. Leon raised an eyebrow.
Slowly James' laughter petered off, and he smiled at Leon. "Sorry... we do that. We've been together so long that... yeah."
Leon shrugged. "It's fine. I think it's really cool that you two have so much history together." He smiled.
James nodded. "We're gonna have to make some memories with you now, you realise?"
Leon blinked. "Should I be scared?"
"Definitely." Phil smirked. James added an evil laugh, and Leon blinked.
"Um... llllleaving...." Leon pretended to get up, before sitting back down, and the other two laughed.
"This is fun." Phil smiled.
Leon nodded. "I'm really glad you guys suggested this. It's really good to just get out and have fun, I haven't enjoyed myself this much in ages."
"Well get used to it." Phil smiled. "James and I try to make everything fun."
Leon smiled. "You two are the best thing that's happened to me in ages."
James smiled. After that, things sort of lapsed into a comfortable silence, interrupted by the waiter taking their orders, and soon after, the arrival of their food. James had ordered a steak, Phil had fried noodles, and Leon ordered lasagne. The comfortable silence continued through their meal, and all through dessert. Once they had finished eating, Leon slouched back.
"That was amazing. I can see why you eat here."
James nodded. "This place is fantastic. We have to come back soon."
Phil nodded. "Absolutely."