Once he was calm and in control again, AJ tapped against the door and opened it, walking right into Brian and Nick’s room before they had a chance to say anything. Having his talk with Howie had made AJ feel so much better than before, leaving him in a perky mood. So instead of just walking in, he practically bounced in.
Everyone chuckled when AJ caught sight of Brian standing between the beds and his face lit up. He saw Brian’s answering grin, saw the same peppy mood in him, and played on it. With an insane laugh he ran over, jumped onto one bed and used it as a springboard to jump right at Brian.
Brian just barely managed to catch AJ, but he lost his balance and the two tumbled back onto the other bed, laughing. AJ bent down and kissed Brian’s smiling mouth. “Hello, lover. Fancy meeting you here.” He teased him.
“Imagine that! Finding me in my own room.” Brian said with a chuckle. His hands still rested on AJ’s ass from where he’d tried to catch him and not drop him. “I do declare it’s simply amazing.”
“Isn’t it, though?” Winking, AJ gave him another kiss.
That was when Howie chose to plop down beside them on the bed, shoving a hand at AJ to knock him off of Brian and up to the head of the bed. AJ hit the pillows with a laugh and a bounce. “Dammit, D!” he snapped at him. Propping up on one arm, he looked over Brian and at Howie. “I was hooking up with my man here.”
“If you’re done mauling him, I want to hear what our Frick and Frack here did that has them grinning like loons.”
Kevin and Nick took seats on the bed opposite them, both smiling. A conspiratorial smile passed between Nick and Brian. “Us?” Nick said innocently. “Do something? Why, whatever do you mean, Howie?”
“That’s right.” Brian chimed in. “We’re totally innocent.”
When the others just gave them dry looks, the two friends laughed. “Ok, ok.” Brian said. “Y’all saw me disappear in the lobby?” When everyone nodded, Brian’s grin turned a little more evil. “I snuck up to his room. Nick was already waiting for me. We busted in to his room…”
“How’d you manage that?” Kevin demanded, amused.
Nick looked over at him. “We can’t tell you, Train, or we’d have to kill you. It’s a trade secret.”
“Anyways!” Brian said, overriding Kevin’s protests and Howie and AJ’s laughter. “We set up quite a few different things. We wanted his first experience to be memorable, so we pulled out lots of our usual…fun stuff. Some standard things. Like the uh, tape over the faucet.”
“So when he turns it on it’ll spray his pants.” Nick chimed in.
Brian nodded. “That’s right. And we put baby powder on the tops of the blades of the ceiling fan, and in the air conditioner too. We also jacked the heat up so he’ll have to turn them on to cool off.”
“Oh, and I stuck random slices of lunchmeat in his clothes and such inside his suitcase so it’ll stink by the end of the day.” Nick added.
Howie was covering his mouth, smothering giggles. Kevin had wide eyes as he looked back and forth between the two, amazed at how much they’d accomplished in such a little time, and at the knowledge that these two were enjoying it so much. AJ, however, was laughing outright. They weren’t done, though.
Holding a finger up, Brian exclaimed “Don’t forget the standard bucket of water over the door.”
“Oh, right. And the usual shaking of all his cans of soda. We short sheeted his bed too. Um, let’s see. Some of his stuff was already in there. We ran into Marcus and he’d delivered all the security personnel’s bags to their rooms. So we laid out his house shoes at the end of the bed and put shaving cream in them.” Nick’s grin was pure evil.
“Later on we’ll be extremely annoying and order him fifty pizzas and such like that. For now, that’s all we did. I mean, we wanted to start easy.” Brian looked around at them all, resting his hands behind his head. He still hadn’t sat up from when AJ had tackled him. “We didn’t put any hair dye out or do anything else like that. But, we did use an old favorite.”
Chuckling, Nick pulled something out of his pocket and tossed it to Brian. With quick reflexes, Brian caught it before it hit him in the face. He shifted a little, looking like he was going to sit up, but suddenly he grinned and reached an arm out, snagging it around AJ’s waist and pulling him flush against his side. AJ couldn’t help but chuckle. He grabbed the pillows and put them under his and Brian’s heads so that they were at least elevated enough to look at everyone.
Content now that AJ was cuddling with him, Brian used his free hand to turn on the little thing in his hand, which looked a little like a Gameboy. But after a few buttons were pressed, AJ saw the screen turn on and realized exactly what it was. “Oh my fucking God!” he exclaimed. Quick as a flash he stole it from Brian. “You set up one of those fucking nanny cam things!”
“Yep” Frick and Frack said together.
The little handheld video was passed around, all of them looking at the screen and seeing the hotel room. “We set it up at the top of the blinds so we’ll see the whole room.” Nick explained. Sound suddenly echoed off the little speaker; the sound of someone trying to open the hotel room door. Nick looked over at Brian, who was holding it again, then down at the beds. “Face this way, Rok.” He begged him.
They ended up with Nick and Kevin lying on their stomachs, facing toward the space between the beds, and Howie, Brian and AJ doing the same. Brian held the little video player out so they could all watch the hotel door finally opened. Loud cursing echoed through the room as the bucket of water hit Jeff. Laughter echoed in too, followed by a voice they recognized as Marcus saying “Well, now you can say you’re becoming one of us, Jeff. You got initiated into the club.”