Kevin’s not really sure whose idea it is.

Okay, yes, he’s completely sure because there’s no way in hell it’s his idea. He doesn’t know why he’s going along with it now either because they could both get in much more trouble than he can even fathom if they get caught.

But that possibility doesn’t stop him from sneaking out onto the field with David once the sky is dark and most of their friends are happily hanging out in the giant ballroom of their swanky hotel. He figures that this might be more interesting than yet another chaste party with kids he has almost nothing in common with. Technically, David should be one of those kids, but there’s something about him that cuts a different way, makes him seem bored with it all, and that gives Kevin something interesting to waste his time with until this godforsaken week is over.

And okay, maybe there is a little bit of alcohol involved. He’s not sure where David got the whiskey, but that doesn’t stop him from precariously taking sips of it, and while neither of them is really drunk, there is a certain looseness in Kevin’s limbs that he likes and appreciates, and which makes it much easier for him to laugh at David’s jokes, which as a rule aren’t all that funny.

And David’s not really his type, in any sense of the word, even as someone to just hang out with. Kevin tends to find the bad-ass charade tiring, and he could definitely do without the faux-hawk, but he does appreciate the surge of biceps and the broad definition of muscles moving beneath his tank top, and he figures that at the very least, he could do with looking at him for long periods of time, which is what he’s mostly been doing tonight because listening to him talk is somewhat painful.

But he hears him somehow when he suggests they leave behind the hotel room and head out under the stars. He vaguely thinks it’s rather irresponsible for the Disney employees to just leave the tents set up on the field, but they must be at least relatively difficult to access, which he figures is just a good thing for them, especially when they drag the red inflatable couch out of the Inferno tent to sit on because Kevin figures that Nick will be the brother that’s most pissed off about something stupid like that.

Of course, that’s the last thing on his mind right now because, somewhere between the first time he laughed at one of David’s bawdry jokes and the way they flopped down beside each other on the couch, the actor started looking just good, and Kevin’s a fan of the way his face is a little flushed with the alcohol, and it leads him to the amusing conclusion that he isn’t as worldly as he likes to make himself out to be. Then again, Kevin could be drunker than he thinks he is.

And the whole thing is David’s fault when it happens, because he lurches forward out of the position he’s been lazily lounging in and tugs his way out of his tank top, and Kevin really just looks at him because he’s much more gorgeous than he would have let himself consider a few moments ago. The tattoos on his arms, the one spreading across the back of his shoulder, just give him a kind of character more than the intimidation factor Kevin figures he was going for when he got them.

It continues to be David’s fault when he reaches for Kevin’s hand and just presses it against his chest, and Kevin lets his palm slide against nipples, which makes David bite his lip in a way that makes him look naughtier than any bad little schoolgirl, and then they’re both leaning in and Kevin’s hand is cupping his face and he presses their mouths together, and David holds onto his wrist and presses back into him, and then it’s all tongues and teeth, and at one point, Kevin’s sure David’s bitten him.

It’s really okay though because David’s half-naked and working at the buttons of Kevin’s shirt to get him there too, and sooner than later, their clothes are in a pile on the grass, and David’s legs are open, and Kevin is settled in the cradle of his thighs as they kiss, his fingers curled around his hip, and he’s not completely sure what’s happening, but he’s okay with it because David’s cock rubbing against his feels good in a way he can’t really explain to himself.

They naturally didn’t plan this, so there’s little available in the way of lube, and David urgently whines out a suggestion that saliva is as good as they’re going to get. Kevin ends up on his knees in the grass, and it’s kind of itchy, and he remembers that he’s kind of allergic to it, but that’s okay, especially since he forgets all about it once his tongue is pressing inside of David, and David’s fingers are knotted in his hair and he’s arching up and grinding down against him, and Kevin’s pretty proud of himself, considering he has no idea what he’s doing.

At some point, David presses him to hurry up already, so Kevin spits in his hand, which is gross, but if he thinks about it where the slick fingers are going probably isn’t much more sanitary, so he stops thinking about it and just pushes them inside him, and David’s hands slide back to hold onto the arm of the couch, and Kevin can’t help but watch the way his biceps flex as he groans and pushes himself against Kevin’s hand. He figures he’s doing something right when David arches and gasps and comes in spurts across his stomach.

Kevin pushes himself up to mouth at his stomach, tonguing the come off with little moans of contentment until David is pressing on his head, urging him to do more productive things with his mouth, and the hot heavy weight of his cock against his tongue is so good, so strange, and Kevin lets David guide his head in bobbing until it’s pressing into his cheek because David’s hard again, and he pulls off to move up and push their mouths together.

And then big hands are on Kevin’s cock, and David’s legs are spread obscenely wide, which Kevin imagines is a good description for this whole encounter, and the actor guides him in, murmuring quietly at the pressure. Kevin can only think about how perfectly bizarre this whole situation is, and if someone told him yesterday that he would be fucking his way into David Henrie in twenty-four hours, he… Well, he probably wouldn’t find it this crazy.

David’s hands are moving restlessly against his shoulders, and Kevin thinks for the first time that maybe he’s young, and maybe he’s pretending to be more experienced than he is, except the way his legs hook around his waist, his thighs pressing to his hips, and the way he gyrates against him like a pro makes him retract the opinion a bit.

They rut together in a way that feels like they’ve done so a thousand times before, and at some point, Kevin realizes a condom may have been a good idea, but fuck if it’s not too late for it now, and besides, David arches and moans with each sharp thrust, his fingers curling against his shoulders, so consequences be damned.

He comes suddenly, when David drags blunt nails down his chest and screams out a rasping Fuck! as he comes again, and it’s hot and tight and unbelievable and Kevin’s groan is low and loud as he spills into him. They lay there tangled up for a few moments, David’s arm slung around Kevin’s neck as they kiss slowly before he pulls out. He pauses for a moment standing above him, breathless at the sight of his own come painting the insides David’s thighs sticky white, and he wants to offer to help him clean up, but David is positively filthy, his fingers sliding through it and coming to his lips to lick it away, and Kevin stops watching him so he won’t be drawn in again.

When they’re dressed, David walks beside him, an uncomfortable expression on his face, and Kevin feels guilty but doesn’t say anything because he knows him well enough to know there’s some pride at stake. When David slides the key card into his door, Kevin steps in behind him for a moment, just to press their mouths together one more time, one hand cupping his cheek, the other settled against his hip. When he pulls away, David grins at him, petting his chest lightly, and he jokes that he hopes there’s come on the couch, and you laugh because that would really piss Nick off.

We're going to keep this short and sweet (Frank and birthday vgifts will be back next week). You've probably seen the updates to our main menu. Don't be alarmed. You'll find everything you need, just in slightly shifted format. Just so you know, we based these changes on input from both experienced and new users who were not familiar with LiveJournal. Our goal was to reduce barriers to usability and make LiveJournal more accessible and easy to navigate. Please note that this is a work in progress. We welcome your detailed suggestions in feedback. We thank you, in advance, for helping us improve your LiveJournal experience.

We've updated the global navigation menu:

Here's a quick breakdown of what you'll find where:

• Scrapbook can now be found under Profile (thanks for your feedback, btw), along with Settings, Stats, and Edit Profile.
• You'll find all the tools you need to post and update entries under Journal, which includes posting and editing entries, managing comments and tags, and customizing your journal's style.
• Friends contains all of your friend settings, from filtering your Friends page to adding, removing, and finding new and existing friends on LiveJournal.
• Under Communities, you'll find links to manage your communities, accept community invites, and create new communities.
• Explore includes search features, RSS feeds, Question of the Day, and FRNK radio.
• Under Shop, you'll find links to upgrade or give a paid account, buy virtual gifts, purchase LiveJournal merchandise (like T-shirts), and view your payment history.

LiveJournal Mobile update:

We've enhanced LiveJournal's mobile site to improve usability and load times. We've made more of LiveJournal's features accessible via mobile, including posting comments, uploading photos, reading and commenting on friends' posts, finding and messaging friends, and more. We look forward to reviewing your feedback and recommendations for future improvements.

Other important changes:

• You can lock comments to prevent further commenting on a post, while leaving existing comments visible.
• We replaced the "Tell a friend" link with a new "Share This" widget that lets you share LiveJournal posts on other social media sites, including Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.
• We changed some of the icons on entries (you can hover over the icons to view descriptions).
• You'll see a Tag count on your Tag management page.
• You'll now see the 10 most recent vgifts on your profile page. To remove vgifts, left-click on the vgift and choose whether you want to remove the vgift from your profile or delete it entirely.
• We've added options to help you control receipt of vgifts, which you'll find in My Stuff under Edit Profile. You can now enable vgifts from friends or everyone and disable anonymous vgifts.

We've got your fix:

• UPDATE: Rolling several updates into one listing here -- 1) Scrapbook should be back and working again. 2) The problem with the Update Journal page in IE6 and IE7 should be fixed now. 3) The problem with the userpic add-on package pricing has been fixed and refunds issued to anyone who was overcharged while the erroneous prices were in place.
• Non-conforming images will now be automatically resized for custom mood themes.
• Line breaks no longer count as two characters against your entry's character limit.
• We fixed a bug on the Manage Tags page so you can clear all tags and add new tags.
• We corrected the UI for the update.bml page so it displays properly in IE8.

Thanks again for joining us. Frank and company will be back next week!

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While these videos are still up, I am taking advantage before they inevitably get yanked, and converting them to mp4 and mp3 formats and downloading them. SUCH LOVE.

( Music Again, Whataya Want From Me, Down the Rabbit Hole. )

We're finishing up a few odds and ends before our next major release. Our mighty Ops guys continue to slay spambots and balance load times on a highwire without a safety net (which is kind of tough dressed in full ninja gear). Down on solid ground, we're celebrating this week's virtual birthday party with a warm toast to pants. If you can rearrange the letters of your favorite city, state, and/or country (feel free to combine these elements) to spell one of Frank's favorite treats (e.g., pants, wire, paper, etc.), he'll send you over a can of whipped cream to top it all off (provided you return the empty can for his midnight snack)! And, with that, let the word scrambling commence!

Stuff you should know:

We're still working on the delayed/missing notifications issue. Sorry, we're frustrated too. We'll keep you posted. Last week, we became aware that a recently-implemented script was overwriting affiliate referral fees for some of our users. Once we confirmed this, our Ops team quickly removed the script. Please be aware that, while we may beta-test other affiliate scripts down the line, we will take greater measures to ensure that no existing user-referral arrangements are impacted in any way. While we plan to stick to a weekly news schedule, if we have a release in between regular newsletters, we'll post here to keep you informed. You can also check lj_releases for current release information.

To our paid users, we send squirrels in love!

If you have a paid or permanent account, you can send five free Squirrels in love vgifts through Monday, March 15th at 4pm, PST! You'll see both the free and the $0.99 squirrels displayed until they've scurried off to their new homes. Please send only one vgift at a time. In other words, you'll need to complete check-out and start a new order for each vgift you send. If you're not receiving vgifts (from friends and/or Frank), you may have disabled them. To enable vgifts, visit Edit profile (under Profile), scroll down to the bottom of the page, and select 'Do not disable' from the drop-down menu. Have fun!

Help is on the way!

We're pleased to announce the winner of our first charitable vgift poll, Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières, which provides critical medical care to under-served populations around the world. Priced at $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of the proceeds we raise from the sale of this vgift (we'll cover credit card fees). We invite you to start recommending nonprofits for our next fundraising drive at ljnewscontests. We'll take suggestions through the month and post a poll in the news during the first week of April to let you choose the recipient. We thank you, again, for your passion and generosity.

We've crowned a header

Congratulations to ohterlus for submitting the winning header, which will go live next week and keep us leafy through mid-April! You can submit designs for our next header contest at ljnewscontests now until March 31st. We'll post a poll in the news to let you decide which header will sit at the top of LiveJournal from mid-April to mid-May. All artistic interpretations are welcome. The winner will get a $25 LiveJournal gift certificate. All other contributors will receive $5 gift certificates. Our heartfelt appreciation for sharing your talent and creativity!

For this week's winning photo and more adventures with Frank & Meme, we'll catch you under the cut!

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Old layout from robot_sky.

To clarify the situation here: I haven't started making layouts again, this is just my posting some of the layouts I promised to clean up before I closed. I'm doing it now because semester has started and I won't have time again until July. This is the last one that I have a post for, but there are a few more that I'll still need to be released (the MV one, my personal one, clockrobot's, and the one at milou en avril) when I have time again.

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( En dormant j'ai rêvé des milles lianes )

I e-mailed Ali a couple minutes ago ♥

We haven't e-mailed in a long time, and I miss it (I miss her, but that's a different story), and it feels good to do it again. The topic of my e-mail to her wasn't exactly a CHEERFUL topic (it's not something I'm comfortable posting about on LJ, but I'm pissed off as hell right now about something that Scott is doing, to sort of explain things a little), but I'm glad I sent it to her anyway. I know she'll take the time to help me out, even just by listening to me. I feel a bit better about things already -- I feel lighter, now that I've confided in someone.

However, I am still seriously in a really bad mood, and I haven't felt this angry in a long time. I'd like to walk down the street and give Scott a piece of my mind, and maybe punch him in the face and kick him where it hurts. That'd be a bit stupid, however, and so I shall opt to post some more fic blurb. Just a couple scenes from The Most Sparkly AU Ever fic:

( Follow the cut for Joe and Adam sexytimes? :D? )

(Jo, you've seen all of this already. Haha. I hope to have new blurbs to send you soon enough. I also hope you don't mind that I've taken the liberty of making you my beta for this. Because, when I actually finish it -- no, let's do this properly. Will you beta this fic for me when it's done, Jo? ♥?)

Fun Fact: I sometimes sought out new music just so I'd have something to name a layout after. It's okay, you can say that's weird. It is weird.

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( and stealing feelings are used )

I promised ages ago to make a sensible layout with a scrolling topbar, so here it is, sorta.

OH AND I MEANT TO ASK. Anyone interested in the clockrobot layout?

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( J'ai bu, je l'avoue )