The little prick has no fucking business being in here, and he knows it.
Jock has seen him about before, normally on the arm of somebody or other or even in some fucker's lap, but at least then he was out of the way, in somebody's shadow, leaning into them.
Now when he walks in he's alone, goes up the bar, orders some fruity little drink that Vaughn puts a fucking pink cocktail umbrella in, like the little bastard
needs
encouraging. When he moves over to the pool table, it's with his hips shifting from side to side, his jeans so fucking tight Jock almost can't believe he can move at all.
The jeans are a steel-grey that clings to his calves, his thighs, the curve of his fat little arse, and he's wearing a t-shirt that's too fucking small for him, might even be a kid's size, with the hem snipped off so bare a bit more of his midriff. It's so tight you'd probably be able to see his fucking nipples, if not for the fact that he's wearing a little sleeveless denim jacket over top of it.
It's got a patch on the back that says, HEARTBREAKER.
It says GAY BOY in white across his arse cheeks. Jock can read it when he bends over to break.
"Can you fucking believe that kid?" asks Rob across from him, sipping at his beer. "What the fuck is he asking for?"
"Anything he can get," mutters Jock, and shifts in his seat so that he's got his back to the lad, but he's aware of him through the course of the evening β he hears the way he says thank you when some of the other patrons buy him drinks, all effeminate, hears the way he lisps, "Hi, boys!" when Patton comes in with his boys and gets half-laughing, "Hey, Phin!" in reply.
When he goes to the bar later in the evening, he orders another one of his fucking pink G&Ts, sips at it, and he turns his head like he knows Jock's been watching him, his lips parted, his eyelashes fluttering as he fucking
bats
them at him.
He doesn't put any volume into the words, just mouths them, as he looks over at Jock: "
Hi, big boy
."
Jock's lip curls, and he doesn't say anything, just stares the little bastard down until he, smiling, looks back to his drink and sips at it, shifting on his feet as though he's trying to make his jeans fit differently.
He's wiggling his fucking ass so that everyone will look, and a lot of people
are
.
A lot of people do.
Grinding his teeth, Jock waves to Vaughn that he wants another drink on his tab, and he doesn't bother to stand and go, just turns to Otto and lets him fucking talk about hydraulics, about whatever the fuck is going on with the tools at his job.
It's hours later when he finally loses patience.
It was last call forty minutes ago, and Vaughn's shut the shutters and the door β the lock-in'll go on until two or three, maybe. The kid hasn't left. He's hustling pool now, started hustling a few hours ago, and everyone in this place should know fucking better, should
know
better than to play with him, to fall for it.
It's not even an act, is the thing β it's just that he's skinny and gangling, looks younger than he is with his big brown fucking eyes and his thick, swept-back hair, his thin, brown lips. He's not pretending he's not a fucking maths PhD, that he doesn't do every single calculation in his head before he even puts his hand on the cue. He's not even pretending he doesn't do little fucking Tik-Toks where he makes Rube Goldberg machines and performs fucking trick shots.
"You can't fucking make that shot," Al Rooney is saying. "Not without hitting the blue."
"Aw, you don't want to see me even
try
?"
Those big brown eyes are about as big as he can fucking make 'em right now.
"A hundred says you can't do it."
"Oh, you're paying me