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Brick carefully placed his hand to tilt the other's head up, he slowly dragged the black eye pencil on the bottom lid of their eye.
"Ugh, Brick You're not gonna stab my eye out if you go faster." Mal spat out. He had agreed to let the military boy do his eye makeup but the way he went so slow was insufferable.
"Oh right, Sorry sir" Brick said apologetically
"You don't have to call me that, you know that right?"
Brick looked at him before speaking "Yeah I know, 'Guess I just got used to it while in the military!" His tone became filled with excitement at even the mention of his so-called platoon, It made Mal feel fuzzy when he saw Brick get overly excited about his interests.
Though he would NEVER admit that out loud.
"Why did you join the military anyway?" Mal questioned, Brick had already moved on to his other eye at this point.
"Well,, when I was a kid I used to get bullied so,, when I turned 15 I thought If I got stronger, I would become popular, and would get more friends, or, friends period.." Brick muttered the last part, the motion he ran the eye pencil under Mal's bottom eyelid stayed the same but he could feel the others hand that was holding up his chin grasped more firmly.
"Well fuck those people." Mal stated.
"Mal! You, you can't just say that about people!" Brick defended the kids, sure they were assholes to him but everyone deserves second chances,, well now it would be well over the second chance.
"I'm being honest, you can't let people treat you like shit while all you do is be nice." Brick let out a small grin, It was nice to know that someone actually cared.
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"Annnddd done!" Brick said as he pulled his hand off Mal's chin and removed the pencil from his eye. It was a bit smudged but Mal didn't mind, he liked it that way.
"Thanks I guess.." He thanked the solider in training.
"No problem my fellow cadet!" Brick saluted him, Mal awkwardly saluted back before waling off (but he gave a quick wave good-bye first)
God Mike is gonna be so confused when he notices.