hehe aww !! i’ll go with its both of them trying to compete for Orel’s love, trying to win him over :3 !! When he’s with Clay, he goes into his study, expecting a beating, but instead gets pulled onto Clay’s lap on the chair, gently kissing him and telling him that it’s okay that he made a mistake and he doesn’t deserve to get beaten for his mistake. Orel just soaks in all the praise and kisses from his dad, loving that for once he’s being nice to him. On their next date, Orel tells Joe about how his dad treated him, talking dreamily about how he felt so nice and cozy sitting with him, which makes Joe extremely jealous!!! In his head, Joe is saying how he can do better than that, so he pays fully for their food, even after Orel insisted they split the check, and takes him to the park, sitting on a log together, Joe cuddles Orel and kisses him, he wraps his hand around his waist and pulls him closer, giving him more kisses on his cheek. Orel assumes (from the secluded area of the park and being pulled so close to Joe) that Joe wants to have sex with him, even though he really didn’t want to, and just wanted to spend time with Joe, so he moves the hand closest to Joe to his groin, trying to feel Joe’s dick. “Ah- Ah~ I just wanna hold you, dummy,” Joe smiles as Orel places his hand back onto the log for support. Orel is blushing a lot more, knowing that Joe isn’t going to fuck him and is just going to shower him with love in other ways. — When Orel gets home, Clay asks him why he was out so late, and Orel tells his dad about what happened, so excited about it. Clay wasn’t too happy and so he took Orel to the study, which Orel was guessing that he was going to get beaten. But Clay never undid his belt. He just pulled or onto the chair again onto his lap. He started cuddling Orel and praising him, trying to one-up Joe on the cuddles. He tried desperately to think of other ways he could show Orel his love, never quite learning how to show love. He awkwardly asked him about his Bible figurines, knowing it was something he was passionate about, Orel’s face lit up even more at the allowance to talk about his collection. It felt like hours of Clay nodding and pretending to understand everything his boy was ranting about. Orel was just so happy with being able to talk about his Bible Figurines, especially to Clay who never seemed to take an interest in anything of his!!! — After school Doughy, Tommy, Joe, and the rest were hanging out, Joe and Orel being all close with eachother, Orel was also bragging about how his Dad was interested in his Bible figurines, Doughy pointing out “Isn’t he the one who bought them all for you? Shouldn’t he already KNOW about them?” And Joe seeing this as an opportunity encouraged this, “Yeah, but that dummy was probably too drunk to remember! He’s probably just asking to see how much money he could’ve spent on more booze instead of your figures. That’s all your Dad even cares about.” He rolls his eyes with it. Orel seems genuinely hurt by this, “Y-You mean… No! My Dad does care! He was being so nice to me, he didn’t even beat me!” Orel quickly shakes it off, not wanting to think about how his dad could be using him (he really wasn’t). “Y’know, Orel I do really care about you, and you know I don’t want your dad to be taking advantage of you again..” Joe says in a whisper to Orel, not wanting the others to hear. Orel smiles slightly, “Thanks, Joe.. But.. I’m fine! I can handle myself this time if anything happens again! Everything will be fine!”