Troy and Bourbon were visiting a Candy Factory at the edge of town.
It was like being invited to Willy Wonka’s wonderful abode only the focus for this place was delicious hard candy.
“Welcome to the wonderful home of Rox Candy!” Troy exclaimed with his hands in the air, sauntering in with Bourbon by his side. The tour group they were here with were also delighted to be in the vicinity. The wondrous smells and the delicious candy that awaited them during the tour was something to behold.
Bourbon, for his part, wasn’t sure what was so special about it yet. He loved candy but Troy’s insistence on this Rox Candy being the best tasting candy ever hadn’t quite sunk in yet. He tried some and it was good but not so good that he’d choose it over a Jolly Rancher or something.
Troy pouted at that and insisted that he needed to try some from the source. Maybe something more authentic might awaken Bourbon’s taste buds to something truly delectable.
Shrugging, Bourbon agreed. He didn’t have anything better to do.
As they walked through the factory, the smells hit Bourbon’s nose in an interesting way. It did seem to be very fruity and sugary, for certain, but again, nothing too special. Troy wasn’t one to get frustrated but he did seem a bit sweaty at Bourbon’s continued reluctance to see things his way on this.
“Ah man,” Troy scratched his head. “I guess everyone has their own preferences for stuff…”
“I mean, it’s not like I hate it Troy,” Bourbon assured him. “It’s just, you know… fine.”
“But it’s more than fine. It’s real tasty!” Troy exclaimed, clenching his fists with a bright smile as they approached the first table where bits of the hard candy were being spat out by a machine for sampling by the guests.
This would be perfect actually. Troy could pick a more exotic flavor and see what Bourbon thought of it.
Examining the table, Troy rubbed a finger under his chin and then snapped his fingers. The “Ah-ha” moment was very cute.
He grabbed at a flavor known as Pineapple-Mango and twirled it on his finger. Because it hadn’t been crushed into fun-sized bits yet, it was particularly long. It looked like a stiff Nerd’s Rope actually.
“Here, try munching on this-!” Troy said, playfully sticking it out to Bourbon’s face.
Bourbon blinked and stared at it for a rather uncomfortably long time before he finally shrugged. He was relenting since Troy seemed really passionate about his candy.
He took a hefty bite out of the hard candy, which surprised Troy. He still smiled though. He couldn’t just munch into hard candy like Bourbon but however he ate it didn’t matter, so long as he enjoyed it.
Bourbon continued to do so. He munched down the line of the candy stick before him like it was a granola bar or something.
He kept going and going until his teeth happened to bite into something more fleshy and soft then he was expecting.
“YEEEEOUWWCH!” Troy screamed and pulled his finger away. His shout echoed across the factory, getting people to stop and stare at him for a bit.
Troy sucked on his finger and blushed a little as he turned to look at the concerned crowd. He popped his finger out of his mouth and giggled before saying, “I uhm… bit down a bit too hard on the candy?”
Well, one of them bit down too hard on something. That was for sure.
The group seemed to accept this and turned away to continue walking, leaving the short little tykes to their candy frenzy.
Troy stuck his finger back into his mouth a bit and winced. “Ugh. I think it’s bleeding…”
Bourbon smacked his lips, staring straight ahead.
“I think you might have enjoyed it a little too much there…” Troy said. “How strong are your teeth? The crunch you got on that hard candy was incredible. I think you almost took off my finger…”
Bourbon licked his lips. “The hard candy was okay but… I gotta say. That last bite was really delicious. What was that?”
Troy raised a brow. “Uh… that was my finger.”
Bourbon contemplated this for a second. “Really…?”
“Well, whatever… if it wasn’t that good then maybe we can try out a different flavor up ahead. Probably something less tropical might be more your speed.” Troy said, marching onward.
As he walked to try and catch up to the group, he noticed something strange.
Bourbon was walking really close to him.
Like, a little too close.
Granted, he normally wouldn’t have had a problem with that. He loved being intimate with his friends but this was a bit weirder.
Bourbon was staring a hole into his back from behind.
He then poked at his butt which made Troy jolt a little bit.
“Guh!” Troy winced and looked back a bit. Bourbon didn’t say anything and kept staring at him.
Troy gave him a sheepish smile and kept walking.
As he did, he felt Bourbon creeping up closer than before once more. It was really strange and it was getting a bit hard for him to walk properly.
“Wow. Are you cold or something? If you want, we can share body heat as we go. I don’t mind,” Troy said. He’d rather initiate a connection then have it snuck up on him from behind.
“Oh. Sorry,” Bourbon said, leaning in a bit closer. “I guess I’m just really liking the smell…”
Troy looked confused. “Of… the factory?”
Bourbon was hovering over Troy’s shoulder and sniffed him once.
“Y-Yeah… the factory. Sure,” Bourbon muttered, leering over at Troy.
The red haired kid’s eyes got a little big and he felt beads of sweat perk onto his forehead. “Ah-ha… ha…”
He gulped a little bit.
“Well, hey, that’s good right? That means the candy is working its magic,” Troy exclaimed as they made it to another table.
When the two of them got there, Bourbon was practically draped over Troy’s shoulder. Normally, again, he wouldn’t mind this but Bourbon kept sniffing him. It was weird.
“Okay, so this is the Watermelon-Lemonade flavoring. I say we give this one a try. It’s more summery then Tropical so it may be the edge you need to–” Troy began before Bourbon bit his freakin’ ear! “OW!”
“Whoops,” Bourbon pulled back a bit. “Sorry. That was just a little joke.”
Troy looked at him, rubbing his ear with confusion. “A… joke? What… what kind of joke? I don’t think I understand the punchline?”
Bourbon smiled. “Nah, it’s okay. You don’t have to.”
Troy winced. He seriously felt like he had to at this point.
He tried his best to maybe see if he could get back on track but Bourbon was clinging to him now. He tried to walk properly but it was even more awkward than before now with his friends' hands clamped against his arms like this.
“Hey… you know… could you let go? It hurts the way you’re holding me…” Troy asked politely.
Bourbon nodded. “Uh-huh. Sure… let me just…”
Bourbon leaned in and licked Troy’s face.
“GAH!” Troy scrambled forward and broke free of Bourbon’s grasp. “H-Hey… I don’t know if I’m really missing the joke here but could you explain the punchline so that I’m not lost anymore…?”
Bourbon fidgeted as he stood where he was and grinned.
“Sure. Just… you know, come a little bit closer…” Bourbon said.
Troy just looked at him.
“Come on…” Bourbon grinned a bit wider than usual as his eyes narrowed. “I won’t bite.”
He said this as he showed off his teeth, drool ebbing out the side of his mouth.
Troy blinked and then began to giggle.
Bourbon giggled as well.
The two of them had themselves a nice heartful laugh between friends.
Such good buddies.
Then Troy turned tail and ran the hell away!
The boy pumped his fists and spun around the corner to head up the rafters of the factory in an attempt to get away from Bourbon and figure out what the hell was happening here!
He zipped to a spot on the floor that had a big tanker of something to obstruct anyone’s view of him. Troy sighed with happiness, feeling safe… but then his nose twitched when he saw something sprinkle down in front of his face.
He sneezed and then felt the air.
“Is this… salt and pepper?” Troy winced and looked up, seeing Bourbon hovering over him with salt and pepper shakers raining down on him.
“Hey Troy. Good thing I always bring salt and pepper shakers stashed in my underwear eh?” Bourbon exclaimed with a bright smile.
“GYAAAAAAH!” Troy shrieked and jumped into the air. He spun around on his feet like a cartoon character and tried to zip off but his shorts were grabbed by Bourbon before he could go away entirely.
Troy face-planted the ground, eyes rolling and tongue out. Bourbon snickered as he held onto his shorts.
“Come on. We still have to eat right? I’ll let you eat candy if you let me eat what I wanna eat. Sound like a fair trade, buddy?” Bourbon asked, narrowed eyes looking the same but the smile he had coated with drool.
“NO… THANKS ANYWAY!” Troy screamed and pulled hard. Eventually his fear strength won out and he tumbled out of his shorts and was now down to his One Piece themed anime briefs. He stood up and gasped back at Bourbon, eyes wide.
In a half second, Bourbon had his shorts on a plate with a knife and fork in his hand.
He cut into it, smelled it, and then shoved a bit of it into his mouth.
“Hmm… yeah, it’s got your musk alright but it pales in comparison to the real thing,” Bourbon said rather civilly. “Good thing I always keep a dinner plate and cutlery in my backpack eh?”
Troy was gone in a puff of smoke by then.
He didn’t even want to ask why he kept the salt and pepper in his underwear if he had a backpack for the cutlery.
He was running further up the rafters with the tankers of candy syrup being mixed into the machines circulating around him from below.
Troy’s face was super sweaty and he was running out of space to get away properly.
Eventually, he heard stomping from behind him.
With a small shuffle, he turned around and shrieked like a baby.
“Hi,” Bourbon waved, licking his lips as he tied a napkin around his neck. “I don’t get you Troy. You wanted me to eat. I’m trying to eat now but you won’t let me. Are you playing games with me?”
Troy backed up, not noticing that he was headed for an open area on the rafters that had a pretty steep drop below him. He was too afraid to properly watch where his footsteps were taking him.
All he knew was that his friend was… trying to EAT him!
“Bourbon… please! M-Maybe you’re just confused!” Troy chuckled nervously, his pupils shaking with fear as his underwear seemed to get slightly damp the more Bourbon approached him. “Th-There’s soooo much more candy around here you’ve yet to try! W-We could–!”
“I already know what I want now though,” Bourbon smiled. “I just tasted it before and it was the most delicious thing in here. I’ve never had it before but now that I have… I gotta have more!” Bourbon’s grin widened and his tongue salvated like crazy.
“No! NO! Please! We’re friends! Bourbon stop! STAAAAAAAH!” Troy kept back-peddling and because he stopped watching where he was going, he fell backwards and flailed like crazy as he plummeted down into the heated candy syrup in the tanker below. “EEEEEEEEEEK!”
SPLOOSH!
Bourbon looked down at the bubbling mixture and winced.
“Oh… that’s not good. Hang on. I’ll get you out,” He said, surprisingly calm for what he just witnessed.
The taste of Troy’s flesh he just got must have triggered something in him. Something horrendous that reduced him to a person with a bit of a one-track mind and an insatiable hunger.
After a long while of waiting, Bourbon went over to a nearby console and smiled when he found the controls that activated a crane. It reached over and dunked itself into the tanker before pulling a block of what was now hard candy as it was in the middle of cooling.
When Bourbon set it down before him, he overlooked it and smiled.
“Looks like you’re the Pineapple-Mango flavor now, eh Troy?” Bourbon giggled.
Troy said nothing. He couldn’t because he had just been baked into hard candy.
Bourbon smiled and pressed his hands on it, overlooking the goofy final face Troy had ever made before his demise. He found it just adorable.
With a comfortable leer, he pressed his tongue against the candy and began licking.
“Mmm. Tasty.”
As he said, he enjoyed the taste of this candy just fine but what he was really interested in was getting to the crunchy center of this wonderful tasty treat.
“It’s a shame I get to eat the one and only Troy Jolly Rancher in the world,” Bourbon said as his licking intensified. “They would be a hit on Halloween. I’m certain of it.”
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