"What?" Johnny blinks at him for a moment before realizing. "Oh, Scout. Uh, no. He's not mine, I was... I was taking care of him for a friend."

He feels a nervous twist in his gut at that. At one point should he tell Eliot about Gabriel? Before it hadn't really been relevant, it had been a one-night stand and Gabe had been gone, but now - with everything happening between him and Gabe, and his thing with Eliot developing fast and loose, it's suddenly potentially very fucking awkward.

He buries his nervousness in his food.