If I was going to get defensive, I’d say it’s probably about the same amount of times I thought of him before I dragged him to the Rusty Nail. Only, the throw downs we have in my imagination have entirely different outcomes.
Seriously not a problem. You pull up okay?
Yeah, it wasn’t great, but I survived.
Do that often, do you? Get wild with the tisanes?
There is a small part of me that’s hoping he’ll say yes and give me an out of whatever he’s stirring up inside me. I left all that kind of shit behind years ago, before I turned, and I swore I wasn’t going to get caught up in it again. That and Laurence would kick my ass if I ever did. If that’s Willan’s thing, fine, but it’s a hard line that would allowmeto draw a line in this… thing.
Gods no. Man, do you know how shit it is to teach a class at eight am when you’ve been seeing overgrown sprites dancing on the walls all night? Lusce swears he didn’t mean to mix up the bottles of vervinase and stracucasa. It was an accident.
Well. There goes that line. He just ran right through it.
What do overgrown sprites look like? Has anyone ever actually ever seen one close enough to know what they’d look like overgrown?
No idea. But these were overgrown naked women. Boobs everywhere - all glowing and gold and everything.
Glowing gold boobs bouncing around? Not a terrible way to pass the night.
Lol, no. But also not really my thing.
Ah. That would’ve been a rough night.
I lick my lips, my heart beating slightly faster at the dumb thing I’m about to do. I look down the bar at Belinda, waving off the raised eyebrow she gives my phone. Just give me five seconds Bel, I think, and then I’m not going to want to look at my phone for the rest of the night.
Maybe Kai and I can make it up to you. It’s not exactly naked sprites, but I have some gold hot pants I’ve been meaning to style up. I even have gold body paint.
I hit send and power down my phone, pointing to it and over my shoulder several times to let Belinda know that I'm putting it away.
The notifications are sitting right there when I turn it back on later.
Deal.
BTW I’ve told Finn what you said. He’s told Kai. I hope you know what you’ve gotten yourself into.
So do I Willan. So do I.
“And so tell me again what the entirely reasonable explanation was for this get up? Not that I’m complaining—I look fly as fuck in gold. Bend over. I need to get all up in there.” Kai slaps my ass and squats down behind me. The brush in his hand drips gold body paint all over the carpet as he carefully considers the bare patches between my thighs he has to touch up.
Maddy is going to fucking kill me. And I’m going to kill Kai—is he trying to tickle my nuts with that brush?
“Don’t be an asshole. You know exactly what happened. I heard you and Finn giggling like school kids about it when you woke up this evening.” I glare at him through my legs. “And I heard what you did next. Fucking perv.”
Kai laughs and dabs more paint on the sensitive seam of my ass, right below the hemline of the tiny hot pants. Honestly, these things are well past indecent—there’s a real chance we’re gonna get in trouble for this one. Rolli and Aiden almost trip over themselves when Kai and I stroll in, covered from head to toe in gold. We even have the paint in our hair—which I’m going to regret later when I have to do my whole hair washing routine after work, or risk it all breaking off.
So far, only Lifo isn’t impressed with our outfit. Especially when Belinda’s tongue falls out of her mouth.
The crowd’s gonna eat this shit up.
“Can’t help it if I’m just that good that he can’t keep quiet.”
“Fuckin’ please. You get off on knowing I can hear. I didn’t consent to being a third in your little sex games, you know.”
“Shit man, did I actually make you uncomfortable or are we just playing here?” Kai whispers.
“Oh, for fucks—” I go to wipe my face, but remember at the last second that’s a bad idea with the paint. “It’s fine, Kai. If you actually pissed me off, I’d start blasting screamo outside your door.” I’ve never actually had to follow through on my threat. Not that I enjoy listening to Kai fuck, I just genuinely don’t care. After all the things that used to go down when I lived with Laurence, it’s pretty tame to me.
“Okay, cool. Just wanted to check.”
