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 Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:51 am
"I don't see why you couldn't ?" the boy pondered out loud. "I mean, I took off my gloves once..." He wasn't going to say when exactly that had happened, because that had been the moment he'd tried to do more than he had possibly been able to do.
Whoops.
"I bet I can even take off my coat and give it to you !" And he'd deal with it. He was the man in this relationship, after all.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 3:17 pm
"Mmm, I guess we'll see. I'm sure there's something in my closet that won't look totally ridiculous with my uniform." Granted his coat probably would go with her uniform. She'd rather not be the cause of him getting sick if she could help it, though.
Because playing nurse didn't sound fun at all.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:51 pm
"Im sure we could find something, if you don't." Girls liked to shop.... right ? Poor clueless Xavier. The female mind was still a very foreign territory to him.
Which was ironic when you realized his best friend was a girl.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:48 pm
"If I don't, than is that an okay to drag you shopping with me?" There was a small smile, and a slight brow raise. From what she gathered from people, shopping wasn't exactly a guy thing. She herself seemed rather lost at times when thrown into a store. And the only reason she took forever shopping was because- Hello~ have you seen those racks at Goodwill? It can take a while to sift through them.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:02 pm
To many men, this might be the words that could have heralded a death sentence. Xavier, however, was completely clueless about the myth (or perhaps was it a reality ?) of women taking forever in large crowded mails.
"Of course ! Sounds fun. Beside, I have that gift card from the pumpkin contest that I should probably use sometime soon..."
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:30 pm
"M'kay then," Bell chimed, "Whenever you feel like it, call me." Because it wasn't like she did much during the day. She really needed to either get back to school or look into a hobby~
"The cakes are probably cool by now," she said as she reached for a scraper to smooth the icing on, and then handed it off to Xavier. "Time to rebuild that cake!"
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:03 pm
And it would be better ! Faster ! YUMMIER !
And all sort of stuff.
That is, if he didn't eat the whole tub of icing on the way there. Sometimes things like that just happened, you know ?
He accepted the scaper, and then went for the obvious - using the frosting as glue to hold the broken parts together. Then... Um....
Oh !
He put icing on the top of that cake, before laying the other over it. That was how it went... right ?
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:17 pm
"A successful repair!" Bell praised as she watched. Oh, she wouldn't crit the cake. No, not at all. It was his cake, he could put it together however he liked.
Bell simply enjoyed the time spent. Normal. Happy. "Good job."
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:29 pm
...Well, that sounded like a 'you're doing it rite' to him !
One grin later, Xavier was icing the rest of the cake. It was streaky, It was messy. He very obviously hit his finger 'by accident' once or twice. He,, probably more than that.
And when that was said and done, there was a cake with enough streaks in the icing to make any baker with an ounce of self-esteem faint on the spot, and a long-haired blonde trying to scrape every molecule of icing left the tub for personal concumption.
Yep, normality at it's finest.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:42 pm
Bell couldn't help but giggle throughout the whole ordeal. Messy though the task had been, she wouldn't have changed a thing. And to Bell, any food that was at least edible was a job well done!
"You know, I probably shouldn't mention that the consumption of sweets lowers one's immune system~" It was just one of those nifty factoids she had heard somewhere that she actually bothered to remember. And though it was a dismal factoid, it was delivered with a grin. Oh, she knew no little fact would keep him from the sweets~
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:05 pm
"This is my look of utermost worry about this fact."
He didn't look especially worried at all. There was no more icing to try to coax out, though. Sadface.
Hey, at least he left enough to generously cover the cake.
"If that was true, im pretty sure I would be sick all the time." And he wasn't, so ha !
With his handywork done, though... "Im starting to get pretty tired, so if you don't mind... ?" If not, well, he'd take it like man.
The true question was 'to request being a living plushie, or would that be too forward.'
Hmmm.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:22 pm
"Maybe you're just special like that" Bell said, ruffling his hair. Unlike her, who despite three glasses of orange juice a day during last winter, she still ended up sick. Bah, it wasn't fair!
Bell nodded when Xavier said that he was getting tired, and moved to the cabinet for some plastic wrap to cover the cake. It'd be there in the morning.
It was getting late after all. Well....late for someone who didn't usually stay up till two thirty in the morning patrolling for bad guys. But for a normal person used to a regular bed time...
And oh, deep down she really wasn't ready to be parted from him. She'd thought about how to go about asking... She simply couldn't make it come out right in her mind.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:41 pm
And then there was that silent, awkward silence. Damn, he hated those awkward silences. He was never quite sure what he was supposed to say. Or what he'd even done to warrent such a thing to begin with !
"...Soooo, uh..." Smooth, this was not. "Yeah." Also not smooth.
"...Can we snuggle ?" ...Did he just say that out loud ? Crap. Well, that could have gone out worse.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:06 pm
Bell blushed as she was putting the plastic wrap away, "..I, um..." Certainly they weren't on the same train of thought right now. Right? Surely he meant on the couch.
Plastic wrap back in its place - and she fumbled about making sure it was meticulously so - she turned back to face him, landing back against the cabinet. Well, despite whatever he had meant, it gave her on opening to get out what she meant.
"Sure. We could, um.. Nuh, not to imply anything but ah," why was it easier to say things in one's mind than out loud? "We can snuggle... In my room." She the rushed to add in with an even deeper blush- "That spare room is bound to be colder than the rest of the house and, and...yeah."
Of course if he had meant just what she meant, she probably had just made a complete idiot of herself, but she hadn't wanted to jump to conclusion, just because she had been thinking one thing. Thinking of how it would be to fall asleep to the heartbeat of the person she loved, with his warmth, scent, and arms around her. Misconceptions were an embarrassment she felt she would not be able to easily endure.
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 1:44 pm
It was a good thing that there was no one else there. Xavier certainly knew that his father would be laughing his a** off at this point.
Comically, the more she was talking, the redder he was turning, until, finally... oh !
They had the same thing in mind all along.
"Sure." He answered, but was still just as red as a tomato.
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