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"Wait, what?" Gabrian turned to look at Akasha as he explained what was really going on, "What flyers? I didn't-... I wasn't-..." he decided that shutting his mouth was, without a doubt, the best of ideas in this case, seeing as how he was probably only going to succeed in making a fool of himself if he attempted to talk while his brain insisted in running around his skull like a behead chicken.

He'd toned out most of the conversation that was going on, and thus, did not hear most of it until Ren and LW joined their ranks, both of whom he knew, if briefly. The later's introduction had been much more awkward than the former's, actually, and he still had a bit of trouble coping with the disaster of... confusing LW for a stray wolf and nuzzling into her neck, "I see...you two made your way here too," why did this not surprise him? He was not sure if he should feel even more awkward, or slightly comforted by the familiar faces. By the time Alessa had turned to glare at him, the nix demon had managed to mostly school his features from vague horror back to what he hoped resembled calm concern, "Why are you looking at me like that? How was I supposed to know it was a kissing gam-" the door clicked shut and Gabrian spun around just in time to watch the tentacled minipet... eat the key, "Oh dear..." another pause as he shifted the prism scareon in his arms, whom had only just begun to peek her head up.

"What say we just call this off and do some sort of story telling game instead?" he wasn't about to sit out, mostly because well... after barging in (even if he'd had no idea what this was all about), it was most rude to sit out. He turned to Alessa again and elbowed her slightly, frowning, as if expecting her to back him up. Just one. JUST once, please, "Sitting out entirely would be terribly rude."

The nudge Alessa got from Gabe only seemed to make her glower more at him. Rude or not, she did not want to play a kissing game. It was embarrassing...mortifying even! And there he had to go and make her seem like the bad guy here, which meant she had no sympathy for him or for his wish for support. No, if he was going to force them to play, she was going to make him have to endure and realize he should have been more willing to accept the sitting out idea.

"Well I think it's rude to change someone else's game," she told him. So despite the redness of her face she said stubbornly, "So I guess we're playing then."

After taking a breath she offered a smile to LW and Ren, trying to let her stubbornness hide all of her discomfort. If she was going to do this, well, she was going to do it. "Hi again! I guess you guys came because you knew what this was, hu?"

Aksaja didn't get it. Why were people suddenly freaking out . . . ? Sure, maybe they hadn't seen the flyers or whatever but it wasn't like kissing was some kinda HUGE big deal. Was it? "Hey hey, calm down!" he said to the group at large, waving his hands in the air a bit.

"It's not like kissing somebody will sign away your soul or whatever." Smirking, he eyed the demons present. "Unless you somehow count it like a pact."

Ren followed LW to sit on the floor, curling his wings behind him and absently toying with the werewolf's tail. He gave a noncommittal shrug, leaning across her to speak to Gabrian. "No harm in gettin' a little love every now and then, is there?" he said, and smiled. "It's all in good fun, and as long as you don't make it into a big deal, it won't be one."

Leaning back on his hands, Ren glanced back up at Alessa. "Ah," he said with a laugh, pushing back some of his hair. "Actually, I was just following Miss Wolf here to say hi to her. Didn't realize what I had walked into until it was too late. Not that I would have tried to leave, but still."

The ghoul was looking somewhat...petrified if that was the right word. Alessa was shifting awkwardly on her feet, casting unsure looks towards the group, as if she did not know exactly what to say. Ren tilted his head.

"Here," he said, patting the empty space on the floor next to him. "You can sit by me, if you'd like."

Gabrian's words made him turn his head, and Ren smirked, leaning forward to eye the emerald haired nix. "Are you implying something here, snake boil?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. "I like fun as much as the next person, yes."

"I just don't think you should be hypocritical," she told Gabe stiffly. "And if we're going to be polite, we'll play the game we had planned. That's all..." Even if the idea made her stomach turn. This was obvious, because she did loosen her hold on Shiro, but she started to stroke the lepus, more for her own comfort more likely than for the minipet's.

At his suggestion, Alessa took a seat beside Ren, as she did like the boil and that was a comfort. LW was being nice to her too, for which she was grateful. It was a little calming, but she couldn't shake all of her discomfort. As if trying to find something good to glean from the situation she said hesitantly, "...well, I suppose parties can be fun..." But that wasn't the part she was worried about.

She looked at the dragon boil who'd asked what was wrong with kissing and she sighed, looking at her fingers. The small lines near her eyebrows indicated her inner discomfort, but also a sort of reflection she seemed to be trying to make. "It's not the kissing in itself..." she murmured, trying to sort it out. "It's...It's a personal thing. At least I've always thought of it that way so..." So a game was strange and uncomfortable.

"Love, being hypocritical would require me to do and say entirely opposite things. Which I did not. As far as I'm aware, suggesting something is not rude, where as sitting out the game entirely is," Why wasn't there a debates club in school anyhow? Gabrian felt he could probably argue almost any point, no matter how silly, straight into the ground, just for the sake of arguing, which he found quite enjoyable, actually. Verbal banter had always been one of his favorite pastimes, and unfortunately for Alessa, she provided plenty of that, "I never said I wouldn't play this game. I merely suggested a new one. Hardly harmful."

And... okay, see, now he was being hypocritical, because despite the fact he felt his own feelings mirrored Alessa's the most (as far as the kissing went), he didn't want to agree with her simply on principle. So thus, he found himself scowling slightly, keeping his mouth shut. Well, jack-damnit all.

His attention shifted to Ren when he spoke, "Well, it depends on how honest that 'love' is. The party idea is fine however," he crossed his arms over his chest in an attempt to look intimidating, which... did not work, seeing as how he had the most unmanly, pastel rainbow pet clinging to his torso, obviously still deeply traumatized, "Hardly implying anything, Ren. I'm stating a fact that I merely thought was obvious," a pause followed, "Also, it's serpent, actually. Not snake, bird brain," he'd decided his cross-armed position was not really helping and dropped it, choosing instead to arch a brow at the other boil.

The pat on his leg distracted him and he dropped the facade entirely; no, he was no longer upset or even that annoyed by the situation at hand. Company was everything, and despite his words, he did enjoy LW, Ren and Alessa's company, actually, "You're not the first. Though you'll hopefully be the last," he wouldn't have be betting any pumpkin seeds on that though.

His gaze turned away from his er... friends? to look around the room, and it was right around then that LW decided to grace him with a kiss, which caught him entirely off-guard. He blinked, and then slowly turned to look at her, "I don't believe we've started playing yet, love," the words were drawled out, but it was quite obvious he was fighting the amused smile that threatened to show on his features, "I'm also quite sure that's not the type of kiss we're expected to give others when the game comes into play," at this point he took the chance to lean into her again, lowering his voice into a whisper, just barely loud enough for her to hear, "I'm also quite certain that the simple nuzzling had your skin the color of your hair a few days ago, my dear, so I'm wondering if... you're not bitting more than you can swallow here?" almost as if to reciprocate, he lowered a hand, grabbed one of hers and kissed the back of it before retreating out of her space.

Two could play that game. It wasn't that he was particularly shy; it was just that he honestly thought a kiss should involve a bit more than just... this.

Claire looked around the room.
"Yeah. It's a shame about the key. If worst comes to worst you can all sleep here tonight and we'll see what we can do in the morning... But, um, you're all playing, yes? If not it might be a bit weird. Hmm... Yeah." she looked at each one of them in turn.
"Don't get too uncomfortable about the kissing thing, guys. I know it may seem a bit odd, I was a bit out of it when I organized this, but we're all around the same age so... Yeah."
She turned to the rabbit girl, Alessa.
"I understand about the personal thing, I really do. But, if you think of it as just a game I'm sure you'll feel better."
She figured now was a good a time as any to get started.

Claire went to join the circle, but turned around again to get a bottle. She went and sat down in the circle and leaned in to place the bottle in the middle.

"Ok. For those of you who don't know how to play, the rules are as follows:
The first player goes in the middle to spin the bottle. Whoever the bottle points to, they kiss.
The person that just got kissed then spins the bottle and kisses the person it land on, and then they have a go. And so on...
If you didn't really want to play in the first place, you can choose to go first."

((OOC sorry for all the talking ololol it's in Claire's nature. If you want to go first, you can just say so IC or reserve a post so that people know you're going first and edit in the post after. I still have to get groups together, but please write whether you want it to be opposite gender, same gender, or mixed.

ALSO IF ANYONE ELSE WANTS IN, THERE'S STILL TIME
BUT HURRY AND GET IN THROUGH A SECRET DOOR OR SOMETHING LOL))