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Stars

It's been a thoughtless thing to ask him, easy. Everything about him was easy, and that was his charm. No deeper commitments, no fear of causing him pain. Just an effortless friendship that extended into, well, a little more.

She'd dragged one of her thicker blankets up into the roof of the dorms, the wedged reading pillow that usually lived at the corner of her bed beside the wall. A bottle of cheap Moscato she forgot the origin of, and what remained of a batch of chocolate chip cookies she'd made the day before.

Stars

As easy as it had been for Pey to ask it had been just as easy for Kade to agree to stargazing on the roof of the dorms. For one, he'd never seen much of the stars from his city home. You would've had to go out into the swamp to see stars and the swamp at night wasn't really anyone's idea of a good time.

He had no idea what was going to happen (at least where non-physical relations were concerned) so he dragged the body pillow he'd brought to Deus up with him, along with a blanket of his own. He'd even been nice enough to leave a note on the door letting Nash know he wasn't there and wasn't likely to be back tonight.

He rarely was back before breakfast when he spent time with Peyton.

Climbing through the roof hatch he grinned at the setup and hoisted his pillow through. "Great minds, huh?"

stars

She'd never really cared much for the stars before she'd gotten to Deus. They had always been pretty, lovely to look at, but she couldn't really remember having ever just gazed up at them more than a very small handful of times. She and Astrid had their constellations, the Ursas, but nothing much beyond that.

Now, with Mimsy keeping them all up to date on any and all celestial phenomena going on over their heads, she'd found herself taking a growing interest in them. She was laying on her back, arms folded behind her head and eyes cast upward, when she heard Kade climbing up to join her. It had her glancing in his direction, at the pillow and blanket he'd also thought to bring, and then up to his face.

"Might as well be comfortable," she agreed, smiling up at him. "We got lucky with the rain. Hopefully it stays away long enough to enjoy the meteor shower." Drawing one hand free, she gave the blanket beside her a little inviting pat.

culinary adventures

It was late. Much later than Peyton was usually awake, and what she really wanted, more than anything else, was to be able to go back to bed and sleep for the rest of the night. That didn't seem to be an option. She couldn't remember vividly now, but her dream had been a bad one. it had woken her out of a dead sleep with a little scream and her heart hammering in her chest. For a long while she'd sat there, willing her pulse to slow, fingertips playing along the inked designs on Kade's arm, but after about ten minutes she'd admitted defeat and crawled out of bed.

Reading probably would have helped, or even watching tv, playing game on her phone, any number of different activities. But Peyton decided, instead, that she wanted to make a batch of cookies.

The oven was preheating, there were eggs and other essentials on the counter already, and she was trying her hardest to get her sheet pans from the bottom of the oven without waking the man that was still sleeping in the bedroom.

stars

He couldn't remember a day on this island without rain and part of Kade wished that this had been the middle of the day rather than a starry night. He missed the sun on his skin and was actually starting to look as pallid as someone with a naturally-bronze complexion could.

Tossing his pillow down he knelt, then rolled onto his back in a sprawl. "Well, if not, we're gonna get wet. Nothing new for our charming rural lives here but if I get one of those water monsters dropping on my chest..." Kade clucked his tongue. "Gonna ruin what promises to be a good night." Rolling onto his side he casually kissed Pey's cheek. "You look lovely in starlight, by the way."