He let out a light laugh, hardly moving when she shoved him, his hand sliding up her arm before moving to hold her waist, drawing her even closer, “Of course I’m fucking serious,” He mocked, head moving as he did so before flashing her a smile. “There’s no reason to just let the fun end here you know?” He started, his hand sliding up more when she leaned into him, lifting it eventually to pet the back of her hair, leaning down and kissing the top of her head, “We have a few more drinks, pretend to care about what this stupid event is, then head back to my place for hot, rough, sex, you know the type,” He teased, scrunching his nose up at her when she made a sound, “Then we can just go to sleep and get breakfast in the morning or something.
If anyone else had heard his idea, they would be shocked. Asher Denvers wanting a girl to spend the night, wanting to get breakfast with her? Even he would be shocked if he hadn’t felt so caught up in the moment, felt so happy to be there with Adala, and he really just didn’t want that feeling to end… he enjoyed having her around, it made him feel different, feel lighter almost. When she began speaking about Halloween, he found himself humming some, “My ma used to go all out for it, she’d send pop to a pumpkin patch and get one for each of us, then get pissed when we’d throw the guts around and trash the kitchen,” He laughed some as he remembered, head shaking.
“I like it though,” Asher murmured as he pulled back some to look at her, tilting her chin up carefully, trying to avoid any parts of her skin that had paint on it, “Plus I got to make you look like this so,” A smirk found it’s way on his lips now, laughing some and leaning down to give her a brief chaste kiss, doing his best to avoid smudging anything, “Plus candy, candy is fucking awesome and you can’t say otherwise.”
despite her fierce attempts at keeping her heartbeat steady, it turned out to be a miserable failure. her heart was beating out of her chest at the lips pressing to the top of her head, and with her arms by now snaked around his waist as he held her, it only left her hoping that he would not notice. or that the dim lighting in the room hid the blush colour creeping up on adala’s cheeks. the sole sound she made in response at very first was a hum, although perhaps not so much one in agreement, but one in contemplation. right now —being in the midst of their longest run without verbal fights— perhaps her judgement was clouded by her heart. her fear of falling hard and fast was the one thing holding her back, despite of her desires to give in without further contemplation. even adala, in her right mind, could not deny that something felt right. as if finally things had settled into place between the two of them, dynamics having changed for the better.
“ we’ll see, ” she eventually settled for, emerald green hues challengingly glancing up at him, “ after those few drinks. ” the corners of her lips briefly, if only for a second, twitched into the resemblance of a grin, before teeth dug into her bottom lip in an attempt to hide her amusement with regards to asher’s words. “ i can stay the night and i get breakfast ? i am truly receiving royalty treatment, am i not. ” her tone of voice was anything but carrying the honest tone, laced with pure irony before adala just buried her face into his chest, muffling the sounds of the chuckles that fell from her lips. “ can’t say i am not tempted to take you up on that now, though. ”
“ despite feeling slightly sorry for your mom left with the mess of you and your god knows how many siblings, i bet that must’ve been a highlight of your halloween. let me guess, artist asher was a master pumpkin carver ? ” she merely huffed quietly, mirroring the smile he had shown. “ i don’t think we ever truly celebrated it, my mom did not really care for any of it — we usually just, spend the nights at home. watching one of many reruns of those classic horror movies that get aired every year, you know ? which left me awake for at least the following three nights, but i figure i thought it was worth it when i got to stay up late and eat the leftover trick or treat candy. ” she pulled up her shoulders in a brief shrug, her indifference towards the holiday left unchanged.
“ i guess i have been liking this halloween so far, ” adala admitted, her voice carrying a hint of playful defeat as from beneath her lashes she glanced up at his icy blue hues. the kiss pressed to her lips distracted her completely however, immediately leaving the burning desire for more. and so she felt, nearly instinctively, her hand sliding up his chest to curl around his neck. “ only downside to this costume of yours is me having to settle for that kiss, ” she muttered then, throwing him what was seemingly a playful glare. “ okay, fine — i guess i can’t argue that one, i will let that one slide. everyone likes candy, it’s one of the major bonus points of halloween. ”