So Get This

“Why not outside?”

“At the house.” Their lockdown getaway. He says it like it’s obvious. “Or by the pool at home. Whichever.”

“I did.”

He flashes another smirk, a little bit impish. “It’s not like I meant in public though.”

“I know that at least, blinds and all usually.”  At least on the windows people could see in on.  “Outside - where exactly?”

“Not any more exposure than usual.”

“Then no.” Guess I’m planning a beach trip.

“Depends on how much sunlight, I guess.  Was a little worried you meant outside for a second.”

“It does look best in sunlight.”

“Only if you want to get railed in the ocean.” Bet you do.

“I- that’s a lot of exposure for sunlight to hit it.”

“I’ll have to do it more often then. It’s one of my favorites.”

He scoffed. “Are showers open ground?”

“I guess we do have all summer, not that we haven’t been spoiled for time with everything else.”

Sam’s mouth twitches. “That one doesn’t need much maintenance since you gotta be convinced onto it.”

He crosses his arms. “You liked the gallery. It was basically your idea. The hot tub can’t be considered an ambush since you’re in a hot tub.” Which was an invitation if he’d ever seen one.

“You seem to convince me well enough.” 

“We do. I clean it out sometimes to make sure everything’s still good.”

Sam smirked. “Scared I’ll ambush you during parent teacher interviews again?”

“Better still be good with how expensive it was.” That one is almost an embarrassed mutter.

“If it makes you feel better I never reuse things with different people.”

It was a little tiny bit of a trick question. But mostly he was teasing. “How much should you?”

“I know, it’s all new.  You told me when I first got here.  I think we still have my box of things in the bedside table.” 

“You’ve seen the closet. I think you have some idea.”

…“So you’re saying you don’t need a warning for if I’m angling to get down and dirty? I can just…go ahead and do it even when you’re not sleeping?”

“I’ve never put that much thought into how you use it all on others, just when it involves me.” 

O-kay. “You know I meant just…a general one and not a look-behind-that-curtain one. It’s not like we venture into that much anyway.” He didn’t think they needed it. But then, his not that much could be alot for other people.

“Usually it starts with looking over or thinking about it. Sometimes one inspires the other.”

He frowned faintly. “Well yeah but it’s not like being able to freak you out is more important than if you decided you need a trigger word.”

“You gave me permission for that. And I’m part of ‘we’. ‘We’ is both of us. I get half.

……Do you need a constant start point?”

“We have to start somewhere, no?”

“No it’s just been awhile since you stroked me.”

“Boring would be nice, yeah. How about ugly? Off-putting? Crass?”