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Margot laughed, rolling her eyes playfully. “God, you’re obnoxious. I refuse to stoop down to your who’s-cuter-competition level,” she teased. She climbed into his lap, taking his hand from her cheek and pressing a kiss to his knuckles. “Even if it is pretty cute that you’re a huge dork.”

She laughed softly as he kissed her nose, leaning into him. “You’re so cute,” she replied fondly, squeezing his arm. He was; she could get totally lost in his affection without even meaning to. Suffice it to say, she was entirely in love with him. It had only come up once or twice. “I kind of love it when you’re a huge softy. It’s too cute.”  

She put on one of his t-shirts, as she often did, along with some comfortable shorts. Once they ended up on the couch looking for something to watch, Margot settled in next to him. She was unable to stop herself from getting distracted by him, touching his face. “You got some sun today, babe. It’s a good look - you just keep getting hotter, I’m trying to keep up,” she joked, stretching her legs out so they rested in his lap. 

Wrapped up in her towel, Margot partly regretted steering them away from the potential plan of fucking in his car once they were done at the beach. However, she had plenty of ideas for how she could get eventually get what she wanted without seeming too needy. “I’m gonna change,” she announced once they made it to their apartment. “We could watch something before we make dinner? Since neither of us are probably too hungry right now.” 

She laughed, narrowing her eyes at him. “I need you to be more pained by this,” she demanded, poking at his arm. All of her worries, everything she had been nervous about when thinking about moving to Italy was completely out of her mind right now. Being with Enzo made everything feel like it was worth it, this was exactly where she was meant to be. She just took a moment to really enjoy everything - the man next to her, the beach, being in Italy. Everything was good. “Well, should we go back home? You know, to not fuck.” 

She laughed, shaking her head. “I can’t believe you have such little faith in me. Honestly, I’m hurt,” she pouted, laying back next to him, folding her arms and resting her head on them so she could watch him. “Maybe you’ll just drive me to never have sex again - out of spite.”

“The impulsive part doesn’t matter there, we should be focusing on how terribly romantic it was of me,” she replied, waving her hand dismissively. Even if part of her had flown all the way here just to yell at him for being here in the first place. “I can very easily take your challenge of not having sex with you, even if that sounds like a stupid thing to challenge your girlfriend to do.” But, something she could have some fun with. Tonight was going to be fun, though she was sure she was very quickly going to be eating her words. 

“You survived, but you weren’t thriving,” she replied, nudging him with her shoulder. At the second part of his statement, she gave him a look of mock offense. “That’s so rude! I am like, known for my impulse control. The queen of self control,” she argued, though she couldn’t help but break, grinning by the end of her rebuttal. It had always been the opposite. She really couldn’t help herself from diving headfirst into pretty much anything, especially when it came to Enzo. 

Another eye roll. “Oh, please. Have a little more faith in me. I’m not the one who can’t even be out in public with you,” she reminded him teasingly. Though, to be quite honest, there really was no way she’d be able to keep her hands off of him all night. “I guess you just really weren’t in the mood for a blowjob,” she shrugged, returning his smirk as she took a bite of her fruit.

She rolled her eyes, though she was laughing as well. “Shut up,” she replied, shoving his shoulder playfully before reaching into the bag to get out fruit for both of them. “I don’t know who this ‘we’ is. I could totally stop at any time. I’ll stop right now,” she joked, a taunting edge to her voice. 

She sat down on their towels, listening to the food they had at the moment. “Maybe we can just eat this now then make dinner sometime when we get home. I’m not super hungry right now, and I like cooking with you,” she suggested. It was fun to cook with him, she was kind of liking this domestic routine they were getting into. “But we should probably eat our snacks before we go, since I have a feeling we might get a little distracted when we get home. Not that that sounds like us, of course. But, y’know, just in case,” she added jokingly, raising her eyebrows at him.

She nodded before leaning in to press a soft kiss to his lips, needing to remain close to him for a moment longer before they had to separate to go back to shore. She pressed another kiss to his cheek before finally getting down and taking his hand instead, though once they got out of the water she used his hand to pull his arm around her instead. “What’d you bring to eat?” she asked, looking up at him.

Her smile softened at his words, biting her lip. “Yeah?” she asked softly, her hand still gentle on his cheek. Her heart was so full, just allowing herself to soak in this moment as long as possible. “I love you so much, Enzo. I’m so happy to be with you.” She did think about how she had gone quickly from telling him they should take things slow to basically living with him, but she had known instantly there was no point in just taking a longer route to the inevitable. Every day she felt so much joy when she woke up with him next to her, that was the way life was meant to be. “No one’s ever come close to comparing to you. I’m just - it makes me really happy that I got a second chance at life with you. I can’t imagine life without you.” 

She grinned, her arms loose around his neck. Being close to him was her favorite thing in the world, she was practically glowing every time they so much as touched. And him holding her was definitely better than that. “Well, that’s my plan. Was it not yours?” she asked teasingly. “Guess I’m the only go-getter around here.” His words made her smile, one of her hands moving to caress his cheek. “I love being with you too. Thank god we’re living together. Seems like a pretty good idea.” Her voice was still teasing, her thumb tracing his jaw. “You’ll be able to tolerate me all that time?”

It really was only a matter of time before Margot just couldn’t wait any longer to be alone with him. For right now, however, she was enjoying just being able to look forward to what they continued to allude to. She could enjoy just being with him. Pulling him close, she kissed him again. She didn’t care that he had said he couldn’t do this in public with her, if he wanted to go back to the car she wouldn’t stop them. It was fun for them to play with each other, to egg each other on. Unsatisfied with not being closer to him, she put her hands on his shoulders to hop up and wrap her legs around his middle, knowing it would be easier for him to hold her in the water, so he wouldn’t need much warning. “You excited to just make this our life for a little while?” she asked him, thinking about the beach-oriented trips she’d been considering for them. “Also to add more countries to our list of countries we’ve had sex in. We’re only at two, so we have to get moving.”

“Is that a promise?” she asked with a grin. She loved seeing that she could have that kind of effect on him, but she knew that the moment they did start to do anything in the car he’d instantly have her wrapped around his finger. That’s how she liked it, though.  When he came back up from under the water she laughed. “Good, you needed to cool down. You looked hot.” She dipped under the water after him, coming up and smoothing her hair back. She remained with everything but her shoulders and head under the water, just floating and soaking in the sun.

She had to admit, she kind of loved that that he found it difficult to control himself around her. It was incredibly sexy to be desired like that, and it almost made her want to suggest they just leave, but she had some more fun ideas before they left. “Why not?” Margot asked softly, cocking her head to the side in faux innocence. “Are you thinking about all the things I’m gonna do to you later? I know I’m thinking about how good you’re gonna taste.” She was grinning, dragging her fingers through the water rather than touching him.