#cricket 003.

where: sharky’s halloween party

"Can I take a picture of you?" Lucky asks before he's even fully let Cricket go from the greeting hug that he gave after he made his way over to her, looking at her costume in full again as he stepped back. He has no idea how she managed to make it work, but he knew exactly what she was going for despite never having seen anything in it's vein before.

where: seascape nye, close to midnight

where: neptune

Half (mostly) distracted by Aiden as he passes by where he was sat, Mack's more focused on making a heart symbol with his hands at him and mouthing I hope it's you and me baby his way to pay much heed to where he was actually being led. It became evident fast that he hadn't been comically matched up with his friend, as he left The Big Scowl in the distance and found himself stopped at his own table.

He may not have ended up matched with his friend, but the quick realisation that he had been matched with someone he knew even more intimately hit him like ice water from an Ice Bucket Challenge video.

"Cricket," He says neutrally, not overly thrilled but not wholly disappointed either, not dissimilar to the tentative truce they had found themselves navigating since her birthday.

He pulls out his chair and sits down, taking a menu in hand and giving it a quick glance before he's looking at his date for the evening again.

location: cricket, ziggy & julien's, sunday afternoon after the blackout

"I swear that this isn't what it looks like."

Leo stood frozen in the front hallway as he stared at Cricket not unlike a deer in headlights, feeling thoroughly caught and thoroughly guilty.

He'd thought that the house was empty apart from him and Ziggy — he'd heard Cricket's sister leave earlier and had assumed that everyone else was either still sleeping off the weekend or had cleared out — but he'd still tried to make his leave quietly and quickly, as instructed.

Not quietly or quickly enough, apparently.

He looked down at the shirt that he'd scooped blindly off of Ziggy's floor, which he'd only realized halfway to the front door was certainly not his own.

"Okay, maybe it is."

where: x and van's

location: sharky's monster mash

"Okay. I'm literally obsessed with you," Sola said, holding her phone up and snapping at least the 80th consecutive picture of Cricket on her camera roll that night. "Bitch, you are going to win those $500 bucks easy. And then you're gonna spend fifteen of it on a drink for me."