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“Guess who?” Alfie’s voice was sweet as he delivered a swift series of knocks to the doorframe that led into Esme’s room at the ski lodge. He leaned against it for a second while she collected herself before inviting himself into the room, not even a second thought entering his mind before his hands were sliding around Esme’s waist and pressing a soft kiss to her lips. “How about me and you make good use of the hot tub, yea?” he smirked, pressing another few kisses all around her face before returning to her lips once more. “And then I’m taking you on a date later tonight—I found this nice little restaurant not too far down the hill, if that sounds good to you?” 

“This place fucking reeks,” Nicholas pointed out, announcing himself as he stepped into a room he was quickly labeling as his ‘safe space’ for the time being on this trip. Scrunching his nose, he dropped himself onto the bed seemingly untouched by Noel, sighing contently as he wiggled himself into the mattress. “What’d you do, hot box the place? Jesus Noel, least you could’ve done was crack open a window. You’re gonna land yourself on the housekeeping shit list right off the bat. Didn’t even have the courtesy to invite me over sooner.” Granted, the first thing he had done was sit down and take a few hits of his own shit. He figured he’d be able to handle his unfortunate roomie better if he weren’t sober around him. That didn’t get put to the test yet. “Did you know I got put in a room with fucking Spencer? Who planned this shit out?”

“doesn’t this kinda make you miss London? You know…the doom and gloom of it all with the clouds and everything” noel sighed as she took a seat next to Nolan in front of one of the fire places, her head leaning to rest on his shoulder as she stared at the cracking flames. “I think I’m gonna tell him…you know—nico. i’m not gonna do it today obviously but like…I don’t know I’m just sick and tired of waiting around doing this whole ‘will we , won’t we’  kind of thing or whatever the fuck it’s spiraled into at his point. if he wants to be with me great but if he doesn’t…I mean that’s not as great but at least i won’t have to go chasing myself around my head trying to figure out if he has feelings for me” she sighed, this was something noel had talked to nolan about on more than one occasion, especially recently given the way she had been feeling about it all. “in the meantime, i have like three different joints that need to be smoked, wanna go up to mine? i don’t think dalton’s in there so we should be good” 

“oh come on, ‘baboonery’ isn’t even a real fucking word” a pout didn’t take long to spread across noel’s lips as she lost yet another round of scrabble. noel knew there was no chance in hell she would be able to conjure up more words than someone who quite literally wrote in their free time, but there was something about the challenge of it all that made her keep going. “Alright I guess I’ll keep true to my promise, this is the first and last time I will ever buy you a drink mr.morgan”  she said, getting up from her seat on the couch in the lodge so that the two could make their way over to the bar. “Will I be getting your company for the rest of the night or do you have other plans? ” 

“well, if it isn’t the one person i actually want to see right now.” a sly smirk formed on asher’s lips as he approached marcus by the deck, bottle in hand. his eyes slowly traveled down the others body, taking another shot of alcohol before handing it over. “thanks for meeting me. you’re a hard man to track down, booth.” he spoke quietly, taking a few steps closer, enough to officially close the gap between the two men. he pressed his lips onto the others, kissing him momentarily before pulling away and handing the bottle of vodka over.

“Do you ever give yourself a break?” It took everything for vedette not to slap the book out of maisy’s hand as she walked up to the other sitting on one of the couches in the lounge. “We’re supposed to be on vacation and you’re sitting here reading a book—what’s wrong with you?” vedette was teasing , honestly she wished she could be as into reading as maisy was but she just never had the attention span for it. “Come on, I saw somewhere that there’s a hill we can go snow tubing down—now get up before I drag you off of the couch myself” she said, extending her hand out so the other would take it to get up. 

A smile beamed across noel’s face as she heard the crunch of the snow beneath her boots. The two hadn’t traveled far, maybe even just a half mile from the entrance of the snow lodge but noel was determined to not let her first time seeing snow in god knows how long go to waste. “Isn’t it so pretty?” She sighed, holding her hand out to catch some of the snowflakes as they slowly fell from the sky. she didn’t try to be sneaky about her plan at all, stopping dead in her tracks and bending down to gather a ball of snow off the ground and promptly throw it at Austin as soon as he had turned to face her. “you’ve got a little something on your coat” she laughed, her finger pointing towards the remnants of the snow on his jacket.