✽❀ GARDENTASTA ❀ ✽

[gayformaster]

Who: Everyone and anyone! Yes, everyone is invited!
What: The ❀ GARDENTASTA ❀! Aka, a giant costume party for everyone!
When: August 12th! Yes, this is being posted in advance.
Where: The gardens attached to the labs in the bottom of the ship!
Warnings: If any threads go above PG-13, please warn about this in the subject line! The basic party

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THE BRIDGE

[gayformaster]

Over a small stream from the lake is a lovely little bridge, with a bench and an excellent view of the lake! They call this the kissing bridge, but who the hell knows why? Well...

[urnotafraid]

We don't exactly blend in with other people that much. [ Almost like he wasn't aware of it, he reaches up again to touch her jaw. ]

Sometimes I think that we don't want to blend in.

[thinkin_arbys]

I don't particularly know what it's like to not want to blend in. [She... seems to be leaning into the touch a little.]

But you don't all dress like that. I know that much.

[urnotafraid]

But then I look in the mirror and see the blue contacts and blond streaks and think that I am trying to blend in to something. [ He is ever so gentle, his fingers rough from the amount of work he does with them, tracing the edge of her jaw. ]

No, we don't dress like this normally. It's an ancient style that we sometimes wear for festivals.

[thinkin_arbys]

I haven't ever met anyone like you, if that's any consolation.

[Blue... contacts? She never really noticed there was something coloring his eyes, but there they are. Must be what he was referring to. For her part... she gently traces the edge of his collar with a finger. When did she get shy?]

I see. This is... this dress predates me by three hundred years, give or take a few.

[urnotafraid]

It's good to be one of a kind. I like it. [ And his thumb ghosts over her lips, almost as if an after thought as he takes a step closer. ]

Ah, another old style, from a time when such fashions were for more than just to clothe a person.

[thinkin_arbys]

If there was more than one of you, I would probably be in trouble. I can hardly keep you intact.

[Oh. She, ah, isn't he married? Why does she want to... for that matter, why is she staring at her lips and feeling incredibly nervous? She'll just calmly put her hand on his chest.]

It doesn't suit me at all. I look ridiculous. I don't know why I chose it at all. I should... go change out of it. I think I'll just go.

[urnotafraid]

Is that what you want to always do? Keep me intact?

[ He was windowed in his mind, Yi-Che had been at the brink of death the day he went to meet Son and Chan. She might be alive on one of those ships, but he hasn't heard a word and thus retained the idea of being single again. His free hand rose to wrap around hers, and his lips twitched into a full smile. ]

Why would you want to do that?

[ He doesn't wait for a reply, instead he dipped his head to kiss her ever so tenderly. ]

[thinkin_arbys]

Of course I want to keep you in--

[Oh. Those are.

That is.

That is a... kiss? On her lips???

It's... it's not a vicious or mean or hideous or bad kiss. It's quite gentle and sweet, to be honest, and she can't seem to help leaning into it just a bit before she comes to her senses and steps away slightly.]

Of course I want to. [But she forgot the rest...]

[urnotafraid]

[ That wasn't exactly what he had in mind. Tease her, maybe but to actually kiss her? Sho blinked and took his own step back, confusion flushing his cheeks even though he still was holding her hand. ]

I'm the bratty younger brother, huh?

[thinkin_arbys]

[Her cheeks are just a bit pink under the mask, and she's glad it's hiding almost everything. She wasn't expecting it. Well, she was, somehow, but it didn't seem to register until it had already happened. Still, that wasn't exactly what she'd imagined for her first kiss.

...Younger brother. He said it. It's true, in a way, with how they treat each other, but she takes another step back immediately.]

No, you're... nothing like him.

[urnotafraid]

[ He looks at the ground and cleared his throat, obviously not sure how things are and hoping she wasn't mad. Sho really did not push the teasing that far; he usually made his intentions quite clear from the start. But she was not someone that he would consider to kiss unless it was through sheer brotherly kind of affection IF he was about ten years old and not over thirty. ]

Did... I say something wrong?

IF HE WAS TEN. ROFL.

[thinkin_arbys]

[She straightens her shoulders; it won't do for anyone to touch that wound, not now, and perhaps never again. What she says isn't a lie: he couldn't have known he would say that, and she couldn't have guarded against it.]

No. No, I was caught off my guard. Just don't do that again.

well yes?

[urnotafraid]

[ He looks up and then relaxes slightly. Yes, he was in many ways an over confident person, reckless and cocky, but women - especially ones that he actually liked - made him feel all sort of confused. ]

Oh. I see. I'm not sure what came over me, really.

It's so cute idek XD

[thinkin_arbys]

[She'd felt a strange compulsion, too, or she would have walked away.]

I couldn't even guess. Just... don't. I mean, I've never...

Ugh. [She looks haughty and annoyed, but she can't even look at him.]

awww

[urnotafraid]

[ He clears his throat and scrunches his nose. ]

Wait... Never?

[ The idea of never kissing anyone was just odd in his mind. He had been an adventurous kid surrounded on the streets by all sorts of people. Kisses from the street walkers and neighborhood girls were plentiful for a cute shy little boy and then - as he grew into his height and looks - so were a lot of other things as well. ]