Forget Tomorrow and Be with Me Tonight [ReD]

The kiss was a strange sensation to her. She didn't even know something like that could make a person shiver, so she was caught in surprise when it had that effect on her. But she didn't mind. Actually, she liked it. She liked, loved, Lochlann's touches and kisses. They were comforting to her.

She leaned back a little more to his chest, her head still tilted a bit to the side as the cube touched her lips. Carefully she opened her mouth, taking it in with her upper teeth and tongue, before closing her lips and letting the sweet stuff melt.

She let out a surprised noise, and giggled. "It's too sweet," she said. She let the sugar melt even more. It felt ticklish in her mouth, and the way the sugar coated it and her throat felt smooth and rough at the same time.

She resigned into him even further, even closing her eyes as she tried to relax. It felt so nice, especially when Lochlann pulled her closer. "Thanks, Loch." She felt like she was in the safest place there was in the whole universe.

She perked up at the other question, though. Her eyes opened wide as she tried to turn to him, excitement glimmering in them. "You want me to meet them? I'd love to!" She tried to face him, tried to hug him, though the movement was kinda awkward. "So you mean I can come to your graduation? Because I would really love to be there."
@"ReD"

Still facing Lochlann, Adelene pulled away and propped herself up on her knees, while her free hand rested on his shoulder. She was grinning back at him, as if at any moment she was about to laugh.

"Of course I want to go! Who knows if it will be boring for me, I've never been to any kind of graduation." She wasn't kidding. All the learning she knew she's gone to happened at home with her adoptive parents. And then she lived like a wanderer for most of her teenage years before coming to the academy. "Besides, when I go, it'll be for you. Seriously, how bad can it be?"

She didn't think it would be too bad. After all, she could stay focused on all her classes; graduation is a celebration, she'd be hyped.

But she was more excited with what could happen later. She was curious about Lochlann's family. She's always wanted to meet them, especially his sister. Which was ironic because she was never excited about meeting new people, more so females.

"Really, you've never brought anyone to meet your parents before?" She tilted her head to a side, her eyebrows wrinkled. She didn't know how to think of that, if it was a good thing or a bad thing or what. "What are they like though? I mean... your parents. Are they cool?"
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Adelene flinched back just a little. She didn't hate it; if anything the kiss was just so sudden and abrupt and random. She blinked at him, trying to weigh his awkward laugh while also trying to keep her cheeks from heating up. The second one didn't go so well.

She settled down on her own legs in front of him as she listened. The air was definitely still cold, and she was going to start shivering in a few moments, but she kept facing him, watching his face that was drenched with candlelight as he spoke. She smiled gently.

"I hope they'll like me. Or uh... more like I hope they won't dislike me or hate me." She had a bad obsession with parents. A longing for a couple of her own because she's lost hers at such a young age. She wanted to be friends with all parents she could meet.

"Lawrence... your brother? You guys have some... problem with water right? That's okay," she assumed him. The incident in that shed after their trip to the amusement park never left her mind. It was weird and angsty, but she's long become nonchalant of that part of him. Like, it didn't matter if water turns him into an even more flirty flirt than he already was.

She opened her mouth to munch in the second sugar cube. It melted and spread everywhere inside just like the first one, but at least this time she wasn't surprised with the sweetness anymore. And then she started laughing, trying to think of what embarrassing things Lochlann's family could tell her, and what mental image Lochlann was even talking about.

"Really now? I don't think my mental image of you can get any worse," she kidded, but she immediately followed that with a soft "I'm joking," and a pat on the head.
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When Lochlann pulled her to lie down, Adelene tried her best not to fall right on top of him, but she was helpless inside his arm, especially while her other hand was handcuffed to his. She shifted a little, rolling beside him as she rested their bound hands on his chest. She rested her head just beside them.

"How am I a bad influence?" she looked up and pouted. But she can't help but smile again right afterwards. "I'm a good person and a good student. I'm a good best friend AND--" she poked on his heart with her bound hand, "--I will always take good care of you, if you let me."

She nuzzled his chest. She was comfortable right where she was and she didn't mind even though the patterns Lochlann's hand made on her back made her ticklish. He was always really warm.

"Pick me up? I can always just go to the venue on my own, you know. But okay." When she took the chocolate, her teeth and tongue slightly grazed on Lochlann's fingers; whether that was intentional or not, she wasn't sure. She'd grin if she wasn't chewing the chocolate. Not wasting a second, she also reached for the box and gave him one as well.

"I take dangerous as a compliment sometimes," she said with a little shrug. "I don't like it when people look scared while saying it, but I like it otherwise. Means I don't look too weak."
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Adelene felt her cheeks heat up even more when Lochlann pulled her closer. It was embarrassing, she was in such a revealing dress while pressed against him, and he should notice, since he's been touching her back for a while now, that she didn't have anything on her torso beneath that dress. No strap on her back, nothing in front either.

Fortunately he had his coat on. It served as some kind of boundary between them.

"You do take good care of me, you know," she said, and then suddenly many of their moments together in the past flashed before her. She'd always think he takes good care of her, because she's always felt that way, and she can't think otherwise ever. "You always hug me when I need it. You gave me the most wonderful birthday surprise. Warmed me up when I got hypothermic... and I know you cared back then because you did it even though you had problems with the rain and you sounded really creepy at some moments..." She laughed at the memory. That time in the shed while they waited for the rain to pass has become such a wonderful memory to her even though it wasn't all smiles. "...You also took care of me when I got sick. That was the first time someone nursed me back to health since my parents got killed." Parents. She's been missing her parents a lot nowadays, it was somehow sad but that was one more thing Lochlann helped with. "You make me happy, Loch. What else can I ask for?"

She turned her head a little bit more towards the sky. Sadly, the city below them was too lit up, so there weren't so many stars she could see up above. She sighed. But her sigh was a content one as she looked into Lochlann's eyes. She noticed that they changed somehow, but she didn't really know why and didn't really think she needed to know. "I think you've been the one taking care of me all this time, not the other way around. Feeling safe around you, that's supposed to be my line."
@"ReD"