Picnic in the Park

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Eph / Emman

"Relax lang Allan. Kung di ka magrelax ay putris itatranslate ko yung sinabi ko para dyan ke misis. Live life! Be honest! Get drunk! Eto oh. You too, Adelene. Only rule is if you can't handle drink anymore, I take your drink away. Okay?" Emman said as he handed both Adelene and Allan a bowl of coconut arrack. Drinking with students was a favorite pastime of his. Not only did it let him get closer to them, he also got to drink. Two stones with one bird, as he always said.

The noise didn't bother Emman as he went straight into a reverie. "Madaming mas malala na akong narinig kesa dyan... I was from noisy part of Philippines - everyday someone's screaming..." he rambled, going off and on, tuning himself in and out randomly and distractedly.

Eph meanwhile focused on Leon, a bit annoyed by his ignoring of her dialogue. She noted all the attention he gave Adelene, and perhaps she would play off it. But she would be doing that later - instead, she gave him a bit of reprieve and drank a bowl of liquor.

It hit her hard. Too hard. Eph never was good with alcohol. She could almost instantly feel her inhibitions lowering, and her animosity toward Emman disappeared as she asked for another bowl, a request that was immediately answered. She downed the second bowl, fully exposing both how quickly her body functioned and how low her alcohol tolerance was.

"This... this tastes good. Adelene, this tastes good. Yeah, it tastes good. H - here, I'll let you taste it -" she said, taking in a mouthful of liquor and then without warning kissing Adelene straight on the lips, lingering there for a good four seconds before she broke off, smiling. "You taste good. Adelene, you taste good. Hahaha - I should probably not be drinking. I should probably also drink more. Decisions, decisions, decisions - ooh, I know... do you want to build a snowmaaaaaan?

[Adelene]
@"Bolt" @"Hyperhurricane" @"DerLampman"

Adelene's attention was pulled by Emman talking greek again-- well, Filipino-- and his awkward English with it. She decided to shrug off the disturbance just now, taking in consideration Leon's words, and took the bowl of lambanog to give it a try. She was just about to take a sip when Eph grabbed a bowl of the liquor and took a swig. "E-Eph, can you..??"

Can you hold your liquor?

Obviously not. She was immediately drunk. "Oh my god, Eph, be c--"

...

Adelene had no idea how it happened, but when she snapped out of shock, she found her lips locked with Eph's. She froze in place, wide-eyed, before at the third second attempting to move her hands to push Eph away carefully.

"Hn..."

She tasted the drink through Eph's kiss, yes. It tasted almost like pure alcohol, with a slight sour taste. But she didn't have time to focus on that, she felt her whole face burn in embarrassment as Eph pulled away and told her she tasted good. She could feel her body melting, even though she was still almost motionless.

"You... shouldn't have... t-tried the wine... Eph..." Adelene's voice was shaky.

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Leon could smell the drink as it was handed to Adelene. Well it had a decent smell, but he was able to pick up the smell of alcohol that he detested at times. Was just something personal so no reason to ruin the mood. Setting his sheathed sword on the ground next to him Leon went to ask where Emman got his alcohol from when something out the corner of his eye made his eyes nearly bulge out of his head.

Eph had taken a drink then asked for another one. She seemed to have a low tolerance to the stuff as she looked almost immediately drunk. Then it felt like things were in slow motion. Eph mentioned that Adelene should taste it and taken another drink before moving over kissed Adelene. Leon's face turned bright red at the sight as his bells in his mind went off going "What in the fuck!" Leon lost all train of thought at the sight until Eph broke off and started talking to Adelene mentioning how she tasted good. Leon at this point could only think of a few things.

Leon could tell from Adelene had no idea what just happened from the way she was looking. Barely moving, her eyes just as wide as his, and the redness in her face matching his. Leon could hear the shock in Adelene's voice and even he had no idea how to even comfort her from this. Leon looked from Eph to Adelene a few times before settling on just looking up.

"Well....That uhhh. That just happened. Wow. Uhhh.....Are....Is...What?"

Leon didn't even know how to form sentences at this point. While nothing happened to him personally, something in his mind was going haywire over what he saw. And it wasn't even because of the typical boy thing of "I just saw two girls kiss! Awesome!" It was more that the weird thoughts and feelings he had been thinking about concerning Adelene were rising up from that tiny window. Looking back down Leon looks at Eph for a moment still confused and embarrassed entirely at what just took place.


"I uhhh....Was....That to get....Whose attention exactly? Seriously you...Wow. Uhhh ..."

Leon looked over at Adelene and could barely even form his normal smile. What was on his face was just as confused as Adelene's. Well maybe not as confused. Leon wanted to give her a little hug or put himself between Adelene and Eph but didn't even know if THAT was a good idea. Under his breath, without even knowing that it was even loud enough for Adelene to hear being so close, Leon spoke and it sounded something like:

"Well...Guess asking her out is a bad idea right now. Then again in public like this isn't a good idea anyway. What's a guy to do."

Adelene was still frozen in place for a few moments, not knowing what to do until... well until she heard what Leon murmured. She flinched and gave him a confused look, before giving everyone the same look and then grabbing her bowl of lambanog and taking a swig. And then grabbing Leon's cheek and pinching him hard. "What the fuck are you saying now??" She was all red, and no, it wasn't the alcohol.

"Gods dammit! I'm so confused... Dammit I think I..." She wanted to burst in anger but she coiled up and hugged her knees instead and hid her burning face from the world. She whimpered. She was going to cry, she felt tears starting to form in the corners of her closed shut eyes.

==> Allan
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Like Leon, Allan had also clearly heard the noise. But hearing the hard metal made him assume there were just really some rowdy people. He'd chosen to ignore them and keep his attention to his current company. Which just happened to be a really loud instructor, a lizard woman, Adelene's friend who is a complete stranger, and Adelene herself.

And he should because to be very honest, he didn't really like the idea that Emman would dare suggest he was jealous about Leon and Adelene. He accepted the bowl with a sigh and decided he was just going to go with whatever he plans on doing. "I actually preferred living in the province but my dad was assigned to Paranaque," he muttered quietly before downing the bowl with one gulp. Allan heaved out a satisfied sigh when he lowered the bowl.

"So Adelene how's--"

Allan wasn't even able to say anything when he turned to Adelene. He just stared, wide-eyed, at the sight of Eph and Adelene kissing. Not knowing what to say, he was just frozen in place, unable to make a sound. He was concerned about how drunk Eph was after just one drink but even that couldn't even be said by him. He was just as shocked as Adelene if anything and the next words that came out of Eph's mouth didn't help his imagination either. And unlike Leon, it had nothing to do with his fondness for Adelene. It was just literally having to see two girls lip lock. That wasn't a new thing really, but still something he didn't see often.

"Eph, d-did you just... seriously... d-do that...?" he managed to stammer out, equally just as confused and embarrassed as the other two. When he finally composed himself the first thing he registered in his head was just to get Eph away from the drink. While Leon turn his attention to Adelene he went to Eph and pried the bowl from her hands, "I th-think that's enough for you, Eph. You're too drunk already."

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Emman simply ignored the lizard lesbianism in favor of further teasing for Allan. With a laugh he pried Eph's drink from Allan and roared, "TANGINA DAIG KA NAMAN NUNG BUTIKI SHET! WALA NA PANO NA YAN ALLAN?" (Shit, the lizard beat you to it! What do you do now Allan?) Then he backed off a bit and tossed the cup back to Eph. "She is consenting adult. How der you take her alak. Tarantado ka tol ah - hahahaha!"

Eph swiveled her head toward the loud, brash sound and saw the cup flying back toward her. She caught it with two scaly claws and quickly chugged down its contents before Allan could snatch it back again. She was basking in the confusion now, all the attention on her. And she was loving it. Just as she was loving how handsome Allan and Leon were looking at the moment through the very quickly-settling alcohol goggles.

Eph smilled slyly and licked her lips, looking back and forth between Leon and Allan, slowly asking no one in particular, "Who should I dig into ne-ext..?"

Leon had a sword, which may have been something Eph was interested in, but she wasn't completely stupid yet, just getting there. Allan was more seemingly defenseless, and besides, she noticed that Emman was goading him, possibly mocking him whenever something related to Adelene popped up. An even more sly grin formed on her face as she put a finger to her lips.

"And the winner is... Al-lan!" she exclaimed as her tail whipped at his feet, slowing them down to prevent escape. Then she slowly walked toward him with as much exaggerated swaying of her hips as possible, all the while grinning more and more as she loomed closer. Then she said coyly, "If you wanted my drink, you could've just said - so..."

She stretched out both her arms and wrapped them around Allan's neck, pulling him in close. Her arms closed as her lips latched onto Allan's, lingering there as she hugged him even tighter.

Then she let go of him, once again smacking her lips together as if trying to get some last bit of flavor out of them. Her brow furrowed in silent thought as she turned next to Emman.

He noticed and said a quick, "No."

"I know," she replied. "Not you - I'm just - hic! - taste-testing for poor, darling Adelene over there! And don't think I've forgotten about you, dear swordsman!"

Before Leon could react, she was there on him, pushing him down on the ground and tightly wrapping both her arms and her tail around his body, with a massive, deep kiss that lasted several seconds, ignoring all his struggling.

Emman watched with some mild interest, whispering to Allan, "Pareho tayong Pinoy, pero tangina, kay Leon pusta ko." (We're both Filipino, but dammit, my bet's on Leon.)

She sat up on Leon's stomach slowly, pushing herself up with her claws carefully placed on his chest. Her smile widened, and she arched her head and back, facing the sky. "Adelene, my girl... I would very much recommend Leon here. His taste is just exquisite. Sorry, Allan... but baby, it's like steak versus fried chicken, and you can just - hic! - guess which one you are..."

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"Owww what did I do?!?"

Leon was confused. Did Adelene hear him? Or rather misheard him? Shit this was going downhill in a very, very strange way. Adelene had taken a swig very quick and started curling up agian. This told Leon all he needed to know that something happened that scared her again. Leon heard the whimpering and before he could even attempt to comfort her Leon quickly looked over and saw Eph debating which of the two boys should she "dine on" next. Leon's nervously moved his hand towards his sword as a safety measure and stopped when Allan was the winner.

Letting out a sigh of relief Leon it quickly went away as Eph started seductively walking over to Allan after pulling his feet out with her tail and climbing ontop to give him a kiss of his own. Leon was afraid. There was no other word for it now. This woman was drunk and in a very kissing mood it looked like and he was just so damn confused at the entire thing.

Leon made his sword disappear as he started to put his arms around Adelene to attempt to pick her up and run before this got any more awkward! Then he heard Eph change targets to him and Leon looked over only to be tackled and forced into a kiss like the others. With his arms and legs wrapped up even his struggling wouldn't have done a thing to help him escape. What was only seconds lasted an eternity to him and man was he glad when she let go and sat up. Thinking she'd get off Leon was terribly wrong. There she was, on his stomach. Wait...Did she just call him a steak? And what the hell was she meaning by taste? What the fuck was going on here!?!

"Uhh....What the fuck. Uhh.....So....Uhh....Uhh....Well I have no words to say what just happen expect you must be a blast at parties Eph. Anyway, Adelene you alright?"

Even with what just happened. Even with himself being pinned by Eph to the ground and he just got forced to make out with her, Leon still had a look of concern on his face as he spoke to Adelene and worry in his voice. Things went out of hand very quickly and Leon had no idea as to what even to do at this point. He was just so damn confused.

"Wait a second did you just play matchmaker Eph? Great now even more awkward to ask Adelene to the movies now."

Adelene perked up when she heard all the fuzz, staring wide-eyed at Allan, and then at Mr. Trinidad, and then at Leon. She was technically just following where Eph was going. Adelene had a very confused look on her face, but things set in her head easier after being the first victim and getting over it.

She wasn't okay. This wasn't funny. She was embarrassed for everyone and everything that was happening, and all the blood was rushing to her head and she was starting to feel... irritated.

"Eph, come here," she said, firmly, despite having beads it tears in the corners of her eyes, pulling the lizard lady by her forearm and yanking her away from Leon.

Get away from Leon, drunk lizard. She wanted to say it. But she hoped her dagger-like glare was enough, even for someone drunk. Her voice was lower and darker. "Could you please settle down."

==> Allan
@"DerLampman" @"Bolt" @"Paradox"

Allan was nearly easily surprised from the shock that he almost jumped when Emman took Eph's drink form him. Though his movements might have been slowed by the shock, his mind was exactly so. He tried to ignore his first remark but the blush on his face was evident. Well, it wasn't like he wanted to kiss Adelene. The thought never crossed his mind until now. And it was admittedly making him really flustered.

"Sir naman, lasing na nga kasi! Wag nyo nang kunsintihin!" (Sir, please, she's drunk already! Don't encourage her!) he stated, voice raised in frustration. Though it was directed at Emman , he was already trying to get the arrack away from Eph, but he failed. One drink was enough to make her kiss Adelene out of nowhere, what could she possibly even do with more?? Allan was near panicking over the entire thing. He looked at Emman with a look that spelled out 'how are you even a teacher when you're letting this happen?'

He quickly snapped back to reality when he heard Eph's voice again. His response wasn't quick enough and the moment he turned around to look at Eph, it was too late. Eph had a smile on her face and before he knew it, she'd locked onto him like a target. Attempting an escape was useless because Eph really knew how to use her powers to her advantage, "E-E-Eph you're drunk you're not supposed to dri--"

Too late. The next moment that registered in his head was Eph's lips already on his. He just stayed there motionless even when Eph already pulled away. His brain was trying to process what he did wrong. Not that he actually minded but... he'd always imagined his first kiss would have been more... romantic. And this was the entire opposite of romantic. This was just... bizarre.

While the thought just lingered in his mind, his mind wasn't even able to register Eph's next attack until Emman spoke. A remark that made him frown. No, he wasn't angry. But the idea of Emman even suggesting he held something more for Adelene bothered him, "Sir, hindi ako interesado nang ganon kay Adelene," (Sir, I'm not interested in Adelene in that way.) he told him upfront.

"Adelene, my girl... I would very much recommend Leon here. His taste is just exquisite. Sorry, Allan... but baby, it's like steak versus fried chicken, and you can just - hic! - guess which one you are..."

Hearing Eph's voice made him turn to her again, but this time he was a little more wary. That was until, she got to the part suggesting he was interested, "Will everyone just please drop it!?" he said, burying his blushing face in his hands.