mistletoe 2020;

[softlyfalling]

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[softlyfalling]

Ahaha—did he ever tell you that his first words to me were threatening to kick my ass? Interrupted my morning reading time, I jumped a foot out of my chair, practically.

[mind_blown]

Sounds like you are discriminating against choir boys.

[softlyfalling]

Me? Heavens, sir, you wound me.

Besides, he was trying very hard not to be one back then, and now he's even more one than ever. What's the opposite of corrupting?

[mind_blown]

Guess I'm not good at influencing that part of him.

[softlyfalling]

I think all love just makes him exponentially softer and squishier. So it's some kind of influence, anyway.

[mind_blown]

Maybe. Could just be you're somehow a bigger influence, with the whole calm, kill 'em with kindness thing.

[softlyfalling]

Aw, that's sweet of you to say.

[ she's grinning. ]

Keep that up, and I'll start thinking you're losing your hoodlum ways.

[mind_blown]

Nah.

That's never gonna change.

[softlyfalling]

Would kind of be a shame if it did, anyway.

[ and on impulse, she leans over to give him a very brief peck on the cheek. ]

[mind_blown]

[wait what]

... Did I miss something?

[softlyfalling]

Maybe the hoodlum's rubbing off on me instead. High spirits, I suppose.

[mind_blown]

[there are only so many things this can mean and his brain can only allow him to process the ones that mean the least]

Is that what you called that move?

[softlyfalling]

Well, I wasn't really calling it anything specific.

Apart from flirting, maybe.

[mind_blown]

[he pauses]

Flirting huh? Not taking out the competition?

[softlyfalling]

You should at least know me well enough to know that's not really my sort of thing.

[mind_blown]

[but that would make more sense to him somehow]

Could be a change of heart.

[softlyfalling]

............for someone who's quite smart you're actually very stupid, huh.

[mind_blown]

One, I've never claimed I'm smart.

Two, what?

[softlyfalling]

Either that or I’m really bad at flirting, if you really didn’t notice.

[mind_blown]

... Huh.

[he just looks at her, a little confused, like]

Not just for the game.

[softlyfalling]

Sometimes I do in fact do things just because I want to, you know.

[mind_blown]

[???]

Guess I wasn't expecting it, what with the whole triangle thing going on.

[softlyfalling]

[ she just like—

stares at him in a bemused sort of way. ]

...what did you think every other time was, then?

[mind_blown]

[he never claimed to be smart!?]

... Attempts at getting under my skin?

[softlyfalling]

[ listen, you too are a nerd, she thought you had like, some degree of emotional intelligence, ]

Mela's tits, you're really dense. Do I seem like a person who really does mind games?

Besides, what the hell was all that after you stole three units worth of libido, then.