The Deck - Sunday afternoon

[heromaniac]

Momoko was determined to make up for all the hours she had spent indoors watching that AWESOME new sentai series, and the radio this morning had left her with no illusions that this was 'one of those weekends', which promised much entertainment. So she set up the sun umbrella to keep any rain off of her, and was sitting on the deck with a ton of snacks (and even some she was willing to share), a camera with a fresh memory card, a spare memory card, and a folder full of legal citations and arguments she'd pulled from the web.

Look, she was still worried about that judge getting away with stuff, okay? Maybe it wouldn't all be usable, but it was at least some ideas, right? She was trying to be a responsible legal... person. Sure she didn't have to be at work until Monday, but Justice didn't take days off!

...

Okay, so she also had a bag full of used manga beside her, too.

So when there wasn't someone visiting or being crazy within zoom range, Momoko was alternating between legal papers and a volume of Wan Pīsu... and hoping the pirates in this series got more interesting. And cute. Bleah.


(Open deck is open!)

Comments

[weldedtomyspine]

"Half?" Isn't that a bit much? Jaime's expression surely suggested that he thought so.

[heromaniac]

"Well, you don't seem to be eating them." She pointed out. "Why should it matter how many you let me have?"

Momoko sighed, trying not to grin. "Fine, you can pour the marshmallows into my lap and keep the bag. Then you totally won't notice how many are missing!"

[weldedtomyspine]

"I just don't want you to get fat!" Jaime objected.

In about the least believable tone he'd ever said anything in.

[heromaniac]

...

"Try. Again."

Momoko was a wee bit sensitive to people telling her she ate too many sweets.

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime blinked, almost taking a step back.

"I was just kidding," he said quickly. Almost worriedly.

[heromaniac]

The moment passed and Momoko sighed, dropping her head. "Sorry. I know. But I totally haven't been training lately, and that's usually my answer when Kaoru says that."

[weldedtomyspine]

With a slightly stiff movement, Jaime settled down next to Momoko, reaching an arm around her shoulder. "You're not fat, you know."

Now he felt sorry for saying it, even teasing.

[heromaniac]

"I know. And I totally don't worry about it, normally? But I really haven't been working out." She patted his knee lightly, then let her hand rest there. "Sorry. It just slipped out; I know you were just teasing."

[weldedtomyspine]

He squeezed slightly. "You don't have to, you know."

"Work out, I mean." He grinned just a bit sheepishly. "You're already super-duper hot."

[heromaniac]

"And you are totally biased." She rolled her eyes, blushing at his compliment. "I meant, work out and train for fighting, though. I don't exercise for the fun of it; that's totally not me. Not even if I ate a pound of chocolates!"

...

She frowned lightly. "Aw. Now I want to make smores!"

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime leaned over to kiss her cheek. "Biased?" he asked, sounding hurt. "Me?"

[heromaniac]

"Well, you'd better be!" she teased back.

[weldedtomyspine]

"Maybe a little," he admits unabashedly.

"Oooooor, maybe a lot."

[heromaniac]

"Do I get to choose which?"

[weldedtomyspine]

"If you're good."

Or, at least, he'd pretend she did. But she wouldn't. Because it was always going to be 'a lot'.

[heromaniac]

"I'm always good!" She protested lightly. "Unless you count training, in which case, I'm totally doomed. Or restraining from snacks. Or sentai."

[weldedtomyspine]

"Or not using the eyes when there's something you want," Jaime added. Helpfully.



"Or being so tempting.".

[heromaniac]

"That's totally a good thing..." she didn't quite catching his mumble, but assumed it was more complaining about the eyes. "And anyway, I totally haven't used the eyes in forever!"

And by 'forever', she totally meant since earlier in the week when she'd begged him to sit through the all-night marathon first few episodes of that pirate sentai series with her. Shhh.

[weldedtomyspine]

"You mean, like, two days ago?"

[heromaniac]

"I don't know what you mean," she bit back a grin and fluttered her eyes at him. INNOCENCE, here. The very picture of pure innocence!

[weldedtomyspine]

"So should I add 'poor memory' to the list?"

[heromaniac]

"Of things that I'm good at? Or bad at?" She chuckled.

[weldedtomyspine]

"Maybe I won't tell you."

[heromaniac]

"Because I'll forget it in a few minutes?" she teased.

[weldedtomyspine]

"Forget what?" he teased.