[ME] summer lover won’t you treat me right?

Hotaru

I remember the night you said ‘I think I’m falling in love with you'
igniting a great unendurable belongingness, a match in a forest fire

Hotaru is not normally easy to fool, but there's a well established weakness that comes with love that forms in the shape of blinders and vulnerable heels. Often these vulnerabilities are only discussed in the wake of tragedy or betrayal, but today there is a far more promising end that Hotaru is blissfully unaware of. How could she be, when visiting Flora is so commonplace that it provides the perfect cover?

If his voice weren't so distracting - especially when paired with a proposition - Ru might have noticed the decor, but her eyes only care to see Sunjata on the best of days. "That sounds perfect. We'll have snow sooner than we'll expect, whatever will you do then?" Her grin is aimed up at her lover, hoping to wheedle an agreement of increased trips out of him despite the fact she hardly has to ask. 

The murmuring and shuffling of other people is a given in a bar though it's rather suspiciously quiet given how raucous the Hanged Man usually is. Except - wait -

Hotaru's awareness finally settles in, recalling the closed sign and flimsy explanation that she'd snorted at as they'd arrived. Her head rises and begins to turn right as she hears her son's voice. Then there's no stopping how her head snaps fast enough to have smacked Sunjata with her hair if he were nearly a foot shorter. "Enzo?" She finds him, his green eyes bright and laughing soundlessly from Flora's shoulder. Remi - and Deimos? Melita? 

Their faces quicken her heart, some deeply concealed weakness and eternal longing to be loved cracking like spring hoarfrost and leaving her winded. Her hand blindly searches for Sunjata in some way shape or form, clenching and clinging to the person who represents the earth under her feet so that she might find stability. Her eyes can't leave the twins, but her side of the Attuned bond glitches and sparks like fireworks as confusion, excitement, and concern fight for dominance inside her. "Hart koning? What is this?" Her grin is so immediate and dazzling that her cheeks hurt, the symphony of her euphoria loudly broadcasted to all Attuned who can feel it. A birthday surprise?

I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered if I loved you back
I did, I did, I do