and I tried to remember how nice it had been
”Your pockets aren’t so bad yourself,” Vai quips back, breathing in the clean forest air and hoping that it clears her head a bit (what the fuck did they put in that beer?) Blinking and glancing back at Zeph, suddenly he’s talking real talk and the witch doesn’t really know what to do about it. Everything about the way he talks, his body language, it all suggests a proposal and she sits up, brow furrowing.
Then he gets on one knee and fuck if she isn’t about to hold a hand up and remind him that they’ve only known each other for a season, but the question he pops is a lot less intense, and if he didn’t look so gods damned sweet she might have laughed to break the tension. Vai recognises the pearl in the box - a box hand carved, and she knows it - and feels her cheeks warm, a smile curling at the corners of her lips.
”You’re such a goofball,” she says, her voice half a whisper. ”It would be my honour to go steady with you, Zeph. Now c’mere, you giant idiot.” She reaches out for him, pulling him to her for a kiss that’s as delighted as it is very, very flattered. The pearl will have her attention again in a second - for now she’s much more interested in the man holding it.
Then he gets on one knee and fuck if she isn’t about to hold a hand up and remind him that they’ve only known each other for a season, but the question he pops is a lot less intense, and if he didn’t look so gods damned sweet she might have laughed to break the tension. Vai recognises the pearl in the box - a box hand carved, and she knows it - and feels her cheeks warm, a smile curling at the corners of her lips.
”You’re such a goofball,” she says, her voice half a whisper. ”It would be my honour to go steady with you, Zeph. Now c’mere, you giant idiot.” She reaches out for him, pulling him to her for a kiss that’s as delighted as it is very, very flattered. The pearl will have her attention again in a second - for now she’s much more interested in the man holding it.
a long long time ago
Vervain
