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“Babe!”, my girlfriend calls from her place in the bathroom. She’s been getting ready for our usual night out with our friends. We cycle through each of us and pick something new or fun to do each week, and this week our friend, Lexa, chose laser tag. I hated that they picked that, because I can’t shoot for shit, and everyone knows this. Maybe I can shoot them before I ultimately lose. Payback bitch.
Getting back on track, I finish putting my hair in a ponytail as I reply back, “Yes, my love, what do you need?” I smile already knowing the reason she’s calling to me. “Do you know where my belt is? The black one with the two rows of holes?” She sticks her head out from the door, towel drying her short wet hair, showing she just got out of the shower. I pretend to think, putting my pointer finger on my chin. “Hmmm, you know, I don’t know.”
Hearing the poorly hidden laughter in my voice she steps out fully from the bathroom, showing me the outfit she chose for today. As soon as I see her, my heart stops for a second, which happens every time I look at her. She’s dressed in a white t-shirt, showing off her tattoos covering her arms, black ripped jeans, and white vans. I’ve been with this woman for so long and she still makes me feel like it’s the first time we met.
She raises her brow seeing me try to act like nothings wrong, slowly walking to where I stand in the full-length mirror, snaking her arms around my waist, hugging me from behind. I lean back into her embrace, watching her in the mirror to see what she’s up to. Seeing she won’t get anything out of me, she brings her mouth closer to my ear. “What’d you do with my belt, sweetheart?” God, that voice, she knows what it’s doing to me. As she asks this, she’s trailing her hand up and down my arm, keeping eye contact with me through the mirror.
Knowing I won’t win, I concede, telling her I hid it in with our underwear. Her demeanor changes back to her cool and collected self as she walks over to our shared dresser to get her belt. I watch as she puts it on, lost in her beauty. She’s perfect, I honestly don’t know how or why she chose me, but boy, am I grateful she did. When she’s done putting on the belt, she glances up, catching me admiring her. She smiles, and glances down, moving to get her signature chains to hang from her belt, making her look even more enticing.
Shaking myself out of my daze, I clap my hands grabbing my love’s attention. “You ready to play laser tag?” She laughs hearing the sarcasm in my tone, probably knowing I won’t last two seconds. “You sure you don’t wanna sit this one out, babe?”, she asks with a smirk playing on the corners of her lips.
“Fuck you”, I tell her, pushing her shoulder lightly as we head out the door, her locking it behind us. It’s silent till we get into the elevator when she responds to what I said earlier, putting her lips against my ear again. “You did that last night, love.” She leans away, acting like she didn’t say a word, while my eyes grow big and my cheeks warm. I proceed to hide my head in her shoulder, grabbing her hand with mine, hearing and feeling her laughter over my reaction.
I just sigh with a slight smile, basking in her body heat and her safe embrace.
~Time Skip~
We arrive at the laser tag arena, her coming over to open my door for me. I smile at her in thanks, eyes raking over her figure once again, she’s wearing a black jacket since it’s starting to get a little chilly. I’m glad I wore leggings, at least I won’t be freezing my tits off, though my arms will be cold in this t-shirt. Maybe once we start playing I’ll warm up some, if I make it to play that long that is.
As we head to the entrance hand in hand, we see our friends waiting for us, talking and joking around. Lexa picks their head up and sees us coming towards them, face lighting up and bolting to run and hug us. We catch them, laughing at their antics, hugging back. When they pull away, I lightly hit their arm in a joking fashion. “You jerk, you chose this knowing I’m absolutely shit at this kind of stuff!” They just smile at me mischievously, knowing this already. “That’s why I chose it.” They run away before I can swat them again.
I give chase to Lexa, their laughter ringing in our ears. After a while I give up, heaving heavy breaths, leaning up against Rose, who just wraps her arms around me and kisses my head. Tommy has Lexa in his arms, cuddling them against his body and pressing kisses to the top of their head. I look over to Iona and Keaton chilling over on the doorway entrance just watching the crackheads they call friends mess around.
I go up and hugged them both, trying to get away from the cold by leeching off their body heat. Iona laughs, buns laugh making my heart soft and warm, the sound a gift to anyone’s ears. Keaton just shakes vamps head, used to my antics from how long vamp’s spent with me. Rose sees me cuddling them and decides to banter a bit. “So you left me? I thought you loved me”. She says it in a tone of voice that lets us know she’s not bothered by it, just joking with us.
“Yup, I’ve moved on! I decided you never give me enough cuddles, so I’m dating them now”, I say, hiding my smile in Keaton’s chest, though I know the smile is coming through my voice when I hear Rose chuckle. “C’mon now, Serina, I thought we were forever, canon, OTP! What am I gonna do now?” We all burst out laughing after she says that, finding her wording and over-the-top upset tone hilarious.
Iona speaks after we’ve calmed down and said, “You’re gonna come over here and get your girl and kiss her to death!” Bun laughs, pushing me into Rose’s arms. “Traitor!”, I laugh, giving bun a look that says I’ll get bun back for this treachery. As soon as I land in her arms, as Iona said, I’m kissed to death by my softie girlfriend. Kisses getting placed all over my face and head, her final kiss landing on my lips.
The kiss conveying how much love and care she has for me, and I only hope I’m conveying the same to her. I love her so much, and I don’t know what I would do without her in my life. We separate looking lovingly into each other’s eyes, when Tommy speaks up, pulling us from our little world. “As much as I love, love, I wanna be able to at least play one round of laser tag, please”. We laugh again, before heading inside to pay and get our gear to play.
When we get inside, we head to the check-in desk to pay for a game. We all gave our portion of the money to Tommy that way we weren’t crowding around, but we were still close enough to hear the conversation and make sure everything was alright. The boy at the desk asked the usual stuff and after Tommy paid and was heading back our way, the boy said “Have a good time, Ma’am!” We all looked at each other and waited, letting Tommy handle this. He turned around and rubbed the back of his neck, nicely correcting the boy. “Sir”, Tommy said simply, looking nervous, probably afraid that something will happen. The boy looked confused, so Tommy specified. “I’m a trans man, so I go by he / him pronouns and masculine terms. I hope I’m not coming off as rude.”
The boy gained a shocked look for a second, before profusely apologizing. Tommy blushed before saying it’s okay, that he just wanted to let him know and have him use the right terms. After that, we started to head to get our gear when the boy spoke up again. “Have a good time, Sir!” Tommy smiled so big, and thanked him, wishing him a good evening.
Lexa hugged him, telling him how proud they were of him for speaking up and educating the boy. Lexa kissing him all over his face they were so happy for him. We arrived at the place we needed to go to before getting geared up. I started pouting knowing I probably won’t win. I get pulled out of my pouty party by Rose kissing the pout away. “Don’t worry, babe, you’ll do great.”
“You’re just saying that to make me feel better”, I reply, crossing my arms and looking away from the gorgeous being in front of me. She just chuckles, softly grabbing my arms and pulling me into her, angling my head up to look into her eyes. “That may be, but you need to have faith in yourself. You might win, you might not, but as long as you enjoy yourself and have a good time that’s all that matters, my love.”
I nod, sighing softly and leaning into her, kissing her neck lightly. “I know. But winning would be nice too, ya know?” I laugh, leaning back to look at her reaction. What I see melts my heart even more. The look of love and care in her eyes as she stares at me turns me into mush and makes me so incredibly warm. She laughs too, and just nods, pulling me into her more before releasing me seeing as the game is almost about to start.
Once we all head into the playing field, we wait for the game to start, and once the sound signaling the game has started goes off, we all scramble and it’s every person for themselves. I hide behind a small wall, peeking around every now and then to see if there’s anyone coming my way. When I look out again, I see movement and quickly jerk my head back behind the wall.
I get ready to run to another spot, crouched I count to three in my head and sprint to the spot I deemed as safe, a corner with a small wall in front of it. It’s the perfect spot and I’ll be safe, even if it’ll only be for a minute. As I get around the wall ready to crouch down behind it, I get pushed into the corner. I panic and look up to see who my attacker is and catch the familiar eyes of Rose looking at me.
“Rose, please, spare me. You know I’m not any competition, just let me play a little longer and leave me for last.” As I plead to her I try to subtly aim my laser gun at her, but right before my finger can pull the trigger, I feel lips on mine. Rose kissed me, the kiss full of passion, adrenaline, love, and a hint of lust. I forget where we are and get lost in the kiss, trying to keep up with her ministrations and her rhythm. Right before it can go any further I hear my vest make a noise, telling me I got shot. I break to kiss and look around to see if anyone was around but realize if there was they would’ve shot Rose first. And as I realize Rose was the only one who could’ve shot me, she’s already walking away.
As I stand there feeling shocked and betrayed, she turns around to look at me once more, gives me a smile and a wink before turning around to find her next victim. I stand there until the noise signaling the game is over goes off, and when I am back in the waiting room, I see Rose and go up to her and hit her on the arm with a shocked look still on my face.
She chuckles before leaning into my ear and whispering, “All’s fair in love and war, baby.” She leans back giving me another wink, before slinging her arm over my shoulder and talking with Lexa, me snuggling into her side.
I have to say, I may want her to take me laser tagging again if that’s what’s going to happen.