“Oh come on I am always lucky.” Nolan teased back but he then laughed softly. “Oh is that you being smart? I thought it was more you were stubborn.” He shot back playfully, but no he hadn’t been easily deterred from his pursuit of Jade. He had asked her out and kept warning her he wouldn’t stop asking with every no she gave him until he got that golden yes. “Hey enough, you finished and that’s all that matters. It doesn’t matter how long it took you.” He told her as he laughed. “Come on strip studying is very motivating.” He said laughing because it was true he’d hold kisses and his clothing as an incentive to study a bit more. “You got time babe, relish in one victory before undertaking another.”
“Are you?” Jade returned the teasing, nudging him with her leg against his. Another laugh fell, shrugging, “A little of both,” she half joked. Since then, she’d told him about Amelia’s biological father, Shawn, how the military seemed more important to him, and how he was never around because of it. Shawn tried, she knew that much, but he often broke promises to visit because something would come up with work. She thought Nolan would be like that, too, never there, and barely there when he was around, but she’d be wrong. A smile graced her lips, “Thanks,” she murmured with a vague shrug like it wasn’t a big deal, though it was, to her. “I think Amelia will be surprised when I tell her.” Another laugh fell, shaking her head, “Oh is it? Let me guess, for every right answer, you take off something?” she teased. “Alright,” she nodded, “See? You’re good at slowing me down when I’m running too fast,” or trying to run away, which she did that, at times, as well, too.