Love At The Lodge
The Hanks x reader (chapter 8)
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“What time does the party start?” H3nk asks, poking at your ear.
“Seven.” You mumble.
He goes back to what he was doing, satisfied with the answers. “You can take a nap until everyone’s ready, we have time,” He continues, tracing his hand down your neck, over your cheek and to your ear again. You try to grumble something, anything to stay awake, but it was hopeless. If it were up to you—which it wasn’t, you would’ve tried to hold out for a least a little while longer. Unfortunately for you, H3nk has incredible hands so you got lulled to sleep as soon as he stopped talking.
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“Homie~” Someone whispers into your ear. You feel a light feather tickle your ear. You grumble and swat it out the way, hearing a string of giggles. You feel a couple more pokes, and a tickle on your neck, which jolted you awake.
“Ugh what,” you tilted your head to find three fully geared Hanks.
“We're back, you are all so cute, falling asleep with the bros!” H2nk said, pointing to you. You look forward to seeing H3nk also fell asleep on you, and H5nk ended up snuggled on top of your back side, hands wrapped around your waist…no wonder you were so comfortable. His head was comfortably smooshed against you.
“Isn’t it time to go? It’s like 6:45,” H1nk said, making his way to the end of the couch to mess with H3nks hair.
“Oh, yeah,” you smoosh your face against H3nk’s stomach to wipe away the drool from your nap. You try to lift up but H5nk has too much muscle mass for you to even attempt a lift. “Someone wake him up” you lay your head back on H3nk’s stomach, sighing.
“Just shake your butt,” H4nk jokes.
You do attempt to, shaking him awake, but he just grabs you harder. Flipping his head to the other side falling back into his deep sleep.
“Didn’t work,” You laugh. “He must be really sleepy,” You say.
“Well he’s always the first one awake,” H2nk says, “and Three just sleeps hard as hell,” He tried to tickle at his beard but H3nk remained slumped.
“Mmmm maybe we should just stay in,” you say, snuggling back into your position.
“Nuh uh! We wanna have fun!” H4nk says, grabbing H5nk's feet, yanking him. It turns out he was awake and simply stayed asleep so he could savor the moment. As soon as H4nk started yanking, a smile grew on his face holding you tighter so H4nk would have a hard time.
“Hank! Bro my pants!” you laugh, trying your best to hold onto H3nk. H3nk felt the sudden squeeze—plus a magical string of words, and jolted awake. “Stop!” You can’t hold back your laughs as he continues to pull you rather easily. You however had kept a firm grip on H3nk’s bottom half which resulted in his being ripped off instead of yours.
“My pants!” H3nk tried his best to grip at the slipping pants but you had already been yanked off…along with his pajamas. H5nk slips to the floor, tripping H4nk and you were left leaning on the couch, gasping for air as you laughed at them.
“Time to get up! We’re lowkey running late bros,” H2nk exclaimed, kicking them
“Gimmie a sec bro, my pants just got ripped off,” H3nk grumbles, stretching his body out. H2nk was still poking at his face, which H3nk playfully tried to fight off.
H5nk was still slumped on the floor, snoring as obnoxiously as he could with H4nk laid on top. H4nk started wiggling his fingers under his arms, trying to get a reaction which he did again. H5nk tried to stuff his face under his hands to hide but you already knew. You scoot from the couch bending down to his face, he was now lightly laughing and snorting, holding his breath to muffle the noises. Your fingers wiggle their way in between poking at his cheeks.
“We know you're not sleeping Hank,” you pestered.
“Homie!” You heard a voice from behind, it seems like H2nk got freed from H2nk’s clutches. “Why do you still have my pants, perv!” H3nk bends down to grab you, you didn’t know you had his pants in your lap…to be fair you were still a little delirious you had no idea your left hand had kept such a grip on them. With the way you were bent, he easily lifted you up, almost like a cat. A swift motion and your back is smooshed against him, he swings you around a little, causing you to drop his pants on H4nk. H1nk and H2nk just stared while you four were playing around, H5nk and H4nk now wrestling on the floor.
“Hurry up and get ready, we’ll be in the rooms!” H2nk scoffed, dragging H1nk with him. After H2nk made that announcement, both of them pushed each other and sprinted to the rooms, eager to be the first one dressed.
“Remember party attire!!” H1nk screamed.
You assumed that H3nk would set you down going to get dressed himself, and while you were still laughing like crazy, sleepy and excited. He just carried you to your room, throwing you on the bed. The way he threw at first you had your stomach on the bed, but you flipped yourself over, which allowed him to cage you in, placing both his hands on either side of you. Your legs hung off the bed, allowing a clear entry for him to stand.
“We’re late cuz of you homie,” He jokes, watching as you try to fan your face, cooling down your flushed demeanor.
“You fell asleep too, I was counting on you to wake me up” You retorted, “you should probably get your pants.” You sigh, letting out a final laugh composing yourself now that it’s just you two.
“Thats also your fault dawg,” he lifts your legs up, scooping his hands under your thighs. “I’ll just steal yours. They’re comfier anyways.” He shifts your legs so they’re on his shoulders, all of a sudden you feel sweaty and hot, but not the laughing light-headed kind. This time you felt it all over your body, stemming from your chest.
“Where did you get these anyway?” His fingers curl around your waistband “I don’t remember holding these up,” He says, pulling at the pants, tugging them down gently. You were about to respond. You swear. Your words seemed to fail you though, a fuzzy silence following. His hands slip into the hem of your underwear next, and he yanks you upwards, flipping you so you land on your stomach and your head smooshed against the covers.
“Wedgie flip!” He laughed loudly and ran into the bathroom, slamming the door shut so you wouldn’t get him back. As if you would go chasing him, you wouldn’t have a problem if he just flipped you, that’s been done before. It’s the fact that you wholeheartedly thought he’d do something else, and you almost let him. You might have to wave the white flag and indulge yourself in some alcohol, maybe then you would have a clear head. Have they always been like this? Maybe it’s the amount of time that you've been touched that’s making you all frizzy in the head.
“Homie!!” H1nk crashes into the room, you can’t see his expression since your face is flat in the covers. “What?! You’re still not dressed! Ha! I won!” He cheers. H5nk comes behind him hopping on one foot, trying to fit a sock on the other. You lift your head, fixing your underwear and sitting comfortably on the bed.
“You cheater! You sat on my suitcase brah!” H5nk protested, finally slipping the sock on and elbowing him in the stomach. H1nk bent over, groaning.
“Homie, why are you still in the bed,” he says, jumping on the bed, bouncing you.
“Are you too tired?” H1nk asks, kneeling on the edge of the bed for stability.
“Just a little dazed,” You swallow hard. “Can I use your bathroom?” H1nk nods, saying that Kev had infiltrated H2nk’s space. You slide off the bed, rummaging in your drawers to find a cute party outfit. Then make your way into the other bathroom.
You don’t go too all out with getting ready, seeing that there would be a trail you have to walk before getting there. You don’t want anything getting messed up. You quietly got ready, listening to the shouts and various thumps of the men outside. After you get dressed and everything’s in order, it takes you a while to compose yourself.
Knock knock
“Come in,” you said.
“It’s that guy, he’s calling,” H5nk hands you the phone.
“Oh man, he’s calling because we’re going to be late,” you hurry and finish up, not bothering to clean the area and rushing out the bathroom, grabbing the phone on the way to the front to grab your bag and shoes.
You click the green phone symbol to answer.
“Hello! Don right?” You greet, holding the phone with your shoulder, while you sit down to slide some shoes on.
“Heyyy! I wanted to call to make sure you saw my text! we’re running a bit late, you still want to walk the trail with us right?” He spoke, muffled with various voices surrounding him.
You sigh a little, relieved that your horrible nap planning didn’t ruin everything.
“Yes, my friends are super excited actually. We’re all meeting up together right?” You slip the next shoe on, finally able to hold the phone normally. You slow down your pace as well, happy that you still have time to spare.
“Perfect! I’m excited too, we’ll be there around 7:35”
You take your phone from your ear to peek at the time, thankful that it’s 6:55. Damn you got ready quickly.
“Sounds good, we’ll see you there Don,” You reply.
“Perfect, yeah! Ha, see you soon, cutie.” He hangs up, leaving you speechless at the name calling. That’s twice he’s said it now. You remove the phone from your ear to set it down next to you.
“Was that the guy?” H1nk said rather aggressively. You jump a little, turning around to see all of them fully dressed. H1nk crossed his arms while the rest just glared.
“Yes?” You give them a confused stare. Not sure who else it would be.
“So?” H5nk comes next to you, sliding his shoes on.
“Lucky us, we’re not gonna be the only ones late!” You say through a smile.
“Someone’s excited,” H3nk speaks up, leaning on the counter. You don’t have the courage to look him dead in his eye so you just hum a response as you get up and get your coat on.
“I am very excited, it’s been a while since I’ve been to a party,” You said.
“You look great too! The party fit goes hard,” H4nk compliments, following after you putting his coat on as well.
“Yes, very gorgeous today,” H2nk says.
“Thank you Hank,” you ruffle H2nk’s hair, getting a giggle in return then turn to Kevin. “Thank you too,” you tug at his hair gently, twirling it around your finger before you let go.
“Last one to the cars a lame nerd!!” H4nk yells, getting a random burst of excitement as he bursts out the doors. The other hanks rush out the door too, grabbing the last few items they needed before trying to catch up. You have no choice but to rush after them as well, taking the stairs so you all had a better chance of winning.
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When you arrived at the mini parking space, you noticed the group of people hopping out of the only other car parked. H4nk kept bragging about the entire ride, because he had gotten to the car first. Seriously he wouldn’t shut up about it. You were of course the lame nerd who made it last, only because you knew half way there there’s no way you would catch up, especially since H4nk resorted to skipping some steps.
“I guess I’m just naturally talented at everything,” He brags.
“You sure are Kev,” you laugh, unbuckling your seatbelt. H1nk who was sitting on your right side, slides out first, making sure to make it obvious that he’s helping you out of the car. You take his hand, unsure of what his motives really are.
“Thank you Hank,” you take his hand as you hop out, Kev exited through his side, but quickly turned around to see the display of chivalry.
“Hey! you never do that for me!” He shouted across the seat, with the doors still open it made a great way to talk.
“Well, you didn’t get out on this side so oh well” He shrugs his shoulders. You begin to walk to the back of the car, to meet up with H5nk who is rummaging for a bag to hold all your things. You see Kevin rush over the seats, but before he could get out of the car with the help of H1nk. H1nk had slammed the door, cracking himself up as he watched H4nk scoot to the other side again looking defeated. You quietly laugh to yourself as you lean against the trunk.
“What are you taking?” You ask H5nk.
“Just some waters, essentials just in case,” He spoke, “ mainly to hold our keys and phones, I know the trail isn’t too long.”
“You looked it up?” You ask, he nods.
“It’s about a twenty minute walk, with all the snow maybe an extra five? But it’s not too harsh,” he continued.
“Are we ready?” H2nk speaks, coming from behind to stuff the car keys in the bag. “We should probably go say hi,” He lifts his face to motion over to the car with the guy you met along with five others. There’s two guys including Don, and the rest were girls, one of which you recognized was Audrey. They had noticed you when you drove in, but they were waiting for you to make the first move instead, probably scared to approach all of you guys at once. You make your way over first, H3nk coming close, placing an arm over your shoulder.
“Hey,” you raise your voice, lifting a hand to wave to everyone.
“What’s up! So glad you could make it!” Don comes jogging to you and everyone. He was one hundred percent trying to get a hug from you, but with H3nks arm glued around you, and that stupid smile plastered on his face, Don just settled for a hello.
“Now that I’ve got a good look at you, I do remember you bro!” H3nk, while still holding you, reached for a handshake, daping him up. Don laughed a little nervously, putting his hands into his coat pocket. He sort of darts his eyes to you, then to all the rest of The Hanks.
“Well, we’re just waiting for one more group, everyone else is already at the house,” He spoke, backing up. The other people that were with him also came up to wave hi, you did so as well, a little awkwardly.
“There’s a sick view in this trail and I thought some sports junkies like you would appreciate a good workout.” He spoke, Audrey walked up next to him, staring at H5nk while she began to speak.
“Dons dad also had some people decorate the trail for us so the whole thing is lit up with Christmas lights!” She bounces, eager to get a move on.
“Oh that’s neat! So it’s like a light show?” You ask
“Yeah basically,” Don said, scratching at his neck. “I thought it’d be a nice way for us to get to know each other,” He added, you could tell he was incredibly nervous. His hands kept finding their way to fix his black hair.
“I brought some drinks, if anyone wants a shot before we start,” A woman with black hair pulled into two lower messy buns and micro bangs speaks up. She had a black cross over bag and lifted up a small bottle. You weren’t one to drink just for fun, especially when you had a task at hand. In this case the task being you had to walk up hills in the snow. However, a small part of your body protested. If you want to have fun, and seem like nothing's bothering you, drinking might be the best play. Otherwise you’d be dazing off looking into space trying to piece together the various concerns you’ve been holding up. You did not want to kill the mood thinking about how you’ve been thinking about your friends a little differently, especially with what H3nk pulled today.
“I’ll take one, I’m on vacation so…” You say, lifting H3nk’s arm from over your shoulder. He holds your hand tight at first, but one look from you and he lets go. “I don’t mind having a little fun” you smile, scooting closer to the woman handing out the drinks.
“Are you guys drinking?” Audrey turns to the Hanks again, you turn to face them as well, fixing yourself so you are now facing them with your back turned towards Don's car. The Hanks all looked your way and hadn’t broken the contact until Audrey slid next to H5nk.
“Ah no, we’ll save it for later dude thanks” H5nk replied, the rest didn’t catch it but you saw him have a slight shift in demeanor. You would have to talk with him once we get to the house.
“Why not?” The other guy who stood with the group spoke up, He had black hair, cut short. He was the other guy at the rink, the one whose muscular figure had caught your attention.
“It’s bad to drink and walk a trail,” H2nk scoffed.
“Yeah, could get lost, especially with all the snow,” H1nk added, as much as he liked to call H2nk the lame nerd, he sure did agree with him a lot these days. The dude who asked just shrugged, leaving it at that. No other words were said leaving the air uncomfortably silent. You just chugged your drink down.
“Nice,” the black haired girl laughed, doing the same to her bottle.
Another car pulled up, this time it was a black van blasting music. Not Christmas themed, which kind of irked you. H4nk comes up to you, picking up your bottle and drinking the last few sips that you didn’t drink. H1nk and H2nk conversed with each other while H5nk spoke more with Audrey, who seemed more interested in the conversation than he did. H3nk found himself talking with Don and his friend, sizing him up sort of like he did at the counter. The others flock around H3nk as well. The rest of the group hops out of the car, greeting Don first then daping up the closest Hanks, which was Five and Three.
H4nk wraps his arm around yours, shuffling close to you as if he doesn’t have enough body heat. His favorite thing to do.
“You have your phone right?” He asks, tapping all over your body to make sure you didn’t misplace it. A double pat on your left leg indicates that he found it. “Can I use it for pictures? I can take some videos to send to Skylar,” He says, reaching his hand in your pocket before you could even respond.
“Skylar would like that,” you laugh, “I could even send some to Freddy, he would love this place.” You wish you could’ve bought your polaroid but not sure it would be able to capture correctly with all the bright led lights. You look around, seeing that only H4nk is talking to you and everyone else huddled around the new group. You take this as an opportunity.
“C’mon let’s take a quick picture,” You drag Kevin over to the start of the trail, seeing that the first few feet you could see were decorated with blown up snowman’s and candy canes that flickered every two seconds. “Take your coat real quick!” You tap his arm, and you start zipping off yours as well.
Since you were in some sort of a rush earlier, you didn’t really register what they were wearing. Once he takes his coat off, he places it on a snow patch near you. He wore a light purple sweater with a white long sleeve shirt underneath and some white bottoms to go with it.
“I didn’t realize how nice you look today,” You place your hand across his chest to flatten out his sweater for the picture. Then you hook your arm around him so you can move him to the right position.
“Thank you broski,” he drags out the last word, leaning on you. You were about to snap a pic but was interrupted with a phone call, FaceTime to be exact.
“Ah speak of the devil,” you say, answering the call to find a familiar face along with three others.
“We were just talkin about ya!” H4nk says, smooshing his face as close to yours so that he could also talk.
Skylar, waves hi, then shows the camera to two others. It was Dorian and Reggie.
“Oh my gosh it’s been so long! How are you guys?” You ask.
“Great! We were all in the same area so we decided to hang out. I also got that tingly feeling in my bones again, I think something’s gonna happen!” Skylar chimes.
“Happen? Like what?” You laugh.
“What else would she be talkin’ about honey? What’s her whole shtick, annoying as it is, she’s always right,” Reggie explains, rolling his eyes at the last part.
“We wanted to wish you a good night love, we just miss you is all,” Dorian adds on.
“Well thank you guys so much, we miss you too,” You speak, having Kev nod aggressively next to you. “I’m going to a party today? That might be what your feeling Skylar,” You explain. Just like the Hanks had their weird mind connection, Skylar had also been connected to you. In some way, it’s not always accurate but she always has a knack for knowing when things are about to happen, whether it be good or bad. It might be the weird science physics dna she still has in her.
“Oh fun! Drink lots for me honey!” Reggie exclaims.
“Not too much though,” Dorian corrects.
“Whatever, just have fun! And keep your heart peeled!— er or eyes! Whatever they say, love you!” Skylar rambles, you say it back and H4nk sings an ‘I love you’ to them.
“How did she know you were out?” H4nk shakes you, “she's crazy psychic—kinda like you” He jokes.
“This is probably the most ‘tingles’ she’ll get, I haven’t been out like this in forever,” You explain. You can’t tell if it’s something bad, or some kind of love event. You just know that something will happen soon. Most of the time it’s minor, like one time she had called randomly saying something will happen, it was just some neighbors giving out free snacks.
“Don’t worry brochacho if it’s anything bad I’ll crush it,” He makes a fist, pumping it like he’s lifting some weights. It makes you laugh and you lightly push him covering your mouth to laugh even harder.
“Hey o! We’re all ready to start walkin, let’s go!” Don yells, getting everyone’s attention. Ah shit, you didn’t even get a picture in! You reluctantly put your phone in your pocket, bending down to grab both yours and Kev's coats from the ground. One of the guys from the second group gets out a speaker, this time using it to play some songs from a Christmas album. You quietly hum along.
“It’s freezing out here, why did you take your coat off?” Don questions you as he walks towards you with various head gear in his hands, you make eye contact with the headpieces first, seeing that he was holding antlers, elf ears, and Santa hats in his hand. Which makes you embarrassingly excited, you want one bad.
“Just taking some pics brah, is that bad?” H4nk being as tall as he is, slumps over you, setting his head down on yours.
“Just wondering,” Don says, fiddling with the things in his hands, which catches your attention once again. How can you ask for one without seeming a little desperate? “Here you go,” He speaks , practically reading your mind as he lifts up some antler ears. You shimmy out from under H4nk, moving closer so you can get the ears. You reach out for them but he lifts his hands, going to fix your hair before sliding the head piece on.
“Oh ha, thank you,” you fix the antlers into a more comfortable position, smiling wide as hell. You didn’t even have to ask! Don awkwardly coughs, randomly walking backwards to go back to his friends. You turned back but all you could see was Kev smiling.
The people that came out of the other van equaled to 8, you would know you counted like ten times. All together you made 20, you think. Each had sort of flocked with their groups, but the Hanks blended in well, just like Audrey said. H3nk was being talked to the most, being absolutely enamored with his flirty jokes and ridiculously flirty eyes. H5nk also got roped into it, being talked up by Audrey who had two of her girlfriends with her. No doubt she wanted him, the two girls must be acting as wingwomen for her. Though you’re not so sure how she’s holding out, she did mention that not a lot of people her age don’t have kids. So that equals she might never want any, how will she react to his biggest dream? You might have to help her out.
H1nk and H2nk found themselves talking with the second group to come in. You overheard some things, mainly about snowboarding, it seems that they also film themselves on the snow, and have been practicing for about a year now. H4nk takes your arm, wrapping it around his midsection as you follow the group. Your designated adventure buddy as the rest would say, always eager to stick right beside you.
The trail wasn’t bad, just like H5nk said, the lights and beautiful sparkly decorations made the walk well worth it and you were happy you had an opportunity to experience something like this. You take out your phone to snap a couple pictures, just enough to show that you’ve been here. Don walked with you and Kev, near the front of the group, chatting you up trying to include H4nk so it doesn’t seem like he’s only there for you. He was of course, but he was also respectful about your friends. Especially the one who wouldn’t leave you alone for two seconds.
“So uh, what do you guys do for work?” He asks.
“I work at valdivian, in customer service,” you say, blatantly not wanting to speak too much on your history there.
“You know, they’re super close with the bosses, even got themself a neat promotion,” H4nk says, wiggling his brows at him as he brags for you instead.
“It was nothing big, I just helped out a lot,” you say, smooshing hanks face away. “Kev does the really cool stuff! Have you seen their socials?” You chime, eager to tell him more about your friends than you.
“Yeah I did look them up earlier. I had no idea you all were so popular!” He exclaims.
“Yes I know! It’s so fun to watch them all have fun outside! They do this funny thing with each video, where they focus on a different Hank, and once they’re done with their vacation or video promotion, they all make one final video all together until the next time they go somewhere!” You enthusiastically move your hands as you talk.
“Oh! And, they had this surfing competition just a couple months ago. It’s their most popular seasonal video and it was a huge competition! That’s the whole reason we’re here! Like seriously they were amazing you should check out the video sometime! I’m so surprised Poseidon himself didn’t come out of the ocean and give them big fat kisses for being so good!” You ramble.
“I would like that,” H3nk comes up from behind squeezing between the space Don and you had. “Please tell me this Poseidon is you?” He jokes. You laugh, nudging him away.
“Did you tell him about how I almost lost my trunks to those waves? The ocean was packin’ serious heat that day,” H3nk laughed.
Don wanted to make a comment, saying that’s not what he asked at all. But he has to bear witness to you cracking up with these two guys while he could barely get any information about you.
“Okay, the trail should end in a little but there’s a cliffside we can go to,” He stops in his tracks, motioning for everyone to follow him. H3nk places a hand on your back, more so for him to keep beside you. The light show on the way up was breathtaking but compared to what you walked into, it was so lame compared to this breathtaking view.
“You can see everything from here,” You say in awe, hand over your mouth. Being woozy makes you more emotional than you’d like, super talkative and really giggly. Right now, you just feel like crying and telling everyone how much you appreciate living.
“You da real view,” H3nk smiles at you with a brow raised, but you're not paying attention.
“Super cringe!” Kev laughed, slapping H3nk’s back. Since he was across from you, you got a little jiggle from the impact.
“Ow, stop hitting,” You slide from between them. “Go go, stand over there so I can take a picture.”
“What about the others?” H4nk questioned.
“This is our picture bro, we earned it,” H3nk says, pointing both his thumbs towards him.
“Earned it how? We all climbed up here,” You scoff, pushing the two to a perfect angle. Everyone makes it up now, admiring the views with “ooooos” and “ahhhhs” and one “oh my fucking god”
“Scooch closer to Three, Kev,” you advise.
He listens, scooting just an inch closer.
“Oh my god, closer. Act like you guys like each other,” You speak, raising your voice. They listen, squishing together for you. “There we go!” The rest of The Hanks gather behind you, waiting for you to finish.
“Get my good side,” H3nk says, kicking his foot up. You smile, saying you got good ones already.
“Hold on, I’ll get the others.” You go to back up but H5nk stopped you with his hand on both your shoulders.
“Already here,” you tilt your head back, meeting his eyes above yours.
“Perfect, go go go” you shoo all of them together, they struggle to see who should pose with who first but eventually find a way. They go into formation, H1nk all the way on the left side while H5nk closes them off at the right. H3nk spreads his arms around H4nk's and H2nk's shoulders, while H1nk and H5nk lean on their closest Hank. “So cute…” you mutter.
“Wanna get with all of them? I can take the pic,” The black haired girl from earlier comes up. You see that she also had her pick in headgear, she had a green and red striped elf hat.
“Uh yea, after a couple more.” You nod. They change poses every couple of photos, flashing smiles in one pic and silly faces in another.
“You okay?” She tilts her head into view of yours, furrowing her eyebrows. The Hanks kept posing, unaware of your expression with your phone covering your face. You were about to brush her off until you felt water trickle down your cheek, and snot fall.
“Here I have some tissues,” she reaches inside her black bag hosting the alcohol and hands you two brown napkins. You turn your back to everyone, fixing your face. You didn’t realize how cold you were, all the wind blowing in your face must have caused your eyes to water. At least you think? Everything was getting a little fuzzy. The lights felt more like stars at this point.
“You have another bottle?” You murmured, stuffing your tissues in your pocket. She nods, slipping her hand down the bag and tossing you another mini drink. “Thank you,” you open it with one hand while your hand holds the phone and chug it down.
“Woah homie, I didn’t realize it was that kinda night?” H2nk walks back up to you, placing a hand on your shoulder. It wasn’t that kind of night, truthfully. You just figured if you're a more extroverted silly version of yourself who doesn’t think straight, maybe then you won't notice how delicately you're being touched right now. It still wasn't working, because your body got all hot.
“Just wannna to have fun,” you reply, patting his hand with your own. “I’ll be fine” you trail off on your words, lifting H2nk’s hand away, you pat his arm. Trying to make him feel better? You get distracted feeling the cuff of his sweater, covered by his jacket.
“This is so soft,” you exclaim, going to feel the exposed part of his sweater.
“Right—uh” he coughs aggressively, pulling your hands away.
“Let’s take a group picture,” H1nk says, grabbing the phone for you and handing it to the black haired girl who had her hands open already. They pulled you in, posing once again. Once all the photos were finished, you grabbed your phone back. You see The Hanks stuck close beside you, nudging each other and pointing at various things in the horizon.
“What are you thinking about?” H5nk stood next to you, throwing the same words you asked him right back at you. .
“Appreciating the view,” you reply.
“Me too brah!” H4nk calls out.
H5nk makes a face, then lifts his hands to tug at your coat collar.
“You have some snow stuck, hold on” He says, gently pulling at it, flinging the snow flakes off. You’re stuck looking at his expression, so focused and precise. You laugh lightly, it’s cute that he cares so much about these little things. His handsome face twinkles in harmony with all the lights decorating your surroundings, you can’t help but stare. He looks like he belonged in some sort of romcom. If Audrey was serious about him, she’d be one lucky lady.
“Got it,” He whispered, leaving his hands on you for a second.
“If you guys are done looking at the view, we’re about to leave,” Audrey came towards you all, drink in hand.
“Oh of course, we’re ready yeah,” you laugh, walking towards the direction you all came in. You didn’t notice some folks already left. The Hanks come up to walk with you, all except H5nk who was kept by Audrey. About six other people stayed a little longer.
“Should we wait for him?” H3nk stops, pointing back at him.
“No, he’s busyyy,” you pull him, whispering your words with a ‘shush’. He begins to protest, but you use your hand to shush him.
“We have to be good wingmen,” You whisper.
They all stay silent, despite their obvious gripes they have with what they’re witnessing. They told you once already if it doesn’t work for all of them it’s not happening, and H1nk already held a grudge against her. H2nk didn’t see the appeal, seeing that she constantly was drawn to just H5nk. H4nk couldn’t care less and H3nk was too busy worrying if his buddy was uncomfortable or not. You would’ve been more concerned too, if you weren’t so nice to everyone, always seeing the best in people no matter their intentions. Audrey was lovely, and she complimented you before so what’s the harm in letting her flirt?
“C’mon please, I’m hungry,” you drawl. H3nk gives in, letting you lead him out.
The few steps you had to take to get to the cabin was smooth since the path started to clear out. The sight that unfolds before you is unlike anything you were imagining. Maybe a two story home or some sort of community center, not a huge ass house.
“Cabin my ass,” H1nk said, rolling his eyes to himself.
“This dude's mega loaded,” H4nk exclaims.
“Uhh it’s my dads,” Don overheard from the front of the group.
“What does he even do,” H2nk questions.
“He’s a CEO for the Valdivian building about an hour away,” He says. You break away from your group to get closer to him, for better hearing.
“If he’s so rich, why do you work so much?” You ask, stroking your chin trying to show that you're very interested in the answer.
“It’s my hometown, I like to help out. It gets crazy around this time so if my community needs help, I’m there” He speaks in a noble tone, very elegant of him to care so much about his community. You hum in awe but behind you, you can hear silent mocks and groans.
“I heard you were hungry? I can show you to the food bar,” He lifts his hand for you to take and lead you away. You look back to let them know you’re gonna go with him, and you're met with some furrowed brows and eye squints. To be fair, they did try to fix their face, they’re not too good at the whole “hiding your emotions” yet.
“I’ll meet up with you guys again later!” You say, following Don.
The trail you all took led to the backyard of the house, large as it is, Don's father still managed to deck it down with every single object in existence. At least that’s what it looked like. You wonder to yourself how many of these objects have secret personalities begging to be awoken by the Dateviators.
“So what desserts-“ He begins, until a snowball makes contact with the back of his head. Some land on your face, you quickly hide your face to stop yourself from laughing in his face. He looks back quickly, finding that everyone else is doing the same as you.
“Save the snowball fighting for later!” He says, scoffing something under his breath and continuing to lead you forward. You were still trying not to laugh but it was a massive fail, you genuinely couldn’t control yourself. He leads you up the stairs leading to the back porch and you see a couple people sitting and mingling. A table sat in the corner of the balcony, hosting what you assume is hot chocolate, next to it were alcohol bottles. Most of them read “baileys”.
You wave hi to the couple of faces hanging near the balcony, they wave back, shooting you a smile. Don daps a few of the people up, and some people who were behind you.
He opens the sliding glass door for you, and the warm air graces you, giving your poor cheeks a nice blanket of heat. It was crowded inside, definitely over 50 people in just the living room and common area. ‘Just a friend gathering’ my ass. There was music playing as well, loud enough to drown out the talking and only making it so that you have to stand super close to hear each other. The door managed to muffle the noise so you made a mental note that if you ever needed to get some quiet to just trace your steps back.
“Here we are, you have any allergies?” He asks, grabbing a plate for himself and handing you one as well.
“Not that I know of,” you reply, avoiding a dude walking by. You ogle at the array of fresh hot food set in trays and food warmers.
“Woah, what’s this?” H4nk says, peeking into the kitchen.
“Looks like we stumbled upon the food room!” H2nk says.
Don groans under his breath, while your face lights up with the biggest smile.
“Isn’t it crazy? Where have you seen this much food!” You exclaim.
“Last time we went to a buffet,” H5nk says.
“Which was ass, we found a cockroach in the chocolate fountain,” H3nk says, lifting his hand beside his mouth to mimic whispering. They all shiver simultaneously, reminiscing the moment.
“Never again!” They say.
“Well lucky for us this is clean as hell,” you chime. “I hope you don’t mind, they have big appetites,” you nudge Don who is trying to figure out his next ploy for getting them out. He knew you were friends but shit, did they really have to stick this close to you? Always?
“Ah, I have more stuff down in the basement,” he says.
“Like what?” H3nk says, purposefully getting close to him.
“I have a bigger TV down there, for games,” He explains, trying to gauge their interest. “Karaoke, Wii games, Nintendo, shit like that,” he finishes off.
“Karaoke?” You all join together this time. If you all had puppy ears they’d be perked up right now.
“Yo, homie loves their karaoke,” H4nk pipes up.
Fuck, not his best performance, Don would get you alone for at least 15 minutes before the night ends.
“They won't shut up when it comes to Christmas,” H3nk laughs.
“Like you would remember,” You nudged him.
“Even though I don’t live there anymore I know you still rock out during Christmas,” He teases.
You notice Don's face scrunch a little, confused at the statement. Lived together?
“I had no idea you guys stayed together,” he stated.
You took a bite of a steaming chicken tender you set on your plate and spoke through a full mouth. “What? I thought you knew about valdivian?” You cover your mouth, sitting the tender back on your plate.
“Uhh,” he pauses for a second. “The dateviators?”
“A doy,” H4nk said.
“No way, so you were…” He trails off, pointing to each of them.
“Hangers brah,” H1nk answers.
“The dopest hangers you’ll ever meet,” H5nk says.
“So what? Living with you just means they were in your closet?” He chokes out.
“Don’t say closet too loud, they hate it being called that” you whisper, stuffing another piece of food in your mouth.
“Adrenaline Den,” H3nk corrected, proving your point. You move away, looking at the pastas next to H1nk. He lifts a fork to your lips and you take it, humming as you taste a cheesy fettuccine pasta.
“So much good food,” you say, chewing, savoring the bite.
“Is there somewhere I can leave my coat?” You can yourself, getting increasingly sweaty the longer you linger inside.
“Oh yeah, I can take it for you,” He sets his empty plate down, reaching to take off your coat for you but is beaten to it by H1nk. He then tosses it to Don, takes off his coat, and tosses it to him as well. The other hanks follow, revealing their outfits one by one and handing it to Don.
“We appreciate you bro,” H2nk smirks.
“Yes, how sweet,” you say, not bothering to look his way and indulge yourself in more bites.
“My pleasure,” he grunts. So much for helping the community. If Don knew how hard it would be to just have some one on one time, he would have been better prepared. At this rate he’d get more lucky scratching some lottery tickets. He leaves the kitchen to make way to his front door, where everyone’s coats and bags were set. While he’s gone you finish your food on your plate, and The Hanks follow suit too. They didn’t want to eat too much this early into the party, they could always come back and grab some more. What they really wanted was to finally enjoy some fun and games with you without someone trying to butt in.
“Heyyy, I was wondering where you all went, seems like your stomach led the way.” The black haired girl from earlier found you all once again. Now that you're in the light, you see her makeup a little more clearly now. Her eyes were blacked out and smokey, while her lips were a dark two toned brown. Her makeup contrasted with her brightly colored Christmas sweater made it even cuter. “We’re about to start some games now that everyone’s here.” She continued.
“Ohhh, hi,” you draw out your words, setting your plate in the trash then making your way over to her. “What was your name again?”
“Kris,” she held two Christmas themed coffee cups, “You ate already right? I brought you a drink. It’s hot chocolate but I slipped some Irish whiskey in there, strawberry cream flavored,” she explains in the cutest monotone voice.
“Oh hell yes, I’ll take it,” you grab the cup she had out for you.
“Careful it’s like piping hot,” Kris said. Too late, you already burned your tongue for being too eager. She furrows her brows at your silly display but ultimately laughs it off. “C’mon they’re waiting.”
You all make your way back into the living room and common area. The living room was cleared, making way for a long folding table, wrapped with red paper, and red plastic cups were flipped downward with a cotton pad on top. You assumed it was a drinking game and spent a good minute contemplating how the alcohol would stay in the cup if it was flipped upside down.
“Where’s Don?” His friend from the trail spoke up.
“Here,” Don entered the room with his coat removed, coming out in what you can only describe as some stripper's version of a Santa costume. Seriously, the sleeves were missing. It made him look like some dancer. It did, however, accentuate his arms. You thought though, could they compare to what H3nk showed you? Or any of them for that matter. You haven’t seen much of them shirtless this week but you're sure if they removed the sweaters now there’d be no competition. You surely wouldn’t be ogling anyone else.
“Who’s gonna go against me first!” Don flexed, walking over to the right side of the table.
“Show off,” H3nk coughed, making you snort.
“I guess you can take this round, Hank was it?” He antagonized.
H3nk wasted no time, elbowing you softly as a way of saying ‘watch me beat this guy’. You nod along. Audrey once again slipped her way next to H5nk. Damn girl, you knew she wanted him but could she make it any more obvious. H5nk, kind as he is, indulged in her clearly dumb questions just for the sake of conversation. You thought about joining in, but once Don started explaining the rules, you decided not to.
H3nk had to use a party blower to knock the pieces of ‘snow’ off the cup. Turns out there’s no drinking involved. Don's friend, named Trevor, which you overheard from other people blew a whistle and started the round. You and The Hanks had a feeling Don would be beat but didn’t know how fast H3nk would be. It was kind of embarrassing for Don to lose like that. Ten cotton pads flew off the tops of those cups like a gust of wind had come through the living room. H3nk cheered, reaching for a H4nk high five. The rest of the room cheered and clapped, some laughs and some words echoed. You were too distracted to hear exactly what everyone was saying.
“Woo! What do I win, brah!” He shouted.
“Round two come on, there’s one more” Don protested.
“Okay but, I’m just gonna win again,” he sings.
This time, Trevor and Kris reset the table, setting ping pong balls on the cups instead. The new task being they had to catch the ball with the cup. You were about to cheer H3nk on but got interrupted with a hiccup. H2nk noticed and went to grab your drink, seeing it’s already halfway empty. He didn’t want you to drink too much, in fear of you getting alcohol poisoning and having a horrible early morning.
“Okay homie I think that’s enough,” He says, cautiously taking it away from you.
“Wait pleaseee I’m almost done,” you whine, grabbing his hand with your free one “just let me finish.” You swat him away.
H2nk got flushed on the spot and immediately let go. Just let you finish? He felt so embarrassed for imagining you saying that in a different context. Ok, yeah sure, he could let you drink some more, it was fine, totally fine. So fine in fact, he might drink some himself. He gets startled with a bang on the table and an excited H3nk coming over for some praise.
“Damn, I didn’t realize I was that good!” H3nk teases H2nk for his red face, slapping both his shoulders and shaking him slightly.
“Whatever bro,” He scoffs.
“So again, what do I win brah,” he walks back over to Don, taunting him. He rolls up his blue snowflake designed sweater to flex back.
“Yesss,” you laugh. You were right about H3nk being bigger.
The game goes on for a couple more rounds, different people joined in, lots of yelling and screaming. You found yourself sitting on the sidelines cheering everyone on, you know better than to participate in your condition. You’d probably end up slipping and breaking the table somehow.
Three winners were chosen, one of them being H3nk who got gifted a Santa hat with gift cards in them. The rest got cards as well, but they could’ve also been candy, eh, it was fuzzy. Now the game was something different, teams of two needed to use a ribbon in order to place a singular candy cane in a cup. Now this one you might be able to knock out. You grab the arm next to you, who you assumed was H2nk but it was H4nk instead. Two must’ve scooted away somewhere.
Trevor blows his whistle and you and H4nk try your best to beat everyone else first but you couldn’t stop giggling. Nothing was funny, yet seeing H4nk stick out his tongue trying to be as precise as possible killed you. You managed to get it in, miraculously. But you all came in second next to Kris and some dude. You still get a high five, and a pat on the back from H4nk. About two more games were hosted until everyone spread out again, some leaving downstairs. You participated in a couple more but sat out the last few games.
“Where’s everyone else?” You cling to H4nk's arm, scanning the room.
“Right over there,” he points but is mistaken when he doesn’t see his buddies anymore. “Oh no bro, where’d they go?” He panics.
“They’ll find us!” You cling onto his arm tugging at his white collar, “let’s go sing,” you say, dragging him towards the basement. This was a perfect opportunity to get a spot downstairs. He holds you steady as you stumble down the steps, entering a darker atmosphere with only colored leds lighting the way.
“It’s sooo dark,” you whisper, at least try to. You weren’t so sure what you were saying to be fair. H4nk only heard you laugh, then mumble some stuff under your breath so sure that you were talking to him. The room had a couple couples, mainly paired and kissing in the dark. You paid no mind, rushing over to an empty area with an elevation of about 4 inches to host the TV, making it look somewhat like a stage.
“Nobody’s here! Let’s sing let’s sing,” you rush over picking up the microphone set near the side. In the room a couple doors from the common basement area you could hear various voices shout and laugh. You assume they're playing on the consoles Don had listed earlier. The mics were Bluetooth so you tossed one to H4nk and began looking for the remote.
“God this place, I can’tseeshit,” you groan, bending on your knees to scour the floor.
H4nk helps you out, grabbing the remote placed on the clearly visible table and turning it on. He also stepped to help turn on the karaoke machine.
You grimace, covering your eyes. Holy shit was it bright.
“Homie I got it!” He cheers, clicking different buttons to change what song he wants. You marvel at the screen, enchanted by how clean the graphic design is for the system. “I think it’s some kind of karaoke app he has set up. The songs are all here, even your favs!”
You stand up, jumping to stand next to H4nk. Rocking him and jumping pointing at the screen so he can pick a fun duo song. Thankfully he knows you well enough to play a good starting song. H4nk sets the settings to duo, loading up jingle bells. You both start out singing rather low, gaining attention from a couple people. With each verse, you two fell into a sort of harmony. By no means were you two good singers but you definitely hit a few notes, not well, but they were surely hit.
H5nk who was being asked all sorts of questions by Audrey overheard a familiar voice blasting through the crowd which caused him to perk up. He had already been looking around, keeping eyes on his buds. H1nk, H2nk, and H3nk were outside on the balcony, talking to some people about snowboarding. He could tell based on how erratically they were moving their hands. The entire balcony and wall next to it were made of glass, allowing everyone in the living room to enjoy the view.
“What're you looking for? You look like some lost dog,” Audrey teases, lightly tapping his arm in rhythm with her laughs. H5nk didn’t find her mean in anyway, in fact she seemed like a sweet woman who valued happiness and having fun above all. Yet there was something so bland about her. Anytime he had brought up anything extreme-like he’d done, she’d immediately shoot it down with a ‘I could never’ and continue on about something only old people would find amusing. At least that’s how he felt, talking to a total lame wad.
He felt guilty for thinking it but man, was it true!
“I think I see my homies waving me over,” He slides from her side, standing up and making his way from the weirdly shaped couch over to the balcony to gather his bros. He noticed H3nks new get up, no clue where he got it but he was rocking a full Santa suit with fluffy white trim. Who the hell gave him that?
“Ay what’s up daddy-o,” H1nk greeted H5nk with a handshake.
“Daddy?” A girl laughs. Someone with fluffy black locs covering their eyes giggles as well. “Didn’t know you were a dad,”
“You came in with Audrey right? I thought she didn’t want kids?” They questioned.
H5nk was fed up, he rolled his eyes muttering a ‘psh, whatever’ as he dragged his homies inside. He did not want to be associated with her any further. The only reason he talked to her so much anyway was because he obviously didn’t want to gain a bad rep for you. It was however, getting way too out of hand. Anytime he even stepped too close to you she’d somehow find a way to butt herself in and push you towards that weirdo Don.
“Where’s the homies at?” H3nk questioned dazed as fuck. How many hot chocolate infused whiskeys did this dude drink?
“Karaoke,” H5nk replied, looking back at him.
“What without us?” They all say in unison, making H5nk lighten up in turn.
“That’s why we’re going now,” he says.
When they make their way down, they see you and H4nk in a full blown concert with about 8 people cheering you both on. H5nk smiles wide at the sight, standing in with the crowd. You two had somehow managed to become so in sync that it genuinely looked like you both had rehearsed this before.
You quickly notice all your friends coming in and squeal out a note, causing H4nk to break away from the screen. He cheers loudly, finding extra mics to toss to them.
You all sing a couple songs together, some duos, some solo, others you all would just belt together. Your favorite being the ones where The Hanks would try to match the high pitches and fail miserably. You weren’t one to hog fun from people, so while you all sang a few songs, you let some others from the crowd sing a few songs as well.
Once you got handed the mic the next round over, you dragged H3nk with you, seeing that you could use him as a prop for many Christmas songs. “Santa baby”, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”, and many more covers and originals. Don and Audrey made their way downstairs too from how loud you guys were. And once Don made contact with the scene, H3nk made it his mission to get super close to you, dipping you during the slow parts of the songs. He even brought out the big guns, singing “Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer” for you. He reminded you of the antlers you had on, which you totally remembered you had on. As you all dwindled in energy, the songs became more slow and sultry.
“Yo, the desserts all set up, we’re gonna roast smores outside,” Trevor, who had two cookies in his hand leaned on the wall near the entrance.
“Hell yeah!” The Hanks say. You place your mic down, waving bye to everyone else. You heard a couple say “I’m good” and others say “I’m too full”. More for you then. Don and Audrey of course followed.
When you make your way back upstairs you see it’s less people than before, you wonder how long you were down there for… H1nk rushes to you with a plate full of goodies, holding one in particular up with his right hand.
“Homeslice you have to take a bite of this one,” He says, stuffing what looks like a red velvet cake in your face. Once you open your mouth to take a bite, you're hit with the most delicious cream cheese filling you’ve ever had.
“Oh that’s good,” you say, scooping the side of your mouth, making sure you didn’t spill any.
“We’re about to head outside, I’ll save you a seat,” Don says, directly to you. He puts his coat on and he makes his way outside with Trevor, Audrey, Kris and about two others.
“Here,” H2nk comes up behind you, putting your coat on for you.
You don’t know if it’s because it’s past twelve, or because you were on the slopes for so long today, but for how fast you slumped in the chairs outside you would’ve thought you just ran a 5k with no stopping. Don had led you all underneath his balcony in the backyard to light a bonfire. Sticks sat on the rim of the flat steel perimeter. In between the chairs, each held the ingredients for smores.
“Sorry there’s not enough chairs,” Don said, thinking it was the greatest plan.
“That’s chill, we’ll just—“ H2nk began but got cut short by a snowball hitting his chest.
“Ha! Gotcha!” H4nk yelled, running around his backyard, large as it is, H2nk still managed to land a perfect headshot. His aim being so dead-on makes you fan yourself, muttering “nice”. Trevor, Kris, Audrey and the two strangers join in, Audrey more so was doing it to win over H5nk— so that left you and Don. You were about to sit back and relax, enjoying watching The Hanks dog on the other group. That was until Don scooted his seat next to you, sparking up convo.
He wasn’t a horrible guy, just—so insanely…boring. He spoke of his privileged life constantly— he jumped from college to college, job to job, only because it “didn’t feel right”. He talked about flings he had, he even tried comparing you to one, saying that you’re much hotter than his last. You try to pass it off as a drunk thought but, you would never say something like that. Don was so, lifeless? He had no goals or aspirations for himself, he was solely “enjoying his life”. You scoffed at his description, what a lame wad. You swear you zoned out for half the time he was talking to you, only replying with “mhmms” and “that’s crazy”.
“What’s your type huh?” He asks.
“Goal-oriented” you groan, stuffing your finished smore in your mouth, messily—considering your state right now.
“More descriptive?” He tries to get you to laugh by nudging your side but you were already over this conversation.
“I’d appreciate someone like Hank, he’s always soooo detail focused,” you slobber a little as you watch your next marshmallow roast. You go on, explaining different kinds of attributes that you’d like. Don noticed the pattern and quickly became uninterested. Either you were just drunk, oblivious, or both. He couldn’t even tell which Hank you were referring to, and by that alone he knew he stood no chance.
“You want a romantic partner don’t you?” He asked.
“Well yeah, I want a family,” You reply, slipping your marshmallow in the perfect chocolate sandwich.
“If that’s what you want, dude, you’ve already got it— don’t you?” He looked at you, speaking as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Like come on, open your eyes!
“Ohnonono,” you laugh, “we’re best friends, I’d like someone exactly like em tho,” you say, earning an eye roll from Don.
“So what happens if they get someone else huh? You gonna be happy?” He asked. If they’re happy, why would you be sad?
You’re surprised they haven’t gotten someone else yet. You pause, thinking about it some more. Does that mean you’ll no longer be in the group? What will happen if they get someone else? You won’t be able to be as close, sleep with them or even be as close as you are now. Surely their partner won’t let someone as beautiful as you squeeze into their relationship.
“Are you seriously just now realizing this?” Don questioned, looking at you stare off into space as chocolate spills on your outfit. The whole point was to not acknowledge that you felt something different when they touched you. Now you're faced with a whole new realization. Not only did you like it when they were near, when they touched, when they cared, you’re not sure you could fully accept if they totally forgot about you to hang with someone they claim to “love”.
“I’ve never had this much free time before,” you jumble your words, sounding more like gibberish than a solid sentence. You’ve always been a workaholic, constantly fretting over deadlines and shit. You just didn’t know it was this bad, the one time you have time to think and it’s you realizing you have an extra set of feelings waiting to be exploited.
“Homie!!” H1nk shouts, rushing over to you, “I need fuel stat!” He rushes over to you, and you know what he means so you take the snore you had halfway in your mouth to give to him. He eats it in one bite, rushing over to throw another ball.
Okay, you see what Don means now. How could you not have noticed sooner? You had just gotten so content with how you already were you didn’t want anything more. You’re definitely keeping this to yourself, at least for right now. You can barely handle the incident earlier today. If H3nk went farther, would you have even cared? You’ll wait a couple more days, feel everything out some more, yeah, that’s what you'll do. Should you write it down? Should you make a plan? Maybe there’s—
——
The party is officially over, you know because you had to be awoken by H2nk , telling you there’s a free smore on you. It was the one you fell asleep making. He ate it, of course. Then He lifted you, dusting crumbs off your coat.
“Three pulled up the car, you ready?” He asked, you just nodded, words failing you.
H5nk holds you by the arm, walking you to the front where the car was waiting. H3nk and H4nk wanted to race down the trail to retrieve it, seeing who could get there first, so they were already in the car waiting. You see the front is also delightfully decorated, with arches starting at the front of the stairs leading all the way to the front.
A breeze of cold air shakes the trees, and rings the various windchimes on the rims of the home. You look up, seeing that in the middle of the arch you and H5nk are standing under had a mistletoe with bells ringing around it. He looks up as well, laughing.
He does this for himself mainly, but to also get back at Don for talking your ear off. He cups your chin, tilting your face to the side so he can kiss your cheek. It was a cute friendly gesture, but at this point in time it felt anything but friendly. You felt the same crazy warmth blossoming all across your body, warming your face despite the chilly weather.
“I’m glad you had fun,” He whispers. “Now let’s get you to bed Homeslice,” He continues to lead you down, happy now that he gets to hold you again without someone trying to peel him away.
Your heart was racing at this point, so hard that you felt if you moved too quickly it would pop right out onto the floor. The last thing you remember is being handed a water bottle.
