"We did!" Karla said, leaping onto Sookie's bed and rolling around on it a bit. "We did! We did! We did!"
Yeah, really. Nothing helpful right now. "You have no idea how close you came to hearing about it right then, too. The whole school might have, really."
"Who said it first?" Sookie asked, giggling at Karla's enthusiasm. "Why did it come up? Did you say it back, actually? I mean, you're acting like you did, but maybe you didn't, and -- God, isn't it the best feeling?"
"It is!" Karla agreed, voice still hovering at the edge of where only dogs and bats could hear it. She snagged one of Sookie's pillows and hugged it tightly, feeling like she might burst apart at any moment with all the happiness she felt.
"Okay, so on Friday night, we got a room at the Arms," she explained. "Pants rule still in effect!" she added quickly. "But even with the pants rule, there are some things that still work better with privacy and neither of us like kicking out our roommates. And so we were kissing and cuddling and maybe a little topless--" she coughed, blushing, and really, how was someone a little topless? "--and he mumbled something about me be warm and soft and...and his."
"...awwwwwwwwww!" Sookie cooed, bouncing again. "His. That's so cute." She frowned a little pensively, and added, "Bobby's never said that about me. But I think that's at least part because he knows Bill gets all 'Sookie is mahn!' at other vampires, you know? Not that Warren's like that! This sounds adorable, not creepy! I'm so sorry for bringing up Bill when you're being adorable."
"We, uh, didn't stop there," Karla confessed, pinking up. "But wait, I'm not done!" Yes, moving right along, quite. "So then I called him mine right back, because that's only fair. So he said, 'I'm yours. You're mine. We're...one another's.'" There was no way Karla didn't have this night memorized, wrapped up among her most treasured memories forever.
"And then he said he was going to keep me. And I said there was nothing I'd rather hear. Except then I thought about it and realized there was something, and we'd said it before, but it was part of the songs we sang at one another, so it might not count, but that it was true for me even if I didn't know if it was true for him. And then before I could psyche myself out of it, I told him I loved him." Karla sighed and hugged the pillow again, a little more gently this time. "And he just gave me this smile that lit up the whole room and kissed me and whispered that he loved me, too."
"That's so romantic," Sookie sighed, resting her chin in her palm. "And good for you for saying it first. When I said it to Bobby, it was an accident -- I hadn't even really realized I'd said it, and he made me repeat it. This is more...romantic. In like a normal romantic way." Look, she thought the adorably backwards and weird ways she and Bobby did things was romantic, but she also read bodice-rippers and knew the traditional way around things. "Seriously, sweetheart, you're pretty much glowing."
"I feel incandescent," Karla said, rolling over so she could rest her head on Sookie. "Like everything is wonderful and nothing can ever go wrong again. I know that isn't true, but it feels that way, right now."
She gave a dreamy sigh. "And then we just had an amazing night. Oh, Darkness, Sookie. He's just so beautiful. He makes me feel all jumpy inside just by standing next to me."
"That's how it should feel," Sookie declared, affectionately stroking Karla's hair. "And that's so cute. Seriously, I'm happy for you. I'm guessing you've had a good week, then?"
She giggled, and added, "It's nice someone's getting love out of this week, rather than just...sex. S'all anyone's thinking about, and it's sort of refreshing for there to be romance attached to it, for y'all."
Yeah, she hadn't forgotten that thing Karla'd skimmed over.
"You know, on the one hand, your pants rule sounds effective," Sookie mused. "On the other hand, it sounds really...mood-killing. If I had to roll over and put on my pants every time it was my turn to reciprocate, or vice versa for Bobby, I think it'd take me out of the moment."
She arched a brow at Karla. "But maybe that's just me. You clearly enjoyed yourself."
"But that's kinda the point," Karla said. "It kills the mood for a little while. It's just an extra measure of safety. When we first started dating...Darkness, just kissing him was explosive. That first night, on the couch in his cabin, I think I could have ended up topless in his lap without too much trouble."
If he'd been one of the other Warrens of the multiverse, she might have. "I really do think that between the two of us, we'll have enough willpower to say 'not yet,' even when we're stark naked and locked in an embrace...but I don't want to test it if I don't have to. And it's not like it takes long to heat things back up between us anyway."
Why yes, that would be a squealing Karla launching herself into your room.
"Guess whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!"
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There would be no further explanations, either. Karla was busy squeeing.
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Yeah, really. Nothing helpful right now. "You have no idea how close you came to hearing about it right then, too. The whole school might have, really."
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"Okay, so on Friday night, we got a room at the Arms," she explained. "Pants rule still in effect!" she added quickly. "But even with the pants rule, there are some things that still work better with privacy and neither of us like kicking out our roommates. And so we were kissing and cuddling and maybe a little topless--" she coughed, blushing, and really, how was someone a little topless? "--and he mumbled something about me be warm and soft and...and his."
Cue another spasm of giggles, there.
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Pause.
"...topless, huh? Told you it was fun."
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"And then he said he was going to keep me. And I said there was nothing I'd rather hear. Except then I thought about it and realized there was something, and we'd said it before, but it was part of the songs we sang at one another, so it might not count, but that it was true for me even if I didn't know if it was true for him. And then before I could psyche myself out of it, I told him I loved him." Karla sighed and hugged the pillow again, a little more gently this time. "And he just gave me this smile that lit up the whole room and kissed me and whispered that he loved me, too."
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She gave a dreamy sigh. "And then we just had an amazing night. Oh, Darkness, Sookie. He's just so beautiful. He makes me feel all jumpy inside just by standing next to me."
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She giggled, and added, "It's nice someone's getting love out of this week, rather than just...sex. S'all anyone's thinking about, and it's sort of refreshing for there to be romance attached to it, for y'all."
Yeah, she hadn't forgotten that thing Karla'd skimmed over.
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She squirmed a little. "It's just...the rule is one of us. At a time. Must be in pants. And we always were! One of us."
And Mother Night had it been glorious.
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She arched a brow at Karla. "But maybe that's just me. You clearly enjoyed yourself."
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If he'd been one of the other Warrens of the multiverse, she might have. "I really do think that between the two of us, we'll have enough willpower to say 'not yet,' even when we're stark naked and locked in an embrace...but I don't want to test it if I don't have to. And it's not like it takes long to heat things back up between us anyway."
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...she was just curious as to how this rule worked, okay.
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