The Tinsel and Tommy-Guns Holiday Ball

[thislyingbitch]

"A little to the left." I smiled up at John, glad that he had decided to take on some of the work this time. During the first six years of our marriage, he was content to leave the hosting duties up to me. I never considered a holiday party something John could get into before he told me about his interest in Art History. I guess you could say,

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Re: Considerably later...

[_juniorvarsity_]

He felt relieved when she opted not to place her leg over him again. It wasn't that Linus didn't want to be near Faith, he was just starting to enjoy it a little too much. She was a woman who was hard--make that nearly impossible--to resist. He didn't know if he could keep it up if Faith had a few more drinks and continued to stay as close as she'd been since they'd met.

"Tomorrow, I have an evening flight. I promised my family that I'd be around for Christmas Eve."

Linus winced at his own mention of his family, thinking that it must have sounded strange to her. Men his age generally weren't rushing home to be with their relatives. Saying that he was going home for them had to have made him seem like some kind of introverted Momma's boy with an unhealthy attachment to family gatherings.

At the very least, it sounded immature and he wished he hadn't said it.

"Everyone flies in for the holidays. The person too busy to show up is the one who they spend half the night talking about."

And of course, they'd spend the other half talking about Linus whether he was there or not, but he liked to think that by being there he could somehow regulate it.

But that part was just in his head.

Re: Considerably later...

[msattentionspan]

Faith didn't mind the remark about heading home for the holidays, what person that had a healthy relationship with their family wouldn't go home. Faith knew nothing about healthy families though, and wasn't about to judge someone just because they did.

"Must be nice, I mean aside from the talkin' about each other part. My family wasn't really the type to go hang out for the holidays." Truth was Faith had no clue where her family was these days. She had walked out all those years ago and hadn't looked back. Faith had finished her last drink before they had sat down onto the couch, and wasn't even looking for a new one to replace it. She didn't want to make him anymore uncomfortable than he already had been around her.

Faith wasn't sure just how to do this whole conversation thing. It had been a long while since she just sat down and talked to a guy without knowing where it was leading. However she did want to make sure that at least she got one thing done, before he darted like a deer running across the highway. But before she could even start to think about it she saw that tiny girl that was with Lindsey earlier start to head her way. The thing is? If this girl knew about her, that meant that she could open up a whole mess of trouble for Faith with this nice guy.

However Faith wasn't about to let this phase her just yet. The brunette was still a bit away and was stopping every so often to say hi to the random person. Faith stopped watching her for a moment and smiled at Linus, "Hey, you said you wanted to get to know me? Or you thought you did at least? Let me make it easy for you."

Faith grabbed the rest of the napkin that she had used earlier for her number to Jason and used the pen she stole as well to jot down her name, cell phone number and the number to her loft. "This is how to reach me, should you want to."

She folded it up and tucked it into his empty hand, then grabbed her cell phone. "So now? It's only fair." She started to type out his name ready to store his number in there too, it wasn't like Faith knew a million guys named Linus either, so all she needed was the first name. She sat there waiting for his number to be read out just in case that girl came over and decided to talk shop she could excuse herself and slap the woman later.