the ic mistletoe meme

[bifroster]

pucker up!

- make a top comment with the usual
- you are now caught under some mistletoe
- anyone who comments is now caught under it with you
- you know how the tradition goes :)
- yes i totally ripped this from plurk

Comments

[justaddh2o]

All these little traditions meant very little to Rikki. She and her dad did Christmas like any other day after mum left, with two exceptions: one, they would give each other one small gift to unwrap and, two, they traded in their Vegemite toast breakfasts for eggs and bacon and pancakes. Just on Christmas.

So all the silliness about mistletoe had never really been Rikki's thing, only...well. It gave her an excuse and Ben was just standing there like he might not realize it was hanging over his head.

Moving to her boyfriend, she didn't stop at a normal distance or hug him, she just laid one on him, slow and lingering, her arms circling around his neck. When she did end it, she pulled her face away just enough to look back at him with a little grin. "Thought I had better claim you before someone prettier noticed you standing here," she said, the grin shifting into a smirk.

[the_horror]

He had no idea it was above him. He was fidgeting with the zipper on his coat when she approached him and leaned in. "Hey--" he started with a smile, only to receive a lingering kiss. His eyes closed and he leaned in to kiss her back in return, slow and easy.

When she broke off he smiled a dreamy little smile. He wasn't ever going to get used to that. That he could just kiss her anytime he wanted basically. "Well that's a silly though. No one can be prettier than you, after all." He said with a soft smirk, a hand reaching u to brush a strand of hair from her face. "But I was glad it was you that found me here." He said, peeking up at the mistletoe above him.

[justaddh2o]

Rikki made a show of rolling her eyes, but she was grinning even then. "Me too, because I reckon I'd have to break somebody's arm if someone beat me to the punch," she said. That was only kind of a joke and she didn't mean Ben.

She tilted her head back a little to look up at him. It was so weird, in the best possible way, that she didn't have to feel nervous or worried about how he would react if she did to exactly what she'd just done. They'd finally made it past the awkward tap dance they'd both been doing around their feelings and it felt so nice to just be able to go ahead and kiss him when she felt like she wanted to.

"Well," she said, her eyes shifting upward toward the mistletoe, "now I'm standing under it..." she pointed out with a smirk before looking back at him, her arms still circled around his neck loosely.