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Post by Lyra Newbury on Dec 21, 2016 23:30:12 GMT -5
"Oh, come on Nicolas. It wouldn't hurt you to have a little fun, it's only a game." Birthdays were supposed to have games, and even if Nicolas couldn't be with his sister it didn't mean that he had to mourn her instead of remembering her fondly.
She could see that she was not having the intended affect and decided it wasn't worth the effort. She groaned as she lifted herself once again from the chair. "Never mind. Obviously you'd rather sulk and it's no fun watching you do so if I'm not the one who made you that way in the first place."
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Post by Nicolas Everhart on Dec 22, 2016 0:14:01 GMT -5
Nik groaned, before taking a drink of his liquor, "Never have I ever been the most stubbornly annoying pain in the ass in existence." he said then turned to look at her with a wicked challenging smirk.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Dec 22, 2016 0:21:04 GMT -5
Lyra beamed as she turned back to face him, then promptly plopped back into the chair, tucking her legs under the skirt of her dress.
"So you don't understand the rules of the game then," she said with mock compassion. She spoke very slowly, enunciating her words as if speaking to her elderly grandmother. "You have to say something you've never done."
She spoke naturally again as she smiled at him. "You're constantly a stubborn pain in the ass."
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Post by Nicolas Everhart on Dec 22, 2016 0:27:49 GMT -5
"But not the most stubbornly annoying in existence," he said mock toasting her, "that honor, my dear, is yours alone." he assured her.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Dec 22, 2016 0:39:00 GMT -5
She sighed through a smile. "I'm giving you this one since I came here to apologize for my behavior yesterday, but we've since been marked even." Lyra lifted her glass and took a good swallow.
She thought for a moment before saying "Never have I ever been in love with someone younger than me."
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Post by Nicolas Everhart on Dec 22, 2016 1:00:15 GMT -5
He gave her a look as if to tsk her less than creative statement which earned him another drink. He brought the bottle over to the lounge chair and settee and set it on the table between them.
There was no reluctance in the sip of alcohol he consumed admitting his love for Samantha - who was indeed younger than him.
"Never have I ever, gotten a tattoo." he said watching her and waiting a moment before taking a sip of his drink with a smirk.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Dec 22, 2016 1:13:27 GMT -5
Lyra's glass maintained its place on the table. She had never gotten a tattoo as she didn't want to ruin her perfect skin. How silly that reasoning seemed to her now. But her eyebrows raised as Nik took a drink at his own confession.
"No! Really? I would have never...let me see!" The idea that proper, pompous Nicolas Everheart had ever been wild enough, or fun enough, to get a tattoo was completely unfathomable. Lyra had to know all about it.
If Nicolas wasn't a fan of Lyra's questions, he chose the wrong confession to make.
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Post by Nicolas Everhart on Dec 22, 2016 1:22:12 GMT -5
It was for her reaction that he made the confession. He wasn't nearly the staunch moralist she believed him to be. Neither was he the stick in the mud, funny bone up the arse, jack ass she had came to know and loathe/adore. Sam could tell her stories, and then there were the stories that even Sam knew nothing about.
Nik indeed had a tattoo, and the story behind it was just as wild. Nik grinned with satisfied malice knowing that Lyra's curious nature had been piqued and only he had the cards to satisfy her. It was empowering for someone who had been repeatedly emasculated by the slip of a girl.
"I believe it's your turn." he said effectively shutting down her request.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Dec 22, 2016 1:29:43 GMT -5
His statement was neither effective nor did it shut her down. Lyra shook her head vehemently. "No way, you're not getting rid of me until see it! I'll push back all of my appointments if need be." She sat up on her knees as an excited child might. "Come on, Nik. What is it? Where is it?"
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Post by Nicolas Everhart on Dec 22, 2016 1:35:42 GMT -5
He laughed, or rather barked one puff of laugh like yelling in the air at her persistence as though he should have expected it. Except he could be just as stubborn if not moreso than she was.
"It's a tattoo. And it's on my body...I thought my obligatory sip said as much."
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Dec 22, 2016 1:41:54 GMT -5
"You bloody well know I am not above wrestling you to the ground and stripping you until I find it!" Her threat held no sexual overtones, Nicolas was nothing near her type and she was madly in love with Julian. But she was persistent and if she needed to threaten him, playfully though she was, she would do so.
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Post by Nicolas Everhart on Dec 22, 2016 1:52:25 GMT -5
Nik raised a brow at her threat, "Careful love, I might think you just want to see me naked."
How the earth would literally begin to rotate backwards at that idea.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Dec 22, 2016 2:07:01 GMT -5
Lyra sneered and sat back in her seat. "You would only be so lucky," she said, almost repulsed. Lyra didn't think of Nicolas in that way. Certainly he was attractive, but everyone in high society was. If you were rich and had the unfortunate luck to be cursed with poor genes, then at least you were blessed with the funds to correct nature's errors. But despite the fact that Lyra was fairly positive that Nicolas was a natural Adonis, the thought of actually seeing him naked put a sour look on her face.
Maybe in another life where she did not associate him with such horrible events in her life, despite all of the positive roles he had since taken on. But no, Lyra definitely did not want to see him naked and the idea shut her up pretty quickly.
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Post by Nicolas Everhart on Dec 22, 2016 2:12:16 GMT -5
He laughed, "Ever the one to keep my ego in check." he said shaking his head well aware of Lyra's distaste for him, at least in that capacity. She was a rare breed indeed, as he was well afforded any socialite society had to offer. They lined up in droves for his affection, of course he only truly had eyes for one.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Dec 22, 2016 2:20:57 GMT -5
"It is an insurmountable task, let me tell you." She re-positioned herself in the chair before leaning forward and picking up her glass. She sipped on the drink absentmindedly.
"Oh, it's my turn," she said in realization. "We're not done with this tattoo talk, by the way. Expect loads of lovely questions from here until eternity, or at least until you explain yourself. But in the meantime, never had I ever slept with someone on the first date." Lyra waited to see his response before taking a sip of her own drink.
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Post by Nicolas Everhart on Dec 22, 2016 2:29:54 GMT -5
Oh they were going to ask these sort of questions were they?
Nik easily made a fond expression before lifting the cup to his mouth and swallowing heartily.
"Never have I ever slept with someone and forgot their name the next time I saw them."
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Dec 22, 2016 2:38:27 GMT -5
That was an easy one for Lyra to pass on. She'd slept with plenty of boys in school, but as they were all classmates she saw regularly she would have been hard pressed to not remember their names. And aside from Julian, her sex life had been non-existent since graduating.
"Do you think I'm a whore?" she said with a laugh as she held her glass firmly on her knee and bringing it nowhere near her mouth. "Don't answer that!" She pointed her finger at him and gave him a stern look before her smile returned and the game continued.
"Never have I ever injured myself in the bedroom." She bit her lip then slowly raised her glass as she smothered a grin.
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Post by Nicolas Everhart on Dec 22, 2016 2:44:45 GMT -5
Nik rolled his eyes at her, "There you go again, assuming. You do know what that makes you don't you?" he asked.
"I'm pretty sure I could run circles around you when it comes to sexual experience, and since we have established that you are not in the habit of selling your body for money, then whore is just another word made up by jealous men and repressed women."
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Dec 22, 2016 2:52:07 GMT -5
Lyra smiled when he called her an ass. It was such a juvenile, round about way of doing so. She was glad that Nik didn't seem to judge her for what he knew of her history as she had been feeling a little closer to sinner than saint lately.
"Circles, huh?" She raised a delicate eyebrow and smirked in his direction, clearly awaiting more details.
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Post by Nicolas Everhart on Dec 22, 2016 2:58:32 GMT -5
"Let's put it this way, we'd run out of most of the liquor in this room were we to tread down that path." he assured her.
"Believe it or not most women find me attractive, and believe it or not I do remove the stick up my arse long enough to indulge in the fairer sex." he said teasing her about her preconceptions about him.
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