Adam shook his head,"I’ve been traumatized for life. Never... Never will I ever drink again on business trips."
lanie sent a stern look his way at that," Yeah. You better not drink..."
That caused another U-turn in Adam’s expression and he gave her an inquiring look, his insides suddenly cold.
She gave him a thin smile then and narrowed her eyes," You really have no idea what you did, do you? Because if it hadn’t been in that room last night... "
His face fell, color draining from it. "Wait-what do you an? What did I do?" He frowned, trying to think hard. Even if they had done sothing between the two of them, lanie would not have given him such an accusing look.... What did he do?
lanie looked away, her jaw tightening as though the mory annoyed her all over again. "You really don’t rember?" she asked without looking at him.
He shook his head slowly, cautiously, getting more and more worried by the minute. "No. I an, flashes. You were there. I pulled you onto the bed, I think. But after that... it’s all gone."
She let out a short, humorless laugh, still not eting his eyes. "Of course it is."
The silence that followed made his chest tighten again, uncertainty wrapping around him like cold wires. "lanie," he said, stepping closer, "what did I—?"
Before he could finish, there was the sound of running feet and a triumphant voice yelling, "Found it!" followed by Adir walking into the room.
Adam gave a worried glance at lanie who turned away, her expression still cold. Adam turned to Adir, ready to see his gift, anwhile, lanie who had turned away, almost laughed out loud.
Sigh! She deserved an Oscar for her performance just now. For a mont, she felt guilty about troubling him on his birthday but that was only montary. Ha! Who told him to drink so much and give her this golder opprotunity. Who knew when she would have a chance again to prank him?
With that, she escaped to the kitchen where they had ordered a multitude of breakfast dishes and pretended to set the plates for eating, while she happily thought back to the scene from last night.
After leaving Adam on the bed in the master bedroom, she had returned to find Adir already asleep.
That was when she’d heard the sound. A loud and sudden thud from Adam’s room just as she was about to lie down next to Adir. Her first instinct was panic-what if he’d hit his head or passed out in the wrong direction? She’d rushed back toward the master bedroom, hoping it was not an ergency.
When she pushed the door open, the scene that t her was so ridiculous, she almost forgot to be concerned.
Adam was on the floor, shirtless, halfway tangled in his own trousers, one sock still on, the other nowhere in sight. He was lying on his back, knees bent, one arm flung dramatically over his eyes like a swooning heroine from a bad soap opera. His other hand was weakly tugging at the waistband of his pants, as though they had personally betrayed him by not coming off imdiately when he tried to take it off.
Hurriedly, she rushed forward and called out, "Adam?"
But before she could reach down and help him up, he flailed, scooted back like a crab and waved her off with surprising strength for soone that drunk. "Don’t touch !" he slurred, blinking furiously as he pointed in a direction that was completely opposite to her... "Only my lon can touch . Beautiful... soft... sweet lon. You... You’re not her."
lanie almost laughed at that and shook her head at his silliness. Why did he have so many cute ways? Amused, despite herself, she stepped forward and tried to help him up,"I am lanie. Co on. Get up now."
"Nooo. You are the dream lanie... Not the real one. I know. I want the real lon. Co on, go. Shoo! Send the real lanie."
That caused her to laugh and shaking her head, she tried to pull him up again, only for him to push her hands away, causing her to fall on top of his chest with a loud, ’oof.’
She narrowed her eyes in frustration and tried to push herself up and off him, only to get further entangled with his flailing limbs as they clumsily pulled and pushed at each other in a chaotic, uncoordinated struggle. After nearly fifteen minutes of fumbling, awkward grappling, and more than one accidental elbow to his ribs, Adam was finally back on the bed-breathless, slightly dazed, and sporting multiple red scratches across his chest... though he would probably be happy about them when he woke up.
She stood there, hearing him mutter about how she had ’sullied’ him by touching him and that he would have to clean himself. And then... to top things off, he had snuggled into the blanket and muttered about saving himself for lanie... And that was when she’d had the idea to scare him...
lanie ca back to the present when Adir almost bumped into her, asking if they were ready to cut the cake. She smiled and nodded at that before sending a look at Adam, who was still standing there, with a worried look on his face.
The poor guy was probably on the verge of an emotional spiral, still processing fragnts of mories, none of which made sense. She almost felt bad again. Almost.
Deciding to bring him out of his misery, she walked to him, caught his wrist, whispered sothing in his ear that had him widen his eyes and give her a ’lusty’ stare, before he followed her to the table. Or rather, dragged her to the table.
He may have been half-dead from the hangover and anxiety over whatever had transpired last night, but there was nothing wrong with his reflexes the mont he heard what she whispered. lanie smirked to herself. Oh, he was definitely back to life now. Birthday or not, he deserved every ounce of the panic she’d just made him live through.
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