Lina positively hated to admit it, but she was feeling a little left out and reaaaaly bored. She huffed again, blowing an errant red lock out of her face. She was currently ensconced in her bedroom, having had more than enough of syrupy Lover's Day mushiness, courtesy of Zel and Amelia, not to mention Gourry and Sylphiel.
"Who would want flowers, anyway?" she muttered crossly into her pillow. Never mind that she had turned brilliantly green with envy at the spectacular boquet of roses that Amelia had received from Zel this morning.
"Not to mention badly written love poems," she muttered, wrinkling her nose in disgust. Even though she was touched by the simple one Gourry had presented Sylphiel with.
"Indeed, I can't imagine why!" Xellos said, perching at the foot of her bed with what looked like a box of the best chocolates that money could buy. He was grinning his happy fruitcake grin, and making little noises of pleasure that bordered on the indecent as he consumed the chocolate.
Lina lunged for the box and ended up thrown across his lap, having successfully grabbed the box despite his attempt to move it out of her reach. Still lying thusly, Lina bit into a chocolate and closed her eyes in pure delight. "Best chocolate in the whole wide world," she sighed happily.
She cautiously tried another. It was strawberry cream in the inside, which prompted Xellos to look for a matching chocolate once she reported this. This also degenerated into a fight over possession of the box, which Lina won due to the fact that she unwittingly moved in such a way that Xellos suddenly seemed to have a hard time breathing.
The next one was coconut, which Lina definitively did not like at all, and told Xellos as much after she took a nibble. "Coconut?" Xellos exclaimed happily. "Fork it over, Lina-chan!" She turned a bit in his lap to hand it to him.
She was somewhat amused to see him with his eyes screwed shut, and his mouth open in invitation. "Fruitcake," she said affectionately, and popped the offending chocolate in his mouth. She reached into the box again. "Damn. Coconut again. Open wide, Xel," she instructed, lifting the chocolate to his lips.
Oh, he took the chocolate again, but this time he captured one of her fingers and sucked it gently before releasing it. Her eyes widened at this new addition, as well as at the fact that she had enjoyed it. She began searching for another coconut, hoping she wasn't being too obvious.
She allowed him to feed her a mint chocolate, and a few chocolates later she mimicked his rather sensuous manuver. A few chocolates more, and he was bending down to kiss her and they happily lost themselves in a little paradise of chocolate-flavored kisses.
They were lying side by side, embracing. He kissed the tip of her nose, which made her giggle, and she reached out one hand to push his bangs away from his eyes. "What's gotten into you, Xellos," she murmured drowsily, the afternoon sun shining in her eyes. "Not right to toy with an innocent maiden's heart."
He shifted her in his embrace and brought his lips to her ear. "Want me to tell you a secret, Lina-chan?" he whispered, blowing gently into her ear.
"Mmmm...sure," she sighed.
"I'm lonely," he confessed, tightening his embrace.
Lina laid her cheek against his. "You're lucky I'm a short-term planner."
"How's that?" he asked curiously, looking into her eyes.
Lina smiled the sweetest smile to have graced her lips in quite some time. "Because I just decided to make you un-lonely, in spite of all common sense. But then, today really doesn't have anything in common with rational thought," she told him.
"I'm rational," he protested faintly against her lips.
"No, you're a fruitcake. Though in light of this, I'm not much better, am I?" she asked, her eyes bright with amusement. Xellos laughed and undid the clasp to her cloak, leaving conversation for a later time. Preferably, he thought, pillow talk.