Smiling in the photo booth.
"Castle lets go!" Kate yelled knocking on his bedroom door. "We are going to be late meeting espo and laine"
"I will be out in a minute, need to grab my wallet"
Kate sighs and walks out into his living room, sitting down on the bar stool as he walks out of his room smiling at her.
"Really, I just sat down"
"Well we don't want to be late for our 'double date'"
She groans, while standing up "What did I say about calling it that?"
"Not too?"
"Yes this is not a double date" she gestures between them. "We aren't even dating"
He wiggles his eyebrows "That could aways change"
She groans again. "Castle we are so not having this conversation now" looking down at her watch. "Great now we are going to be late "
"What conversation? All I'm saying is..." he said walking towards the door, with Kate following him.
"Castle!"
"Huh?" He asked opening the door.
"Let's go!" she said pushing him out of the door and into the hallway.
"Where are we going again?" he asks as he presses the elevator button.
"The mall" She answers quickly.
He groans, and she looks at him with a questioning look on her face. "Why do they want to go to the mall?"
The elevator doors open and they walk into it, he presses the lobby button and the elevator starts to move.
"Lanie wants to find a dress for so wedding she has to go to in about a week or so, and she wanted company "
"And you offered"
"Of course I did"
"Then why is espo and I going?"
"Espo wants to spend time with his girlfriend and I didn't want to be the third wheel so I invited you and you said yes"
The elevator arrives at the lobby and the two of them walk out towards the cars.
"So this is going to be a 'shop till we drop' day?"
She laughs as they reach her car and she unlocks it. "Sure, if you want to look at it that way"
"Yeah" he says not so excited.
"You know you could have said no right?"
"And let you be a third wheel? No way!"
"That sweet, but I wouldn't have minded" she said starting her car.
"Yeah, we'll I'm hoping this gives me brownie points"
She laughs as she backs up and starts to drive toward the mall.
"Well does it?" he asks
She glances over at him, not saying anything as she thinks the question over.
"Kate?"
She looks back at the road, "Yes" she simple says, and even though she isn't looking at him she could tell that he was smiling.
"So, where are we meeting the lovely couple?" Castle asks as they step out of the car and start walking towards the entrance of the mall.
Pulling out her phone and looking through her test from Lanie, "Lanie says that she wants to go to JC pennies, Macy's, and Norstoms looking for the dress, and she also said she wants to go to Macy's first so I'm guessing the entrance to Macy's but let me text her and see"
Castle nods and continues to walk along side her not really paying attention to what was going on so when Kate's phone went off, he jumped which made Kate laugh.
"She said yes meet in frount of Macy's also they are running a little late" she said chuckling at him.
"Alright" he said as they arrived at Macy's entrance. "What do we do now?"
She points to a bench, and walks towards it. "Why don't we sit down and talk?"
"Sure" he said following her to the bench and sitting down. "So what do you want to talk about?"
"I have no clue" she said sitting leaving a few inches between them.
He nods and looks around a everything around them. There was a Shoe store a little to their left, a Chinese food place to their right, and then Macy's in front of them, with a photo booth in right next to it.
"You hungry?" he asks trying to start a conversation.
"No, I ate before I come and got you"
"Need more shoes?" he said looking over at her, and answers for her. "No" she smiles at him. "How about we go and get our photos taken?"
"What? Why would we do that?"
"Yeah at the photo booth other there" he said pointing at it. "And because we have nothing better to do but wait here" he said shrugging his shoulders. "But if you would rather we could..."
"Sure"
"... Stay here and..." he stops mid- sentence and looks at her. "Did you just say yes?"
"Yes Castle I just said yes" she said standing up and walking towards the booth. Realizing he wasn't following her, she looks over her shoulder and asks. "You coming Castle?"
"Uh... Yeah" he said standing up and jogging to meet up with her.
"But I'm paying for them" she says as they walk.
"But I wa..."
"No butts Castle I'm paying"
"Fine" he said pouting
"Good boy" she patted his check as they came up to the booth. She pulls out her money and puts it in the machine as they both sit down on the seat that was built in it. She relaxes back, and looks over at Castle. "What are we going to do for the pictures"
"Well one we should smile for, another we could do silly" he said shrugging his shoulders. "how many pictures are there going to be?"
"4 I believe"
"Alright, so that 2, why don't we wing the other 2?"
"Sure" She places her hand on top of the button to start the picture taking. "Ready? We have 5 seconds to get ready for each picture" she said glances at him.
He nods as he scoots more towards her, placing a hand over her shoulder. "I'm ready"
She presses the button as the screen has a 5 that appears on the screen counting down to one. They smile, as the picture is taken. The 5 reappears on the screen as Castle says "Silly"
Castle goes cross eyed as he sticks out his tongue, as his hands goes up towards his face acting like he is going to shoot his check. As Kate scrunches up her nose, and makes a frown as he sticks to her tongue out. Both chuckling as the picture is taken.
They laugh and look at each other not knowing what else to do. Castle looks straight into her eyes. Just as the 3 on the machine pops up he places his hand on her check, looking from her lips to her eyes as she does the same for him. The picture takes and starts to count for the last picture. He cautiously leans in, and she does the same. As the 1 pops up on the screen he firmly presses a kiss to her lips.
He tries to pull back, but she wouldn't let him as she scoots forward. Running her tongue along his bottom lip asking for entrance, which he grants. He groans and pulls her closer to him if that is posable.
They both moan, just as Kate's phone chimes telling her that someone texted her. When her phone went off they both jump apart. She avoided his eyes as she looks for her phone. Clearing her throat.
"Uh... They're here" she said scooting out of the photo booth.
