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Alternate Universe

"We're gonna be late."

Nico Robin dashes through the living room as soon as Cutty Flam called her, him in a surprisingly smart casual button-down powder blue shirt that had crinkled around the elbow-length folded sleeves and around the waist where he tucked it in, and a forced slim-fit pants that he seemed rather uncomfortable in, and her in an ivory laced dress which covers her chest, flares around her waist and falls on her knees, much like the one Audrey Hepburn wore during an Academy Award event from decades ago, oh, how she loved Audrey Hepburn. Her gorgeous raven locks fell behind her gracefully as she stopped by the wall mirror in the living room, the one she had purposely placed there so that the incident of going out with her teeth being decorated with spinach would never happen again.

"Robin, c'mon. We're gonna be late."

She fixed the front parts of her hair, ensuring she wouldn't look extremely boring, and she fixed her eyebrows as well. She fixed every single part of her face,and finally, her teeth.

"Robin, you're super beautiful. Now let's go." Flam, previously leaning against the frame of her front door, toyed with the keys as he leaned over. Time to go means time to go.

"Oh, you're just saying that so I'd be leaving the house with make-up flaws I have overlooked."

Despite Robin rolling her eyes at him, he gave her a crooked smile. "You're super beautiful. And if we're late now, you'll have to live with one make-up flaw at the gig later."

Robin squinted her eyes at him suspiciously. "Don't tell me you stole my lipstick, or else you'll be such a gay."

"Hey, it's not called being gay, it's called being fabulous!" Flam winked at her. "And no, no lipstick involved."

Robin laughed a little. "Do I have to flirt the answer out of you? Or should I just purposely make us late for the gig?"

"If you want Perona to wait," he caught her waist with both his hands, and leaned closer to her. He gave her a quick kiss on her red porcelain coloured lips. His hands cupped the back of her neck for a little, and she allowed him to comb through her hair. He flipped her locks to one side, so they all only fell on her right side, revealing her left pearl earrings.

"Super earrings. But..."

"But?"

He quickly leaned in and bit lightly on her neck, and she was half-giggling through being ticklish and half-struggling to loosen his embrace. She managed to push her back after a light punch on his shoulder, and all he did was laugh. "A hickey is the best make-up flaw!"

"Genius, Cutty Flam. Genius." She quickly turned back to the mirror, and inspected the reddened spot on her neck. "I hope no one will fuss about this, it's embarrassing."

"We're late, you got your make-up flaw."

"Cheap tactic you used, though. At least this isn't Twilight."

"Hey, your hair looks prettier that way."

"That wasn't your intention." She picked up the keys to her house on the key hook by the mirror, and proceeded to Flam again. "Come, that little pink-haired rockstar won't wait for us."

He stepped out to her doorstep as he waited for her to lock her front door. "We have VIP passes. Neon Lights VIP passes. She'll wait for us, at least for the Made In The USA song we wrote for her."

"Yeah, I suppose." Done locking her front door, she kept her keys in her little laced clutch and caught up to Flam, who was walking away to his Volvo parked in front of her porch. "Flam?" She called out, and Cutty Flam turned. With a swift movement, she puckered her lips and pressed her lips hard over the fabric below Flam's collar. Once she pulled away - leaving Flam surprised - she giggled at the red lipstick stain she left.

"What? What?"

"You gave me visible hickeys, now we're even!"

Flam watched her enter the front seat from the other side of the car, with his mouth still open, surprised at how she gave a spontaneous devilish payback. "Um, can you do that again? But you know, leave a stain over here, you know, just above my waist."

"Oh, Flam, that's very unromantic."

This is actually a spin-off from Ask Your Heart, if the ending would be with Robin ended up dating Flam because he's such a sweetheart, you hear? I just realized I haven't yet to change AYH from 'In Progress' to 'Complete', so I decided to write a sequel chapter maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow. By the way, yeah. Spot the references!

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