A/N: From Pink Heart Maiden - thank you for your review earlier, welcome to the team~ Here's one of your prompts and I will use more in the future!
It's been so long. I'm tired, overwhelmed, and just trying to pass my classes and keep up with band and read a goddamned book. Sorry.
Post-series AU.
Thanks for being patient everyone.
21
Gasp
"If this isn't illegal, I don't know what is."
He ignores her and instead rolls ungracefully off the sill onto the hard floor, groaning softly and sitting up to carefully close the window.
"Still think this is illegal."
Thomas stands up slowly, silhouetted by the glaring light of the waxing moon, and Rio can't shake the feeling that it's watching, ready to tell on them. For she's quickly distracted by her visitor brushing off his black pants and straitening his leather jacket in an attempt to regain some dignity.
"You just broke into my dorm room," Rio says plainly. "You're lucky my roommate is off sneaking with her boyfriend. Oh my God, this is illegal. You're older than me. You don't go to this school. You're breaking the law."
"I'm allowed to visit my own girlfriend," he retorts, shifting his weight more to one hip and running a hand through blonde and red hair. The same moonlight glints off his dark eyes, making him look rather ominous.
She raises her eyebrows at him. He's an idiot. "Not in the dead of night without permission. You look like a burglar. Or worse."
Thomas shrugs and struts over to the desk she has been trying to write her essay at. It's the due the next day and worth a fourth of her grade in that class and this dork is making her future dwindle before her very eyes. He leans against the edge of it and blinks down at her papers spread out haphazardly. "You spelled 'inconsistency' wrong."
"Well sor-ry it's eleven at night."
"Just saying."
"Whatever," Rio argues, scooting out her chair and moving to sit on the mattress of her bottom bunk. Using her toes to pull off her socks, she signs heavily and glares at Thomas again, hunching her shoulders and folding her hands in her lap in what she hopes appears disapproving.
Instead, he smiles wide and marches in front of her, stooping and placing the palms of his hands on the edge of her mattress, leaning into her and smirking. The whites of his teeth gleam slightly in a lopsided grin that is both amusing and rather attractive. He sets his forehead on hers and murmurs, "I missed you."
Rio feels her resolve weaken because really, she's missed him so much, too. She is stressed, anxious, tired, and sometimes lonely holed up in the dormitory with a roomie she hardly knows. Against her better judgement, she raises her fingers and tangles them behind his ear into his soft, soft hair. She mutters that he's a prat again before pressing her lips to his.
Slowly, he's pushing her onto the bed further, moving to trail open-mouthed kisses along her jaw. She wraps her arms around his neck and buries her nose in his shoulder, inhaling the smell of him and shifting to taste his tongue once more.
Then there are voices outside the locked door and Rio panics, gasping in quiet panic - Thomas kisses her harder to muffle the noise. He hurries to crawl off of her (how they were lying down was suddenly a mystery) as the knocking starts.
Rio buttons up the collar of her shirt (which was also mysteriously undone, but now was not the time to be scolding him) and practically runs the short distance to the window. Thankful she's on the first floor, she snatches Thomas's wrist and nearly lifts him out of it. He stumbles into the bushes that are up to his waist and moans when he bonks his head on the bar that holds the cheap curtains.
Rubbing the sore spot, he glares at Rio and says, "Nice seeing you, too, beautiful."
"Well, this is what you get for doing something illegal," Rio responds snarkily, shooing him. "You have to go! I love you, have a safe trip home."
"Yeah, yeah," he chuckles, planting an affectionate peck on her nose.
Then he has disappeared into the dark and Rio hastily leaves to let her bunk-buddy inside.
~Finish~