Pairing: MarcoAce
Prompt: "I'm at a family reunion, and I'm pretty sure I've never seen you before, but I have a big family, so I'm not too worried about it. Only, now you're flirting with me, and THAT concerns me a little. Oh, you're just my cousin's best friend? By all means, continue." For rboooks.
Rating: T for slight language.
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A heavy feeling of confusion was in me as I stared to the freckled face male, trying to place him somewhere. The name was strikingly familiar and very known by Thatch and Izo, even Haruta and Namura knew who the guy was. I obviously knew how big the family could be and Pops had a habit of adopting randomly so one of my brothers or sisters could have had any number of cousins. So, why is that Ace was familiar, but I couldn't place him correctly?
The only person I could even remotely put him with as family is Izo or maybe Namur, but Thatch was mentioning about him the most. As far as I am aware of is that Thatch didn't have any other family around that he ever wanted to associate with again after what happened. So, Ace couldn't be related to him as far as I am aware of, but I mean… it could be possible?
Well, the reason I really wanted to know was because I am pretty sure that the brat is flirting with me. Like, I was aware on how I could be oblivious, but he was making it obvious that even Vista and Rakuyou were chuckling in amusement with a knowing look. They weren't helpful though on who the kid was and I soon resorted to just asking one of the ones who knew him.
"Ace? He's Thatch's best friend," Izo mentioned to me as I felt this wave of relief through me. A twinkle was in brown eyes as I noticed my sister give a big grin of amusement, "ooohh~! You thought he was family?"
"This is a family reunion, yoi." I comment, making her shrug with a slight hum as an arm was over her chest and the other rested on it to have a finger tap her chin.
"Touche, 'tis is." She still smiled whilst tilting her head and gave me a look. "So, are you going to banter back?"
"Hell yes." The words left me as I soon walked off, leaving her laughing in a small fit. I moved over to notice Ace chattering to Atmos about something before my brother saw me and soon excused himself–it seemed the whole family knew of the flirting but that was no surprise. Ace turned to be facing sideways before seeming to notice me, making a grin appear with a cocky twitch coming into play.
"Hey, blondie!" He greeted me as I soon stopped before him with a smirk gracing my lips.
"Have you ever played strip poker, brat?"