Sailing Ships
Nicholas: Andy Grammer; I Choose You
Rose: Faith Hill; This Kiss
"Going to see her again, Boy?" Adam asked as the younger tod grinned from ear to ear. "I think you might be more than smitten with that vixen."
"What can I say- You've seen her!"
Adam laughed as the young fox in front of him held his paws out. "She's an albino fox boy. You know they can't… well."
"I know, you told me and still I don't care. I could get lost in those Wild green eyes forever…." the young tod turned letting his tail swish as he started walking and turned back watching Adam grinning as a hyena approached him and leaned into his ear. The older fox was laughing at him as he threw his paws out and smiled before he turned and ran off to meet her again….
Nicholas made his way to the other side of town to the Gardens. He tipped a brow as Ross stood talking to a massive bull. One he recognized from the night with Fayre, Vel and Thorn. He tipped his head, chuckling as the bull caught sight of him and bellowed out a laugh that had him ticking his head and shrugging as Ross looked back to him grinning. "Got some good stories to tell from that night, don't you?" he asked and Nicholas ran his paws over his ears and sucked his teeth as he bounced his brow. Ross shook his head as he pointed to the bull who was still laughing. "You must have made an impression if he was letting you ride around on his back and you managed to hang on for that long before he threw you in the mud." Nicholas blinked and curled his lip as his eye twitched. Ross and the bull looked at each other and were cackling as his ears flipped back. "I don't think he remembers that!" Ross caught his breath and pointed to a section where a small trail was. "She's waiting for you down that path." Nicholas nodded and walked away as Ross shook paws with the bull. He turned and left when Fayre stepped beside him chuckling, and tipped his head.
"Lights are up, Dad. Thorn and Vel just left everything with her so he's right on time." Fayre looked up grinning at the bull as he held a paw out. Thanks, Chian."
The bull grunted and smiled as he grabbed his paw. "The next time give us some damn warning."
Fayre laughed as he shook his head. "That would have ruined the shock on his face and you figuring it out!"
"Wild foxes…." The bull rolled his eyes and left laughing as he muttered.
Nicholas made his way down a heavily planted path, having to dip under several low hanging green branches before he came out in a wide opening. The silver fox looked around with a partially opened maw that turned the corners of his lips up at the little lights hung all around the roses and trees. He turned a full one eighty and found himself looking at a table that had a plaid cloth laid over it with a large assortment of food, and tipped his head grinning as he stuck his paws on his hips. The albino vixen who had dipped her ears back nervously as she folded her arms behind her back, shied her eyes smiling as she bit her lip. "OK, I'm supposed to be the one who's trying to impress you, but there's no way I'm going to complain."
Nicholas sat with her at the table and watched as she fixed him a plate, more than a little curious about the food as she sat it in front of him. The vixen giggled as he took several bites and was watching him as he rolled his eyes several times and shook his head. "Well darlin, I think you got me beat." He looked around sighing as he sat his fork down. "Not even the picnic I took you on could top this." She poured a glass of red wine in front of him and he curled his lip as he shivered. She laughed as he shook his head. "I think I had more than enough of any of that stuff the other night."
Nicholas tipped a brow as she picked up her glass. She shrugged before she tipped it back and downed half of it. He picked up the glass sniffing it and she laughed as he took a sip, making a sour face before sitting it back down and shaking his head. "I had to try it if you like it that much." Snickering as she folded her paws under her chin smiling at him. He watched as she pulled a cover off another tray and looked back at her with a lowered sneaky brow as she pulled a large strawberry out and held it in front of him. "Are you trying to sedu…." he looked off and bit his tongue as she giggled. The silver tod cleared his throat and sighed. "It was delicious but if I eat any more, I'll explode." She sat it down before she stood smiling, and held a paw out to him before he stood and wrapped his fingers around hers. He was almost being dragged until he was walking next to her as they stayed on a low-lit path and wound up on a paved section that circled around a large lake. They walked together as he kept ticking his eyes to her smiling, noting how she seemed to keep glancing at him and shying her eyes each time they caught each other. She stopped and turned in front of him as she held his paw, letting go as she reached into her pocket before her face fell. Nicholas tipped his head and smirked as she rolled her eyes. "You forgot your paper?" he asked and chuckled as she seemed to slouch and frown slightly. He grabbed her paws as she looked up at him a little sadly. "I can figure it out."
The vixen sighed as he held his fingers up and she cupped his paws in hers, moving his fingers as he tried to imitate what she'd been teaching him. He looked back at her grinning as she smiled and nodded. "Did I spell it right? Nicholas?" he asked as she wrinkled her nose and nodded. "And this is T," he moved his fingers as she watched his paws. "R.A.N.Q." He sighed as he looked the other direction and shook his head. "I wish I could just call you Rose. You've got to be the most beautiful white Rose I've ever seen, and a wild one on top of that. I'd love to pick you and take you home with me…."
He turned shaking his head and let his eyes widen as she looked at him with a face full of awe. The young fox swallowed as he shrank away, kicking himself for forgetting how well she could read lips, even if he had muttered the words. He was crinkling his forehead in regret as she stepped closer to him and let his eyes fall as he sighed. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I know I'm not supposed to be the one who…." He stopped and bit his lip as the fur on her paw barely brushed his cheek, pulling his attention back to her. She placed her paws in his and flicked her ears as Nicholas smirked. "I'm listening," he nodded as he noted the movement of her ears and looked at her paws resting in his as he held them open and closed his eyes, concentrating on the movement of her fingers. She curled her paw and held one pinky out so he could feel it. "I," he said and waited as he felt her fingers shift again. Her thumb and first finger shot open and the other fingers curled into her palm. "L," his face turned as her fingers curled into a ball and she held it against his palm as he scrunched his nose and smiled. "O," he said as she bit her lip watching his face twist as he recalled each letter. Her index and middle fingers popped out into a v and he nodded. "V," his eyes shot open as her paw curled and bent at her knuckles. "E…. I Love…." He gasped as she dipped her head, grinning at his wide eyes. She'd never said it to him before. The silver fox in front of her was breathing heavily as she lifted his paws to her head, running his fingers over her face as she rumbled lightly, and waited as he froze.
She kept her paws wrapped around his wrists as she looked up at him coyly, biting her lip. He looked back at her paws after she'd made the motion of him keeping his where they were and watched her point at herself. "You?" He asked and she shook her head as she patted her chest. "Me…. My?" She nodded as she urged him to keep going. "N.I.C.H.O.L.A. S …. My Nicholas?" he asked as she grabbed his wrists again and pulled his paws over and above her eyes so they were just above his ears. His breath caught as she raised her brows and waited nervously. The silver fox's eyes misted over as he looked back at his paws and her ears flicked back as he swallowed, watching her paws again….
She's nervous, forgot her paper, brothers took me out partying and- Is she asking me to….?
He repeated the words back to her almost cautiously as her fingers moved again.. "I love My Nicholas…. Be…. My…. Nicholas…. Marry me?"
His ears tipped as his eyes flew back to her face and his paws fell and cupped over hers as they both leaned in. "Yes." A rushed breath from each of them was sucked in before they locked into a deep kiss. They were both rumbling as he held her head in one paw. His other moved down her back and pulled her to her toes. She let out a wanting whine when he rumbled loud enough that her chest was tingling with the vibration of his voice as it rolled through their muzzles. The vixen huffed as they pulled apart and opened her eyes watching him smiling from ear to ear as he tipped his head back and placed her paws on his head above his eyes. He watched her eyes glisten as she took his paw and stepped away from him, extending both their arms before he turned with her as she circled around him slowly and stopped back in front of him.
"I don't think I'll ever understand that." He said as she stood in front of him, letting her head fall back. "That, I understand." He dipped lower and she closed her eyes as he wrapped his jaw around her throat growling when she pinned his ears to his head. The vixen was sobbing as he let go and set his muzzle to one side. She leaned up and he tipped his head into hers as they both ran their scent through the other's fur, marking each other. "Yes. I'll be your Nicholas…." The fox smirked as she bit her lip and pinned his ears back again, leaning on her toes as her weight stayed against his chest. He looked around with a sneaky expression before he pulled her closer, chuckling as she whimpered when he kept his lips just out of her reach. "I guess your brothers aren't going to stop us this time, are they?" Nicholas was almost glowing as she whined. The vixen melted as he rumbled, and kissed her again…..