a/n: for OTP Week Challenge
fortune cookie - spring - 499 words - T - Romance
Lit festively with red paper lanterns disguised as lamps, the restaurant was a center of warmth, lights spilling through the windows and into the night outside. Rows of cherry blossom trees leading up to the building fluttered, pink petals drifting free and swirling in the wind. Spring was finally here.
"Delicious, isn't it?" N murmured, spearing a beautifully sauteed mushroom and popping it into his mouth. His eyes closed as he savored the taste.
"Delicious it is. Decadent, as well," Touko replied, carefully slurping up a large mass of noodles, golden-colored beads of broth dripping from the strings and around her chopsticks. As she swallowed, she let out an audible sigh of pleasure. "We need to come here more often. As in, two times every day for lunch and dinner."
"No breakfast?"
"Sadly, breakfast is not served here. But Arceus, if they did..."
"Heaven on earth," agreed N, eating a crisp piece of broccoli.
"Extravagant."
"Perfection."
"An orgasmic gustatory experience."
"I wholeheartedly a-wait, did you just say orgasmic?"
"Indeed I did."
"An orgasmic gustatory experience," N said, rolling the phrase on his tongue. He grinned. "Such an interesting choice of words, my dear."
"A fan of wordplay, are you?" she asked, and the two of them chuckled at that. After they finished, their smiling waitress came by with the bill and a plate of two fortune cookies.
"Shall I get the bill?" questioned Touko, reaching in her purse.
"Let me," interjected N, taking the white slip of paper away and scribbling his signature onto the bottom, then extricating a credit card and laying it across the top. The waitress returned to take the slip and the credit card, leaving the two of them alone for yet another while.
"Fortune cookie?" N offered, holding one of the plastic-wrapped treats out. Touko, smiling, took it and stared at the smooth yellow lines nestled inside the wrapper.
"At the same time?" asked Touko.
"Yeah."
"One, two..." They ripped the wrappers open, removed the cookie, broke it apart, and held the slim piece of paper facing down, their eyes fixed on each other. "...and three."
"'You will fall in love with an alluring, mysterious stranger,'" Touko read, eyeing her slip with some amusement.
N stared at his. "'Eat more green vegetables. They will aid in your growth and development.'"
His girlfriend burst into laughter. "Seriously? That's what you got? I thought it would've been something romantic like mine was."
"Are green vegetables and development not enough for you, milady?"
She caught on to his implications and smacked him on the arm, blushing furiously. "N, you dirty rogue!"
"Dirty rogue?" he said with a smirk.
"I think you're a very sexy, mysterious, alluring dirty rogue."
"Do you, now?"
Wordlessly, as though drawn by some sort of gravitation, their lips met across the table. When they pulled away, they did so with red cheeks and a slight breathlessness. Touko was grinning, as was N.
Outside, the petals danced.