Prompt 4: "You're insane!" "I know, isn't it great?"
Hoshi looked around the mess hall, brightly coloured tissue paper, streamers and balloons attempting to create a party atmosphere. She smiled, rolled her eyes and moved to grab and drink from a nearby table. Spotting her friend and fellow ensign from engineering, Laura Briggs, she quickly started up a conversation.
Half an hour later, the doors slid open to reveal Trip and Travis dressed in equally garish Hawaiian shirts, Trip even sported a sombrero. Both scurried to the nearest comm. station and Trip entered a few commands. Over the main speaker system came a rock song from the 20th century. Hoshi immediately cracked a grin when she heard the song, reminded of her parents dancing to it when she was young.
Trip and Travis turned from their spot, exchanged glances and made their way over to the unsuspecting ensigns.
"Laura," Trip was the first to speak, a cheeky grin covering his face. "Would ya care to dance with me?" She nodded gleefully, took the offered hand and followed him onto the dance floor.
"Hoshi, would you do me the honour of being my partner?" Travis looked at her with hope in his dark eyes. Her grin threatened to split her face as she eagerly nodded, allowing him to drag her across the mess hall. Once they'd reached the makeshift dance floor, he turned and pulled her as close as possible and began dancing.
"Travis, I didn't know you could dance like this!" Hoshi exclaimed after he'd spun her out and pulled her back in.
"Well every gentleman should know how to." He winked at her before grabbing both sides of her waist and lifting her high into the air.
They continued like this for the rest of the song, Travis lifting, spinning and dancing with Hoshi never too far from him. She forgot they weren't alone, having eyes only for him. As the song stopped they stood barely a breath apart smiling at each other.
"You're insane!"
He merely grinned replying, "I know, isn't it great!" She just nodded, looking around, unable to form a response without giggling. She turned her gaze back on Travis finding his eyes still trained on her.
"Travis?" She asked slightly cautious, unsure why he staring at her so intensely. He leaned forward catching her lips and the gasp before she relaxed into the kiss, her arms coming around his neck, his still on her waist. Pulling apart only when the need for oxygen arose, he spun her around lifting her in the air.
"I am the luckiest guy ever!" She laughed then suddenly became aware of applause, placing Hoshi down they both looked around to see their fellow crewmates cheering.
"Took ya long enough!" Trip shouted over the crowd, Travis just laughed while Hoshi tried to bury herself into his side.