Noodle approached Stuart wordlessly and he smiled tiredly as he took her hand. The nausea left him as he touched her cheek. His Noodle, sweet as ever the way she was in a little dress looking up at him with those bright green eyes. "Didn't expect I'd find yew here," 2D said as he lifted her chin. Her hands were on his chest as she ran them along his body. This felt so sudden. They weren't even dancing yet. However maybe it would be better that way. Maybe it was better she wasn't holding him yet. Her arms wrapped around his neck to fix that. The music was extremely slow. Her heart pounding as she looked him in the eye. She was grinning ear to ear as she saw him return the look. Just two friends dancing at a party. Even if it were slow. Even if he kissed her again just then. Just friends.
Even if she kept kissing him over and over and over and over and over and over, they were just friends.
He was getting sweaty again as he spun her around in a slow rotation. But her eyes said more then her voice could when she looked at him. Stuart tried smiling without being creepy looking. He whispered to her softly "I'm sorry if I can be perceived wrongly luv. Turns out my date ain't that well going. Most guys'd like it but I need something with more substance."
Noodle blushed deep red and shivered. "Committing myself is a nerve wracking thought. To anyone. But..." Her voice trailed off looking at Wayne. He was surrounded by Stuart's troupe of women he lead in like baby ducks behind its mother. "...I wanted so much for you to...to just...work on you ya'know? Now I'm just...I want to be with you Stu. I just don't know if that's the best choice right now for your sake..."
The two were quiet as the song came to its few last verses. If they didn't act now they would be stuck with the others. Their hearts pounding as they knew they needed to act fast. Yet time felt slower then they needed it to be.
"Why don't ye just think I don't know what's best fer me? If ya don't want commitment then whatever, but yew don't have no right to just say what is and ain't good fer me. I'm still an adult Noodle, and if yew refuse to grow up yet then I won't mind that. I don't want yew to rush yerself, but if ye jus want out of the situation with that ovher guy I saw ye with, we can just take it upstairs." Stuart said this and walked off as the music changed. Clearly some ounce of anger and sadness behind yellow eyes as he took to the bar and chugged before trudging upstairs leaving a guilty Noodle on the dance floor to get drunk before following Stuart up. He made a point, she was being childish in some ways. In ways where she was much more focused on herself when he wasn't involved. Her need to go out and party for no reason and her inability to just be able to handle herself whenever she was with Gorillaz was definitely not a positive sign. Yet when she was back in Japan she was just fine? Was it the money that pushed her? The fame even? Was it worth telling Stuart...no...2D...is it worth telling 2D that he couldn't handle me? He could have done that. He could've been my partner in crime no different then now. It would just change the way we talked and acted only ever so slightly. We were practically an item already... Did I really just throw that out? I said it was for him and yet...
Yet it was me masking my own feelings to just reject him, pretend to mother him, then go on to sleep with him.
I forgot about that last part. Regardless, I think its best to think and not act based on the liquor in my system. The only act awaits me up those stairs.
Noodle walked up the stairs as she sighed. This was terrifying and amazing at once. She had only kissed 2D twice and yet he was waiting for her possibly nude by now. Plus, if she didn't get him his date would've. And another illegitimate child was not what 2D needed right now. This was a job and only Noodle was fit for it.
2D fidgeted with his shirt. Throwing it off immediately and itching the back of his head after remembering too much still. He needed more liquor before he could do this. He blushed hard. Any moment now Noodle would be in and on too of him. He felt like a virgin teenager again. How did he manage to tell her she was being childish but still successfully manage to get her to want in his pants like this? Could it have been the way she was making him feel? How could he have said what he did? What did he say again??
A knock intruded into his thoughts like an alarm going off too early. He said come in, but in a voice that was soft enough to where he wondered if she heard. But when the door opened it was still her regardless. Noodle let her hair down and might have downed more shots then he had. Regardless the muffled music turned to a different pace when she walked in with that cute black dress. Stuart oddly felt relieved. For once, he was gonna actually do what he set out to. Peel off that dress instead of that other bloke, and when Noodle sat on his lap and faced him as she smiled kindly before moving some of his hair behind his ear, he was relieved to know they both wanted this. Noodle wasn't doing this out of pity, which was really the greatest pleasure.