A/N: I'm on vacation and writing anything on this dumb tablet is a bitch, so have a short chap:)

Prompt from Maki. Thanks, keep dropping those prompts gaiz, your support means a lot, and I appreciate reviews if you're kind enough!

15

Chocolate

She wrinkles her nose and huffs in a low tone, "Aw."

"What is it?" Thomas asks, joining her on the patio.

"I'm an idiot, that's what," Rio growls, irked at her own stupidity. It's not a terrible loss, she can always buy more from the little parlor down the street that she and Ryouga frequent, it's pretty cheap for how good the pastries are. But it's still irritating, mostly because it's her fault.

She can hear Thomas stifling a laugh, and when she asks why, he sheepishly chokes out, "You're so dumb."

Rio hits his arm fairly hard and he giggles like a little girl, hunching his shouders to shy away from her swinging hand. She purses her lips and scrunches up her face indignantly at him before sighing wistfully at her accident. "What a waste."

"Michael used to constantly tell me that if ya made a mistake, you could always substitute it or doctor it up to make it not-a-mistake." She frowns and he shrugs. "He's the optimistic brother."

The young woman leans her weight to one hip, thinking. The chocolate she had left in a bowl on the table had melted in the sun. Now it is a puddle of dark, sugary pudding, untouched and just sitting there with zero purpose. It's really quite depressing.

Rio pulls out a chair, cursing herself for forgetting about the candy, and plops down at said table. Thomas attempts to think up something to say (he just figures it's pointless to piss and moan about stuff like this, though if he said so aloud, he'd probably be shot by his own girlfriend) but eventually settles for seating himself next to her and mimicking the sounds she makes. It's not comforting, but it's ridiculously amusing.

She groans, he groans. She makes a hmph noise, he makes a hmph noise. She glares at him, he stares back. She blows a raspberry, he blows a raspberry. She tells him to quit it, he tells her, "Quit what?"

"You're unbelievably immature."

"I know right?"

She narrows her eyes and he watches while taking a sip of his drink as she grabs the cup of melted chocolate, placing it in front of her. What confuses Thomas is when she dips her fingers into the sticky substance. She states real calmly, "You...are...annoying."

Then she uses the chocolate to draw a big mustache on his upper lip.

At first he just looks at her with an expression that clearly portrays Are you serious? Then he shrugs for a second time and slaps his whole hand in the chocolate and wipes it across her entire face. Rio gawks at him, jaw unhinged and eyes extremely wide as the sweet treat drips down her cheeks and chin.

Thomas smirks, the French 'facial hair' making him look like dufus. "Now, what was that you were saying?"

Rio sticks out her tongue and - despite her mental laughter - mutters, "Jerk."

~Finish~