"So... Should we go on a date?" Kate asked, looking up at Max. The two girls were sitting in Max's room, painting each other's nails, letting the dorm room reek of the fresh poison. It had been two days, two days since the girls had made their relationship official, and they had been latched to each other ever since Kate agreed to Max's question. It's not like things were any different though, and Max had to guess that that was what Kate was hinting at. She wanted things to be different, she wanted to do girlfriend stuff, whatever that may be. Max on the other hand, had no fucking clue.
She finished Kate's thumb nail, a fresh layer of pink color on the surface, and shrugged. "If you want." Max answered. "I mean, if you want to get technical we've been on lots of dates already." She added with a small smile, opening a new bottle of nail polish to make some polka dots on Kate's finger nails. And that was true, ever since the two girls had met those first few days before school had started, they had gone out and done things with each other. Now here they were, two and a half months into the school year and already an official couple. Hell, what could Max say? She was an ambitious one, that was for sure. But so was Kate.
Kate laughed, "Yeah, but if you want to get really technical, it would be our first date as an official couple."
"As girlfriends." Max added, grinning.
"So you agree?" Kate inquired, inspecting her nails.
Max nodded, "Yeah, just give me a few days to pull something together. It has to be special, you know? Since it's our first one and everything." The brunette explained. She liked to be the planner, to organize things. "But listen, I have to warn you Kate..." She trailed off, and stopped painting Kate's nails so that she could look her in her brown eyes. "You know, once we do this, I mean like go on dates and be public, you have to be ready for whatever the world throws at you. I'm not really sure how Arcadia Bay or Blackwell is with gay people, but maybe we should just keep it on the lowdown, or something like that... I just don't want either of us getting hurt." Max trailed off, grabbing Kate's hand. And she was so right. Since the two girls were in a relationship with one another, they were going to be teased relentlessly, especially in a small town like Arcadia.
"I know, Max." Kate sighed. "And I'm ready. I've thought about all of this already, before." The blonde answered.
"That's good." Max replied with a quick nod. "I just don't want you biting off more than you can chew, okay? We can take this slow if you want."
"I'd like that." Kate smiled, inspecting her nails once Max was finished with them.
"This is fucking great." Max spoke, smiling.
"Hey!" Kate chided, her eyebrows furrowing. "You know I don't like it when you use swear words around me." She said, giving the brunette sitting across from her an angry look. And that was true as well. Max had only cussed around Kate a mere handful of times because she knew how much Kate hated it. But tonight, Max felt like pressing her buttons, and teasing her just a little bit. It was so funny how she got all worked up and what not over the little things. And when Max saw her like that, she only liked her even more.
"Swear words?" Max questioned. "What are we, Kate? Five?" She playfully retorted.
"You know what I mean." Kate smiled, laying her down in Max's lap as the brunette sat crisscross on the carpeted floor. Kate's head was resting on Max's legs, and Max only looked down at her, lovingly, her blue eyes sparkling. It really was the moments like these, the intimate and vulnerable ones that really made a relationship count. Max was grateful for Kate, because hell, she was an angel. And Max's own personal angel, she liked to think. A sigh then escaped Kate's lips, and she grabbed Max's hands and brought them to her scalp, where Max began to massage her temples.
"You wanna know something?" Max inquired as she rubbed Kate's head.
"Hm?"
"I haven't gotten to kiss you yet." The brunette said, her full lips pulling up into a grin. With Kate around, she was always smiling, there was absolutely no doubt about that. But she was messing with her again, and Kate probably knew it. Max didn't care though, she wanted an excuse to be able to kiss Kate again. They were girlfriends though, so she shouldn't really need an excuse, but still, this whole dating thing was still a very foreign thing to both girls, and Max didn't just want to randomly kiss her, that seemed too weird.
Kate's brows furrowed, "Yes you have."
"Technically..." Max drawled out. "You got to kiss me, I didn't get to kiss you." Suddenly, Kate sat up, catching Max off guard. Their faces were so close to each other, Max could feel Kate's warm breath fanning her face, and it smelled like strawberry bubble gum. Kate's brown eyes darted to Max's blue ones, then down to her lips, then back up to her eyes. "Then go for it." She breathed out, and Max could feel goosebumps rising over her skin as she took Kate's advice and captured her girlfriend's lips in her own. With Max leading the kiss, everything felt different, but the brunette concluded that she liked being the initiative dominant one. She liked being in charge, controlling the situation. Kate's lips felt like pillows, and in that moment she knew that she'd never get tired of kissing Kate Marsh ever again.