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05/23/10(Sun)03:37 No.17021823The
cake was a huge red and white thing, dripping with icing, rich with
cream, smothered with strawberries. It was large enough for Ty Lee to
have hidden in it. (Zuko had in fact prodded it with a knife just to
check that she wasn't hiding in it. It'd spoil the moment to have her
jump out and yell, "Surprise!")
"This is more like it," Mai said,
disposing herself on the couch beside him. She reached out and plucked a
strawberry off the cake with one of her knives. "Open wide."
Zuko
very nobly didn't say that he'd just been planning to do the same thing
to her and it was totally unfair of her to steal the idea. He opened
his mouth and let her feed him the strawberry.
Then a bit of
cake.
Then another strawberry.
Then another bit of cake.
Then
-- "Mai," he said plaintively, "can't I do that too?"
"No," Mai
said firmly. "I get to feed you strawberries."
This wasn't fair.
He tensed his muscles, prepared himself, and with a single movement
rolled over, trapping her beneath him. A smoothly outflung finger
collected a strawberry, dripping with white icing. "Open wide," he said.
"No,"
Mai said through gritted teeth.
"Yes," he snarled, poising the
strawberry above her face.
"No!" she snapped. Her thighs
clenched. She pivoted at the hips, tossing him across the table, then
dived after him in a hail of white icing. Bits of strawberry spattered
around her in a scarlet halo as she landed on his torso. She lashed out
behind her with a spare knife and speared a strawberry on it. "You will
eat this!"
He shoved his strawberry in her face. It smeared redly
across her lips.
She jammed her strawberry deep into his mouth
as he opened it to laugh.
He thrust upwards, rolling her
sideways, and then the cake collapsed on them.
Not that that
stopped anything. |