green, "she kisses like a grenade" and/or "feeling pretty good about the trouble that I'm in"
“There,” Sun says into her ear, pointing towards the bar; club lights flash, rhythm pumps. It’s not that rude under the circumstances. “Her. She shot me down last week.”
Yang squints, following his arm. “The girl with the cat ears?”
“Yeah.” Sun shrugs, lifts his cup to his lips. “I thought I had that going for me. Like, you know, having something in common.”
Yang’s mouth curls amusedly; Sun’s a gem, but sometimes his layers unpeel to simplicity. It’s not always a bad thing, though it definitely hinders him when it comes to picking up women. “Girls don’t really like being narrowed down to a single trait,” she says, patting him on the shoulder. “What’s the bet?”
“A hundred lien,” he says.
Yang blinks bemusedly. “For a dance?”
“No,” he says, gleaming wickedly. “Let’s make it interesting.”
“You’re on, Wukong,” she says, physically unable to resist a challenge. “How far do you want me to go?”
“A kiss is fine,” he says, grinning. “Good luck. She’s tough.”
Yang only winks casually at him, pushing through the crowd of people clogging up the bar. The girl’s lucky enough to be standing around the less-packed corner, talking amicably with another girl whose hair is so white it’d blend straight into a blizzard. There’s not a ton of space, but plenty of opportunities.
She squeezes past a group of guys passing out shots, tucks herself right beside the girl and waits, holds herself aloof. It’s a busy place, a busy night - everyone’s drunk, clumsy - all she has to do is–
“Shit,” a guy slurs, accidentally bumping into her from behind, which sends her into the girl’s side. “My bad.”
“Watch it,” Yang snaps at him, and the girl turns to the interruption. Yang puts on the most apologetic expression she can manage, rests a hand gently on the girl’s arm. One of her ears twitches; Yang makes it a point not to look at them. “I’m so sorry, are you okay?”
The lights flash again, illuminating their true colors, and Yang suddenly realizes the girl Sun’s challenged her to is fucking gorgeous.
“I’m fine,” she says, half-smile playing about her mouth. “Can’t really avoid being run into at the bar.”
She’s gorgeous, and not in a passive, pretty way; she’s dangerous, dark, alluring. She’s wearing a crop top with the chest in a pattern of criss-crossing fabric, leather pants, and boots that somehow slip halfway up her thigh. Yang vaguely catalogues her hand, still touching the girl’s arm. She lets autopilot take over, too mesmerized for cool. “You’re telling me,” she says charmingly, leaning in to be heard. “I used to think being tall was an advantage, but apparently I’m just a bigger target.”
The girl laughs once, her irises glittering under the dim light. She looks like she stole the stars right out of space. She tilts her head, angling for Yang’s ear. “How tall are you?” she asks curiously, intrigued now that it’s been pointed out.
“Five-nine.” Yang pulls back slightly, eyes her up and down, ballparks it. “And you’re - five-seven?”
Her mouth quirks guiltily. “I’m a fake five-seven,” she admits. “Most of my shoes are boots with…significant heels.”
“Well,” Yang says with a grin, “you pull it off brilliantly.”
The girl smiles, and this time it takes over her lips entirely. “I’m Blake,” she says, holding out a hand. Yang reciprocates but doesn’t quite shake, instead curling her fingers around Blake’s palm and holding there for a second before releasing. It’s slightly more intimate, and far easier to pass off as a drunk missed intention.
“Yang,” she says, and her stare drops to the girl behind Blake, now tapping through her scroll. “Is she your girlfriend, or–?”
Blake pulls a face somewhere between a grimace and a giggle. “Absolutely not,” she says cheerfully, lifting her mouth back to Yang’s ear. The music’s too loud for conversation, but they’re trying anyway; it’s how Yang knows she’s working. “I’m single.”
Yang raises an eyebrow. She’s forgotten about the money entirely; Blake’s hands are soft, that’s all she’s thinking. Her fingers are long and slender. If shadows knew to take a form and seduce, they’d look like her. “How convenient,” Yang murmurs, brings her lips closer to Blake’s skin than she’d dared before. “So am I.”
The smirk Blake’s wearing suddenly - Yang recognizes it, recognizes the power of it, the play. There’s a game here; there’s something of a cat-and-mouse. She doesn’t intend the pun, but she’s clear on exactly which part of the chase she represents.
“So Sun’s just a wingman?” Blake says, her voice low and amused, and Yang pauses with the music, waits to drop with it, too. People shift around them; the bar’s stained wet with condensation. The white-haired girl has disappeared entirely.
Yang looks up. One of Blake’s ears twitch.
She’s been trapped.
She sighs. “He set me up, didn’t he,” she asks shortly, already thinking of ways to kick his ass, but Blake only laughs again, shakes her head.
“No,” she says, oddly charmed by the reaction to the twist of events. “Well, actually, kind of. I think he genuinely forgot I could hear him, but I did tell him last week I wasn’t interested in a relationship. Any relationship.”
Yang runs a hand through her hair, but she can’t manage to hold the embarrassment much longer; she’s always been carried by flow, smooth enough to roll off of. “Well,” she says, grinning sheepishly, “then I won’t waste any more of your time.”
Blake quirks her head, staring at her knowingly. “Sorry,” she says, smirk unwinding further. “I didn’t emphasize that correctly. I told him I wasn’t interested.”
Oh. Oh. What a difference an implication makes. Yang mirrors her mouth, bites the inside of her lip. “Just so you know,” she says darkly, “you aren’t the kind of girl I would’ve kissed and walked away from.”
“So what kind of girl am I?”
“Look at you,” Yang breathes out against her ear, fingers uncurling against her jaw. “He did set me up. You couldn’t be more my type if I’d imagined you myself.”
She doesn’t get the opportunity to retreat, doesn’t get the chance for Blake to murmur a reply; she starts the motion and Blake follows her mouth, catches her lips as she pulls away. Blake tastes like whisky and cherries, neither of which Yang enjoys on their own but somehow work perfectly together on Blake’s tongue.
“You won your bet,” Blake murmurs against her. “How much does he owe you if you take me home?”
Yang grins, can almost feel Sun’s shell-shocked stare from across the room. Blake kisses her again, fingernails scratching against her scalp as she threads her fingers through Yang’s hair.
“Nothing,” Yang says when they break. Her heart shoots through her veins, unable to stand still. “There’s no way in hell I could put a price to that.”
“I can,” Blake says coyly. “Take me out to breakfast in the morning.”
Yang laughs, nods in agreement. The bass thumps, beats down its doors, the strobe lights quick enough for a blink; all the people who said clubs weren’t a place to find love were wrong. They just weren’t looking hard enough, or they’d had too many shots, or - or, she realizes, they didn’t have the right friends.
She’ll let Sun keep the money.
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Nine people I'd like to know better
Tagged by @hauntingyourself (honestly I never expect anyone to think of me on these things. thanks.)
Last song: Infraliminal by REZZMAU5 (Rezz and Deadmau5 collab, i need them to score my fucking life)
Favourite colour: like a nice earthy and dark forest/mossy green. really dark blue is another hit
Currently watching: recently finished Pluto (of the Astro Boy variety) and going to pick up Scavenger's Reign very soon
Last movie/tv show: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), see current obsession below
Spicy/savoury/sweet: spicy takes the top, but only by a few points
Relationship status: recently married, monogamous
Current obsession: in terms of media, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). I should make some fan art soon.
Last thing you googled: aside from coding stuff for work, the last thing was Gene Wilder, apparently.
Tagging: @prider-parker @floq @fishing-for-blood @cookietastic @theelvishscribbler @thedoormann @copperbadge and just for shits and giggles @lionsenpai @voidkatten
Don't mean to be a bother to some of you (to others I definitely meant to be a bother) I just genuinely have a hard time thinking of people for these.
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