Eskimo Kisses [Reggie<3]

[RC Manne]

[February 14!]

RC was torn. He wanted to take off his gloves to hold Reggie’s hand. But it was cold. But Reggie’s hand! He shook himself a little bit, pulling his eyes from her gloves to her face, smiling breathlessly. “Here is good, I think?” He asked shyly, gesturing to a small hill that overlooked the frozen lake. February was an iffy time weather-wise in other states, but Vermont? It was absolutely still the dead of winter. Despite all that, RC had wanted to take Reggie on a picnic for Valentine’s day.

With the basket and blanket under his arm, and two sets of ice skates dangling over his other shoulder, it all seemed like it would go okay. Setting down the basket, her rolled the thick blanket onto the grass. The thin layer of frost crunched under them, and RC was positive he could see his breath…but he didn’t mind. Smiling at Reggie, he gestured to the blanket.

“Have a seat?...and Happy Valentine’s day Reggie.”

[Reggie Earle]

Reggie was excited to spend Valentine's day with RC. She'd actually been looking forward to today ever since RC told her they were going to go out. Sure it was going to be chilly but she was totally going to take advantage of RC being there and cuddle with him. To hell with her indifference towards PDA. RC never once made her feel uncomfortable and there was just something about him that made her always want to be near him.

Tugging her ear muffs down over her ears, she looked to where RC pointed and nodded when he smiled at her. That smile. Made her blush.

"Looks good." She followed him from behind even though she desperately wanted to walk beside him with her hand in his. No...he had too many things in his hand. Maybe she should help him?

As he rolled out the blanket, she bent down and sat beside RC, already ready to plant a huge kiss on his cheek, but the feeling was reinforced by his wish. She practically threw herself on RC, wrapping her arms around his neck and smashing her lips on his cheek. "Thank you, baby." She nuzzled his cheek and hung on to him for awhile before releasing him in embarrassment.

"Sorry...I'm...it's just that...you're so sweet." She took off one glove and pressed her hand up to his cheek.

[RC Manne]

RC flopped back onto the blanket after placing a skate at each corner of the blanket. The wind wasn’t out much today, but it was better to be safe than sorry. No soon after his butt hit the blanket than did Reggie throw herself at him. He chuckled, wobbling backward as he caught her by her waist, hugging her with one arm. His cheeks colored slightly and he looked sheepishly out over the lake. “You don’t have to apologize.” He said, turning and pressing his forehead to Reggie’s.

Her bare hand touched his cheek, he closed his eyes and sighed. “Oh man. Your hands are warm.” He said wistfully, turning his head to kiss her palm gently. “Are you hungry?” He asked, tapping the top of the basket. It was insulated, and so he was sure that the food wouldn’t get too cold…but he didn’t want it to get to that gross lukewarm state either.

[Reggie Earle]

With their foreheads pressed against each other, Reggie sighed and smiled. "Good. You might get bored of my apologies every day." She chuckled lightly, blushing when he commented on the warmth of her hand. "You must be freezing. Poor baby." She took off both her gloves, one left up on his cheek because there was no way she was going to move it while she got a kiss. The other hand moved to his other cheek, rubbing it slowly to get some heat going on.

As he prepared the food, she let go of his cheeks and looked at the basket, then back to RC with an enthusiastic nod. "Yes. What did you bring?" She asked excitedly. Easily pleased, Reggie was pretty sure if RC produced a bag of chips, she would have been equally excited for. There wasn't much RC could do that could disappoint Reggie at this point. She was very much still in the honeymoon period with her boyfriend and she loved being in this state.

She didn't see that changing either.

[RC Manne]

“I’ll never get bored of you.” RC assured her with a healthy measure of confidence. It was easy to get flustered around Reggie: She was beautiful, smart and generally awesome. There were also just something things RC knew. And that was that Reggie was never boring. “And I’ll uh…I’ll survive.” He said quietly, nodding slowly to himself. He was definitely freezing, but it was worth it.

Beaming with a bit of pride, RC arranged the food on the blanket. The smell indicated that it was Thai food, but RC’s smile said it was more. “I convinced that place we love to let me take-out, since it’s Valentine’s day.” He said, scratching the back of his neck. It had taken a few phone calls, and a lot of talking to people he didn’t really know…but once he’d told the older lady-cook that he wanted to impress his girlfriend she had agreed right away.

“They all say hello, by the way.”

[Reggie Earle]

Reggie blushed at his assured statement, smiling shyly down at the picnic spread. She didn't remember the last time anyone had said that to her and by golly it felt good. RC was definitely the sweetest person Reggie had met. If she had to gamble, even Carter would have a hard time disliking him. Oh God...that reminded her, she was definitely going to have to introduce RC to the family. He'd done the same for her during Christmas break.

How was she supposed to suggest a trip that far though? As much as he was mature beyond his years, he was still a high school student. That came with plenty of complications.

Maybe she shouldn't be thinking about that right then? It was Valentine's Day. Her sweet and very handsome boyfriend had prepared a picnic just for the two of them. She needed to enjoy this.

She reached over and placed two long kisses on both his cheeks and one on his nose for good measure. "There. That should last you a bit." She chuckled and sat back down.

Her smile grew with each word from RC and she resisted throwing herself at him. Again. Had she a keyboard then, she would have just smashed her hand all over it and flail. "Baby," she squeaked, hardly containing the huge goofy grin on her face. "This is all perfect. Thank you." She reached out a hand to grab RC's and squeezed it lightly.

[OOC: Yes...late and sucky. I am the WORST writing partner evar! BUT I LOVE YOU SO MUCH ^^]