midnightstar

Dern, he beat her to it! Well that just meant she would have to press her salad at him herself. "Um--s, sure!" As far as she was concerned they could be chatting back at the penthouse, she was just that comfortable around Rean. And in her own little world in which only he is an occupant. Though she was more than halfway done with her salad. She happily took a bite of the stew, brushing off some rice that was still on her lips and sighed, so completely content. It was like the war couldn't be further away from them. It may as well not even exist. "Here, do you want the rest?" She pushed her salad towards him. She didn't want to stuff herself and have no room for the ice cream!

But of course he'd beat her to it. Multitasking was sort of his forte. How else could he help out Towa as often as he did back in their school days.

Still he was quite happy to have her pluck the food from his fork with a bright smile. This was just so perfect and warm of a moment he wished it could go on forever.

"Oh are you sure?" He certainly had room to take the salad off her plate. Even literally.

Alisa smiled, nodding, "I'm sure. I'd hate to stuff myself on the salad and then not be able to have the ice cream. That'd be criminal!" She jokes lightly, "Besides, they have a new flavor I've been dying to try out. Pistachio chocolate chip." For a second she looks guilty, "I mean.. it's probably REALLY high in calori, but I can work that off."

He just gave Alisa a quick funny look but in the end accepted her reasoning with little challenge on his part.

"Alright then. I'll take it off your hands~ But if you change your mind jut let me know?" Yep totally going to ignore the potential interpretation about working the calories off.

S-she meant by going out and fighting monsters or doing general exercise! Though if Sharon or Gwyn were present, or even Angelica, they would have teased her mercilessly about that choice of wording. "I will, I promise." She has no intention of doing that - she was going to get the chance to just watch him. Hopefully he could handle her looking at him with sheer adoration the entire time. "It's good, right?" She beamed, resting her chin in her hands.

She might have but teasing trolls would twist and tease that wording so easily. Rean closer his eyes with a soft chuckle before nodding imply.

"Yes it's fine. Leave it to me then~"

Lucky for them, those teasing trolls weren't spying on them right now. Although to be fair it's not like Alisa hasn't.. thought about it before. Ahem. She beams, "Thanks, Rean. Don't force yourself, okay?" She didn't want him to stuff himself just to make her happy. "IF you start to get full, we can take some of it home." She doesn't even miss a beat as she reached forward for her drink, not even thinking about how it sounded. Home. As if she and Rean were living together.

Oh wait, THERE it hits her, just as she's taking her sip, and she coughs hard for a second.

Too late to take it back now! That being said Rean does nod in agreement to her asking him to stop whenever he reaches his limit. "Oh that's definitely an idea." Rean did tilt his head curiosuly at the suddeny cough from Alisa.

"Uh are you okay Alisa?"

She think should be relieved he didn't catch on -- or maybe it was just so natural to him, he didn't find anything strange about the statement. "Y-yeah," she coughed lightly, "Haha, it just went down the wrong way." She coughed a few more times, and sighed softly, "I think I drank it a little too fast."

He wasn't really convinced but he certainly was not about to start pushing the matter with Alisa.

"Well just take it easily and slowly. We're not in a rush with things." Rean answered before starting tto eat again, making slow methodical progress until his stomach reached its limit.

One could take that in terms of their relationship as well. Alisa picked up a napkin to gently dab at her lips, nodding sheepishly, "I'll be careful." She chuckled softly.

Though seeing that they were starting into almost finishing their meal, and Alisa doing more watching than eating, the waiter wandered over in their direction again, "Can I get you anything else?"

Alisa jumped a bit. "Oh! S-sorry, um...! Yes, actually. I was thinking about the ice cream. Do you have the pistachio chocolate chip still?"

The waiter nodded, "We also have vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, butterscotch and double fudge ice cream." He glanced at Rean as Alisa was suddenly struck with indecision, "How about you? Would you like to order dessert also?"

Rean let Alisa order first before nodding and answering as well for himsel.

"Actually would like a mix of Vanilla and Chocolate ice cream myself if that's possible." Mixing the flavors up was the best option he felt.

The waiter nodded, jotting something down on his pad, "Would you prefer it in a bowl or a cone?"

"Cone for me, please." Alisa paused, realizing Rean might have wanted to have a bowl, and she leaned over, "Sorry, I thought it might be nice to walk around the city a little before we go back." And it'd be easier to do with cones.

"Oh no Cones is fine for me as well." The idea of walking around with Alisa while they enjoyed their deserts made perfect sense really. SO he had absolutely no problem with agreeing to that right now.

Alisa sighed with obvious relief, smiling broadly as she turned to the waiter, nodding. "So One mixed vanilla and chocolate cone, and one double-f-nono, one pist... um.." HRM. "No... Yes, okay, yes, a pistacio ice cream cone with chocolate chips."

The waiter watched her struggle with her response in amusement, and when she finally decided, nodded, turning away to pad over to fetch said snacks. Alisa on the other hand, started to reach for her purse to take out the money.

"Oh no you don't. This is on me." Rean quickly put his hand over Alisa's before taking out his own wallet and taking out the necessary Mira plus the tip to pay for the whole meal and the dessert.

Alisa gave Rean a surprised glance, "Wha-- but you're supposed to be my guest, Rean.." Not that she's going to argue really. "Are you sure...?" She asked, a little hesitantly as the waiter approached with their ice creams and the bill. Whoah, tip - he's definitely going to remember Rean, even if the cuteness between him and Alisa wasn't enough.

Rean just shook his head and quickly took the bill and paid for the entire meal. "I insist. It wouldn't feel right if I didn't do at least this much for our date." Yes he said that out loud right there in front of the waiter.

Hearing him say it out loud in front of another person filled Alisa with so many butterflies of glee she couldn't even begin to count them. The waiter on the other hand, looked surprised - he hadn't heard that the heiress to the Reinford Company had a boyfriend. INTERESTING. "A date huh? How about a picture to commemorate the occasion?" He suggested, "Free of charge." Because they're already making a profit selling the other photos to Sharon.

Alisa blushed again, "W-well, I don't mind.." She glanced at Rean curiously.

Rean felt wary for a moment but catching that glance from Alisa settled those feelings on the spot and he nodded with a smile.

"Well since you are offering we would be happy to take you up on that offer."

Alisa's face lit up happily at that, while the waiter nodded, going to get the orbal camera, "Just one second." He spoke briefly with the bartender, then returned to gesture them into a spot that would be a good area for the picture, "Okay, now just scootch in a little and smile~.."

Alisa did one better. She sneaked an arm around Rean's waist, timing her move perfectly as she went up on tiptoe to kiss Rean's cheek~! Perfect shot!

Oh god she was glowing like the sun right there next to him and Rean felt his stomach go all aflutter at the sight of it. Though even if it hadn't it would have ended up the same the moment he felt those lips on his cheek and that arm around his waist. Which left Rean in a wide eyed surprise as he faced the camera. IT made for one adorably cute photo indeed!

"Perfect shot," the waiter grinned.

Alisa smiled happily, and a little smug at Rean's reaction as she hugged him, "Can I get two copies, please?" She wanted to frame them before Rean left back to his mission. As a surprise, of course.

The waiter nodded cheerfully, clearly antsy to share gossip with the woman behind the bar. "I'll have the pictures developed and delivered to your place first thing in the morning."

"Thank you." Alisa smiled, glancing to Rean again, "Come on, let's get going." She of course, had to get her ice cream first though.

He wanted to touch his cheek after the kiss since it felt so very warm after the passing brush from Alisa's lips. But he managed to still nod to her words and follow Alisa out, cone of ice cream in both their hands.

"This is ummm quite the icecream~"

"You got the vanilla and chocolate one, right?" Alisa started to slip her arm around his, but realized that'd make it difficult for him to eat his own ice cream. So she settled for letting her arm rest arond him instead, still smiling at the memory of his face when she surprised him, "This one is really good too."

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