Later that evening, after being dropped off, Dylan tossed her bag onto the sofa and went into the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea. It had been an extremely long day, and despite how bone-achingly her body felt, she still felt completely alert. She had work early the next day, and she desperately needed the sleep, so she went to fix herself a nice, hot cup of tea to settle her nerves. Although that in itself would be quite the feat, the idea of the mobsters coming after everyone rattling around continuously in her mind.
"You want some tea Kenshi?" She asked, hearing her boyfriend sitting down on the sofa next to her bag.
"Yeah, that'd be great! Thanks!" He replied, trying to sound like his usual cheerful self. But even she could tell from his voice that he was starting to worry. She stopped in her tracks and turned around, going over towards Kenshi and kneeling down in front of him, so that she could look up at his face. A smile touched his gentle face as she took his face in her hands, rubbing a thumb across his cheek.
She gave him a delicate smile. "We'll be alright. Everything's going to work out just fine."
"I know. I trust Riki... I just worry that they will start trying to hunt us down. We have taken several pretty valuable things from them lately."
"Yeah I know, but try not to worry. We've taken things from other rings just like these guys, and while they've threatened to try to find us, they never did. Why should we worry about these guys now?"
"I'm not really worried all that much about me. I'm more concerned about you. How are you holding up with all of this?" Kenshi asked, pulling her into his lap facing him.
She wrapped her arms around his neck. "I'm alright. I mean I know that there's a chance that they'll try to look up the Black Foxes, but we've done a good job in keeping them, and everyone else for that matter, off our tracks. So I don't want to worry about it."
He smiled and leaned forward, gently kissing her lips. "Well then let's not worry about it for the moment. Let's do something else."
"Like what?"
"Well I don't know about you, I'm not really all that tired right now."
Dylan sighed. "Me neither. Too jittery from everything that happened."
"Then let's finish watching that movie we started the other day. We both fell asleep before it ended, but I'd kind of like to see what happens." He said and Dylan smiled, nodding her head.
"Yeah! You go put it in and I'll go make us some popcorn too! You still want tea too?" She said excitedly.
Kenshi chuckled at her newly found enthusiasm. "Yeah sure!"
Dylan sprang up from his lap and went into the kitchen. Dylan happily went about fixing their tea and popcorn, an unlikely, yet delicious combination. Anything to keep her mind off of the possible dangers lurking around was a good thing at that point. She was just as worried about everything as Kenshi was, but she didn't want to think about it. Because if she did, she would dwell on it, and it would just eat her away until everything did clear up. And with the new shipment of artifacts and relics coming (back) into the museum, she didn't want the stress to get in the way of her work.
Pouring the contents of the popcorn bag into a bowl, she grabbed it, along with their tea cups, and went back into the living room. She actually was rather curious about how the movie ended, having heard such good reviews of it from Ranko, and wanted to see the rest. She placed the popcorn bowl on the coffee table in front of them and handed Kenshi his cup. Steam rose from his cup and tickled his nose, causing him scrunch it up. The act was rather cute and Dylan smiled. Sitting down next to him and holding her own warm cup in both hands, she cuddled into Kenshi's side as he turned the movie on, starting up where they last finished.
The smell of popcorn and tea intermingled sensuously in the air, and Dylan sighed contently. It had been several days since she and Kenshi had actually sat down like this, and it was rather nice. Their schedules had been kind of hectic lately, with both work and Black Fox activities, they hadn't had much alone time. And even if it was already late at night, and sleep would soon try to take them away before work the next day, Dylan decided to enjoy this.
Kenshi wrapped an arm around her shoulder, pulling her more snuggly against him, and sipped at his tea. Watching the drama unfold on the screen, Dylan sipped at her own tea. The delicious liquid warming up her senses. Kenshi leaned forward slightly and grabbed a couple of pieces of popcorn from the bowl. Holding his head back against the couch, he tossed the popcorn into the air and tried to catch the kernels with his mouth. One piece landed in his mouth with a crunch. Two pieces slam-dunked in. Then, missing a few pieces by a mile, Dylan laughed. She loved how goofy and silly her boyfriend could be, laughter rolling over her as he grabbed a few more pieces and tried to get her to do the same. She, much more skillful than he, managed to toss all of her popcorn pieces up and into her mouth. She clenched the last piece of popcorn between her teeth and held it up for him to see in victory, but his mouth covered hers before she could protest. His tongue swept into her mouth, and he pulled back. Displaying the stolen piece of popcorn between his own teeth and crunching down on it.
The two played together like this for a while before settling down to attempt to watch the movie again. Explosive action filled up the screen, and Dylan tried to focus in on it, but found herself paying more attention to the man holding her against him. He seemed to notice her glances, and grinned at her, grabbing the remote control and turning the television off all together. A rather mischievous look in his eye. Pushing her back against the couch, his lips found hers, and Dylan giggled.
They ended up not finishing the movie once again.