Stranger in the City

10

"Okay, could you grab the butter for me? It's on the right door of the fridge," Asami instructed.

"Mhm."

To her standards, at least, she had a fun night planned for both of them.

A PG one, at least.

But plans always change, right?

I thought we were taking it slow...?

While Korra searched for the butter, her face in the fridge, Asami rolled out a baking sheet and placed it atop the tray. She smoothed out all the wrinkles carefully.

"Here you go, ma'am," the tanner woman placed the butter down next to her hands, then bent over just a little and rested her forearms on the countertop. "So, what kind of cookies are we making?"

"Well do you want to decorate some or just eat them?"

Beside her, Korra dropped her head in between her arms, laughing lightly. "We can decorate them. That sounds like more fun."

"Fun, right..."

"Now, just what are you insinuating right now?"

The emphasis on the word fun paired with the cheeky wink she made sure Asami could see definitely flustered her, but nevertheless, she kept a straight face. "Okay, so then we're making sugar cookies."

Korra's face lit up, and she instantly stood straight up, exclaiming, "I love sugar cookies!"

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"Ugh, Korra, you are awful at decorating," Asami jeered at her, giggling, as she glanced over at the disastrous cookies she was making.

Korra stood back from her masterpieces, folding her arms and squinting. "I don't think they're all that bad, what are you even talking about?"

Then, her eyes shifted towards Asami's cookies, and they widened.

"See what I mean?"

"Well! You're just a perfectionist!"

"Oh, is that what I am?" Asami whispered while moving closer to the woman slowly. Her hands rested on her chest, folded. She offered a teasing look to Korra, smirking.

But she only returned the playful look. "Yeah, that is what you are."

Asami licked her lips unknowingly before attacking Korra's sides, poking and tickling her.

"Alright, alright— AhSAMI! HA! ASAMI! Fuck! Okay, okay! Okay, enough, okay. 'SAMI!"

She was acting way too cute for me to stop now.

Then, Korra did the unexpected. While Asami was occupied with attempting to continue her tickling attack, she picked her up by the waist. Asami shrieked before wrapping herself tighter around the shorter woman instinctively. They were both still in a laughing fit.

Korra set her down sitting on the counter, standing between her legs. The tanner one's hands were on either side of the paler woman's legs. Her palms touched the counter as she continued laughing and giggling.

As they stopped, they both gradually realized the position they were in.

Asami, before letting it get too awkward, or letting the woman in between her ramble herself into a hole way too unpleasant to pull her out of, wrapped her arms around Korra's neck. In return, the woman wrapped her arms around the lower back of her partner.

They both remained in that moment for quite a while. Staying and staring at one another in the silence only filled by the Christmas music around them.