Actions Speak Louder Than Fortune Cookies

23 - Chinese and Iron Man

Sunday afternoon rolled in slowly. Both Sebastian and Rylee worked until around 4:00 am. While Rylee was pretty used to this kind of schedule, Sebastian was still trying to get into the swing of things. They both agreed that he would go over to Rylee's house for around noon, even though they were both itching to start their day together sooner.

At 12:00 on the dot, Rylee heard a knock at the door. She immediately stood up, practically skipping over to open it, revealing the giant smile on Sebastian's face behind it. She dove into giving him a giant hug and he returned it easily, sliding his arms around her waist tightly. His sensual, citrus and woody cologne filling the space around her, taking it in. She loved the scent and it already began to relax her, becoming one of her favorite smells.

When they began to part, they swiftly kissed one another and stepped inside. Sebastian toed off his shoes and joined Rylee, sitting with her legs folded up beside her on the couch. He threw his arm over her shoulder and she immediately leaned in, finding a comfortable spot on his muscular chest. He reached over to link their hands, giving hers a quick squeeze.

"So how was shooting last night?" Rylee asked cheerily.

Sebastian sighed at the thought, he might as well tell her about it. He looked down at the spot between them, where their hands lay, rubbing his thumb absentmindedly across the back of her hand. "Not gonna lie, most of it was pretty shitty."

"Why?" Rylee asked curiously. She was surprised, when he texted her last night he seemed fine.

"I just kept fucking up. I had this long inspirational monologue I was supposed to be spilling out and I just couldn't get it right. It took us like four hours to do something that should've took like 15 minutes."

"Ouch, that's rough." Rylee responded. "You seemed okay when I texted you last night.."

"Yeah, well, we got dismissed for a ten minute break when I got your text. It actually helped me a lot. It got me motivated, cause for a while I was definitely not up for doing that scene again ." He smiled over at her, "so, thanks for that." He laughed.

"Well I'm glad I could help." Rylee looked at him proudly. She wished she could've helped ease his mind earlier, but she was happy that just a simple text could help him out in some fashion.

"What about your night, how was Rubys? Is Alexa back?"

"Ohhhh yeah. She's definitely back," Rylee laughed, "Normal Alexa, always bringing the shenanigans. Ruby's was alright though, nothing crazy to alert the presses about."

Sebastian hummed in response, happy that her night at least went pretty well. "Well what shall we do today?"

"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm starving, and I've been thinking about Chinese for like a week straight." She leaned over to find the menu for the restaurant close to her house, locating it in her couch side table. She already knew what she wanted so she passed it over for Sebastian to skim.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Sebastian smiled.

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Half an hour later, Rylee received a call from the doorman that their food had arrived. They both went down, collecting their things and having a quick conversation with Theo.

They trekked back to the elevators and quickly to Rylee's apartment and spread out all of their food on her small glass coffee table in front of the couch. They had ordered way too much but they both didn't care. There were containers on containers of white rice, chicken with broccoli, orange chicken, general tsos, lo mein, and crab rangoons for days.