"no way," el smiled as eli walked in hand in hand into the restaurant with violet.
her fork dropped and clattered onto the pasta dish in front of her and emilio grinned, "no fucking way,"
"this is my girlfriend violet, who you all probably have met," eli introduced as ezra whistled, "get it, little brother."
eli and violet went to sit down at the table and el turned to mike in shock.
and he had the exact same expression on his face. "no way.." he breathed out as she laughed and shook her head, "feel free to order anything you want, violet. not sure if you're vegan since we ordered non-vegan stuff." el smiled at her.
"oh, i'll be fine with everything," violet told her and el nodded.
"eli, stop eyeing my pasta," el scolded him as he huffed, "but i'm hungry."
"god, you're such an ass!" she gave him a little bit, "you guilt trip me," she murmured and grinned widely before tilting his head at the pasta.
"if you're hungry.. you can eat first," eli told violet quietly and she smiled. "it's okay, i ate just now."
"yeah but—" eli went to argue but then stopped, "i am pretty hungry," he whispered and began to eat as violet laughed.
"where are you guys headed after this?" elliot asked eli as he shrugged, "maybe we'll go do some shopping, isn't that right?" he asked violet and she nodded with a small smile.
"fuck, what about you guys?" he turned and asked el.
"we're going to the theme park!" el sang happily, "we both never went! we're so excited," she turned to mikes leaned her nose to his, "aren't we, cupcake?"
he grinned, "we are."
"ew!" eli exclaimed, "disgusting!"
"i'll bring you back a teddy bear," el said and he quickly sank back down into his seat. "yay," he whispered to violet which made her cover her mouth and to muffle a snort.
*
"mike! look how pretty!" el pointed at the fireworks as they sat at the top of the ferris wheel, "it's so pretty!"
he smiled and opened his arms as she went to sit down on his lap and lean back against him just as his arms wrapped around her.
"wow," she breathed out as he smiled, "you like it?"
she nodded. "can we come back? like all the time? today was so fun, mike, i wanna do it again."
"of course," he whispered into her ear, "i had a lot of fun too,"
she turned around and wrapped her arms around his neck. "maybe it was because you were with me and was winning all those plushies for me,"
he cupped her face, "i'm happy you liked them." he stroked her cheek and she grinned and laid down to his shoulder.
the ride came to an end eventually and they didn't want to go home just yet even though the park was coming to a close.
instead, they got some ice cream, some cotton candy and went to an empty parking lot just to finish the night off peacefully together.
"when we have doggies together when we are older," el spoke up and fed mike some cotton candy, "all these stuffies could be their toys."
he laughed and smiled at her thoughts. "yes, they could."
"or our babies," she went on to say, "but i would like to keep them for myself first,"
he chuckled, "pretty sure babies can't have stuff toys when they're babies," he said and she let out a small sound of realisation.
