Just Off The Key || Lizrei

Chapter 16: Sit Back and Wave through the Daylight

Rei had woken up in the morning to "exercise" on her giant rubber yoga balls, so of course no exercise actually occurred, and now she found herself dancing like a spaz around her living room to Matt & Kim. She was really just flailing around because the beat was all over the place, and pretending to know the words, so, yelling gibberish into a dog brush.

Filled with fluffy golden hair. Rei hoped it was Barnaby's.

Cornelius joined her, with the singing, not the dancing because Barnaby seemed to have that covered, and yeah, she was pretty sure their neighbors would be filing some kind of complaint soon. How could they not with this fucking racket?

Rei was in the middle of tripping over Jelly during a horribly executed moonwalk when Liz stumbled into the living room, brows furrowed and looking confused as hell. She was cognizant enough to smile when she caught sight of Rei.

"Liz!" Rei exclaimed brightly, after apologizing profusely to Jelly and setting her safely on the couch.

Rei rushed over to her girlfriend and hugged her warm, sleepy body tightly. She held onto Liz's hands when she pulled back.

"Dance with me!" Rei attempted to drag Liz towards the center of the living room, but Liz leaned backwards like dead weight and wouldn't budge.

Rei looked back at her, and then down at Liz's feet and huffed. Really, the least her girlfriend could do is dance with her. Before they get evicted or fined or something. And before anyone gets injured.

"Liz, dance with me!" Rei demanded again, pulling harder. Liz leaned back further, then lay down on the floor so that she was an immovable lump. Rei would be concerned she'd fainted or something if she didn't have that fucking smile on her face.

Rei stared down at her exasperatedly. She put a foot on Liz's stomach when she heard it rumbling. Uh-oh. Time to feed her bear.

First the bear had to dance. Rei moved her foot up to Liz's face and pressed her toes into smiling cheeks. Liz had her eyes shut.

Yeah, like she was fooling anybody.

"If you don't get up and dance with me Liz, I'll put my foot over your mouth." Rei threatened. She figured that would be gross enough to get anybody to do anything. Unless Liz was some pervy foot person.

Rei smiled to herself. Liz wasn't a pervy anything.

"I like your feet." Liz commented, eyes still closed. That damn smile was getting even bigger, and she reached out a hand and picked up Rei's foot and kissed it, before opening one eye with a smirk.

Rei bit the inside of her cheek. Goddamned Liz and her goddamned sweetness. She was impossible to coerce. And Rei had no cookies. She listened to Liz's tummy rumble again, and decided to use breakfast as a bribe instead.

"Liz, if you don't dance with me, I won't make you blueberry waffles with chocolate smiley faces again for breakfast."

Liz's eyes shot open and she dropped that innocent little smirk. She sat up and leaned back on her hands so she could look at Rei. Well God, she looked distraught. That's what blueberry waffles with chocolate smiley faces do to people.

"Rei, I can't-I can't dance." Liz stuttered. "Can you- can you dance with Barnaby?"

Rei's victorious grin softened at Liz's tone. "No, honey, I want to dance with you. And I can't dance either. I look like I have no bones in my body."

Which, really, that should make you look like an amazing dancer, right? Not so much for Rei. It was a problem she dealt with every day.

Liz looked conflicted, so Rei left her sitting on the floor and bounded off to turn up the volume, neighbors be damned. She wasn't actually sure she had any neighbors, because she never saw them. They were probably serial killers or something, just minding their own business.