RaStro FicS

She keeps me warm (25)

"Aha!" Chynna grinned. "I can see what you two have been up to while I'm doing all the work."

Flushed from their passionate encounter, Glaiza and Rhian couldn't deny what was clearly written on their faces so they just smiled.

Tapping her finger to her lips, Chynna said with an exaggerated flair. "Then I think it's time we get out of here. Clearly, I'm not wanted."

"Oh, Chynns. Stop being so dramatic." Glaiza lightly slapped her friend on the arm as she passed by, pulling Rhian along with her. "But you've got a good idea there."

Diego and Kean were waiting in the living room for more instructions from their self-appointed pixie hair supervisor. "So, what's next?"

Chynna looped her arm around her boyfriend's elbow. "We're leaving now that all the work is done." The pixie hair couldn't help giving her best friend a hard time whenever she could. "I thought at least we'd get fed but no..." She glanced at Kean. "They've got better things to do."

Shaking her head at Chynna's antics, Glaiza offered. "You're welcome to stay."

"Nah, it's getting late." Kean said. "Besides, I was wanting to take my best girl out to dinner tonight."

Chynna leaned back away from her boyfriend. "You better be talking about me." She smiled before turning her attention to Diego. "Why don't you come with us?"

"Uh, well..." He looked at his cousin.

"Go on. I know you have plans with some of your friends tonight. And we're all through here." Rhian hugged her cousin.

"You sure?"

"Yep."

When Diego backed up after the hug, he casually asked. "You're staying here tonight, right?"

Suspicious, Rhian squinted her eyes. "Yeah. Why?"

"I was just thinking that your place...with no one there." Diego grinned. "I could use it as a place to, you know, chill."

Rhian cupped her hand around her cousin's arm and led him out the front door. "Not only no but...hell no."

"Oh, come on, Rhi." Diego stopped on the porch, waiting a moment for Chynna and Kean to get to their car. "At least think about it."

"We'll see." She reached up and kissed her cousin on the cheek.

After saying their goodbyes, Rhian joined Glaiza on the porch. They watched the threesome travel down the road, leaving them alone with only Robbyn by their side.

"Alone at last." Glaiza grinned at her love.

Rhian laid her head on Glaiza's shoulder. "So my little cousin wanted to know your intentions toward me."

"Uh huh." Glaiza ran her hand lazily up and down on Rhian's back.

"And?"

The short hair dropped her head to the side to look into Rhian's beautiful eyes. "I told him I was going to ask you to marry me."

Completely stunned by Glaiza's words, Rhian gulped then quickly propped herself up on one elbow. "What?"

Glaiza gazed deeply into her love's eyes as the short hair grabbed the ring from her pocket. "If you'll have me."

The sincerity in the short hair's words struck a deep cord inside the red hair and everything fell into place. Rhian smiled then gently let her mouth melt against the soft lips of her love. "Yes. Oh, God, yes." Her eyes gleaming as she stared at the white gold.

Relieved, Glaiza wrapped her arms around Rhian, pulling her close. "I love you."

Again, their lips met in silent assurances and tender unspoken vows of love. The soft, gentle brushes of kisses with small nips and feathery pecks ignited a spark that ran the length of their bodies.