ciarán's words and how serious he was while saying them caused salem to let out a loud cackle.
"punish me? god ciarán, i thought you said you weren't christian grey."
a blush bloomed across ciarán's cheeks at the remembrance of his words.
"you still remember that?"
"how could i ever forget about the time ciarán mcdonald visited the little bookstore i work at?" salem grinned, skipping to ciarán's car once it was in view.
ciarán laughed at how silly salem was, unlocking the car for her. he was going to open her car door for her, but she beat him to the car, and she opened it on her own this time.
"gotta be quicker than that, old man." salem giggled.
"touché, old lady, touché. now, does your oldass know how to find the nearest ice cream shop using siri?" ciarán teased, holding out his phone for her to take.
salem let out a 'psh', taking ciarán's phone. once she had it in her hands though, she froze.
"how the hell do you activate siri on an x?" she asked, looking at ciarán for help, but he only laughed in response.
"cici." salem whined.
"you just hold down the power button for a few seconds and it'll activate."
"oh."
she held down the power button, and siri activated.
"where's the nearest ice cream shop?"
siri responded with an ice cream shop that was less than five minutes away, which was about to close soon if they didn't hurry up.
"this one's only four minutes away, and it closes in ten minutes! step on it, cici!" salem cried.
"on it, baby, but you better put on your damn seatbelt." ciarán reminded her.
"ah, shit." she turned to her right, looking for her seatbelt and grabbing it. she fumbled with it, rushing to pull it across her body and click it into place.
"took you long enough." ciarán remarked.
"i don't work well under pressure."
ciarán really stepped on the gas, and instead of making it in four minutes, they made it in half as much time.
"aw, hell yeah." salem said as ciarán pulled into the parking lot.
as soon as ciarán put the car in park, salem was already out of the car, making her way to the glass door of the shop alone.
"wait up!" ciarán said, half of his body still in his car.
"you're slow!" salem yelled at him from the sidewalk, laughing at how he glared at her.
he jogged over to the sidewalk, sticking out his tongue at her. salem held open the door for him, almost walking into the shop without him.
"whoa! the salem whatever-your-last-name-is is out here breaking double standards!" ciarán exclaimed.
"for future reference, my last name is chambers." she said absentmindedly, distracted by the rows of ice cream.
"your full name is so edgy." ciarán snorted, causing her eyebrows to furrow.
"shut up! your name's so... irish."
"point taken." ciarán shrugged.
"how can i help you?" a girl around the same age as them, but a little younger, asked.
"can i get a scoop of cotton candy and a scoop of strawberry cheesecake in a cup?" she ordered, to which the girl said, "sure."
she turned toward ciarán, asking what he was getting.
"maybe just vanilla ice cream in a cone." he said, looking at the menu for the prices, as he pulled out his wallet.
"boring." salem sang.
"you're the one getting it in a cup." he pointed out, pulling out a ten dollar bill, since he planned on paying for the both of them.
"i wanna play it safe so i won't get ice cream in your car."
ciarán smiled at how considerate she was.
"you're cute." he said before telling the girl what he wanted.
salem stood there, replaying what ciarán said in her head and blushing at the thought. then, she noticed the ten dollar bill in his hand, knowing a cone of ice cream by itself wasn't going to cost nearly ten dollars.
"i'm paying for myself." salem said, casually pulling some money out of her bra.
she always put money in her bra when going on dates just in case. she thought she was just being resourceful; there were advantages that came with having boobs.
at this scene, ciarán bursted out laughing.
"did you really just do that?" he said in between laughs.
"what? if you have boobs, why not put them to good use?" salem wasn't even embarrassed.
"you did it so casually. you're something special, salem."
salem smiled, "i know."
"are you guys paying together or seperately?" the cashier asked.
before salem could say anything, ciarán got to the counter before her and said, "together."
salem huffed, crossing her arms as she watched him give the ten dollar bill to the cashier.
the worker handed them both their ice cream, and they said their thanks, leaving.
"i can't believe you only got vanilla." salem said, scooping up some ice cream and shoving it in her mouth. after doing so, she buckled up, as did ciarán.
"why not? vanilla's good."
"and basic as shit."
"well then, why don't you let me have a spoonful of your ice cream?" ciarán said as he pulled out of the parking lot.
"no way!"
"guess i won't know what's so good about cotton candy and strawberry cheesecake." ciarán shrugged.
"fine." when it came to ciarán, salem gave in to him too easily.
she scooped up a little bit of cotton candy.
"open wide, baby." she giggled, ciarán doing as told.
she shoved the spoonful into his mouth, and he closed it, trying to get as much ice cream off of her spoon as possible.
she removed the spoon from his mouth and asked, "is it good?"
"not too bad. how about the other flavor?"
they repeated the same process, but this time, she fed him some strawberry cheesecake.
"okay, that shit was kinda fire." ciarán admitted.
"yay! i convinced you!" salem cheered.
"you're gonna be a great mom with the way you just fed me." ciarán chuckled.
salem shrugged, "we'll see."
"i guess we will."
a/n
i had such a good day today
