Ocean Blue Eyes

If You're Game...

A/N: 📸 Picture of the Dinning Room!👆🏽

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"Can't we pleaseee just forget that?"  I plead, rolling my eyes at the tragic first meeting Iris and I had.

    "No way in hell," Iris smirks, pausing to drink from his hot chocolate before he continues, "That was wayyy too epic to let you live it down."

    "Ugh," I pout, my eyes falling to my Nightmare Before Christmas mug and I instantly smile. Feeling a bit proud that we'd been talking for a while now without me tripping over my tongue.

    Yet.

    For some moments, I sit in silence, wrapping my hands tightly around the ceramic mug. Letting the warmth of the hot chocolate flow to my fingers before bringing it to my lips. The minute it coats my tongue my body melts with a humming sigh forcing my eyes shut, and fuuuuck me...

    Ever drink something that sends you straight back home?

    Cause, not gonna' lie, I low-key loved that I could still taste my Nonna's touch in Jenny's cooking. Years of teaching and sharing recipes with my grams definitely embedded their way into her hands. I send her a silent thank you, enjoying the warmth that flows down my throat, and tingles its the way down to my toes.

    This shit just hit the spot, I sigh, and my eyes flutter open to glide across the room.

    We were all sitting in the living room, sipping on hot chocolate with a steamy mountain of biscuits on the coffee table, while the snow piled outside.

    This was such a mood.

    I didn't even want to talk and mess with the vibes—

    Carter's loud, irritated tsk snaps my head out of my bubble, "Gremlin, how you come at me with a plus four the minute I say UNO," he blinks up at Megan from the couch, where he's still laying with his head resting on her lap.

    Guess I was the only one vibing...

    She rolls her eyes, and sighs with a chuckle, "I already told ya' I can see your cards from here, right? And you still didn't move," I laugh when he tsk's again, and eye rolls his head back to the game.

    Samir laughs with a head shake from beside them, and reaches for the cards piled on the floor, "Carter deja tu mierda," quit your bullshit, "And just take the damn cards," He holds them out to him while Jenny, sitting on his left, tries to peek at the ones Samir's hiding away from her.

    "Heck no! Get your Sugonese hands away from me."  Carter turns his head towards him and suspiciously eyes him and the cards, "I know you're probably fucking me over with some shitty-ass cards," Megan rolls her eyes at him with a here-we-go-again sigh and Samir frowns.

    "My what hands?"

    Justin frowns and snaps his head to carter from his place on the floor, "The fuck is Sugonese? I thought he was Dominican." 

    "Sugonese'NUTS Bissshhh! That's what," Carter snorts and Samir flings the cards at him with a tsk. I snort a laugh along with Justin and my smile widens when I hear Iris chuckle besides me. Carter's been busting Samir's balls all night and the shit was getting hilarious.

    "Keep it going, Carter, you're about to get it," Samir warns with a grin.

    "Ooouuu," Carter smirks and wiggles his brows, "Is that where we're at now? At least buy me to dinner first, jeez."