Yearning, Learning - [Catradora Drabbles] [Returns 09/29/23]

16 - Amusement Park

For their next trip before the big double date, Adora’s chosen an amusement park. With how much there’s to explore and sightsee, she figures it would be useful to burn some energy through taking a few coasters, and perhaps even flex her combat abilities in sillier situations, like that of winning herself a big cat plushie in a ring tossing game and teasing her girlfriend over how much they looked alike.

The weather turns those expectations around with a sudden and relentless rainfall. Thunder rumbles from a distance and she’s obliged to comply. She sighs and sets the clothes she picked out back in the closet. Then, she looks for the tickets and stares at them for a while. It would be too late to go when the rain stopped judging by how grey and dull the sky looks, so she admits her defeat and saves those plans and the admissions for another day; hopefully, not too late ahead, though. She wanted to help Catra unwind a bit more by picking out something thrilling before their big and long-awaited vacation day.

Though preparations had started with only the idea of Perfuma and Scorpia joining in, they stretched it out to a bigger plan, one that eventually developed in all four of them inviting other friends who were couples and splitting the costs to afford a bigger vacationing space.

Just as Adora’s mind drifts off to that day, a rain coat’s thrown at her face. She takes it off, looks down at it, and later up to see Catra standing by the door, wearing one herself, albeit red unlike her  bright orange one. Similar to all other hoodied outfits she wore, the rain coat has additional pockets made for her ears. It was something many of her friends often teased her for, yet Adora was taking to other ways of doing that. Whenever she could, she would sneak a kiss or two on the back of Catra’s ears and run off before she could process what was going on.

“Let’s go to the garden,” her girlfriend offers. “We should check to see if the new plants aren’t getting drowned, and we can take a walk along the way, too.”

Adora smiles at her and replies with, “So you planted new ones?”

“A new flower Perfuma showed me,” she elaborates, returning her smile. “Don’t ask her which, though. I’m gonna keep it a surprise for you until it blooms.”

Feeling it’s an adequate time to tease her now, Adora manages to sneak a quick kiss on her left ear and later another on her right one. She tries to walk faster afterwards to avoid being caught, yet Catra grabs her wrist and twirls her back to her side, leaving Adora face-to-face with her. “You really thought I hadn’t noticed this before?” Her words are playful despite the subtle challenge in them, and her smile changes for a sly, goofy grin. “Guess now it’s my turn, then.”

Adora’s vain attempt at escaping only results in Catra hugging her tighter. She keeps her trapped in her arms and kisses her right ear lobe, biting it after. “Hey!” the blonde protests, and giggles contradict her. Her few giggles then turn to full-on laughter as the brunette tickles her sides, making her give up and lay limp in her arms. She fakes to be faint and slumps against Catra’s chest, keeping an eye open to see her expression.

“That won’t work on me, Adora,” Catra says, lifting her up bridal style. 

She then carries her off back to her room and throws her in bed. 

“So either you stop pretending and admit you’ve been doing that, or I’ll have to get the truth out of you through a tickle war.”

Adora continues to pretend and soon regrets it when Catra kisses her left ear lobe next, a feeling ticklish enough for her to swat her away with her hands. “I… I thought you said it's a tickle war?” she asks, opening her eyes to meet with Catra’s.

"Maybe I did. But I can do both just fine, mind you,” she retorts, winking at her.

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Expect an additional update tomorrow evening, as I took 4 off days due to my health (Fri, Sat, Sun, and Tues), so here's last week's missed update!