LOVESHOTS・Granevere

Warm Pockets and First Dates

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40663560 

i rewrote this oneshot on ao3 :) check it out!!! - 7/30/2022

everything else is nov 27 2022:

Prompt: Shopping winter first date. Mutual shy feelies :) 

(their outfits are based on the picture above but more winter-y, and of course, the picture is not mine.)

On a snowy winter evening, couples and families can be seen bustling around and in the shops in the Moniyan Empire. They were scrambling to finish their last minute shopping; kids begging their parents to get them the newest gadgets while the elders were too focused on saving money.

At first glance, it looked like something from a Christmas movie, utter chaos as people milled about, trying to get everything on their list before the shops close, but to a certain blonde-haired man fully clad in green leather with gold detailing, and a petite woman with rosy hair wearing a light sky blue dress with matching topper, it was a special night: their first date.

They were walking aimlessly through the shops, Guinevere occasionally stopping to look at items that catch her eye while Granger mentally took note of what things she seemed to like.

Heading out of a store, a gust of wind blew towards the pair earning a shiver from the under-dressed pinkette. Granger took one of his black leather gloves off and grabbed the left wrist of Guinevere, gently placing it on her hand while zipping open his left pocket. He intertwined their ungloved hands together and shoved their hands into his open pocket, leaving the pink-haired girl in a blushing mess.

"Y'know if you wanted to hold my hand so badly you could've just asked." She said in a playful-tone while grinning. The blonde guy booped her nose with his gloved hand and smiled softly. "I'm killing two birds with one stone: warming you up and holding your hand." 

The pair continued walking through the shopping district, Guinevere looked up to see her newly proclaimed boyfriend.

'Boyfriend'. Guinevere was still trying to process what he is to her now, and what she is to him. She can't even think about him without being like 'Oh! He's my boyfriend now!' then panicking 'Oh! He's my boyfriend now." The little pinkette was up all night overthinking about this evening. A bunch of 'what-ifs' were circling around her head -- and still are -- about all the things that could go wrong tonight, luckily nothing of that sort has happened. Guinevere frowned "If only I could be as confident as Grangey..." She thought and looked away from him, a window display showing a miniature Land of Dawn map sculpted from ice. She led the two of them near the shop window.

Little did Guinevere know, Granger had his own insecurities.

The blonde was being dragged along to view the ice sculpture. He looked at Guinevere, then looked at the bulge in this pocket, the only thing that was proof of their intertwined hands. He silently hoped she wouldn't feel how sweaty his palms were due to his nervousness.

A week ago, Granger could only dream about holding his all-time crush's hand. If Alucard and Gusion hadn't dared him to ask Guinevere out before the start of the winter holidays, when they wouldn't have to fight in the arena, then he wouldn't be standing here in the first place. The peer-pressure paired up with Guinevere's timely placing under the mistletoe in the winter carnival event gave the usually reserved and unapproachable blonde a boost of courage to ask her out. Thankfully, she said yes with a kiss which led the pair to end up at the Moniyan shopping district for their first date.

Green eyes met red. Guinevere blushed and looked down at her boots. The leather clad guy beside her gripped her hand in his pocket tighter and leaning down to place a swift kiss on her forehead.

"H-how are you so confident?" She stuttered out.

"I'm not," Granger chuckled "I'm just following Gusion's love advice..."

"And that advice is to be clingy and make a move every 10 seconds?" Guinevere raised an eyebrow.

"Nope."

"Then what did he say?"

"He said to do whatever I was longing to do all this time." Granger looked into her eyes gently.

At this point, Guinevere was going to become a tomato from how flustered she's gotten. Inwardly hoping that the cold weather could be her excuse, she awkwardly laughed. "That's so cringy!"

"But you still like me, right?" He shot her a smile.

"You idiot, I wouldn't have accepted your confession if I didn't!" Guinevere grinned back and pulled him inside another shop.

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