mykidisthebest

[makes a tiny sound like a laugh, deep in his throat]

A great deal of normal courting is done through balls and society events, which we have little access to here. The rest is really at the couple’s discretion—finding activities they enjoy. Meals, theatre, local sightseeing, that sort of thing.

Then aside from the balls it's pretty similar. Except I'm sure rich people back home have balls too; just not the rest of us.

Hard to say if the etiquette's the same. Perhaps I'll make it a point to find out.

[charon what dat mean]

[charon what does that MEAN]

You don't plan on doing anything that would get me in trouble, I hope.

[rests a heavy gaze on him]

Hardly.

[his lips twitch]

What a gentleman. I can only assume trouble should be saved for the...hmm, third date?

Does this count as our first?

It's the first one we're calling a date. But that's hard to quantify since we live together and spend a lot of time together. Do rituals count as dates?

[thinks about the implications of that question]

...Rituals don't count as dates. Some other things might though.

[a soft laugh]

We’ve certainly gotten in plenty of trouble. Constantly, one might say.

Trouble shouldn't count as a date either. It's hardly romantic.

Isn’t it?

It's.

It's only romantic if it's intended to be romantic!

[kawaii…]

I will notate that I must mark the trouble as explicitly romantic, then.

Are you planning on romantic trouble?!

Perhaps.

[:)]

[trying to mental math in order to figure out if that's hot or not]

At least give me time to mentally prepare before you spring that one on me.

[picks up his hand across the table and kisses the back of it, holding eye contact]

Yes.

[ok its hot]

And make sure it's just us.

Don't worry. It's definitely not the sort of trouble that should be in the public eye.

When you talk like that it makes me wonder how you never charmed anyone back home. You're a real smooth talker, you know that?

Mostly disinterest. I did not care to put in effort; I was known as something of a cold fish, in society terms.

But it was all to the good; my family occupies a strange place in society, so we are not as driven to make political matches as regular nobles.

If I think back to the first week I knew you, the cold fish allegations were probably pretty on point. But even then you were a handsome gentleman.

[chuckles to himself]

Lucky for you, there's no need to think about political matches when you're on the run from the government and starting a new life across the sea!

Lucky for me, there’s no need to think about political matches when I’ve found who I wanted.

[steals his hand so he can lace their fingers together]

At least wait until we've had dessert before you start getting too sappy. Sweet things should be saved for last.

[squeezes his hand]

Well, it’s the next course after the palate cleanser, so.

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