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Kohala Coast, Hawaii | Evening | Sunday | February 20

As the sun gave way to the moon, the lights around the Big Island started coming on, brightening up the dark sky. Night falling just meant several new ways for the guests to enjoy themselves! A slight wind ruffled the palm trees but the temperature remained warm, making it comfortable enough to take long walks on the beach or just enjoy gazing up at the clear night sky.

There was still plenty to do, though! Nighttime activities were starting to swing into motion, music was wafting along the breeze, drawing people towards it's rhythmic sounds, and the smells of Hawaiian dishes were prevalent.

It was nighttime in Hawaii and the vacation had just begun!

[OCD is up! Guest Quarters | Resort Activities | Dining | Luana Lounge | Kahakai Bar Oceanfront | OOC This is going up early for maximum play time for all timezones!]

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"Why's that surprising?" Nathan asked curiously, keeping his thumb moving up and down her wrist while he talked. "Wrist isn't a good place to lick you?"

He had no shame about phrasing the question like that. And he thought she wouldn't have much shame in answering either.

"I've met you," Caroline pointed out. "And I don't get the impression you're all that used to being slow and respectable about these things." It skewed her expectations for him and left her often surprised.

"Mmm." He shrugged a shoulder and tapped a finger idly against the inside of her wrist, deciding to just watch her for the moment instead of responding. There wasn't much to respond to anyway. She was right.

"I think I like being surprising," he finally said, shrugging a shoulder. "More often than not, it tends to go hand in hand with originality and there is nothing more I like than standing out from a crowd. Fucking posers can stand behind me because they'll never catch up."

"You are very original." There was no denying that much. "I guess that means I shouldn't expect to see you around this week so much as hope you pop up in your surprising way, hmm?"

Nathan preened a little at the compliment, looking a little more smug that he had been. Original was always going to be a compliment with him even if someone meant it negatively.

"I think the best thing to say is I plan on being around," he answered, nodding. "I'm really not a stay in the room type and I'm pretty sure my roommate's a bed wetter so even less of a reason to be in there. I am sympathetic to his problem but he's a big boy, he can deal with his own issues. I'll buy him a fucking self help book or something with an introduction by some famous bed wetter. No need for me to be there."

And tomorrow night, he'd so be finding another place to sleep. "But yeah, I plan on being around. Beach, bar, lounge, club, pool, whatever. It's not like I'm gonna be a stranger to any of those places. How's that for an answer?"

It was a terrible answer, but Caroline wasn't going to tell him that. Nathan could just figure it out on his own.

"Good. I'll be sure to say hi if I happen to see you around." Or be sure to flirt with someone else in front of him because really, she'd been fishing for an invite out and had been sorely denied.

"Just hi?" Nathan repeated, raising an eyebrow. Unfortunately, he'd missed the subtle hints she'd dropped but really, he didn't think he could be blamed that much. This sort of thing was so new to him.

"Nothing else?" he asked, sounding the slightest bit confused now.

"What?" It was Caroline's turn to be confused. "Did you want me to kiss your cheek whenever I say hi?" He should want at least that, but he was kind of messing with her mind here.

"Well, yeah, of course, but I just don't think you'd do that even if I did want it," Nathan said honestly. He shrugged a shoulder and let go of her wrist and hand.

"No, hi's fine. Yeah, totally fine," he said, nodding. "We can wave at each other in passing and then go on about our merry way. You won't kiss my cheek each time and I'm sure I'll be on my way somewhere spiffy. That works, yeah."

Nathan knew he didn't sound bitter there but maybe he sounded a little more sarcastic than he could have. Odd. Feelings weren't supposed to slip out even if they were sarcastic ones.

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Caroline rolled her eyes at him and leaned up to kiss his cheek. Unlike him, she hadn't been sarcastic with her offer. "Fine, dumbass, be satisfied with hi when I was offering you more."

At this rate, she was so never getting laid.

"I said I wanted that, didn't I?" Nathan asked, staring at her now. The second part had been a little sarcastic because he'd gotten a little off the rails but the first part had been genuine.

"Not thinking you'll do it is not the same as not wanting it," he retorted and...leaned across the chairs and kissed her cheek too. For some reason. He didn't know but it seemed like the thing to do. "I'm not a fucking dumbass."

Yes, he was. He was a dumbass who was trying hard but still a dumbass.

"Yes you are," she said, turning to try and catch his lips for a light kiss. They were still at the bar, after all. Caroline pulled back and smiled at him. "Consider that a reason to come find me and make me say hi."

Nathan wanted to ask why he was a dumbass or what she knew that he didn't seem to know. He asked neither, though.

"You should do that again," he said, using a tactic from earlier. "One more and I'll leave you alone and you can be secure in the knowledge that I'll be convincing and persuasive when I see you next."

"Convincing and persuasive? Well, now I have to, don't I?" Caroline replied, leaning in a second time to press her lips against his.

See? She could do things if she thought they would benefit her and he wasn't just messing around for laughs.

If she could only read his mind, she'd know that he stopped messing around for laughs with her a little while ago. Alas, she couldn't so she probably wouldn't know.

But, she'd kissed him and that was the important thing here. He responded, keeping it just as light and gentle as the first one lest she think he was going for something else there.

He might've been a dumbass but he knew how to do this really well.

Nevermind that she was kissing that dumbass and kind of wishing she'd made some better choices in the previous week. But alas, soon enough Caroline was pulling back and licking her lips with just the slightest smirk.

Funny how that was his way of telling her he'd leave her alone.

Nathan really wished that had lasted longer. He didn't say that though or pull any faces that would make it clear that he wished that. Instead, he just blinked at her and smiled.

But right, he'd said he'd leave her alone and that...was what he was going to do. He was gonna do it after getting a nice long look at her and ordering her a new drink from the waiter.

Once that was done, he reached for his own drink and stood up. "See you later," he said quietly before giving her one last look and heading off somewhere else.

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