"Find that a little hard to believe..." Scarlett muttered out "But for real? We gotta get to decorating fire girl, I sure as hell ain't gonna let you stall for more time."
"Jokes on you, what if I do?" she responded snarkingly
"Well you told me you'd help me decorate. So I suppose you'd be guilty of breaking... Well, multiple promises in one day. Quite the combo." Scarlett teased, nodding her head, impressed by how she could do that
"Well, I mean they're promises to you. Does that really count?" Ash said, and start taking out some of the more decorative elements of the Christmas boxes
"Well, your rules toward pacifism aren't exactly clear about that, I must say. But seeing as I abide by no rules of your sect, it probably does count." she pointed out wisely, trying to hide a smile as she took a little glance at the girl in front of her taking out some decorations.
"Darn it, guess I really am a promise-breaker." she mumbled out, rolling her eyes at the very thought of it
"Indeed you are, now for the love of God can you shut up and decorate?" the biker asked mockingly, trying to hide the grin on her lips
"Not at fucking all." the guitarist replied, a smug look on her face as they got to decorating.
The room was filled with a sort of Christmas spirit, despite the grinch's hatred towards the holiday, she couldn't help but let out a few smiles here and there as they embarked on their journey to redecorate the nightclub, of course that most certainly didn't stop her from complaining about the commercialization of the holiday, and how the snow sucked, and how everything in general about the wonderful time of the year was generally quite bad.
"Well, except for you now, Sofi. Amazing gal, an actual best friend I must say." she grinned, staring into Scarlett's eyes as she told her the final part.
"Despite you talking being one of the worst parts being here, I gotta ask. Who the fuck is Sofi?" the pianist asked curiously, unaware that the grinch in front of her was capable of having friends.
"Well, for your information, she is an amazing gal, a little crazy about Christmas but she's great enough that I can handle it." she grinned, taking out some green and red lights to hang up around the bar area
"Oh was she the girl that was in your car today? Thought y'all were pretty close." Scarlett realized thinking back for the moment of the gas station, grabbing onto another end of the lights and going off into a seperate corner of the bar, ready to hang it up
Ash froze in her tracks, a little surprised by what she'd just heard "Y-you saw us?" she asked hesitantly, panicking internally as she remembered her dash back into the car
"Duh. I'm not blind you dumbass. Looks like you're kinda scared of gas stations huh?" she teased across the end of the bar, an evil grin on her face as she tied a knot on the soon-to-be sparkly Christmas lights.
"I-I I'm not scared of them." she stammered out trying to think of something else to add, anything to justify what happened earlier that day "I was just... You know, like working out. Running back to the car is a great way to exercise." she continued nervously, leaning on the counter nonchalantly as she tried to act as calm as possible
Scarlett rolled her eyes at the guitarist's attempt of playing it cool as she almost slid off the counter, regaining her composure and balance soon after "Exercising at a gas station huh? Not sure that's very effective no?" she wondered aloud, a teasing smile on her face
Ash stumbled around for a second as she regained her balance, not entirely sure if she was gonna come out of this argument humiliated or not "Well. You see uh. So like... Exercising at a gas station... Is good for you. Cause like, the fumes from the other cars... Are good for your lungs." she replied, utterly disgusted by what she'd just said about... Pollution being good for your health.
Nevertheless, it was a moment of panic. And desperate times require desperate measures.
Scarlett stifled out a laugh, amused by the panicking of the young guitarist "Ash really? Of all the damn excuses you could give, you use car fumes as one?"
"Well." she murmured out, a little taken aback as she found herself being insulted "Uh... Actually it was... You know um." Ash tripped over her words as she tried to find the correct phrasing for whatever she was gonna say at the moment, fairly hard, seeing as her detested enemy had caught her red-handed.
"Look, if you wanna exercise, I'd be down to it." she teased, leaning over and whispering into her ear "Always up for crushing your pathetic little spirit."
Ash froze in place as she heard Scarlett's soft words echo in the back of her mind, filling her both with rage... And something else.
She shook herself out of it fairly quickly, turning her head over and giving Scarlett a deadly stare, the pianist didn't even notice as she searched through more of the boxes, trying to find some cute decorations.
"Pathetic little spirit? I think you're talking about yourself Scar." she snapped back, trying to hide her calm fury as she got up from the barstool
"No I'm fairly certain I'm talking about you." the biker girl replied, a soft little grin on her face getting up from the chair.
"We-"
"Well, maybe the second most pathetic. You aren't all that bad with a guitar." Scarlett pointed out, giving Ash one end of the green, slightly dusty, tinsel
Ash attempted to mutter out something, blushing as she heard the compliment. Fairly backhanded, and it did indeed come from the person she hated most.
Still, her guitar skills being praised?
Nevertheless, she maintained an uncaring composure "Well duh, no shit. But uh, your piano playing isn't all that bad either." she muttered out, slightly embarrassed
"Ash fucking Corbin, complimenting someone?" Scarlett laughed, snatching a piece of tape and grabbing onto it with her mouth
"Shut the fuck up. I compliment people all the time." she retaliated
The pair l kept on bickering and lending insults among swears and slanders at each other. While, of course, letting the Christmas joy flow through the room as they hung up their decorations, as hours passed and the twilight fell upon New York, the room sparkled with lights and tinsel, a majestic sight to see indeed.
Ash did her best not to show any contentment towards what had happened, the decorations sucked. Christmas sucked, godamnit Scarlett sucked.
Yet she couldn't help but try and hide a little grin as she saw all the festive trinkets they had hung together, sure, she was a little exhausted from it all, but lord was it a pretty sight.
Like the sparkle of moonlight on the ocean waves, the Christmas lights hung bright with their glowing sensation, vibrating their seasonal joy across the room.
Wreaths were set across all doors, red and green as they gave a little joy to the somewhat bland mahogany doors, perhaps a little overused yes, but weren't all decorations to be fair?
"Christmas ain't Christmas without mistletoe." Scarlett grinned as she appeared after a few seconds, her sleeves rolled and her first shirt button undone and holding onto a piece of mistletoe and some string
"Jesus Christ Scar... Why misltoe?" Ash rolled her eyes as she saw her hold the piece of plant. She could stand every other decoration (as much as she hated them all), yet mistletoe was her biggest pet peeve. It was so unbearably cliché, and yet people loved it.
How??
Hallmark movies were certainly a plague on this world
"God you're such a Grinch." Scarlett laughed, surveying the room as she tried to decide on a location for where she could put the most festive plant of all "I mean I'm sure even the Grinch didn't mine misltoe. I like to think he really just wanted some love."
Ash rolled her eyes at the sheer mention of love and the grinch "Just... Get that out of my sight please." she asked, cringing as she she looked away
"Oo, what if I don't huh?" Scarlett teased, waving the plant right in front of her eyes "I'm sure you'll warm up to it at some point." she continued
"God, you're such a bitch." she groaned out, waving her hands as she did her best to push away the mistltoe right in front of her "Do that one more time and you're losing a customer around here." Ash warned
Scarlett sat there with a smug smile on her face, calling her bluff without any hesitation "That's a lie, you love it here."
"Well, okay yes. But than I found out you were here and that kinda ruined it for me." she argued
"Harsh, maybe some mistltoe will cure it?" Scarlett teased, showing it off once again
"Probably not. I sure as hell don't wanna kiss you. You're quite the ugly bastard." she insulted nonchalantly, a smirk on her face
"God. You are just... The biggest grinch I know, I can't with you." Scarlett groaned, rolling her eyes
"Look, that stuff is absolutely horrid." Ash sighed
"Yeah yeah yeah, I'm sure. Now come help me hang it on top of the piano."
"Why the piano?"
"Cause I wanna kiss a girl after playing a song, dumbass. Heard that's romantic."
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