Kyle keeps her hand clutched tight in his as they investigate the apartment, turning on every single light they came across (even the ones in the closets!) and making sure all entrances were appropriately locked. Once the pair was sure the homestead was secured the American pulled them back into the living room and tells her, "So I think we're safe for now...I think we both need something to drink." The tall man then goes into his kitchen to fetch two different bottles of alcohol and Nori sits back down on the couch, flipping through redflix and turning on SpongeTod TriangleShirt, muting the volume so they have something ridiculous going on in the background to take their mind off things.
Kyle comes back and deposits the booze on the table before pulling out…an incense burner? Nori can’t help but giggle as he lights a stick and immediately shoots him an apologetic look so he knows she isn’t making fun of him. “Sorry, I’m not laughing at you, that just reminds me of my dad. He says only stoners burn incense. Something about it covering the smell of ‘hippie lettuce’? I’ll have to tell him I met someone who can prove him wrong the next time he calls,” she tells him with a rueful grin, accepting the whisky bottle that he presses into her hands and clinking it with his before taking a small sip. It burns on the way down, which Nori has always found weirdly calming, but she doesn’t want to drink too much. After all she was a girl, so if she did have to flee an axe murderer she already had increased odds of tripping at least once during the chase without adding alcohol on top of it.
“Oh Jesus!” Nori squeaked, looking down at herself and suddenly realizing that she had far too much skin showing to dissuade an attack from a serial killer. It was a plain white tank top and a pair of black skinny jeans, which was pretty tame by her normal standards, but it was probably just sexy enough to send the Weatherman into a rampage. “I’ve gotta get more clothes on,” she tells Kyle, like that somehow explains everything, before jumping up and bolting to into his room, where she’d left her duffel bag. Sifting through its contents she finds her oversized, shapless, worn-out, ‘My cat must be my senpai,’ sweatshirt and pulls it on quickly. “Definitely not too sexy now,” the DJ says proudly as she surveys herself, before her golden gaze catches sight of something out of place on the bed.
Nori draws her eyebrows together as she crosses over to it, running her hand over the fabric of a violet raincoat. “…Maybe it’s his sister's?” she says to herself, pulling her hand back and biting at her lip. It’s a little weird to see a girl’s jacket on Kyle’s bed, but Nori tries not to jump to any conclusions and heads back into the living room, where Kyle is still sitting on the couch. “I’m gonna get some water,” the blonde tells him, strolling into the kitchen and tugging open the refrigerator to find a “Happy Anniversary” cake on the top shelf.
Nori blinks once. Then again.
The cake is still there.
“Kyle,” Nori says evenly, shutting the fridge and staring at the closed door, her jaw flexing a little as she clenches her teeth. “You aren’t married, are you?
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