#is climbing chrash and house of leeeeeaves

[queenofbaws]

Welp it's now beddy bye time for me, so let's end (my) day and see if we can start (also my lol) morning with some good old fashioned climbing chrash tonight. May you have a wonderful and word filled rest of your day while I sleep during the entirety of it 😴

His answer for the past five years had been a resounding, unflinching, uncompromising, definitive "Absolutely the fuck not;" a lot could change in five years, though, so when they set in on him about it again, maturity (or maybe plain old exhaustion) changed Chris's answer to an incrementally more forgiving, "Give me one good reason why I should."

He'd barely gotten the words out before Ashley squealed - literally squealed - "My copy is totally full of notes, and I've color-coded all the super important passages that line up with each other, and you can borrow it for as long as you want!" all while waving a battered book in his face, fanning the pages out so he could see her (admittedly impressive) highlights.

"I said a good reason, Ash," he said, nudging the book away from him, "and what you just described, uhhh...sounds like homework."

She caught herself halfway through a groan, turning to Josh for some sort of help, and while at first it seemed he wasn't going to throw his hat in the ring, she'd gotten about a breath into her second argument, one focused on better understanding their inside jokes and weird references and bonding over obscure horror media, when Josh gave it his best shot.

"I can promise you at least one, but no more than five, tender face-kisses for every chapter you finish, Cochise - play your cards right, maybe we throw some achingly ginger caresses in there, call it a deal."

And Chris was not especially proud of himself as he snatched Ashley's copy of House of Leaves from her hands then, nor was he especially proud of himself as he announced, "You got yourselves a deal!" but a lot of things could change (and had changed) in five years...and suffice it to say smooching had not been on the table the last time they'd tried goading him into reading it.

six sentence sat(or)sunday!!!