Party 'til you pass out / When the party's over

2.26

'Alison...' I chuckled a bit. 'Really?' She cocked a defiant eyebrow at me and pulled out her phone, scrolling through it for a moment. Then she picked up a pen and paper and wrote an email address down.

'Try them,' she dared me, with that same look in her eyes. I looked at the email address when she slid off my lap.

'Where did you even get this?,' I asked her while she left the room.

'Oh love, I think you're forgetting about my extensive clientele,' she just said, disappearing without another word. I looked at the email address again and shook my head, laughing a bit. Of course. She had been working with Babymetal before. Maybe I should ask the lads for their opinion about it. That said, Nicholls and Chloe were coming over for dinner tonight.

I threw out a text in the group chat asking for an online meet up any day soon to talk music, and then decided to call it a day and go take a shower before they would arrive. As I walked into the bedroom, my eyes fell on something sticking out from under the bed. I picked it up and frowned, then realized it was the plastic packaging of a medical item. I stared at it for a moment, trying to push away the damaged memories of what had happened here just a few days ago. I threw the packaging away and took a shower, got dressed again and went to see if Alison needed any help in the kitchen.

'What are you making?,' I asked her. I kissed her cheek and took my phone to put some music on over the speakers in the house. Alison smiled and stirred a pan.

'An attempt at that katsu curry with fried eggplant we ate in Japan last year, because Nicholls liked it so much,' she answered, holding out a spoon to me to taste.

'You are too good for that guy. Ouch, fuck,' I said when I burned my mouth while tasting. Alison rolled her eyes.

'Blow first, idiot.'

'Blow me first then, love,' I joked, laughing when she threw me a disgusted look and slapped the kitchen towel my way.

'You dirty boy,' she chuckled, slapping the towel at me again. It hit my thigh when I jumped away from her.

'Ouch!,' I yelped again, laughing now. Alison did too and we looked at each other for a moment, catching our breath. Then she came up to me and kissed me deeply, her arms around my neck and standing on her toes. 'What's gotten over you?,' I muttered against her lips.

'Nothing, I just love being silly with you.' She kissed me one last time and sank back to her feet, turning around to stir in her curry.

'Can I help you?'

'Sure. Would you please prep the eggplant?' I did as she told me and softly sang along with A Day To Remember. Alison looked at me from the corner of her eyes and smiled, then started singing to The Downfall Of Us All too.

'I'm gonna need you to try to follow along

I did the best that I could to try to write you songs

Now go tell them we sold out

Like we're the ones who changed

I write what I feel, I say what I mean, you can't buy sincerity,' I sang, laughing when Alison held her wooden spoon like a microphone.

'I sold my soul to the open road,' she sang, laughing.

'I'll live my life alone,' both of us then chanted. Alison laughed harder and started on the chorus, and I smiled and looked at her having uncomplicated fun for a moment. I joined her again and we sang along until the song was finished and something else started playing.