[OPEN] We'll Take A Cup of Kindness Yet

[nascensibility]

Who: EVERYONE, but especially you!
Where: Wonderland Ballroom
When: New Year's Eve
Rating: PG - PG13 (will change if applicable)
Summary: New Year's Eve Party
The Story:

[The morning of December 31st, all residents will receive a handwritten invitation slipped under their door.]



You are cordially invited to attend a party
celebrating the New Year

Wonderland Ballroom
8 pm - 1 am

Semi-Formal Attire
Buffet & Bar
No RSVP Required

All Ages Welcome

For inquiries, contact E. O'Connell

[Punctuality in planning is important: the ballroom itself will only be ready for guests at exactly 8 o'clock, bedecked in glittering golds and the red-green of Christmas' vestiges, still clinging to the old year. Dining tables surround a central dance floor, bars and buffets dot the edges of the room and both holly and mistletoe are expressed liberally through the interior.

Mingle, dance, eat and be merry! The New Year will come in at midnight - the band will play and the drinks will flow for long after.]

Comments

[quickgenius]

They have to try. Even if they can’t find a way to track everything, even if they might not be able to figure out what they want to, what they need to, they still have to try. If nothing else it will give them something to do. Problems to solve. She looks at him, shy and startled and pleased, all at once. It’s not that she thought that she wasn’t; they’d gone to another Earth to rescue her, after all. Without even knowing her. But hearing that she, herself, is important, not just what she means to her dad (and that rescuing her meant that Zoom didn’t have leverage on him anymore)... it means more than he knows.

Means more than she expected it to.

“Good.” She smiles softly, giving him a nod. “Good.” She meant it when she said that they’re important. He’s important.

[thisismadfreaky]

He recognizes the unexpected happy surprise he caused in her--he's felt it himself on a number of occasions, because he tends to lean toward expecting the worst--and it makes his smile a little brighter to see her pleasantly flustered about it. It's cute.

He's about to speak when he hears the rumblings of the countdown to midnight starting in the crowded room around them. He glances around, a little grin on his face and starts counting down as well. "Twelve, eleven, ten..." he's still grinning as he focuses on Jesse again.

[quickgenius]

His smile turns a little brighter, and oh she kind of really likes his smile; a lot. She bites her lip and takes another sip of her drink to try and hide the brief increase in just how flustered she is.

The rumblings of counting down to midnight catches her a little by surprise; she’d completely lost track of the time in her conversation with Cisco, and she looks at him, eyes bright, as she joins in the counting down, too. This is definitely an improvement over her last new year’s eve. “Nine, eight, seven, six...”

[thisismadfreaky]

She's just... adorable, and Cisco isn't sure she's even aware of it. Which just makes it even better. He notices she's a little flustered but...he doesn't have the pieces to figure out why. He's not too fussed about it, though, as they continue counting the last seconds of the year. "Five...four..."

There's barely any time left and a thought dawns on him. That silly tradition of kissing at midnight. Did they even have that tradition on Earth-2? Would she be weirded out if he tried? "Three...two..." He'll just explain it later if she's confused. As the last second ticks by, he leans in and presses his lips to hers in a soft, almost chaste kiss.

[quickgenius]

“One-” Yes, the New Year’s Eve kiss is a tradition on her Earth... but Jesse never expected this. For Cisco to keep that tradition with her. Never expected him to kiss her. Never expected him to WANT to kiss her. And it’s not something she knew she wanted, realised she wanted until this moment. Until he’s kissing her. For a moment the surprise of that, the shock, stuns her into stillness as his lips press softly against hers. OH. And then she’s touching him, her hand lifting, fingers splayed gently along his jaw as she kisses him back, pressing forward into the kiss. Into him.

[thisismadfreaky]

The way she kind of freezes for a second makes him wonder if this was a bad idea, but that is over as soon as it started and she's kissing him back and maybe it wasn't the worst idea afterall.

The kiss is short and sweet, not meant to be anything deep or lingering, even if Cisco already has the idea that maybe he wouldn't mind repeating that sometime in the future if opportunity presented.

"Happy New Year," he says softly, grin spreading across his lips as he pulls away.

[quickgenius]

This is definitely an improvement over her last New Year’s, and she’s kind of pretty sure it’s an improvement over a LOT of other New Year’s, too. The kiss isn’t deep, or lingering, but it is sweet and makes butterflies start fluttering wildly in her stomach and she’s thinking that she wouldn’t mind doing that again. She would like to do that again.

“Happy New Year,” she replies, her grin lighting up her face.

[thisismadfreaky]

Cisco was really glad he'd decided to come to the party in the end, instead of vetoing the idea like he'd originally intended. It ended up being a pretty great night with food, dancing, and chatting, spent mostly with Jesse at his side. He can only hope the good of this night is a reflection of what's to come over the course of the next year.