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not touch him.
    Winter grabbed her hand and held it. She frowned. “Didn’t I say…”
    He leveled an annoyed look at her. “I know what you said. I don’t give a shit. So? Action…”
    He grabbed the remote and turned on the large wall mounted flat screen and surfed to the pay per view movie channel. They spent the next fifteen minutes going through the extensive list of available movies, and finally settled on a flick involving a space jail and a hostage situation that neither of them had seen.
    Thirty minutes into the flick they were both throwing popcorn at the screen. Lola’s special was a cart full of sugary goodness, popcorn, and soft street corner pretzels.
    “My god this is a piece of shit!” Winter shook his head and then turned towards her. “Ok so what’s the best movie you have seen recently?”
    He had ceased holding her hand and was behaving himself, which surprised her. Winter was not one for self control on the best of days but then things had changed hadn’t they?
    She considered his question. Toro had a thing for sappy chick flicks on the tour bus, and iconic coming of age high school flicks from the nineteen eighties, so she had seen so many of both genres her head spun. She rooted through the miasma of th ought, trying to answer truthfully, and then smiled.
    “I wouldn’t say best, but one that’s didn’t leave me emotionally drained. You know how Toro likes his bullshit drama.”
    Winter nodded. “Spill.”
    “I watched this lovely little flick, Mirror Mask.”
    Winter grinned. “I’m a very important man, I’ve got a tower.” He recited a line from the movie.
    Her eyes grew wide. He had seen it?
    “It’s one of Rachel’s favorites,” he offered, mentioning his cousin, the Shades merch girl. “Damn good flick.”
    “I agree. It stayed with me. Not the story, I mean it was good. But the imagery, and Valentine, of course.” She sighed. She loved Valentine. As a hero he was seriously lacking but he more than made up for it with his wit and charisma. Even if he was wearing a mask the entire time.
    Winter smirked. “And the song at the end. Her voice reminded me of yours.”
    “Really?” she shrugged. “I had designs on doing a cover, though odds are people wouldn’t know it was a cover. It’s not like you can find the damn song outside of the credits.”
    “I think you would do a beautiful cover of it. Her voice is much like yours, but yours is so much better, raspier when you hit those low notes.” He drummed his fingers on his thigh and then picked up a cupcake with a ton of green icing on it.
    “My favorite. Pistachio with Pistachio butter crème from Harlot’s Cupcake Emporium. Don’t even think of eating it.”
    Winter grinned and started to unwrap the cake portion  and she gasped. He looked at her with mirth in his eyes “Oh? Your favorite? And here I am with it… What are you going to do about it?”
    She knew better then to snatch it outta his hand, but decided to risk it, she moved, and he squished the cake in his fist, frosting and cake oozing between his fingers. He cocked his head and smirked. “Now what fool?”
    There wasn’t a shot in hell she was letting that go to waste. She frowned and leaned in and her hand grabbed his wrist. She moved her mouth closer to his closed fist. Just as she was about to touch his sugar covered skin with her lips, she opened her mouth and licked instead, grabbing a huge glob of the cake and frosting. She knew what the action would do to him, and kept her eyes on his the entire time. His gaze never left her mouth, or what her tongue did, and he almost whimpered. She felt him stiffen, his entire body going rigid next to her. She took another pass, gathered a bit more cake and then pulled away, a satisfied look on her face. One that was not mirrored by Winter.
    “Shitty trick Lo. Aren’t we supposed to be friends?” he said through clenched teeth. He reached down and grabbed a cloth napkin and wiped the remnants of the