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The Lance-Sharpe family carry on their usual lives. Caity is settling in happily at school and Ava and Sara are both working but making sure caity gets lots of time with them and they start to slowly some wedding details. They weren’t in a rush to do it they were just happy together. They’d also decided Friday nights would be their date night and Caity would spend the night at Ray and Noras. There were 2 reasons they had decided to do this. One was of course so they could have a night just to relax and have some fun for themselves. The second reason was so caity could learn to be more independent and to see that if they’re not always their they’ll always come back.
It had worked pretty well. Caity had been a bit teary the first time but once she’d gone she’d enjoyed herself and happily told them both about her evening the next day and since then she’d had no major problems going.
It was now their date night and the pair had dropped off caity and were deciding what to do they’d done the basics of movie night, go out for a meal and go out for a walk.
Sara was smirking at Ava.
“I say tonight we do something a bit more....adult.”
Ava chuckles at her.
“Let me guess up to bed rip my clothes off?”
Sara grins.
“Mmm kind of....but not that easy we should have to work for each other undressed.”
Ava looks at her puzzled.
“What do you mean?”
Sara smirks wider.
“Strip poker.”
Ava still looks confused.
“What’s that?”
Sara raises her eyebrows.
“Seriously babe you’ve never played strip poker at sleepovers or parties as a teenager?”
It’s Avas turn to raise her eyebrows.
“Come on Sara...you really think I had many sleepovers or teenage parties?”
Sara chuckles a little.
“Yeah okay fair point...okay you can play poker though right?”
“Yeah I mean not amazing but I can play sure.”
“Okay well it’s basically regular poker except when you lose a hand you remove one piece of clothing....game ends when one person is naked.”
Ava blushes a little and her eyes widen.
“Well they play this at parties?...must be humiliating.”
“Yeah but that’s part of the fun of it and usually there’s a few drinks going round to.”
“Let me guess Lance you played a lot of it.”
Sara smirks at her.
“Yep...never lost either.”
“Uh huh because I bet you cheated.”
Sara winks.
“You know me to well babe.”
Ava groans.
“Guessing that means I’ll be the naked one then.”
Sara smiles.
“I won’t cheat with you babe promise. I only did back then because boys always invited me to play because they wanted to get me naked or at least in my underwear and I wasn’t gonna let that happen. I must’ve played over 50 games and the most stripping I ever did was my shirt. But hey it’s only a bit of fun between us babe only you and me will see...and we’ve both seen it all before....numerous times.”
Sara winks playfully eyeing up Ava making her blush but she also laughs.
“Okay....losing won’t mean that we have to run outside naked does it?...I’ve had to deal with those kind of things on night duty.”
Sara laughs.
“Oh no streaking is a whole different game....I’ll tell you those stories another day.”
She winks which makes Ava rolls her eyes.
“Oh god I don’t wanna know...fine let’s play.”
Sara smiles and goes and grabs the playing cards. The 2 begin playing and Sara wins the first few rounds easily making Ava strip out of her shirt and pants so she’s in her dark blue bra and panties. Sara whistles.
“Damm that’s hot even hotter that I won this view.”
Ava was giggling a little despite blushing.
“I bet your cheating.”
Sara smiles.
“Promise I’m not babe.”
Ava nods smiling she knows Sara isn’t and despite this usually not being her type of game she’s having fun with Sara playing. Of course the 2 are throwing out play insults the whole time. Ava starts to regroup and she ends up winning the next few making Sara strip down to her red underwear. Ava grins.
“See what you mean about it being hotter when you win it.”
Sara smiles.
“See. Well we’re both down to our last articles of clothing. Let’s see how this goes.”
They continue to play and Sara loses the game and groans playfully.
“You must’ve cheated sharpe no one beats me.”
Ava smirks smugly.
“Well I just did so come on get it off”
Sara flips her off playfully and stands up and removes her thong making Ava whistle playfully.
“I like this game.”
Sara smirks.
“Mmmmmm let’s play another...”
An hour later they’re happily cuddled up in bed, they hadn’t bothered getting dressed again Sara was happily playing with Avas hair.
“Enjoy this date night babe?”
Ava smiles turning to her. She could see Sara trying so hard to always make everything perfect. Despite Sara’s coolness Ava could see Sara had her own insecurities deep inside.
“Babe of course I did....I’d have said if I didn’t.”
Sara gives her a small smile.
“I know honey...I just want to screw this up like I do everything.”
Ava sits up and straddles her waist. This makes Sara look at her confused.
“This is the only way you’ll listen to me.”
Sara smirks.
“You sure because I’m seeing something very distracting.”
Ava just kisses her.
“Babe look things right now are perfect. You make me so happy and relaxed in a way I never thought anyone could. Will everything always be perfect? Eh probably not because that happens....and frankly me and you can both be pretty bitchy at times...but I know no matter what happens or what’s said In any silly argument we have. That you love me and I love you. That’s all that matters Sara.”
Sara smiles softly.
“I love you....so hey when you reckon we should do the wedding? Summer or winter or in between?”
Ava smiles and gets off her and cuddles up again.
“I think summer because it’s just nicer and softer.”
Sara grins.
“I agree....ooooh let’s do a beach wedding....then we can get married in bikinis.”
She teases not serious about it just knowing Ava would hate that. Ava pulls a face and looks like she’s about to try and form a counter argument when Sara bursts out laughing.
“Babe I’m kidding relax even I wouldn’t do it that informal.....but I was looking around on my day off and I did find something that looked interesting.”
Ava nudges her playfully.
“Oh god I’m worried.”
Sara laughs and punches her arm “shut up jerk....pass me my iPad.”
Ava grins.
“What’s the magic word?”
Sara raises her eyebrows.
“Hand over the iPad sharpe or no sex for 2 weeks.”
Ava chuckles.
“Such a smooth talker.”
She leans across and picks up Sara’s iPad and passes it to her.
“But we both know you couldn’t go that long Lance.”
Sara chuckles taking it and kisses her cheek and quickly looks through finding what she was looking for.
“Here.”
The website is about an estate in the countryside where there’s huge grounds and a mansion. Sara scrolls to a photo of a huge lake surrounded by trees on the clearing.
“That looks like such a nice place for the actual ceremony and then we can have the reception in the mansion...I checked the prices it’s not to bad....I mean it’s up to you as well babe if you don’t like it please say so.”
Ava beams.
“It’s beautiful baby. An outside wedding by a lake that’s literally always been my dream.”
Sara looks at her.
“Seriously?”
She nods.
“Yeah I mean I never saw myself getting married in a church.”
Sara laughs.
“Me neither....my dad once said if I ever went to confession I’d get banned from the church for taking so long.”
Ava snorts.
“True.”
Sara giggles.
“So you 100% want it there?”
Ava nods.
“Absolutely.”
Sara kisses her cheek.
“Okay I’ll send an email in the morning.”
Ava grins.
“Make sure there’s words not just emojis and memes...like most of your texts to me are...”
Sara smirks.
“Hey you understand them.”
“Only because we’ve been together so long. First time you did it you sent a beebo a heart, a tree Sylvester Stallone holding a machine gun.”
Sara grins.
“That meant sara loves Ava.”
“How on earth does that mean that?”
Sara rolls her eyes.
“Honestly sharpe...beebo is you....big soft and cuddly.....the heart means love and Sylvester Stallone is me cause I got bigger arms than him.”
Ava laughs shaking her head.
“Why couldn’t you just text the words....I love you?”
“I was being original jerk.”
“Very original I thought you were telling me about some new crossover movie coming out.”
Sara chuckles.
“Beebo meets Rambo....I’d pay to see that.”
“Yeah I bet you would Lance.”
The 2 spend the rest of the evening talking about random stuff and just teasing each other and enjoying being together. They both fall asleep just gone midnight cuddling each other with smiles on their face. Another amazing date night and both looking forward to the rest of their lives.