“Whoa Tootie pants, you miss me or what?!” Pip said as I grabbed her tiny frame and yanked her to me for a fierce hug.
“You’re really here!” I said stating the obvious making her laugh.
“Well it’s not every day an Imp gets the royal invitation.” She replied winking at me but wait, it wasn’t at me at all, it was at Draven. I turned my head to watch as he unfolded himself out of his seat and only had eyes for me.
“You did this?”
“I did.” Was his simple reply.
“You did this for me?” I asked again only this time clarifying the specifics. This time he only nodded and that was all it took. I left Pip’s arms and ran at Draven. I registered his shocked face for a split second before he caught me and I started raining little kisses all over his face for what he had done. He seemed to keep himself immobile for my assault as if he was afraid any sudden movements would cause me to stop. So he just let me show him my appreciation.
“Aww, well isn’t that just the cutest sight you did see baby pop, pop?” I heard Pip say, smacking her lips at the ‘pop, pop’ bit. I pulled back to find Draven grinning as big as I had felt it with my lips pecking at him.
“You’ve made me so happy!” I told him.
“Then it’s definitely worth all the extra noise and colour invading my home for that very reason alone.” This answer made me smile big and I looked back round to Pip to find her being held from behind by the handsome Adam. Then I turned back to Draven and whispered over his cheek,
“Thank you for inviting a rainbow into my life.” And then I kissed him where I had spoken.
“You’re welcome, Love.”
“Alrighty, alrighty, enough of the mushy shit, I wanna drink!” Pip said light-heartedly making me laugh. Draven let me go and I walked back over to my personal rainbow, as I hadn’t been lying when I said that to Draven. Pip was literally wearing a rainbow!
She wore a chiffon halter neck dress in the brightest colours of the rainbow, with a massive double layered bell shaped skirt. To this she added a skull and cross bone hello kitty brooch at her cleavage and neon green tights with a monster pattern. She also had on round mirrored sunglasses that reminded me of John Lennon and I was only just now noticing the panda bears she had painted on her nails.
“My Lord.” Adam said bowing to Draven before coming over to me and giving me a warm embrace.
“Hello little trouble maker.” Adam said to me with a smile in his voice.
“You are so gonna be glad I’m here for tomorrow night, it’s gonna be a blast and we are gonna have so much…”
“Winifred.” Adam warned letting me go and crossing his arms across his chest.
“It’s fine Adam.” Draven said obviously knowing what she was being scolded for and for a minute I thought it was because she was about to blurt out something she shouldn’t have.
“What?! What did I do this time, cause you know you already punished me for what I did on the plane, and I told you my teeth wouldn’t get in the way but oh no, you just couldn’t keep still, you had to move and jerk around and I told you that would happen, but would you listen…would he listen…” She repeated again to me making Adam frown down at her.
“Winifred.” He warned again.
“What...? Oh…that.” She said turning back to face Draven and bowing like Adam, only holding out her skirt creating the perfect curtsy.
“My Lordie Boss Man.” She said then looked my way and winked at me making me giggle. Draven just nodded with his lips twitching and Adam rolled his eyes to the ceiling.
“Everyone happy now…um let’s see, punished on plane, check, super happy fun time reunion , check, Royal bullshit taken care of, check, watching Boss man and his little woman practically hump, check! Now let’s get shitfaced!” Pip shouted in a way I think she was expecting everyone else to cheer…of course they didn’t. But I did give her a little,
“Yay.”
So the rest of the evening was spent as a little reunion party and even though the room next to the kitchen was as posh as a palace, none of us really acted like we belonged there. We laughed, we joked and we drank like wine was going out of fashion and we had to get rid of a cellar full before the next season! But I soon learnt that even when you had hundred year old furniture that sloppy wine stains weren’t an issue when you had Draven Mumbo Jumbo.
And this was a good thing because at one point me, Pip and Sophia were all up dancing on the large coffee table in the centre. I even thought it was pretty cool how Draven had offered me his hand to help me step up, the same as Adam and Zagan had done for their girls.