i saw mommy kissin santa claus

[mansionstaff]

Who: YOU
What: KISSLETOES
When: December 15th - January 1st
Where: Everywhere
Warnings: Sloppy makeouts.

SUDDENLY, AND WITHOUT WARNING...



The entire school has become covered in mistletoe overnight. It grows out of the walls! The ceilings! Everywhere you least expect it? HOW CAN THIS BE??

It's probably best not to think about it. Attempts to uproot the plants or burn them away only makes the plants grow back faster. For the time being, it seems the school must live with it.

The astute might find an unassuming note pinned the bulletin board in the main office. WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY MEAN??



[OOC INSTRUCTIONS:
+ Post dudes, get kisses!
+ Some (NOT ALL) plants are cursed. If you manage to step under a cursed plant, you are glued to the spot until you receive a kiss OR tell a secret--characters, of course, logically will not know about the secret option to start! The IC clue is the mysterious note.
+ PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TAG YOUR CHARACTERS
+ That's it, we love you.]

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16th

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Guess whose first time it was under the mistletoe? His name starts with an M and ends in an O.

He doesn't even think anything of them. To him, they look just as innocuous as all the tinsel and poinsettias and ornaments and whatnot decking every hall. No one told him, the poor bastard, about the mistletoe curse. That's why he's confused and outraged when he finds himself planted in the middle of the floor, unable to move his legs. But oh my god does he try. His legs keep wriggling around and he has this furious expression drawn on as he stares daggers at the floor that won't let his feet go. He'd even tried sliding his foot out of his shoe to see if his soles were stuck to the floor with really strong superglue or something, making this the second thread where Mondo is halfway barefoot that I have written today. Nope, his foot was stuck to the floor too.

It just so happens that, at a moment that was soon, Kiyotaka arrived on the scene. Grateful for the possibility of help, he calls over to him so he can alert him of his predicament.

"Hey, hey, bro! Somethin's weird here! I can't move my fucking legs!!" He demonstrates with all his might. "See? My feet are stuck to the damn floor!"

[forgetbeam]

At this moment that was soon, Kiyotaka takes one look at the situation and knows what terrible fate had befallen his poor friend. He meant to mention something about it sooner, but he's been too preoccupied with finding the safest route through the school... Ah, he's terrible!

"This same thing happened last year! It's... absolutely absurd, but it's some strange kind of curse, for a lack of a better word. However, fear not! It can be broken!"

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Oh, well, that was a relief. At least he didn't have to saw his feet off? He calmed down a fraction, but only that much. "How?"

[forgetbeam]

"It seems only a kiss will satisfy it."

As far as he knew. He wasn't aware of the new rules yet.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Mondo's entire face contorted in disbelief. Did he... hear him right? "A... what?!"

[forgetbeam]

"A kiss," he repeated, thinking that it was an inability to hear him more than disbelief that prompted Mondo to ask. Although even Kiyotaka knew how ridiculous it sounded. "I would not believe it if not for last year."

Last year when it was a refusal to believe Celes that sent his life on a dark spiral for a good while there...

Well, at least freeing his best bro was no big deal. RIGHT? "Apparently, it's possible to be stuck for several hours at a time. It's fortunate that I'm here to help you now! Here, lean down."

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

"Lean..." He didn't obey at all and instead opted to keep staring at Kiyotaka like he was telling him he forgot to wear pants. "Now, h-hold on just a minute! You mean we gotta...!"

The thought of it started to creep in. God, that would be weird. Two buff guys kissing next to each other. That's all. What? What's the problem?! Especially here where anyone could chance by and catch them. That would be so incredibly fucking compromising. He just wasn't into guys, and he already went over this with himself in spite of what happened in June or whenever that he definitely didn't have those feelings for Kiyotaka and so kissing was just unthinkable. Besides... This would be his first kiss. And this wasn't how he wanted it to be!

Unthinkable, suuuure, but there were definitely ideas that quietly snuck beneath the topmost layers of his frustrated thoughts before he tried to chase them away, a pursuit that he couldn't be rid of because it was so elusive to him, a form that couldn't be grasped and therefore never confronted. It was the sneaky kind that nudged him in more curious directions, like the faint buzz of what his lips might feel like when they were pressed up against his, but then the weirdness of that idea would take over again only to be superseded yet again by the curiosity just to be pinned down by his disgust with himself, a neverending tumble of dominance between heart and mind. His confusing conflict left him hanging there doing nothing but gawking at Kiyotaka.

[forgetbeam]

Oh great, he was being difficult. Kiyotaka couldn't really blame him-- after all, the idea of being forced to kiss anyone, especially out in public, was just invasive and wrong. That was the only problem Mondo had with it, right?

But his own mind also flitted back to June, to those glimpses of what might have been some kind of memory or some strange dream. Thoughts he shoved into the darkest, dustiest corners of his mind, but had shamefully entertained at least once more before being able to stop thinking about it entirely.

More recently and more troubling was the fact that ongoing snow threads were gonna get p homo but SPOILER ALERT

Whatever any of that meant, it didn't matter. The important thing was that he wasn't going to just abandon Mondo for who knew how long until someone else came by that may or may not be more to the biker's standards. Nor was he going to stay here and keep him company; he really could just do nothing with Mondo for hours and be perfectly content, but he still had a schedule to stick to, and no amount of bromance was going to tempt him out of it.

So it was time to take initiative. He marched right up to Mondo, totally through with his stammering protests, and reached up to take his face in his hands.

"Hold still." It came out much less as the loud order he intended and more like a soft, intimate request, but he didn't stop to think too deeply into it. Or about the fact that it was just so automatic, the way he rose up on the tips of his toes and tilted his chin up as he moved in closer.

This was it. He was going in.

where's that sea lion image when you need it

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Mondo didn't even resist. It was hard to tell whether the seconds that elapsed were spinning too fast or too slow for him, but surely enough his heart won the race and he waited in anticipation for the kiss, not sure whether to follow the instinct to tear away or the one that demanded he lean into it. His self-consciousness wanted to push away, but the same curiosity mixed with a mutual understanding that this was all for the sake of escaping the curse willed him toward Kiyotaka's bold move. In the end, the tug of both instincts neutralized him and made him maintain his position of frozen.

Was it... was it really so wrong?! For fuck's sake, he was stuck to the floor! Plus, there were definitely worse candidates than his best bro to kiss, that's for sure. And it was kind of fixating, watching him close in like that... His teeth had been clenched at first, but his jaw tension slackened. Any second now, and...

it's here i have it

[glazedandconfused]

YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS WHOLE TIME

[forgetbeam]

YOU SAW NOTHING

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

[forgetbeam]

...and their lips met.

It was simple and chaste, just enough to appease the Kissletoe Curse but lasting a few seconds longer than it needed to. There was nothing wrong with that.

Nothing but the wave of familiarity that slammed against him and threatened to sweep him away, and for a split second he was almost all too willing to go along with it. Then all at once he pulled away and dropped back down to his feet, absolutely bewildered by the unexpected and unidentifiable feeling surging through him.

He put a hand over his mouth, a barrier that suddenly seemed all too necessary.

"...Did it work?" It felt more like he was the one rooted to the spot.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Kiyotaka wasn't the only one who covered his mouth with a palm, and Mondo shuffled his feet around uncomfortably.

"By the looks of it, yeah," he muttered sloppily, averting his eyes. He could tell that the simple lip-on-lip contact had set his cheeks aflame and didn't want that to show, but really, it was kind of useless to try concealing. It was also useless to deny liking it- okay, he only liked it a little, but a kiss was a kiss, right? Everyone's lips probably felt really similar, so no duh he was feeling warm and tingly inside. But the urge to throw his arms around him too? No, no no no, that was completely inappropriate and he didn't know where it came from, nor did he want to.

[forgetbeam]

"Oh. Good."

He looked stupid with his hand practically glued to his face and sounded even worse with his suddenly monosyllabic response, but finding the coherence to get even that out amidst the chaotic frenzy working up in his heart and mind was a task in itself.

It would probably be best to get out of there until he could think clearly. Forget this ever happened. Forget, forget, forget beam.

"I have... things. To do. Duties." He mentally kicked himself. "Be mindful of where you step!"

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

"Right! How hard could it be?" he replied, feigning casualness and relieved that they were parting because aw hell it was gonna get awkward just standing next to each other. For once, it seemed like Kiyotaka was picking up on silent social signals, and there could never be a better time than now.

[forgetbeam]

Too bad he was actually too wrapped up in his own awkward feelings to even begin to notice Mondo's. As far as he knew that casualness was totally real and that made it even worse somehow.

"Right! That's the spirit! ...Well... I will see you back at the dorm later!"

He spun on his heel and off he went. At least once Kiyotaka was able to resume focus on his responsibilities he could put this incident out of mind and dorm life could continue as usual. OR ELSE IT WAS A REPEAT OF JUNE.