Who wants a romance o/o? (OPEN)

"It's genetic, as you can tell." He smiled brightly up at her.

She laughed quietly.

"Psst." He poked at her knee, as though trying to get her attention.

"What?" she whispered.

"Any chance I could convince you to be my girlfriend?" Was his whisper reply, paired with a shy smile.

She froze and blushed. "Uh, y-you'd want me to?" she asked softly.

"Uh, yeah?"

"I'd love to be your girlfriend," she whispered happily.

Nicky grinned, reaching up to brush his fingers down her jaw and to her chin. "Perfect."

She gasped quietly, but she also giggled.

Aaron made a gagging sound, and this time Rico hit him on the head.
Nicky ignored them in favor of gazing up at Laura happily.

(I feel like Rico is gonna be like Laura's "older brother" and the girls are gonna be her "sisters")

She laughed. "Are you going to stare at me all night, or are we going to, like, play in the yard or something?"

((absolutely
"Uh, if the first one is on the table…" Then he blinked. "Play in the yard?"

"Uh, yeah…" she mumbled, looking away embarrassedly. "We don't have to…"

"No, wait, waddya mean by play in the yard?"

"I don't know. Just yard games. We don't have to if you don't want to…"

(Everyone else in the band is just doing nothing XD)

((they're all either watching the interaction or in Mitch's case reading
"I'm not sure what yard games are but I'm down." Nicky nodded.
"We have squirt guns in the shed!" Renee chimed in excitedly.

Laura looked up. "You would want to do that?"

"Sure!" She grinned. "Need to borrow a suit?"

"Yes," Laura said with a smile. For the first time in a long time, she felt excited.

Nicky stood up and held out his hand to pull her off the couch. "A'ight, the rest of us'll go change too."

She took his hand and smiled happily. "Okay!"

He handed her off to Renee, watching them head to grab stuff from the spare room, where all extra clothes were kept. Then he made his way to his own bedroom.

Laura followed Renee. "Do you think he really likes me?" she asked shyly.

"'Course he does!" She replied, grinning as she pulled her into the spare bedroom. "Never seen him so hung up on a girl, 'specially not one he just met."

Laura blushed, but looked incredibly relieved. "Oh, good…"

Renee pointed towards the bed, and Lilly went and sat down, gesturing for Laura to follow. "We've got a bunch of suits in here, if we leave anything it just kinda gets tossed in the closet or the dresser."

Laura sat down beside Lilly. "Okay. Do you think anything will fit me?"

"Probably. You look about Lilly's size a couple years ago…here." She pulled out a black one piece and tossed it Laura. "That look like it'll fit?"

"I think so," she said, holding it up to her chest.