<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99">Ayla blushed deeply, before straightening up and reaching for her towel, slipping out of the tub as it started to drain.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#a6ff4d"> “Vampire…”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99"> she muttered under her breath, teasingly, with a smirk on her face. The bath had certainly done her good, and the talk, leaving the feelings behind like grime in the bathwater, carried away with it down the drain.  She sighed when he returned to their previous topic of conversation however, though she couldn’t help but feel he was coming from a place of love and affection, instead of nagging. The towel wrapped around herself, she wrapped her arms around his waist, resting her head on his bare chest. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#a6ff4d">“I just… you and Alexi… you’re so sweet together… and i just felt like i was getting in the way…”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99"> <i>unwanted</i>.</span>