<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/bd/CourtneyChristmas21.jpg)<br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Courtney<br/>(Butterfly)</span></strong></div></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;">I *nod* &amp; *smile* when Mechelle brings out my beer.<br/><br/>"Thank you," strong is just what I need, I think, but could have just as easily spoken.<br/><br/>Before I take a drink though, I spot something that needs my immediate attention first. With a conspicuously extended finger, I swipe foam off of Steffy's nose, then very suggestively suck it off my finger.<br/><br/>"Yum."<br/><br/>A playfully defiant expression crosses my face, as a suggestion of moderation is made. It came across as a suggestion, but really it's more of a polite way saying, "don't drink too much."<br/><br/>"It <strong><em>might</em></strong> be wise, yes, but then how does one get practice? Practice is just repetition, yes? Sounds like someone is drinking a lot of Coquito's tonight, if practice is the desire."<br/><br/>Now clearly this wasn't the intention. I know this, and in times prior to this, I would have immediately understood what she said as an order, and followed it without issue. I've evolved though, we've evolved. I still consider it an order, yes, but I'm no longer mindlessly bound to it. I can follow it, will follow it, but I can also follow without be the perfect good girl. If I want to be mischievous, I can do that, and it's up to her if she wants to punish for that. It gives at least the illusion of choice. I will moderate, if demanded, and have no choice in the matter, but if mischievousness is met by an "oh I dare you bitch," sort of an attitude, I can choose that as well. It's the same dynamic overall, but much less constrained and much more fun. How it came to this point, is a long story, but I digress.<br/><br/>I issue a challenging *smirk* before downing a full 1/3 of my glass.<br/><br/>I let out a satisfied "Ahhhhh," that was purposefully over-emphasized.</span>