Maybe this was what acting normal about things was? Talking about that night like it had been any other night. Nick at least thought in that respect she was coming off as confident, or at least not broadcasting to the whole world that she didn’t entirely know how to act around Jax anymore. “Although I wonder if the booze could be blamed for that,” she mused, not entirely wanting to admit or reveal that she wouldn’t have minded finding out what might happen between the two of them without liquor involved.
If she was at all surprised that he replied, it didn’t show on her face. In the back of her mind Nick had been expecting Jax to reply with something as he wasn’t prone to backing down from a challenge, or at least she had never seen him back down. She couldn’t deny his list was thorough, though she wasn’t going to comment on the last part, partly because she was that girl – the one who had never seen one before. “You seem to think you really know what girls like, so tell me, what do you think I like?” This could either provide another interesting challenge in seeing if Jax would reply, or it would blow up in her face and she would want to spend the rest of forever hiding out in her cell. Nick kind of hoped it would be the former, because spending the rest of her time hiding out actually sounded really unappealing.
She wondered what exactly she might have said to get Jax to smile like that; sometimes she thought boys could be just as weird as girls. Nick shrugged off the whole thing, thinking there wasn’t any point in going back through what she had said to figure out what have have earned that smile from Jax. Maybe it was just all the talk about penguins? “The thought of anything being zombiefied really isn’t appealing,” she remarked as she shifted next to Jax, pressing in closer to him as they talked. Ignoring her earlier decision not to lay her head on his shoulder, Nick did just that, telling herself it was only because it was more comfortable than sitting kind of ramrod straight and avoiding any kind of contact like that. Shifting her gaze to the television screen, she laughed softly at the antics of both the cartoon Vikings and their dragons.