(𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧) Maybe We Should Start Small?

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"Yes please..." he drawled out, drool starting to form from his mouth.

She turned so that she was now on her side, her hand now moving from Betelgeuse's cheek and down the demon's neck. Betelgeuse rested his hand on top of hers, gripping it tightly but gently and moving it up to his face again. Barbara cupped Betelgeuse's other cheek in her hand, turning him so that he was facing her.

But then she hesitated, unsure if she should continue.

"Betelgeuse, I- what if-"

Betelgeuse sensed the female ghost's discomfort, his hand resting on her shoulder. Adam had his hand draped over Betelgeuse's shoulder, gently stroking it across it.

"Do you not want to do this? The three of us could do it another ti-"

"No. It's just- I'm not sure if it's right for us to do this. To try our hand at a relationship with you," Barbara continued, her hand retracting. She had a certain look in her eyes that was uncertain but wary, one that Betelgeuse and Adam, who had since removed his hand from Betelgeuse's shoulder and sat upright, also looking at Barbara, had both taken immediate notice of.

"Whatcha mean?" Betelgeuse questioned, also sitting up and glancing at Barbara. Adam had moved to sit beside Betelgeuse, tilting his head to the side before nodding. "Was all of that too much?"

"No. I think Adam and I need time to talk it over with each other and with you before we go through with this."

"Why talk about it when we can just go in for it?" Betelgeuse purred out softly, once more laying on his side on the bed and facing Barbara.

Before the female ghost could do as much as react, Betelgeuse's arms laced around her waist. She was taken aback, but only for a brief moment, then she relaxed slowly and slightly at the demon's touch, affectionately placing her arms around Betelgeuse's neck and shifting a little closer against his body. Adam found his hand tracing down Betelgeuse's back. Then he stopped, peering over Betelgeuse's body at Barbara.

She looked up towards him, taking note of a look of uncertainty in his eyes, a certain look that indicated to her that maybe they should start small; that maybe they should wait a little while longer before they got more into stuff like this. A matching, mirrored look of uncertainty appeared on her face. Her removing her arms from around Betelgeuse's neck and shifting away from the demon, sitting up, made the demon moan and grumble softly and sound like he himself wanted to get more into it.

But neither ghost wanted him to know that they weren't in fact ready. So they just decided to remain quiet - at least for a while, that was. And they both had hope that Betelgeuse himself wouldn't catch on. As far as they were aware, Betelgeuse was still hopeful that they would be intimate towards each other - the three of them.

But that didn't seem to last for long.

When he didn't feel Adam or Barbara touch or feel him for longer than a while, Betelgeuse sat himself upright on the bed - looking between both ghosts and noticing the familiar looks of uncertainty and uncomfortableness on both ghosts' faces.

"Babs, Sexy?" he questioned quietly and softly, the slightest hint of confusion apparent in his voice. "Something bothering you guys?"

"Yes and no." Barbara was the first of the two ghosts to speak up after a while, trying to hide not only the slight uncertainty in her tone of voice, but also the fact that she was shaking her head slowly. She paused, trying to find the right words to say. But when nothing seemed to come to her, she fell silent and looked to Adam for assistance.

The male ghost, who had his attention turned to her, although it was only brief, nodded and looked over towards Betelgeuse. "Betelgeuse, can we talk?"

"Of course you can talk," Betelgeuse responded, not catching on to the fact that Adam wasn't actually joking and instead being serious. "There's no need to ask."

Adam groaned, raising an eyebrow at that. But deep down inside of him, he was amused at the joke and he knew that he couldn't keep himself from laughing at just that. Betelgeuse beware, the jokes that he made and would make were not nearly going to be as good as Adam's were. But in all seriousness, now was not the time to be making jokes. Especially ones about whether or not they could talk.

"That's not what I meant and you know it!"

"Then what did you mean, Sexy? When you asked me that?" Betelgeuse asked the other male in the room confusedly, though still sounding a little bit amused by his own joke, moving and sitting on the edge of the bed, his attention focused now on Adam.

"What I meant to say was.... can we talk about all of this relationship and making out stuff first? Before we get further into it? Because I do not want to keep this up unless we know that we're all okay with it," Adam finally said after a brief moment of silence, sounding a little bit nervous.

Barbara nodded along, already agreeing with him.

Betelgeuse however, was conflicted and therefore still considering it. But, after a few brief and short minutes of thinking quietly to himself, Betelgeuse knew that he himself despite being someone who would delve into a relationship before discussing it with his possible and potential future partners - despite said partners already being married to each other - knew that discussing it first was the right thing to do.

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