Promising you'll be good is also what you said before I left. ( but he does start removing his clothes and tossing it off to the side onto the dry floor of the bathroom. he might as well just take a shower too because they're already at risk of using up all the hot water and he doesn't want to take a cold shower. besides, it's not like he minds getting naked as long as erik behaves. )

Does this smell good to you? ( he takes a brand new bar soap and lathers it up, letting erik have a sniff of it. ) Raven says it's vanilla and bourbon. She bought a whole basket of different smelling soaps at the farmer's market last weekend.