Tuesday and Wednesday flew by, at least for Rylee and Alexa. These past two days were press junket days. Sebastian tried to explain them to Rylee but the best way he could explain it was to compare it to speed dating.

The actors and those involved with the movie stay in a room, and the interviewers are the ones that come in and out. They usually get 10-15 minutes to grill everyone about the movie. It's a pretty tightly run ship by PR and everyone's kept on a really strict schedule.

So needless to say, once they both got back to their hotel rooms on Wednesday night, they were exhausted. It was about 8:00 that night when Sebastian walked through the door.

Rylee was laying on her stomach on the bed, holding herself up by her elbows to read her book. She heard the door open and looked up, waiting for Sebastian to walk through the bedroom door.

When he did, he took in Rylee's relaxed posture and immediately relaxed himself, small smile appearing on his face under his tired eyes.

"Hey Ryles," Sebastian practically sighed as he walked towards the bed, plopping down on it. He ended up on his back, arms splayed every which way, his booted foot hanging off the side of the bed while his other foot laid on the mattress.

Rylee looked backwards towards him, "Hey you, how'd today go?" She turned back for a moment to bookmark her page and then fully turned toward him, now moving to sit criss cross.

"It was alright, most of the interviews stayed pretty tame." He flopped his hand toward her as he spoke and she started playing with his fingers gently as she listened to him. "One guy got kicked out for harassing Hayley."

"Oh, is she alright?" Rylee was surprised to hear that. Hayley is always so lovely, who would do something like that to her?

Sebastian nodded, his eyes closed, "Yeah, she didn't even have to say anything, PR was great there. They had the guy kicked out before anyone could even blink.

"Well that's good." Rylee continued rolling her fingers around Sebastian's as he laid there, eyes still closed.

"Just glad they're over. Sometimes junkets are fun, but shit, they're exhausting." Sebastian opened his eyes now too look over at Rylee. He smiled again, taking in her relaxed state, minimal makeup, messy bun. "You're so beautiful."

Rylee blushed a bit, surprised at the comment, "Thanks, love. How about you get ready for bed and we can relax, maybe throw a movie on?"

Sebastian simply nodded and got up, practically dragging himself towards the bathroom.

Ten or so minutes later, Sebastian came back to the bedroom, towel around his waist and rubbing another one through his damp hair. He changed into a new pair of boxer briefs and slid into bed beside Rylee, who had gone back to reading her book, sitting up against the headboard.

"What're you reading?" Sebastian asked as he turned towards Rylee, he scooted over and put his head in her lap, resting his eyes.

"Eleanor & Park, it's a cute little story, I read it a good while ago, decided to break it back out again." She immediately put her fingers through Sebastian's soft, tussled hair, scratching gently at his scalp, causing a happy sound to escape from him.

"Want to read it out loud? I love listening to you read.." Sebastian said quietly.

"Sure." She kept her hand in his hair as she began to read aloud from the spot she was at when he joined her.

"I don't like you, Park," she said, sounding for a second like she actually meant it. "I..." - her voice nearly disappeared - "think I live for you."

He closed his eyes and pressed his head back into his pillow.

"I don't think I even breathe when we're not together," she whispered. "Which means, when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?"

He was quiet. He wanted everything she'd just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with 'I want you' in his ears.

Sebastian was half asleep, from Rylee's soothing quiet voice and her fingers still in his hair, but he let out a small chuckle and mumbled, "Sounds like me talking."

"Hmm? What baby?" Rylee asked, her hand slowing for a moment, but Sebastian didn't respond. She looked down at him but he was already asleep. She let her hand continue running gently through his hair and went on reading her book.

Eventually she bookmarked her page and scratched Sebastian's back to gently wake him.

"Hmm?"

Without her saying anything, Sebastian scooted back and put his head on his pillow as Rylee slid down under the sheets with him and laid on her own pillow.

He pulled her in close by the waist and got comfortable again, quickly falling back asleep, as Rylee joined him.

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Rylee woke up the next morning to Sebastian gently rubbing her back in slow circles.

"Good morning," Sebastian said in a sing song voice , continuing his soothing circles.

"Mmm. Good morning," Rylee replied sleepily. When she opened her eyes she was surprised to see Sebastian was already dressed for the day, wearing jeans and an olive green t-shirt.

"Happy birthday baby," Sebastian said, leaning down to give Rylee a long kiss.

"Thanks," she smiled into the kiss. She thought to herself about how lucky she was, to be in a beautiful city with her amazing boyfriend on her birthday. She knew he had interviews to do but she was going to be joining him today. Apparently the interviews today were spaced far apart, so they'd be able to spend half the day together, even if it was just relaxing together in some green room. She'd take it.

"So, it's 8:00. But we've got to be heading out at like 8:45. Today's stuff is like an hour away so we've got a bit of a drive."

"Rylee nodded and got out of bed to start getting ready. At around 8:35 she walked out of the bedroom to where Sebastian was sitting in the living room. She decided to mimic Sebastian's relaxed attire and came out in a pair of jeans with a grey, long sleeved, scoop neck, button front crop top. Still cute but super comfortable. And it matched her grey nikes perfectly.

"Lookin good, birthday girl," Sebastian said as he stood up and wrapped his arms around Rylee to embrace her and pull her in for another kiss.

After a few more minutes, Sebastian and Rylee slipped on their shoes and headed for the lobby but then Sebastian took Rylee's hand and led them towards the parking garage.

Rylee gave him a confused look and Sebastian replied, "I decided to rent a car so we could just do the longer drive ourselves, have our own time together today as much as we can."

Rylee smiled at the gesture. He thinks of everything. They got to the garage and Sebastian hit the unlock button and the lights on the Audi in front of them sprang to life.

Sebastian opened the door for Rylee, shutting it behind her once she got settled and then made his way around to the driver side. He slid on his aviator sunglasses, started driving, and soon enough they made it onto the highway.

"I'm surprised we're not riding with Chris and Alexa." Rylee commented, looking through her texts as she spoke.

"Chris is at different interviews today." Sebastian answered simply, keeping his eyes on the road.

Rylee replied with a quiet "Ohhh." And continued combing through her texts. She had a plentiful assortment of birthday well wishes from a large assortment of people that she was quickly replying to before they got to their destination.

"So where are the interviews today?" Rylee asked while she typed.

"Anaheim."

"Oh wow, I just assumed they'd just always be in LA. Huh." Rylee said, barely paying attention.

An hour or so passed and Rylee was long done with her phone. She was now holding Sebastian's hand between them as he drove. Sebastian was rubbing his thumb along the back of her hand as they chatted away during the drive. Soon, Sebastian turned off the highway.

Rylee looked out the window and saw a road sign signaling for various attractions. "Oh wow, look, Disneyland is the next exit. I didn't realize we were that close to it."

"Huh. That's crazy. You ever been?"

"No, have you?"

"No, not yet." Sebastian replied.

"It seems like it would be fun. We should go sometime."

"Yeah, that would be fun."

They continued driving for another half mile or so and Sebastian put on his turn signal for the exit.

"Seb, I don't think this is our exit."

"Well, I think it is."

"But it's the Disney exit."

"Sure is."

The car fell silent for a moment as Sebastian tried to hide the smirk trying to grow across his lips.

"Sebastian."

"Rylee."

"I - uh- what is happening?"

"What is happening?" Sebastian almost laughed.

"Are we going to Disneyland?"

"We are indeed going to Disneyland."

They rounded a bend and there it was. Disney was smack dab in front of them and Rylee was still floored.

"But your interviews toda-"

"May have been a small fib. I've had today off for months."

Rylee was completely and utterly speechless. She's never had anyone do anything like this for her before. She was almost on the verge of tears from taking in how thoughtful and amazing Sebastian was.

"Happy birthday Ryles," Sebastian smiled at her lovingly, squeezing her hand between them as they began pulling into the parking lot.

As Sebastian put the car in park, he turned to look at Rylee who was full of a whole range of emotions. He leaned over and cupped her cheek, pulling her close for a kiss.

"Thank you Seb. I'm just...speechless."

"Well, Alexa's about to add to the lack of speech." Sebastian reached behind Rylee's seat and pulled out a neatly gift wrapped box.

Rylee put her hands on her face for a moment to try and collect herself. What could Alexa have done on top of this?

She looked over at Sebastian and then down at the box, beginning to open it. She got past the paper and pulled the lid off the black box. She pulled away a few pieces of tissue paper to reveal, tucked neatly inside, a pair of Minnie ears. But not plain ones, they were Bucky Barnes ears. One ear was silver and looked like the Winter Soldier arm design, the other ear looked like Bucky's new black vibranium arm. And there was a neatly placed blue sequin bow in the middle.

Attached was a small hand written note,

Happy birthday and enjoy your day!

Love you!

❤️ - Alexa and Chris

"They knew too! How long have you had this planned?" Rylee asked, still completely floored by her friends' secrecy.

"Umm...since you officially confirmed your trip. So...a month or so ago?" Sebastian reached back again to grab his black baseball cap, sliding his hands through his hair and then slipping on his cap.

"Oh my God." Rylee put her hands on her face to try and hide her blush, but failed. After a few minutes of trying to overcome the shock, they both got out of the car, Rylee's new headband in tow, and made their way towards the entrance.

"Hold on. We need a picture. Or Alexa will murder me," Sebastian said.

Rylee took out her phone and slipped on her new Bucky ears. They turned and took a selfie with the Disneyland sign in the background.

A woman standing near them noticed them taking a picture and walked up. Sebastian worried for a moment that she was going to ask for something and they hadn't even gotten in the door. He knows they'll get stopped throughout the day, he was just hoping to at least get in the gate first.

But he was surprised when she looked at Rylee and said, "Excuse me, do you want me to take a picture of you two?"

"Oh my gosh, that would be great, thank you!" Rylee said, handing her phone to the woman.

Sebastian and Rylee stood together and smiled brightly. They were surprised the woman said "Now do a silly one!" They both laughed but complied. Rylee put her Bucky ears on Sebastian's head and they both made goofy faces at each other.

The woman walked back towards them, returning Rylee's phone as Rylee thanked her.

"Oh, you're welcome dear. You two are a beautiful couple. Have a fun time!"

They both thanked her again and flushed at her compliment, making them chuckle between themselves.

Rylee went into her text messages and found Alexa. She tapped the two new photos of her and Sebastian and sent them to her.

🌻

Thank you!! ❤️❤️

💞

Ah! So cute! You're welcome! Have a blast!

They made their way into the park via the alternative entrance. Sebastian had made sure to get a VIP package so they could use the incognito ride entrances as to not cause scenes throughout the park, especially since Avengers Campus had just recently opened.

They tackled a good portion of the park throughout their day there. They rode some of the classics and made sure to stop at Galaxy's Edge where Sebastian and Rylee may or may not have made lightsabers. They also made sure to stop at the new Avengers Campus. They lost count of how many rides they got through, but they were thoroughly satisfied with their fun-filled day by the time the closing announcements began to chime.

They did indeed get stopped by a handful of people throughout the day, but everyone was extremely respectful and kind. And honestly Sebastian thought he would be stopped more. He was happy with how their day went and didn't think it could get much better than this.

Sebastian and Rylee walked hand in hand together out to the parking lot and once they got in the car they both sat with their heads back on the headrests of their seats, taking in the moment of quiet.

"Thank you, Seb. For everything. Today was amazing." Rylee rolled her head to the side of her headrest to look at Sebastian. He looked over at her and answered her with a long drawn out kiss. "You're welcome, today was fun."

After a few more minutes of just chatting about moments from throughout the day, Sebastian began driving them back and soon enough the hour long drive flew by and they were back in their room, cuddled together in bed.

"You know, I thought I would be exhausted, but now that I'm laying here, I'm not even remotely tired." Rylee commented aloud.

"I feel the same way," Sebastian replied.

Rylee turned to face Sebastian, her hand on his chest, drawing small delicate circles. Without warning he scooped his arm underneath her and heaved her on top of him, causing Rylee to let out a small yelp of a giggle.

Their faces an inch from each other, Sebastian closed the distance and kissed Rylee, long and slow. When they parted again, he whispered, "Happy birthday, baby," pushing a loose strand of hair out of Rylee's face.

Rylee didn't waste anytime closing the distance between their lips again, her hands beginning to tug at Sebastian's shirt. He obliged and helped take off his shirt and immediately started into taking off Rylee's.

Sebastian was wrong when he thought earlier that the day couldn't get any better because their night was spent entwined together, shrouded in pleasure and bliss. Perfect.