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[eras]

WHO: Soren/Sollux & Aria/Aradia.
WHAT: An outing.
WHEN: Friday October 4th, in the evening.
WHERE: In Locke, at a pizza place and then movies which they might not talk all the way through, because How Rude.

[ Aria's as prompt as she ever is with appointments; a few hours after school ends, and a while before the movie starts, she goes to pick Soren up in Mara's car, which is old and red and has a dangling sailor moon equivalent figure where some people put air fresheners or fuzzy dice. She shoots off a text to Soren once there, and spends the intervening time tapping out messages to other people, rapid-fire, though she'll drop the phone back into her purse whenever he comes out.

Further confusing the issue of What Are We Doing Right Now, Aria actually dressed up, in that she is not in her typical jeans-and-some-shirt combination, but opted for a black knee-length skirt and a red-and-black striped blouse. ...And then a pair of worn-out neon-pink sneakers with bored marker doodles over them that match nothing at all ever why does she own these, so never mind that.

She'll wave whenever Soren reaches the car, leaning over to open the passenger door from the inside. ]

Hey! Don't look in the back seat, Mara says all the clutter is necessary and if I try to tidy it up she'll do something to me. Well, she didn't say that in as many words, but there were threats and eye rolls and I decided not to risk it.

Comments

[eras]

Okay, if we were playing together I'd deserve anything I got that way. I mean, trusting someone you're playing against is sort of at the top of the list of "things not to do", wow.

But I'm glad I get a pass! Or a "probably", which I note isn't "definitely".

[mood2wiingiing]

Probably is close enough to definitely! [laugh]

[eras]

Up until it isn't!!! I know how this sort of thing goes!

I guess I probably wouldn't trick you, either. [ ...Admittedly not for lack of trying if she thought she could get away with it, but Aria's pretty sure he knows more than she does in this topic. ]

[mood2wiingiing]

I'd kind of like to see you try. [because he also figures she can't trick him but it would be fun]

[eras]

If that's a challenge, maybe I will. [ - "fail miserably" is the ending to that sentence, yep. ] And you'll never see it coming! Because this is the only warning you're getting. I'm not bringing it up again until it happens.

[mood2wiingiing]

Good luck. I think you'll need it.

[eras]

We'll see!!!!

[ aria you know you're going to lose. MAYBE SHE SHOULD CHANGE TOPICS BEFORE A LOSE CONDITION IS SET. that's not subtle at all. ]

...So are you looking forward to the movie?

[mood2wiingiing]

[it might not be subtle but soren either doesn't notice or doesn't care, and just goes with it.]

Yeah, it seems pretty cool. I can't wait to see it.

[eras]

I'd hope so! I mean, otherwise I would think you would have told me in, like, the week you've had to protest.

[mood2wiingiing]

...Yeah, probably.

Still though! It should be fun.

[eras]

I think you're normally pretty open about your opinions, so I would be surprised if you hadn't.

And yeah! I've been looking forward to doing something thoroughly normal. [ she says, in this pizza parlor. ]

[mood2wiingiing]

What, our lives aren't normal enough for you?

[eras]

Well, I like things to be, you know, interesting. But after a certain point of weirdness it's sort of nice to go and do normal things? Like, okay, I like exploring and going to see anything that, you know, happens. [ vague references to buzzing towers. ] ...but I also haven't been to an actual movie in like a month because I've been distracted.

[mood2wiingiing]

Oh. Yeah, I know what you mean. I mean mostly I've still been, you know. Doing normal things but, everything's a little overwhelming still.

We'll just have to do normal shit as much as we can then to make up for the bizarre shit.

[eras]

Normal shit like what?

[ she has three guesses and most of them involve video games. ]

[mood2wiingiing]

I dunno, going to eat or just hanging out or video games or something? I'm sure we could find something.

[eras]

I'm always up for stuff like that! I mean, unless I have track practice or a babysitting gig, but it's not like I'm booked to full.

[ just sometimes. ]

So whenever you want, just ask?

[mood2wiingiing]

Awesome. I'll definitely have to ask you more often then.

[eras]

Although you should probably stick to in person or text messages unless you want to be teased, apparently.

[mood2wiingiing]

...Yeah. Even if I did though he'd just text me privately on the network to be an asshole. [he doesn't sound too upset about it though. a little resigned though maybe.]

[eras]

About whether our date is a date or to sing you grade school songs via text?

[ She sounds mostly amused. ]

[mood2wiingiing]

One or the other. Or maybe just finding some other way to be obnoxious. He's actually really good at it, which is annoying. [he's actually not sounding annoyed by it and also sounds amused. somehow people being annoying isn't actually annoying or something.]

[eras]

You don't sound annoyed, you know. I think you like arguing with him, actually.

[ or bantering or whatever. although she can't really talk since she talks to obnoxious people all the time. ]

[mood2wiingiing]

[okay yeah he's laughing now]

It is fun, okay. He's a weirdo but he's actually pretty cool.

[eras]

Is that a secret, or have you said as much to the person in question?