IC contact for lastvoyages

[cactusy]

[If I don't have an active post up, feel free to use this post to have your character call, videochat, text, or knock on Shaw's door.]

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[abrightboy]

I don't think you hate me. I'm just surprised to be the first person up here. [He raises his still empty glass towards her, then leans forward conspiratorially.] I did a whole surprise dinner for him last night and I cooked it myself and everything. ...Sort of. Well. The most I ever have.

[cactusy]

[She pauses, briefly - not wanting to tell him that celebrating with champagne hadn't been something she'd thought of until he'd called, because she can't see how he'd take "This isn't a special thing that I planned out and then invited you to" as anything but an insult. Better to just hold her tongue.]

You like cooking?

[abrightboy]

Well. I liked it yesterday. I didn't like it last week. ...Those are really my only two times. Except for one time I tried to make scallops for a date at home, but I burned them and had to order them in anyway.

[cactusy]

You tell her, or did you keep that part a secret?

[abrightboy]

I told her. But I also got to tell Will that I cooked his celebration dinner!

[cactusy]

You wanna know something?

[She says thoughtfully, idly drumming a heel against the leg of her stool.]

I have never in my life cooked for a date.

[abrightboy]

You made those noodles for our double date.

[cactusy]

Uh-uh. Wasn't a double date.

[The server slides a bottle of champagne over to her, and she pours herself a glass, taking a long sip before continuing.]

That was a hangout.

[abrightboy]

Oh. [He pours himself a glass.] ...How do you know the difference?

[cactusy]

Hangouts are more relaxed and casual. I mean... for me. I like them better. I hang out with people I like; I go on dates with people I'm hoping to have sex with.

[abrightboy]

Oh, is that why you don't like the term double date? Because it implies... like... an orgy or something?

[cactusy]

Ugh, no way.

[She wrinkles her nose.]

I just think double dates are lame; makes me feel like either a middle-schooler or a suburban housewife.

[abrightboy]

I didn’t go on any dates in middle school. Or high school. I did go on two in college. …Well. Three if you count the joke one. ……………And now I’m engaged. That’s weird, right? But also… amazing.

[cactusy]

Definitely weird.

[Sorry, Malcolm.]

No weirder than my dating history, though.

[abrightboy]

Oh no, did you get asked out as a joke, too?