vatheon | this is definitely not a date [closed]

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this is definitely not a date [closed]

Who: Bon and Jade
When: During the party at the villa
Where: Around
Style: Action
Status: Closed

[ Bon stood in confusion on the stoop of the villa, staring at the door that had just been closed in his and Jade's faces. It took him a moment to snap out of it long enough to stare down at the money that had also been hastily shoved into his hands before he finally let his gaze slip sideways toward Jade next to him.

Shiro had found the two looking for something to eat in the kitchen when he had promptly declared that, hey, you know what? You should go out and have yourselves a good time tonight. Here's some money, Bon, you treat this lovely girl to a nice dinner and don't come back until late, alright?

And then they were shoved out the door and essentially locked out of the house. ]

...Why did he even hand me money?

[ Yeah this was the main issue here.

Well, it was easier to focus on that. Otherwise he'd be thinking about how Shiro basically told them to go on a date. ]

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I know, right? Where did he even get that? I have...never seen him working.

[No offense meant to him or anything, Shiro is a good fellow, just...mysteries.]

...Did he say that to mean we should stay out all night? What the hell are we even going to do all night?

[Adults are weird!!!!]

To be honest, I don't think I really want to know. But I'll bet it's going to be loud and obnoxious, either way.

[ He sighs and finally shoves the money into the pocket of his pants before he turns to look at her and just... shrug as casually as possible. ]

Well... do you want to? Go have dinner, I mean.

Sure, I mean...he kind of pushed us out while I was in the middle of getting something and all.

[Ruuuuude.

Jade shrugs herself, she had no problem going out and hey--getting a friend out and about was always a worthy cause.]

You got a place in mind? We can just wander around until we find something that looks good, I mean, it's not like we even have to eat out much in the first place with Rin in the house.

I think that's been part of the problem this week, huh.

[ It's true, too. Bon is relatively certain none of them have been eating as well as they should, thanks to Rin being absent. ]

They have a restaurant for pretty much everything, right? How about some Italian? It's nice and basic and hard to go wrong.

[ He can eat things that aren't Japanese, believe it or not. ]

[And she doesn't just eat raw meat all the time, AMAZING. They are like two pods in an ectobio lab.

...Wait that metaphor is slightly confused, let's pretend it didn't happen.]

Hard to go wrong? This is Vatheon! Watch all the pasta be tentacles or something!

[That was a joke, obviously, since she's nodding anyway.]

Let's go!

Hey, if you've never had fried squid, you should really try it out some time. It's actually delicious.

[ Japan why.

Bon nods though and turns away from the door to head off in the direction of the square and we're going to skip the walking part because that shit is boring and we can just assume they had casual conversation about how weird it is Shiro forced them out the door like that.

Bon stops in front of a little place, one of those that has the low lighting and soft music playing through the system. But it was the first Italian one he had seen, and he just... sucks in a breath. ]

This place looks alright.

[It was totally invigorating and stuff and man adults are craaaazy like but she's seen weirder whatever.]

Yeah...think they let in pets?

[That was another joke.]

I mean I'm not on a leash or anything!

Maybe they'll make us eat out back in the alley.

[ Bon. Bon did you just make a Lady and the Tramp reference. Is that a thing you just did?

...

He shakes his head and moves to hold the door open for her. ]

After you.

[Actually that was cute and it's reassuring to know that he's not just finding it bizarre how she's joking around. Jade's no idiot, even if she is a little inexperienced with real live social interaction (IE: not on Prospit) this does seem pretty date-y right now, so joking is sort of a signal to let him know that it's okay and don't be nervous.

Whether or not it works is another story.

She walks past only to make a grab for his arm and pull him in with her.]

Hey, you come too, silly!

Wh--

[ Oops suddenly yanked into the restaurant. At least he managed to avoid smacking his face into the wall on the way in. ]

Well it wasn't like I was going to just abandon you here.

--Oh, just two.

[ He's turned toward the host, now, and it takes only a moment for him to be ushering them to a table to sit and unfold menus for them. ]

...So I guess this isn't so bad, really. Coming out like this.

Well, yeah! Even if the circumstances are a bit out of the ordinary and...you know, when I think about it, it's not such a big deal that he locked us out of the house anyway. I can just teleport back in and unlock the door for you.

[She shrugs and casts a glance over the menu, seeing if anything pops out at her. To tell the truth, she hasn't really eaten anything overtly Italian before outside of spaghetti, so the little descriptions below the names of the dishes were a boon.]

[A moment passes before Jade's discomfort at the warmth prompts her to take off her jacket, putting it back in her sylladex the moment Bon looks away. He may already know about her freaky dog-god powers, but she's not really in the mood to explain where the hell her jacket went.]

But maybe we can stay out a little longer, too. Go fish-watching or something.

[She's busying herself with braiding her hair (courtesy of a band she was already wearing around her wrist) to keep it from snagging on anything in addition to chattering away, unaware that with it moved out of the way and with the jacket gone, the beads she had tucked under them are now in plain sight.]

Cal-zone. Cal-zo-nee? Have you ever had one of these?

[ He's seen stuff disappear around her like that before, and it's really just a lot easier to not even worry about it than to try to figure out the logistics. It'd be a pretty handy thing to have if there were any sort of way to bring it to other worlds, though, whatever it was. ]

A calzone is basically like a folded over pizza. So dough stuffed with cheese and sauce an--

[ The movement catches his eye first and he blinks, trying to find what it was, when he finally spots them. ]

You're wearing the rosary?

...Uh...

[And her hands immediately go to them, not to cover them up but to sort of grip them as if they're a security blanket and he's going to take them away.]

Is that...bad? I really liked them and, uh...it felt nice to have them with me at all times, and...

[oh shit what did she do wrong NOW]

[ Bon shakes his head, trying to offer her a smile but it mostly just looks awkward because well. Bon. ]

No. Some people might not agree with it, but you're not doing it as a fashion statement. And if it comforts you then... it's fine. I just didn't expect to see it on, I guess.

[Oh okay. That's a relief.]

Umm...I'm not much for jewelry anyway, so I would hardly be trying to make a fashion statement.

[Not to say she's not fashion conscious just--you know what, a calzone actually sounds really good, she'll just get a calzone. Wow this is awkward suddenly.]

It's nice to have it.

It should be. They're supposed to be comforting to have.

[ Sort of what he got it for her for, after all.

He glances down at the menu silently for a moment before letting out a breath. ]

I don't know why I'm looking so hard at this thing. I'll just wind up with spaghetti anyway.

[ He's sort of boring when he goes outside his comfort zone okay. ]

It's still more variety than I had back at home, all I had was various fruits around the island and pre-packaged steaks. But those were for Bec, he liked lightly-irradiated steaks.

[.............Jade honey don't tell the boy that you dealt with radiation in the past.]

Most dogs pref--did you say irradiated.

[ Well that got Bon's attention. He just sort of... slowly lifts his gaze to give her a Look over the top of the menu. ]

...My grandpa raised me on nuclear physics, Ryuuji, of course I said irradiated. Bec was by no means a normal dog. This teleporting stuff that I can do? I inherited that power from him. Long story.

[Yeah well she can stare right back, mister, she ain't intimidated!!!]

I'm just sayin', not a lot of people come out of radiation exposure intact. Not without hazmat suits and a whole bunch of other protective measures.

[ And he knows that her teleporting isn't a result of it, either. He's been paying attention to how her world works, alright. ]

[Oh that, well--]

'Course not. But, uh...I always had the proper equipment, Ryuuji, though the machines my grandpa made basically automated the entire process anyway. I am not going to keel over from radiation poisoning any time soon, nor am I a walking talking nuclear reactor, just a scientist.

[Did she share too much about life? She might have shared too much about life.]

Sorry.

For what?

[ Well now he's genuinely confused. What in the hell was it that she was apologizing for? ]

For talkin' 'bout yourself? I don't see any reason to apologize for that.

My life's kinda weird.

[Shrug!]

I mean you do remember when we first met, right, like two years ago--?

[Or wait--]

Uh. Two years ago for me. Anyway, it was really honestly my first time interacting with people outside of John, Dave and Rose, or those trolls.

Well, now you've had time to get used to it, yeah? It's natural for people to talk about themselves, especially with people they've just met.

[ counter shrug! ]

And to be perfectly honest... you have a lot more interestin' stuff to talk about than most.

...Oh.

[Oh.

Right.

She's not going to make it awkward or anything but--you know what, the menu suddenly looks really interesting again she's going to go back to reading it, all stiff-shouldered and ears twitching over the top of it.]

[...Jade, say something.]

I think your life is way more cool-sounding.

[ What. ]

Mine? Nah. I mean, if you take out the exorcist thing, my life is as normal as it gets. I go to school, I come home, I study, I sleep. It's the same existence everyone else has where I'm from.

[ There's no casual radiation or teleportation or dog ears or any of that. ]

I always asked John and Rose and Dave what it was like to go to school with other kids. As you can guess, I am self-taught from my grandpa's notes and books and stuff. They would just tell me that they don't teach things like nuclear physics in regular schools, but that wasn't really my question so I was never satisfied with their answer.

It kinda blows not being a normal kid sometimes, is what I'm saying.

It also kinda blows being one. Guess the grass is always greener, right?

[ There's something of a rueful grin at that. ]

School is... alright. I'm not particularly into the social scene like a lot of my classmates are. I much prefer studying, if you couldn't guess. I don't plan on failing any of my exorcist exams, and there are two of them I have to be ready for. I don't have time for all of the normal worries of high school, like who's dating who, or anything like that.

Oh, is that all? Geez, no wonder my friends never told me what regular kids talk about, I couldn't be less interested in who's dating who. [Never mind that her social circle only involves three other kids and they're related in some way.]

But it sounds lonely. Not being social. [A beat.] ...Then again what the hell do I know, I'm part dog.

That's pretty much it. Who's dating, who used to be, the new movie that came out, the newest popular generic music, fashion...

[ Bon shrugs a little. ]

It's not that I'm not social. I have Shima and Kuroneko with me; we've been basically inseparable since we were kids. Shima likes all of the normal things, I guess he's my biggest connection to all things "normal".

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