Summer Festival

[thalassino]

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- Station Master

◣ Summer Fair ◢

If anyone actually wanders up there, they will find the whole village decorated with strings of light, fish shaped lanterns, streamers, and kelp. Just past the North edge of the Village was a fair.


Events


✗Baking Contest on Tuesday
✗Pie eating Contest on Wednesday
✗Three-legged Race on Thursday
✗Karaoke Contest on Thursday
✗Chocobo Race on Friday
✗Host Club Date Auction on Friday
✗Concert by Marceline on Friday
✗Lanterns on Saturday

There was a large stage in the center of the fair, rides, a fortune teller, contests, games, a petting zoo, a fish exhibit, stalls, booths and everything else you can find at a fair.

Comments

[spacecase]

Yeah?

[That's never a good thing. Even if she wasn't part dog, she'd still be able to detect the tenseness from her companion. Nervousness? She'll just let go of him so he can have some space.]

Well, you know you can tell me anything.

[secondcoolest]

[ oh god okay alright okay you've got this ryuuji you have got.

this.

He wipes his hands on his pants, trying to get rid of the sweat that's suddenly there with the onslaught of nerves, and he takes a breath as he stares very pointedly into the dark water. ]

So I've been here... what, just a few months shy of a year now. Not many of my own friends have come and gone; in fact, most who have arrived have become more or less permanent residents themselves, or as permanent as this place allows any of us to be.

And actually none of that is important and has little to do with what I actually want to say. Something like this isn't really my strong point. I've never actually been interested before.

I. Um.

[ DEEPEST BREATH EVER ]

I... like you, Jade. A lot. You're fun and interesting and... pretty and the time I spend with you is always a highlight and I just wanted to get that out there.

[ WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO THIS ON A BOAT YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM THIS ]

1/3

[spacecase]

[Jade was already questioning what he was getting at before he acknowledged it himself, but then--]

[spacecase]

[…Back up, like? Like a lot??

He thinks she's pretty?]

[spacecase]

[She should give herself another moment to process this news, accept it, tell him why that's a bad idea in the first place. Instead what comes out is completely impulsive and selfish.]

I like you, too!

[Oh shit.]

Um. Also a lot. Shit--I know I'm part dog and dogs like basically everybody but I know that I like you in a different way?? I want to see you and be around you all the time but at the same time looking at or thinking about you makes me kinda explode inside and I don't know what that is all about, but it's confusing!

[She can just teleport away but her powers are limited by distance thanks to the coral and she would have to teleport back to the island, but maybe she can make a sprint back to the elevator…

NO, THIS IS STUPID!]

[secondcoolest]

[ Oh thank everything that he isn't sitting here looking like a giant dejected ass. Because Bon was pretty sure that's exactly what was going to happen. But it didn't. And that's good.

Wait hold on they're in agreement here over this right. Like. This is a mutual attraction kind of thing? Isn't that what's happening here?

Bon clears his throat and brings a hand up to place it against the back of Jade's head and pull her in toward him, putting her face near his collar bone.

Seemed like the thing to do. ]

Well that's... good. Right?

[spacecase]

[...Ah hell, why spoil a good moment by freaking out when there's cuddling to be had.]

Y...yeah. [But it's still a thing to get used to.] So, uh, does that mean you wouldn't mind if we--y'know--dated?

[secondcoolest]

[ Oh. Right. That's probably the next step in all of this, isn't it? Seems logical enough. ]

No. I mean if you don't. I'll be the first to admit I have no idea what I'm doing.

[ Bon is the student of the group. The scholar. The bookworm. The memorize the bible in only the length of time it takes to read it guy. Dating and relationships are completely outside of his comfort zone. ]

[spacecase]

The first time I dated anybody was probably because I was going stir-crazy on a ship and he wasn't related to me.

[So yeah her life is still weird.]

It's not that different from how it is when we hang out. Just with more kissing and stuff. [Though it's still up in the air if she managed to coax Davesprite into that sort of thing.]

[secondcoolest]

[ HFFFFFF oh my god Jade one step at a time Bon didn't even think about the kissing thing. ]

Not much different from what we already do. I can handle that.

[ He's not embarrassed shut up. ]

[spacecase]

[Corpsesmooching. Let's not even start.]

You can handle it? What, y'think I'm gonna eat you alive?

[secondcoolest]

Maybe.

[ He doesn't crack a smile, but there's a faint lightness to his voice when he says it. ]

Or maybe just gnaw on me a bit.

[spacecase]

Pft, why do you think I eat raw meat? It satisfies my craving for human flesh. Just in case, though, maybe you should keep beef jerky on you.

[secondcoolest]

I'll make sure they're the little bite-sized kind. They'd be easier to get in to.

[ Bon hesitates for a second, before bringing a hand up to finally do something he's sort of wanted to do for a while: light scratch at the base of those dog ears of hers. ]

[spacecase]

[Oh welp.

That's it, no more Jade, she has been defeated by ear scritching.]

You're way too good to me.