Book Haven; Saturday [ 10-2 ]

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Alphonse woke up knowing he took up the BIG BIG task of looking over the bookstore today for a little while.

He knew there was something about tea and hot chocolate that were supposed to be put out for customers, but he didn't know how to make those! Alphonse fretted a little and hoped that both no one would mind and he wouldn't get in trouble for that. Besides, why did that matter? There were books. EVERYWHERE.

Alphonse grabbed the biggest interesting book he could find in the store, and... well, he was too short for the counter, now, so now he was plopped on the floor beside the counter, reading. Surprisingly, he was still able to understand some of the huge book he picked out, but at other times was frowning at stuff he couldn't.

The store was open for all your weetiny book needs. And if you weren't weetiny... just your book needs.

[ ooc: anime character rule #856: obsessions start early. come and invaaaade. ]

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[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

Demyx bounded into the bookstore and glanced around. Not seeing Al, he shouted his question to the store in general. "DO YOU HAVE MUSIC PAPER?!"

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Alphonse had nearly jumped out of his skin at the shouting; wide-eyed, the looked in the direction of the shoutee, and pressed a finger to his lips. "Shh!" he chided, getting to his feet. "You gotta be quiet!"

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"Why?" Demyx demanded. "It's just a store. It's not like I gotta worry 'bout the Superior gettin' mad at me or nothin'." He folded his arms, trying to look important.

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"'Cause it's a bookstore," Alphonse said, seriously. "Like a library! Someone might be reading or concentrating really hard on something."

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"So? They'll get over it!" Demyx replied cheerfully. "But I need music paper. Do you have any?"

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Alphonse frowned a little; but, this was a store and he was helping so he had to make sure no one got mad. He tilted his head, puzzled. "Music paper?"

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. Like for writing music. It comes in booklets." Demyx gestured. "About this big."

((ooc: augh work! back later x_X))

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"Ummmm..." Alphonse thought long and hard. "Maybe! If we look where all the music stuff is."

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"That might help," Demyx agreed. "Where's the music stuff? I've never been in one of these bookstore thingies before." He looked around himself at all the books everywhere. "Do people really read all those? That's so boring."

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"Over there somewhere, I think," Alphonse answered, waving his hand in its direction. "It's not boring, there's all sorts of neat stuff you can find out by reading."

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"Music is way better than boring ol' books," Demyx insisted. "And it doesn't smell like dust, either." He sneezed, emphasizing his point.

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"Books aren't..." Alphonse trailed off and sighed, giving up on the debate. "Um, do you need any help or are you fine?"

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"Mm...I think I'm good!" Demyx grinned, shoving his hands in his pockets. "Thanks!"

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"Okay! I'll be here if you need me. 'Cause I'm supposed to help run the store today."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

After her training was finished, Setsuna wanted to play a little bit, and was thinking that she wanted to play with Alphonse and went looking everywhere for him until remembering that oh! He was probably at the bookstore! Her frustration at her search was the reason for her exasperated sigh as she finally came into the shop and found him there, of course. How silly of her to not remember!

"Alphonse-kun! There you are!"

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Alphonse beamed when he saw her come in. "Hi Setsuna! Where else would I be?"

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Setsuna blushed a little, because it was a really good point, and she felt silly for not realizing it sooner. "Dunno...." she said quietly. And then got over it and went over to where he was, plopped down beside him, and leaned in toward the book. "What're you reading?"

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"A really big book," he answered helpfully, then slid it a bit further from him to give Setsuna a better view. "With lots of chemistry stuff. I only get some of it, but if I read about it enough I'll be able to get the rest of it soon."

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Setsuna looked very, very impressed, and smiled in bright admiration that Alphonse could make sense of all those funny looking letters that she couldn't read despite having no problems speaking the language. It did have pretty pictures, too, and she appriciated that. "What's that say?" she asked, leaning in and pointing at something on the page.

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"Those are conversions," Alphonse explained, then read off the paragraph she pointed to as the mun doesn't know chemistry, shut up. "These are some of the really easy ones though."

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Setsuna head tilted as she listened closely to Alphonse explaining the conversions, and she ended up leaning on him a little. "I should go find a book about sword," she said. "And then I can teach you about them like you're teaching me about chemisty."

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Alphonse beamed some more. "You could! I don't know anything about swords."

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"Look! I have mine with me!" Setsuna pulled her bokken out from where it was tucked in the straps of her hamaka and showed it off proudly to Alphonse.

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Alphonse looked impressed and poked at it a little. "They're made out of wood, too?"

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Setsuna giggled a little and, in response to him poking the bokken, went to poke Alphonse with it but stopped before it reached him. She looked around for any senseia around that would yell at her for practising improper handling of a weapon. "Jus' the bokken," she told him. "I'm still too little for live steel yet." She pouted a little at that.

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"Ooooh. But be careful with it because I don't want anything to get broken either," Alphonse warned.

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"Alphonse-kuuun," Setsuna smiled at him. "I promise I won't break anything. I am a trained warrior, and know how to use my sword without putting people...or books...in danger." She nodded assuringly.