Book Haven; Saturday [ 10-2 ]

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Alphonse was pleased to know that, before he came in for the day, that he was not getting anymore strange voicemails. Thankfully he was familiar with the last time this happened, so he decided not to touch his phone for the time being, and as for the messages...

Yeah, there was definitely a lot of facepalm-worthy mixups in there.

Alphonse came in by himself this week, unlike the last, which made setting up go by faster. Once he was done with that, he settled in behind the counter, picked up something to read, and then the entire world fell over from the shock.

[ ooc: i'll be gone in a little bit for a few hours, but will return come evening. fyi and stuff. ]

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Setsuna told herself not too worry too much about the fact that Alphonse hadn't returned her call; she didn't exactly want to be that kind of a girlfriend, but it was a little difficult, she was discovering, not to when it was Alphonse. He probably just hadn't gotten it or hadn't gotten around to it or hadn't checked his phone or anything like that. Knowing he worked today, though, she figured she could just stop in to say hi and maybe casually work her way to that topic.

"Hey," she said, leaning on the counter and peering up to try and see the pages of his book to spot what he was reading today.

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Alphonse looked up, glancing over the pages of his book, suddenly looking less like he was concentrating on the words and more like he'd never actually been reading at all. "Oh," he began, sounding genuinely surprised she was there. "Hi."

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Setsuna frowned a little at the surprise in his voice. It wasn't like it was rare that she'd stop by to see him while he was at work. "Hey," she said again, head tilting and getting right to the point. "Did you get my message yesterday?"

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"... Um," Alphonse flipped the book shut, though not yet setting it aside. A call? Gah, perfect timing to go and make one. "No, I didn't, but... it probably went elsewhere."

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"...Went elsewhere?"

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"Well, I started to get a bunch of weird messages yesterday," Alphonse explained. "I assumed it was some odd hiccup in the phone systems again."

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Setsuna bit her lip a little. Weird...definitely described some of the things in her voicemail box yesterday, for sure. "What do you mean, odd hiccup...again?"

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"It's... happened before," Alphonse said.

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"Yes, but what precisely is the hiccup that you're talking about?"

As far as Setsuna went, she was either jumping to the wildest immediate conclusion or being painstakingly specific for details. Today was the latter.

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Alphonse opened his mouth as if to say something, but stayed silent to think on it. "I don't really know why it did," he started, unsure. "I just know last time none of the calls went where they were supposed to."

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Looking at Alphonse, Setsuna was thinking intently, running her brain over the litany of strange, received calls. She ran them quickly through a process of trying to discern how there might be other intended receivers than herself and..

...and made a hell of a lot of sense out of things.

She frowned, quiet for another thoughtful moment before wondering, "I wonder who got the call intended for you, then..."

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"Sorry, I didn't know you had tried to call," Alphonse said. "What was the message?"

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"Oh, um." Ducking her head, Setsuna blushed a little. Big surprise. She smiled a little. "Well, um, perhaps it's best it didn't go through, because, when I made it, I sort of forgot it was Friday and I had to work, so we couldn't anyway, but...um, it was just...um, a call...to see if you might want to, um...do something....together...y'know..."

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Alphonse nodded slightly, slowly turning his eyes downward. "O-oh, well, of course. I don't mind; you know I'm normally not busy..."

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"Well, um, I mean..." Setsuna's eyes were also down; leaning on the counter as she was, she couldn't very well close her favourite target of alternate focus (her shoes), so the counter itself would have to do for now. "I work tonight, so...it'll have to be...a later time..."

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"T-that's fine," he assured her. "I mean, whenever works for you is okay with me. I have a pretty free schedule."

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"Well, um...maybe Tuesday,then?"

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Alphonse nodded. "Sure. Tuesday it is. I won't plan anything else for that day."

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"Good." Setsuna just about nearly beamed. "So, um, maybe we could just...watch movies or something?"

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"That sounds good," Alphonse replied. "Though... I'm not very familiar with many of them, you may have to help me a little in picking something out."

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"Oh, don't worry there," Setsuna shook her head a little. "I have a great collection of some very good samurai films that you probably haven't seen. They're, um, in Japanese, though, but they come subtitled, if that's okay..."

Plus, subtitles meant they might have to stick close to be able to read the screen of her laptop a little better...Not that Setsuna was preplanning any of that of course...hum hum...

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"Subtitled is good, since I don't know the language," Alphonse said with a light chuckle.

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"Good," Setsuna said again, this time with a nod and a bright smile. And a complete blank in her head as to what else she could say.