Chilly Boulder Ice Cream Shoppe; Late Friday Afternoon.

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After he'd had enough of the chocolate over at the park (it was all melting anyway and at a certain point it just got kind of gross), A.J. headed over to Chilly Boulder to meet up with Charlie as planned. The sketchbook under his arm had new little chocolate finger print smudges on the cover and, as he waited, he scanned the menu thoughtfully.

Looking for everything that didn't involve chocolate.


[[ A.J.'s here for girlzippo and SP is love, but open for all your ice cream needs! ]]

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Charlie came in, notebook in hand, and grinned when she saw A.J. "Hey! How's it going? Oooo. I think I'll get Rocky Road."

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A.J. grinned at her as she came over. "Hey, Charlie. That strawberry shortcake one is screaming my name. Not a single ounce of chocolate in sight of it."

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Charlie giggled. "No chocolate? All chocolated out? Awww. Although the strawberry does look good, I admit."

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"Uhhh, yeah," A.J.'s head ducked as he let out a little laugh. He was blushing. "Definitely chocolated out."

Not to mention that it would probably be impossible for him to ever separate chocolate from thoughts of Annette ever again. But maybe now his brain would have a perminant link between strawberries and Charlie in the same vei--

Whoa, there, A.J. Whoa, there, libido. Stop, just stop. The blush deepened.

"Uh, man, it was hot today, wasn't it? Ice cream? Great idea. Really great. Perfect, in fact."

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"Cool," Charlie tilted her head, and said, "You've convinced me. Strawberry cone, please," she asked the guy behind the counter, then grinned at A.J. "So I have all these new ideas, for F/X? Like, maybe, jet packs?"

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"F/X?" A.J. tilted his head at Charlie before his brain caught up. "Oh! Right! Play stuff. Yeah...." He took a moment to also put in his order and then grinned at Charlie, "Where would we get jetpacks?"

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"Rodney McKay says he could make them," Charlie said reaching out to take her cone, and giving it a good lick. "I just don't know if they'd cost too much. Or, if we'd be allowed." She frowned. "There's a lot of stuff we're not allowed to do now. Grrr."

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"Yeah, like I've ever cared about that," A.J. noted with a grin as he held his ice cream cone with one hand and fished his wallet out of his back pocket with the other. His sketchbook was held tight under his elbow. "Might be a safety issue, though, but I can definitely look into it."

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"Great!" Charlie took another lick of her cone, and said, "I can get this one, I invited you," and fished out money from her purse. "And yay! Sketches!"

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"Put that back," A.J. demanded with a playful grin. "I got it."

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"You're sure?" Charlie checked. "I mean, I asked you, I thought... well." Wow, he was nice. "Okay." She beamed at him and took another lick of her cone, trying not to blush. "Let's get a booth."

She found one near the wall and scooted into the booth, then got her notebook out. "So what else, besides the play and sketching, have you been doing? How's Luke's? I still have to go by there."

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A.J. tossed his sketchpad onto the table before sliding into the seat across from Charlie. "Yes," he said, "you do. It's really good. Gets so boring on Wednesdays, though. Haven't really done much else. Went and did that movies in the part thing, though, which was pretty cool."

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"Then I'll stop by on a Wednesday, definitely." Charlie grinned, and walked her fingers over to the sketchpad. "Which movie-- oh, right, I heard that on the Radio, you went with Troy." And Turtle called it a date, but Charlie still wasn't used to thinking like that, so...

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"Uhh, yeah," A.J. looked a little sheepish for a moment and paid a lot of attention to his ice cream now. But not enough attention that he didn't get a little bit dribbling down his chin, wiped it away with the back of his hand, and then continued as he swallowed. "Roommate thing, y'know."

Charlie might have noticed the slightest bit of a wince. That was so not cool; Troy deserved more than just reducing his sorta-of-date to a 'roommate thing.'

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Licking her cone, she nodded, frowning a little at his expression. "He's nice. I like him." Was it a real date? Naaaah. She was seeing boykissy everywhere now. "Napkin?" She grinned and handed one over to him. "So did you see the posters that went up for tonight?"

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"Thanks," A.J. said as he took the napkin and used it right away, even if his wrist had gotten all of it. "What posters?" It was asked in a way that clearly, he hadn't. He'd been at the park all day, even before the chocolate fest, putting the last touches on his prelims.

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"Our temp headmaster announced that 'no public displays of affection' were going to be tolerated, so someone put up a poster for a party in the 5th Floor Common Room, with? Public Displays of Affection for girls only." Charlie shook her head, giggling. "I'm not sure what to think about that."

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"Did....did you just say public displays of affection...for girls only?"

Had to have heard it wrong. Sounded...too good to be true.

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Charlie turned as pink as her strawberry cone, nodded hard, and said, "Um. Yeah. I don't know if guys are allowed to watch or..." Another bite of ice cream, and oh look. Formica. "Or, um. How affectionate they're talking. Or anything. Really."

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Yeah, none of that really mattered at the moment. A.J. sort of stared in dumb male happy-place mode for a second.

"....Wow."

He kind of loved this school a lot right now.

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"A.J.!" Charlie started laughing, because, that reaction was kind of difficult to miss. "Not that I'd be mad if it was boykissy night," she snickered, giving her cone another quick lick.

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A.J. started to get all defensive until she added on that last part which just left him laughing. And chuckling as he ate a bit more of his own ice cream cone and tried not to think about how in Room 402, every night (or any night where one of them didn't have a shirt on, anyway) was boykissy night. He was turning very, very pink and kind of grinning like an idiot. Which was fairly normal, really.

"See? You can't yell at me, thinking like that. I can't help it. Male!"

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"Which to be fair, I already knew," Charlie said mischeviously. "'Cause I might kiss a girl sometime but I'd only date a guy." She crunched her cone and grinned at A.J. "I don't know. Seems unfair to have girlkissy without boykissy. You know?"

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"If what I've heard," and experienced, he added to himself, "of this place so far, it sounds like there's some catch up needed on the part of girlkissy, that you guys...well, um girls I guess, are lagging behind. Also in the shirtlessness, might I add, and, seriously, shove your ice cream cone in my face the moment I start seeming too much like a piggish male so I can stop myself."

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Charlie started choking on her ice cream when the shirtlessness entered the conversation, and it took a minute for her to get her composure back. "Oooookay. I will! If you do. I just... yeah, this doesn't have to apply to me yet, right?" She wiped at her mouth with one of the napkins, snickering self-consciously. "I mean, I'm all for equality and catching up, I'm just afraid I'd die of embarrassment."