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Wellspring Arms & Meditation Center, Friday

Rikku was bouncy. Partly the leftover sugar high. Partly the flowers from yesterday. Partly the dance tonight. And, well, partly because she was always bouncy.

Most people would think this was a bad idea when one worked in a store full of large guns and ammunition, but pfft. She could totally handle herself, thanks.

The Wellspring Arms and Meditation Center was open. And, well, bouncy.

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You might have to hear about the dress.

Romeo came to see Rikku after talking to Liir. "Hi! And thank you for the flower," he greeted happily.

"Romeo!" Rikku bounced around the counter, bent on a ~~duckable~~ tackleglomp. "And thank you, they were gorgeous! How are you??"

Romeo let himself be tackleglomped. it was kind of hard not to let yourself be tackleglomped, when Rikku aimed one at you.

"Good!" he answered, once he could breathe again. "I've a date for the dance, and things seem to be on my side in general. And you?"

"I'm awesome," she beamed. "I found a dress for the dance and wait till you see it. It's orange, I mean, like that's a shock, I know, but it's all sparkly and glittery and I can't wait and I got flowers yesterday and they weren't signed and that's kinda weird and I really, really OD'd on sugar yesterday but I'm still riding the high. Ooooooooh, who are you going with?!"

Romeo blinked a little at the flood of information, then felt his face relax into a grin. "Yurika Dojima,' he said, answering the last point first. "She was my egg baby's mother for Ms. Bell's class, and she's in gun club and I think I would rather like to go to the beach with her, if we may still use that metaphor."

"And you have to save a dance for me, though I am just wearing black and silver for this."

"Oooooh, I don't think I know her," Rikku said, bouncing behind the counter again. "I guess I'll get to meet her tonight, huh? And I like that metaphor and I hope it's a beachy kinda night all around. And you'd totally better dance with me, or else I'll hurt you."

Rikku's idea of affectionate conversation was slightly different than most people's, but still.

Romeo actually didn't notice anything wrong with Rikku's version of affection. "And I would not like to be hurt, so we'll call it a dance," he said. "Are you going with anyone? I told Reno about valentine's Day in the shop, Monday."

"No, I'm just going," she said, bouncing on her toes. "He teased me about that and I kinda thwapped him for it. Not really sure what's going on with all of that. And Sokka's being all weird about something but then ... it's Sokka. Kinda his normal, really."

"I don't know Sokka," Romeo admitted. "But it might be better, even, to go alone. You can borrow us men and make our dates jealous."

Rikku grinned. "Of course! I'll be a vampy heartbreaker. Always knew it was my calling in life. Besides, you know. No date, that's no reason to miss a dance."

"No invitation isn't a reason to miss a dance, why would a date stand in your way?" Romeo smiled back at her. "And that will be you, the black widow of Fandom High. Only, one would hope, without killing anyone."

"Dances were made to be crashed," she beamed. "I like this black widow thing. No deaths, unless I get to bring my explosives. Which really kinda kills the whole dance vibe."

No one had told Romeo the previous year's theme, so the mun can comment on how appropriate explosives would have been for it only in meta.

"I met Juliet crashing a dance," he admitted. "And my friend gave me a pill right before, so the whole thing was so strange, I should not have wondered if a real black widow asked me to dance." The memory seemed to be a happy one.

She smiled, sympathetically. "I think maybe dances were meant for that kinda thing, you know? Everyone's dressed all fancy and it's all a little surreal and it's all ... magic."

Rikku chewed her lip, blushing. "I, uh. I haven't ... really told anyone this? I mean, it's stupid, it's ..." She fidgeted. "It was a year ago. Uh. There was some kinda ... fill out a form, you'll get paired up with somebody, and I filled it out 'cause ... why not. They fixed me up with this really sweet guy I'd never met before, and we went to the Valentine's Dance and ... uh." She gestured vaguely. "That was Jude. That's kinda ..."

"Definitely magic," Romeo echoed, eyes far away but still listening to Rikku intently. "All meetings are caused by fate, I think. Yours was just ... fate with a form."

"Fate needs a push sometimes," she said, chewing on her lower lip. "It all works out, I think. The way it's supposed to. Even when it looks like it doesn't. You know? I'm just ... not sure how I feel about this week. I keep going back and forth." She rolled her eyes. "Like that's not normal for me or anything."

"I am not even sure if I'm going with Dojima as a friend, or as a date," Romeo confessed. "Maybe this week is designed to confound us. And yes, fate works as it is meant to, even when it serves up a bitter pill."

"It does," she said. "And you should ask her. Or maybe just go and see if she seems interested and, you know. I don't know. You're probably better at the whole suave thing than I am anyway. I can't wait to meet her."

"I think I'll try to tease it out of her without asking," Romeo answered. "And I kind of fail at suave. I can flirt, but that involves pretending to care, while suave is pretending not to care. And if anything, I care too easily."

"There's always the post-dance walk home," she suggested. "If it's still fuzzy by then, you lean in for the kiss. And if that goes well, you ask if her roommate's in for the night."

She was considerably less innocent than she'd been at last year's dance, in some ways.

"I will keep that in mind," Romeo grinned. "And if I still cannot tell, I could ask her out again and see what she says."

Bring your permission slip! Which you probably don't have.

Dancez!

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