Chilly Boulder, Wednesday Afternoon

[withoutverona]

Romeo had slept in that morning, and, through the grace of god or good genes, had managed to avoid what should have been an impressive hangover after a day of taking full advantage of the island's sudden free booze policy.

Mostly. He was still turning a little green when he thought about the idea of ice cream with chunky stuff in it. But he'd agreed to meet his girlfriend for an ice cream date, and so he would bear up and just not look at that portion of the case.

He just hoped the clerk wouldn't start singing.

[OOC: For one, but open. Up early for SP.]

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[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Yurika was not going to snicker at him. She really wasn't. A smirk would suffice just fine.

"Ano, koibito," she said, inspecting the selection, "What are you in the mood for? I'm starving."

[withoutverona]

Romeo affectionately rolled his eyes at her smirk before turning his head to study the menu board again. "Not citrus, I have a roomful of that," he decided. "Plain chocolate, maybe, with hot fudge?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"No wedge of lime to go with that?" she asked innocently, fluttering her eyelashes at him. "How dull."

[withoutverona]

Romeo groaned dramatically. "You're trying to make me sick, aren't you, darling?" he suggested. "And how are you so fresh, when the island gave us free rum and ale yesterday?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I'm just teasing!" Yurika said, grinning as she poked at his shoulder. "And yes, I indulged yesterday," mostly of the rum and coke variety, "but I also had bottled water in my room, which I had with an aspirin before bed." She smiled at him angelically. "Only the taps ran with booze, darling, you could still get bottled water at T&C."

[withoutverona]

"I did have some bottled water before bed," Romeo admitted. "It's probably why I don't feel worse than I do. Though drinking water when rum is an option seems a waste, somehow. I was dressed as a pirate half this week -- I may as well live as one."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Quite the dashing pirate," Yurika purred, winking at him playfully before returning to browsing the menu. "I swear, I could not breathe in those corset-things. I'm just glad my clothes changed back!"

[withoutverona]

"You just want me to wear tighter breeches, and more hats," Romeo teased, then faked a pout. "So you didn't keep any of the corsets at all?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"The only corsets I own are the ones I bought in Paris," she answered, sticking her tongue out at him. "Are those not enough for you now?"

[withoutverona]

"I haven't seen them nearly enough," Romeo said delicately. "For some reason they never seem to stay on all that long..."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Gee, I wonder why," she deadpanned, shaking her head. "You're terrible, you know."

Yurika quickly placed an order (http://a.abcnews.com/images/GMA/nm_banana_split_080429_mn.jpg) with the hapless clerk, smirking as she asked for extra whipped cream and cherries. "Starrrrrving. Two classes back-to-back take a lot out of a girl! I think it's all the thinking."

[withoutverona]

"You like me terrible," he told her smugly. "And anyhow, at least I didn't ask to see what you were wearing now. Yesterday I got Rikku to show me her bra with pandas." Which was his way of telling her she'd flashed him and he hoped Yurika knew that if it meant anything, it wouldn't have come up.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

It took her a moment to process what he meant, and then she burst out laughing. "Did she flash you?" she gasped. "Oh my god, how drunk was she?"

[withoutverona]

"She did!," he giggled. "Probably no drunker than I was. I got bored at the store."

He quirked his head, then took a bite of the ice cream. "Did you know they made bras with cute cartoon animals on them?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Rikku's a lightweight! I hope you didn't take advantage of her intoxication, sir!" Yurika giggled. "Hai, I knew that. I'm from Japan, silly, we put cute cartoon animals on everything."

[withoutverona]

"No, but I may have inspired her to take advantage of Reno's," Romeo smirked.

Because, of course, that was such a difficult task.

He took another bite of the ice cream, making sure to get some banana. "There is one other thing she put me in mind of," he said thoughtfully. "Yurika, when do you think our anniversary would be? We're coming up on six months, as I reckon it." but there was the egg and the dance and the singing and a couple other things, and Romeo wasn't sure where to count from.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"You did not!" Yurika covered her eyes and shook her head. "Joudan ja ne yo! Baaaaaaaaad! She needed it, though, she was saying she could never have sex with him again, after he was in the gay porn on the television." She really hoped the video of that turned out okay.

Then his other words hit, and she paused, spoon of ice cream half-way to her mouth as she stared at him. "E? Nani? Anniversary?" This was clearly an idea that she was unfamiliar with.

[withoutverona]

"He was in gay porn?" The spoon slipped from Romeo's fingers, fell back into the sundae. "With Ron? It's good no one told me that yesterday, or I would never have been able to look him in the eye."

It took visible effort, but he shoved that trauma out of his mind. "As in, we have been seeing each other for a while and sometimes people mark that in some way?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"No, wait, six months? Really?" Yurika tried to do the math in her head, and came to the conclusion that it was way too complicated. Did they count the singing, or his time in Paris, or just the 'yes, I'll date you, omg'? Way too confusing. "Huh."

[withoutverona]

"Huh," Romeo agreed with a fidget. The math was too complicated for him, too. "We probably ought not count from Felix, but that was the end of January, unless I am mistaken. And then the dance was a few weeks later."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I thought you asked me to the dance as a friend," she teased, a smile hovering about her lips. "Did you have an ulterior motive, then?"

[withoutverona]

He smiled back at her. "I might have. But if you weren't interested, we could have gone as friends and been happy."

Well. *He* would have sulked about it eventually, but that could have waited until after the dance.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I was a little disappointed that you didn't invite me over afterward," she admitted. "But I think dinner on the roof made for that."

Yurika dipped a cherry in the whipped cream as she thought. "So, where do you think we should count from?" she asked, popping the fruit into her mouth. "Date, singing, sex, or your return from Paris?" So many options, it made her head spin.

[withoutverona]

"I didn't know what you would say" plus my mun kind of passed out halfway through the date, he told her, pinkening. "I should have asked."

He closed his eyes. "From the roof," he decided. "Not that I remember the date offhand, but I could learn it. It was our first real date or real kiss."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Yurika was tempted to argue that having a date did not mean dating, but she held her tongue. It had been the start of his overt attempts to woo her, so close enough.

"I don't know when that was either," she confessed. "I must have written it in my planner somewhere, so we can check."