fandomtownies | Chilly Boulder, Sunday

Despite the cold, there was ice cream to be had! And besides, it had been way too long since she'd had the chance to hang with her big sib! Momoko skipped into the Chilly Boulder happily.

"Yay!" Momoko called out as soon as she saw her. "Hiiiii Rikku!!"

"Hiya!" Rikku bounced, waving excitedly. "How are you? I was kinda worried it was too cold for ice cream but you know what? It is never too cold for ice cream. That's, like, a law or something."

Edited 2008-11-30 22:23 (UTC)

"If it's cold out, you just get more hot fudge!" Momoko grinned. "Although some places do close in the winter, or they switch to warm desserts instead. I'm glad Chilly Boulder doesn't though. This place has awesome flavors!"

Edited 2008-11-30 22:28 (UTC)

"They close for the winter?" Rikku grimaced. "Okay, you know what? This whole season just blows. It's cold out, it snows, and ice cream places shut down. You can't go swimming or diving, either. Winter is stupid."

Desert girl: sulking again.

Momoko's jaw fell open. She shut it again, then waved Rikku's complaints away. "No way! It's cold, yeah, but the snow is so pretty and you can go sledding and skating and have snowball fights and most importantly," Momoko frowned and planted her hands on her hips. "Christmas, Rikku, CHRISTMAS! Don't tell me they don't celebrate Christmas here!"

Rikku was going to scratch her head and look at her little sib somewhat sheepishly. "I think they do?" she said. "Someone mentioned that, I think. Lots of presents and whatever. Everyone went home for it, over break. I dunno. I was off killing fiends, in the Omega Ruins."

She shrugged. "I get all your holidays messed up anyway."

"It's technically not mine. It's a western holiday originally, I think. Basically it's a time to give a gift to people who are close to you. And Santa Claus. Santa brings presents to all the children of the world, if they write him a letter to tell him what they want." Momoko tilted her head. "You spent last Christmas killing fiends back home? Didn't you get any present?"

"Is this a religious thing?" she asked. Trying to remember last December or so. "There were lots of nifty songs. Those I liked. And then me and some friends, we went back home and tore through the Omega Ruins and it was so great. There were so many fiends and I got all kinds of stuff from them."

Momoko thought about that for a moment. She wasn't used to explaining CHRISTMAS!

"Umm. I think it is for some people? But you don't celebrate it like that unless you believe in that religion and I'm not, so I don't. You can celebrate just the parts like the presents and Santa giving presents for kids. We do the lights and sometimes Christmas trees, and, oh! There's a Christmas cake, too!" She frowned. "Since it's sometimes religious, does that mean I can't get you a gift? I usually buy gifts for my closest friends, and I didn't think it would be a problem here."

"I think we had trees last year," Rikku said, trying to sort out which holiday was which. "And you totally can. I'll get you something, too. I just meant, you know, we don't usually ... my people get kinda weird about that, but that's a long story and we don't have this where I'm from, anyway, and who do you get gifts for? I like getting stuff for people. That's kinda cool."

Any excuse for mass gift-giving sounded like a good one, really.

"Oooh! Good! It's not going to be fancy, I'm afraid. And you buy or make gifts for people close to you, like your family and your friends. And sometimes people give gifts to someone who's done them a big favor or helped them out! To say thank you." Momoko bounced and clapped her hands. "And you have a boyfriend, so you should totally have him take you somewhere romantic to watch the lights and snow. If it snows... Except you don't like snow? So, something else romantic, because it's totally a holiday for romance, too!"

"It totally doesn't have to be fancy," Rikku said, blushing, "and I didn't mean that as ... I mean, you don't have to get me anything, anyway, you know? Just being my little sib rocks. And ooooh, this means I have an excuse to go shopping."

She was already trying to get ideas for people. Hmmm. And speaking of romance ... she took a spoonful of her sundae and tried to artfully change the topic.

"I should ask someone who's from around here, who'd know about it, to see if they're gonna celebrate here, too," she said, pretending to think it over. "I think Warren is. Isn't he?"

"You were totally number one on my list of people to buy for here! As long as it's not against your religion or beliefs or anything, I mean." Momoko laughed. "And yeah, Warren's from here. Or at least his world is close to this one, I think. Oh! I can ask him if they celebrate it the same way! I need to ask him if it's okay that I get him a gift too, I guess?"

"It's fine," she reassured her sib. "Honest. And boys never mind gifts. It's a boy-thing. They love gifts. I mean, he's totally okay with you sharing cookies all the time, isn't he?"

Innocent face. Innocent face. More ice cream, and work on the innocent face.

Momoko ate some of her own ice cream and nodded. "Great! I kind of want it to be a surprise, when I think of what to get him. He's really nice and he doesn't mind me babbling at him about weird stuff or that I eat a lot of sweets."

"Sharing cookies? Ah! Then were those cookies at my door from you? Thank you! They were great! Warren thought they were from a secret admirer, but I knew they couldn't be." She dug into her ice cream again.

"Not from me," Rikku said. "I don't know who they were from. I got some, too. Looks like we have secret admirers after all. Or maybe it's one guy trying to up his chances? I hope Reno doesn't find out who it is." She grinned, switching to a sing-song. "He'd get all jealllllllous. You know how guys are with stuff like that."

"Actually I don't." Momoko sighed and swirled her ice cream. "I've only had a few guys like me enough to ask me out. One was possessed when he did it, but I didn't find out until later. The other... well, we never actually made it to a date because I had to go and fight some monster who was attacking the city."

She smiled. "But when I told Warren that boys don't usually date girls who talk about robots and can quote superhero stats and stuff, he did get mad. That was nice."

"I know," Rikku said with a happy sigh. "He wrote a whole column about it, for the paper. About how guys didn't appreciate how awesome girls were and those guys were just way too fussy because some girls were seriously kickass and people were too blind to see it. I mean, girls, plural, but he kiiiiiiiinda seemed to be talking about you."

And had blushed when she brought it up later. That, too.

"I know! And he wrote about me taking him those handmade chocolate truffles before, too! Uhm. Which I was totally going to save you one, but they were so good..." Momoko grinned. "Next time I will totally save you some. Oh! And have you tried his Fortune Cookies? They are delicious!"

"It's fine, you don't have to save me any," Rikku laughed. "He really seems to appreciate your visits. I mean. He acts all grumpy on the exterior and then you get to know him and he's such a great guy. Isn't he? I give him hugs. He pretends he hates it but I think he kinda needs 'em."

"Ah! But these were divine! I need to buy more, but the shop's in France. I'm hoping that she comes back for the monthly market."

She leaned in towards Rikku, conspiratorially. "He needs lot of hugs! He is a great guy, right? He keeps trying to tell me he's not and that he's got a temper and all this other bad stuff, but when I showed up at his door and dragged him to homecoming, he didn't yell at me, and then when I was blind, he was all worried and the other day he called to wish me a happy thankgiving! And he never tells me to go away or shut up or calm down or anything."

"He acts like he's a big scary guy so that people can't get close enough to hurt him," Rikku said, frowning. "Which is just sad. He needs plenty of hugs. And I think he likes it when you drag him places. And I told him it was really sweet, what he wrote about you in the paper, and he blushed."

Okay, so. How to ... ask. That was the hard part.

She took another spoonful of ice cream. "How long have you guys been ...... friends?" she asked.

"He's really cute when he blushes, isn't he? I don't dare tell him because he gets grumpy when you say nice things about him." Momoko waved her spoon about. "He's so silly about that. I first talked to him at that bar when I was a boy and he was a girl. I told him he was pretty and he got sulky and told me I was nice looking. But we had Modeling class together over the summer. I thought he was cute, then, even though he was so sulky. We hang out on Sundays, usually."

Edited 2008-12-01 02:40 (UTC)

Rikku grinned. "Sooooooooooo. You think he's cute?" she asked. Eyes dancing.

Subtlety could kiss off.

Edited 2008-12-01 02:56 (UTC)

Momoko blinked. Not at the directness of the question, but at the question itself. "Of course I do. He's totally good looking! I can't believe he's hanging out with me instead of getting a girlfriend."

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