Pixie Dust, Monday, 1/19

[withoutverona]

Romeo was surprised to find a last message on his voicemail in the morning, and he quickly called Reno back to try to set things straight.

Then he went about the shop to make sure everything seemed to be in order and settled behind the counter with L'uomo Vogue. There were some spring fashions he wanted to order.

[OOC: Open store, no OCD!]

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[fabulous-secret.livejournal.com]

As previously promised, Adora and Spirit arrived at Pixie Dust to meet with Romeo. "Good morning, friend Romeo! May I introduce to you my beloved steed, Spirit?"

Spirit was rather hard to miss, being a good sized white horse with flowing golden mane.

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He was, and Romeo was a little wary as he looked at the displays close to the horse. One swish of his tail seemed like it could undo an hour's work.

"Good morning, Adora," he answered. "And it's nice to meet you, Spirit." He wasn't sure how to greet a horse, but his body language was relaxed and easy.

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Working hard not to cause any disturbance to the items in the store, Spirit bowed his long neck in greeting. "Romeo," his voice was deep and gravelly, "It is always good to meet a friend of Adora. She tells me this is your shop?"

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"In a way of speaking," Romeo explained, nodding his head in return. "The owner left town and made me manager. I'm only trying not to run it into the ground."

Adora had told him it was a talking horse, but he was still startled to hear such a human-sounding voice.

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"You have beautiful things, Romeo," Adora remarked, looking at the array of clothing.

"Now Adora, don't go getting any ideas..." Spirit warned. "I know flowers aren't abundant here, but I don't need decoration."

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"You don't need any sort of adorning, but some new clothes never hurt," Romeo said, shifting into salesman mode. "And of course I'd be happy to give you a discount as a new friend."

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Spirit laughed, "And now you'll have made a friend for life. You should have seen her excitement over the other girl's clothes!"

Adora blushed crimson, "Thank you for that, Spirit. And thank you, Romeo. I think I'll have to take you up on the offer."

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Romeo grinned at Spirit. "Well, I won't object to that. Which girl?"

He gestured around the store as he turned to Adora. "Is there anything in particular you'd like to see? We don't have flowers, but I know we have some floral prints."

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"My school-assigned sister, Blair," Adora explained. "She was kind enough to provide me with some of her mother's line of fashion." They were gorgeous. "But I am in need of accessories."

"Just be sure they're not for me," Spirit huffed.

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"You aren't in need of a nice scarf?" Romeo teased, even if it felt a little odd to tease a talking horse. "But we have some lovely gloves, shoes and bags. What's your favorite color?"

That was to Adora, not Spirit, though he supposed Spirit's answer would work as well.

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"I'm partial to gold," Adora responded, "But reds are nice, too!" Really she was happy with anything.

Spirit snuffled in amusement, "Perhaps a new blanket, but I don't think I'd find one here."

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"Gold and red ..." Romeo repeated. "I wish we had a blanket, but I'm afraid not. But we do have shoes, a bag, and a few other things." He pulled items off the shelf as he spoke.

"How long have you known Spirit?"

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Adora grinned at the headband, thinking Blair would approve. "We've been together since I was young. My...guardian at the time allowed me to choose from all the horses in his keep."

[raspberryturk]

"I didn't do it," was the first thing out of Reno's mouth as he walked into the store. Okay, sure, most of the messages he got yesterday, upon further inspection, seemed like they might not be for him. But that one he got from Rikku and the one from Romeo both had him worried. "Whatever it is. I swear to Ramuh I didn't do it."

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"You left me a message saying you could beat me even if you couldn't swim," Romeo informed him, squinting a little. "And called me girly. I assumed you had some explanation."

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Reno blinked, and then squinted back.

"Uh. No. That message wasn't for you, it--" He held up a finger suddenly, and then went digging through his pockets for his phone. Which he'd been tempted to throw into the duck pond yesterday, but that was neither here nor there. "Dude, I was callin' this chick back. How'd you get it?"

And then he played back the message left on his phone by Viki.

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"... I don't think I even know who that is," Romeo said, listening to the voice. "Of which I'm glad. She sounds disturbed."

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"Real disturbed," Reno agreed, shutting his phone and pocketing it again. "Sorry, man. The call musta wigged me out enough I read the caller display wrong or somethin'. No hard feelings? I already got one person angry at me, last thing I want is you thinkin' I was actually tryin' to call you a girl, zoto."

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"I was getting strange calls all day yesterday," Romeo said, shrugging it off. "I got two in a row about pizza, two about underwear, and Toby seems to have decided I'm rabid. Yours was the least of it."

"But that was the second time this week someone called me a girl."

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Reno quirked an eyebrow at that.

"I had guys callin' me up talkin' to me about sex all yesterday. Like, I dunno, some kinda glitter truck exploded and covered up half the island or somethin' and nobody bothered to warn me."

It was Fandom. It could happen.

"Who the heck else would call you a girl? It ain't like you're girly or nothin'. Romantic, sure. Educated or whatever. But that ain't the same thing, yo."

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"Maybe all the girls vanished and the men were desperate," Romeo said woefully. "I left Yurika a lovely message and she never called back. And Hannibal decided I talked like a girl. We were supposed to have a heroic conversation for Heroing class -- yelling, really, to go by the teacher -- and that was the best he could come up with."

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"Well, he ain't very creative, then," Reno mused, and then shrugged. "Name callin' ain't heroic, anyhow. At least, not that I know of. I ain't much of a hero, myself, yo."

After a long pause, Reno pulled out his phone again.

"I left Rikku a message yesterday, too. She called back with this one-" And he played it, "- And when I called her back again, no answer, no call back."

Another pause. "I dunno what I said, man."

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"It's not. Our teacher's a moron," Romeo commented cheerfully. "I don't think I'll learn one single useful thing this term."

The smile died on his lips as he listened to the message. "... she sounds really angry."

Obvious Romeo was obvious.

[raspberryturk]

"Who needs to learn useful stuff in school anyhow?" Reno shrugged, though it was a somewhat listless gesture. "A hero ain't much good if he can't handle the rest of it too, yeah?"

He stared at his phone a moment more, and then pocketed it.

"I bet Fandom doesn't even have a class to help deal with stuff like this, yo."

... He'd spent most of the morning looking over the course calendar again, to see if any of the teachers in the school would know what he did wrong.

[withoutverona]

"I don't think anyone does," Romeo said sadly. "Have you tried to find her? Perhaps it's some simple misunderstanding."

Though ... she sounded really angry.