Chilly Boulder, Tuesday late afternoon

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"We never did get to do this while we were at the resort," Dinah said, holding the door open for Clark, "But I still owe you some ice cream. What's your poison?"

[for a redandblueblur, but open, as ice cream places are]

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[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

"Hey, if it's ice cream, I'm there," Clark told her, grinning like a doof as he entered the shop. "But nothing can beat good old vanilla." He was so very vanilla.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Seriously?" Dinah checked that he wasn't messing with her, then had to grin back. "C'mon, get it with sprinkles. Add some pizzazz!" She turned to the counter guy, who grinned back at her. "Mocha chocolate fudge, and a scoop of mint chocolate chip," she said, "And whatever the big guy is having."

[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

Clark lifted an eyebrow at being called 'the big guy' but didn't say anything. "I'll take a double scoop of vanilla with fudge sauce, please," he said. "It's a classic."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Okay, that counts as pizazz. Or close enough." Dinah grinned and held out her hand for her cone, and handed over the money to the counter guy. "MMmmmmmm," she said happily, then looked around, and headed for a booth. "So was the rest of your vacation as relaxing as beating me at swimming?" she asked over her shoulder.

[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

"Thanks!" Clark called to the worker with a big smile at his bowl. "I gotta be honest, I had no idea private school meant going on trips like that. I had a great time."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah grinned, pulling up her legs under the table so she sat up on her knees, and said, "You should've been with us when we went to the Caribbean in February. The resort was great, but that trip was awesome. Turks & Caicos, and parts of the Virgin Islands, and a couple days just on the ship." She grinned and took another lick of her ice cream, eyes closing in enjoyment. "Bet you thought this place was going to be all uniforms and rules, hunh?"

[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

"Lot more rules, that's for sure," Clark admitted, pushing his spoon through the chocolate to get just the right balance for the ice cream headed for his mouth. "But a cruise? I can hear my dad questioning the educational value already."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Wellll... we learned about the Caribbean? And I learned that I shouldn't play I Never with people who are way better drinkers than I am," Dinah said cheerfully. "Oh, and scuba! That's valuable." She grinned and happily slurped her cone for a minute. "So where's home?"

[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

"I never?" Oh so vanilla. "Home's Smallville, Kansas. No need for scuba lessons there." Unless you were gonna dive in one of the many meteor-rock infested lakes and that was just never a good plan.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Smallville? I'm thinking nowhere near as exciting as this place," Dinah said, grinning slightly. "I'm from New Gotham, New Jersey. Which I'm guessing you never heard of. As well as never playing I Never."

[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

"Nothing's as small as Smallville, but it's a good place to grow up. New Gotham? Is that like Gotham City?" Clark had one of those in his world, after all.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah's eyes widened in surprised delight. "You've heard of it! Yay! That makes you the third person, I think. Yeah, it used to be Gotham City, but got re-named New Gotham after some earthquakes and stuff about twenty years ago. Lois and Raven are from places that have a Gotham City too."

[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I'm friends with Lois' cousin," Clark shared, spooning more ice cream for himself. "It's a small world, even in a place as crazy as Fandom."

[heromaniac]

"So slow! You'd think you were buying your own!" Momoko joked as she pushed on Jaime's back, hurrying him through the door of the Chilly Boulder. Hopefully there was no one in line already, because she was concentrating on pushing the boy who'd apparently decided it would be funny to resist by leaning backwards and muttering sighs about having a long day and being too tired to walk fast.

"Jaime! Come on! Ice cream! Ice cream! Ice Cream!" It was hard to be too chastising when she was laughing and pushing him.

[weldedtomyspine]

"When'd you get so pushy, anyway?" Jaime complained, laughing.

[heromaniac]

"Depends on who you ask, but most people say about seventeen years ago! Ice Cream is involved! You should see me if it was cake!" She laughed as she pushed him to the counter with a final exaggerated, "Ooof! There! Now what do you want?"

[weldedtomyspine]

"So next time we're going for cake, is that what you're saying?" Jaime bumped up into the counter and looked around. "Two scoops, right?"

[heromaniac]

"Yes, yes. Two scoops." Momoko rolled her eyes and groaned, then, "actually it really was very good chili! But you can totally have whatever you want! This treat is my treat! And not just because you let me have seconds! I'm totally going for the cake batter ice cream mixed with cinnamon and pieces of cake!" And nuts. And whipped topping. In a chocolate dipped waffle bowl.

[weldedtomyspine]

"There are so many choooices, though," Jaime grinned as he looked over the buckets. "I might have to sample them all first..."

[heromaniac]

He couldn't pull that one on her!

"Ha! You can't pull that one on me! They give you this little spoon with a taste on it and it's free! Except they get kind of annoyed at you after the first five tastes." She spoke from experience, yes.

[weldedtomyspine]

"In that case, I'll stick to five." Jaime looked around and nodded. "I'll try the dark chocolate, the marshmallow creme, the coffee, the strawberry, and... cotton candy." Because it was blue.

[heromaniac]

Momoko blinked at him. "You actually do want to sample them?" Surely he didn't want all five as his actual choices?

Okay, ordering all five was totally something she would do, yes, but...

[weldedtomyspine]

"Yes." Jaime looked innocently at the girl behind the counter and asked for samples. "I'm not that greedy," he told Momoko.

[heromaniac]

Momoko's face didn't completely fall at the possibility that she was being called greedy (she'd been called that for too many years) but there was a momentary flickering of her smile, if anyone was looking closely. She moved to look over the counter to see if there were any new toppings.

"Ah, is this your first time here? I didn't even think about that. You do have ice cream where you're from, too, right?"

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime might have caught it, and probably would have felt bad for causing that flicker, if he hadn't been distracted by the sample spoons. Mmmm... tasting!

"My first time here, yeah. But we've got ice cream and I've been to similar places? But it's always best to check to see if their flavors are the same, right?" Besides, half the fun was sampling!