Starks [at least for now], Friday, September 24

[momslilassassin]

Ben was hardly a stranger to how Stark's was set up, but it was the first time he'd been in the shop unsupervised, which was why he might look like most kids would in a candy store.

...no one ever accused him of being all that normal.

He was behind the counter bright and early that morning, fiddling around with a mouse droid and eager to earn his paycheck so he could get rid of that damn arm tattoo help the community with their technology woes.

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[glacial_queen]

"Not for all the honey-pear orchards in Nharkhava," Karla assured him. "I find I'm much more convincing my acting efforts take place on the stage."

[momslilassassin]

"I liked them when I saw them," Ben added with a grin. "Want me to make sure Warren sees it too, if you get cast?"

[glacial_queen]

Karla glanced down at her hands and mumbled something mostly intelligible. Ben might have gotten confused--or even thought the worst--if Karla hadn't been kind of nodding and smiling at the same time.

[momslilassassin]

"Dork," Ben said fondly.

[glacial_queen]

"Shut up!"

Great. Now she was blushing.

[momslilassassin]

"Make me," Ben said, ever the bastion of maturity.

[glacial_queen]

"I'll make your face!" Who needed maturity when they could have rhetoric like that?

[momslilassassin]

"You kiss your boyfriend with that mouth?" Ben replied.

[glacial_queen]

Dammit! Now she couldn't retaliate with 'You kiss your girlfriend with that FACE' without sounding uninspired at best! Curse you, Ben Skywalker.

So she went a different tack. "Huh. That barely counts as getting started. And yes, yes I do. He seems to enjoy it."

Bets Ben would blush in three...two...one...?

[momslilassassin]

It was like clockwork. He blushed to the roots of his hair. "Well, it'd be a shame if you were bad at it," he mumbled.

[glacial_queen]

"True," Karla said, nodding solemnly. "For one thing, I'd probably have to ask for lessons from a male I trusted. You know, not to take advantage or something."

[momslilassassin]

"You are a terrible person," Ben declared.

[glacial_queen]

"Part of my natural charm," Karla assured him cheerfully.

[momslilassassin]

"You keep telling yourself that," Ben replied.

[glacial_queen]

"Says one of my best friends in three worlds," Karla grinned.

[momslilassassin]

"That's how I know these things," Ben said, nodding.

[glacial_queen]

"And yet, here you still are."

[momslilassassin]

He grinned. "You love me and won't kill me even when I'm being a brat."

[glacial_queen]

"At least one of those things is a really big assumption on your part," Karla said with a laugh. "I'll let you pick which one."

[momslilassassin]

"Also I bribe with ice cream?" he added, trying to look adorable.

[glacial_queen]

"Now you're getting closer," Karla said with a nod. Curse his adorableness! "Besides, Ender and Tahiri would be sad if I tried to smother you in your sleep."

[momslilassassin]

"Especially if it's a week where they wanted first crack at the chance," Ben said, nodding as well.

[glacial_queen]

"I hate drawing the short straw on those weeks," Karla said sadly. "They're very bad at sharing."

[momslilassassin]

"I know," Ben said equally sadly. "Should I draw up a schedule for who gets to smother me on which days?"

[glacial_queen]

"Oh, would you?" she asked. "It would save us so much squabbling time."