Dite's Decadent Delights, Monday Afternoon

[glacial_queen]

Today, the door to 'Dite's had a giant sign over it:

NOT A CANDY SHOP!

Beneath that was a second, slightly smaller sign:

No one under sixteen allowed in without parent or guardian.

Even with those measures in place, Karla was being extra stringent about making sure that the inventory was all in its appropriate places. The main room was filled with novelty items, yes, but all of the more explicit material was either tucked away in the back room or upstairs in the clothing area and the video corner. If any kidlet found their way into 'Dite's today, the worse they'd find is racks of paperbacks with racy covers and the occasional breast- or genital-shaped coffee mug or lollipop.

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Talk to Karla

[glacial_queen]

Mention of unexpected children will give you a lot of free contraceptives!

Re: Talk to Karla

[collinommy.livejournal.com]

Collin was fifteen years old. But, look! He was accompanied by a parent simply by virtue of the fact that his mother was working here! So, after a few moments spent just laughing at the sign (because, really, Mom?), he made his way into the store.

He had a dye job to show off. And Amélie had done a pretty good job, if he did say so himself.

"Hey, Mom. You sure you don't have any candy in this place?" He was, in fact, eyeing the edible underwear from where he was standing, a smirk on his face.

Re: Talk to Karla

[glacial_queen]

"Well, actually, we do have lollipops but--" Karla turned around and her jaw dropped at the sight of his wings. "Nommy Worthington! What in the name of the Darkness did you do to yourself?!" she snapped, all thoughts of candy forgotten. "Your parents are going to kill you! Both sets!"

Re: Talk to Karla

[collinommy.livejournal.com]

Collin bit the inside of his cheek to keep from grinning too broadly. Naturally, he turned around, spreading them as far as he possibly could without knocking over a display of penis pops so that she could have a good look.

"What, you don't like it? Amélie and I spent nearly all night working on them. And it can't be half as bad as those parrot wings that Dad was stuck with after getting drunk with the guys that one time."

He thought they looked pretty awesome, himself. And in Glacian colors!

Re: Talk to Karla

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Wandering by, still searching, Kenzi gave the blond kid a thumb's up. "Good look, kid. Can I help you find anything?"

Re: Talk to Karla

[collinommy.livejournal.com]

"I think I'm all set," Collin replied, giving Kenzi a thumb's up right on back. "I just stopped by to pester my mom. It seemed like the thing to do this afternoon, you know?"

Re: Talk to Karla

[tri-psi-lupi.livejournal.com]

Of course all three Priest girls would come wandering in, once they'd gained their ice cream. Their mother and Aunt Karla had worked here, and Christiana worked here in their time. So, it wasn't like they were without permission.

"Kiss kiss, Auntie Karla."

[at rehearsal, all the SP?]

Re: Talk to Karla

[glacial_queen]

They were Frost girls. Karla wasn't gonna try to kick them out. Their mother (and their father, too) would probably just laugh at her even if she tried.

"Hello, girls," Karla said, smiling at them. Then, of course, her smile faded and she focused on Amélie. Which was easy enough to pick out, considering she knew Annika and had met Christiana. "Amélie. What made you think dying my son's wings was a good idea, my dear?"

[SP is wonderful!]

Re: Talk to Karla

[tri-psi-lupi.livejournal.com]

"Because dying the feathers this way was easier than trying to paint a gremlin, since he never holds still?" the accused triplet answered cheerfully. "I can't believe we found the right shades of Glacian blue!"

Be glad they hadn't thought to stop by 'Dite's to get edible body paint, Auntie Karla.

[empathic-fire.livejournal.com]

Someone else was completely ignoring the sign as well. After all, didn't Karla count as a guardian?

"Auntie Karla!" Elizabeth said, rushing up for a hug.

[weetinyempaths.livejournal.com]

She was trailed by another girl, slightly older. "Hi, Aunt Karla," Eirene said, glancing around the store curiously.

[glacial_queen]

"Elizabeth!" Karla knelt down and opened her arms wide. "Come and give your auntie a hug!"

She squeezed Elizabeth close and gave the other little girl a smile. "And hello to you, darling. I don't think we've met yet."

Re: Talk to Karla

[kleptopathic.livejournal.com]

Well, it just so happened that a certain klepto telepath was, in fact, sixteen. Not that she wouldn't have cheerfully ignored the rules if she weren't, but that was irrelevant.

"So what if someone were fourteen, or fifteen?" she asked reasonably.

Re: Talk to Karla

[glacial_queen]

"It would suck to be them," Karla said cheerfully. "Student or not. Unless I recognize them, maybe. Otherwise, they can come back tomorrow."

Re: Talk to Karla

[kleptopathic.livejournal.com]

"Seems pretty arbitrary," Ellie said, a note of disapproval in her voice. A fan of arbitrary rules (and some not-so-arbitrary ones), she was not. "Especially since there are fourteen year olds out there who I'd say are a good deal more mature than some adults I know."

Re: Talk to Karla

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi wandered in with a vaguely perturbed look on her face, waved to Karla, waved to Ellie, then started... searching. Looking under stuff.

Just, you know. Checking around. And so on.

Re: Talk to Karla

[kleptopathic.livejournal.com]

Ellie waved back. And then... tried to disguise the amused snicker that Kenzi's line of thought prompted.

Re: Talk to Karla

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Shush, you. Rude child." But still her favorite at the moment. Since the Satan-spawn was currently God knew where. Kenzi certainly didn't. "Help Mommy look!"

Re: Talk to Karla

[glacial_queen]

Karla was going to watch Kenzi for a few moments.

"...What are you doing?"

Re: Talk to Karla

[herculeankids.livejournal.com]

"What's with the sign, any way?" Betty Ross Jr asked as she stepped inside. When she actually got a good look at the place. "Oh."

Then she chuckled a bit. "Well then."

She was half wondering if the merchandise bags had the name of the shop on them. That'd give her father something to think about...

Re: Talk to Karla

[glacial_queen]

She had the option! She could choose either a pretty pink plastic bag with 'Dite's scrawled across it, or a plain brown paper bag.

"Welcome to 'Dite's!" Karla chirped after deciding that whoever this was looked old enough to come in. "Can I help you?"

Re: Talk to Karla

[hijas_kawaii]

"Aunt Karla?" 'Berto had his hand over his eyes, truly he did. At least the one that wasn't holding the grocery bag.

"Have you seen Aunt Dinah? I think I left my passkey to the suite in my other jacket and I wanna get this food put away."

He lifted the bag to show her he totally had a legitimate reason to be in THAT kind of shop. And knocking over a display of, ahem, chocolates.

Re: Talk to Karla

[glacial_queen]

"Honestly, 'Berto, you can look where you're going," Karla teased. "I put all of the really egregious stuff away. Just a few naughtily-shaped lollipops and you're going to have to look at them anyway to pick them up."

Mod Your Purchases

[glacial_queen]

But if you're underaged, you will get escorted out!

OOC

[glacial_queen]

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