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Il Pollo, Wednesday Evening

So, here was something Mike hadn't done in way too long: gone on a date with a pretty girl. He was actually wondering if this would've been reason enough to be nervous. He wasn't, though. He looked utterly relaxed (if a little cold), standing outside Il Pollo, wearing a suit and everything. Hey, he wasn't just good at taking his clothes off, you know.

Even if he kind of wished he'd put some more on right now. This was no Florida, and he hoped Laurie was going to be on time.

[ooc: Mike's here for the giiiirl, but post is open for your other Il Pollo needs! Up early 'cause timezones.]
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[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-23 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, so the thing about this not being Florida was that most of Laurie's traditional first date-wear (read: low-necked and bare-armed) stuff was not going to work. But she'd figured it out -- wearing sleeves (http://www.bluefly.com/Wyatt-teal-ruched-jersey-asymmetrical-neck-dress/p/321865203/detail.fly) wasn't the worst thing, and tights made her legs look cute -- and had even managed to run out the door on time and everything!

Bless her ability to run in heels (http://www.bluefly.com/Madison-Harding-black-suede-Murray-lace-detail-knit-trim-boots/p/319766101/detail.fly), too, forever.

"Hey!" she greeted Mike when she saw him, peeling off her coat once she was sure she wouldn't, like, die of cold. "Did I keep you waiting forever? It's like, cold, so I had to change outfit plans. You look nice!"

Holy ADHD-fueled conversation, there, Laurie.
newroutines: ([pos] Lol okay.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-23 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That was... Yeah. Mike laughed. "Hi, Laurie," he said, nodding at her. "You look gorgeous. You wanna get inside before we freeze to death?"

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-23 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's probably the best plan," Laurie decided, trying not to actually preen at the compliment. "I'm a lot less cute when I'm all blue from cold. I mean, I assume."
newroutines: ([pos] Okay totally game.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-23 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know, you might be able to pull it off." But of course, Mike was a flatterer. Also, he was reaching for the door to hold it open for her. "But let's not test that theory. I prefer things hot – or at least comfortably warm."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-23 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then I don't know how you're surviving here," Laurie sighed, stepping through the door. "I didn't realize it was going to get all winter-y here. I mean, snow is fun for like, a day. It can go after that."
newroutines: ([pos] Yeah I dunno...)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-23 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know, I've been wondering about that myself," he replied, stepping in after her. "Think it's part of whatever bout of crazy made me think I could live even this far north to begin with."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-23 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh oh. Anything crazy I should know about now?" Laurie asked, mostly teasing. "You didn't like, move north to outrun someone trying to steal your doll collection or something?"
newroutines: ([pos adam] Chilling.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-23 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Mike chuckled as he shook his head, then nodded at the waiter coming to take them to a table. "No, but I did pass on moving to Miami."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-23 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"See, that is crazy. You came here rather than Miami?" Laurie asked, tsking. "I love Miami. Did your brain fall out of your head?"
newroutines: ([pos] Heh.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-23 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nah, it was just this... project that I didn't want to get involved in." Was he going to specify what it was? Time would tell! "I wanted to take my life down a different path. And that path... turned out to want to freeze my ass off, but it's not without its benefits."

Yes, there was a significant glance at her, there. You were one of the benefits, Laurie.

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-23 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
She caught that, and smiled at him. "Must've been a really bad project," she noted, wincing a little. "I mean, it could be worse. It's not like we're in Canada."

There was nothing worse than Canada, obviously.
newroutines: ([pos] Good stuff.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-23 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, if we were in Canada, we'd probably be dead." Okay, maybe not. He pulled a chair out for her. "But, in my defence, I did actually stay in Tampa for a while after I passed on Miami. I didn't just go, 'hey, let's move to Maryland instead'."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-23 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fancy," Laurie commented on the chair-pulling. Look, it'd been awhile. "Okay, that makes things a little less horrifying. Ugh, Tampa's so fun, though. I mean, I'm glad you came here -- believe me, I am -- but the only reason I ended up here was 'cause of work."

Pause.

"Okay, that's most of the reason, anyway."
newroutines: ([pos] Yeah I dunno...)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-23 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"And what's the rest?" Mike asked, as he went about taking his own seat. "If you don't mind me asking, obviously."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-23 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bad breakup," she admitted, "but that's like, the worst first date topic, right? But that's why when the opportunity to skip town came up, I took it. You know?"
newroutines: ([neu] Talky talk.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-23 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"There are probably even worse topics." Don't make him try and come up with them, Laurie. Just don't. "But yeah, I know. Something just... happening, when you need it."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Exactly. My friend bought the building and was all, 'Here, Laurie, go be a grownup and run this thing,' and it conveniently coincided with my personal life," Laurie said, gesticulating happily.
newroutines: ([pos] Heh.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, the club I'd worked at for six years moving to another city kind of worked out like that, too," Mike nodded, reaching for a menu. "And now I'm out here in the cold."

He didn't seem to mind that much.

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure you'll find some way to keep warm," Laurie said, smirking over her menu at him. "So were you bartending at this former club of yours, or like, a bouncer or what?"
newroutines: ([pos] Yeah I dunno...)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Mike shook his head. "Nah, though I did work the door on occasion." Mostly in a luring people in kind of capacity. "But no, I was a stripper."

Look at him dropping that in all casual-like.

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Laurie wasn't going to be all that casual about that, and nearly choked on her water. "You were a what?"

She was so afraid she'd misheard him, because seriously, this was sort of like a dream come true for her.
newroutines: ([pos] But look at you cutie.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Mike looked openly amused at her.

"You heard right the first time. Unless you heard something other than stripper."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, that was what I heard. I just wasn't planning on winning the lottery today," Laurie said, beaming at him. "Holy crap. Why'd you stop?"
newroutines: ([neu] Should not do that.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
He shrugged a shoulder "Six years is a long time to be stripping, and I don't wanna still be doing that when I'm forty." Dallas. "With the move coming up it just kind of felt like the time to jump out of the game. There was some other stuff too, but it had been... It had been brewing for a while, yeah."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Were you any good?"

Apparently Laurie was full of questions on this subject. It was relevant to her interests.
newroutines: ([pos] Uh huh okay.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Mike huffed out a laugh and looked mock offended.

"Really, Laurie? You think I'd done that for over half a decade without being good at it?"

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know," Laurie said primly, grinning at him. "Did you have like, a gimmick?"
newroutines: ([pos] Yeah I dunno...)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does being called Magic Mike count?" Mike wondered. "'Cause other than that, no. Not a permanent one. I've done all the basic hot construction worker, cowboy, cop stuff, though. But not as a permanent thing. One theme per number, that's it."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Magic Mike," she repeated, raising her brows. "Did you keep any of the costumes, Magic Mike?"

Inquiring minds needed to know.
newroutines: ([pos] Wicked.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Truth be told, he probably wouldn't have, if he hadn't ended up walking out in the middle of his last show.

"Maybe a couple of things." He smirked a bit at her. "Why are you so curious?"

Oh, he knew.

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm a naturally curious person," Laurie said without a trace of actual innocence. "Do you miss it? Like, not the people or the move or whatever drove you out, but...actually stripping?"
newroutines: ([neu] Down to business.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Mike shrugged. "Sure," he said. "It was physical and fun. I had a good time doing it."

Hell, it was even more creative than most people gave it credit for. At least the way he and his friends did it.

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mmm. I'd think it'd be kind of gross," Laurie mused, frowning. "Just, you know, having been in a strip club or two before."

Or like, a dozen.
newroutines: ([neu] If that is how you are playing it.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Another highly illuminating shrug. "You get used to the parts that could be gross. If you can live with those, it's fine."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"So are you like, a good dancer?" Laurie asked thoughtfully, having made the mental leap there. "Or were you like the hold-still-and-peel-off-the-fireman's-jacket type?"
newroutines: ([pos] Lol okay.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Mike was totally having flashbacks to Adam's trial by fire, right then.

"I'm a great dancer." And modest, too! He wasn't being smug about it, though. Just honest. "No seriously, I am."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-24 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're just racking up things you're going to have to show me," Laurie noted, smiling at him. "I demand a demonstration of this dancing of yours. At some point. Not like, right now."
newroutines: ([pos] Good stuff.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-24 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I'm not about to break out any moves in the middle of a restaurant," Mike assured her, with a smile of his own. "That might kill my attempt to have a respectable, classy dinner with a pretty lady."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-25 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, wow, I haven't been respectable or classy in years," Laurie told him, tsking. "Good luck with that one."
newroutines: ([pos] Heh.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-25 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, neither have I. Except to go to the bank." He even wore glasses to the bank. He was just that damn classy. "I don't know, it could still work. For a while. Unless you're looking to be the opposite 'cause I'm fine with that too."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-25 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"I dunno," Laurie said thoughtfully. "It's sort of nice to not be the shameful secret trashy hot chick for once. And you know, probably a similar thing with you and not being the stripper guy."
newroutines: ([pos] Good stuff.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-25 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Kinda," he had to admit with a more wry quirk of his lips, resting his elbow against the edge of the table. "And, you know, it's fun to be that, right? But it can get old."

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-25 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Totally," Laurie agreed. "I mean, don't get me wrong, we're still trying all the vodka flavors. But in a classy way."
newroutines: ([pos] But look at you cutie.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-25 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Mike chuckled, but nodded. "Oh, definitely. Anything else you want to still do but in a claaaassy way?"

[identity profile] ohjellybean.livejournal.com 2013-01-25 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, plenty of things," Laurie said, grinning at him. "I'm a lady, though, so I won't share them all, but now I'm wondering if you can make like, body shots classy. Maybe if you lift your pinkie while doing them?"
newroutines: ([pos] Snicker.)

[personal profile] newroutines 2013-01-25 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Mike actually snickered. "I don't think it's possible to make body shots classy. That's just... that ain't gonna happen, I'm sorry. It'll always be just a little trashy."
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