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Dite's Decadent Delights, Friday

Huh. Still a candy store. Sparks hadn't seen that coming when he came in for his Dite's shift today, though he supposed the island's residents weren't going to miss it too badly. Not with the whirlwind tour of Southeast Asia that most people seemed to be away on. And anyhow, it was weird, but it was a nice change of pace. The storefront was bright and colourful, and he could spend all day looking at the various quirky toys and knickknacks tucked in amongst the chocolate displays and the candy bins. Heck, it meant he could use his employee discount to maybe bring a treat to Amelia. He couldn't imagine how long it might have been since the last time she'd eaten candy, after all.

He smiled to himself at the thought, settling behind the counter with his laptop. If it was going to be a slow day, he might as well spend it being productive, and Googling another handful of Canadian colleges with good performing arts programs seemed like a good way to go about it. If he was graduating next year, then he wanted to be on top of it, after all. Toronto alone had a wealth of performing arts schools; Randolph Academy, the George Brown College, Humber, TAPA... Bravo had a musical theatre program that had caught his interest on a quick read-through of the page. But then, Vancouver was also good for that. His parents had already said they'd really rather he not, not after boarding school in America, but they'd understand if the program he really wanted was so far from home again.

Occasionally popping a few jellybeans into his mouth, Sparks poked around Humber's webpage again. Acting for Film and Television, or Theatre Performance? Maybe he could find a way to register in both...

[OOC: Open to anyone left on the island! Sparkle now prefers to go by Sparks, and he's from an AU where he was adopted at the age of eight by a loving and supportive family, because I'm terrible.]

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How about a phone call instead?

Ring, ring...

Phone calls were just as good! Especially calls from enablers and guys who were absolute trouble.

"Hey?" See Sparks. See Sparks with a handful of jellybeans and a notepad with phone numbers to school counselors open. See him answering the phone. "... Don't tell me you need bail money."

No, really. Please don't tell him that.

Cade scoffed. "Like I'd get caught. Look, Rand and I tried to bring you back a monkey but those things fling poodoo like you would not believe."

"A monkey?" Sparks blinked actually pulling the phone away from his face for a moment to stare at it before putting the receiver back to his mouth again. "Please tell me you have pictures of this?"

Because... Because Cade and Atton, and a monkey. Even a well-adjusted Sparkle from a loving home could appreciate that sort of hilarity.

"Too busy hiding in trees from the shaved stampeding banthas," Cade replied.

Elephants, Cade.

Sparks needed a moment to parse that one.

"Shaved, stampeding..." He squinted a bit. "You're going to have to help me out with that one. The mental image I've got here is kind of crazy, actually."

Which likely wasn't entirely inaccurate, either.

"Big gray animals with huge karking ears and a giant nose? Normally covered in fur?"

Not here, Cade.

"... Um... We have the hairless variety, if you're talking about what I think you're talking about," Sparks offered. "Elephants? The furry kind went extinct a few thousand years ago."

Poor mammoths.

...

"How the hell did you get caught in an elephant stampede?"

"Turns out Atton is terrible at providing a distraction while I tried to take a baby one."

Tactical geniuses, the pair of them.

The corner of Sparks' mouth was twitching a little, now.

"Well, at least you were aiming for one of the small ones?"

It was a start!

"Well, yeah," Cade said. "Couldn't fit a big one into a truck."

That they were just going to find as they escaped with a stolen elephant.

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Well obviously. Cade and Atton were doers.

"Maybe a really big truck? Were you really going to bring an elephant back to the island?"

They were aware that they made a lot more crap than monkeys, right?

"Nah, we were going to sell it on the black market and get you something tacky with the money," Cade said. "Which brings me to the reason I called. Why the kark would you need an entire store devoted to just selling karking umbrellas? Because I found one."

"Uh... does it rain a lot there?"

That was really the best that Sparks had to offer. Why else would they need a store full of umbrellas?

"Or are they the sun umbrellas? For beaches? Are there a lot of beaches there?"

"In the store? It's not raining or beachy, but this building is karking ridiculous, so I wouldn't be surprised if it has both on a different floor," Cade replied.

"And which floor were the elephants on?"

Sparks was really having difficulty following this conversation, yes.

"Oh, the elephants were in Bali," Cade said blithely.

"And you were going to bring that elephant all the way from Bali to Kuala Lumpur to the island again?"

Sparks was now trying to figure out how that would even work.

"I suggested pretending it was a student who'd had an attack of Fandom," Cade said proudly.

"I... can't actually find fault in that plan," Sparks admitted, blinking. "I mean, except that I think you're starting to get a reputation as that guy who tries to smuggle exotic animals into America. You might have better luck with like a gecko or a parrot or something, though. Way smaller."

Don't give him ideas, Sparks.

"So you want a parrot rather than an umbrella? I mean, not that everyone doesn't want a karking umbrella with flowers on it," Cade replied.

"I... um." Sparkle really had no idea what to say. His parents would probably kill him if he tried to come home with a smuggled parrot. The cat was one thing. An illegal bird? "Actually, the umbrella sounds way more practical. You know... less likely to crap on my things?"

"Since when do you care about practical?" Cade wondered.

"Um... since bird crap on my things was a legitimate concern?"

Since when did he use the word 'legitimate?'

Yeahhhh.

"Did you get one of those karking word of the day calendars or something?"

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