Caritas, Friday, 6/26

[living_endless]

Caritas had a rainbow theme today. Flags hung from the bar and walls, and Didi had decorated her top hat with a rainbow ribbon. She was in a resoundingly good mood as she polished the bar and watched for customers. She didn't care so much what marriage meant; it wasn't so long ago by her reckoning that it had been more about cementing family alliances than anything else. But love? Love was eternal, and love was worth celebrating.

A sign outside the bar read, Special: Free Rainbow Jello Shots. Didi was going to blame Tino for that one.

[OOC: Open bar, open post!]

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[shapethecentury]

"Jello shots?"

Bucky's curiosity and his manners had been warring with each other all the way from the door. The former won out by the time he got to the bar. If only for a moment.

"Care to enlighten a poor, uneducated fella, miss?"

Uneducated on this matter. They hadn't covered jello shots at his school.

[living_endless]

"Sure, it's jello mixed with vodka and then you let it set in a plastic shot glass," Didi said cheerfully, leaning forward on her elbows. "Oh, except we made some with Sprite for the kids. Incredibly classy drink either way, but it's fun. Want one?"

[shapethecentury]

"I think I do," Bucky decided with a nod. It sounded like fun. His smile suggested as much. "A vodka one."

[living_endless]

"You have good taste," Didi said, and turned away for a moment before emerging from the fridge with the promised jello shot. It even had a little tuft of whipped cream on top.

"Cheers," she said, offering it over. "And did you want anything else, or is it just jello for you today?"

[shapethecentury]

Her question would have to wait a moment. He was busy exhaling a chuckle as he accepted the jello shot. "Damn, that looks like something we'd carry at the store."

He was unaccustomed to liquor that looked like candy, but it seemed to delight him all the same.

[living_endless]

"Thanks, I think," Didi said, seeming pleased he enjoyed it. "I guess it depends on which shop you work at."

[shapethecentury]

"Wonka's Sweets Shoppe." So yes, it was a compliment. And here was where he extended his hand to her over the bar, with a great big smile. "James Barnes, miss. I think I'm good with just the jello for now, but I might require your name."

[living_endless]

"It's Didi," Didi said, shaking the offered hand. Her handshake was light but solid, her had slightly cool. "Hi, James.If you like drinks that look like candy, you're in the right place."

[shapethecentury]

"I think that's not even the only reason this is the right place to be, Miss Didi."

This seemed like the opportune time to actually knock that jello shot back. So he did. And it was weird, but not unpleasant. And he laughed. "Okay, that... was definitely a new experience. Are these things popular these days?"

Sometimes, he wondered whether he should have tried to blend in a little more. At others, he didn't care.

[living_endless]

Didi grinned. "Flatterer," she said, not sounding like she minded it. "And I guess it depends? They aren't everybody's thing, but people who like sweet things, or just want to get drunk quickly like them a lot."

She lowered her voice. "I like looking at them better than eating them, too."

[shapethecentury]

"No harm in that," he decided with a nod. "Good to appreciate things for how they look, sometimes, and they're not like anything I've seen before."

Except all the aforementioned candy.

"Maybe I'll still prefer my liquor the old-fashioned way."

[living_endless]

"That can be arranged," Didi told him, tapping a finger to her lips. "Hmm. You look like the Scotch type."

[shapethecentury]

"What do you know, I am," Bucky told her with a grin. Maybe it was the vodka in the jello. Or maybe it was just him. "Nice catch."

[living_endless]

"I'm pretty good at reading people," Didi told him, grinning back. "Helps with the job, you know?"

[shapethecentury]

"I can see how that would help here," he nodded. "I don't think I have that kind of skill. But then people tend to be pretty vocal about what they want when they come to a candy store."

[living_endless]

"I dunno, it might be useful for free samples and such," Didi said thoughtfully. "You don't want to offer somebody a sample of white chocolate if they think it tastes like dog throw-up."

[shapethecentury]

"What is the deal with white chocolate, anyhow?" Bucky wondered, head cocked to the side. "I wouldn't go so far as to say it tastes like that. But it's not something we'd call chocolate back home."

Because it hadn't made it over the ocean from Europe yet.

[living_endless]

"I think it's oil from the cocoa plant with a lot of sugar added?" Didi hazarded. "But without the chocolatey ... stuff in it. It's too sweet for me, anyhow."

She passed his drink across the counter and added, "Where ishome for you, anyhow? Other than a place where people have good sense."

[shapethecentury]

"Brooklyn, New York," he replied as he accepted the drink with a nod. "And... eighty years ago or so."

That wasn't getting much less weird to say.

[throughaphase]

Kitty was still not in the brightest of moods yet, but come on, if you weren't happy about this, she'd argue that your parents raised you wrong. "Oh, good, you're decked out today."

[living_endless]

"Kind of hard not to be," Didi said, smiling. "It's a really good day. Figured we should celebrate."

[throughaphase]

"Good call," Kitty said. She was all for oppressed people getting something good. Especially considering what happened to her particular brand of oppressed people. "Does rainbow shots mean one layered one, or one of each color?"

[living_endless]

"A layered one," Didi told her. "Not as hard to make as it sounds, and I don't think anybody needs seven Jell-O shots no matter what they're celebrating."

[throughaphase]

"After about three Jell-O shots, they'd usually start arguing that," Kitty pointed out. "If I'd known this was going to happen today I'd have ordered some edible glitter to add."

[living_endless]

"I didn't even know that existed," Didi admitted. "If I had, it would have gone in."

[throughaphase]

"My fault. Really, in a town like this I should probably have it on hand anyway," Kitty admitted.

[living_endless]

"Why 'in a town like this'?" Didi wondered. "I mean, I can guess, but I'm curious."

[throughaphase]

"Because it's a town obsessed with glitter," Kitty stated.

[living_endless]

"... And here I was hoping there was some weird symbolic thing going on," Didi said, with a little laugh. "But yeah, we like it so much we probably should add it to drinks."

[throughaphase]

"You know what, I'm totally doing this on Tuesday," Kitty said. "And then we can experiment with whether or not edible glitter is as hard to clean off of everything as regular glitter."

[living_endless]

"So now I know what I'm doing Tuesday," Didi said. "I kind of have to find out what edible glitter tastes like. Probably like sugar, right?"

[throughaphase]

"I'd guess. I mean, they put it on wedding cakes, so it has to, right?" And if not, well, Tuesday would be interesting.