Groovy Tunes, Saturday

[furnaceface]

Jono was feeling a bit better after a week just taking things easy. He still hadn't put his wrappings back on since he'd taken them off on Monday, granted, but the more time he spent without them, the more he found himself wondering if he really needed them, especially around here. Sure, there would always be the new people, and he'd have to fend off strangers trying to put his bloody face out every semester over and over ad nauseum, but hiding himself just for the sake of that...?

There were students who had no choice but to look like what they were. And he'd been hiding for so bloody long and...

Honestly, around here, not having his flames covered up was probably the safer option.

Anyway, he was pondering all of these things today while he was working the music shop, thoughtfully going through new albums and occasionally informing the stereo system that there was a replacement in the mail, which he'd be more than happy to pull out if the current setup decided to do anything terrible again.

[OOC: Open, OCD-freeeeee.]

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[whenshewasnice]

Envy had moved back to Canada. But she still had time to kill before Todd would return from the Academy, and that was best done in places where time ran differently from her home world.

Places like Fandom.

Places like Groovy Tunes. Which explained why she made it in the door right now.

[furnaceface]

And, you know, Jono would never complain when he saw a certain somebody coming through the door to Groovy Tunes, no matter what name she answered to these days?

He glanced up from a box of used CDs he was poking through, and immediately, his mood lifted. Something about old friends tended to do that.

//Well, there's a sight for sore eyes. Back for a visit, luv?//

[whenshewasnice]

"Looks that way, yes," Envy said lightly as she wandered further in. "Besides. I heard someone's getting married."

Even if Peter declaring he was at war had somewhat overshadowed her receiving the engagement announcement.

[furnaceface]

//That's what it looks like,// Jono agreed, possibly equal parts happily and awkwardly. So far the two people he'd spoken to about the whole thing had mostly been very "Really? Married?" at him. Not exactly the reaction he'd been hoping for. //Haven't set a date yet, but there'll be proper invitations sent out once we do.//

[whenshewasnice]

Envy's reaction was much more neutral, honestly. If he was happy, she was glad for him. She had no opinion beyond that.

(Well, she wasn't very fond of his fiancé but she'd never tell him that. She'd been a terrible person lately but she wasn't quite there yet.)

"Looking forward to it," she said. "I'll try and make it, whenever it ends up being."

[furnaceface]

//I'll be happy to have you there,// Jono replied warmly. See? Much better! //And what've you been up to lately, luv?//

[whenshewasnice]

"Broke up, left the Hegemony, was reunited with my best friend since childhood and am now waiting for him to finish his studies."

Envy was nothing if not succictly informative.

"Not necessarily in that order."

[furnaceface]

Jono blinked. And then blinked again.

//Are these all steps in a direction you want to head?//

That, at least, seemed like the important part, here.

[whenshewasnice]

"Yes." Mind you, there were people who would've argued she was not of sound mind right now. She smiled. "I get to be with Todd."

Actual heart eyes for a second, there. Just a little flash before she blinked.

[furnaceface]

Jono... wasn't quite certain he wasn't seeing things, there, but he let that slide.

//This Todd bloke must mean a lot to you,// he decided, instead. Because that was just easier than acknowledging heart eyes, even for a guy whose face was on fire. //What's he studying?//

There was an undercurrent there of 'he better be good to you or I'll beat him into next month.' If you squinted.

[whenshewasnice]

Ahahahahaha.

Ahaha.

Sigh.

"He's studying at Vegan Academy," she said. With a straight face, which was how you could tell that was just how her universe rolled. "Training his psychic powers."

[furnaceface]

There was another long pause, there.

... Jonothon wasn't quite certain where to begin with that.

//Is it, ah, the veganism that gives him psychic powers? Or is that just the name of the academy?//

Look, Jono had psychic powers, and technically, by virtue of not eating anything at all, he was about as vegan as was humanly possible, these days. And sure, the two were related, but not quite like that.

[whenshewasnice]

"The veganism gives the powers." Yeah. It didn't really make any sense back home, either. They were just a little more willing to accept it there. "Not everyone can hack it, though. But Todd's in his last semester now."

[furnaceface]

//... Huh.//

Okay, Jono was going to just decide to not think on it too terribly hard. Natalie's world broke his brain a little sometimes, in ways not terribly dissimilar to the way his own world did. The best thing for it was to just let it slide.

//Well, good for him, then. Psychic powers are rather useful to have.//

[whenshewasnice]

"He's very good at what he does." No heart eyes, this time, but she was still smiling. A pretty significant change from how she'd been most of the time before. "He flew to the moon."

For her.

Then punched a hole in it.

[furnaceface]

Jono was making note of that change. And making a double mental note to shake this boy if he ever hurt her. Shake him until his teeth rattled.

//... With his powers, or in a rocket?//

Given the conversation, he wouldn't actually be surprised either way, at this point.

[whenshewasnice]

"With his powers." Without any gear to support him or protect him, either. It was best not to think about it too hard – Envy certainly wasn't. "He punched a hole in it for me."

Ah yes, there were the heart eyes.

[furnaceface]

Envy, you were going to break Jono's brain, here.

//... How big is the hole?//

THESE WERE THE QUESTIONS, PEOPLE.

[whenshewasnice]

Still better than Peter's reaction.

"You can see it from Earth. That big."

She considered this a good thing.

[furnaceface]

Jono blinked. And then squinted a little.

"That didn't throw the tides off-kelter or anything like that?"

People weren't freaking out about this?

[whenshewasnice]

Envy shrugged a shoulder, though just barely. "There were some tidal waves." Yes, she was just that blasé about that. "Everything's fine now, though."

[furnaceface]

//Well... good, then.// Jono scratched his head, and then, once again, decided it was probably best to not think too hard about it. It wasn't as though the X-Men hadn't caused a few not-so-natural disasters over the years, themselves. //How much longer before he graduates?//

[whenshewasnice]

"A few months, according to the flow of time in my universe." Sigh. "Hence why I'm not in my universe. I meant to spend it with Peter, but... That didn't happen."

[furnaceface]

"Sounds like there's a story there," Jono noted, raising an eyebrow a little. She was welcome to elaborate, or not to, however she pleased. Such was the power of making an idle observation that wasn't also technically a question. "How long is that according to Fandom?"

[whenshewasnice]

"A couple of weeks, give or take," Envy replied with a vague shrug. "Sometimes there are surprises. It isn't always very even."

Nothing was.

[furnaceface]

//My world's a bit like that too,// Jono replied, sympathetically. //Blink here and a year has gone by there, go there for an hour and I've missed a week here. Can't make up its bloody mind.//

Ah, the multiverse.

//A couple of weeks isn't so bad, though. And,// he nodded to a selection of instruments against the other wall, past the CDs and vinyl, //you're welcome to borrow any of those for as long as you're here, if you need something to play.//