JGoB's, Friday Afternoon

[rebelseekspizza]

It'd been quiet for a while on the Limbo City front, but apparently the demonic hordes back home had decided to change it up a little. Dante came wandering back onto the island across the causeway near the end of the afternoon, having earned a couple of new tears in his shirt - but thankfully nothing huge. Didn't exactly want to repeat the back-debris thing in broad daylight.

He kinda needed a pick me up, though. Sometimes, distractions didn't need to be that complicated.

"Hey, what's that thing that has all the sugar on top?" he asked the lady behind the JGoB's counter. "Can I have a bunch of those? With extra sugar? And is that a strawberry--"

So help him, he was gonna have jammed half the sweet pastries in here in his mouth by the end of the day.

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[not_a_moonie]

"Hey," Alana said, dropping into the chair opposite him with coffee in hand, and without bothering to wait for permission. "What's that thing with the whipped cream? It looks great."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Y'know, I don't actually know," Dante said. He didn't look like he minded her claiming a seat; in fact, he was grinning. (Overcompensation was a goddamn wonder.) "Tastes like sugar, mostly. I like it."

[not_a_moonie]

"Sugar's good," Alana said reasonably, after a quick grin right back at him. "Okay if I try it?"

Stealing a chair was one thing, but stealing a man's food was quite another.

"How have you been, anyhow?" she added, almost as an afterthought.

[rebelseekspizza]

And Dante was pretty particular about his food.

"Sure, dig in," he said, after weighing his desire to stay in Alana's good graces versus his love of food. "Just gonna get covered in whipped cream anyway."

He snagged something with some strawberries on it instead. "I've been good," he added. "Feels like a century since we played catch-up. Got anything going on?"

[not_a_moonie]

"Nothing except the student council stuff," Alana said, leaning over and breaking off roughly a third of the eclair. "You know, the dance and all of that. Funny, the whole thing kind of snuck up on me."

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante immediately pulled another chunk off the eclair and popped it in his mouth. Hey, he'd made his sacrifices. Now he was gonna eat the rest of it.

"I keep forgetting Valentine's is a thing," he said. "Guessing it's even worse with you."

[not_a_moonie]

Alana laughed. "Yeah, you could say that," she drawled. "My first year on StuCo was this constant parade of 'wait, what the hell is that crazy Earth thing. But a holiday based around chocolate and making out? That's not that bad."

[rebelseekspizza]

"I could go with a little less hearts and flowers," Dante said, leaning back in his seat. "But when you put it like that, suddenly it starts sounding great."

[not_a_moonie]

"It's the great thing about not being local," Alana said, and licked whipped cream off a finger. "I get to pick the fun parts and ignore the baggage-y ones. Anyhow, I like flowers."

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante's eyes darted to her finger for a second. Maybe more than a second.

"Not super great at flowers," he said. "But I bet I can help you burn up the dance floor at the dance."

[not_a_moonie]

Far be it from Alana not to lick that finger again.

"And here I totally thought you were a dozen-roses kind of guy," she said. "No, that sounds great. I might even get a new dress if hot people are going to want to dance with me."

[rebelseekspizza]

"For you, I'm always game."

There went the last of the eclair. Dante had to snag some of the whipped cream with his tongue before he did so, though.

"Besides, it'll be your last Valentine's one here, right?"

[not_a_moonie]

"Last Valentine's," Alana nodded. "And then I have one more spring break and one more prom, and then boom. Graduation. It's ... actually a little scary to realize how close it all is."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Seems weird," Dante offered.

He'd just kind of shown up here, and whatever amount of time was up ahead, there was a ton of it. He didn't pay it a whole lot of attention, especially since he had no idea how much of it he was going to see.

"You ready?"

[not_a_moonie]

"As I'll ever be," Alana said, not so sure she was but not really wanting to dwell on it. "What about you? Can you deal with the thought of a Fandom without me or Ezra?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"It's gonna get lonelier," Dante sighed. He snagged something that looked faintly red and fruity. "Guess I'll have to start making some new friends, huh?"

[not_a_moonie]

"Or you can just admit I'm irreplaceable and spend the rest of high school being sad in your dorm," Alana suggested, not terribly seriously, as she snagged another strawberry. "But probably it'll be the new friends thing."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Yeah, maybe I should just curl up on my bed and wait for Homecoming to come back around after grad," Dante said. He took a quick bite of the new pastry. "Nobody's going to rock quite like you do."

[not_a_moonie]

"That's better," Alana told him, laughing again. "Anyhow, it's mutual. Pretty sure there's not going to be anybody in the Landfall army quite like you."

[rebelseekspizza]

"You should hit on a couple of 'em and test that theory," Dante suggested, grinning. "Hurricane Alana, hottest shit in the entire army."

[not_a_moonie]

"That's my goal," Alana nodded. "Have fun, hang out with some hot people, don't get killed. I think I can manage it."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Sounds like a goal for the next couple of months too," Dante said. "You got stuff to do later?"

[not_a_moonie]

"Nothing big," Alana said, shaking her head. "What about you, got some free time?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Got an entire free evening and nothing to do with it," Dante said. He gave a casual shrug. "You wanna finish this up and go hang out somewhere? Lady's choice."

He really needed a distraction, and he wasn't feeling picky about what kind.