Demon Marcus, Thursday

[boneyard_girl]

After the excitement of the weekend, Ada was almost sad at the lack of visitors. It was going to give her plenty of time to work on her alternations queue, which was starting to fill up with prom outfits, and possibly work on her own dress.

Demon Marcus was open and the mermaid... was deciding how brave she was going to be.

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[rebelseekspizza]

"Nah, it'd give it character," Dante said. "Maybe get some silk sheets. Purple."

[boneyard_girl]

"Now that does sound nice," she replied thoughtfully. "...I know what 'm spending m' next paycheck on."

Hopefully they wouldn't snag on her scales.

"Add some more nice big pillows...now you got me in a decorating mood," Ada sighed. "Maybe we should throw another party t' get it outta my system b'fore m' bedroom ends up looking like something outta 'Bela's stories."

[rebelseekspizza]

"We got prom next week," Dante mused. "Maybe we should have an anti-prom with real booze."

[boneyard_girl]

"We should do...what's it called... 'after-prom'? TV says it's a thing, where high schoolers go to a big party after th' dance an' there's games an' stuff. And real booze." Ada Miller, you know better than to believe the television. "We could do an after-prom. Or something b'fore grad."

[rebelseekspizza]

"I don't care when we do it, I just think it should be big," Dante mused. "Maybe grab the warehouse again..."

[boneyard_girl]

"I like th' way you think," Ada said, pushing her sewing out of the way so she could climb up on the counter and sit next to him, drumming her heels against the front. "Or we could go out to Baltimore again. Or both! Both is good!"

Ada Miller, you're a greedy little brat and you know it.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Nah, we need to do it on the island to draw in all the stragglers who never do the parties," Dante said, laughing. "We can do Baltimore during break, maybe."

Before or after that roadtrip him and Anders kept dreaming about.

[boneyard_girl]

"Parties all summer," she decided. "Since once I go home, it's time t' work an' no more play!"

[rebelseekspizza]

"... Oh, crap. You're graduating, aren't you?" Dante realized.

[boneyard_girl]

"Uh-huh," she said, giving him a wry grin. "'M th' family rebel for finishing high school. Ain't that a kicker?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Could do one better and even go to college," Dante joked easily.

Aw, of course Ada wouldn't be sticking around. Dammit.

[boneyard_girl]

Ada snorted in amusement. "Sure, if'n there were a college as nutty as this school," she replied. "--but I ain't cut out for academics, 'cept for stuff like shop class or home ec."

It would be a disaster. She'd be a disaster.

"B'sides. Mermaids gotta roam."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Isn't there like a clown college?" Dante teased. "Or you can do the shitty hipster thing and go backpacking."

[boneyard_girl]

Ada looked at him in mock-horror. "An' what th' hell have I ever done t' you for you t' suggest I go be a hipster???"

Mean, Dante, just mean.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Anything's better than being miss All Work And No Play," Dante argued. "I'll even live with hipster."

[boneyard_girl]

"I'll come back for Homecoming, if'n I can get away," she promised. "And you can always come visit me if'n you think I need a reminder on how t' have fun outside of m' work."

Ada grinned and leaned over to bump his shoulder with her arm. "Maybe we should do that one weekend; everyone go back with me while I drop stuff off.
I got a ton of cousins that'll love you. Th' girls adore boys with pretty eyes an' bad ideas."

...which was most of Ada's male friends, to be fair. Miller girls generally had A Type.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante laughed. "I can show them a good time," he said, "If you guys are into that sort of thing."

He probably didn't mean that kind of good time anymore, these days. Maybe.

[boneyard_girl]

Ada just laughed. "If it's a bad idea, there's at least one Miller that thinks it's a good time," she said. "People don't become carnies 'cause they're normal."

"Bar fights, drunken go-cart racing, stupid dares... if it's a terrible idea, at least one of us is down for it."