Stark Industries Rooftop, Friday Night

[heroic_jawline]

Well, Steve and Tony were apparently hosting a cookout tonight! They had far too many kinds of soda and a keg if you asked nicely and didn't tell Steve and far too many kinds of chips...

And hot dogs, because you couldn't kill people if you accidentally undercooked a hot dog. Hopefully their friends were better at the culinary arts because they were reallllly not.

The music was loud and from the 70s and 80s (at Tony's insistence) and the grill was probably four times as complicated as it needed to be! Come party like it's 1980 something! Or 1930 something!

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Re: Arrive and Mingle!

[special_rabbit]

Just when she thought it couldn't get worse than having to teach a class, these Squirrel Directions lead her to this. A party. A social gathering where she was expected to stand around and be awkward and try to think of things to say to people she didn't even know.

But she figured it was marginally better than being harassed by squirrels all evening when all she wanted to do was curl up with a book on popular mechanics.

So she was there, and she was looking incredibly uncomfortable about it, searching around the room for anything that could be an excuse to bail or maybe slip off somewhere else that was still technically there at the party but at the same time....not.

Re: Arrive and Mingle!

[heroic_jawline]

"Hi!" Steve said. "Welcome!"

Re: Arrive and Mingle!

[special_rabbit]

Oh, zards, someone talking to her! Amaya jumped a little, eyes going wide behind her glasses, and then she closed them for a moment to get a grip on herself, because she talked to people plenty, why was she being such a spaz? It wasn't like this was a fancy party or anything, with lords and ladies and cutlery...

"Hi!" she croaked, much too loudly. "Thanks!"

And now she wondered where there was a hole she could crawl into. But at least she hadn't hyperventilated!

Re: Arrive and Mingle!

[heroic_jawline]

This was a party of such socially...non-adept people.

"You're welcome!" Steve said just as loudly, thinking she was maybe hard of hearing.