Chilly Boulder, Friday Night

[sith_happened]

Anakin had promised Juliet and Christopher that he'd bring home ice cream.

He had not promised he'd bring it home immediately, which was why he was sitting at a table, eating his sundae in blessed silence and enjoying the quiet.

And ignoring how the shop staff seemed to be holding a contest to see how could fling a candied walnut the furthest using a sample spoon. Ew.

[OOC: I want to comfort eat ice cream, I have none, and I am not going near a grocery store kthxbai. Open!]

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[bookbeltof_love]

You know what?

After a long, long day of filming Sir Foomy the Brave's adventures with few breaks and stretching her magic hard? Nina was starving.

And, look, ice cream wasn't the healthiest of suppers but she was fifteen and in her world ice cream was made with just eggs.

Nina was willfully going to believe this was the case here too. Ice cream for supper it was then.

(And she maybe wasn't going to tell her brother.)

"Bus Dean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she sang, shattering his peaceful silence as she swanned in and right up to the counter. "Good evening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[sith_happened]

"Hello, Nina!" Anakin replied with a smile. "We missed you on the trip!"

[bookbeltof_love]

"And I missed vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, with a bit more emphasis than normal as she placed her order and waited impatiently. "It should have been cancelled until I could go along!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

No, she didn't mean that.

[sith_happened]

Anakin laughed. "I'll see what I can do next time."

[bookbeltof_love]

"That," she said, as she brought her banana split with extra cherries over, "would be deeply appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina paused by his table.

"Mind if, like, I keep you company???????????????????"

[sith_happened]

"Not at all," Anakin said. "Sit down. You can help me decide on what flavors to get my kids before I go home."

[bookbeltof_love]

"I mean, like, you probably don't want me suggesting all of them, right??????????????" she teased as she took a seat and folded a napkin neatly over her lap.

Nina was like that.

[sith_happened]

"They're not quite old enough to tackle the full Skywalker," Anakin said, "and I'm a little ashamed that my grandson could."

[bookbeltof_love]

"Maybe they could share it????????????????" Nina suggested, though she shook her head after a moment. "Not if you want them to, like, sleep tonight though............"

[howareyanow]

Every so often, a man just couldn't turn down a chance to use this icon wanted a nice ice cream cone on a Friday night. So he went and ordered a vanilla-fudge chunk swirl cone, squinted his disapproval of the walnut shenanigans behind the counted, nodded a greeting to the other patrons, and waited to see just where a crazy night like this might go.

[bookbeltof_love]

"Entertain meeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said, wheedlingly, around her second banana split.

[howareyanow]

Wayne...should have expected something like that the moment he saw Nina in there.

Weilding his ice cream cone, he looked over at Nina and squinted a moment, almost as if he was considering entertaining her request, but then, all he said was, "Nina. How are ya now?"

He had a feeling he knew what was coming next.

[bookbeltof_love]

Yes, well...

"What????????????" she protested, knowing full well he asked that no matter what. "We have to do the Monday morning greeting on Friday night????????????????? Wayne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Was that what he'd expected?

[howareyanow]

It was...not. Wayne was expecting a much more direct protestation of being bored, with significantly more vowels involved, andt hat would have been much better, actually.

"Nina!" Wayne protested back. "It's not a Monday morning greeting! It's a proper anytime greeting!"

[bookbeltof_love]

"Says who?????????????????" she wondered, oh so subtly sliding a chair out for him to sit with one of her feet, la la la. "And you don't count!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[howareyanow]

On the one hand, Wayne was fine with just standing there stiffly holding his ice cream cone, but, on the other hand, it seemed a bit rude, didn't it? To turn down a seat when offered?

So then he was sitting there stiffly holding his ice cream cone.

"Well," he stated, "that's a bit rude."

[bookbeltof_love]

"Don't be like that," she said, giggling. "I didn't mean you don't matter in general!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just that you can't be the one making up the rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[howareyanow]

"Oh," said Wayne, "but you should? Who's to say it's not a proper greeting? 'Specially since I've been usin' it, and just about nearly everyone in Letterkenny's been usin' it, too," which wasn't entirely true, but anyone Wayne enjoyed associating with used it, "fer as long as I can remember. Guess I better spread the word back home, let'em know we've been doin' it all wrong, 'cause Nina says it's just a Monday morning greeting."

[sith_happened]

Anakin gave him a little wave. "Evening."

[howareyanow]

"Mr. Skywalker," said Wayne, meeting that wave with another nod. "How are ya now?"

Not, of course, that he meant to pry, or anything, Nina.

[sith_happened]

"Just fine, Wayne," Anakin said with a smile. "It's a Friday and I'm having ice cream and not having to share it. Can't complain."

[howareyanow]

Wayne would have to agree that ice cream on Friday nights was just the right thing sometimes (even if his digestion did not), but he did have to ask, "What's so wrong with sharing ice cream?"

[sith_happened]

"Well, my idea of sharing is 'here, try a bite' and my wife's idea is eating my entire ice cream cone," Anakin said.

[howareyanow]

"Then why not jus' get two of 'em?" said Wayne, who didn't have a wife, but he did have a little sister.

[sith_happened]

"Oh, I do," Anakin said. "She's already finished that first one."

And was still like a size negative two. TV magic.