fandomtownies | Turtle & Canary; Monday [05/03].

Pretty much as soon as everything with graduation was over, Summer had popped out of Fandom for a bit because the week leading up to it definitely required locking down an emergency session with Dr. Wong to work through all of it because, hoo boy, was that one kind of a doozy for her. There had been a lot to unpack there.

(Not to mention needing a new phone).

But with actual advice from a woman who, while maybe not trained specifically in Summer's particular brand of craziness, was deft in managing it smoothly from the moment the Smith clan walked into her office, Summer was back and mostly deciding on whether or not to take that advice and actually work on talking through some of what happened with the people it happened with or if she would just sort of attempt to continue on like nothing had happened if she could.

Guess which one she was leaning toward.

Either way, it was Monday, which meant a lot of work to do at the store, and she was eager to throw herself into it, especially with attempting to plan (there was no ever actual planning involved in stocking this place, it was all based on hope, really) for what supplies might be needed with the incoming summer students and teachers as well as maybe continuing to up their stock on booze because that was definitely where they would always continue to show steady increases in their margins, both at the end and the beginning of a new semester.

And already stocking up for herself because guess whose bar shift lined up with another good Excuse for Drinking Holiday this week!

Today's Squishy Flavors
Chocolate Custard
Raspberry Popover
Red

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Sooooo... Last week had been a week. And some people had taken it more on the chin than others. Which is why when Barry showed up at the shop today he had flowers and a small box under his arm.

"You don't mind a visit during work hours, do you?"

As if he hadn't already put up with enough last week, Barry just had to go ahead and show up with freakin' flowers, didn't he? Which meant Summer was going to try and greet him first and foremost with a look that made it clear that she wanted to kind of be angry about it but that would be literally impossible.

"If I did mind," she pointed out, "then no one would ever even see me."

And to prove just how totally okay with it she was, she gave her inventory clipboard a toss over the counter, where it landed....somewhere. She'd worry about it later....and went over to see him.

Quirking her chin up at the flowers.

"You know," she said, "I think Apu might be allergic to those, but I'm sure he'll still appreciate the thought behind you bringing him some."

Barry was hoping for a pleasant greeting and the inventory clipboard getting tossed certainly cheered his mood.

"Well he only gets the flowers if he finally cleaned the lines in the Squishy machine," Barry snarked back with an impish grin. "Otherwise they can go to you. Oh, and I got a little something else. This box however is for strictly for you."

Yes. The shiny metal box with the jolly like candy button on the top which would open it.

"Well," said Summer, with a faint grin of her own, "maybe I can hold onto them for him in the meantime..."

Her attention was definitely on that shiny metal box, though, with a faint shake of her head.

"And what is it?" she asked, her hand already out to take it and she would be well on her way to answering that question for herself then second she had it.

"Oh. Just an upgrade," Barry said with a casual shrug. "I thought you might need a new phone. Set it up with a holographic emitter, a camera that corrects the angle for the best selfies, yadda, yadda, yadda. Plus I beefed up the security on it just in case Rick gets any fucking ideas."

"Please," said Summer, the smile on her face not at all matching the dry tone in her voice, "as if I need help with perfect selfie angles.

"But..." There was a pause there, as she just sort of soaked in the moment and appreciated it for what it was and the fact that it was so new and shiny, "this does save me the trouble of going to bother you about doing pretty much all the same upgrades on the other one I picked up. This? Way better."

Which meant he was getting a kiss, yes. Several, probably.

"Thank you."

"You're are most definitely welcome," Barry replied, cheerfully accepting such kisses and lightly putting his arms around her. "I figured you'd like something bright and shiny."

Especially after last week. Which he was most definitely not going to bring up.

"Got anything going on this week? It's been a while since we binged on a ridiculous and shitty action film series."

He could bring it up. It probably would be a terrible idea to talk about it, really, and Summer almost wondered if maybe they should, but if Barry wasn't going to, she certainly wasn't going to, either.

Not yet, anyway.

Because there were arms around her and she was going to just lean into that a little right now.

While maaaybe subtly starting to poke around the shiny new phone a little, too.

What? She could totally multitask!

"Wednesday's Cinco de Mayo," she said, because any Excuse for Drinking Holiday landing on her bar night was required to become on Occasion. "Newbie picnic Saturday. Some prep to do to get the store ready for new students because Shunsui's out until then, but I guess it could be a good thing to set Astrid on, give her something to do....it really has been a while since we just had a good stupid movie night..."

"I'm sure Astrid is up to the task," Barry said, pleased to see Summer immediately start to play with the phone. "Or if you want I can help you stock up for the new batch of kids. Free labor, right?"

"There's also a big shipment coming in later this week to replenish some of the supplies we moved during last week's panic-purchaes," Summer pointed out, having pretty much already synced up all her data and quite possibly half-way to making a tweet about said new phone, and absolutely not hesitating at all to take advantage of said free labor if he was offering, especially since she could also probably set it up so that when all those big cases of water came in and needed to be moved around, the heat in this place could happen have been oh-so-mysteriously cranked up....

Look. Sometimes you just had to make your own small pleasures. Last week was a rough one.

Turtle & Canary; Monday [05/03].

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