Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

It was Kitty's last shift before the party, and while she'd be doing stuff right up until the last minute, this was her last chance to try out things like drinks.

SPECIALS
Drunk Jack Frosties
Jingle Juice

Meanwhile Tino was behind the bar attaching strings to mini liquor bottles to make ornaments because that was totally happening.


[Open, no OCD!]

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[died8yearsago]

"Those both sounds ridiculous," Rosa critiqued, as she took her seat at the bar and considered the specials board.

"I'll take one of each."

[throughaphase]

"One of the many reasons why we're friends," Kitty grinned, getting a glass of Jingle Juice first and setting it in front of her because that one was easy. "How are you doing this week?"

[died8yearsago]

Rosa shrugged a shoulder before reaching for the drink. "Mostly just getting used to secular life again," she said. "It's nice not getting woken up by church bells every morning, but I miss not having to think about what I wear every day."

As if it was so hard deciding which tight pants, neutral top, and leather jacket she was going to rock.

"You? Everything pretty much set for the New Year's party?"

[throughaphase]

"Pretty much. Just waiting for the novelty 2022 glasses to come in, and then it's a matter of setting everything up."

The glasses really got more complicated after 2020.

[died8yearsago]

"Those aren't mandatory, though," asked Rose, who may or may not be thinking of committing some kind of mail fraud to ensure that it wouldn't even be an issue, "right?"

[throughaphase]

"Not mandatory," Kitty assured her, starting on that second drink. "Just encouraged, especially with drinks. There will also be hats."

[died8yearsago]

Rosa gave Kitty a long look over her Jingle Juice once hats were mentioned.

"You know," she decided, "maybe I will go to New York for New Year's this year after all."

[throughaphase]

"You of course are excepted," Kitty told her.

[died8yearsago]

"Next thing you're going to tell me," said Rosa, with a look that suggested she was not afraid to up the ante and make it Nuevo York so she could get about a thousand years distance from this party if she had to, as well, "is that there'll be soup there, too."

[throughaphase]

"Soup would be a terrible New Year's Eve food," Kitty told her. Snacks and finger foods only."

[died8yearsago]

"Soup," Rosa pointed out, insistent and firm, with a sip of her Jingle Juice, "is a terrible food any time."

[throughaphase]

"What about when you're sick?" That was necessary, Rosa.

Necessary.

[died8yearsago]

"Diazes don't get sick," Rosa said, in bold defiance of every time she said that before promptly getting sick a few days later.

Or all the times she'd made that claim while being very obviously ill.

[throughaphase]

"What about all the lesser people who do?" Kitty checked.

[died8yearsago]

Rosa had several potential answers to that, and it was kind of hard to pick just one, but since it was Kitty, Rosa was just going to shrug and pointedly finish off the rest of her drink. For effect.

"They can suffer," she decided magnanimously.

[throughaphase]

"I mean, they usually do," Kitty said, setting the blue drink down in front of her.

[died8yearsago]

"That's what they get," said Rosa, with another shrug of her shoulder, because, hey, she couldn't help it that this was just the way the world worked, "for having shitty immune systems and wanting to eat stupid food."

[throughaphase]

"I'm definitely going to remember this the next time my whole house passes a cold back and forth."

Children were germ factories.