The Perk- Monday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

Getting coffee from someplace outside of her own kitchen still felt like a splurge a lot of the time, but some days after training she'd let herself get something. It wasn't like she was so busy that she couldn't stop for the length of time it took to drink something.

She'd seen someone else in front of her order something pink and covered in whipped cream, and went ahead and ordered one, just got something new. And that's how Rey ended up sitting at a table very focused on her strawberry frappucino and trying to mix the whipped cream in without ruining all of it. Like an adult.


[I have pre-trip seniorotis. Might as well post. Open!]

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[justalittlerepressed]

"You get dragged into that too?" Eddie would like to be excluded from the narrative of bad shirts, but he was goin' in anyway. Because reasons.

[thatwaslucky]

"Weekly," Rey nodded. "It's usually just like another kind of training, unless you have to dodge fish with your feet. Sometimes it's even fun."

[justalittlerepressed]

"I can safely say I've never had to do that in any training I've done in my life," Eddie replied, thinking Rey was also a little crazy like Buck. But she was also nice like Buck, so...

[thatwaslucky]

"It's different than a lot of people do," Rey admitted. "Mine is with Master Skywalker, too, so I try to make sure I do a good job."

Because she desperately needed approval.

[justalittlerepressed]

Okay, that made sense.

"And the terrible shirts?"

[thatwaslucky]

"He just likes to make people look stupid," Rey stated flatly.

[justalittlerepressed]

"That is what I thought it was," Eddie admitted with a sigh. "Okay, so tell me this.. How does he know who will be there?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I think if you show up, you're fair game," she said thoughtfully. "I don't know how he knows everyone's names. Maybe the squirrels?"

[justalittlerepressed]

"I don't know how I feel about finding that an acceptable answer. Does this mean I've settled in?" he asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"It at the very least means you're on your way and adjusting well," Rey smiled.

[justalittlerepressed]

As well as could he expected, really!

"How long have you been here for?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Three years in August. And then I was a student here before that," Rey said. "Long enough to be too used to things."

[justalittlerepressed]

"So, just completely blasé about it all," Eddie replied. Then had to joke, "Three years is all it takes?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I think really six," Rey said, considering. "But that's all."

[justalittlerepressed]

"What's another three?"