fandomtownies | Three Minute Dates- Caritas- Saturday until 8:15 pm

Caritas sort of looked like a Party City threw up, because Tino had offered to do the decorating. Of course there were balloons, streamers, glitter though it was hard to tell where it was supposed to have come from, confetti on the tables, and a butcher block banner up over the stage with "THREE MINUTE DATES" written in what was maybe paint? It sort of looked like puff paint but that had to be way too much work, right? Right?

A couple minutes before 8:00, Kitty took the stage with the zombies playing her on, and she shushed them to stop. "Hello and welcome to another Three Minute Dates!" she greeted them. "You know how this goes, unless you don't. Your names will be called into pairings every three minutes. You get together, you talk, the buzzer sounds, you go to your next table. If three minutes isn't enough time, maybe hang around a little, scope them out at the bar. And if you hate it, you just have to last five sets of three minutes, I believe in you."

She wasn't sorry if Tino signed any of you up. She was sorry for the letter banner he'd strung up over the bar reading "Have Good Banging," which was terrible English and odds were excellent that it did not stay up all night.

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"I mean, everybody was really nice," she said. "But, uh. I was kinda hoping to get a bunch of my friends to practice flirting with before I go to a club next weekend--"

A supernatural club. In fact, specifically a supernatural sex club, not that Gray had mentioned that to her, whoops.

"--but, uh, first it was my friend Cal and he doesn't really flirt, then it was Mr. Thor, Professor Stark, Professor Lana, and now you. So, uh. Yeeeahhh..."

She'd gotten dressed up all cute and everything!

That seemed like kind of an important detail to include, Gray, come on!

Summer's nose wrinkled sympathetically. "Harsh," she said. "But I get it. I mean, if you wanted, I'll be happy to help if you want to workshop some lines or whatever, but honestly? At the club? Yeah, no, Arden, you are not going to need to practice anything, I'm pretty sure you can just show up and you're golden."

Because look at her! All dressed up and everything!

"Was there anyone in particular you were hoping to practice with?" she wondered, especially now after considering who was here. "I mean, I'm sure you could still go up to them afterwards and they'd be game. Like, you don't have to be restricted to a three minute time window on a speed-dating even to practice your flirting."

"Uh, no! Not really!" Arden said, because the one person who popped into her head was vastly unsuitable, what with being just friends and probably aro/ace, ignoring that one time with the gremlins and the other time with the fake future and oh, was she giving an uncomfortable laugh right now? Weird.

"Just like...people I'd feel comfortable with, so my first time really trying, I don't feel like an idiot." Though at least she knew better than to ask anyone if they were eunuchs, Gray, goddess.

"Uh. Lines? I haven't got any lines."

Yeah, that answer with that laugh was super convincing, Arden, good job.

"You don't need any lines, anyway," Summer assured her, shaking her head. "And don't try. When I was your age, I was always so desperate with trying that I honestly look back and it's a big giant cringe fest. So embarrassing. But if you just get out there and have fun? The rest of the stuff sort of falls into place, actually. I know, I know, it seems like the most useless advice ever right now, I've been there, I get it, but trust me, I've been there, it's truth."

She was very cool and suave, okay?

"I've just never been to a nightclub," she confessed. "And I was, uh, homeschooled since I was seven so, all my socializing with my peers came after I got here."

So goddess only knew how much that would help her talk to normal people.

"Oof," said Summer, who was sort of fifty/fifty on whether or not she'd meant to actually say that outloud, but then she considered Arden for a moment and realized that, yeah, no, that tracked with a lot of the stuff she did know about her, and she nodded.

"Okay, so," she said, "if you ask me, that's all the more reason not to worry too much about flirting or getting it right or anything like that. It's your first time. You should just focus on having fun and stuff, right? You like dancing? Then just get out there and dance and don't worry about anything else enjoying yourself. It's one of those things, you know, where, like, if you put out the vibe, people will pick up on it. And if not? Who cares? Because you're just having fun anyway, right?"

"You know," Arden said thoughtfully, "you're right. I think I am just gonna try to relax and have fun and not put so much stress on myself about it. I'll just go and drink a little and see what happens."

So, fyi? Everything that was gonna happen next weekend was your fault, Summer. Just know that.

Three Minute Dates- Caritas- Saturday until 8:15 pm

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