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[adropofjupiter]

[Action in the Residential Neighborhoods - Very Early Morning]

[It's way, way too early in the morning for anyone to be knocking on your door - especially when that person happens to be a teenage girl that looks half-asleep. The sun's just peeking over the horizon and yet, here she is knocking on your door. Will you answer?]



[Phone - Afternoon]

The Outside World's weird.

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[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

*Alice is still suspicious but...*

Fine. I might regret this later but here's my address. *She hands over a slip of paper.* I don't expect you to knock but don't antagonize Shiki.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Is that loser really your boyfriend?

[said AFTER pocketing the address.]

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

H-He talked to you!?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He felt like arguing with me over whether the Outside World was weird or not.

Then he told me he was your boyfriend. Then I laughed at him.

[Now she gets a bit more serious and picks her beer up again.]

So... is he?

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

He will argue over anything if you give him the chance. And yes, he really is.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Huh.

[That gets Alice a long contemplative look while the witch finishes the can and picks up the one Alice abandoned. Her expression is really hard to read.]

I guess I'll stop calling him a loser then. So how'd that happen? You aren't exactly the dating type. Hell, you aren't even the tolerating the presence of other people type.

I get that I'm a special case, but... really? A boyfriend?

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

I told you that a lot has changed within two years. I have changed for the worse and for the better. I still do not find most people to be very tolerable but he is special to me.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

...do you still talk to your dolls and pretend they talk back?

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

...alright.

[leaning against Alice now.]

I'll try to be nice to him. For you. Though warn him he better not threaten me again. I only have so much tolerance, ze.

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

*Alice leans into Marisa. Ngl she missed her a lot.*

Just do not kill him. You can rough him up a bit, he is sturdier than he looks.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

[And Marisa's using the contact to steady herself. She's not handling all this nearly as well as she looks like she is.

She snorts.]

What am I gonna do to him? I can't throw a star at him much less Spark him. I feel so...

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

... Hm? Feel? What do you feel?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

...naked. I feel naked.

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

You usually don't get drunk that easily.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

...

[glare]

I'm not drunk! I'm talking about not having my magic. Makes me feel naked!

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I understand...

... There is something else you should know. Will you listen?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Only after you answer my question, ze.

...where's Patchy? I know she's here somewhere.

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

I'm not telling you that until you listen to what I have to say. It has relevance.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

...whatever. [Marisa uses pout. It's not effective.]

I'm listening.

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

I know for a fact you do not remember but you were here once before. During your time here you dated Patchouli.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

[Wow, Alice, you get the priviledge of watching the most spectacular show on Marisa's face.

First she stares at you like you grew a second head that called itself Bob and demanded Pocky. Then her brow furrows in Great Confusion. Then she scowls as if she's being lied to. It quickly shifts to being very uncertain. And then she tilts her head, blinking a bit, before looking away from you with a lost yet wistful expression.

THEN her entire face just closes off as she instinctively goes to pull the brim of her hat down, to hide her eyes, when she remembers her hat is missing. So she looks down at her beer instead.]

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

I do not particularly care what you do with this information. Just do not do anything to hurt Patchouli's feelings. You left on unfortunate terms and it made everyone rather upset... not as if it was your fault or anything.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to do.

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

Just act normally around her. I think she would prefer something like that.