week four | mingle

[marriagebroker]

Final week at the estate! Final week with your friends. Final week with your beaus. Time to make the most of it, everyone!

In fact, to celebrate this fact, today there is a cake. It's nothing special, just a nice little cake to enjoy with your morning coffee or throughout the day. Yay, cake!

And when Wei Wuxian arrives that morning, he is going to call out once again for everyone to join him, near the cake.

"Everyone, I have another announcement!"

Hell yeah, announcements.

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[ordimame]

[a deep breath in. a slow breath out]

. . . the story is actually pretty long and complicated, so I'll just skip to the end.

Unfortunately-- [the heatless way he uses that word makes it clear he doesn't mean it] -- the stubborn old bastard is still very much alive.

[fireball]

[ listen, she still thinks they're basically the same person, so if Edamura did have the capacity to kill someone then it would HAVE to be for a good reason—

But, no, her shoulders sag in relief at that revelation. Also? Her smile widens a touch, at exactly the tone he uses. ]

Shitty dad, huh? Been there done that. I mean I hate my mom more than my dad, and my sister more than my mom, but, you know, I get it.

[ A beat. ]

Wanna get a drink?

[ She is not so much one for smoking... ]

[ordimame]

[darkly]

The shittiest.

[there's no love in his response, but it does sound pretty tired. like the anger he feels at the man who tore apart his family is finally beginning to run dry. old wounds scabbing over to begin the healing process, even if. . . there is still a long way to go]

And you bet your ass I do.

[time to skip the beer and go straight for the hard liquor. maybe tonight is the first night he'll actually get drunk]

[fireball]

[ Hell yeah, self-contained normie sad hours rager time. She's just gonna take hold of his wrist and start leading them to the bar area in the house. ]

Awesome. Fuck that guy then, you're better than him anyway. And we don't have to talk about him.

[ Hmm.. ]

Actually, we don't have to talk at all if you don't want to. Just slam back shots until we pass out.

[ordimame]

[SELF-CONTAINED NORMIE SAD HOURS RAGER TIME SOUNDS SO. . . PATHETIC. . . and yet also deeply appealing? in this very moment?]

[he hasn't quite burned through his entire cigarette, so unfortunately, it is coming inside with them, tucked between his lips as he expels a few puffs of warm ash from his lungs in small, short laughs]

That sounds pretty irresponsible. . .

. . . if you pass out first I'm not picking you up off the floor.

[RUDE??]

[fireball]

[ Sometimes you just gotta go be pathetic! Wallow in it! Ignore how that's what her card said.

It's okay, though. It's a special, shitty occasion, so they can all live with some cigarette smoke inside for a little bit. It's not like they'll be here that much longer anyway, and it's not like it's their house, so it's all good!

She just laughs as she starts rummaging through for the first thing she can find. ]

Sure, and I'm not picking you up either. [ They remain the same person in her mind. ] Just as long as neither of us dies, it'll be fine!

[ Which she's very convinced is not going to happen, since the production would probably get in trouble?

Anyway here's a bottle of tequila she's slamming down on the table. ]

C'mon, time to drink up.

[ Shouldn't they have shot glasses. Well that's not her problem right now. ]

[ordimame]

[EDAMURA THE GUY VERSION OF POPPY LIVES ON. . .]

. . . I can think of a few things short of "dying" that wouldn't be fine! But neither of us are that stupid.

[. . .]

[HE. THINKS]

[either way, once they reach the bar, Edamura claims himself a seat and kind of slumps over the countertop, cigarette sizzling between his fingers as he collects the bottle of tequila from her]

This is the stuff you like? Well, I suppose I can't be picky tonight.

[fireball]

[ She just nods enthusiastically at him. That's right! Neither of them are that stupid!

Probably. She's just grinning at him now. ]

Oh, I haven't had it in ages. But it feels like the right thing to get wasted on if you want to forget stuff, you know?

[ Does he know?? Because she might actually not. ]