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.

Boom Boom Room | Dates | Property Damage
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Voting

Comments

[ordimame]

Don't. . . apologize. . . you didn't do anything wrong.

[it's certainly not her fault?? that Messmer committed genocide? nor her fault that Edamura spent the better part of four weeks thinking he was cute?? and is now having that impression a little shattered?]

[. . .]

. . . thanks. It's one of my favorite blends.

[fireball]

[ That's right, Poppy has never done anything wrong in her life. Even though it kind of feels like it right now because things are awkward, but no, no, she's in the right here, just like she always is in everything ever.

Right.

Right, it's okay, then. ]

... It's, um, nice of you. To share it with us.

[ Everything is fine. ]

[ordimame]

[no!! it's not her fault things are awkward!! it's his!!]

. . . yeah. [his smile, at least, is genuine! as he tries to push through the awkwardness] I've been wanting to. Coffee is one of my favorite things in the entire world, so. . .

[flaps a hand between himself and everyone else gathered around the truth booth feed]

[fireball]

[ if they're the same person (and still according to her: they are) then it's both their faults...

She can smile back at him, at least. ]

Oh... really? [ Then why didn't he like the coffee syrup... coffee crimes going right over her head. But at least she's being genuine, too. ] Then that's really cool of you, actually.

[ Not even paying attention to the feed at this point. Just takes a big drink. Maybe the love behind it makes it sweeter?

It does not but there's no sugar within reach so she's drinking the coffee as it was meant to be. ]

[ordimame]

[POPPY IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE SIBLINGS AND ALSO THE SAME PERSON YOU'VE GOT TO LEVEL UP YOUR COFFEE GAME]

You think so?

[a curious tilt of his head]

Do you also think it's bitter?

[fireball]

[ MAYBE HE CAN TEACH HER...

Poppy's eyes widen for a second.

She takes her time swallowing, to stall.

She has swallowed. Her throat has visibly bobbed. She needs to lower her mug from her lips now.

Looks skyward, as if contemplating. ]

It's... different.

[ Smash cut to a montage of her stuffing her face with candy over the past month... But also different doesn't mean bad, so she smiles at him. ]

1/2

[ordimame]

[. . . . . . . .]

[ordimame]

Yeah, okay. I'll take it.

["DIFFERENT" IS NOT "BITTER"]

[fireball]

That's the spirit!

[ Slings an arm around his shoulders.

Takes another drink of the coffee he prepared with her free hand. She can keep on drinking different! ]