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

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[ordimame]

[lifts his sparkler to draw a few idle patterns in the air. the way the smoke trails after his firework leaves the wiggly outline of a cat in its wake, though it vanishes pretty quickly]

Yeah? I know.

. . . though I guess it's not something I want to think about right now.

[irreversal]

[ he watches Edamura strace shapeless patterns in the air, though the way the smoke trails after each movement reminds her of something.

She reaches into her pocket and pulls out the pack of cigarettes they'd all but burnt through as of last night. ]

Hmmm.... Yeah. I guess we shouldn't talk about how much you'll miss your handsome Rom-kun, huh?

[ as she's idly fiddling with the pack in one hand. ]

[ordimame]

[oh my god]

Hey, come on. It's not like I'll never see him again. We've got plans!

[business plans! . . . plans to actually spend time together as non-business partners, too. what does that make them? Wei Wuxian had asked earlier on in the week, and Edamura sincerely did not have an answer]

[. . .]

[. . . is that something he and Rom should decide together, before they leave?]

[but his thoughts are drawn towards the pack of cigarettes with which she is fiddling, brows raising. Pavlovian habit means the mere sight of them makes something inside itch, but--]

Here. Give me those.

[irreversal]

[ She gasps at his request, looking very scandalized. ]

Mame-chan! You said last night was the last.

[ Holding the pack awaaaay from him!! ]

[ordimame]

[oh my god?? tries to grab it from her. . .!]

. . . and I meant it! Come on, I'm just going to get rid of the temptation!

[irreversal]

[ NO.... she's going to wind up and THROW THE PACK....! it goes arcing way up over the manor's outer walls..... was she always this strong? probably. ]

No, you're not! Because I beat you to it.

1/2

[ordimame]

[THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO!!!!]

[just watches as the pack sails over the wall, mouth falling open in shock and surprise to know that she is capable of chucking something that far? what the hell, Shoko. HE IS ALWAYS SO IMRPESSED BY HER]

[ordimame]

[. . . and then he laughs]

Haha! Well. . . that's that.

[it's a little strange, how good it feels to watch that pack of nicotine vanish into the night]

Let's exchange numbers before we part. I'm sure I'll need an accountability buddy.

[and he will be more than happy to be hers. this is a road he knows they can walk together]

[irreversal]

[ somewhere on the other side of a wall, an unsuspecting PA probably just got bonked in the head with the pack. ]

Hah! Okay. I'll put us into a group chat with my friend, Utahime. She'll set us straight, for sure... I'm probably going to get an earful from her if she watches this and sees how much I smoked.

[ordimame]

Haha. . . I don't think any of my associates are the type to lecture me about poor habits, so I'll be counting on your friend.

[and Shoko herself, of course]

. . . but I'd like a chat with just the two of us, too. So we can keep in touch.

[irreversal]

[ Aw... Mame-chan... She gives him a big grin. ]

Yeah. Of course we can. Just don't get upset if I'm bad at responding sometimes, okay? My hours can get really weird. I promise it's not personal.

[ordimame]

[a li'l grin]

Sure! But if you take too long to respond, I'm going to show up at your front door when you least expect it.

[might do that anyway. on a whim!]