week four | dates

[marriagebroker]

Get dressed up, go on the town, this is your last week for romance!

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[ordimame]

[swats! at that hand!!! wow this is familiar, they haven't done this since week one. . .]

I'm not flustered!!

[beatmatching]

No? Then what are you? [ luka's swatted! but he keeps lazily trying anyway. ]

[ordimame]

. . . normal! I'm normal!! Would you--

[he takes back everything he thought about Luka being cute]

[GRASPS AT ONE OF THOSE HANDS]

[beatmatching]

Would I what?— [ hand acquired! but luka is leaning in real close in return. finish your sentence, makoto. ]

1/2

[ordimame]

[OH]

[OH WE'RE BACK HERE AGAIN]

[?!?!?]

[ordimame]

[shoves a hand into his face!!!]

Quit picking on me!!

[beatmatching]

[ okay, okay, he'll get out of his personal space now with a light huff. ]

Then don't make it so easy.

[ the luka of the first week would have left it at that, or followed it up with another snarky comment. this luka though... ]

Regardless, since I'll be playing for all of you, do you have a specific request?

[ordimame]

[red! in the cheeks!! gawd. he thought they were past this!! but what comes after is a genuine surprise]

. . . oh?

No. . . I don't really know a lot about violin music. [. . .] How about your favorite piece to play?

[beatmatching]

[ god people keep hitting him with this and he can only expand his tiny personal bubble of opinions so much in such a short time. ]

We're in a record store. Find one. [ tosses a record at him. ]

[ordimame]

[HELP. catches the record with only a mild fumble!]

-- careful! These things are fragile! Sheesh. . .

[anyway he will replace the jazz record with this one. now there are pleasant notes of a violin wafting through the store!]

[beatmatching]

They're not living though, right? So it's fine.

[ just casually implying that records could be alive nbd. ]

[ordimame]

. . . no???

[does. does he want to ask]

[no he does not]

That's beyond the point, though.

[beatmatching]

[ stares at him. ]

It's not. The show could afford it after sending me and Serpilia to that Bell of Taco earlier.

[ordimame]

[BELL. . . OF. . . TACO. . .]

It's not a matter of being able to afford it! It's just a matter of treating fragile things with care, you know?

[beatmatching]

[ --> treating fragile things with care

that sure is something he learned during his life! (it absolutely is Not). ]

Pick something before I change my mind.

[ordimame]

[giving him one last Look (TM) before the record skips ahead to. . . this]

Oh-- how about this one?

[beatmatching]

[ he closes his eyes and listens. ]

...since we can't bring back paper, I'll need to listen to it twice. [ so he can commit it to memory. ]

[ordimame]

[a smile and a nod, and once the song ends, he pulls the record needle back a bit to play it again]

[beatmatching]

[ luka's entirely silent this time, moving his blue tipped fingers along to the rhythm of the song. it's far from the most complicated piece he's played or the longest, so he's confident that he can play it from memory perfectly by the end of the week. ]

[ordimame]

[and Edamura just watches as Luka moves, keeping his gaze trained on the way those fingers glide across invisible strings. it's a little mesmerizing. . . and very impressive]

[when the song eventually ends. . .]

. . . I can't wait to hear you actually play.

[beatmatching]

[ luka is of course, smug when he finishes. ]

It'll be the show of a lifetime.

[ordimame]

[in ALL GENUINE HONESTY]

I know it will!