Room 304; Early Wednesday Evening [03/04]: Summer (and Amaya!)'s Pre-Pub Crawl Jello Shot Pre-Game.

[somethingwithturquoise]

You know, Summer was feeling pretty proud of herself, for not only throwing together a (totally responsible adult) room party, but also managing to make all the jello shots she wanted to and still making sure to eventually give herself the time to go and fulfil a long-held childhood dream of being a mermaid (sort of; ugh, mermaid!dimension Summer was, like, such a stupid lucky bitch!).

And she did not skimp on the shots, either. She had Under the Sea shots and Shark Attack shots, the classic and classy Sex on the Beach shot, Pina Colada, Ocean Margarita, Mango Cosmopolitan...

...needless to say, there were choices. And plenty of leftover booze from making them if anyone wanted to just skip the jello part. If Summer would let them, anyway.

So now all she needed was people to show up. Which she hoped they would. She was kind of trying not to think about if no one did. And not just because Amaya had already started lining up a few shots with a thoughtful, speculative look on her face as if trying to figure out the quickest way to down them in a race.

For both of their sakes, she hoped people showed up. Please, save these two from themselves.


[[ posted here to save the poor evening thread and posted early because I have to scuttle off to work. Open to all the ~adults~ of the group who would have received the invite, though I suppose students could definitely try to sneak in. No OCD, just come in, hang out, have jello! ]]

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"You think she's mostly having fun so far, though?" Summer asked, tilting her head thoughtfully at Lexi.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer knew she couldn't blame the hefty sampling of the ingredients while she was making the jello shots earlier for the pink that was creeping up on her cheeks with that comment, but she was definitely going to be patting herself wholeheartedly on the back for the fact that, despite that, her response came out cool and smooth.

"What can I say?" she said, shrugging one shoulder, and giving him a faint smirk. "I know my stuff. Be right back."

She went to go collect a little sampling of all the different shots, while also telling her to collect her shit, because what. the. hell, Summer.

Then she was back, with a small tray of each of the shots neatly, prettily arranged. "You know want to know what's what?" she asked. "Or are we going in blind?"

[died8yearsago]

"This isn't exactly my usual crowd," said Rosa.

As if she had a 'crowd.'

"And three of the people here are people I usually actively try to avoid."

No, she wasn't going to say who.

But one Kitty could probably guess, one was the host, and the other one she was actually considering associating with tonight because she knew he came with some probably much needed free booze.

[died8yearsago]

"There's--" Rosa started to protest, sucked in a breath, and then just stopped herself.

Reminding herself that there was no point in arguing, it was just going to be a waste of both their time, if she wanted to turn around and leave, then they were both better off for it, and Rosa was going to do the same. Turn around, cross the floor to the other end of the room, all the while feeling that these rooms were stupidly too small, but whatever.

[special_rabbit]

Now Amaya's arms were folded in front of her, and that earlier stern look that Seivarden had given her was being handed right on back.

"I said it's a promise, didn't I?"

She knew she was stubborn about admitting when she wasn't feeling well, but this wasn't one of those moments.

[throughaphase]

"I took her to the inflatable water park," Kitty said. "This kid is livin' it up."

[throughaphase]

Why so many enemies, Rosa?

"Well, now you've got someone to hang out with," Kitty said. "And should you want to Dutch out at any point I have an excuse in the form of a one-year-old."

[died8yearsago]

In Rosa's defense, two of those weren't really enemies so much as Rosa just found them really, really annoying.

"That is true," she agreed with a note of appreciation. "I think I'll be okay, though. There's still potential for some disaster in this room that doesn't involve me, and once we're out in the bars, it'll be a completely different story, anyway. But I'm definitely keeping that in mind."

And she passed a look on over to Lexi, quirking her chin up. "Thanks, kid," she told her. "You're alright."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I almost went with that one," Summer noted with a faint groan, "but I just could not say no to mermaid. Also," she quirked a wry smile at Lexi, "good luck keeping up with the mega-high expectations you are totally already sitting this kid up with. Might want to throw in a few years of just, like, camping in a leaky cabin or a few cheap off-brand theme parks just to even the keel a bit."

[sake_shinigami]

Once Shunsui had a chance to sample some of Summer-chan's exquisite and unique little gelatin booze bites, he figured he was overdue on making a few rounds, and wouldn't you know it? Amaya was the first on that trajectory.

"~Movie Class-chaaaan~~ ♥," he sang as he drifted over, all robes and imaginary cherry blossoms. "You look like you could use some sake to go with your jello shots ♥!"

[special_rabbit]

You know, there had been a discussion yesterday about whether or not to specifically leave a certain number off a particular text/email chain, but they had decided maybe they'd save themselves the trouble, since they were pretty sure he'd just show up anyway.

Amaya took a moment to debate with herself, and then eyed that cup being offered out to her, and then the person offering it to her.

"No strings?" she ventured, just to make sure.

[throughaphase]

"You never know, maybe the fall trip will be in a haunted house or something."

Probably not, but.

[throughaphase]

"You hear that, Lexi?" Kitty asked. "That's high praise!"

Lexi looked from her to Rosa and back again, and seemed fine with it?

[died8yearsago]

"Aww," said Rosa. Yes. Rosa.

"She already doesn't give two shits."

She was so proud of this weird little tiny human.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"A supposed 'ski trip,'" said Summer, emphasizing the finger quotes, "at one of those huge hotels in the mountains that are totally just chock full of ghosts and tropes and stuff."

Again. Probably not. These vacations tended to be almost painfully normal once you looked past their extravagance, buuuut....

[throughaphase]

Kitty paused. "I think I just made myself suspicious of the fall trip."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I mean," Summer reasoned, "that's probably a good thing, though, right?"

She had her own pause.

"Keep in mind," she added, "you are talking to the person whose entire class is based on the whole idea that weird shi--" She blinked at Lexi, "weird things are pretty much lurking around every corner. It's kind of my whole schtick. So..."

[1000yearstoolate]

"I just wanted to make sure," Seivarden said quickly, then smiled.

"Not really a night for a drinking competition at least."

[my_own_advocate]

Oooh, nice casual brush-off, Summer.

Lucifer was still grinning when she got back. "Ah, you know me, I like to live dangerously," he said merrily, reaching for the first shot. "Besides, aesthetics demands I do these in order regardless."

[my_own_advocate]

"Which falls into the realm of suspicious denials, darling."

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden snorted, amused, then finished her glass of bad rum.

[my_own_advocate]

"Detective!" Lucifer enthused in her general direction, raising his glass.

... What? He was open to conversation, but he was going into this with no other intention than simply 'Detective!'-ing.

Call him nostalgic.

[special_rabbit]

"That," said Amaya, "sounds exactly like the sort of thing someone who needs a drinking competition would say."

No, actually, it didn't, Amaya, but okay.

She grinned back. "And," she added, which sounded very much like an and that shouldn't be added, "I can't think of a better way to prove to you that I'm feeling fine than kicking your butt all night."

Honestly, Seivarden, you should know better by now than to even mention even a hint of a competition.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Well, this wasn't exactly her first trip to the awkward and ill-advised crush on the devil rodeo, after all.

She was kind of hoping to avoid more than the first, though, which was what made her beaming grin back so particularly annoying.

But she had worked on sort of a plan to curb it a little.

"Well," she said, as she sutbly tried to abandon the whole tray into Lucifer's possession, "as much as I'm dying to hear what you think, I wouldn't be a very good host if I spent all night playing favorites, would I? I should go," clear her head a little...probably with vodka, "make sure everyone else is being properly jello'd and let you enjoy those in peace. And maybe," she emphasized it with a grin, "I'll be around later to see which one you liked best."

[my_own_advocate]

But this was a devil who was on his way up, Summer! ... and a devil who had just gone through an absolutely horrific sort-of break-up he had completely and utterly not recovered from whatsoever to the point where he was back in therapy, but you know, that had a certain charm, didn't it?

"Are you trying to poison me?" he asked, amused. "Or simply trying to play hard to get? Come on, miss Smith. At least drink one with me."