MHA #4; Thursday Evening [07/09].

[somethingwithturquoise]

It had been a while since Summer and Rey got together for one of these sangria nights, and Summer was really feeling like it was needed. But the nice thing was that the unwinding and conversation that had this time around should be way more positive and uplifting than the last time they did this.

Boy, she certainly hoped so anyway! That last time had gotten dark.

But tonight, there was plenty of sangria to be had, the cats had been isolated in the bedroom with plenty of catnip and their fifty billion different toys that they usually just ignored for pieces of string and packaging tape unless it was decided that what this evening really needed was some cute cat snuggling, she'd set up a pretty relaxing multidimenional playlist that featured heavily on the snake jazz, the space jizz, and the lo-fi hip-hop beats to chill to, there was a small army of hopeful nail polish bottles stationed on her coffee table, and while she waited for Rey to swing by, she was in the kitchen, looming over the glowing screen of her phone in the attempts to mix up an experimental mud mask that she was hoping to convince Rey to at least try once they were a few glasses in.

Dry winter weather was coming for their skin soon; they needed to be prepared.

[[ for the space bestie! ]]

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"Uh-huh," said Summer. Totally convinced. Really.

Her chin jerked up, grin going crooked.

"What did it say?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I asked if he was awake."

Totally innocent. It was a total coincidence that she jumped him thirty seconds after he showed up.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"You sent a u up?" Summer wasn't smirking, honest! Clearly just a trick of the light! Or the sangria! "Rey. That's a booty call so obvious even a pirate who's never heard of phones before coming here could pick up on it."

Hell, even Barry could.

[thatwaslucky]

"Well..." But she didn't have any kind of argument, so she ended on, "All right, maybe."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I am so proud of you right now," Summer said, hand to her heart, faintly marveling.

Not only for finally getting it, but also for actually owning up to it, too.

[thatwaslucky]

"Because I sent a text?" Rey asked.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"And," said Summer, "you didn't deny it."

[thatwaslucky]

"It did make radio," Rey said. "And I'm beginning to think it would have been obvious even if it hadn't."

If people had picked up on it before anything was even close to happening...

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Hey," Summer offered encouragingly, "it's a very respectable trait, to be able to recognize when there's battles you just aren't going to win."

[thatwaslucky]

"Especially when Master Skywalker read those notes," Rey nodded.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Ha!" The laugh sort of left Summer as a mild bark. "There is that. You think he'd say anything? That's a good way to totally make your training not awkward at all."

[thatwaslucky]

"There's a very good chance he tries to make it embarrassing on purpose," Rey said. "Or that he doesn't look at me at all. I'm not sure which would be worse."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Definitely the second one," Summer decided without barely a thought. "With the first one, you can just, you know, prove that there's nothing to even be embarrassed about."

[thatwaslucky]

"And there's not. It's just... he's my teacher?"

And maybe it felt kind of normal to have things you were kind of embarrassed to talk about with an authority figure.