MHA #4; Tuesday Afternoon [12/01].

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer couldn't really remember if the bottles of Coke being distrubuted by the polar bears would actually stick around for longer than today, but she'd collected a few extra for tomorrow, just in case, and was going to try some new ideas for incorperating the cola into jello shots in the meantime. And when she wasn't working on that, she was crafting together a good mass text to send to everyone about the party on Friday.

Sure, she said she was going to invite the whole faculty thanks to having them already on hand for when she sent out school trip party invites, but she wasn't going to just stop there. She'd been put in charge of invitations, and so she was going to be in charge of invitations. Which meant sending out a mass text to everyone outside the student body whose number she could scrounge up.

Happy Holidays!
Before we all get SICK of Christmas cheer and can only say BAH HUMBUG to it all, party it up with a Holiday Party Extravaganza!
Friday, December 4th
@ MCA #1
(that's Rey's apartment!)

There will be punch! Presents! Party games!
Ugly Sweaters Encouraged!
And an EXCLUSIVE seasonal jello shot DEBUT!

Seriously, you don't want to miss it!
Contact Summer (that's me!) or Annie for more deets!

And, obviously, there were posters being printed up to be spread around town, too, just in case anyone just straight up disregarded the mass text as spam, and she would not blame them.

When her phone buzzed soon after that with a message, she was thrilled to see someone already responding, but it turned out that was not the case at all, and the message was actually coming from somewhere else entirely.



Grampa Rick: Was this you?
Summer: what? no. wtf.
Grampa Rick: Well it wasn't me, Summer. You expect me to believe that a mysterious extraterrestrial monolith just APPEARS in the Utah desert right around the same time you and that toilet-disrespecting tool of a boyfriend of yours show up...in UTAH....for an alleged JELLO FESTIVAL...and then DISAPPEARS again once you get bak to your lame little nexus? what are you up to this time?
Summer: Nothing! um, hello, ok, for one thing different dimensions? for another thing i don't even know what that IS, why would I have anything to do with it? we were legit there for the jello gp.
Grampa Rick: It's a good cover story, but that's not going to fly with me because I'm not an IDIOT, SUMMER. Do you even know what you're getting yourself into with that thing? Do you even know what that IS?
Summer: No! I don't! I told you I don't, because I had nothing to do with it!
Grampa Rick: If this blows up in your face, Summer, which it WILL, you NEVER mess around with....fuck! Summer! Have you been to Romania recently, too??
Summer: no! why th would i go to ROMANIA?
Grampa Rick: Why TH would you go to UTAH?? Fuck. FUCK. You really fucked it up now, Summer!
Summer: I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.
Grampa Rick: Fuck you, Summer! Don't fuck around with monoliths!



"I didn't!" Summer said to her phone, outloud, because that's how frustrated she was, and then she remembered to text it, too, but, after that, things on her grampa's side went quiet, as she was pretty sure he went to deal with whatever this monolith bullshit was that she knew she had nothing to do with but was now actually really curious about, and she considered...

...no. Nope. She had a party to help plan for and some jello experiments that would hopefully go better than other recent jello experiements performed by other people, and she reminded herself that it was healthier to just step away and not engage...

[[ yeah, like a mysterious monolith is going to show up randomly in the same place where this hyper-ridiculous sci-fi ship wound up for Thanksgiving and I'm not going to do anything with it?? Anyway, it's open! ]]

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[1000yearstoolate]

Summer? Do you still have this number?

Seivarden had the same number, not that she was sure of that.

[somethingwithturquoise]

After groaning with annoyance st her phone buzzing again, Summer was just super relieved when she looked and saw that it wasn't actually her grampa texting her again to call her a bitch over some third monolith appearing in Timbuktu or something.

She ALMOST considered just pretending to be someone else because it would be funny, but honestly? She was just a little too surprised to get a text from Seivarden to go for it.

hi!! Yes! omg your phone works again??

[1000yearstoolate]

Because I'm back. The portals work now, Breq thought I needed to go back here for some reason.

[somethingwithturquoise]

...

clearly so you could come to my party!

Well, technically Annie and Rey's party, she was just HELPING, but, yes, that definitely had to be the reason, because omg timing!

[1000yearstoolate]

When is your party?

At least that might be fun. But then on to important issues:

How is Issa?

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina was definitely part of the student body so it was hard to say how she'd gotten this text in the first place. She was always watching, mwahaha.

She wasn't planning to show up to the party or anything (ugh, lame, boring adult parties!) but, like, she was going to respond.

Since I'm NOT INVITED do I get a sneak peek at the jello shot???????????

[Nina getting the text done with permission lol]

[somethingwithturquoise]

Yeah, Summer was definitely narrowing her eyes speculatively at the next text to come through as she started to consider security measures on any of her students trying to continue to erase that already much too blurred line between them this semester.

Her students were a menace. She was so proud of them all.

No. That defeats the whole purpose of a DEBUT! But definitely keep an eye on my Insta! You won't miss a thing!

That shit was going to be posted eeeverywheeeere.

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina looked at security measures as a challenge! Do your worst, Summer!

It had better be AMAZING if you're holding out on it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have you decided what you're wearing yet?????????

But, yes, she was going to stalk her Insta because now Nina needed to know.

[somethingwithturquoise]

The security measures would likely be trying to hire Rosa as a bouncer, so....

duh. Obvs. You'll have to wait for that, too

Also, she was totally flattered by your interest, Nina, but it was a little worrisome that you apparently had nothing better to occupy your time with than these details.

Idle hands, and all that...

[bookbeltof_love]

Maybe I should crash your party, Nina tapped back, promptly, because she was a brat. You're not giving me ANYTHING!!!!!!!!

You'd think Nina would have plenty to keep her busy and yet…

[badassprodigy]

And then there was another text. Yes. More texts. Barry knew how Summer liked her communications.

I just want you to know that I'm drinking a cold bottle of soda handed to me by a polar bear and I'm totally okay with it. Not questioning it. Just drinking a cold coca-cola.

And a second later

I did disinfect it first.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer loved her communications! The fact that she'd barely had time to set down her phone that afternoon to even touch her Coke jello was amazing.

Well. Save for the parts where she was being yelled at by her grampa for something she didn't do.

(Or was pretty sure she didn't do, anyway).

I am SO proud of you!!!❤️❤️❤️

Although now she was looking at her own bottles and wondering if she should have disinfected them, too, but then she remembered that they were Fandom holiday polar bears, so the chances that they were carrying some weird prehistorical arctic parasite brought to a ravenously hungry awakening by the warmer climate was pretty slim....

But never zero...

Hmmm...

....she was sure it's be fine! Plus, there were more important things at hand!

did you get the text about the party?🥳

[badassprodigy]

Of course I did! I'll be there with most fucking ugly sweater you've ever seen. Guaranteed to repulse you. People will have to leave the room and get therapy it's so ugly. Plus there will probably be a bunch of drunk people I can make fun of.

Barry had his priorities.

[somethingwithturquoise]

If there AREN't

And Summer would most definitely be one of them!

then we have utterly FAILED at our duty as party-throwers.

Also, now you've built this sweater up so much that if it doesn't make at least one person puke, I'm going to be so disappointed.

Luckily, the drunk part might help with that at least!

[badassprodigy]

It's nuclear powered and has shifting images. I made it for Jeremy one year for the holidays. He was so repulsed he refused to wear it. It may be too much to wear to the party.

[thatwaslucky]

Presents??

Was she supposed to be doing something with presents?

[somethingwithturquoise]

Rey. REY. All you had to do was supply the spacious apartment to get completely trashed and covered with random holiday inflatables and lights, and sit back and just RELAX! Summer and Annie TOTALLY had this covered!

Because if anything said relaxing like those words...

for a gift exchange! Nothing big or anything, but there should totally be presents if it's a holiday party!

[thatwaslucky]

should I be doing anything for that? Is this stuff all getting delivered too?

There was so much stuff, Summer.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer had no idea what you were talking about, Rey! It was a perfectly acceptable amount of deliveries for a completely epic party! Light on the deliveries, even!

delivered by anyone who wants to participate, I guess, but I'm yoinking a few things from the store in case we need extra! U don't have to do anything except maybe bring a gift, too, if you want!

[thatwaslucky]

does it count if I say they can take a reindeer

[defenderofdesmoines]

At some point Annie actually roused herself to check her messages.

do you think we'll have enough to drink??

Between the kegs, the punch, the jello shots, and other bottles of booze and mixers she'd ordered...probably not? Right?

people keep offering to bring stuff, like what do I tell them?

[somethingwithturquoise]

the more, the merrier? lol

I, like, literally invited everyone so, yeah! I definitely.don't think it'll hurt if anyone else wants to share the holiday spirits WITH more spirits!

[defenderofdesmoines]

okay COOL. I invited my boss and Reys downstairs neighbors, yesterday.

Because Annie had foresight.

theyre cops, lol

[somethingwithturquoise]

perfect! Then they can't bust us for disturbing the peace if they're part of the disturbance!

It might make the fact that two of the people putting this thing on were technically underage, but that never stopped Summer before!

also they can bust anyone trying to crash it. I think one of my students might have MACHINATIONS 🤣🤣🤣

[defenderofdesmoines]

omg NOT MACHINATIONS. I actually know for sure we have 3 police people coming but there might be more.

Maybe Sheriff and Mrs. Sheriff would come! That would complete the whole set. Bonus points for Emily and Jessica!

should we have some kind of anti-teen precautions? Annie did not think anyone they'd actually invited was still a teenager but they would obviously be an exception.