somethingwithturquoise | Room 102, then Karaoke Kan Shibuya; Tokyo, Japan; Wednesday Night [02/24].

Text messages had ~~oh so handwavily~~ gone out to all the chaperones on the trip that Summer's Jello Shot Room Party would be happening that Wednesday, of course, followed by an afterparty over at Karaoke Kan's Shibuya location. Because, at this point, a jello shot room party and some sort of afterparty was practically tradition. And to steal a phrase from another character: Tradition? Don't mess with it!

(That was totally how it went, right?)

Either way, through an series of complicated arrangements that allowed her to pull off her usual serving of shots, Summer (and Barry!) had put together a fine selection, and then she went to get the room prepared after spending some time around Tokyo (and, like, sort of chaperoning, too? Because that was what they were there for, right?), and wondering if the size of the room might actually work to their benefit in getting everyone ready to get out to the bar for some karaoke!

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"I'll bet," said Summer, musing and marveling a little at the passage of time and the fact that she'd actually kind of been somehow milking this vacay thing for a while now, or it definitely felt that way. "Nice, isn't it? You guys think you'll be keeping on with the teaching thing for a while, or is it just a sort of one-shot kind of deal?"

"Probably a one shot," Dante admitted. "Maybe we'll do it again later. But we got a boyfriend back home who's just gonna let work eat him alive if we're not there to stop him, so..."

"I guess that's fair," Summer allowed, though it was a little hard to not be a bit disappointed. Sure, they weren't besties or anything, but it always just did feel kind of nice to see Dante pop into her parties again. "Still, it's been nice having you guys around and I guess that just means more to look forward to when you do pick it up again. So...what kind of work does he do?"

She threw a mean party. Dante was into it and was kinda gonna miss it.

"He's kind of..." Dante trailed off for a second, then shrugged. "He was trained as a healing mage back home," he said. "Then demons kinda fucked up my home all over and now he works in the clinic as a healer for anyone who comes in looking gnarly."

"Aww," said Summer, who managed to infuse a lot of inflection in just that single sound, sympathy for the situation about Dante's home but gratitude, in a way, that this boyfriend mage guy was able to help out in such a good way, "but, yeah, that's definitely the kind of job where having people around to ease the stress of it a bit is, like, super important. And st least sometimes you guys can swing around and visit or stay for a while. Gotta love that about a multidimensional hub, right? And might as well take advantage of it, too!"

"Yeah, I was thinking about that," Dante said. "Think we kinda half-avoided the place after we left because, like, most of everybody we knew had fucked off, you know?"

"I get that," Summer agreed with a faint smile. "I mean, I fucked off, too, for a little while. And I kind of always feel like I'm in the brink of just fucking off again," almost did just this last weekend, in fact! Although that was entirely unintentional, "but I'm glad I came back. There's always new, interesting people coming in, and we're good proof that awesome people come back, too. I mean, look at Rey. She and i barely even talked to each other when we were in school, then we both fucked ff, came back, and now she's one of my best friends and totally mooching on my free vacay ticket."

"Hey, if it works, it works," Dante said easily. "Iunno. Maybe I hung around this place too long after I graduated. Kinda felt done with it. Still not totally sure I'm not."

"Well," Summer allowed, with a faintly encouraging smile, "either way, you know you always have an open invitation to literally any of my parties. And my pizza."

Even when those pizzas were pancakes.

"And I'm gonna cash in on that," Dante promised. "You throw the best fuckin' parties."

Mmmm. Yes. Allow Summer a moment to just bask in that sweet, sweet validation as it fueled her, gave her life.

"Damn right I do," she said with a swell of confidence after absorbing that in and quite possibly somehow glowing a bit more because of it. "Oh! If anything, you have to try to make it back in June, then, at the very least, because it's going to by my twenty-first, and you better believe, it is going to be fucking ridiculous."

She was honestly so stoked for what she had planned that she was kind of surprised this was the first she was mentioning it, but she did also want to keep up an aura of suspense and surprise, too.

"If there's pizza," Dante said, grinning at her, "Count me in."

"I think I can work a few pizzas in," said Summer, who was definitely adding 'bar that also does amazing pizza' onto her mental list of places to look into later, as she grinned back.

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