somethingwithturquoise | MHA #4; Saturday Evening [03/11].

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MHA #4; Saturday Evening [03/11].

Having Annie back had been such a relief that Summer hadn't even really realized how much she'd been suppressing how worried she'd been until she didn't have to worry anymore, and the tension she'd been carrying on her shoulders got a whole lot lighter. And since it had been fairly early when she did come over, Summer was able to use that evening after she left to get some good ass sleep and woke up feeling...well, there was still a lingering trace of a hangover in there, but it was reduced to a dull murmur rather than the intrusive roar it had been yesterday.

And then she was thinking about the fact that her mere two glasses yesterday, bolstering her girl talk with ice cream instead, had barely put a dent in the amount of sangria she had made for last night's original plans, and then the remade plans with that guy from Tinder she'd been jerking around with rescheduling, and figured, fuck it, he was getting jerked around a little more and she canceled, with the promise to really make it up to him if he was willing to meet up on Monday instead.

Like, really make it up to him...

And, with that squared away, she felt a...slight moment of hesitation, before sending out another text:

u still have those cupcakes?

[[ for the recipient of said text, of course~ And it gets a little NSFW-y, who would have ever thouuuuuught?? ]]

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Stark, misjudge someone's opinion of him? Never.

"I'm glad you're doing better," he said quietly as he settled himself at the other end of the couch. "Even if it isn't all the way. Better is good. Even just a little at a time."

He knew that well enough.

"Yeah," said Summer, "I'm getting there. Slowly but surely."

Maybe even a little faster than most, because she had sort of seen this coming for a while now, even if she hadn't been aware of it, and even now, she was still a little surprised by her own need to just cling to certain things as long as possible. She, who didn't hesitate even a moment to blow up her own jello shop in space, who didn't think twice about driving her spaceship girlfriend into a lake or ghosting a husband in a shitty apocalypse....clinging.

She also couldn't help noticing the Stark picked the literal furthest spot from her on the couch to sit without having just plopped down on the arm rest, so she scooted towards him a little.

Because she wasn't reaching across the whole length of the couch just to clink glasses, which she was clearly going for now as she held hers out.

"Well," she said, "salud."

Sometimes clinging to what was left was all you could do. Stark knew that very well.

Stark noticed that little scoot and offered a hesitant smile and a clink. "To getting better?"

"To getting better," Summer agreed, and went to take that habitual drain-almost-jalf-the-glass first swig, especially since that hesitant smile on Stark's face made her really feel like she was going to need it.

Then she scooted closer again. This time to offer out the cupcake she had.

"You didn't get a cupcake," she pointed out, and since she was closer to the container, it made sense for him to take that one and she'd just grab a new one.

"Thank you," Stark said as he took the cupcake carefully from her hand.

"You still have your bracelet on," he said after a sip of his own sangria. "Good. And your sangria is better than at the bar."

Of course it was. It was Summer's and not meant to be horrifying to anyone.

"It's a nice bracelet," Summer noted, with a faint grin as she lifted up the wrist it was on while having to also dedicatedly ignore the reminder of what was not on her other wrist, "and you know what? Turns out it does actually match a few things I own."

Like, most of it.

But oh no, it turned out that Summer had sort of misjudged the distance between her and the cupcakes, so she did actually have to get up off the couch, just briefly, to retrieve another one after all. And once she did, she just plopped back down on the couch, only right next to Stark, and she looked over at him with a smile.

"Of course it's better," she said. "I made it."

"I'm glad it matches a few things," Stark said with a much easier smile now. "I hoped it would." He was thrilled she liked it enough to still be wearing it.

"You did," he said, looking over at her with a softer smile when she settled in next to him (and didn't tense up, even!). "So of course it's good. And it will go very well with our cupcakes."

He took a bite to demonstrate.

Considering that Summer half expected Stark to start scaling the armrest once she abolished almost any space between the two of them, not even tensing up was honestly kind of a surprise, and Summer's head quirked a little.

"That's the idea, isn't it?" she said, before turning her attention to her own bite, trying to be...somewhat mindful of the frosting, since, well, she had been having a little bit of difficulty with that sort of thing lately.

Maybe it was just relief that Summer hadn't really decided she didn't want to see him at all and it was just that something (someone) more important had come up. Or maybe it was that Summer next to him was just...nice. Or maybe it was the sangria rapidly disappearing from his glass. Maybe it was all of those things.

"That was the idea," Stark agreed with a nod and another bite. "I'm just glad it worked."

"Although," said Summer, after washing her bite down with some sangria and then carefully nudging the back of her hand against the corner of her mouth, "between this and the ice cream last night, I am seriously on the way toward a major sugar crash."

Another sip.

"Or diabetes."

The alcohol, however, would be fine; she was genetically disposed to have a superhuman liver.

"If you just keep having sweet things maybe you won't crash?" No. That wasn't really how it worked, Stark.

"Did you find sangria flavored ice cream too?" He asked curiously. "That sounds good."

"But this is good too." He took another sip of the sangria before taking another bite of cupcake. "Together."

"That's not how that works, Stark," Summer echoed the narrative with a snort, scooting forward, toward the edge of the couch, so she could reach over for the pitcher on the coffee table to refill her glass before getting too settled in. "And no sangria flavored ice cream; Annie brought over Ben & Jerry's; she had Cherry Garcia, but I stuck with Phish Food because one time, my dad ate this nasty infected Cherry Garcia that my grampa kept in his personal freezer and had to be rushed to an alien hospital where they wanted to chop off his dick to save some civil rights leader, so now I can't even go near the stuff."

Sorry, Stark, you weren't just back from an apocalypse, so you actually did get to hear the Cherry Garcia story, but at least you were also being offered a refill your sangria now to make up for it?

Stark held out his glass for the refill while fighting an urge to cross his legs.

"They wanted to chop...No. How would that help? No."

He hadn't expected the conversation to take that sort of turn. At all. And he hurriedly popped the last bit of cupcake into his mouth so he could drop his free hand to his lap.

Summer couldn't help but grin at that less than subtle reaction, and after a very brief moment of thinking she shouldn't, decided to just go ahead and say it, as she set the pitcher back on the coffee table.

"Don't worry, Stark. Your dick will be safe here with me."

She then leaned back on the back of the couch, pulling her legs up and folding them underneath her as she continued, because he had asked, after all.

"But apparently, whatever kind of alien this guy was, their hearts have almost the exact shape and design as a human penis, enough so that all they had to do, apparently, was just make a few alterations, and since they almost never got humans out there in that space hospital, it was really an opportunity too good to pass up."

Of course, at this point, Summer was now realizing that this conversation involved an uncomfortable awareness of her own father's junk, which you'd think would be something that wouldn't tug at those heartache strings with regards to her recent breakup, but then you'd actually, unfortunately, be very wrong.

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Look, Stark was rather attached to his body having briefly lost it the once and that included all of his parts.

He took a very long sip of his sangria which had thankfully just been refilled.

"I'm sure all of me is safe with you." Was that better, really? Was it?

"I...your poor father."

"Eh." Summer shrugged a shoulder, took a nice, long sip of her wine. "He ended up going totally psycho over it and shooting up the place. It did not go well for him and it was brutal, but, like, it was a space hospital, they fixed him back up in no time."

Which really made a person wonder if they'd really needed a human penis to properly reconstruct Shrimply Pibbles' heart, if they could put Jerry back together again so well after splattering his guts all over the walls like that. But she was kind of over conversations about her dad's junk, especially on this couch, even if she had technically brought it up.

"Your family all lead very odd lives, don't they?" Was it genetic?

And should Stark avoid whatever corner of space this had occurred in because he was mostly human-shaped and he'd really rather not have to worry about this sort of thing.

"But there must be better things to talk about than...that. Like...I don't know. Something else. Anything else?"

"Literally anything else," Summer agreed, with emphasis, chugging a good deal of her sangria before quirking her chin at Stark. "You go. I don't trust myself not to inadvertently stumble into another story involving the private parts of my family members."

Especially not when it was apparently going to push her toward remembering how it was her father being nude in an alternate dimension's version of Titanic that lead to Barry accidentally calling her his girlfriend that one time, and starting to feel a little wibbly about it.

God, she just had to tell the Cherry Garcia story, didn't she? UGH.

She drank a little more, and then unfolded her legs to grab the pitcher again.

"Maybe," Stark said, taking a nice long drink from his own glass for good measure, "something without anyone's...private parts involved?"

Unless someone felt a need to ask about pollen week.

"What do you want me to talk about? I think you know most things that happen to me..."

Oh, sure, because that was exactly what Summer would want to ask about. Everyone else having an awesome pollen week while she spent hers suffering horribly.

And since she was topping off her own glass, she was then topping off Stark's, too, because she was a good bartender.

"You asking me what I want you to talk about," she pointed out, "is still me choosing what to talk about. What do you want to talk about?"

But Summer would get to watch Stark squirm while admitting how utterly shameless he'd been that week!

"We could...talk about what horrors you have planned for class this week," Stark suggested with a grin. "You don't have worse cupcakes than the ones with spaghetti-os and cheese waiting for me, do you? Or is that still making you choose?"

...watching him squirm even just a little would, she had to admit, feel like some decent payback, ngl.

"I haven't even thought of what I plan to do for class this week," Summer admitted, setting the pitcher back down and falling back against the back of the couch with a fwoomp that made her realized that she really filled those glasses up to the brim and should probably be a little more careful, but it was fine, because that was why her couch was so wine-stain resistant. "I usually don't come up with something until Sunday, if I'm perfectly honest, so, yeah, still making me choose. Try another. Unless..."

She assed a little bit of a grin over to him.

"You want to make any requests. Suggestions? Favorite foods that I can look forward to ruining for you forever?"

There would be so much squirming.

Stark took a hurried sip from his glass to keep it from spilling.

"Tiny was melting cheese on the bar yesterday. I'm sure you could do something with that. But I don't think you'd ever really ruin anything for me forever. Not really. Not even if it was very gross."

"Challenge fucking accepted!" Summer declared, lifting her glass to emphasize this vow, the one she definitely had no intention of actually fulfilling, because she could never withstand the betrayed puppy look that she'd inevitably get if she ever did make Stark eat something gross. She took another drink before adding, "I've got a ton of cheese in my fridge right now, if you want, I can go get some and we can add it to the sangria."

"I do not want cheese in my drink," Stark said firmly. "I didn't want it in my drink last night either. I just had vodka. Not so good as sangria."

He paused and took another gulp from his glass before adding, "the company is better tonight too."

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