somethingwithturquoise | Room 106; Wednesday Evening - Summer's School Trip Room Party! [10/18].

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Queenstown, allegedly an adventure capital of the world, but it was Wednesday, so once everyone'd gotten their adventure on, it was obviously time to swing by Summer's room for her traditional School Trip Room Party, to get wasted on all sorts of moddable booze and jello shots and have at least a few regrets the next morning, if you were doing it right.

So there were snacks. There were beers. There was, okay, okay, even some wine because there were some snobs in the crowd she expected and also, she liked to keep it local and New Zealand did do some wines or whatever. There was a curated playlist, of course, and Rosa and Gladio were reprising their traditional roles as bouncers, although Summer wasn't entirely sure how that was going to play out now that the school was catering to an older, more party-aged demographic, but she supposed maybe that just meant they were to be arbiters of making sure nothing got weird? It was new territory! They'd figure it out!

But, most importantly of all, there was a wide variety of jello shots on display for the taking: kiwi two ways, layered with melon or straight up but served in kiwi cups; honey lemonade made with local mānuka honey, sweet potato cinnamon, chocolate covered cherry using Whittaker's Chocolates of course; and a variety of just basic flavors but adorably in the shape of sheep.

Look, the other option was a jello shot with actual lamb in it, so consider yourself mildly lucky.

So looks like now all she needed....was people to show up!

Sure,it was going to get pretty crowded in this room once they did, but honestly? That gave it the best classic room party vibes to have a bunch of people shoved into an otherwise cozy room.

[[ open for all trip-goers, of course! Faculty members got a special, handwaved mass-text invite, too! No OCD, just go hog wild, and please to excuse my inevitable flaky SP because I got a LOT going on right now omg, but The Room Party(TM) must go on! All predicated on the assumption that wherever we'll be will in fact be conducive to a room party, but if not, it may be edited to suit ]]

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"Well," said Summer, looking impressed, "don't you have it lucky? You don't have to come to the party, the party is just going to come to you."

"I'm very lucky," Stark told her. "But you know that."

Sometimes the sincerity just slipped out.

"Do you need me to do anything? Or want me to?"

And sometimes Summer said things because she knew what the response was going to be and she just wanted to hear it.

"I do know that," she agreed. "And what I need from you right now is to get out there and have a good time and socialize. And what I want right now," her hands found his shoulders and turned him toward the table where the jello was all set up, "is to try some jello and tell me which is your favorite."

Stark grabbed one of the lemons and one of the kiwi cups first to try. "Trying to get me intoxicated again?" he asked before biting into the kiwi.

"S'fuzzy."

Summer opened her mouth to try to stop Stark from biting into the kiwi itself, winced when she realized it was far too late, and then gave an awkward sort of chuckle.

"Stark," she said, "like, half our relationship is centered around me trying to get you intoxicated, and also, you're not supposed to bite into the kiwi cups, they're just decorative."

"It's all edible," Stark pointed out. "It's just fuzzy."

He'd learned about kiwis somewhere!

"And are you sure it's only half?"

"I can't believe I'm about to say these words for your ears," Summer stated, "buuuut.....just because it can be eaten doesn't mean it should be.

"And yes," she added, with a firm confident nod. "Exactly half me trying to get you drunk, and half you telling me how great I am."

That was it. That was their whole relationship in a nutshell, right?

"You are wonderful," Stark said, looking at her with an absolutely adoring look on his face.

"But I think there's a little more to it than that. There's..."

He paused and grinned. "There's food. That's part of it. But what else..."

"Okay," Summer allowed, "a third part you getting drunk, and third me getting compliments, and a third food, but that's definitely it."

"I'm sure I could think of something else given time," Stark said. "Maybe not during your party."

"....but why not during my party?" asked Summer, blinking her eyes a few times at Stark, wholly bewildered and innocent, really, truly, like, the most</i bewildered and innocent ever.

Stark blinked back at her, just as innocent.

"Oh, it's loud in here to talk too much. And a little crowded."

And he wouldn't want to embarass her. Or be too weird.

Almost as if on cue, Ignis bumped into her a little bit on his way for more jello shots and murmured an apology.

Summer barely noticed, though, her attention entirely on Stark for the moment.

"You could just whisper it," she suggested. "It's loud enough that no one would really hear it but me."

"I could demonstrate later," Stark offered. "Once everyone leaves."

He'd just doomed them to overnight guests, hadn't he? Probably.

"Or..." he paused and bit into his lemon jello shot, scraping all of the jello off the peel and not biting the outside of the fruit this time. He swallowed and smiled. "Or I could just kiss you here."

He was going to lean in to do just that, the presence of so many other people be damned.

And honestly? The fact that Stark did just go for it, when all Summer was expecting was that original promise for something later or something vague whispered on her ear, was all the encouragement Summer needed to kiss back in kind. She liked it when he was more bold and assertive and confident...

But just as she turned more toward him and lifted a hand up as if to cradle the back of his head, she then stopped, abruptly and grinned.

"Stark! Come on, now. This is a classy affair!"

"Don't care," Stark told her, and snaked an arm around her waist to pull her in closer to try again.

"I'd rather have a kiss than be classy."

Room 106; Wednesday Evening - Summer's School Trip Room Party! [10/18].

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