thirty sixth dance | video;

[motioned]

[Today, the NV turns on as the girl on the screen is walking down the produce aisle of a grocery store, though she's not necessarily looking to buy anything.]

It's been a while since I was here! I don't usually go shopping or anything like that, but I thought it would be good if I tried to get a job again since it's the summer. I don't want to just sit around, after all!

[She smiles, before something to the side catches her eye - there's a fly sitting on an apple. Alarmed, she reaches for the piece of fruit, pulling it out of the middle of the pile where it had been resting. Of course, this sends the apple just above it falling down, and when she reaches over with her other hand to grab it, she slips. The hand that had been going for the falling apple instead hits the pile as she tries to save herself from falling, but all this really accomplishes is sending a good amount of the apples onto the ground.]

Oh, oh, jeez, I didn't mean to—

[From behind, there's a gasp from an onlooker, and she casts a worried glance behind her, starting to run before promptly tripping over a fallen apple. Muffled laughter can be heard before she picks herself up, sprinting down the aisle before she thinks to turn the NV off.]

Comments

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[paterelohim]

...You okay?

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[motioned]

[Around ten minutes later when she is safely away from the grocery store and her shame.]

Y-Yes! I'm okay, don't worry!

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[paterelohim]

I'll get back from the edge of my seat now.

So why...?

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[tea_lover64]

Well I may be able to help you with a summer job.

[Though he was probably not going to let her go near the tea cups and pots, too much potential for tea spilling, and destruction, not to mention burns]

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[motioned]

[A few minutes later, and a little out of breath.]

Oh! Really?

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[tea_lover64]

Yes, I could use some help at the music store as I've been concentrating on the construction of my tea shop.

[directorestheim]

Are you alright, Ahiru?

[motioned]

I-I'm fine! Nothing to see here or worry about or anything like that!

[Tell that to whoever is now in charge of cleaning up all those apples, Ahiru.]

[directorestheim]

...That looked like quite the tumble.

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[madeinoblivion]

They really stack the fruit up in markets all wrong, huh?

...You know the Zoo's looking to hire people to teach kids, for summer.

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[motioned]

I'm not sure it was the market's fault! [With a laugh.]

The zoo? Really? I don't know if I'd be any good at teaching.

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[madeinoblivion]

Hey now, I'm trying to take your side!

Well you're nice, right? It's teaching kids about Animals, I think. Playing games and making arts and crafts and stuff.

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[doeswhathewants]

Well. Whatever did those apples do to you?

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[motioned]

I-I really didn't mean to!

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[doeswhathewants]

Oh, I say that all the time, too.

Perhaps you dislike the store owner?

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[got_it_memorized]

That pesky gravity'll get you every time, huh.

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[motioned]

It'd probably be easier if I could just blame gravity.

[action]

[laurice]

[While Ahiru is running down the aisle, she might hear a very familiar yelp as someone down a nearby aisle falls onto his bottom after slipping on the floor, along with the clattering of a basket and all the groceries in it.]

Whoaaaaa!

[action]

[motioned]

[In her panic, she almost doesn't stop to look, but the familiarity of the voice gives her pause.]

L-Larry? Are you alright?

Voice.

[crowsicle]

I thought an apple a day was s'posed to keep the doctor away, not gang up on you like a bunch of hard, fruity assassins.

[Sorry, Ahiru, your friend is a jerk who laughed before he started pestering you.]

Voice.

[motioned]

I'm pretty sure it wasn't the apple's fault!

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[brushy]

Oh dear.

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[motioned]

[She looks at the text and starts to reply instinctively:]

I'm fine—

[And then she actually looks at the figure in the video; the brightness of her coat and the markings immediately catch her eye.]

Oh, wow...

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[athermercy]

Ahiru?

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[motioned]

I'm fine! Don't worry about it.