sirenspull | thirty sixth dance

[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.]

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Finding another job is fine, but... Were you close or anything? You really don't want to fix things?

There's nothing to fix.

This is who I want to be.

I didn't mean fix yourself! You're perfect, I mean, y-you're fine.

I meant with him. I mean, if he left tomorrow, would you wish you had done anything differently?

Perfect? [Something perks in his voice, and he's surprised for a half-second, before smoothing back into cocky self-confidence.] I mean...sure. Yeah. I don't want to change anything about me-

If Sam left tomorrow I'd be sad, but at least I wouldn't feel guilty because some AGI agent shot him in the back while he was running the register and I couldn't help because he told me to keep my head down and out of it.

... I mean he gave me a great start. But I've got other things to do. I just don't know what those things are yet.

Well, maybe not perfect, nobody's perfect, but... You're a really amazing person, so you don't have to worry about changing or anything.

Yeah, I think that makes sense. Do you have any ideas of what you might want?

Thanks. That's um.... you're...really someone special to me too, Ahiru.

[Oh. Wait. It's...too late to take back words like that.]

Pickles is gone now, so I've sort of lost my hot tip on being sound man for bands. I need to get in with the managers at Twins, to see if they'll let me do things there.

I got a couple of gigs on my own, graduation parties and stuff, birthdays, a couple of weddings- (Jinx hasn't asked me to do hers yet.) But it's hard to count on that as a steady second job.

Maybe you could ask Jinx if you could do hers, if it means a lot to you!

Have you ever thought about anything other than music?

It's a little bit weird. We haven't exactly been close friends since the whole baby thing...y'know. And Gabriel. So it's really weird for me. Anyway she's probably already got some Purgatory sound guy lined up.

I'd be in security, if anybody'd take me seriously enough to let me.

Or I could just use the machine at our house to make bigger batches and sell ice cream, I guess. It's summer.

I'm sure she'd want someone familiar rather than a stranger, though! But it sounds like there are lots of things you could do. You're going no matter what, right?

Going where?

To the wedding!

Oh.

I...guess...so? I know Roxas is going to go.

I've never been to a wedding before.

I think you should! I bet it'll be fun. I've never been to one, either.

I guess so. I mean it's Jinx and Gabriel. They're... barrels of fun, right?

[Not so convincing, Joe. In fact you sound distinctly awkward, especially about Jinx and Gabe married and happily ever aftering.]

Well, they're probably going to be really busy after the ceremony, too, but I think it'll be fun! Especially since other people you know are going to be there.

Really busy, huh...

[As long as they're not busy making new babies.]

Yeah. For that it will be fun. I guess I'll borrow some of Riku's work stuff again.

I mean, there's going to be a lot of people there they have to say hi to, right?

His work stuff?

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