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Tweak says, "Lemon curry?"

kondo kozue | 近藤梢 (anthesphoria) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-11-24 22:19:00

Entry tags:

kozue, open thread, shadow

it's my party and i'll cry if i want to...
Who: Kozue and ~~the adoring public~~ You
What: Festivities
Where: Bar Kidnap
When: July 21
Why: Because of presents and alcohol.

True to her word, Kozue had established herself in the VIP area of Bar Kidnap—still pretending to be blissfully unaware of the frightening or ominous implications of the name. She hadn't gone to much (or any) trouble to prove that this was a birthday party, however; she was dressed up, in an outfit a bit scantier than her normal going-out attire. She was sporting a green, sequin-covered minidress and a pair of heels of a ridiculous height. And her hair was even more carefully arranged than normal.

The VIP area was situated on a balcony, overlooking the rest of the club; from there, Kozue was engaged in chatting amicably with one of the older girls from the tennis club, but her attention kept drifting to the entrance downstairs. More people should show up. There weren't nearly enough for the party to be genuinely successful. So, every few moments, she cast a nervous glance downstairs.

The club itself wasn't all that packed; it was a weeknight, after all, and if any of the actual grown-up patrons noticed the steady stream of highschoolers, they weren't making a fuss. And the bouncers had either been bribed very efficiently, or were under instructions not to care, either.

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	Re: ~triumphant return~ anthesphoria 2009-11-27 05:40 am UTC (link)
	"Thanks!" Kozue said, looking over at the giant, her-sized box, and grinning a little. She could only imagine the multitude of dresses inside—and was hoping they'd fit or, at least, be too small. Better that he'd guess she was smaller than she really was, right? "I still think the best way to get over this is shots. Lots of shots." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: ~triumphant return~

zealousemperor
2009-11-27 05:44 am UTC (link)

Kanaye laughed. "Shots? Please. I just drink for it straight of the bottle. Either way..." he looked at the bartender. "I'll take a scotch on the rocks."

While he waited for his drink to arrive, he opened the gift. It revealed a box, or so it seemed. It was actually a portable closet, as was obvious when he opened it. Inside were ten dresses neatly held up. Or, to be more accurate, nine dresses and a kimono. The dresses were every color of the rainbow, and ranged from something a catholic schoolgirl would wear to something a porn star pretending to be a catholic schoolgirl would wear. The kimono was purple and dark pink, and everything was made of good quality. "Once again, if they don't fit, tell me, alright? I've got a tailor on the payroll, so..."

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Re: ~triumphant return~

anthesphoria
2009-11-27 05:54 am UTC (link)

"Hey, make that two, I'll try it myself." She turned, and watched as Kanaye opened and displayed the clothing; her smile grew and grew. "That's beautiful—it's all beautiful! A tailor on the payroll? That sounds like so much fun! I'd have a tailor, but…" She shrugged. "The kimono, that's great, I don't have any in that color combination—Grandmother is really picky, you know?" She took a few steps over, and started looking through them one by one, making quiet sounds of appreciation over details here and there.

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zealousemperor
2009-11-27 06:03 am UTC (link)

Kanaye smiled. "Glad to see you like it. And yeah, she's from France. My mother is all for foreign things. I'm learning French from her. It's quite interesting, really. It's similar to English, so I'm learning quickly."

Deciding that Kozue didn't want to listen to him, he quickly turned the conversation back on her. "I could see why. Are all your kimonos white or something?"

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	Re: ~triumphant return~ anthesphoria 2009-11-27 06:27 am UTC (link)
	She shook her head. "Light colors, big and youthful prints. They're mostly very old, since they're inherited." She nodded, and then looked up as the bartender came back with the two drinks. "French? Wow, that sounds like it'd be tough. But I really hate languages anyway." She stepped over to the bar and picked up her glass. "Good health." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: ~triumphant return~ zealousemperor 2009-11-27 06:30 am UTC (link)
	Kanaye shrugged. "Sounds decent enough." he remarked before taking the glass. "It's not that hard. I guess I've got a knack for languages or something." Kanaye smirked as he held his glass up high. "Good health!" he shouted as he downed it in one gulp. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: ~triumphant return~ anthesphoria 2009-11-27 06:42 am UTC (link)
	She just nodded, and took a swig. One decidedly less all-the-glass than Kanaye's, but a respectable swig none the less. She shook her head; "Oh, this stuff is burny. What is it again?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: ~triumphant return~ zealousemperor 2009-11-27 06:49 am UTC (link)
	Kanaye laughed. "Scotch. It's a kind of whiskey. It's good, yaknow. Then again, I think every alcohol is good. It's just an acquired taste. Another one, please!" he told the bartender, who was staring at him. The bartender quickly moved to get his order. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: ~triumphant return~

anthesphoria
2009-11-27 07:13 am UTC (link)

Kozue laughed. "Oh, it's whiskey? It kind of tasted like…" She shook her head. "Nah, it tasted like burning." She turned, and looked down the bar to where Kiriko and the cloud of cigar smoke otherwise known as Reizo were sitting, and wondered, briefly, what they were talking about.

Then her attention went back to Kanaye; "You actually think it tastes good? By itself?"

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zealousemperor
2009-11-27 07:17 am UTC (link)

Kanaye laughed. "Burning is a good taste!" he shouted, getting another drink and downing it as fast as the first one. He smiled at the bartender, who shrugged and got another one. Jingling the empty glass, looking at the ice with an interested look on his face, he smirked. "Alcohol is alcohol, Kozue-san. And if I have to drink this to prevent me from breaking things, I'm fine with it."

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anthesphoria
2009-11-27 07:20 am UTC (link)

"Well, yeah, that's why you serve it in things that don't taste like alcohol!" She took another swig of her own scotch, having worked up the courage for it as they talked. She would normally have felt a bit ashamed to be so outpaced, but Kanaye seemed to be really, really into drinking. Like, really.

"And dr--" She tipped her head, curious. Breaking things? "It's been kind of a crazy night, I guess?"

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zealousemperor
2009-11-27 07:33 am UTC (link)

Kanaye blinks. "But that ruins the flavor!" he said, drinking from the third glass. He didn't drink all of it, this time. Only about half of it.

He nodded. "Yeah. I broke up with Maeko and then got back together with her a couple of minutes later, Misaki poured her drink on me, I got into an argument with her, I tried to make out with Maeko and got shot down, and Tom is a douche. Rather crazy, yes."

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anthesphoria
2009-11-27 06:04 pm UTC (link)

"Sounds like it has been exciting. Misaki poured a drink on you? What happened with that?" And. She blinked. "Akuba-senpai shot you down? Ouch." Not entirely unexpected, from what she'd seen between the two of them—when one person clearly wanted the other much, much more than was reciprocated, it was a recipe for disaster, and by their body language that kind of seemed to be the case for Kanaye and Maeko. At least, in Kozue's opinion.

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zealousemperor
2009-11-27 06:14 pm UTC (link)

Kanaye shrugged. "Yeah, but I kind of deserved it. I tried to make out with Maeko in a private place while drunk off my ass while giving her absolutely no warning or anything. I can't blame her, really."

He leaned backwards in his chair, almost falling before righting himself. "Tom told me that Maeko said to him that she was only going out with me because I saved her life. Me and Maeko go into an argument, and she admitted she said that, but was just angry with Tom and didn't mean it. We made up, and when I tried to kiss her lightly, Misaki throws her drink over me. Then we got into a fight and Maeko ran off. Then we both chased after her, got into a fight again, and I chased after her. IDK what Misaki did."

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	Re: ~triumphant return~ anthesphoria 2009-11-27 06:42 pm UTC (link)
	"You have a dramatic life." That was Kozue's sage declaration, after taking one more sip of her whiskey-scotch-thing. "I mean, even in comparison to mine." She nodded; usually when she dumped someone, they stayed dumped, after all. It was less complex that way. "Speaking of her, where is Akuba-senpai?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: ~triumphant return~ zealousemperor 2009-11-27 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	Kanaye nodded and shrugged. "Comes with the territory. I guess I'm just rather polarizing." He looked around. "I'm not sure. I'd assume with Misaki somewhere, but I don't know where she is either." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: ~triumphant return~ anthesphoria 2009-11-27 07:46 pm UTC (link)
	"That's kind of surprising. Aren't you very cl… happy to be around her all the time?" Normally, she wouldn't have even raised the question, but her inhibitions were slowly receding and asking prying questions was an important feature of her typical drunk behavior. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: ~triumphant return~ zealousemperor 2009-11-27 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	Kanaye would have glared, but he was too drunk to take that as an insult. "Yeah, I'm clingy, but I'm not obsessive." He blinked. "Ok, I AM, but I let her have her space a lot of the time. I just don't want her to ignore me when I am there. She can have friends." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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anthesphoria
2009-11-28 05:01 am UTC (link)

She laughed again. "Okay, okay. Hey, I've had clingy boyfriends—never an obsessive one before, though." She pondered this, while taking a final sip from her glass. Damn, but things served on the rocks went fast--it was the small glasses. "Another one, please!" She hollered down to the bartender. "It's a recommendation of how you feel about her, I guess. Or is that commendation? I don't know."

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	Re: ~triumphant return~ zealousemperor 2009-11-28 05:05 am UTC (link)
	Kanaye blinked yet again. Then he blinked again. Then he started wondering why he was blinking, and tried to stop. He failed. After cursing the unfairness of the world, he remembered Kozue existed. "I don't either. I shall take that as a compliment!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: ~triumphant return~ anthesphoria 2009-11-28 05:14 am UTC (link)
	"Good!" Her drink arrived; she smiled rather blearily at the bartender and took a swig. "Very good!" A grin. "Ah. So. What are we talking about, senpai? I mean besides commending you." Now that she had a chance to start getting used to it, the scotch really wasn't that bad. You stopped feeling the burning after a while, it seemed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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zealousemperor
2009-11-28 05:17 am UTC (link)

"I have no idea!" Kanaye announced. "Therefore, I shall change the subject ham-handedly. I am very good at stuff like that, yaknow." Kanaye nodded to Kozue. "You see, after today's events, I feel that now is the best time for me to try to take things all the way with Maeko."

Kanaye decided to ignore the fact he got rejected for a make-out session, and carried on. "I have absolutely no idea where to start and I don't think "let's have sex" is a brilliant thing to say. I'm not insulting you or anything, but could you give me some advice?"

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anthesphoria
2009-11-28 05:21 am UTC (link)

"I," Kozue declared, raising her head slightly, "am a fountain of awesome advice! I'm like, professional at it." She grinned, conveniently forgetting the complete disaster that her advice for Tom was likely to be, and the fact that her advice to Maeko had probably led in no small part to Kanaye's troubles just now. That all was going to go unsaid, of course. "Welllll…" She drew it out, pondering.

"Didn't she just shoot you down for kissing? Er. Making out, hooking up, whatever? That's usually pretty involved in going all the way. But. Yeah. Let's have sex is pretty unsexy." At least he figured that out. "And seldom works."

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	Re: ~triumphant return~ zealousemperor 2009-11-28 05:24 am UTC (link)
	Kanaye nodded slowly. "True. BUT!" he shouted, standing up. "That is a completely different situation! You see, I WAS DRUNK AT THE TIME!" Kanaye yelled almost as loud as he could, proving that he is still drunk. "And!" He sat down and started talking in a way that was more normal. "I didn't ask for permission! I would imagine that would be a problem." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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anthesphoria
2009-11-28 05:28 am UTC (link)

Kozue watched this with a few giggles—and another sip—and a few more giggles. "Yeah, yeah, well being drunk doesn't stop most people but." Another giggle. "Ask if you're not sure obviously. You could always try something romantic. Does Akuba-senpai seem like the type who believes all that stuff about your first time being with 'someone special' and all?" She even used one-handed finger quotes. "If she does, tell her how much she means to you, and how much…" A vague wave. "You know. Stuff like that. It cracks me up when people use that line, but she might like it."