The fourth. Rae smiled at that and brushed a hand through her hair. “I like the fourth, too. I think I'm kind of just a holiday person. Actually, just a... special day person.” She shrugged a shoulder and chuckled a little bit. “Birthdays, anniversaries, all of those days that there's something to celebrate or something to commemorate. I don't forget them easily.” She nodded when he mentioned the fireworks. “Me too. Not just as a kid, but as I got older. I loved the ones in Attica. My daddy was on the committee and he always made sure the shows were epic.” She smirked.
“Oh god no,” Rae shook her head and laughed. “Though I do kind of have a little bit of a dangerous streak. Or at least I used to. My sixteenth birthday present to myself was bungee jumping. And my seventeenth was skydiving,” she explained with a little bit of a chuckle. “And eighteenth was scuba diving. I don't really like the whole 'real life threatening danger' thing, though. Especially if it involves things that'll, like... eat me.” She glanced at a nearby window and shrugged. The streets were mostly empty, but it was always a risk.
He told her that she was always useful and she shrugged quietly. Something Maddie had said to her back when she was still pregnant had stuck with her this long; how she was useless then and how no one really needed her. “Maybe,” she chuckled a little when he mentioned Cindy. “But usefulness goes beyond that nowadays. If anything happened on the compound, I'd have been a liability.” Twice, something did happen. And twice, she'd proven that.
She couldn't help but laugh about his idea of using the elf to scare people off. “Genius,” she said with a nod, then paused when he told her that he wouldn't want to keep her out, her smile going sheepish. “Charmer,” she quipped, calling back to an older conversation when she'd told him how charming he was. “It'd take more than a creepy little elf to keep me away, don't worry.” Her face was slightly more bashful, but the smile was still there.
Rae couldn't keep herself from laughing, and she shrugged one shoulder as she looked at the elf. “Well, in most cases I'd be willing to let it slide because EJ gets what EJ wants but that thing... is where I draw the line. My apartment's creepy enough with Lucas in it,” she joked about her cousin with a slight lopsided smirk. “Last thing I want is that thing giving me nightmares. Unless you want to have to come to my place at the middle of the night to get rid of some big bad in my bed.” Under her bed was what she'd meant, but as usual, an embarrassing Freudian slip steered the conversation in a completely different direction. And what was worse, Rae didn't even notice it.
“Kris is a fan of the fun stuff. He fixed up an arcade game for Elliot once. The TMNT one in the rec room?” she shrugged.
Her eyes wandered out around the store and she shrugged again. “You know, I don't know. Just little Christmassy things. Trinkets. Presents, too, but we really can't get a lot of those here, can we?” she asked, looking around the shop. “There was a little boutique back by the truck that I wanted to check out, but that would mostly be for me, and maybe Ellie, George, Bea, Vienna and April, so maybe I should do that another day.” She smirked a little.