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Tweak says, "Make me a sammich...."

Adrian Pucey (everupward) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2012-02-17 23:23:00

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!status: incomplete, ^date: november 16 2003, character: adrian pucey, character: kinjal bhatia

Catching up
Characters: Adrian & Kinjal
Setting: 11 AM - brunch at Ciao Trattoria in Diagon Alley
Summary: Adrian takes an old friend out to lunch
Rating: Worksafe

It had been far too long since Adrian had had a day off. He'd had to see his mother the night before and it left him riddled with irritation heavily mixed with guilt. She was still suffering from nightmares and their conversation were growing more and more unpleasant. She insisted he wasn't working hard enough to solve the problem, and that he should be focusing more on how to get her well. He'd left, barely keeping his temper and gone home, just so he didn't have to spend more time with her.

Of course he'd suspected she'd have another nightmare that night, which was why the guilt was still eating at him. If only she wasn't so damned unpleasant, selfish, and unbearable, she'd have his support and concern. As it was, he barely ever wanted to be near her. But he'd pushed all that from his mind in light of today. He had a brunch meeting with Kinjal, and a date planned for later, with Melinda.

He dressed both well and for the weather, Apparating over to Diagon Alley, to Ciao Trattoria where he'd intended to meet Kinjal. After arriving early, he spoke to the host, greased the manager's palm and got a rather nice table. He sat down and waited for her to arrive.

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freeforalls
2012-03-04 05:12 am UTC (link)

Kinjal took serene bites of her food as Adrian spoke. The further the conversation drifted towards paths she was well used to - complaining about her relatives being at the top of the list, the more she relaxed in her seat.

"It's incredibly amazing," she agreed. She didn't think much of her job beyond the fact that she enjoyed it; the fact that it had the added bonus of "angering" her family... or "embarrassing" them as they so claimed only made it so much sweeter. And there was a part of her that was certain she'd have chosen it and kept at it even if she didn't like it so much just because of the fact that her parents hated it so much. "The obvious hypocritical thought process behind it all."

She couldn't help raising and eyebrow at that, the slightest laugh escaping that was half amusement, half disbelief. "So glad your mother could be of help, though I'm sure that was the last thing she'd have wanted her statement to cause. As it is, I can't decide what makes that idea more amusing; that our mothers likely sit and discus the psychology behind our decisions in disappointing them regularly, or the assumption that we could ever be bothered to actually put so much thought as to discuss or plan such a thing."

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everupward
2012-03-04 07:15 pm UTC (link)

"I think what amuses me the most is the fact that they are completely incapable of understanding why we do anything we do, and so they expect it's only for the sake of defiance. I'll admit knowing how my mother will react to something is often an added bonus, but it certainly isn't the driving force behind all of my choices." He sipped at his coffee, wrapping long fingers around the cup.

"Sometimes I do wonder how some of us managed to be nothing like our parents while others are simply replicas of them. I shudder to think that it's merely intelligence that did it, for it shouldn't take much in the way of thought to become one's own person. To think that there are that many people unable and unwilling to think for themselves...well, it's an unpleasant thought at best."

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freeforalls
2012-03-09 08:57 am UTC (link)

"Well of course," Kinjal replied, the sardonic tone in her voice at full force. "Merlin forbid our lives revolve around ourselves and not them." Privately - and, likely with Adrian as well considering he was already well aware of what her family was like - she could more than admit that her parents happened to get under her skin in ways that she wasn't exactly fond of and also tended to irritate her regularly. For all the reasons they spoke on and more.

"On my part, I think I'll attribute it to pure stubbornness." She also highly doubted that with all her beliefs that even if she hadn't begun rebelling at fifteen she'd have kept being what her parents wanted for much longer than that, anyway.

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everupward
2012-03-13 08:14 pm UTC (link)

Adrian snorted into his coffee as a response. "To that end, I think a good topic change is in order. Have you taken any holidays this year? It's quite amazing that the year's so near its close already. It seems we only just celebrated the new year a month or two ago and yet here were are, already halfway through November."

He finished what he was eating and steepled his fingers as he spoke. "As for me I doubt I can take a holiday before Christmas this year." He shrugged one shoulder. He was used to it and didn't mind so much. "So I hope I can live a bit vicariously through you then."

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freeforalls
2012-03-15 06:06 am UTC (link)

It was probably a very good idea to make a change of topic. Kinjal was well aware of the fact that if there was one thing to get under her skin with the least amount of effort, it was definitely her family.

"I haven't since the season changed, but either way I'm still satisfied with the last trip for now." Kinjal grinned. "As fun as something with culture can be, I will always prefer the warm, sunny places with scantily clad people all around for days on end." And considering that every holiday she took was always the same, if not in the location but in that it offered her lovely beaches and lovely people on those beaches, that was the absolute truth. "Though I was thinking on skiving off the Bhatia family dinner next month in exchange for five days of fun and sun -- and I'll be ever so glad to owl you with all the sordid details if you need me to."

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