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Candy Quackenbush can walk on water. (toitshour) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2010-04-23 20:50:00

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candy quackenbush, mia dearden

Who: Candy Quackenbush and Mia Dearden.
What: Hanging out..
When: Friday afternoon.
Where: Out and about.
Warnings: Swearing, but otherwise, doubtful.

Candy waited for Mia after Mia's last class. She'd seen her on the forums and figured she should hang out with the new kid. Even though it was Candy's last semester, and she knew she was soon bound to live in the Dreaming, she still liked friends.

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	toitshour 2010-04-25 02:12 am UTC (link)
	"I think she's magically nice." She laughed as well, putting her hands into her jeans pockets and walking along her friend. "How's school? How's adjusting?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	speediest 2010-04-25 02:23 am UTC (link)
	"That would be a little comforting, I think." She reached back, pulling her hair back into a ponytail to make it a little more manageable. She shrugged. "It's school. I wasn't really that attached to my old one. They're pretty much the same.. Well, except for the super powers and magic and stuff." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2010-04-25 02:31 am UTC (link)
	"Esk and her grandmother are very comforting, really." She smiled at Mia's statement, nodding a little. "Yeah, my old school was worse, at least for me. I was the school freak." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	speediest 2010-04-25 03:39 am UTC (link)
	"That sucks," Mia said. "I was.. pretty lucky, I guess. I could've had it a lot worse. I actually told the whole school about being HIV positive, and still managed to be halfway popular. Guess there's something to be said for being upfront with people." She shrugged, as surprised as anyone else. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

toitshour
2010-04-25 03:48 am UTC (link)

"There's no reason why you shouldn't have been upfront. To hell with anyone who thought anything different of you because of something like that." She rolled her eyes. "I have allergies, ooooo." she waggled her fingers and grinned. "Then again, one of my best friends is a man with antlers whose brothers live in them. And I'm dating the incarnation of dreaming. ... sort of." She looked sheepish.

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speediest
2010-04-25 04:21 am UTC (link)

"Well, yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking at the time. Ollie was all impressed at how brave I was being, but really it was a 'Eff you!' to anyone that didn't like it." She shrugged. Her confidence probably had a lot more to do with her popularity than anything she said at the time.

She raised an eyebrow at the antlers comment, having a hard time picturing that. "Incarnation of dreaming?" she asked. She smirked. "Guess your Mystery Date wasn't a dud, huh?"

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	toitshour 2010-04-25 04:42 am UTC (link)
	"It means you know yourself. I know a lot of people who're too embarrassed to talk about anything. High school is stupid." She pushed into the pizza place. "Yeah, Dream's... possessive. It's sort of flattering, though." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

speediest
2010-04-25 04:51 am UTC (link)

Callie shrugged. "Maybe." She didn't really think she was all that brave or whatever. Even after telling the whole damn school, she'd been afraid to tell the Teen Titans. "Seriously stupid. I swear, they make us dumber there instead of making us smarter."

Callie got a little single-minded once they walked into the restaurant. Must. Get. Food. She took Candy's arm in a 'food-now,-talk-later' sort of way and pulled her straight for the counter, ordering a turkey sub.

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	toitshour 2010-04-25 05:11 am UTC (link)
	"Or they just herd us in there and drive us all slowly insane." She laughed at her own joke, but was also distracted by the food. She ordered a slice of cheeze pizza, knowing the slice would be almost the size of a tarp. New York style pies always were. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	speediest 2010-04-25 05:35 am UTC (link)
	"That sounds about right." Mia went over to a nearby table and sat down to wait for their food. It shouldn't take too long. "So what were you saying about this Dream guy?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2010-04-25 05:37 am UTC (link)
	"Dream? Well, he's a god. He's jealous, and ... wants me to stay in the Dreaming after I graduate." Wow, it sounded worse when she said it out loud. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	speediest 2010-04-25 04:44 pm UTC (link)
	Mia raised an eyebrow. "Dude. That is a giant red flag, you know? Jealousy, and trying to isolate you from your friends? That's not a good sign." Most people would hesitate to bring something like that up to their friends, or at least feel uncomfortable talking about it. But Mia was different. "Trust me, I know." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

toitshour
2010-04-25 09:02 pm UTC (link)

Candy sighed, and leaned forward, about to tell the girl something she'd never told anyone. "He reminds me of someone from home. Someone I sort of feel I ... screwed over." She put her heads in her hands. "I like him, but that's the worst reason to date someone ever, isn't it. ... I don't think I can go through with it, anyway. I love the Dreaming, but I wouldn't be able to do this - just come here with you and be normal and hang out with my friends. I'm not ready to give that up. I don't want to stop learning and fighting."

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speediest
2010-04-25 10:17 pm UTC (link)

Mia frowned. She could kind of understand that, maybe. If she met someone that reminded her of Connor.. Well, it didn't really matter. "Yeah, it's a pretty shitty reason. Maybe school really did make you crazy."

When their food came out, Mia grabbed a pill bottle out of her purse and popped a few. "Really, though, you should break it off. Guys are assholes. Especially ones like that. Sure, he'll treat you like a princess now, but then he'll get tired of you and you'll still be stuck, just with no friends." She shook her head. "As romantic as the whole 'princess in a tower' thing is, Rapunzel didn't have it easy. Can you imagine how much it would hurt to have guys in armor climb up your hair?" She dug into her sandwich, taking a few bites.

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toitshour
2010-04-25 10:33 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, I know." She sighed. "You're just saying things I've already thought. Boa's been reprimanding me for a while now." She chuckled. "Just because Carrion got rejected by her doesn't mean I owe him anything. That's what she says."

Munching on her pizza, she shrugged. "And guys aren't bad. I had an amazing boyfriend here once. Just shit luck with them ever since."

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	speediest 2010-04-25 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, good." Telling Candy things she already knew was better than offending her by insulting her dude. She nodded as she ate her sandwich. Her color was getting better. "Sorry, I get carried away about that stuff." She shrugged. "I guess I've met a few decent ones. They're usually gay, though," she joked. Ollie didn't count. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2010-04-25 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	"It's fine, I don't know why I don't get more carried away. It's my fault, he's so old, and I don't know if he knows how to relate to people anymore." She picked off some pepperoni, chewing it thoughtfully. "Well, I do have gay friends, and I love them to death, but I hold out hope that I didn't date the only nice straight guy ever." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	speediest 2010-04-25 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	"Maybe you'll find another, one day." Mia wasn't really in a rush. She had enough issues with guys for a lifetime. It would be nice--really nice--to find a genuinely good guy that she could love, but with everything... she wasn't going to hold her breath. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2010-04-25 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	"I hope so, eventually. She took a swig of her soda, content to be in the warm pizza place with a friend. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	speediest 2010-04-25 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	Mia paused, looking over at Candy. "Is there anything I can do to help? I mean. You don't think he'll get violent or anything, do you?" She was worried about her friend. It was a tricky situation. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2010-04-25 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't think so. I mean, we've talked about it before. He probably already knows I'm thinking of it. I just won't go back to the Dreaming except to tell him." She looked at her necklace, at the black opal resting on her chest. "I still feel terrible." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	speediest 2010-04-25 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	Mia nodded. "Okay, good. If you need back up..." Not everybody needed a crime fighter with a quiver full of arrows at their backs, "or emotional support or whatever, I'm there for you." She knew how hard it could be to leave. "Don't feel terrible. It's not your fault." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2010-04-26 12:04 am UTC (link)
	"Thanks. For everything, really." She smiled and hopped up to go to the counter to get another slice of pizza. "You still hungry?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	speediest 2010-04-26 01:03 am UTC (link)
	"No problem," she said, with a small smile and a shrug. "Didn't tell you anything you didn't already know." She shook her head at the offer of food. "Oh, do they have cookies?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2010-04-26 01:11 am UTC (link)
	"It's still nice to have a friend say it." She got herself a new slice of pizza and a cookie, and a cookie for Mia. Sitting back on her chair, she handed Mia her cookie. "Here." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	speediest 2010-04-26 01:38 am UTC (link)
	"Thanks," she said, taking the cookie. "I just want my friends to be safe, y'know? I'm glad you felt like you could talk to me me." She smiled. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2010-04-26 02:26 am UTC (link)
	"Hey, we're friends, right?" She smiled right back at Mia. "That's what friends do." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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