foolishwren | 80. [Voice/Action] Locked to Rise, backdated to the evening of October 6th

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80. [Voice/Action] Locked to Rise, backdated to the evening of October 6th

_{[TIME IS SHORT. The Tournament's only lasting so long, so Heather's gotta take advantage of the time she's in-town while she can. It's time to make good on a promise.]

[Which is why she's hurrying down the darkening streets of Goldenrod City for the first time in a good few months, hastily following the directions she's got written down on a scrap of paper. With the fights starting first thing in the morning, she's gotta squeeze out every last drop of bonding time the night will hold.]

[When she does reach her destination (with just a FEW wrong turns in the process), her first reaction is to stop and let out an impressed whistle.]

[... And then tug her PokeGear out of her pocket.]}

[VOICE, to Rise]

RISE.

Your house is huge. Come let me in.

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... Owls eat marshmallows?

_{[... It's settled. In addition to girltalk, tonight is going to turn into an experiment on the effects of sugarhighs on owls.]</sub.}

We won't know unless we try! Ready to head in?

[ she's selecting mint chocolate chip, herself. ]

I guess we HAVE to.

For science.

_{[She holds the carton aloft and sort of makes it do a little jig in the air to show that YES SHE IS READY, turning away from the fridge.]}

See, if they taught this at school, it'd be way easier to study! [ time to usher Heather into the living room. Rise's already commandeered it with blankets and pillows and girly stuff. ]

Think of all the practical real-world applications, too!

_{[Awww yeeeaaah this is SO much better than slumber parties in cramped hotel rooms. Heather might not be the girliest person at heart anymore but this is like being transported back to the few occasions when she HAD done stuff like this as a kid, and that is kind of awesome.]

[She flops down on one end of the couch.]}

[ and Rise claims the other end, tossing a pillow in her friend's direction. ]

Okay, missy, fill me in. I haven't seen you in way too long.

_{[Heather leans back, lifting one arm to dramatically block the pillow as though she were in some kind of action movie. It anticlimactically plops to the couch beside her.]}

Whoa, whoa. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

You first, man. Not much has happened on my end. _{[... Except for, you know, a LOT, but hey. It's kept her from communicating as much as she'd like with her not-in-the-immediate-area friends.]}

'Sides, I haven't been keeping up with ANYTHING going on in Goldenrod since before you guys all moved into this place. Gimme the scoop! What all've I missed in the life of Rise?

Boys. [ wryly. ] Um, but really, it's just been a lot of settling in! I haven't had a chance for any good girl talk lately.

OHO.

Boys, huh?

_{[Heather's never been the best girltalker. But if LITTLE SIS HAS BEEN HAVING BOY TROUBLE, SHE WANTS TO KNOW, OKAY?]

[She leans in with a conspiratory brow-waggle, balancing the ice cream carton on her knees.]}

Any faces I need to punch in?

'Cause you know I'd be happy to.

I know, I know! [ with only a little laugh, because she knows Heather would definitely do it. ]

But you know, somehow... I think I've gotten a little bad at it. Or I just keep falling for the wrong ones.

_{[... Aw Rise.]

[Heather may not have been the most experienced with boys (let's be honest, she really isn't. There were a few date-type things back in high school, and... okay there was definitely making-out at parties (not that she could remember half of that. DON'T DRINK JUST TO BE A REBEL, KIDS), but like... boys boys? Never really a thing. She'd been too busy breaking stuff and shoplifting.]

[BUT.]

[She remembers plenty of boy rants from the OTHER girls she hung out with. Not that they were anything like Rise.]

[She props her chin on one hand, brows creasing. DID SOMEONE HURT LITTLE SIS 8(]}

The wrong ones?

_{[ELABORATE, GIRL.]}

[ cheerfully, tone completely light and carefree, because this is Rise, and Rise doesn't like feeling down about things she most certainly can't change now. ]

Either they're not interested, or they are, but there's someone else...

Man, that totally blows...

_{[Not that Heather's really ever been in the same position (and she likes it that way), but jeez, poor Rise.]}

For the record, they're TOTALLY missing out. Just saying.

Whoever the someone else is?

Absolutely a downgrade in comparison.

_{[Biased? Yes. Rise is like, one of the most awesome people Heather knows, so she's automatically pretty high up there on the 'This person is better than the rest of other people' list. But seriously what kind of loser would go for someone else when they had a girl like Rise interested? SERIOUSLY.]}

[ she doesn't believe that - knowing the someone else in question here - but Heather's adamant comment makes her smile. True or not, it's nice to hear. ]

Enough about me for now, though-- how're boy things on your end?

_{[That's what girlfriends are for, man-- Rise will always be number one to "the other person" in Heather's book! Because boys are dumb and don't know what they're missing.]

[At the question, though, she sort of blinks, raising a brow, one side of her mouth quirking up.]}

Boy things on my end?

Rise, hoooow long have you known me now?

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More than a year, I know, but a girl can hope!

_{[Heather SNORTS, grinning.]}

C'mon, Rise, get with the program. Heather Mason doesn't have boy things, sheesh.

I can count off all the major boy-related experiences that've happened to me in recent weeks if those count, though.

Not counting your dad, fire away.

Darnit, I was gonna include the nice morning we had talking about oldies music and how he used to have to walk twenty miles to school every day...

_{[Okay, okay, business-time. She shakes her head as though getting down to business, and then starts to tick things off on her fingers.]}

WELL.

One. I had numerous conversations with Vincent during which he implied unpleasant things about my moral character. Those are always fun.

Two, Iiiieeee.... ran into a random guy looking at houses in Olivine and thought he was totally gonna break into one of them but it turned out he was just lost. Haha, awkward.

Threeeeee, I bent Crow's arm behind his back because he told me I didn't look like a fighter and asked me all earnestly if I thought joining the tournament would be a good idea for me...

Uhhh... fouuuur, I ate ice cream on the hotel kitchen floor in my underwear at three AM with a thirty-something-year-old guy in pajamas....

_{[HEATHER HAS EXCITING BOY ADVENTURES DOESN'T SHE, RISE. But don't worry, she's still getting to the incriminating good stuff.]}

... That last one sounds a little creepy, Heather.

I'll have you know that it was COMPLETELY innocent. The pajamas were WAY too epically dweebish for it to have been anything else.

_{[From the grin on her face, though, it was obvious she stuck that one in just for the sake of seeing Rise's expression.]}

Anyway, let's see, what else...

I gave Snake's fire turtle thing to Henry because both of them like to smoke and the first thing he did was try to inhale some of it to see if it could give him a buzz... he coughed for the rest of the day.

Aaaaand... that Flash kid dared me to ask the locals if humans here had babies like normal or if they laid eggs because everything ELSE here does, because we're mature and these are important things to think about....

Hm.

Man, I didn't realize how few hilarious anecdotes I have lately...

Hm.

_{[She pauses for a minute or two, rubbing her chin. ... And then, snorts a little bit.]}

Oh yeah... I like, friggin' cried all over Kaito awhile ago... that was embarrassing.

[ wait-- ]

On Kaito? Wait-- did he make you cry?

_{[RECORDSCREECH. Pretty much a split second after she said it, she realized that without context, 'crying all over Kaito' wasn't quite as zany and hilarious-sounding as she's come to look at it as lately (mostly because it had ended so... well, heartwarmingly).]

[She pauses, blinking.]}

Make me-- what? Oh, dude, NO. Noooo no no no.

Dude, if Kaito MADE me cry, I promise you I'd be hitting him, not crying on him.

No, I was-- ... it was something else, awhile back. Don't really remember too well 'cept I was kinda a mess at the time. _{[That's a dirty lie-- she remembers exactly what she was crying about. It just... happens to be... the same thing that had resulted in that spat between herself and RISE. Aaaaaand... yeah she's still not okay with talking about that. Even though she needs to just man up and either let go of it or BE okay with talking about it.]}

[ Rise frowns a little more, not quite alarmed, but the concern's rather evident. Still, she knows Heather well enough by now: if she wanted to talk about it, she would have said as much, so she settles down rather unhappily and takes a deep breath.

One spoonful of ice cream later-- ]

So it's more like he helped you out?

Yeah. Definitely.

_{[Heather smiles one of her quirky grins, and while it's definitely with the intention of getting that concerned frown off of Rise's face, it's not forced. Even if it had been during a... rough patch, she doesn't look back on the event unhappily. ... Even if it, uh. Was a little embarrassing.]}

I was off by myself being all emo and broody and shit, and he came looking for me.

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