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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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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?

Edited 2011-11-16 01:07 (UTC)

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.

[ Heather.

Being broody.

That's the most concerning thing of all, but after a few seconds of studying her friend's grin, Rise relaxes and slumps back. She's more curious now. ]

You know, he seems like the kind of guy who's great at the whole cheering-up thing.

_{[H-hey, it DOES happen! ... Sometimes. ... Okay, usually only when there's something seriously wrong. Which, tended to be a lot, actually, back home. But here, not so much. Especially now that she had her father back. What could Heather Mason possibly have to brood about?]}

Heh, yeah, he really is!

I've actually lost track of the number of times one've us's had a bad day, or a bad week-- _{[Or a bad MONTH.]} and just wound up calling each other and just talking and laughing about stuff in the middle of the night until things felt a little better. Y'know?

But yeah, I was all like... "HNNGGRGRR, GO AWAY, I'M JUST GONNA SIT HERE AND BE FUCKED UP ALL DAY", and he was like "... No, Heather. Don't be fucked up all day. That's not okay."

_{[... Except that the conversation had involved a great deal less all-caps and a great deal more emotional gut-spilling.]}

Awww, that's sorta cute!

[ there's an interesting light in her eyes... ]

_{[... uh oh.]

[Needless to say, Heather doesn't notice the light, but she does blink and give Rise a sort of crooked, 'huh?' grin. She didn't really notice that shift her tone took when she started to ramble about her best friend-- the way she just sounded HAPPY. In her own casual Heather way, of course-- Heather Mason didn't do that gooey-eyed crap. But when the topic had steered onto Kaito, her tone and expression had ... just noticeably brightened. She'd sat up straighter.]

[And she had no idea she'd been doing any of it.]}

Cute?

What, the fact that we call each other or him telling me not to be fucked up all day?

_{[... She can see it being either, really. It's not like it's any secret that Kaito's cute as the dickens. She's even told him so a few times (... teasingly), because the way he gets all scrunchy-faced and denies it is hilarious.]}

The first one, silly. [ duh. And even if it wasn't Rise "I can smell romance from three miles off with my nose stuffed" Kujikawa, Heather's reaction might have been picked up by just about anyone observant enough to realize what that meant. ] And you look about ten times happier when you're just talking about him.

_{[If only Heather realized how obvious it was-- she didn't actually talk about Kaito (or any of her friends) at length that often, except to her father. Which is probably why she's not totally aware that That Thing She Hasn't Actually Told Anybody About is showing at all.]

[So she shrugs.]}

Well, yeah. I mean... besides you, he's probably my best friend here. .... Or, y'know, anywhere. _{[A crooked grin, because she doesn't get what Rise is insinuating just yet.]} Not like I had a great track record with friends before I got to this place, so that's, y'know, pretty rad.

What's with the look?

... Heather, please say I don't have to tell you what a crush is.

[ because she has done this for way too many people, and after awhile, you start developing headaches because you have to use small words for people who are old enough to know better and shouldn't need to be informed by a pigtailed idol. ]

_{[... wait wait WAIT WAIT WAIT]

[WHAT... WHAT DID SHE DO? HOW DOES-- WHAT. WHAT. Rise what is-- how did-- HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. It's not that it's on the level of some kind of deep, dark secret, but at the same time, she'd been keeping it to herself for a reason and oh my god how did Rise know.]}

A crush? Seriously?

That's-- dude, being happy when you talk about somebody doesn't mean you're crushing on them.

Don't you think I'd have mentioned something if I was crushing on someone? _{[... lol no]}

Edited 2011-11-24 20:34 (UTC)

[ cheerfully and UTTERLY blunt. ]

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