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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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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. ]

You?

No.

_{[Okay she's really not good at arguing in the face of this cheerful bluntness, and given everything... she knows that being all flustered will just make Rise even MORE convinced.]

[So she rolls her eyes and stretches out a leg to give Rise a gentle shove with one foot.]}

All right, all right, think what you wanna.

_{[... That's about as close to a confession as it gets with Heather. Because if it REALLY wasn't true, she'd be denying it point-blank.]}

You like him!

[ even the light shove won't diminish her delight any; Rise only giggles and prods at an intruding toe. ]

You could've just said so, dummy.

_{[And in a blinding flash of mild embarrassment, Heather is promptly yanked straight back to middle-school. She decides to deal with this by shoving slightly harder. Because THAT'LL show her!!1!one!]}

He IS pretty much my best friend, remember? Of course I like him.

_{[Grumble grumble.]}

That doesn't mean I like like him. You can be friends with a guy and not like like them.

_{[Oh come off it Heather she already knows.]

[After a brief pause, she leans over to set the ice cream carton down on the floor, giving her shaggy blond head a shake and letting out a sigh. It is Rise, after all... Rise, possibly the ONLY PERSON who she has had an even remotely girly conversation with in YEARS. Aaaaand one of the few people she actually trusted with personal things, even if there were a few she wanted buried far from the eyes of anyone here-- especially her new 'little sister'.]

[This? This wasn't one of those things. It's EMBARRASSING, sure, and she doesn't even know what HAPPENED just now to make Rise figure it out (she was so sure she was keeping it so far under the radar that it wouldn't even be a BLIP), but... well. Not the end of the world if one person knows about a dumb crush, right?]}

What exactly tipped you off? It wasn't seriously just the fact that I was happy, was it? Because that's not fair, that doesn't even mean anything.

_{[THERE we go.]}

[ Rise says nothing to the initial grumbling, because she knows better. It sounds resigned, anyway, which of course means that it's her victory, and Heather will give up completely sooner or later, so she can just sit here and smile smugly like she totally saw this coming.

She's such a sweet friend.

At the question, she reaches up to tug lightly on the end of a pigtail, pursing her lips. ]

There's happy, and then there's like-happy. There's actually a really big difference, kinda like... softer, I guess?

_{[YOU DIDN'T SEE IT COMING RISE GOD YOU HAD NO IDEA BEFORE THIS CONVERSATION >8T!!]

[... unless it was that obvious beforehand.]

[In which case Heather was just totally screwed.]}

Wh-- ... are you kidding me?

I didn't even pay that much attention back when I WAS boy-crazy and having sleepovers and squealing about ... like... I don't know. Who was trying out for football and who wasn't or something. _{[It all seems like a really long time ago.]}

Well, you're not me. And I've had a lot of experience with stuff like this, trust me.

[ pro at other people's love lives. Her own? Not so much. But this is ~*HEATHER*~ so Rise isn't about to let this one go unattended to anyway. ]

_{[Heather's not sure she likes suddenly being the less-experienced one. >:T Isn't she supposed to be the BIG sister around here?!]

[She makes a bit of a face at Rise. It's an expression of stubbornness in the face of inevitable defeat.]}

Okay, well, fine.

So suppose I've got a thing for Kaito.

So what?

Even if I did, s'not like that's worth getting all... whatever you're being right now... about. _{[Rise don't listen to her she's just embarrassed about being called out.]}

[ ... oh, Heather. ]

Are you kidding? This is important stuff, missy!! You can't just shrug it off!

_{[A bit of a scoff.]}

Oh, come on! How is it important?

People get crushes all the time and hardly anything ever, you know, happens.

_{[Clearly now that she's been ~found out~, the next strategy is to act like it's NO BIG THANG.]}

That's because they don't do anything about it.

[ are you going to join their numbers, Heather? ARE YOU? ]

Nooooo, it's because most of the time, crushes are dumb and wouldn't work out anyway.

_{[MAYBE. >8T]}

Edited 2011-12-03 23:36 (UTC)

That's too depressing! You can't give up from the start!

Rise, you can't tell me that every single crush you've ever gotten was super serious, or even made sense.

It's not depressing, it's just life.

People get crushes and then awhile later half the time they're like 'Wow, why did I even have that crush haha'.

_{[SOMEONE'S GOTTA STAY REASONABLE ABOUT THIS... and also derail the topic off of herself hoho.]}

Of course not, but Heather...

_{[... AUGH it was that look.]}

... Rise, c'mon.

Heatheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer.

_{[Elbows on knees, Heather leans forward and just... gives Rise a LOOK.]}

Rise.

Look, I'm serious.

What's so important about it? It's not even like-- .... what's so important about it?

... Well, for starters, because my best friend likes someone.

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