bonne anniversaire

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Who: Requiem, Nemesis
Where: the lobby, for starters
When: Day 181

[Nemesis is waiting in the appropriate spot at the appropriate time, hair tamed and carrying a small bouquet--long stems of bluebells, lily of the valley, sunflowers, carnations, and a pink rose, tied with a tyrian and navy ribbon. She rocks back on her heels as she waits, the anticipatory type of nervous, but straightens as Requiem approaches]

Hey. Wanna head out?

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[stakesthesame]

[ Her own hair's done up pretty nice, pinned up with some cute clips, but we're going casual date style today-- we've had plenty of fance already, a 100-day anniversary (... centennial?) deserves something a little softer.

For her own part, though, she's also got a bouquet, just full of roses: 24 of them, to be exact, 20 pink and 4 red for good measure, with some decorative gold wrapping and a big white bow.

and she trots up to Nem, beaming. ]

Hey! Yessss. Flowers first though.

[ And offers her bouquet, with a bow and a flourish. ]

For you, my gallant knight.

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There's so many of 'em...

[Takes it, bowing her head to examine them (and surreptitiously hide her flush, honestly to little avail). Eventually she looks up, cradling them in towards her body, clears her throat]

...Anyways, here. Might seem a little familiar, but, uh.

[Offers the flowers, not as large a bouquet as Requiem's but chosen with care all the same. Again, she seems a bit eagerly nervous even as she holds her roses close]]

[stakesthesame]

Somethin' about the hours in the day and each rose being the hours you think of someone... or something?

[ but pauses, straightening up, to delicately take the smaller bouquet, smiling-- and her expression softens when she realizes, after a moment, the reason for the arrangement.

She just stares at them for a moment, feeling the colored ribbons between her fingers. ]

... can't believe you remembered this.

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[Oh. Oh. Coughs a bit, staring at the roses again. Eventually she looks away to instead check Req's reaction, shy]

Wasn't remembering much else at the time. You could say it left an impression.

[stakesthesame]

[ She looks like... honestly touched, pretty red in the face, but eventually looks back up at her to smile again. ]

... I'm glad.

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Well, uh. Me too.

[Smiles soppily for another little while before clearing her throat again]

...Uh, so. Did you wanna head out? I don't got exciting plans or nothing, but if you wanted to take a walk or go for a ride or something...thought maybe it'd be nice to get away from this area...?

[stakesthesame]

Yeah. Where were you thinking? My plans don't really account for nothin' until later.

[ offers her hand, though. ]

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[takes it]

I dunno... Hotwire a car and head to the cafe, or the amusement park? Check out the Tokyo Tower model or something? Just throwing ideas out there...already did the main thing I wanted to do.

...What happens later?

[stakesthesame]

I got a room in the love hotel with your name on it... the rest you can find out later.

[ threads their fingers together, squeezing, and starts walking. ]

I've never actually been to the amusement part. ... what's the main thing you wanted to do?

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Get you to come out with me.

[Looks at her and waggles her eyebrows, though the effect is dimmed a bit by her blush]

Not that different from a roller coaster...sometimes.

[stakesthesame]

[ flusters, but laughs, tugging her closer so she can lean down and nuzzle her lips against Nem's hair. ]

Not that hard to lure me out with the promise of seeing your beautiful face.

[unbr8kable]

[pretends to struggle but somehow stays caught exactly where she is]

Yeah, right. More like the threat of running into your roommates' boyfriends in the toilet or something.

[stakesthesame]

[ curls her arms around her, careful not to crush the flowers, to smother her temple and cheeks and ears with little kisses. ]

Oh yeah, definitely way more hype to escape my fam's bad morning after decisions than smothering you with affection, you totally got it.

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Sounds legit to me.

[flushes pleasantly, winding her own arms around Req's waist and squeezing, tipping her face up to set butterfly kisses on what she can reach of Req, mostly neck and chin and hair]

...Seriously, just...time together without any interruptions or nobody's weird drama for like a minute or two...that's all I'm after. Stuff's been crazy enough, you're chills and thrills enough for me.

[stakesthesame]

[ leans down enough so nem can reach her cheeks, mostly so she can nuzzle warmly against her. ]

Yeah. ... yeah. I like having fun with you though, too. Just the two of us.

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[her nose is a little cool from the night air when she noses back into Requiem, eventually pulling away enough to start walking again]

Why don't we head to the hotel and go from there? There'll probably be someplace to put up the flowers.

[stakesthesame]

[ drops a last kiss on her nose as she pulls back, but lets her separate, still holding her hand as they start to walk. ]

Sounds good to me. I don't wanna ruin them out here in the cold anyway.

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[falls in beside her, looking back down at the bouquet]

Yeah. Twenty four is so many...

[stakesthesame]

Gotta account for all the hours in the day and all.

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You sleep sometimes. Shouldn't that at least get a bye?

[stakesthesame]

You fill my dreams, baby, what can I say.

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[Chokes a little]

Come off it... How'm I supposed to get any rest if I'm running around with you all night?

[stakesthesame]

Rest is overrated when we've got time to spend together, yeah?

[unbr8kable]

[Nudges into her as they walk]

Mmm... A fair point.

But why not have both?

[stakesthesame]

That's part of the plan.

[ curls her arm around nem's shoulders, and... hotel get! ... love hotel, anyway. ]

I hope the rooms don't like, despawn or somethin' when nobody's in them. Anyway, I did some investigating recently so I found some nice stuff...