afraid_of_marshmallows | Midnight Manor Boarding House's Living Room, Wednesday Night

Okay, sure. Arden didn't know much more than what TV said about throwing movie nights, but surely she had the gist. Many ~~moddable~~ pizzas and sodas had been ordered from Pizza Planet - look, Arden loved sweet tea, but even she knew soda was necessary for movie nights. A truly disturbing number of bags of popcorn had been popped and put into bowls and a quick stop at T&C had been made to grab a couple of different popcorn seasonings in case people wanted to experiment with popcorn flavors.

All that was left was to wait for people to show up. She'd texted both Kamala and Cal in full capslock mode about the glory of this movie, and then had ~~handwavily~~ tried to contact as many other residents as possible to tell them about the movie night - texts, email, sign on the door, whatever. Sure, nobody had to come, but she at least wanted to make sure everyone knew they were welcome. She'd also invited Steven and Watts (while double checking that, yes, it really was okay to move furniture around the living room and also eat in there) and had made sure to get a few bags of unbuttered popcorn just for them. Did she think the butter flavoring had any actual dairy in it? No. But she was gonna be careful all the same.

Now she was just pushing the furniture around to make sure that every possible seat had a good view of the incredibly large TV and was in reaching distance of a bowl of popcorn and places to put their cups of soda and plates of pizza down. Midnight Movie Night was about to begin, showcasing the absolute work of art and cultural tour de force that 2 Fast and 2 Family 4 Oceans, the fifteenth 2 Fast 2 Family sequel that was also a prequel to the Oceans Edge series.

This was gonna be great.

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"Weather been all right?" Steven asked, because as a Brit he could small talk with the best of them. "Sometimes summer around here can be a nasty surprise for some people."

Edited 2024-05-30 01:36 (UTC)

"The weather," Henry took a sip of her root beer, "has been fucking gross."

"Heat or humidity?" Steven asked. "Or both?"

"Both, ugh," Henry shared. "It's like I'm permanently sticky."

"And your clothes get damp as well," Steven agreed. "At least Midnight helps control the climate in here. Back home - er, London, for me - there's not much by way of air conditioning. Especially if you live in an older building."

"Barcelona was like that," Henry commisserated.

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"That's often the way of it in Europe," Steven said. "At least, in the Europe of my world. The buildings are old and lovely but not built for modern conveniences like air conditioning. My flat in London is on the top floor as well. Heat rises and all that."

"Winter wasn't so bad."

"It doesn't bother you?" Steven asked. "Not - I don't mean to pry if you'd rather not say. Only I know a few people who don't care for the dark or cold of winter."

"I don't love it or anything," Henry clarified. "But I don't hate it. It's- fucking whatever. Just weather. I can put on a coat."

"Good to know," Steven said. "I don't mind it either. Can be rather fun, actually. This past winter I learned to ice skate."

"Yeah?" Henry said, with an air of polite disinterest as she studiously picked olives off of her pizza slice, dropping them on her plate.

"I thought it was fun," Steven said. But he could tell it wasn't a worthy topic. "Er - the school does holidays now and then. Don't know if you're aware? Week away, interesting locations, that sort of thing."

Talking to Steven sometimes reminded her so much of talking to Townes that it made something in Henry's chest hurt.

"Interesting locations? Like what?" Of course, she could go to whatever interesting location she wanted on a whim, but then she was on her own.

"Erm, tropical resorts?" Steven said, trying to remember the ones he knew of. "A boating trip through France?"

Steven left off the last one since as interesting as it sounded originally the part about the hotel collapsing around them might not be considered a selling point for Henry.

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