Midnight Manor Boarding House's Living Room, Wednesday Night

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

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.

[Open to all Midnight Manor Boarding House residents!]

Comments

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[moreofaponchoguy]

"I have friends," he said, rolling his eyes. "But I'm also cut off from home right now, so when I say there's nothing anyone can do..." He sighed. "It's really complicated, and we're supposed to be having a good night and enjoying a movie, not listening to me whine."

So much uncomfortable squirming was happening. Feelings sucked.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[slothbabyproductions]

“I’m sorry,” Kamala said, seeing he was uncomfortable. “I’m not trying to make you feel bad. Come here…”

She opened her arms.

“Let’s hug it out.”

Which would be a vastly different experience with Kamala.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[moreofaponchoguy]

Hey, when you were as touch-starved as Cal was, all hugs were good hugs, so Cal opened his arms as well and pulled her in tightly. "Okay, this is good, thank you." Enjoy the arms, Kamala!

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[slothbabyproductions]

Ok. Arms. Yep. Kamala can see why Arden goes on about them.

But Kamala’s hug was of the awkward but well meaning sibling type of hug complete with the friendly pat on the back.

“See? Hugs make everything better.”

Somewhere in Exandria the Heart of the Tides would agree.