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!]

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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[pocketpretzels]

"Yes, precisely," Watts said with a nod. "I'd prefer to give those a miss, thank you."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Sure, not a problem!" Arden said. "Are there any genres you two particularly enjoy?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[pocketpretzels]

"Musical comedies," Watts said. "I admit I have not seen much in the way of what you would consider newer pictures, Steven and I tend to go for older ones, as I've a lot to catch up on," he shared.

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Yeah, Arden didn't even know what would count as a 'musical comedy' because she was tragically ignorant of Danny Kaye's existence. She was gonna assume he meant Broadway musicals with happy endings.

"Good to know. And Marc? Does he like movies?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[pocketpretzels]

That assumption was more or less accurate. As for Marc...

"Action pictures," Watts informed her.

As much as Marc claimed to like anything, of course.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Her surprised face, let her show you it. "I'll keep that in mind for movie nights scheduled not over your date night," she said, since she did, y'know, listen to radio. "I'm glad you two were willing to share date night with us, too."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[pocketpretzels]

Realistically speaking, Steven was the one more likely to show up to a movie night regardless of whether it was date night or not, but Marc showing up couldn't be ruled out, particularly given recent developments. So Arden got an appreciative smile for the consideration.

"Oh," he said, a tinge of colour appearing on his cheeks. "Well. It's- an appropriate activity, isn't it? For a date?"

Though there would probably be a lot more actually watching the film than when Watts and Steven attempted to do so on their own.

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Definitely," Arden said, though she was resolutely not thinking of it as a date herself. "But there are a handful of us here, and so you're still sharing it with us, rather than it just being you and Steven alone."

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[pocketpretzels]

"That is true," Watts said. "It's- rather nice," he admitted. Yes, they'd been on plenty of dates on the mainland, which was public. But it was a public that consisted of strangers. And there were the dances here on the island of course. But this- somehow seemed more intimate than that.

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

No strangers here, just friends and family. Family he knew were just fine with his relationship with Steven, and who cared about both of them. "I'm really glad," she said, smiling. "Was this the kind of thing y'all were imagining when you turned Midnight Manor into a boarding house?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[pocketpretzels]

"It seems to have turned out even better than I'd hoped, personally," Watts told her.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Way better than anything I'd hoped for when I hopped on that bus in North Carolina," Arden admitted. "Better than anything ever, really."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[pocketpretzels]

"I'm glad," Watts said. "That you're here. That you're happy here."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Happier than I've been in my whole life," she said with a shrug that was, you know. Very super casual about everything. "So, you know. Thanks to all three of you. For making this happen."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[pocketpretzels]

Please, if anyone could understand that sentiment it was... well. All three of them.

"You're very welcome, Miss Finch."