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keephimtalking ([personal profile] keephimtalking) wrote in [community profile] pineslog2017-02-18 01:19 am

Commence the most awkward sort-of-date

Who: Aranea and Lantar!
Where: Movie Theater!
When: Night!
What: Valentines event! So movie date? Sort of date?
Warnings: Nada! Will add if something comes up.

[Closed to Aranea]


When glaring suspiciously at the envelope doesn’t resolve his problems or get him out of the cold, Lantar eventually gives in and peels it off of his door before quickly stepping inside.

He sets the groceries down and tugs his scarf off, turning the little piece of paper over in his hands before slicing through the top of it with his thumb claw, turning the contents out on the dinner table. The movie ticket garners an even more suspicious glare. The note gets another one for a good measure because it’s not like he has a shortage of glaring power going on here.

Now, Valentines is not a Thing that Turians celebrated. He doesn’t even remember anything about it from the his memories of growing up in this weirdass town. The closest he’d come to hearing about it was from Montague once, as a… joke? No. He remembers an awkward attempt at helping Ripper woo Weaver with a ‘Valentine’s’ letter. The Asari ended up setting in on fire along with a bit of the man’s hair for a good measure.

Which doesn’t really bode well for any of this.

And yet, somehow, he finds himself at the local theater a bit after his shift ends, a few minutes before the allotted time. He’d let Malia try closing for the night and kept his cell on vibrate, just in case anything went awry.

Just using up the free ticket, Lantar tells himself. It’d be a waste otherwise.

There’s an awkward moment where the man kind of just- hovers ominously near the entrance, fidgeting with his scarf. He can feel the staff watching him and heat crawls up his neck. Eventually, the pressure gets too much and he just sidles over to go peer at the movie posters instead.

At least Aranea isn’t going to have a hard time spotting her, er, ‘date’.
unweaving: mooglepalooza@tumblr (women like a man with a past)

[personal profile] unweaving 2017-03-07 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
She watches him folding himself up into the seat with something bordering on admiration; it looks like it's taking a lot of admiration to cram himself in there. There's a half-moment where she considers suggesting moving to the front, but nobody likes sitting in the front, right?

"Just stick your feet on the seat in front. There's like three other people in here.

If it's a couples thing, why is someone sending out invitations to people who don't know each other? Seems kinda creepy. Plus, I'm married, which seems like it would have been a kick in the pants if you didn't look like there were about seven places you'd rather be."