Birthday Party for Laura/X-23

[noteful]

It's a pretty low-key party, all things considered, and not significantly different than the one Parker or Meg would have thrown in a dorm room for a friend at home, not-exactly-traditional menu not withstanding.

There's music, low enough to talk over (and maybe with a little more folk in the mix than one expects to find a party). Balloons and streamers in purple and blue and red. A place to leave presents. People to meet or catch up with.

And, most importantly, a chance to wish X-23 (or Laura) a very happy birthday.

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Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

Medusa stares.

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

. . . which is briefly alarming, until Cal realizes what the glasses are for.

"What?"

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

"Messy."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

"Yes? . . . have you had spaghetti before?" Cal asks.

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

"Yes. X introduced me to it."

When she was psychotic, but that's a story for another time.

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

". . . it's messy," Cal says, just in case that might somehow clarify things. Then he shrugs. "I don't know, it was just one of the rules for public behavior. For my family."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

Medusa snorts at that.

"Children are messy eaters. If adults are, it just means that don't practice. It's..." She holds up one of her slender hands (patterned with henna). "We eat with our hands, in my culture. In polite society, you use only three fingers."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

Cal is pretty sure it's not possible to eat spaghetti politely, but he can tell when a subject has hit its expiration date. Usually.

"Sounds a lot easier," he says.

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

"Actually," she says, "only three fingers is hard. And ladies only use the fingertips."

Beat.

"But then, in Milliways, everyone seems to use cutlery. It's very odd."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

"Well," Cal says. "Pretty much everyone in Milliways is somewhere around my time, give or take a few decades. Or a couple centuries. Way after cutlery was invented, anyway. 'Swhat we're used to."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

"Like having sex with your clothes on," Medusa mutters (mostly) under her breath.

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

Not quite under enough.

Cal blinks.

"- What?"

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

Her smile dimpling slightly,

"Eating with cutlery. It's like having sex with your clothes on."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

"To be done only when you're so desperate you can't wait another second?"

No power on any earth could have stopped him from asking. Or the sly smirk.

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

"That...wasn't quite what I meant," Medusa admits, turning ever so slightly pink.

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

"First thing I thought of," Cal says. With complete innocence. Except for the smirk that's not going away, but it is more friendly teasing and less slyness now.

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

"Clearly. What I meant was you miss out on most of it."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

"You think so?" Cal asks doubtfully.

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

"Yes."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

Cal continues to be doubtful.

"I dunno," he says. "Mostly after finger foods I just feel greasy."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

"You've just had bad cooking, then."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

Cal laughs.

"Probably. Finger foods mostly just happened when I was too stoned to care what I was eating, anyway."

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

"Stoned?"

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[isaysimplewords]

"Oh. Yeah. Uh. Drugs."

Medusa's just learning all kinds of exciting things today, isn't she?

Re: Mingle with the other guests

[mycursedface]

She really is.

"Oh. Right. I didn't know that was the...stoned? Really?"