4. Party Rock Anthem

[buymedumplings]

Characters: Party People
Content: Bolin hosts a block party in Twilight Town. Food, fun, and partying! Whoo!
Location (including world): Twilight Town, The Sandlot
Time of Day: Late afternoon and into the night
Warnings: Excessive partying?
Notes: Feel free to start your own sub-threads, thread-jack, and just have fun. Open free for all is the style for threading.


Bolin, with the help of Spirits, Moogles, and various other people had finally finished setting up the party. There were tables laden with different kinds of food of course and decorations everywhere. They'd made sure to clear a space for dancing and Perry the Platypus had volunteered to DJ with some equipment borrowed from the moogles for the night. Bolin wished there could be more people so they could have games and stuff like a proper street festival...but for what he had he felt it was pretty good.

Now they just needed people to show up for the fun.

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[guerriera]

Shoulders curved in reply, and Carolina feigned greater interest in her icecream for a couple of minutes rather than work out an appropriate response. Or at least, it started feigned - it was genuinely good ice cream. "The things you forget to miss when you're used to MREs," she murmured.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

"Yeah. Though MREs are better than what happens with rationing," York said. "Did you run into that much?"

[guerriera]

"A little." A lot. She hadn't stopped long to think too hard or worry about it. Carolina stabbed the ice cream scoop with a little more effort than necessary, before fiddling with her spoon. "The universe has been through some hard times. You?"

[allfunandgamesuntil]

"Yeah, a bit." York shrugged. After the ship. "This place is heaven compared to that."

[guerriera]

After after after.

Left eye winced slightly, thankfully hidden by the fall of red hair across her face, before taking a mouthful of her dessert. Definitely no contest in regards to how good it tasted.

Or maybe there was. Glancing across at York, Carolina kept her expression free of mischief - right up until she leaned over to see if she could steal a spoonful of his icecream. For comparison, of course.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

York yelped. "Hey! You've got your own." He was grinning, though. He leaned away but not quite fast enough; he wasn't going to drop his whole bowl just to keep it away from her. It was nice to be like this again.

[guerriera]

"Not my fault you're slow," the redhead taunted, before pulling back in victory: she'll be keeping this spoonful. Yum!

Still, he had bought it for her. After a moment of deliberation, the cup of strawberry was held out in turn. "Only fair, I suppose." Carolina probably should have asked first. But where was the fun in that?

[allfunandgamesuntil]

York grinned and took a spoonful. He tasted it and smiled at her. "Yours is good too."

[guerriera]

She let the slight smile lurk on her lips as she finished her helping of stolen chocolate, before Carolina let herself fall in step beside York. Of course it was good. Real dairy products were rare enough, but those that used fresh fruit?

MREs had their uses but they couldn't duplicate ice cream worth a damn.

"Where to next."

[allfunandgamesuntil]

"Dunno. There's not much here...I'm surprised Rarity doesn't have an accessories booth up." It would have been worth checking out; that lady had taste.

[guerriera]

Given Carolina's ensemble, the redhead would have to agree with that assessment. "Sometimes people would like to relax at a party instead of work," she said, keeping her voice deadpan to go along with the completely straight face.

"Or she's simply taking stock of potential customers, for the next time there's some big occasion." Dream world or not, she had a feeling there would be a next time if someone had some say in the matter.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

"Nah, she's probably just around having fun. Everyone should get to." He had no idea whether the ponies would dress up for things. On the one hand, a pony dressmaker seemed weird, since they didn't seem to wear clothes much. On the other, maybe they just had really high standards.

[guerriera]

'Should', huh. "Whether they want to or not?" Carolina asked, not quite pointedly, shooting York a cool look.

It wouldn't have surprised her to know all ponies had high standards of some kind. Rarity had certainly been thorough with hat fittings for Dax. Never mind her own outfit.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

York laughed. "Are there people who don't ever want to have fun?" he asked. I know about wanting to put fun off until work is done, but that's different.

[guerriera]

"There's a time and a place for everything. And sometimes, there's no time for fun." It was supposed to be a light hearted quip in reply, but the words ended up blunter by the end than she'd intended. Her shoulders squared a little.

Carolina hadn't exactly had time or reason for fun in the past few years.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

"Fair enough." York shrugged. It was true. "But if there's a time for fun, it's definitely now."

[guerriera]

She was silent for a minute. Then, slowly, a small but rather genuine smile twitched at the corners of her mouth. Carolina didn't deserve a friend like York. But there were times she was glad he made her put up with him anyway.

Bare shoulder bumped his arm lightly, before her attention turned back to the party at large. They weren't the only ones here for fun, after all.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

York grinned. It was hard to get smiles out of her sometimes, but it was always worth it. He hadn't seen enough of them out of his friend towards the end there.