A Night in West Egg

[professorlionface]

WHO: EVERYBODY OF ALL AGES
WHERE: The Xavier Institute
WHEN: The night of June 16th, all night!
WARNINGS: Who can really tell anymore? Probable language. Possible violence. Copious dancing.
SUMMARY: PROM PROM PROM PROM PROM PROM PROM
FORMAT: OPEN

The guests into an auditorium transformed. Through the magic of papier mache, the room has been decked out like a speakeasy, the refreshments laid out on a very makeshift bar that will not stock alcohol as long as they can prevent it. The whole room is cast with a cool blue light, and a jazz band's been hired to take the stage for an hour before leaving the rest of the evening to the DJ.

It was time to get this party started.

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REFRESHMENTS
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Comments

[fabricates]

[Oh, checking yourself over for her? Maybe she should be flattered. She flicks her bangs out of her eyes.]

The hell are you talking about? The dress is fine! I haven't torn it or anything.

[glowsferatu]

[ no leave her alone she isn't being obvious or anything ]

Yet I can't help noticing that you're wearing only the single bangle.

[fabricates]

[It's ok, she totally didn't sashay over for Kanaya's benefit or anything.]

They were too bulky together. And that has nothing to do with the dress anyway.

[glowsferatu]

[ she huffs, trying to play this cool and dignified ]

The dress is but a component of the overall outfit. Of course, nothing can be done on my part to prevent your predilections from being so tacky as to believe they may have succeeded in a grouping, but being made to expend the effort in forging them doe inspire some degree of expectation that they would at least be put to use.

[fabricates]

I didn't say I wasn't going to wear them! Just not now. There you go again, making baseless assumptions!

Should I assume this is going to be par for course every conversation we have?

[glowsferatu]

When you take advantage of the opportunity for your gain at my own expense, I think I have that right.

I made that outfit for tonight. You, being aware of this fact, knew that you would be unable to acquire the other pieces if I was aware you would be withholding them for this evening. [ could it be thoughtlessness? probably! but kanaya's going to attribute malice and deceit anyway. ]

[fabricates]

[Her lips turn down into a frown. Her patience, which isn't very good to begin with, is beginning to wear very thin with this conversation.]

I was going to wear them, I already told you they looked like shit together, which is why I didn't.

And if I had? You'd be nagging my ass about how I made your outfit look tacky with my poor fashion taste because you're the expert on that apparently. Either way you'd be fussing at me for something, so I went with the option I liked better.

You can have the jewelry back if it's such a big deal.

[glowsferatu]

I'd already told you they wouldn't operate well in tandem, but no, you had to be greedy.

And what exactly would I do with them if I did take them back? I've already made them, there's no unmaking them. You might as well keep them.

[ she mutters to herself how she wishes she'd made them pokier on the inside so that they'd be that much more uncomfortable ]

[fabricates]

I had to see it for myself! They could have worked together.

[She rolls her eyes. This is seriously ridiculous.]

Then quit nagging at me, they're going to get worn. It's not like I don't like them or anything, geez.

[glowsferatu]

Fine.

[ she folds her arms and stares off to the side ]

...But maybe it would have been easier if you didn't.

[fabricates]

If I didn't what? Like them?

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

[glowsferatu]

[ she was not supposed to hear that part ]

Nothing. Pay it no mind.

[fabricates]

[She's not deaf, Kanaya.]

It was definitely something! You can't take it back now.

[glowsferatu]

[ it would be easier if she was that, too! ]

None of that matters because it meant nothing whatsoever.

[fabricates]

[rood]

Cut the shit, you wouldn't have said it if you didn't mean something by it.

[glowsferatu]

And perhaps that meaning isn't for your understanding.

[fabricates]

God, what is your problem? You harp at me for not wearing them, and then make quippy comments when I say I'm going to.

Yet another thing you can't make your mind up about. Shocking.

[glowsferatu]

Those comments were not directed toward you, they don't qualify for this consideration. Nor were they regarding your eventual usage of such an accessory.

[ just the supposed appreciation of them ]

[fabricates]

They obviously were! Who else would they be directed at?

[God, fuck you Kanaya now she's going to wear them just to spite you.]

[glowsferatu]

[ oh vriska don't encourage her ]

They were intended as a private aside to myself, the exclusion of their outside extension to be absolute, most especially from you.

[fabricates]

Then you shouldn't have said it out loud. It still meant something, but the more I think about what the answer could be, the more I really just don't give a shit!

[She is aiming the most passive aggressive smile at her.]

[glowsferatu]

[ kanaya just brightly glowers ] I hadn't said it loudly, it was under my breath.

If you were truly so apathetic to the truth of the statement, why would you so enthusiastically press the topic?

[fabricates]

If you didn't want me to hear it, then you shouldn't have said it at all. It's as simple as that.

As for why, I don't know, you tell me. You're the expert on me, right?

[glowsferatu]

[ it's such an obvious bait, but she's so easily baited ]

Because you can't bear the thought of being spoken about without full knowledge of what's being said.

[fabricates]

[It's what makes them such a beautiful trainwreck.]

Nah, I think I'm fine with not knowing. And anyway, I'm sure I could figure out what you meant on my own. So wasting time asking you is really just that - wasting my time.