Shoot Your Shot, Idiot

[mansbestend]

Sender: Denji
To: Everyone
Subject: Heads up?

[The top of the page is... weird. It's stained red at the top corner, and it was creeping in about an inch or two before it stopped. Touching it does nothing as it just feels like paper. Someone spilled ink. Or something. Hours later, there's writing:]


its me again
no ass-kicking requests this time, sorry to disappoint
I wanna try lookin for a friend who shows up in my dreams sometimes so its dreamwalk time

dont know how its gonna go, but if you see alleys or bits of Tokyo sometime soon that's me, ignore it

also if you're a lazy fuck and want lunch, dinner, groceries or coffee delivered to your place, write to me. givin part-time work a shot. i can take your stuff over, or if you want my dog can bring it. i mean, who doesn't want a cute dog bringin them coffee, right?

Maple Leaf is really big but she's nice. likes people.

anyway thats all I got.

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Sender: Denji
To: Octavia of the Ars Goetia
Subject: [Untitled]

[This is written really tiny. Super fuckin' tiny, and in a corner of the page. He went out of his way to try and sneak this over-]

hey so if you're not busy sometime, would you be down for hangin out goin out on some stuff?

[Fuck. This was harder than he thought.]

Comments

sender: Octavia

[systemofadowny]

(On a first read through, it read simply enough. Just hanging out with Denji like they regularly do. But with all the scratched out bits in place just to ask to do stuff, it made her wonder. Then a thought comes to mind that delays her response.

What would make it so hard to just ask to hang out? It's normal for them to. Unless...it's not just a normal hangout? Oh sweet Satan, is he asking her out? Is she officially at that point in her life? Okay, Octavia, don't freak out. Don't make it weird. He's a friend! And this is just...a normal thing. Right?)

Yeah! There's plenty of stuff to do!

(Fuck, are the exclamation marks too much? Is this really something she's worrying about now? Funny how after the past few months, she finally has a reminder that she's still a teenager.)

Like hang out somewhere until we get bored and hang out somewhere else.

[mansbestend]

[Search him. He's kinda flying by the seat of his pants here, as there's no real wrong way to... wait, there's plenty of wrong ways to ask someone out... whatever. Fuck it. Brain still healing.

HOLY SHIT IS THAT AN AFFIRMATIVE?? He needed a minute to finish choking on his late breakfast that decided to head down the wrong tube before scrambling up the quill.]

hell yeah! reverein's huge and there's still places we haven't been to that shouldn't shoo us off for ~*loitering*~

we can grab take out wherever you want. is tomorrow night OK?

[systemofadowny]

Yeah, totally! And we can cap it off by getting some cake, if you want. There's loads of different flavors and kinds and probably some dream stuff we can't try anywhere else.

I've got no plans for tomorrow night! Where do you wanna meet up?

(This is really happening, isn't it? Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap. She's gotta figure what to do and what to wear and holy fuck, what does she do if Stolas and Blitzø find out? Should she tell them? Should she not? This is suddenly so much to think about and boy is she glad she wasn't asked in person. She'd be so much more awkward...)

[mansbestend]

[OH. A meet up spot! Right, he needed to try and slip around Blitzø and Big Bird. But he happens to know something of an agent of chaos among the staff...]

Lady of Bliss, after lights out at the office? That's a close landmark to a couple places you've gotta see

[systemofadowny]

That's perfect.

(Madhuri's gonna be a huge lifesaver. So long as they're honest and share the details (especially after it's done), she won't kick up a fuss. Just sit back and popcorn.)

We're gonna be walking around and stuff, so it'd be weird to dress formally. I think.

No, casual wear. Casual. Definitely casual.

[mansbestend]

Gonna be real with you, I got no fuckin clue what formal dress is anyway

But I usually wear a tie so thats sumthin right? lol

[systemofadowny]

Yeah, that's close enough. Formal dress can get complicated, especially for the upper class. You've seen how dad dresses or what I wore when we saw my grandfather. Not a fan.

But yeah, casual. After sunset sound good?

[mansbestend]

Sounds good to me. I'm more of a night o

Person

[systemofadowny]

It's okay to say it. Dad makes the same joke all the time.

I'll just roll my eyes and groan at it.

[mansbestend]

just sayin

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