[text-locked to kaoru] Kicking off the Valentine's shenanigans...

[theheirofbreath]

hey kaoru!
are you busy?

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[breatheinthefog]

*blink* What.

[theheirofbreath]

Umm, uh.. I just meant that, well, you never smile. But you should, 'cause your smile is pretty.

[His brain is just stumbling all over itself, so have some rambling.]

Not that you're not always pretty. You totally are! Just.... I like your smile... a lot....

I'm.... I'm gonna shut up now.

[breatheinthefog]

...Maybe I will.

[theheirofbreath]

Hehe...

[In the interests of saying a few less stupid things in the near future, lets call in a distraction.]

Umm, the movie's gonna start soon.

[breatheinthefog]

All right. Let's go. *She grabs his wrist and follows the line to the ticket attendant.* Like this, right?

[theheirofbreath]

[For a second, all he can think about is how they're totally almost holding hands.]

Uh, yeah. Just give the tickets to him, and he'll tell us which theater it is.

[breatheinthefog]

Okay. *Kaoru hands over the tickets, gets the stubs back, passes one over to John, and walks to the theatre with him and the giant bird plush.*

[theheirofbreath]

Where do you wanna sit? I like to be near the front, but anywhere is fine.

[breatheinthefog]

I don't care. Let's go to the front, then. Most of the people are going to the back or centre anyway.

*And so they get the completely vacated front row! There's probably even going to be a seat for the bird once everyone's in.*

John is such a dork....

[theheirofbreath]

[The movie is pretty typical action fare. Normally, John would be riveted to the screen, but his mind keeps wandering. What would she do if he tried to hold her hand? Or maybe stretched and put his arm around her? Guys do that in romantic comedies all the time. Or is that too forward? No, the hand holding is probably safer. But this is a first date, so is even that too much? What would Dave do?

Nah, if he were that cool, she'd probably be holding his hand already. Forget it, just go for it. Worry about things later, that's always worked before. He reaches his hand out very tentatively, gets it almost to the armrest and... abort! abort! He hastily pulls it away. Yeah, he is the smoothest.]

hahahahahahahahahaha

[breatheinthefog]

*Kaoru's too busy trying to figure out what's going on and why the man with the gun cares so much about what happens to his family that he's going to go into the jungle and fight the people threatening them. Was that what people normally did? Would she do that for anyone?

Why was she entertaining the thought that she would?*

Tch.

*Oh, hey, John is acting strangely. She's going to tilt her head at him.* What are you doing?

[theheirofbreath]

N- nothing! Nothing at all!

[Oh God, she saw. Someone behind them shooshes him and he quiets down.]

S- sorry....

[breatheinthefog]

*Kaoru stares for a while before getting back to the movie. She'll ask later.*

[theheirofbreath]

[He is so very glad for the darkened theater hiding how very much he is blushing right now. He turns his attention back to the safety of the movie. Maybe he can get through the rest of this date without embarrassing himself further. yeah, no.]

[breatheinthefog]

*Poor John. This is what happens when you ask out Prospero's resident emotionless girl.*

[theheirofbreath]

[He's managed to lose most of the obvious redness in his face by the time the credits roll.]

So, what did you think? Pretty awesome, right?

[breatheinthefog]

It was sort of confusing. The man wanted to save his family more than he wanted to protect the city, but in the end he was able to save both. That kind of thing doesn't happen. Does it?

[theheirofbreath]

Sure it does! I mean, not often, but...

You've just gotta have faith in yourself and keep trying even when everything seems like it's hopeless. If you do that, you can accomplish anything.

[Yeah, he really is this naive. And somehow he makes it work.]

[breatheinthefog]

...You really think that?

[theheirofbreath]

I really do. It's that belief that kept me going back home.

[breatheinthefog]

But fate is inevitable.

[theheirofbreath]

Hehehe, yeah... That's what everyone kept telling me. That we'd already lost, that our session was doomed, that we couldn't possibly change things.

But I could never get myself to believe that.

[breatheinthefog]

You aren't the only one who's said those kinds of things.

[theheirofbreath]

That's good, isn't it? I think more people could use a little optimism in their lives.

[breatheinthefog]

What does it accomplish?