If love is red

[ineptus]

Who: All the good people participating in the Blind Date Event
When: February 5th and 6th
Where: All around the city!
What: Blind dates galore!
Warnings/Rating: Pg-13 for at least language, I'm sure, and also bars/nightclubs are involved. Will be changed/updated as necessary. Please let me know if anything needs to be added here!

[You've got a location, you've got a time, you've got a mission: Date. It's as simple as that! Sure you have no idea who you're about to meet, but there is definitely no harm in trusting the expert skills of a 12 year old girl! You're going to have the time of your life, woo that date of yours and spend Valentine's Day with someone special, no doubt about it! So get out there and enjoy yourself!]

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Below in this handy dandy table is a link to all top levels. Top levels are posted in chronological order! If you have questions or need anything, you can PM this account, reach me on aim at breedslilacs or hit me up with a PP therapeuticGuns and I will be there to help asap! I should have gotten all the proper tags in there, but please make sure you're included! I may have missed a name or two!

Kagemitsu and Mia	Ryouga and Akashi	Ai Thao and Edgeworth	Taroutachi and Turkey
Tadashi and Milla	Nonon and Cyrus	Butch and Katsura	Kashuu and Atem
Roxy and Jaune	Jade and Manfred	Dotanuki and Masamune	Yogi and Shishou
Trucy and Leon	Hawke and Larry	Aura and Oona	Sousei and Kevin
Peko and Soramaru	Myriam and Shiho	Lapis and Phoenix	Gongenzaka and Ruca
Zara and Gintoki	Jungo and Haru	Rasu and Labrador	England and Chibi
Fuyuhiko and Veronica	Jaco and Nagasone	IV and Pearl	Vector and Yuto
Rio and Leia	Cain and Gundam	Weiss and Trunks	Integra and Ricther
Mizael and Patchouli	Rock Lee and Maya	Kousetsu and Souji	Levi and Wolfwood

Comments

[cardboard_journalism]

Nah, the actual flower shop. They put together some really nice arrangements, you know! Miss Vietnam is really talented. I mean, buying flowers for myself was the last thing I would've thought I'd be doing, but that's how it turned out.

--Kahk kahk kahk... Oh, nothing. I'm just wondering how exactly everyone was paired up... y'know?

[good_ideas]

I think Kaoru-chan and I are just going to see if we can use it at the cafe. [No point in buying their own flowers. That and if they showed an interest, their stalker might decide he needed to get them flowers too.] I mean, the flowers are pretty but they don't last that long, you know? Isn't it better to get a whole plant instead?

And I don't know. Randomly, maybe? I didn't sign up so I'm not even sure what that guy [whom she is going to find and destroy eventually] wrote.

[cardboard_journalism]

Maybe...

[Myriam was grateful she had the box to hide her blushing]

"That guy"? Who's "that guy"?

[good_ideas]

You don't have to worry too much about who he is, because no one's going to ever see him again.

[The way Shiho laughs as she says this isn't reassuring. But she feels a lot better now that she's resolved to hunt him down.]

Besides, we're supposed to be on a date, aren't we? So let's go.

[cardboard_journalism]

Right! Right...

[she reached to pull open the door to the tea shop... then stopped and held it open, tentatively]

Um... after you? Kahk kahk kahk...

[good_ideas]

Thank you. [Shiho smiles at Myriam sweetly as she ducks into the shop, her mood very much improved.]

So. Where do you want to sit? Near the windows? In a corner?

[cardboard_journalism]

[she'd follow along inside]

Somewhere out of the way. Definitely.

[that would be Scuttlebutt's answer regardless of the circumstance, really.]

[good_ideas]

Hm...

[Shiho looks around the shop, spotting a nook in a corner with some comfy chairs which she points to.]

How about there?

[cardboard_journalism]

[that spot was ideal! But she couldn't act too excited so she tried to contain her relief.] [play it calmly, Scuttlebutt!]

Oh... sure! That looks all right.

[good_ideas]

[Since Myriam seems to like it, Shiho smiles, then goes ahead and claims that spot for them, setting her bag beside her as she sits. There are a couple of little menus tucked to one side of the table, and Shiho pulls one out to take a look.]

A place that only serves tea and snacks, huh. [That's surprisingly tame and normal for this place.]

[cardboard_journalism]

Hm... now I'm just wondering if the cafe owners paid the matchmaker kickbacks.

[it was a little difficult to squeeze in a comfy chair in a box, but Scuttlebutt managed it somehow]

[good_ideas]

[Shiho wonders why Myriam doesn't just wear a bag over her head...it's practically a box?]

We can ask?

[While Shiho shook the cafe owner's hand so they could figure out if they were lying.

Or maybe not right now because someone is coming by to welcome them with a smile and asking them what they want.]

Have you decided yet?

[Because Shiho's probably going to have their chocolate tea.]

[cardboard_journalism]

Might be worth considering!

[oops, time to speak with the server then]

Kahk... just water's fine.

[good_ideas]

Then I'll have a chocolate tea. Oh, and this cake over here, too.

[Shiho pauses before smiling.]

You're sure that you're fine with just water?

[Shiho's going to leave the interview with the owner for later because if there was a dubious cover-up that could make someone incredibly uncomfortable and worried, Shiho wanted to be part of it.]

[cardboard_journalism]

Y-yeah... just water.

[she'd wait for the server to leave before saying more]

I don't... y'know, eat or drink anything while wearing this box, except water, because it won't stain.

[good_ideas]

[.....Shiho had been hanging around that quack doctor for too long, because she finds herself frowning and wondering if she should reach out and make sure this girl is actually okay. Health-wise, that is.]

How long do you wear that box for each day?

[cardboard_journalism]

...that question's kinda personal, isn't it? Sss.

[still, she wasn't upset]

Pretty much all the time. Except for meals, sleeping, and in the bathroom.

[good_ideas]

[She frowns at hearing that because she hadn't thought of it as a personal question. (Or maybe it was just that she had too many weird people back home who would ask even more uncomfortable questions about that box.)]

Not really.

I just wanted to make sure you were actually putting time aside each day to eat.

[She's going to remember to be tsundere in a moment.]

[cardboard_journalism]

Oh... yeah, of course! I mean, I'm not some robot that runs on journalism, y'know?

[at least, not yet...]

[good_ideas]

Well, yeah. I know that.

[Because she kind of used psychometry to see what's under the box....]

As long as you're sure then. [Because she wasn't worried or anything.]

How messy of an eater are you though that you can't even have a smoothie or something? You could have them give you a straw...

[cardboard_journalism]

Kahk kahk kahk... Uh... well I have to sorta lean back to get the straw through the slat here...

[no mouth-hole in the box, of course]

...anyway, I'm fine with water.

[good_ideas]

Can't you just....make a hole for a straw?

[Not that there was anything wrong with drinking only water. It's just that Shiho can't imagine why someone would choose water over chocolate cake.]

[cardboard_journalism]

No way! I'd look like some kinda weirdo or something...

1/2

[good_ideas]

[She's got some bad news for you, Myriam.]

2/2

[good_ideas]

And you're not a weirdo for wearing a box all the time?