Apartment Above Luke's, Thursday Afternoon

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy was sitting crosslegged in her living room, surrounded by a truly staggering number of anatomically-shaped lollipops, hard candies, and other confections. It turned out that the company that had supplied Dite's with chocolates and candy had gone out of business and multiple other companies had sent samples to the store in hopes of scoring the contract. Kathy...wasn't sure what it said about the store or the island that it was considered a lucrative enough market for a number of stores to go to this much trouble.

But, she was determined to be a good manager and if that meant spending the afternoon trying a ridiculous amount of sexy candy to decide which she liked best, well, she was up to the task. As long as she took breaks for real food every few hours, she should be okay, right? And she had a pen and paper to record her observations (and had come up with several criteria to judge them on), making this all legit and aboveboard and not just an excuse to gorge out on penis-shaped candy all day.

So far, she'd noticed that the sour gummy boobs made the cut on her lip burn and the mold for one of the companies tended to make their chocolates look more like melted candles than anything sexy. Oh, and another company used cheap chocolate that tended to flake off which was just NOT attractive in something meant to simulate body parts. It was this kind of attention to detail that separated the good managers from the mediocre, see?

[Open! But probably slow as I'm still in training, so who knows what my schedule will be when this finally posts. Link to Anders' thread.]

Comments

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante shrugged. "Hey, I don't know where you're at with everyone," he said.

[spin_kick_snap]

"No, but you and Anders are the far most likely people I'd be sleeping with," she pointed out with a Totally Casual Shrug. "And you'd know if I were sleeping with either of you."

[rebelseekspizza]

"I don't know," Dante said, shrugging. Again. "Told Anders it's his call."

[spin_kick_snap]

"Like Anders wouldn't tell you," Kathy snorted, turning away because sorting candy was absolutely a priority right then. "Besides, I haven't seen him since you got back."

[rebelseekspizza]

"He doesn't have to if he doesn't want to," Dante said. At least this time the shrug was constrained to his voice. "And really? Huh."

[spin_kick_snap]

"Of course he doesn't have to," Kathy said, looking up at him to roll her eyes. "He wants to. He really cares about you and he shares stuff with people he cares about."

Which Dante knew already. Obviously.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Now you're making it sound all sentimental and shit," Dante said, pulling a face.

And quickly moving to get a swig of his drink.

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy was not going to mention that it absolutely was sentimental. Or that Anders was sentimental. Again, he knew all that already.

"Well, god forbid it sounds sentimental," she drawled. "I'm sure it's all very platonic bro-caring. You'll both be popping collars and wearing puka shell necklaces any minute now."

[rebelseekspizza]

"High-fives and booze," Dante announced. "... And getting laid. But that's it."

Sure.

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy couldn't help her disbelieving snort. No one could have, it was impossible. And that was without knowing about the 'I love you.'

"Sure," she said because she wasn't going to argue with him about it. Especially if everything was working between them because Dante was cheerfully ignoring it. "Doesn't stop Anders from liking to talk."

[rebelseekspizza]

"... I'll give you that one," Dante allowed. He sank back into his seat with his drink. "You should be getting laid."

Come rain or shine, Dante Sparda would believe in the power of sex.

[spin_kick_snap]

"You're probably right," Kathy agreed, tossing some more of the strawberry-scented candies at him. "But I don't tend to fuck strangers, remember? May eventually revisit that possibility, but for now, I draw the line at medium petting."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Did you at least get a new vibe?" Dante said, tossing more fake dicks at her.

[spin_kick_snap]

"Like you said, there's gotta be some benefits to working for a sex store," she said, catching one in her mouth. "...I got two. One's waterproof."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Nice," Dante said. "You can start reenacting those fucked-up shampoo commercials."

[spin_kick_snap]

"I'm not saying I bought Herbal Essence shampoo for just that reason at fifteen, but I'm not not saying that, either," Kathy laughed.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante snickered. "And no one around to go 'no, that's not the hair you put it on'."

[spin_kick_snap]

"You think I wasn't smart enough to figure that out all by myself?" Kathy scoffed.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante should probably stop talking about sex with her.

But now he was way too far into this conversation to let it go.

"I don't know," he said. "Did you figure out to use the bottle too?"

[spin_kick_snap]

"Well, no," she admitted. "Did I never tell you how I got myself off before I discovered vibrators? I made Anders crack up when I told him about the first time I ever tried."

[rebelseekspizza]

"I don't remember, but now I gotta know," Dante said.

When you were caught in it, no way to go but forward.

[spin_kick_snap]

If your name was Dante Sparda, maybe.

"I was terrible with my fingers," Kathy said with a rueful grin. "Still am by myself. But one day after gymnastics I was taking a bath and saw all the water rushing out of the faucet and, well...had an idea. An idea that worked. A little too well, actually."

[rebelseekspizza]

"So you went for a round of some bathroom gymnastics?"

[spin_kick_snap]

"And got a gold," Kathy said. "Came so hard I ended up going under the water and hitting the back of my head on the tub. I think I had a bump the next day, even. Not that that was enough to convince me to, uhh, find another way, so..." She was laughing again, though with her hands over her face. "Kept that up for a few months until my dad got the water bill and freaked out over how much it had grown. Not that I copped to anything at all ever."

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante let out a burst of laughter. "Kathy Li came and the water bill went," he said. "Suits the fucker right."