1907/Date night...

Date night...
Date of Scene:	04 September 2016
Location:	Uminari City - Game Center Crown
Synopsis:	.. and not date night, but a night of chatting and teasing and laughing and acquiring magical girl plushies at the Crown.
Cast of Characters:	Naru Osaka, Alexis Raskoph, Haruna Kurosawa, Hannah Sharpe, Mikoto Nakajima

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Naru Osaka has posed:
It is the night before school starts after sumer vacation. A busy vacation for some, eventful for others, and irrelevant for those who aren't actually in school. It does mean that the Crown is a happening place, full of teens (and pre-teens and not so far post teens), who are gaming and noshing the last few moments of freedom away.

Naru has taken over a table where she can both watch people gaming /and/ have somewhere to settle with a milkshake and her sketchbook. Best of both worlds, and currently people watching has triumphed over drawing.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
Without Alex directly announcing his presence, his sudden arrival at Naru's table might come as an actual surprise. The german teen just suddenly slips over from some corner of the eye and drops himself down onto a seat directly opposite from Naru, hands still stuck into the pockets of the brown leather jacket he's apparently taken a habit to wearing now that the weather's at least a little colder.

For once, he doesn't actually seem to have any *fresh* bruises on him, and the split lip seems to be healing alright, too. His nose still has a bandaid over it, though, inexplicably enough.

"Hey," is all he offers to the girl, at first, in a quiet bit of murmuring that's barely audible, even. His expression is just a *little* grumpy.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
It's a Date! A silly date to the Game Center crown with Hannah-chan, which, she has finally dug out of a pile of paperwork at WPS (after carefully filing it all Alphabetically because that's why they pay her the big bucks.)

"I think this will be relaxing, Hannah~" she sings. "Nothing super fancy. No need for fancy dress. Corvus is at home playing poker with some other mascots so just you n' me!~" she sings out. "I'm going to win ya something from the crane game. Watch. Tuxedo Kamen plush, it's coming." she insists.

She looks around and...

"Oh! Hi Naru-chan!" she beams at Naru. Then she looks over at Alexis.

"Oh!... Alexis-kun!" she beams. She suddenly tugs Hannah over fully.

"Alexis. This is Hannah-chan! Captain of the Kickboxing Club at Infinity. Hannah. This is Alexis. He's from /Germany/ where there's /Bratwurst/" she says with wide eyes. "He's in Verone's Kickboxing Club!"

Then she looks at Alexis. "Let's Beat him up!" she says pointedly. "TRAINING!" she throws her hands up.

She is clearly joking.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
D...dateo!? It's a fine time to be Hannah Sharpe. Profits are up, research productivity is also up, and now she's out and about with her favorite person: one excellent girlfriend and punchy precure Haruna! Arm in arm with Haruna, she can't help but laugh. No evil here. Just enjoying Haruna's presence.

For the record, she's come here in a jean-skirt and blouse with one of those obnoxious happy faces on it. Let it never be said that Hannah has any fashion sense when it comes to things beyond suits or dresses. Her cane's in her right arm, tucked against her armpit as she lets Haruna drive her around.

Yoink! "Get me the Tuxedo Kamen one. I've got a corner of the office with a Sailor V and a Bunny that needs company." She adds with a grin.

Hannah perks up though! "Naru! You're back! Hey, how was the trip, huh? You weren't /SLACKING/ were you?" Scowl! Nevertheless, she feels around for a one armed hug of her kickboxing kohai!

Blink. "Germany, huh? Yo! Hannah Sharpe, what Haruna here said! Nice to meet you kiddo! Or should I say, Freut mich!" Her German is at least passable, it seems.

"Don't worry, Alexis, you're not the only transplant. American, myself." She perks again. "...Oh /REALLY/! Now now, only if he asks /nicely/, Haruna-chan." Hannah, for her part, sounds completely serious. She's already cracking her knuckles.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Date Night is Date Night. And Hikari has dragged Mikoto out of the lab for the evening. They've just got done with some gaming, judging from their arrival from the arcade right on Hannah and Haruna's heels.

"That game is just broken," Hikari grumbles. "You can't get past that guy even though you've got the one weapon he's vulnerable to already?"

"It's a cutscene," Mikoto shrugs. "They happen."

They're dressed in matching cosplay outfits, Miko in a black miniskirt and leggings with white boots and top, and Hikari in a white kimono with black leggings and boots, a green and black obi, and a black cape - anyone who's been following recent video games might recognize the outfits from 'Fate/Grand Order'.

"Hey, isn't that?"

"Hssh," Mikoto says, jabbing her 'sister' with an elbow. "Leave 'em be."

Instead, as Hannah harasses Alex, Mikoto drags Hikari off to get milkshakes. It doesn't take a lot of encouragement.

Naru Osaka has posed:
Naru starts ever so slightly as Alex drops into the chair across from her and she grins as she notes the who of the invasion. "Hey." She greets just the same in return. "Don't /you/ look just delighted with life in general." She notes, amusement in her tone.

"Hi Haruna!" Naru turns at the call of her name, waving there and then grinning as Hannah is of course with her. "Hi Hannah. It was a great trip, I'm glad to be home, nd there was no slacking. Not on vacatino and /so very/ not once I got home." She gets up to lean in and give Hannah a hug, one armed or not.

Naru explains to Alexis as she resettles. "Hannah is my slavedriver at the gym, and we run together. Except when she's busy, and then I miss her terribly and console myself by tormenting Izumi." She laughs warmly, delighted by the arrival of the pair.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"OH yeah," Alex grunts to Naru's way , meeting her gaze only momentarily before he's peering off into the crowds in the arcade. "I'm absolutely excited, yeah." Sarcasm really doesn't suit him much, does it?

Distractions come along in the form of an approaching familiar face and an unfamiliar face. Haruna being the somewhat familiar one, so he raises his hand upwards in idle greeting coupled with an equally-idle "Hey," but it's Hannah his attention ends up primarily setting on.

"You don't exactly look any older than me," he points out to the american girl in a grumble, and his head tilts downwards slightly after the knuckle-cracking, his green eye still remaining on the girl past the shade of his brow. "...How about we leave that for the ring," he suggests, with a heavy sigh. "I have been in trouble enough to know that getting in a scuffle in a place like this is probably gonna end up with me tossed in a jail cell." ...The fact that he sounds like he speaks from experience is probably not that good of a thing.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa grins and looks back at Mikoto and waves! She looks back to Aleix and sliiiides at the table. She seats her tush down. "Me and Hannah are on a date." she says. Then she looks at Naru.

Then she looks at Alexis. back and forth.

"Wait."

"Are /you/ two on a date?" she asks in a scandalus tone with a SHOCKED expression!

"Poor Kunzite will be so upset!" she says placing her arm to her forehead and fallllling back dramatically.

She then grins and peeks up at Alexis. "Eh we're only fooling. Maybe." she grins.

Then she pulls out phone. Starts texting.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah doesn't notice Miko and Hikari juuuust yet. No, she's focused on the trio she's invaded thanks to Haruna!

"Naru. I'm proud. Seriously, kiddo, you have no idea how much progress you've made. I'll make something out of you yet! Not so noodly in those arms anymore, are ya?" Grin! Huuug. And then, a punch to the shoulder!

Hannah seems to physically deflate. Sigh. "Bah. You're no fun! You /sure/ you're in kickboxing club, because you don't seem to have much pep or energy to you!" Complains Hannah, frowning! A hand wave.

"See, that's why you make sure you do it in an alleyway or behind the school bleac...I probably shouldn't spill my secrets." Cough.

Pause. A glance to Gull. Then back to the pair.

"Holy snap you move fast Naru. Aw, man, poor Kunzite! Hey, break the news to him Haruna! Still, grats Naru, Alexis. You better treat Naru right, or I'll be dragging you behind said bleachers, got it!?" She threatens. Poiiiint. Poiiiint. Someone tell Hannah-chan this is Gull being Gull.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Mikoto grins and waves to Haruna, but doesn't call out to her just yet. Instead she's debating with Hikari what flavor (and size) milkshake to get.

"C'mon, I want peanut-butter!" the silver-haired samurai-ette insists. "You always get boring stuff, there's more to ice cream than strawberry, vanilla, 'n chocolate!"

With a heavy sigh, Mikoto looks over the list of flavors available. "Oh, all -right-," she grumbles, not really all that upset. "I'll go with... mm... hazelnut." She passes over a handful of yen notes, and the poor overworked fellow behind the counter breaks away from ogling the two cosplayers to get to work.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Hey, no fighting in the Crown, cause I dont want to spill my smoothie." Naru grins at the three of them, because that's clearly the important part of the potential fight in the Crown.

"Ooh, date night!" Naru sounds delighted for Haruna and Hannah and then she ums softly at the question and looks between Haruna and Alexis and then back to Haruna. The lack of answer is probably at least partially an answer. "Errr." She still doesn't /really/ answer, glancing back to Alexis yet again.

The mention of Kunzite makes her laugh brightly and Naru echos the gesture with the back of her hand to her forehead. "Oh woe, somehow I think Kunzite will struggle through. Somehow."

"I even did some sparring." Naru notes to Hannah with a note of pride. "And got my butt handed to me, but it was fun."

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"Oh I have *plenty* of energy when I need it," Alex claims with a dismissive wave sent to Hannah wave, along with a brief scoffing sound. "I just don't see need for it now. Ain't the type to fight without a reason. IF you *really* wanna go though and call me to scuffle, I ain't gonna back up. We can even go 'round the back outside, real nice quiet spot there." ...The fact that he also knows *that* might not be such a good thing. And here, he returns both his eyes to Hannah, and just momentarily, there's a faint hint of competetiveness in his green irises. "Or behind the bleachers. Or in the locker rooms. Under a bridge. Off the road in the park. I'll let you take your pick on that." The corner of his mouth starts tugging upwards, slowly--

And then Haruna drops *that* little bomb, and his gaze snaps to her instead.

"...Huh?"

The german boy thorws a quick look to NAru, and his face *explodes* in red color. "It-- It's not like that!" He protests quickly, hands going flailing in front of him defensively. "W-w-w'ere just, just... Hanging around here! Like friends do!" Oh dear.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa grins at Naru , a NON ANSWER MEANS YES!

Then Alexis corrects her. "Hey, look, there's no need to be shy~" she grins. She looks back to Mikoto. "Mikotooooo come over here when you're done ordering whatever. Join us!" she says.

She leans against Hannah and grins.

"Hannah-chan can beat you up wherever! In an alley! under it! over it!" she insists.

"I have faith! /and bias!/." she insists.

She smirks a bit and then purses her lips. Then she stands up. "I shall return. With a crane game prize, I SWEAR ON THE ETERNAL TORMENTED SOUL OF CRANE MACHINE JOE!" she insists as she scampers off toward's the claw machines for a second. Then she's patting her pockets.

"Iiiiii don't have any coins. Crap." then she's scampering for the change machine!

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Another frown, right at Naru! "Buzzkill!" Motoki's glaring at her. Sigh. "Fiiiine, you guys win." Sad Hanners, no fighting for you.

Finally, though, familiar voice greets her by way of people asking for milkshakes. "Mikoto? That you?" She calls out vaguely to the pair of girls! Then she's distracted by Naru again. "It's great! We haven't gotten out in a while. Really..." Reeeach, she'll suddenly Hug-Gull tight to her! Smooch! A shared moment of sparkles and love in her eyes.

"I'm so happy right now."

Alexis then gets rounded on. Silence. Is she furious!? Hannah laughs. "Y...you little...I...ahhhh hah hah hah hah!"

A snap of fingers to Motoki. "I like this guy. Any time of day you beautiful little snarky punk! Heeey Moto-kun! Get this guy whatever he wants, on me!"

And then she barrels on. "Yeah, that's what secretly dating partners /always/ say!"

Faith and bias. "That's the /BEST/ kind of bias! Good luck, Haruna! Get me a Tux-kun!" Griiiin.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Well, that's that, they've been invited over. "Y'see?" Hikari says, nudging Mikoto as she takes her peanut-butter milkshake. "They're your friends. You don't need to be all emo. C'mon, let's have some fun."

Mikoto shrugs. "Oh, alright, alright. Just - oh, never mind, you never listen to me anyway."

"'Course I do!" the silver-haired girl insists. Once Mikoto collects her shake, Hikari drags her over to join the party.

And ooh, crane games! "Get me a Mars! She's cool!"

Naru Osaka has posed:
"I know.. I'm /so/ boring." Naru agrees with Hannah with a soft snort of amusement. "No fun whatsoever." She watches that moment of love and sparkles and she just smiles, happy for Hannah being happy.

Naru seems quite accustomed to Alexis turning various shades of crimson and she grins at him and leans over to murmur something softly to him, too quiet to be heard by the others and then she sits up again.

A wave to Mikoto and Hikari as the pair get invited over. "Hi! Pull up chairs, I'm not sure we've met before, and if we have, I'm sorry for not remembering."

A quick call after Haruna with a laugh. "I /never/ get anything at the claw game. Good luck!"

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"You're not helping!!!" Alex blubbers out at Naru right after that whisper. No, that does not help his blushing even a *little*. "When I say it's not like that I mean it!" He blurts back over to Haru and Hannah then, one hand resuming it's waving motions. "We're just friends! THat's all!!"

Eventually, he manages to calm from *that* enough that HAnnah's laugh earns a squint from him. "Oi, oi, calling me 'little' is reserved for people who actually beat me down." Wait, so he doesn't have a problem with the 'punk' part? "So get in line with the rest of the punks tryin' that." With that, he jerks a thumb over his shoulder to indicate... people that aren't actually there, but it's the thought that counts, you know?

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa listens to call outs for other things and she sighs and returns back to the machine with quarters and she looks into the machine. And she blinks.

Then she flutters her eyes.

Then she shoves her face against the glass. "Oh my god..."

Sitting there. At the back, is a plushy magical girl, in seafoam green, fuzzy little feather hairclip, with a small white bird sewn to the shoulder. "No way!"

She begins shoving quarters in that machine like nobody's bussiness for the next five minutes.

Curse. Coin. Move joystick. Curse. Rinse. Repeat.

Squeak squeak squeak.

She is suddenly intensely involved in this. For a good few long moments.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
The Miko and company arrive! "There ya are. How are you doing, Miko? And who's the friend?" Yeah, Hannah's kinda out of the loop right now.

A chuckle. "You're the best kind of boring, Naru." You know, the kind that gets attacked and gets dragged into chaos. /Best kind/!

Alexis gets a smirk. Thank goodness she can't see the whisper. "Methinks the Gentleman doth protest too much." Oh yeah, she's taunting the heck out of this poor guy. Grin. "Oooh, somebody's confident! I like it! Okay! Give me that list, and I'll get 'em dealt with! Sounds fun!" Oh yeah, Hannah-chan sounds like she's awaiting a grand old punching time.

"Seriously though, how long you been fighting?"

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"A little bit more to the right, Haruna!" She then calls out 'helpfully' to a Gull.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Mikoto takes her shake, sips it, and nods. "Not bad, not bad." She turns to follow Hikari over to the group, sliding an arm around the shorter girl as they walk.

"This is Hikari. As you just heard, she's a big fan of Sailor Mars. If anyone can get us her autograph, you'll have earned a friend for life."

Hikari fakes a pout and hauls off and punches Mikoto in the shoulder. "Hey! I am not one of those drooling fangirls! Mars-sempai has class, which so many of those idiots lack!"

"Right, right." Mikoto slides herself into a seat, and Hikari slips in right next to her.

Naru Osaka has posed:
Naru holds her hands up to Alexis. "Sorry." She .. actually sounds sincere on that point as she reaches for her milkshake to listen to the conversations swirling around her.

"Seriously? You're looking for Sailor Mars' autograph?" Naru asks with a blink, as if that notion has never occured to her.

"I get myself into all /sorts/ of trouble these days, Hannah." Naru assures her wiht a little laugh. "Too much trouble, really."

Naru flips through her sketchbook, finding a blank page and digging out her pencils as she listens.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"I have *no* idea what you are talking about," Alex insists in a grumble over Hannah's accusation, all while he waves his hand dismissively at Naru's apology.

"Hey now," he goes on to Hannah then, and crosses his arms together. "I've never backed down from a fight before, and I'm not gonna start making someone else take care of mine now, either. What kind of man would I be if I did that?" The more serious question she presents, though? That one brings him tipping his head downwards in brief thought. "Long enough," he eventually comes up in answer. "Europe and Japan both have plenty punks on the streets to keep you busy, ya know?"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa curse, coin, crane, curse, coin, crane.

Thhhhen it happens. She catches the plush juuuuust by the bird on the shoulder. See, Corvus always helps. It's a fact. Even in plush form.

Then it lifts it up, with a bated breath she waits not wanting it to fall back into the pile before it reaches the prize drop...

Whiiiiiiirrrrrr.

Whiiiiiirrrrrrr.

Plunk.

"YESSSSSS!"

She digs it out and looks at it. "Sooooo Cooooool."

She jogs back. "Hannah. Hannah look!" she says.

Alexis may be the only one cofused on why she finds this so cool. "Here!"

She says with wide eyes and a wide grin.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Sigh. That name has a brow twitching. "Nice to meet you, Hikari. Sailor Mars, huh? Man, be careful. Fiery girls can have the /worst/ egos you know." Oh yeah, she still remembers a burning many, many fights ago.

Naru gets a warm smile. "Why am I not surprised? Just be careful, okay? And know you've got lots of friends." There's real concern in her voice. She hears the sketchbook come out. Perk.

"And a starving artist to boot~!" She lightly teases.

A finger-gun to Alexis. "Hah! Okay, somebody's gonna be lucky when they bag you, Alexis. Keep that attitude. You'll go far. And maaaybe you'll one day be worth fighting~!" A wink.

"God, isn't there? I swear, a few weeks ago I got cornered by this Yakuza jerk. Was kinda fun, though. He just kept getting up." A slasher smile.

Blink blink. She stands, and then, over to Haruna! Soon enough, she leans against the crane game, smiling. "Hey, did you finally win, Haruna? Oooh, ooh, lemme feel what you got!" Hannah's reaching out! EAgerness floods into her voice.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Hikari nods to Naru. "Yup! She's the best Sailor-girl!" She certainly seems enthusiastic about the topic. And about her milkshake.

Mikoto nods and shrugs. "Oh, I don't know, isn't Mercury supposed to be the brainy one?" Then she looks back over her shoulder to see what has Haruna so excited. And it's... a Gull-chan plushie? Well well!

"So," Hikari asks of Naru, "Who's your favorite magic girl?" She looks over at Alex and adds, "And yours too!"

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Starving artist, destined to live on instant noodles forever." Naru quips back to Hannah with a little laugh and a nod.

"I am utterly spoiled beyond thought on friends. I'm /fine/." Naru assures Hannah with a nod. "And careful, generally. Now and then at least."

Naru leans over a little to see what the plushie Haruna has gotten and she laughs. "That's awesome. Congrats Haruna."

There's a little tap of pencil to Naru's lip as she considers the question. "I'm not very good at playing favourites, they're all pretty awesome in their own ways. I've a fondness for Sailor Moon though." Becuase of /course/ she does.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"Oh, so *now* I need to prove that I'm *worth* fighting, even after you were soooo eager to bring me behind the bleachers?" Alex's accusatory tone is accompanied by a rise of one brow and a hint of a smirk directed to Hannah. "Not having second thoughts, are you~?"

If the teasing was going to continue-- well, it gets a break now, since HAruna's coming back and Hannah's pouncing back to her. Alex, meanwhile, peers in confusion at the plushie and all the talk of... magical girls... His confusion just grows on further when Hikari directs THAT question to him.

"Uuuuuuuuhhhhh," he lets out, sheepishly, with a rapid blink of his eyes. "I, uh..." A finger scratches at his cheek. "I don't watch anime like that...?"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa shoves the Cure Gull plush into Hannah's arms. "Look! Look Hannah! It's a /Gull/ Plush!" she says. "This is probably almost as cool as a Tuxedo Kamen plush, right!?" she asks with wide eyes at her girlfriend.

"It's yours, uh-huh! But that's always been the case~" she winks a bit.

She then peeks over at Alex.

"Who said anything about anime!?" she asks at Alexis pointed. "She asked who your favorite magical girl was!" she says.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"You really are a good kid, Naru." Hannah offers juuuust before pouncing off after Haruna. Same to Alexis. He gets a tongue stuck out at him! Then a wink! OH yeah, she likes this guy.

Then there's a Gull Plush in her hands. The talk of magical girls goes over her head. She holds Plush-Gull. Pulls her to her chest. She trembles, very, very slowly.

There's tears in her eyes. Suddenly, she squeals like the teen she is! Arms wrap around Real Gull and Plush Gull alike! Squeeeeeeze squeal!

"HARUNA YOU LOVELY PERSON! S...she's my favorite! The best magical girl! The absolute, positively, /BEST/! Tux is /FRUMPY/ compared to y....to GULL!" Pardon her, she's going to be practically spinning poor Haruna around for a while and nuzzle-cuddling Plush Gull!

Whisper whisper. "We need a White-chan to go with her~! Because a Gull-less White-chan is a sad White-chan~!"

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
"Er, yeah," Mikoto says. "Your favorite real-life magic girl." She waves a hand, gesturing at nothing in particular.

Hikari's straw blarts as she accidentally pulls it out of the remains of her shake, ducking under Mikoto's sweeping arm. "Hey, hey, careful where you aim that thing."

Mikoto watches Hannah and Haruna, and finally shrugs and turns back to the table. Let them have their moment. "Makes you wonder who else is in there, waiting to be picked on."

Naru Osaka has posed:
Naru looks over at Hannah and Haruna and she smiles in delight, laughing and shaking her head. "A/dorable/." She murmurs softly as she settles to sketching.

There's a little glance to Alex as he doesn't exibit a preference for any magical girl in particular and a little smile. "I have no idea what else is in there, but I'd be shocked if there wasn't a Mars in there somewhere." She comments to Mikoto.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
Alex DOESN'T stick his tongue back out at Hannah. He's almost had his own tugged on by various people a few times too many. But, he does mouth out the words "any time" at her while she's still looking to him.

And yes, he actually winces when Hannah SQUEALS. His ears are NOT very well used to teenaged girl squees.

"Oh," he lets oout sheepishly when Haruna and Mikoto clarify things for him, and... for whatever reason, he frowns faintly and looks off somewhere else. "I don't really have a favorite one."

...Why does he suddenly look a little grumpy?

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa grins and gives Hannah a super duper close tight hug. Yup~ This is bliss and happiness and her PrechanMirror sparkles in her pocket for now apparent reason. Still she smirks. "White-chan plush, huh? I'll have to see about that~" she says teasingly. "For now, that'll look nice on your desk. Or the bed!" she smirks.

She looks over to Alexis and head tilts. "I sense grumpiness. Like a lot of it. Like my scouter is going wild!" she insists throwing her hands up suddenly.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Ahhh. NOw this is true happiness. She lingers, and finally, breaks. "Yeah. Bed! Because I'm gonna snug her whenever I can't snug you! If Boris tries to chew on her there'll be no doggie treats for a century!"

Somewhere, Boris woof-sneezes.

She pauses though. Determination fills her face. And then she turns to the crane game. Out goes a ridiculous amount of change.

"Oh no. This happens. Now!" Is there even a White-chan in there!? Fumble fumble. Whirrrrr. Miss. Coin jingle. On and on.

This won't end well. But Hannah's kinda busy for the moment.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Mikoto nods, and decides to give the lovebirds some privacy. She turns back to the table and smiles lazily. "No real favorite, hm? Well, that's a shame."

"Oh, c'mon," Hikari jabs. "What's to shame about it?"

The silver-tressed girl adds, after a moment, "And my shake is empty. I need another one."

Mikoto leans back in her chair and crosses her arms behind her head. "It's a shame because it's one less thing we have to tease him about. And get your own shake, you have money."

Naru Osaka has posed:
Naru nudges her empty glass aside, tucking herself into her chair as she pulls her legs up to settle in with her sketchbook in her lap. She's quiet for the moment, watching and listening rather than getting in her own commentary as she sketches.

Attention jumps from person to person, settling back upon Alexis as various comments are tossed in his direction.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"I'm not grumpy," Alex grumbles. Grumpily, at that. Yeah, he's a little grumpy, for... whatever reason.

One eye flicks over towards Mikoto and Hikari, and he lets out a quiet scoff. "Don't worry about that," he tells them. "People seem to have a habit of finding things to tease me about even without that."

The look from Naru apparently gets unnoticed. For now.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa lifts up Plush-Gull to the side of her face. "Cure Gull-chan, what does the Prebrace say about his grumpy level?"

"It's over 9000!" she says in a high pitched voice to suggest the plushy is talking.

She then lowers it and smiles a bit and sits down as her eyes drift from Hannah over to Alexis and says. "Teasing comes with the territory of being friends Alexis-kun~" she says.

She peeks over at Naru. Then tries to peek over at her sketchpad to see what she's drawing.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Hikari grumps at Mikoto, punching her shoulder again, but gets up to go over and get a refill on her shake. "Fine, fine, make me do all the work as always... next you'll be asking me to do your homework for you."

"Hah. As if. No, we know that won't work." Mikoto shakes her head, and sips at her own shake, which is still about half-full. "Check the crane game while you're up, see if there's anyone interesting in there."

"Fiiiiine," Hikari agrees, with the put-upon groan of every younger sibling everywhere. "But you owe me one."

Naru Osaka has posed:
A little tip of her sketchbook to show Haruna what Naru is working on. A quick doodle of the group, in somewhat more cartoony renditions of each of them. With Alex looking grumpy, and Hannah and Haruna doing their happy dance together, waving a plushy and Mikoto and Hikari sharing a milkshake.

"Grumpy level tends to fluctuate depending on the teasing level." Naru comments with a little chuckle. "But teasing really /does/ come with the territory."

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"Hey! Can you tell Motoki to get me some cholate shake while you're there?" Alex calls after Hikari. "It's still supposed to go to Hannah's tab!" Since he didn't take advantage of that offer yet and all. "Thank yooouuuu."

Aaaand then he scoffs at Haruna again. "I'm *not* grumpy," he repeats, and then follows her gaze to NAru. And leeeaaans over the table to peek at the sketchbook too.

His eyes squint.

Scoff!

He leans back promptly and crosses his arms together all over again. "Whatever..."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa smiles. "But Alexis-kun you look so /adorably grumpy/ in that!" she says with wide eyes.

She smiles. "It's okay to be grumpy, seriously. I know lots of grumpy people! Some are even friends!" she says softly as she settles back down at the table.

"I think Hannah's gonna blow all her money diging all the plushies out to see if there's a Miss White one." she says matter of factly.

She grins over to Mikoto and Hikari a moment.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Hikari takes her refill and goes to watch over Hannah's shoulder, just to see if the girl uncovers anything interesting. She does point out a Sailor Mars plushie, offering several coins for Hannah to get it for her.

"Grumpiness is relative," Mikoto insists, back at the table. "Some people are grumpy some of the time, and some people - " *cough* (something muffled ending in 'on') *cough* " - are grumpy all the time."

Naru Osaka has posed:
"I am pretty sure Hannah is going to blow all her money digging through plushies." Naru confirms as she continues with her doodling, adding more bits of the Crown's decor into the general sketch.

"Alex isn't grumpy all the time." Naru comments without looking up. "Not even most of the time, really."

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"Thank you," Alex murmurs quietly to Naru and tips his head towards her, a hint of a smile ever-so-faint on his lips.

...Aaaand then he blurts to Haru right away, "I'm not *adorable*," with another grunt. Grrrrrump.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa grins some as she leans forward. "You're right. You're grumpy." she says with a wide smirk as she leans back and laughs.
Shehe grins and begins to get up. "I gotta go guys I think...."

"Naru, be sure to lay some sauerkraut on that bratwurst~" she says as she walks over and draaaaags Hannah away from the machine and out the door! Dinner time now!

She of course meant totally kiss Alexis but who knows what she actually meant to the rest of these guys.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Good night Haruna! Good night Hannah!" Naru waves after the pair of them as Haruna drags Hannah away from the machine, with or without a second plushie accompaniment.

Naru quirks her head, not /really/ sure how to interpret the admonishment to lay some sauerkraut on the bratwurst, but willing to just run with it. "I should probably get going too. Tomorrow is going to be early." She flips her sketchbook closed, tucking it and her pencils into her bag. "Good night Mikoto and Hikari."

"Good night Alex. Good luck tomorrow, it'll be /fine/." Naru comments to him with a smile, knowing full well that her assurances will be seen as extraneous.