K. Be down soon, party's winding down. He'd sort of popped in and was planning to pop right back out, which felt unpleasant deep in his gut, even if he'd done so with other parties in the past. Cris' eyes roamed up and down Junko's body while she fed the fire and the last embers of the party flicke...

"You could always ask her?" Seemed simple enough. Of course, it also seemed simple enough she'd already tried it. Maria was... odd. He didn't have a problem with people just showing up places whenever they wanted, he did that, but she could certainly be a little strange now and then. He wa...

"Yup. That happened." Oh, and Fiyori was there too. She must have blended into the shadows while Cris was making his way up. His attention was more on Junko and her story, and his brow furrowed as he described Raina's adventures. The question of exclusivity was up in the air, and they cert...

"Not wrong. How bad was Darius?" Darius? Darius. Hm. Oh, right, that irritating little gremlin that bugged Raina a lot. Cris had considered teaching the kid a lesson, on and off, but Raina seemed to have things in hand or at least had never asked him to step in. She knew how to reach him i...

The dance had been about what he expected, which was to say really not interesting at all. A lot of kids who mostly looked awkward as hell all gussied up, a tacky space theme, bad music. Anticlimactic, really, considering how much it had been built up the whole year, how it was supposed to cap off h...

((Minor GM approved)) Not to mention Facebook, Skype, and plane tickets were things. So long as he remembered to keep in touch, and he would, they could at least keep this going until the bombs fell or the world was underwater in a few years. Somehow Raina tended to make him believe might not happen...

"Sounds fine by me." Pretty soon he would graduate and be gone from Kingman, and she'd still be here another year. Then she'd go who knew where, somewhere in California, but she'd still be behind him if they tried this. How would that affect things? Did it matter? What about other girls, l...

"Maybe after this I'll take you to Sumac Park and you can show it to me." He always kept baseball equipment in his car, including a couple gloves, after all. Sure, maybe she didn't mean it seriously, but it was fun to call her bluff. Fun, huh. Odd how Raina could get thoughts like that out...

Technically someone took him to the dance, but that wasn't worth arguing. Especially since she didn't really bring it up, that'd just seem weird and unnecessarily defensive. Was the dance fun, though? Cris wobbled his hand, and while a response of basically "meh" was par for the course fro...

"Figured you wouldn't want to hear from me, so I'd wait until you did rather than blow up your phone." Did that sound like an excuse? Maybe. He wasn't used to giving enough of a shit about how he sounded to actually think about it, so instead he glanced at her as if trying to read her thou...

"Not a whole lot. You know how busy I've been, year's end coming up and the season still underway. Sorting through some of my college offers, still dunno what I want to study though." She probably didn't want to hear yet more baseball talk, though. Cris was pretty sure sometimes Raina thou...

"'Sup?" The wave was better than just sneaking over to the table and waiting for her to notice him there. He wasn't terribly in the mood for such antics and there was a certain seriousness to the air between them anyway. At least she got him to give her one of his rare smiles, a quick litt...

Crisanto Luz had been busy. Some people thought that meant he was in his cave turning it foggier than San Francisco Bay with weed, but no, he really had been busy. The season had started and gone hurtling along and there were so many expectations of last year happening all over again hanging around ...

At some point in all that, Jane left.

((Jane Madison continued elsewhere - not much of a post, I know, but she's been in these two threads for months and I should get her moving!))

That was a little disappointing, but then, she had a point. And it wasn't like tonight would be the last time they ever went out. Vegas could wait, this time, he'd seen the city before after all and if he were honest with himself the Strip was about all it had going for it. He let Nadia settle in th...