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When: Sunday, February 28, 2010
Rating: PG
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coffeenspeed
Summary: The most unintentional date ever, cause we’re “special”. Also, there’s ice cream.
Log:

Ice cream! So this was the first time Alexis was really getting out. Her dad had been extra protective which was nice but she thought she might be going a little insane staying inside so much. When the opportunity for an outing came where she didn’t have to go alone, she jumped at it. Was it appropriate for a girl to ask a guy out for ice cream? In crazy land, it probably didn’t matter.

She put on a pair of jeans and a white sweater before making her way to the fountain where they said they would meet. Sitting on the side, she waited patiently. It was just like her to be early. Alexis hated being late… to anything. Even impromptu ice cream dates.

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To be honest Anthony got distracted. He encountered a problem with the engine of a motorcycle he was building and forgot about the ice cream. Thankfully, he set up an alarm, so he wouldn't forget completely. But the truth was there, he was completely unprepared when his phone rang. He just cleared up his work station, grabbed his jacket and he left his warehouse to meet with Alexis.

He was unaware of the oil smudge on his jaw, or the not completely clean T-shirt. On the plus side, there was no stains on his jeans, and he *did* wash his hands before leaving... But it was just ice cream between friends, so he didn't have to pay attention to things like that, right?

He got to the Fountain soon enough, and he wasn't even late. He noticed Alexis sitting on the side and he smiled. He walked up to her and gave a completely-not-even-slightly-awkward wave.

"Hey, hope you're not waiting long..."

Alexis smiled up at him and offered him a smile in return. She stood up and shook her head. "No, I was just considering what I would do if something creepy-crawly showed up while I was here alone. And I think I could outrun it enough and scream bloody murder loud enough that someone would hear me and help me out."

Her mind was a wonderland, what could she say. She reached into her purse to get a tissue and then began to clean the oil off of his jaw. "You just have a little... there. All gone. Ready for ice cream cause I've been craving it since I brought it up."

Anthony smiled and rubbed his jaw a little awkwardly. "Thanks... I, uhm, didn't check before leaving. I was working on a motorcycle..." he shrugged, because really, it was nothing special. Just another pasttime.

"Let's get you that abomination of an ice cream," he teased her, because he could. He did have a light side to himself, and he's been known to throw girls he was friends with into the Fountain. Okay, only that one time and it was a curse, but still.

"You have a motorcycle? Wow. I've never ridden on one before so someday... yeah, I'm kind of inviting myself. That's bad. Nevermind." Alexis rambles tend to come when you least expect them. They walked together, Alexis more following him than walking with him because she didn't know where the ice cream place is.

"I don't guess you know where I could get a roll of pennies?" She asks.

ooc: omg I never got this notif. *kicks LJ*

"Well, I had a motorcycle here. Built it after I got here. But I had to trade it up, so even though I wouldn't mind taking you for a ride, I don't really have one... Ride I mean. The one I'm working on is for a friend. Dr Wilson... You know him?" Yeah, Anthony could babble as well. Though he didn't do that too often. But bikes and cars? Topics he could go on and on about. That said... He tried not to.

"Uhm," he hesitated. "Aren't you underage? Underage people get allowances from the City. You should get it soon..."

"No, I don't know a Dr. Wilson. But it's really neat that you can build them. I mean, like making something with your own two hands. That has to feel pretty cool. Why don't you make one for yourself?" Alexis answered, shoving her hands in her coat pockets. "Well I was just thinking that that fountain would be great to make wishes in. Do you ever make wishes?

"I need money for the parts first... But I'm patient, so it's okay..."

Did he make wishes? Anthony slowed down and looked at the Fountain. "I did. They never came true though, so I stopped..." He smiled, if somewhat sadly, and dug into his pocket. He found some coins and passed a red one to her. "Yours might, so go for it," he told her. Because why not.

[not-date date is a go! Oh yes! /giggles]

Alexis's face lit up with a bright smile when Anthony pressed the coin into her palm. She practically skipped the few steps back to the fountain and turned her back to it. Closing her eyes, she bit her bottom lip around that smile as she thought of a wish. She tossed the coin over her shoulder into the fountain behind her and opened her eyes, looking back into the water.

Bouncing on the balls of her feet a few times out of pure excitement, she finally turned back to Anthony and stood next to him. "Yours might too. It never hurts to keep trying."

ooc: omg so cute. *dies*

Okay... So maybe the excitement was a bit contagious. Anthony shook is head. "Fine," he told her and walked back to the Fountain. He thought of a wish, for everything to work itself out in the City. He tossed the coin over his shoulder and immediately felt slightly stupid.

"Okay. None of us can say what they wished for or the wish won't come true. Ok?"

"Okay. I use that rule too." She shouldn't like that he actually made a wish in the fountain so much. But she did. And she shook her head and drew in a deep breath as they began to walk again, her smile squarely on her lips and not going away anytime soon... maybe. "I'm gonna try and make a wish in the fountain once a week at least. That way if I keep pestering the wish gods then eventually they have to give in even if it's because they're sick of hearing it."

"I hate to break it to you, but that sounds like you have slight stalker tendencies..." he teased her. "Even if it's only the wish gods who would suffer..."

Then again, being friends with a stalker could be useful... "Then again, while you pester them for your wish... Could you pester them for mine too?"

"Oh yeah, I'll put in a word or a thousand for your wish too. I can be pretty stubborn when I put my mind to it. You'd be surprised. Plus, some stalker tendencies can be cute, not scary." She considers this for a moment, and then reaching some sort of conclusion in her head, she nods. "I'm the cute kind of stalker. It's the freckles. Makes me less foreboding and creepy."

He laughed at that. How could he not?

"Okay... You make some good points. I'll make sure not to consider you creepy, when they arrest you for stalking..."

"Will you come visit me in cute!stalker jail?" She asks amusedly.

"I'll have to consult with the powers that be about that... But I'll make sure to put a good word for you, when you're up for parole..." he assured her with a smile.

They got to the ice cream place and he opened the door for her. He was trained well. It's how things were done when the only parent you had was a Mom.

"Maybe I should be stealthy!cute!stalker so I don't get caught. Who looks good in those orange jumpsuits jailbirds wear." Well trained translated into sweet and gentlemanly to Alexis. She smiled and said a quiet thank you as she stepped into the ice cream shop. There were only a few people inside which surprised her. There should be more coins in fountains and ice cream in crazy land.

Stepping up to the counter, she ordered. "Two scoops of cookies and cream please."

"And one chocolate," he said when it was his turn to order and went back to their highly ambitious conversation.

"Anyway, whatever you choose in the end... I think it's a bold career choice. You know. Not everybody can handle the stress of the job. Not to mention the risk..."

"Now I just have to find am unwitting and yet semi expectant stalkee." Alexis added with a light, musical laugh as she got some money out of her pocket. "I can handle most stress."

Anthony stopped her and paid for their ice cream. His good training should be stressed as he didn't even think about it. "It's okay, I've got it covered," he just said.

"And just for the record, I'm not sure I want to be involved in you choosing the right person to stalk. It's a bit out of my comfort zone..."

"I'm freaking you out, aren't I? Solve this word problem: In the world of things I should slowly back away from, Alexis is greater than or less than vampires." She watches him pay for the ice cream and puts her money away. "And thanks. That's nice of you."

He makes a big show of thinking about it, which will probably earn him a punch in the arm or something but still: so worth it. "Okay, vampires might win. But you're a close second."

"'S okay. I mean, I have a job and all. It's nothing."

"Hey!" Insert Alexis pout and a light push at his shoulder. "Careful or I might make you try some cookies and cream."

"Oh no, how will I ever cope with that," he deadpans and starts eating his ice cream.

Alexis moves to a booth and sits down to eat hers. "You'll just have to sit and take it. What can I say? I'm like the long arm of the law... if the long arm of the law were a scrawny red head with freckles."

He grins with an evil plan in mind, he grabs her hand, if somewhat gently just in case he's fragile, and moves it (with the ice cream) closer. He tastes it and then pointedly goes back to eating his own, chocolate (superior) ice cream.

"Just like I thought. Mine's better"

"Oh come on, you didn't even get a good cookie bite." She turns the ice cream to a part where a bit of cookie chunk was and offered it to him again. "That's the best part."

See Anthony. See Anthony sacrifice himself and take a bite of the cookie chunk. You can see the sacrifice written all over his face.

"Nope. Mine's still better."

And no, he's not going to offer her to try. He's not as good of a man as she'd think.

Alexis does a combination smile and laugh before pulling her ice cream back and taking a bite. "Well, I can't say you didn't at least try it."

"Yeah... Sometimes my ability to self-sacrifice amaze me." And he delivers the line with a perfect straight face. Oh yeah, he rules.

"You are such a benevolent friend. I don't know how people exist around you without feeling completely inadequate and unworthy." Deadpanned as well, Alexis can rule too.

Anthony just grinned. This was kinda awesome. It's been awhile since he enjoyed himself like that. "I'll try to tone it down, so you don't feel bad about yourself"

Alexis decided than and there that she was fond of that grin and that she would always try to make him grin. "Thank you, oh great one. Your restraint is commendable."

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