fandomhighdorms | Totally Not Prom! Campgrounds, Saturday Afternoon to Night

Buffy got to the campgrounds early, hauling two huge bags with her. She put them down by the stones of the central camp fire. She looked at it. Firewood. She needed lots of it. She headed off to gather fallen branches and similar.

Slowly everything got set up. There were camping tables with plates, cups and sticks for grilling things with. There were tables with hot dogs, peeps and other grillable things, and a separate table for drinks (so far non-alcoholic).

She set her cd-player on a flat rock, and while it looked tiny and insignificant outdoors, it would at least have music. Hopefully the random showers would stop by night fall, she thought and covered everything with plastic.

Then she walked back to the school and grabbed every umbrella and blanket she could get her hands on, and walked back, dumping everything by one of the tables. With her hands on her hips she regarded everything in satisfaction. Yes. Totally Not Prom was on!

ooc: ~~wait for~~ ocd is up! Come party!
eta: it was always in dorms. yup. *shifty*

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"Ah, Zhude! Eeet has been too long zince we tan-GOED!" Her accent was horrific and made her giggle madly.

She wriggled close, stuck her hand out to the side and raised an eyebrow. "Ve must, no?"

He took her hand and snapped his head to the side, lunging dramatically. "Ze tango! She eez ze dance of luuuuuuve!"

"Ahhh, jes, it iz so! Evair since zat night vhen ve first tango, my 'art, eet belongz only to joo!" She was trying very, very hard not to trip over her own feet. Possibly succeeding.

It was fun having her hair loose on the dips and turns, though.

Well, until Jude opened his mouth to retort while spinning her and got a mouthful of curls.

Rikku stopped short when she heard the choking sound, clapping a hand over her mouth. "Oh! Whoa! I'm sorry! Are you okay!?"

Jude smacked his mouth a couple of time. "Yeah, I'm cool."

She blushed, giggling. "We're pretty suave, huh?"

Jude grinned. "We totally are. We are like so smooth we should be in the next Bund movie. That is how smooth we are." He twirled her again.

"That's not another swamp monster one, is it?" She smiled at him, hearing the music change to a slow song. She twirled herself in, and then put her arms around his neck. "Wanna drop the tango for a bit?"

"Sure . . ." Jude gulped a little as they dropped the silliness. It was so easy to be silly around Rikku but when they got all snuggly Jude got all nervous and then he started forgetting how to talk and . . .

Yeah. Hands on Rikku's waist. Slow dancing. Totally.

Rikku snuggled in close and pressed her face against his shoulder. "Hey," she said softly. "This is really nice. I've ... missed you."

She closed her eyes.

"I've been here the whole time," he replied, a little bewildered. He let himself nuzzle into her new curls.

"I mean, with it being so crazy. You evil and me breaking reality and ... all the rest of it. I've missed just ... you. This."

She squeezed her eyes shut. "I, uh, I realized something. This week."

"Mmhmm?" Jude pressed a soft kiss to her temple.

Rikku nuzzled against him lightly. "Just that ... I was talking to Professor Skywalker, about ... whoa, about a lot of stuff. But he mentioned instincts, and how you always think you should hide things, like when I ripped the wall?"

She took a deep breath, realizing she wasn't saying this right, but soldiered on anyway. "But it wasn't mine. I mean, I did, I hid it, and then when things went wrong and I couldn't sleep ... I went to find you. I just knew that you'd make everything okay, somehow. Not like, fix it, but ... something."

Jude looked down at her, frowning a little.

"I'm glad you did - glad I could help you," he said quietly, not really sure where she was going with this.

Rikku looked up at him, then laughed a bit at his expression. "Oh! No! Dude, this ... this is a good thing. I'm not going anywhere bad with this. Just that ... I get it now. How Yunie felt, why she could go on even when everything was falling down around her. Because ... because she had him. And I have you, and ..."

She wrapped her arms around him, squeezing him tightly, and pressed her face close to his ear. "I'm ... I'm trying to s-say that ... I love you."

"O-o-oh!" Jude stammered, his heart doing this funny squeezing, jumping, twisting thing.

He swallowed and held her close. "I love you too."

Rikku squeezed him even tighter, shivering slightly. "Y-you know, the f-first time you said it? On the ph-phone?" She giggled, pressing her face into his shoulder. "I-I fell off my bed."

Jude chuckled, one hand slipping up to tangle in her hair. "Cool."

"Not cool! I had just managed to get back on it!" Rikku laughed, nuzzling lightly against his hand. "I'm just sorry that I ... couldn't yet."

"If I'd pushed you, I wouldn't get to hear it at all," Jude said, lifting one shoulder slightly as he smiled.

Rikku leaned over to nuzzle his nose with hers. "No, I would've said it and thought I meant it, but ... not been sure. I just wanted to be sure, you know? It wouldn't mean anything if I wasn't."

She swallowed, hard, and kissed him lightly.

Jude kissed her softly. "You're sure now?"

Rikku nodded, leaning in to kiss him a little longer. "Yeah," she said, her voice barely above a whisper. "I am. A-and you?"

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