Lobby: Thursday, All Day (Except Fifth Period): Cookie Table

[the_merriest]

Okay, so: she'd made several dozen cookies last night, and she had actually followed the recipes for once instead of just making things up as she went along. So they weren't, say, Surprise Cookies, but they should be edible, which ... surprise cookies sometimes weren't.

Rikku got a table and set out the cookies - some chocolate chip, some of the peanut butter kind with the fork-marks on top, and some oatmeal raisin - and pulled up a chair. And behind her, she hung the sign she had made.












See, this is why she put the note in the paper. Because she wasn't so great at signs.

She sat down and waited for people to come by. And take some cookies.


[so very, very open! harass Rikku, take some cookies, or both]

Comments

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, this place likes to keep throwing the weirdness at us," Isabel nodded. "Did you wind up with a kid?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku nodded, smiling. "If you saw a flash of blonde hair and a skateboard? And then a parent or two running after? That would have been her. You?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh that's too cute," she smiled. "I wound up with two, a seven year old chatterbox of a girl, and a wee spiky haired little guy. They were cute. I miss them."

[the_merriest]

"She looked just like her dad on that thing. Oh, wow. We had to call ourselves 'Mommy' and 'Daddy' for two straight days, and ... so weird." Rikku giggled. "Oh, they sound adorable! But I've got a soft spot for chatterboxes."

"It was so hard letting them go. I wanted to go through the vortex and grab her."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I know the feeling," Isabel sighed. "Especially because I just can't see either one of them happening. I'm just trying to console myself with the fact that they were obviously happy, and go on from there."

[the_merriest]

"Oh! Is that ... some people were saying, you know. That they barely even knew the other parent, and that some of the futures kinda ... ruled the others out." Rikku sighed. "Mine could happen, but I've only been with the guy for a couple of months, so it's kind of scary in a totally different way. If that makes any sense."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it was something like that," she said quietly. "The little guy was with my ex and Alexandria was with a friend who'll never be more then a friend." And who was leaving in just a few weeks, more then likely never to return.

[the_merriest]

"Oh. I'm ... sorry. Wow, that's gotta be hard. Are you okay?"

Rikku bit her lip. "I kinda ... cried. All Tuesday night, after they left."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel had shed some tears of her own on Tuesday night. "I'm okay. Mostly. I keep telling myself that they're out there and they're happy and that's all that matters."

[the_merriest]

"Yeah. They're ... they don't belong here, they need parents that are grown and know how to be parents and not teenagers making it up as they go along." She smiled sadly. "I keep telling myself that, anyway."