Fifth Floor Common Room, Tuesday Evening

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The fifth-floor common room had been transformed into a riot of color and sound by the two intrepid decorators. When you had Rikku and Dōjima doing the artistic design, and they were basing it off of Romeo's collection of loud shirts, it was bound to be, ah, creative.

There were balloons and streamers everywhere, and the party even had some piñatas full of candy for people to swing at. Simply because everyone (Rikku) liked candy, and Dōjima was a fan of party games that made other people look like idiots.

[OOC: Up way-early for SP/timezone goodness, and open to all!]

[ETA: For those of us who have cranky browsers... Arrive & Mingle | Talk to Romeo | Snacks & Drinks (Pre-Spiking) | Snacks & Drinks (Post-Spiking) | Party Games | Dancing | Gifts | OOC!]

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Re: Talk to the Birthday Boy

[withoutverona]

Cal didn't strike Romeo as the extremely irritable type, but it wasn't as though he knew him so very well. He matched Cal's faint shrug with one of his own.

"I'm told I might become much easier to annoy soon," he said, shifting the topic slightly. "I'm quitting smoking as -- I would call it a birthday present to myself, but I suspect it's a birthday exercise in masochism."

Re: Talk to the Birthday Boy

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"You quit smoking," Cal muttered, "just as I find myself going back to it after almost two months without. Good luck, man. Here's to hoping you get further than I did."

Re: Talk to the Birthday Boy

[withoutverona]

"Two months is longer than I've lasted in years, but I'd never tried to quit," Romeo said sympathetically. "What has you on a relapse?"

Re: Talk to the Birthday Boy

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"I didn't even mean to quit," Cal admitted, rubbing the back of his neck with a sort of sheepishness. "I just kind of...happened. I started back up again, though, when things started to get a little shaky between Amber and me..."

And that was about as close to drawing the line between smoking as a preoccupation to replace sex that Cal was going to get, if he could help it.

Re: Talk to the Birthday Boy

[withoutverona]

"And you needed something to be normal?" Romeo suggested. "I don't know if I would be able to avoid the cigarettes were that to happen to me. I am sorry about Amber, though."

Re: Talk to the Birthday Boy

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal shrugged a little again. "It was kind of waiting to happen for a while," he said. "We're good, though. We're just probably better as friends than a couple."

He was probably better as friends with anyone when you got right down to it.