Third Floor Common Room - Thursday Afternoon

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Chuck wasn't feeling particularly social but he was feeling hungry, which was why he was watching TV out in the common room today rather than his room. There was a Girls Next Door marathon on Chuck relaxed on the couch and caught up on what Kendra, Holly and Bridget were up to. He was dressed more casually than usual and that allowed him to take up as much of the couch as he possibly could. To help fix the hungriness, he even managed to make a bowl of popcorn without catching it on fire.

Ignore the other two burnt bags of popcorn in the trash. Shh.

[Chuck may not be feeling social but I am. So, open]

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[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He smiled.

"That's good. He's new. I'm sure he could use new friends."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Yeah... she was trying to tell herself that.

"Um. Uh-huh."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He breathed out.

"Amber? Could you just... out with it? Whatever's troubling you?

"If you need proof of devotion, I'll give it to you, do whatever you like to do so, but making me guess is going to take quite a long time, confuse me, and upset you. Please?"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Oh my gosh no, I don't need devotion, I know I have that. Just... I flirted with him, okay? And might have given him the wrong impression of me."

A beat.

"It's totally not a date."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He reached out and put his hand to her cheek.

"Amber, that's the way you are. You flirt. You love people. To love you is to love that."

He tilted his head just a little in confusion.

"I know it's not a date. You said it wasn't."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

She was feeling more terrible by the second.

"To me it isn't. To him? I'm pretty sure it is." And she was wondering how she could correct that.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Then tell him right at the start," he said quietly.

"If you were misunderstood, it's not a sin. It's just something that happens."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber sighed.

"Maybe you'd like to come with me?" she asked, peeking up at him.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"If you'd like me to," he said easily enough.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

It would probably make Priestly groan. Amber really didn't care. Friends were friends and it was all good. Right?

"I do," she said and reached for his hand to hold. "Just dinner. My treat. I want you with me."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Then I'll be there. And... I'd like to invite you to dinner sometime this week. With my father and I. If you wouldn't mind."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Her eyes lit up. "Really? I would love to, oh my gosh! I've only spoken with your dad once, or twice, but I like him. He's polite and should I bake something? Bring him something? Does he know I'm your girlfriend? Does he know we sleep together? Or not sleep sleep but you know, right? Oh my gosh I might be nervous."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He scratched behind one ear.

"I don't think you have to bring anything. And I don't really know. I think-- he knows we've slept in the same room."

He smiled then.

"And you shouldn't be nervous. He's the kindest man."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Most fathers know these things, Liir. It takes a single look, seriously."

Um.

"Okay, I don't have a dad, so I'm guessing at that. My ma would totally know. In fact she told me if I was to ever take my top off, to make sure I got the money first."

And that totally had nothing to do with anything right now.

"He is kind, I know it. I want to make a good impression as a girlfriend."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"...you can't make a worse one than Trism," he said with a brief wince at the memory.

"And you're a great deal, well... I just think he'll like you. I just know it."

He reached out and patted her leg.

"You'll make a fine impression."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"What did Trism do?" she asked, curious now.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Called him a... Winkie."

Yeah, that the kind of slur that most people in the North found fine enough but it didn't go over well in the West and certainly not with one who could be called such.

"It was by accident," he rushed on to say, "just out of startlement. After all, I hardly look to be from Vinkus stock."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

A winkie?

And Amber's mind went some place dirty. After all, Loretta was always declaring so and so had a little winkie that wasn't worth getting her panties off for.

Thus she couldn't help but laugh. "Oh my god, Liir. Why would he ever call your dad a winkie?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

...that got a sideways look, a very odd one.

"It's an insult, a diminutive, a slur. A very... rude term for someone from the Vinkus, at least to someone from the Vinkus."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Okay, she sucked her giggle back in and closed her mouth.

She supposed it could be considered rude here too.

"Sorry. It means something else where I'm from."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He shook his head before pausing a moment and finally, nodding.

"Fair enough. I didn't think you meant it as insulting or anything."

He ruffled his own hair.

"After all, I'm Vinkus stock myself. Well, Vinkus and Munchkinlander."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"I'm just American and we all kind of have dirty minds."

...

"Mount Rose people have dirty minds," she clarified.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He shook his head and kissed her cheek.

"Ozians are all wicked, I think," he said conspiratorially.

"We're just mostly quiet about it."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

She grinned at him and raised somewhat to kiss his mouth.

"You're never wicked with me."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He kissed her in return.

"I am. Quietly. I think things I don't think I should think."