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Fifth Floor Common Room, ALL DAY (and Night) [Wednesday]

Having a single now was nice, since it meant Minako didn't have to try being tidy around another person, but it got really lonely really fast.

Hence the fact she'd taken over the common room, making a HUGE bowl of punch and setting out chips, boxes of pop, and (store-bought) cookies before digging around in the closet to find the mats to hook up DDR on the ~~meta for~~ XBox.

"Sweet!" she cheered, as she held up the guitar for a different game. "You can be later. Gotta warm up before rocking out!"

[OOC: OPEN FUN FLUFFY POST, BECAUSE

throughaphase DEMANDED IT. And also because paaaaaaaaarty!!! \o/ Up early for great SP Justice.]

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"I shouldn't have even brought it up," Barry said and then saw Elsa return text. "Okay. Nevermind. It's all good. I just... I know how hard it can be isolating yourself from everyone. I don't want to force her."

"What, the DDR? I thought that was my idea," Kathy said, not entirely following. She was also typing out a long message to Elsa, so was only three-quarters listening. "Look, I think you're being a great boyfriend. And, more important than that, so does Elsa, I bet."

She showed him her phone again. "See? She understood exactly why you were worried."

"Yeah well I secretly wanted it to happen," Barry admitting it out loud.

The allure of pants. Damn it all.

"That doesn't even count, Barry." Kathy was tempted to swat him. "If you kept cajoling her in hopes that she'd show up in pants, you'd be an asshole. Secretly hoping it would happen, while making sure that she feels safe means that you're a really good guy. You're working against what you want for the sake of someone else's happiness. That's pretty solidly white-hat territory, you know."

"Still. Feel like a shithead," Barry said shaking his head. "I mean normally I'd be all okay with it and encourage it but... Shit. I don't know. I just-"

He took a deep breath and let it out.

"I haven't really liked or cared for anyone like this before."

He face-palmed.

"I'm such a wuss."

Well, it was probably hard to form a lasting relationship with someone when you kept nuking their memories, Barry.

For her own part, Kathy was doing her best to stay calm, not grinning or squeeing or anything that might spook him. "Are you falling in love, you think? And don't know how to tell her?"

Not smiling not smiling not smiling!

Barry groaned. "You are the so the wrong person to be telling this," he grumbled. "I just... have feelings okay? I like her a lot and I care about her. Let's leave it at that and don't fucking breathe a word of this to her."

"Hey!" Kathy protested, trying to sound indignant and not hurt. "How am I the wrong person to be telling! I'm a great confidant! I'm not gonna tell her or make fun of you for your feelings!"

Barry groaned and frowned some more. "Fuck. Sorry. Shit. I know I just... I don't know how to deal with this."

He let out a sigh.

"You're a good friend, Kathy. I give you a lot of shit sometimes but you're a good friend."

"You don't give me crap all the time," Kathy grumbled. "Just the times I see you."

She huffed a bit and then relented. "Falling for someone can be really scary. I don't blame you for freaking out a bit. Will it help if I absolutely promise not to even hint to her that we ever had this conversation? Cause I won't, I swear on my pockets."

Even if she was still a little miffed about the 'wrong person' comment. But then, she hadn't understood what he'd meant by that.

Your gleeing wasn't as subtle as you thought, Kathy.

"Yes. I know you won't say anything," Barry agreed. "Just don't get so giddy when I talk about feelings and shit. Especially if she catches wind of it."

"I'll try to hold back my enthusiasm when a friend shows signs of increased emotional maturity," Kathy said, rolling her eyes. "But she's not gonna catch wind of it until you're ready to tell her. And when she does, I can pretend to have never heard anything about it, if you like."

She reached out to slug him lightly in his upper arm. "I totally ship this. I want everything to work out as best it can. Whatever I need to do to make that happen, I will."

"You ship this? So help me if you give us a horrible name smooah, I'm going on every patrol you go on and declaring to the populace that your code name is Rainbow Brite. "

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