fandomhighdorms | The Roof, Friday Late Afternoon Onwards

While Alluka didn't know lots and lots of things, she knew what a tea party meant and, after talks with Ringo and her own experiences at the welcome picnics, she knew that it was important for real parties to have lots of tasty food and fun things to drink. So that was easy enough to figure out! Then she let Ringo handle that.

Which was why there was so much food. Ringo had started by ordering take out "for one" from a bunch of local places, which would probably have been enough on its own. But then she'd found a recipe for fruit punch on the internet, and decided to try that out, and then she'd had a random craving for cherries which had led to a bunch of random fruit. There was even an entire table dedicated to chocolate. You were welcome, Alluka.

Alluka handled the decorations, which meant that come the Friday of the party, ever since just a little past noon, she'd been up on the roof decorating under the critical eye of her bunny and her giraffe (both of whom had differing opinions on everything from glitter placement to balloon placement) but by the time the party was to get started, she'd managed to get it all up, with the tables and chairs and balloons and glitter and banners along the rooftop railing.

Between the two of them, they'd gotten everything set up in time to go and do their hair and change.

Her bunny won the argument between her toys about who got to come with, so her bunny was looking very smart indeed with its ears tied back with a black and white scrunchie.

Alluka smoothed her new dress down and grinned over at Ringo. While Alluka's dress was white (well, okay, with a little bit of black, but they'd both decided that that didn't count) and her hair was up in an elegant twist (Ringo had helped her do it), Ringo's dress was a deep black and her long hair was loose from its usual pigtails to spill down her back.

Now they just had to hope people came.

[~~Wait for the~~ OCD is up! Come party!]

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She giggled.

"How big did you think it was?"

"Well, I guess I hadn't really thought about it, but maybe you were an only child? Or just had one older brother or sister or something?"

"But why?" she persisted.

"Hmm, I guess cause there's so much you haven't done?" She meant that you'd been neglected, Alluka. "I guess I thought that was because your parents were too busy to take you to do things. And people that busy don't usually have a lot of kids?"

Alluka blinked.

Then blinked again.

"Nooo," she said, startled and looking it. "My parents were busy with jobs and with my brothers and I had to be a good girl and stay in my room."

"Oh. I see." Ringo had always been kind of dubious about Alluka's parents, but that made her want to punch someone.

"Well, I'm glad that you can be a good girl and throw parties with me here. That sounds way more fun."

"It's lots of fun!" she said, then admitted: "But scary sometimes too, since I'm not supposed to be here, so I'm being bad all the time."

"No you're not," Ringo said, shaking her head emphatically. "You're very good and nice!"

"But I'm still not listening to my parents," she said, which... was the truth.

"Have they tried to tell you anything?" Ringo asked, trying not to sound sarcastic. She may have been pretty sure that Alluka's parents hadn't even missed her, but she didn't want to vent at Alluka.

"I mean, if they really wanted you to go back to your room, they'd come get you, right?"

"The blue spinny thing took me straight out of my room," she said, nodding. "So, so they'll take a while to find me."

"So until they do, you're just fine," Ringo insisted.

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