3rd Floor Common Room, Monday Morning

[bookbeltof_love]

Was Nina messing with tradition?

Nina was super messing with tradition!

Partly because she'd woken up early, confirmed that everyone was as they should be (and that Foomy was no longer… what… he'd been…) and then been unable to get back to sleep and partly because after last week's sprinkles, she'd decided that enough was enough and that clearly Wayne needed a break!

So she got to the common room first!

She was, after all, perfectly capable of making delicious and healthy pancakes and waffles, and sausage and bacon and scrambled eggs herself and cutting up fruit really took no effort at all and if it wasn't as fancy as Wayne's quiche, well, she was confident that it was at least tasty.

Out of consideration for what Tisarwat had told her about gloves and their properness, just in case the other girl showed up, Nina was cooking while wearing gloves. Not her pretty, fancy ones. But a simple black pair, ones that wouldn't show a stain too badly, if it came to that.

Nina hummed as she bopped along to a song only in her head.

[Tradition usurped with permission from howareyanow! Open breakfast is open!]

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[howareyanow]

"Shuri." Wayne nodded when she came in. "How's yer nose?"

Hey, it had the same cadence as his usual greeting. It pretty much was the exact same thing. It totally worked.

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"Much better, thank you," Shuri said with a grin. "How was your Destiny?"

[howareyanow]

"Oh," said Wayne, "not so bad. Found that amulet, down by the beach. From a shipwreck, just like ya said I might." And he nodded his gratitude for that. "Kept me pretty busy for the rest of the time after that. Few donnybrooks, a few scraps...."

And no trace of it at all that mkrning.

"Bit of an odd one, eh?" he ventured. "That weekend?"

'Cause she'd been tripping on carpets and giving him Big Eyes, which he didn't mind at all, but when the weekends went a bit odd, it never hurt to be sure if someone's been meaning to go and give you Big Eyes or not. Especially since he didn't really peg Shuri as the Big Eyes type.

Or the trippin' over carpet type, either.

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"A bit," Shuri said dryly. "I've never tripped over nothing so often in my life! And I'm glad the amulet was down at the shore. That's much better than the other option Nina and I had come up with--it being for sale at the Magic Shop, which was just anticlimactic, right?"

[howareyanow]

"Would kinda defeat the whole purpose, wouldn't it?" Wayne reasoned. "Of havin' a Chosen One, if anyone could just walk right into the shop and pick it up, and on sale, at that. Unless it was a Wayne-only discount, in which case that just seems a bit unfairrrr."

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri laughed. "I'd love to read the prophecy of the Wayne-only discount," she said. "Is it only for amulets or would it apply to coffee and pastries, too?"

[howareyanow]

"Wouldn't be much a prophesy, then, would it?" Wayne mused. "If it only counted fer amulets an' not coffee an' pastries, too...."

Then there was a pause. A thoughtful pause. A speculative pause.

"We could mebbe go check and see," he ventured. "If you wanted to. Go get some coffee and pastries..."

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri was generally not the kind of girl to give Big Eyes, but she did give him a big smile. "A date?"

[howareyanow]

Wayne was always a bit more partial to big smiles than Big Eyes, anywhey.

"A date," he confirmed, and his smile was a small one, but that was still pretty big for Wayne. "If ya like."

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"I'd like it very much," Shuri said, thinking that Wayne's smile was adorable.

[howareyanow]

It was a good thing she felt that way about it, then, because, with a response like that, Wayne's smile wasn't likeleh to go anywhere any time soon.

So then he figgured they just had to decide when and he thought maybe tomorrow after shop class would be nice, but then he remembered that Nina did the radio on the following day, and that would just be cruel to everyone and their ears.

"How's yer Wednesday lookin'?" he asked.

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"My Wednesday is completely clear," Shuri said, beaming at him.