[closed] party at oz's house!

[anklets]

Date & Time: backdated to August 10th, afternoon
Location: apartment 407
Characters: friends and possibly some... unwanted visitors...
Summary: we celebrate Lavi's birthday by letting all the weirdos in
Warnings: n/a

Invitations have been whispered and confections baked with some measure of care (graciously, it remains that only one kitchen fire will have been set in the housing commons today), and Lenalee has placed her lure in Lavi's hands and trusted him to reel himself in.

It's- a little lacking, were she to place it against the Order's parties with intent to compare, but she is pleased with the work she and Oz have dedicated to the sitting room, sparsely decorated and laboriously cleaned (she'd become a little invested in it).

Comments

[boundbydevotion]

[It had been a surprise, but there's no need to admit it too plainly. He'd found out well before approaching Allen and ultimately it didn't change that he had a job to do.]

It's fine. I've no interest in explaining how things were between us before, his experience here is what matters.

[velveteened]

( that makes him laugh for just a moment )

That's a kind thing to say.

[boundbydevotion]

[Maybe it's embarrassment, but his brows furrow and he just looks kind of grouchy for it.]

Is it? [Maybe it was done out of consideration but he's certainly telling himself it's just because it's an impossible thing to ask for everything to be the same.]

[velveteened]

It really is!

( his exuberance grows to match the grouch which, really, he finds a bit amusing. )

Not just anyone would say that.

[boundbydevotion]

[Why is this happening. Stop that.]

Surely there's no point to doing otherwise.

[velveteened]

If someone wanted to, ( matter of fact and mild ) I'm sure they could come up with a point. Maybe something like, "since we're not supposed to be here anyway — "

[boundbydevotion]

I'm certain all I've done is handled things the same way that most of Walker's acquaintances have handled it...

[velveteened]

Allen's lucky to have so many good friends!

[boundbydevotion]

[For a moment he's tempted to point out that he isn't Allen's friend, but he sighs and lets that pass. They're talking about the other Exorcists at any rate.]

I suppose so. Have you not met many of them?

[velveteened]

I've met some of them, but I don't think I could say that I know everyone. I live with Lenalee, though, so I know her best.

( seems like a slightly cold way to put it, even to him. we're friends, she'd said, and then do you know what that means to me? )