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He looked down at her with a blank, confused expression at first, which softened into a slight smile.

2015-07-15 05:27:32

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She looked up at him, and smiled back. "Looks like Ren is having fun. I don't feel as bad for leaving them alone now."

2015-07-15 05:29:50

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"From what I gathered it seems they spend an abundance of time alone anyways, so they are probably okay. ....were there originally more people invited to this party?"

2015-07-15 05:35:49

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"Spyders mentioned something about Ren's boyfriend, Dameien, but I don't think he showed. " This made her nervous as well. How would a react to the topic of homosexuality? Especially since Ren did not look 100% male or female from first glance.

2015-07-15 05:37:15

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Fortunately, or maybe not so, he wouldn't react to that. He'd been under the given impression that Ren was a woman who preferred the term 'they', as he'd only seen them in skirts and crossdressing had never even crossed his mind. He'd seen masculine-looking women at work, so it wasn't that odd. That being said, he simply accepted it with no questions asked. "I guess Cale would have come if Spyders had not, so that would not have increased the number of attendees either. And Terezi was not invited?"

2015-07-15 06:40:02

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She shook her head. "I guess Lance assumed she wanted to spend time with Tassek tonight."

2015-07-15 06:42:47

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"...that is probably true. Um. Also. Judging from their recent declaration. Happy New Year?"

2015-07-15 06:45:18

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"Mhmm." She hugged him again, with just as much slowness to it. "Happy New Year."

2015-07-15 06:47:00

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Cale slept through the party and New Year's, exhausted as he was from the last few days' events. Zane had nearly pulled their door off its hinges on the way out, and he'd had to screwdriver that back into place. That he could handle. The annoying part was he could have never done that when he was first turned. Admittedly, his roommate did have the advantage of nigh-inhuman strength from /before/ all this happened, but still. It was ridiculous. He'd told him he'd get control in a few weeks, but with that kind of power? Could take months. In the meantime, he wasn't going to ask for a pat on the back.

The flickering emotions he received for the first several minutes after Zane's apparent arrival were something he would have to get used to. Some low-toned rage found its way in there, and that made him nervous, but Lance was there, and he could handle the big guy if he got out of hand. Louhkie wouldn't be there again, right? They didn't need any more drunks, especially tonight of all nights.

When he did finally pass out, he got a good, if a bit unwilling, look at a few of his bond's memories. There were one or two of himself, just from the other perspective, mostly at the dojo before they'd moved here together, and one of Zane's father, of course. He'd been told about him, but never seen his face, and the sight of it made him scowl in his sleep. What an asshole. Fortunately, now that Zane was of age, he could get a restraining order, probably, if the guy showed up. He, at least, had legal citizenship. And a driver's licence, that was cool too. Not like they had a car.

Speaking of cars, right before he woke up he saw an image of a younger Ivory being yelled at by some girl in the driver's seat of one as she swerved around, trying to figure out how to work the controls. What the /hell/? What was this doing here? Unless Zane was somehow in the car with them, which made no sense, this meant this memory was secondhand, and Ivory had somehow shared it with Zane. Yes, this pissed him off. Of course. It was /his/ bond, not hers. He was going to figure out what was going on, then tell her to fuck right off before he bought a sun lamp for the threshold.

2015-07-15 07:06:57

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It was January first, 2016, and the bell to the shop rang out as Ren entered, wearing their more casual outfit of long-sleeved shirt and short-sleeved denim overshirt, with their laptop under one arm.

2015-07-15 07:16:01

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January first, 2016. Not many stores were open today. This dress shop wasn't one of them. Currently, Lance was helping a customer when Ren walked in. Ivory looked up from her phone, noticing Ren. "Hey." She then noticed the laptop. "Any reason you've brought that?"

2015-07-15 07:22:20

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"Hellooo. You said you wanted to see my blog, and I also have some games you might like~ Mostly, though, I was just interested in hanging out."

2015-07-15 07:25:57

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Oh. They wanted to hang out? Wonderful! She stood up from the hair she was in, giving Ren space to sit. "Sounds like fun. I'm sure Lance won't care.It's not like he pays me." She moved over to the steps. "Over here, my room is this way."

2015-07-15 07:29:25

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They grinned and followed her up the stairs, oohing in approval at the decor of her room. "Nice paint job, you do it yourself?"

2015-07-15 07:31:29

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"I did, actually. When I first moved in, it was the first thing I did." She commented, remembering how surprised Lance was that she did it all in one night. She shoved some papers to the side, moved her desk chair to the side before grabbing her vanity chair, and placed it down next to the spinning chair. "Here, you can set your computer down here." She gestured to the now available space on the desk.

2015-07-15 07:35:00

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"Alrighty." They set the laptop down, shifted a few more papers aside so they wouldn't catch fire from the vent, and sat on the vanity chair, pulling it open and logging in. Their desktop was filled with with files and thumbnails to the extent that the background was nearly indistinguishable. "What's the magic word?"

2015-07-15 07:41:29

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She chuckled. "It's actually a number. Zero Two One Zero." Her birth-date, of course. Lance's idea.

2015-07-15 07:47:20

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"Thank you~" They entered it and opened the internet. Their blog was bookmarked at the top and they clicked it, bringing up a diagonally-striped blue and purple page scattered with short walls of text.

2015-07-15 07:50:23

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She at down on the spinning chair, taking a look at the colored webpage. "So this is where your magic happens?"

2015-07-15 07:53:32

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"Yep. I change the layout on occasion, when it starts to get a bit blinding."

2015-07-15 07:58:49

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"I see. Do you blog about anything in particular? Or is it whatever that is off the top of your head?"

2015-07-15 08:00:30

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"Mmm, mostly off the top of my head. Sometimes I'll do Q&As or topics people request."

2015-07-15 08:06:13

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"Oh really. I guess I'll have to spam you with topics sometime and make sure you do them all."

2015-07-15 08:06:44

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"If you do that, my fanbase might just cyber-bully you out of the comments. They're surprisingly aggressive."

2015-07-15 08:09:54

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"Oh no. I'll be cyber-bullied to second death." She sarcastically joked. "It can't be that bad, I helped mod a minecraft server when I was 16. I've dealt with some shit."

2015-07-15 08:11:39