Lobby: Thursday, All Day (Except Fifth Period): Cookie Table

[the_merriest]

Okay, so: she'd made several dozen cookies last night, and she had actually followed the recipes for once instead of just making things up as she went along. So they weren't, say, Surprise Cookies, but they should be edible, which ... surprise cookies sometimes weren't

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[the_merriest]

"Oh! Hi, Tori! I, uh," she flailed vaguely in the direction of the sign, "screwed up and I'm sorry and, uh, cookies?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku blushed. "Oh! Uh, thanks, I just, you know. It was kinda bad and it could have been worse and I was being stupid and reckless and ... I knew better." She shook her head. "And I feel all down about Bayla leaving and I was just like, okay, cookies."

[the_merriest]

"Oh, you had another kid?" Rikku smiled. "Or you were bonding with someone else's? And man. I saw some of the stuff she left behind that night and ... I cried a lot." She blushed. "I know it's stupid, they're better off, but ..."

[the_merriest]

"I have ... a traffic cone. She insisted we had to steal it." Rikku giggled. "Little juvenile delinquent. Apparently she's been banned from a lot of malls for pranking the rent-a-cops. I shouldn't be proud of that, right?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku laughed. "I guess we're not instilling her with much respect for authority."

[the_merriest]

"Well, I can't say I'm sorry about it. I, uh, I'm not big on authority, either, and I turned out okay. Right?" She thought for a minute and then looked at the cookies, and the sign behind her. "When I'm not messing with the fabric of reality, I mean."