PARTY!, An Abandoned Warehouse in the Abandoned Warehouse District, Wednesday Night

[rebelseekspizza]

The warehouse Ringo had picked out really was the best one of the lot: everything was intact and reasonably clean, just empty. The ground floor had a huge empty area that Dante had immediately claimed as the site of their party. Between him (and okay fine, his StuCo experience) and Ringo, they'd gotten a sound system set up and repurposed a

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[rebelseekspizza]

If you haven't caught them anywhere else.

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[rebelseekspizza]

Dante was wandering around a lot, perpetually with a drink in his hand. Parties were good, yo.

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[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo had been really excited about the party, but also sort of dreading it. After all, Dante would be there, and there was that thing from Monday.

Still, she couldn't not show up. So once she was there she looked around and made a bee-line for Dante, a serious expression on her face.

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[rebelseekspizza]

Aw, fuck, there was Ringo.

Dante actually took a big fucking swig of his drink before he turned to face her. "Yo."

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[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo didn't say anything for a moment, simply walked up to a short distance away and then bowed low. It was a pretty stiff, unpracticed movement, and way more formal than Ringo usually got, especially with Dante.

She held the position, face pointing at the ground, as she spoke. "I'm very sorry about Monday."

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[rebelseekspizza]

Getting bowed to was actually almost as weird as being forced to spew his feelings everywhere on Monday. "Uh, okay," Dante said, because of that, frowning.

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[soniaroadsqueen]

That didn't exactly sound like permission to straighten up, so Ringo kept holding the position and kept talking. "I didn't mean to, um, do whatever it was that happened. But that doesn't make it okay. I was trying to be a good friend, but friends don't make each other do things they don't want to like that."

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[rebelseekspizza]

"Right, the stupid wishing thing," Dante said. He blinked a few more times. "Uh, Ringo, you gonna pull your face off the floor or what?"

Well, near the floor. Whatever.

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[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo didn't straighten her back, but did crane her neck slightly so that she could glance up at Dante. "Do you, um, can you forgive me?" she asked, eyes filled with worry.

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[rebelseekspizza]

"That was pretty fucked up," Dante said. "But uh, neither of us knew what the hell was going on, so..."

He'd wished Lucille nice, for fuck's sake.

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[soniaroadsqueen]

So...? Normally Ringo would assume that Dante was implying forgiveness, but Ringo felt really bad about this one, so she was hesitant to do that. So she just waited.

It didn't occur to her that this was also pretty inappropriate behavior on her part. You couldn't just sit around and emotionally blackmail people into forgiving you lest they be buried under your awkwardness, Ringo.

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[rebelseekspizza]

"Can you just get the fuck up, Ringo?" Dante asked, wincing. "You're bringing the party down. We're cool, all right?"

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[soniaroadsqueen]

She hesitated for a moment, then straightened and looked up at Dante again. "Thank you," she said, still serious. "I really, really am sorry."

Still not helping with the mood, Ringo.

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[rebelseekspizza]

"Yeah, I figured that out," Dante said. Seriously. This was just fucking weird.

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[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo took a deep breath and slowly let it out, a good chunk of her tension draining out with it. "I hope, um, I hope your day wasn't too bad? After, I mean?"

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[rebelseekspizza]

"Stayed in, got drunk, hung out with Anders," Dante said, shrugging. "He was nice about the weird shit, it was cool."

That was a very simplistic description of it, but whatever, he could lie about this stuff again.