June 30, 2074 - Retro pool party!

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"Lanky lizards!"

Weetzie couldn't believe her eyes when she and Slinkster Dog entered the pool area. She was decked out in the best retro swimwear she could find: a polka-dotted red bikini that Esther Williams could have worn. She wore a flower in her spit-curled blond hair, too, just like Esther, and perfect red lipstick and a bracelet with

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River walks in a short time after Weetzie does, and looks around at all the awesome decorations.

She grins. "Groovy."

River hurries over to Weetzie. "This place looks great! Thank goodness for robots with a flair for decor!" She looks at her friend. "And you look super-fantastic. Shiny."

This was so much more fun than the cotillion she had to have for her thirteenth birthday... "I hope lots of people come. Lots and lots of people. We need dancing."

This was her first real party, after all. The first one her mother wasn't involved in, anyway...

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Slink saw River first. Weetzie looked up and grinned when she saw the little dog bouncing excitedly at her friend's feet.

"Hi, River!" she greeted the other girl as she approached, leaning over to give River a hug. "The robots did a great job, and look at you! I love the bathing suit!"

(Pucci was one of Weetzie's favorite designers. She thought his prints looked like the inner workings of nature.)

"I hope people show up, too. When I went to hang up posters, I told everyone I saw about the party so they should know it's going down tonight!"

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River bends down to pet Slinkster. "He looks good with his lei!" The dog licks her nose and River giggles.

"Thank you! I lucked out when I found this in the weird clothing store. The one where I got my butterfly costume. I think lots of people will come. There's always time for a party!"

She stands up again, reaching into the bowl for a lei of her own.

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"I remember that store," Weetzie said. She had bought her swimsuit from another place that was pretty nice, too, but remembered that the store had a lot of cool stuff. Maybe next time there was a party, she would go back there.

The two girls spent some time playing with Slink and admiring the decorations, and then Weetzie suggested that they get something to drink.

"Simon's coming, right?" she asked as she started towards the bar.

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"I certainly hope so," River says. "If he doesn't show up, we are going to have words."

Simon has done better at coming out of his shell and letting her do things on her own, but he still needed to have fun sometimes.

"I don't even know what he'll be wearing." Sometimes, he could surprise her with what he came out with. He was usually very predictable, so when he comes out of that mold, it's rather shocking.

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Weetzie wrinkled her nose.

"Well, I told him that it's a retro party and he should show up in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt," she said, "but I don't think I'll count on him showing up in that."

Of course, she had seen Simon dressed as a cowboy, but apart from that she couldn't remember him wearing anything besides his rich-boy doctor clothes.

"Not that what he wears to the party is important, of course," Weetzie added. "He should just come and try to have some fun. Does he know how to do the limbo?"

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"Yeah, you definitely shouldn't count on that," she said, laughing a little. "I'm not sure I know how to do the limbo, actually."

It's not a common dance in her 'verse at all.

She grinned at Weetzie and put her arm around the other girl. "I'm so glad we're doing this. It's my first non-boring party!"

[ms_weetzie_bat]

The limbo wasn't the coolest dance in the world, but Weetzie figured they would try it tonight. It was a retro thing to do, after all, and maybe people would think it was kind of fun.

"Well, I'm glad we're doing this so you can have a non-boring party!" she told River, meaning it. "I think you or Simon said something about you missing out on lots of normal teenage stuff, so you definitely have to do it now that you can."

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"Simon is so sweet," River says. "I think he'll be happy with this party. I hope everyone will be."

Not that she was worried. People always seemed to be having a good time at parties here. It gave everyone a chance to see each other with their guards down, hopefully.

"We need music!"

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"Ooh, I almost forgot!" Weetzie said. "Hang on, I got it!"

Hurrying over to the bar, which also housed a portable sound system, she plugged in the little device she had bought at one of the music store. Instead of the piles of records and tapes that Weetzie was used to, this was what she found when she had gone looking for good tunes. It was hell of hard to believe that she had a whole night's worth of music on that little thing, but she did, and all sorts of good stuff, too!

Weetzie turned on the music player and in moments, the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe" started to play.

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River listens for a few moments, then tilts her head. "Weetzie? What's a 'Deuce Coupe'?"

She reflects, upon asking her question, that it's sometimes more fun to have to ask questions than to know the answers automatically.

Because she really can't think of what on earth-that-was a 'deuce coupe' is.

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Weetzie had been doing a dance that Brandy-Lynn called "the Swim," but River's question made her stop.

"Um... I think it's a car," she said. "I've heard that some kinds of old cars are called 'coupes' back in LA, and the song lyrics talk a lot about a really cool car, so I guess that's what it is."

She's got a competition clutch with the four on the floor
And she purrs like a kitten 'til the late pipes roar
And if that ain't enough to make you flip your lid
There's one more thing I got - the pink slip, Daddy...

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Such strange dancing! But at least it looks fun. "Hmm...well, now that I listen to all the lyrics, that makes sense. Though...what's a 'pink slip'?"

She looks over, feeling a little shy as she admits, "I'm trying not to look in your head without permission. Now that I can control it."

She's never admitted that to anyone before, because it was rather embarrassing to her to admit that she looked in people's minds constantly before. Even if she couldn't help it then, it still embarrasses her now.

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"Well, if you tried to look in my head about what a pink slip is," Weetzie told her, laughing, "you wouldn't find anything, because I have no idea!"

It was good to know, though, that River was trying not to read people's minds now that she could help it. She didn't have anything to hide, especially now that River already knew about Weetzie's thing for Simon, but Weetzie still found herself trying to be careful about her thoughts when River was around. (Could she read your mind even though you weren't in the same room?)

"I mean, I've heard of pink slips, but the ones I know don't have anything to do with cars."

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[suchgoodwork]

River giggled. "A mystery to figure out, then. 'The Mystery of the Pink Slip'."

And then she giggled more because, after all, she was seventeen, and it did sound...like the title of a rather naughty holo-vid that might come up on your source box. Well, if you were looking for it, that is.

She blushed a little. "I am afraid my brain went to a very naughty sort of place. It's a good thing you can't look into my brain right now."

She doesn't often think along these lines at all. It's mostly a new sensation.

"Anyone you especially want to show up tonight?"

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When Weetzie heard "pink slip," she either thought of how people got fired at work, or underwear. She supposed it was the idea of underwear (which wasn't very "naughty" at all, in her opinion, but whatever) that made River laugh.

"No one, really," she said when River asked her whom she wanted to see at the party. The other girl actually already knew, anyway; did she have to say it out loud?

"I mean, I go into these things hoping everyone shows up and has a good time."