CHARACTERS: Alfred F. Jones, Matthew Williams, and whatever poor souls they encounter.
LOCATION/SETTING: Outside the cafeteria
DATE & TIME: Cinco de Mayo, just before lunch.
WARNINGS: all of them. no, not really, none.
SUMMARY: The problem with dressing two brothers who could pass as twins in matching uniforms: it's very hard to tell them apart.
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But no, a pair of gold eyes were watching the two brothers walking along over the top of her screen. It was hard to tell exactly which one she was looking at given the distance between them, but a glance her way would net the brothers proof that a girl was checking them out.
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This is strange.
No, really. If some stranger greets a random person on the street like this, that person is going to avoid eye contact and hurry away as quickly as possible. Now, Alfred might be able to justify it with 'oh she was looking at me, I was only being friendly instead of awkwardly pretending I didn't catch her looking at me', but even that's a stretch.
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Instead she toyed a bit with the end of her braid. "Hey," she replied, her accent marking her as being far more Japanese than she looked, being blonde and all, "I think you should come over here and talk to me, ze."
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He walks over, then sort of just stands there in front of her, trying to figure out if he should sit on the floor next to her or just keep awkwardly standing there. Alfred settles for leaning against the wall next to her.
"So, uh," he starts. The next words he thinks of are 'you were staring at me,' but somehow that doesn't feel like the best way to introduce himself. Instead he smiles. "My name's Alfred! What's yours?"
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"Hey Alfred," she replied. "I'm Marisa. Do you always call out the girls you catch looking at you?" The question was light and teasing as she shifted to cross her legs the other way, smoothing her skirt out.
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"Uh, well, sometimes," he says. Blunders is more like it. Must try to save face. "I mean, if they're especially cute I do!"
SAFE.
...HOPEFULLY. God he hopes he doesn't look like a total goon at the moment.
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"Mm. Flattery will get you everywhere, ze," she replied with a wink. "So how are you liking it here?" Because it was pretty obvious he was relatively new.
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"Can tell I'm a newbie, huh? It's good! Definitely different from America though. What about you? Where are you from?"
Because hell if he can guess accents.
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It made her wonder what part of America he was from. She'd only ever been to California to visit her mother's relatives... not that she ever really liked going but it was less because of it being America and more other things.
"I'm from Japan, ze. Tokyo. I've been here since the beginning of last school year and I'm still getting used to all this French stuff." Like finally deciding to try and learn the damn language.
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