It's just a job. A temporary job. And it could piss her off quite a bit if it tried.

[onlyanormalgirl]

Who: Ramona Flowers and YOU.
Where: Violet City, around and in the PokéMart during her day shifts.
When: Between Monday, October 4th and Friday, October 8th.
Summary: Come troll Ramona while she works at the Mart, or meet up with her around the city for chatting, battles, or other randomtimes! Really the only reason this is a log is because of the

Comments

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[pfauenrad]

Klavier, for his part, had found a job of his own. It wasn't ideal, of course, but very little about this arrangement was ideal. However, he had, at the very least, been earning some money--it wasn't as much as he was used to, of course, but...

He was off for the next few hours, however, and he wasn't going to spend it hanging around the Pokécentre--he had enough of that place when he was on the clock, and frankly, he had much better things to be doing with his time. There was only so much fresh air and musical composition one could take before boredom set in, though, and it was with mischief on his mind--or at least an update on this Herr Scott she'd been mentioning--that he pushed open the door to the Pokémart, carefully shouldering past a display of gaudy magazines (the type he was used to finding himself on the cover of) in an attempt to find the Fräulein before that nurse caught him and called him back to the Centre for more cleaning.

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[hairoftheweek]

Evening is where it generally began getting less frequently busy, but Ramona still knew that customers came; they just seemed to come in more sporadic instances, since most trainers and breeders traveled together at night. She didn't blame them; if they were anything like the people she knew, traveling with someone else was probably the best idea anyone could come up with in the dead of night.

As such, since it wasn't so busy, she was straightening up some counters and fixing displays that previous customers had messed up. Seriously. What part of 'Do Not Touch' did people not seem to be able to understand? She was being about as gentle as she could with the displays since most of them were pretty fragile; if she broke any, she was pretty sure she'd never hear the end of it.

At least her shift was over in a few hours.

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[pfauenrad]

Ah, there she was.

Preoccupied with her responsibilities, no less... it looked like she was handling breakables. While Klavier didn't have any particular plans for how he was going to introduce his presence to her, this did sort of limit his options; he wasn't an asshole unlike some people he knew and he certainly didn't want to get her in trouble. He was, however, extremely restless, and with restlessness came a tendency towards mischief, or at least music... the latter of which he was actually beginning to believe he'd burnt himself out on, sitting around and accomplishing so little after his shifts.

The solution was something of a compromise--the sort of thing he might have done to the Fraulein detective, actually, were she in one of her testier moods. Moving with fluid ease, he slipped up behind her, beside the display to which her back was turned,leaning over her with his hands on his hips, half-looming as he watched her reorganise the items on display. The only thing she'd need to watch out for was that pendant.

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[hairoftheweek]

Preoccupied with her responsibilities was indeed correct. Ramona was... admittedly actually heavily focused on her task, since breakables were... well, very breakable. Turning the little figurines so they were facing forward, and in (what she considered, at least) a feasible position.

Of course, she didn't hear Klavier come in, nor his sneaking behind her. In fact, she didn't even think that he would come in that day, since she didn't exactly care to remember when he was working at the Center. Why was she even worrying about when he or Scott would arrive, anyway? It wasn't her issue, it wasn't her problem...It wasn't until she started to move over to the next display and felt something touch her back that she froze for a moment, considering what could be happening - for one thing, whatever it was that just tapped her stopped just as quickly, so it could be someone poking her, or someone attempting something on her. Either way, she didn't like it, and was quickly deciding whether to thrust her elbow backwards, turn around and attempt

Re: Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[pfauenrad]

For a minute, Klavier was honestly wondering if she was ever going to notice--but then, right on cue, there was her famous brand of wit (and a bit of irritability, but he supposed he didn't blame her.)

"Ach. Is that any way to greet a friend who came to keep you company while you toil in menial labour?" He straightened up, conscientious enough to recognise that while looming was fine until someone noticed you, it was downright creepy after too much longer, and that was not the effect he was going for.

And it was only polite to give a lady her space, after all.

"In truth, I came to ask you a question." He paused. "That, and I'll admit a fair bit of curiosity as to what required such painstaking attention." He sounded positively amused.

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[hairoftheweek]

Menial labor. Right. Keep her company. Right. "I wouldn't call standing behind someone like a stalker 'keeping someone company,' but whatever floats your boat, dude."

Finally, she turned around as she was given her space, and he spoke his reasons for coming, causing her to cock an eyebrow, letting her hands fall from her hips to her sides. "Well, the displays have to look good." Joke or not, there was at least a good reason she was paying attention to it.

"And what is this question?" She's obviously being pretty neutral about the situation now, not really phased about Klavier being so amused about it.

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[pfauenrad]

Klavier paused, running his fingers through his hair. "This Herr Scott of yours... I hope this isn't too much to say, but it seemed prudent to ask where he was and how much longer this is going to take. I'm not going anywhere, so there's no pressure or anything, but... I, ah..." For a moment, he appeared to be someplace else, someplace very much in his head, but that disappears almost immediately; the next second his hands are on his hips and he manages to look simultaneously matter-of-fact and slightly contrite, albeit in a somewhat insincere manager.

"Frankly, I'm bored."

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[hairoftheweek]

"He only arrived a couple of days ago." And almost said 'he's not mine.' She also almost asked out loud why she even bothered waiting for Scott, since this was a guy she barely knew and yet she figured she might as well do it so he'd be quiet about it. She didn't know. She just knew that working here would pay off in the long run, which was another reason she couldn't argue with him - she was already working at the time. "So probably another week or so." ... Which would be longer than her original work week.

His expression of being bored pretty much answered her question of exactly why he had been acting like he was for at least the past few days. This, however, formed another question, and this one she actually felt she needed to ask.

"Why are you bored? There's a lot to do in the city."

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[pfauenrad]

"The city...?" Klavier stared at her for a second, then shook his head as though trying to dislodge something, possibly something unpleasant.

"I see." A week. Achtung. "Well, so ist das. The problem is that there is nothing to do here. And I am used to being busy. Concerts, rehearsals, court cases, evidence processing, paperwork..." He ticked them off on his fingers, one after another, his brow furrowing slightly, then looped his thumbs through the chain belt around his waist, his expression relaxing into a self-deprecating smile. "Apparently eight hours of community service is not enough to keep me going." Not that he expected her to do anything about it, but it was better to level with her now than... ach, who knew. Damage the flimsy relationship they'd developed thus far, he supposed. Whether she liked him or not, Ramona was one of the few decent people he'd met thus far. He'd rather she continue tolerating him for a bit.

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[hairoftheweek]

Was he really that busy? Ramona listened to his words, wondering exactly how he was able to manage all of that - she rather enjoyed her own laid-back life after running away from New York to Toronto back at home and was fine with living life as it came.

"You sure do love to work, don't you?" She thought for a moment, placing a hand to her hip as she looked over at the counter where she usually works behind, as if thinking. "Well, if you'd like something to do after hours, you could always come with me and explore Violet. I heard they have a large tower somewhere that tourists visit."

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[pfauenrad]

"Of course," Klavier snapped his fingers rhythmically for a few seconds. "That's the point, ja?" Ramona might have wondered, and she certainly wasn't the first--but Klavier, unlike most people with busy lives, saw no need for downtime, let alone free time where he idled around uselessly. He didn't take off days off--not unless he was sick or needed to catch up somewhere, and then it was just that--a day or so, taken off before he got back into the thick of things.

That was just his style.

He pondered her offer, however--the idea of tourist attractions was sort of off-putting, but at the same time...

"But why not? It might be interesting. At the very least, I can perhaps make up for startling you... although I must admit you took it very well." There was a mischeivous glint in his eye.

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[hairoftheweek]

Unlike Klavier, she enjoyed her downtime.

"Only because I figured it was you," she teased with a smirk. "If I hadn't known it, you might have needed to step back before getting an elbow to the stomach. I don't take chances like that." Or a punch to wherever she aimed if she had to turn around.

Pokémart / Oct 6 / Early Evening

[pfauenrad]

"...ach. In that case, I appreciate your restraint." This was said with a tone of faint dryness, but the smile remained on his face, making Klavier's actual intentions difficult to read. In fact, he was rather glad that hadn't happened--and would certainly keep these reflexes of hers in mind for the next time.