"Actually, you can't smell a spike if it was done with alcohol."
two sets of footfalls lacked down the stairs behind Erk - Charlotte, Erk's classmate, and her friend Shanoa. The two formed an odd pair, the former being a little shorter than Erk, and the latter's statuesque figure making her taller than some guys.
"Alcohol by itself doesn't smell. What you're thinking of is rohypnol."
"I still maintain you could smell a difference, if not the substance itself," Shanoa countered, taking a sip from the coffee mug she was holding - glasses had run out a while ago, and contents were decidedly not coffee. "Odourless dilution is still dilution."
The pair stopped their debate when they almost tripped over Erk, smiling down at him. "Hello, there. Why is the host in this corner by himself?"
Erk gave them a slightly sardonic smile, standing up. He felt awkward talking to someone who was standing up when he was sitting on something as low as the stairs, especially when one of the someones happened to be as tall as Shanoa. "I'm not sure I qualify as the host. I mean, yes, it's my house, but the party just sort of showed up. Hello, Charlotte, Shanoa."
"I didn't think that invite looked like your handwriting," Charlotte admitted. "And it was strange to have a meeting place somewhere else. Somebody must have known you'd be a good venue."
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"Someone with flagrant disregard for personal wishes," Shanoa continued. "And someone who would be in close enough contact with your guardians to know they'd be away."
"Of course." He sighed, rolling his eyes. "I really should have guessed. I probably would have if I hadn't already been avoiding her." Occasionally he wondered why they were still friends, apart from Serra's general assumption that he'd pine away and die without her.
"I fear Erk is not 'the most part'," Shanoa admitted before taking another swig of her drink. "You forget, you you've been helping out at the church since you were four, and myself since I was baptised there. We're what she hopes to be, so she turns on the charm."
She looked back at Erk. "I understand why you'd find her vexing. She can be... uncompromising in the smallest of things."
He sighed, rubbing the back of his neck. "It isn't even that, not really. She's not even deliberately mean, just... thoughtless. She more or less seems to assume I'll do anything for her; I'm pretty sure she worships herself more than anything else." Which just goes to show there are things even Erk has yet to pick up about her.
"That's one interpretation of her," Charlotte said diplomatically. Their relationship was a complicated one, the source of much speculation from onlookers, Charlotte for one had no desire to interfere with it's own progression.
Charlotte looked around the gathering from their position, taking in the raucous partying still going on with no sign of stopping. "But I feel she's missing out on something."
Shanoa had been thinking much the same thing, until that last comment got a small smile from her. "My, my, Charlotte," she said, a teasing lilt in her voice. "I didn't know you felt like that about our classmate."
Charlotte blushed furiously and looked away. "Th-that's not what I meant...!"
Erk seemed to have failed to pick up on some of the nuances in that statement, because all he did was look askance at Charlotte blushing for a moment before shrugging a bit. "Oh, I don't know. If she organized all this, I'm sure she's somewhere in the thick of it. I'm surprised she hasn't found me and dragged me out into it already, really."
It might have been the organization that rankled so much, really. Somehow it was more irritating knowing they'd planned it out than it would have been if the party had just sort of coalesced.
Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief, glad Erk had someone completely missed what Shanoa had meant. "I don't doubt that was her plan, but she probably got distracted..."
Normally, Shanoa wouldn't have gone this way, but whatever was in her mug (not a euphemism - she didn't actually know) made her more inclined to tease than usual.
"Her loss, then. Charlotte get you all to herself."
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Erk raised an eyebrow. "I don't hear you joke like that often, Shanoa."
He sighed, stretching absently. "Really, at this point I'm just grateful they took Klein with them. I'd really rather only have to deal with either him or the party; both would be a bit much."
"She doesn't," Charlotte mumbled, attempting to elbow Shanoa. It didn't work very well, though - with her ribs out of reach, a sharp poke just turned into an ineffectual prod in the midsection.
two sets of footfalls lacked down the stairs behind Erk - Charlotte, Erk's classmate, and her friend Shanoa. The two formed an odd pair, the former being a little shorter than Erk, and the latter's statuesque figure making her taller than some guys.
"Alcohol by itself doesn't smell. What you're thinking of is rohypnol."
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The pair stopped their debate when they almost tripped over Erk, smiling down at him. "Hello, there. Why is the host in this corner by himself?"
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The two girls looked at each other.
"Serra," they deadpanned together.
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She looked back at Erk. "I understand why you'd find her vexing. She can be... uncompromising in the smallest of things."
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Charlotte looked around the gathering from their position, taking in the raucous partying still going on with no sign of stopping. "But I feel she's missing out on something."
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Charlotte blushed furiously and looked away. "Th-that's not what I meant...!"
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It might have been the organization that rankled so much, really. Somehow it was more irritating knowing they'd planned it out than it would have been if the party had just sort of coalesced.
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"Her loss, then. Charlotte get you all to herself."
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He sighed, stretching absently. "Really, at this point I'm just grateful they took Klein with them. I'd really rather only have to deal with either him or the party; both would be a bit much."
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