The Icklest Koala, Alcove A2, Sunday Night

[the_merriest]

Okay, so, Rikku had finally moved into her cabin. Hooray, cabins! And now she had a chocobo in her lap, and it was kwehing at her and pthhhhbbting and awwww. Way too cute.

She had to use this for evil. It was like a law.

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[heromaniac]

Momoko was just bringing her stuff into the cabin when she heard a familiar voice. She poked her head around the corner of the alcove.

"... Rikku?!"

[the_merriest]

"Hi!" Rikku waved. "So, uh. I told you about Reno, right?"

Reno warked at her. Hi! Hi!

Rikku blinked and wondered if her little sister was going to think she was dating a wee!chocobo, which ... would be kinda not good.

[heromaniac]

"Yay! Hi hi hi! We're almost-roommates!" Momoko bounced into full view and... froze mid-bounce. She stared. "Uhm, why do you have a red chicken? And yeah, Reno is your boyfriend - the one guy in the tv, right?"

[the_merriest]

"Ooooh, you're here, too?" she grinned. "Hiya! Um. This is ... he's a chocobo, I think. I'm not used to them being red, but apparently they come in different colors other places, you know? And, uh."

She rubbed her eyes. "Reno and I were trying to have a date, and Fandom has a really bad sense of humor? So he's kinda ... um."

Reno kwehed happily at the newcomer.

[heromaniac]

"Awww! 'Kweh' to you too. You really ARE a cutie!" Momoko resumed bouncing and smiled at the red bird. "Uh huh! I'm in A1 right next door! So Fandom changed him into a bird... a chocobo, you said? Wow, and on your date, too. Yuck."

[the_merriest]

"We have bad luck with dates," she sighed. "Seriously. We had one get rained out and we had the ferret get in the food, the second time, and I ended up on the phone with his boss and that went awfully. I should be glad nobody's missing a limb or anything."

Reno kwehed again happily, bobbing towards Momoko. Maybe she'd pet him! Hi! Hi! Hi!

[heromaniac]

"Oh! oh! He's coming over! How cute is he? Can I pet him, or is that too weird?" Momoko squeeed and crouched down, holding out her hand for Reno to... uh, did chocobo sniff hands? She was totally going to pet him when he was in range, if Rikku said it was okay. It was her boyfriend after all. Sort of. She looked up at Rikku for confirmation, and "Ferret? And does EVERYone but me have a job?"

[the_merriest]

"Oh, you totally can," Rikku laughed. "He might nip you, just really lightly? I think it's how he says hi. It's not hard enough to hurt, I promise."

She frowned a little. "His job is kinda ... something he does, back home?" Not worth going into. Okay. "But lots of people have jobs, around here. If you want to get one downtown, there's usually people hiring. It's just kinda nice to have a little extra money, you know? But, I mean, you don't have to or anything."

[heromaniac]

Momoko nodded. "Yeah, I kinda had something I did back home too, but where I come from most high school kids don't have jobs so that they can focus on their studies. That's kinda how I ended up here, not spending enough time on my studies."

Now that she had permission, Momoko breached the final distance and tried to pat Reno's chest. She wasn't sure WHERE on a bird you were supposed to pet, but it looked to be the... featheriest. "Soooo cute! I don't mind if you bite, so long as you don't mean it."

[the_merriest]

Reno nipped happily at her fingers, nudging his head against them. Hi! Hi! Hi! Reno looooved pettings.

"I guess it's different, here," Rikku said, mulling it over. "Studying and all, I mean. If you think you need time to study, that's totally cool. Just that I usually don't until finals, you know? So maybe you have time after all. You should see."

[heromaniac]

"Maybe I will. Ah! Ha ha! Cute!" Momoko giggled. "Oh I know this is so wrong to say, but your boyfriend is so cute, I could pet him all day!" She curled her fingers and gave his head a soft series of skritches.

"So, we've gotta stay in cabins now instead of dorms- this is gonna be interesting! Do you know who else is in our cabin yet?"

[the_merriest]

"No, it's true, it's adorable," Rikku sighed. "At least he's cute, right? And I haven't seen yet who's in with us. Dojima stopped by, but she's elsewhere and just wanted to chat."

[heromaniac]

"Oh, sorry, I'm sure you want him back to normal. But yeah. At least he didn't turn into a roach or a giant spider." Momoko absolutely did NOT scoop her big sister's boyfriend into a tight squeezey hug. That would be WRONG, no matter how what kind of really cute and cuddly animal he currently was. Really.

But she wanted to.

"Dojima? Oh, she's in my modeling class. I haven't spoken with her much, but she seems very nice. Ah! And she was in the common room with the TV! I remember that now; she was yelling at the boys and changing the channels for them!"

[the_merriest]

"It's fine," Rikku laughed. "I'm kinda used to it, by now. Jude turned into a cat twice. Fandom likes messing with me. And you're right, if he were a tarantula, I wouldn't snuggle him half so much."

Or at all. Ew. Tarantulas.

She grinned, at the last bit. "Dojima's dating Romeo and the four of us kinda have a posse going, except that doesn't mean anything except we call ourselves a posse whenever we're up to no good. Which is usually. You should say hi to her some time, she's awesome."

[heromaniac]

Momoko giggled. "Romeo's in my class, too. He looks good in heels!"

[the_merriest]

Rikku clapped a hand over her mouth, giggling madly. "Please, please tell me you got pictures??"