[closed] Shopping Times!

[hinderingkoala]

Characters:Hokuto, Rikku, and whoever Rikku drags along to help carry things
Location:Starting out at the school and then going to thrift stores and Goodwill and stuff
Time:Most of Saturday afternoon
Content:Shopping for the Lounge over at Keepsie's
Format:I like third, but reply however you'd like
Warnings:Two peppy girls shopping, enter at your

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[hinderingkoala]

"I don't know, what do you think Rikku? It'd be a good idea to get a small one, I'm sure Keepsie's got a bigger one, but small one to put a few things in would be good. Did she say anything about a microwave or something to cook things with?" Hokuto hadn't been in the room that would shortly be used for the lounge, so she was relying on the pictures and what Rikku had told her. Hopefully there would be room for everything...

[pickinurpockets]

"I think she said no full-fledged kitchens, but microwaves were cool. And maybe an electric grill or something, and a mini fridge can't hurt, right?" Rikku grinned. "I say yes!"

[ttlynotjapanese]

"Awesome. I'll have to remember to label my stuff so other people don't eat it." Lays down on the couch.

[hinderingkoala]

"Alright, after we get done here we should go to Bullseye and get those things. And then probably drop the stuff off at Keepsie's, or we'll run out of room." Unless one of them had the power to create extra-dimensional pockets of space or something. She looked over at the coffee tables, dismissing one of them immediately and deciding she liked the other. "Rikku-chan, Bee-kun, what do you think of this coffee table? It's only $30."

[pickinurpockets]

Rikku went over and promptly sat on the table to test it's sturdiness. "I think it'll work," she said, getting back up. "It might not survive a bomb, but it'll survive kids sitting on it!"

[ttlynotjapanese]

He was just getting comfortable on that couch too. He got up and headed over to check out the coffee table. "It does look sturdy. Even if it turns out not to be, we could fix it pretty easily."

[hinderingkoala]

Hokuto thought this was an excellent way to test the table's strength and promptly sat down next to Rikku. "Seems sturdy enough to me. Or at least it won't collapse in ten minutes from someone sitting on it. Okay, did you guys see anything else here that we might want? Because I think this is all we're going to get here." And she needed to get out of here before she started spending Grandma Sumeragi's money on those cute clothes she kept seeing out of the corner of her eye.

[pickinurpockets]

"Nothing I can't live without!" Rikku replied. "Buy it and get someone to help Bee load it!" She grinned at Bee; she felt a little bad, having him do most of the heavy lifting, but really, Rikku was too clumsy.

[ttlynotjapanese]

"...I knew it. I should charge you two for my services, you know." He didn't mind really. He stretched a little in anticipation for the lifting that he was about to do.

[hinderingkoala]

"I'll make it up to you with lunch somewhere. That sound fair?" It was always a good thing to reward people who helped you after all.

With that she got the tags off the pieces of furniture that they were going to buy, paying for them with her grandma's card and getting a nice, strapping young man who was possibly employed both for his entirely charming smile as for his apparent ability to lift most of the furniture in the store by himself.

"Alright!" She exclaimed once they had returned "This is Jim, he's going to help get the furniture out to the truck."

Jim smiled and nodded. "Just show me where it needs to go and I'll get it there."

[pickinurpockets]

Rikku nodded, and poked Bee's stomach. "It's not fair to buy him lunch because we'll drain your grandma's bank account just feeding him!" She giggled.

She watched Hokuto go off and come back with Jim. "It's the old Chevy in the front," she replied. "Y'can't miss it."

[ttlynotjapanese]

"Hey!" Bumblebee shoves Rikku a bit What are you trying to say, Rikku? That I'm fat?" he looked over to Hokuto "But yeah. That sounds fair to me." He wasn't being serious about charging them, but if she want to get him lunch then he wasn't going to turn her down.

Bumblebee went and waited by the couch for the Jim guy. And when he showed up to move the couch, he helped him.

[hinderingkoala]

Hokuto was never the sort to do any heavy lifting or manual labor when she had someone else to help her out, so while she didn't help carry anything, she... okay well she didn't do much of anything productive except pick out some curtains that she thought would match with the colors they were talking about. If not then she was sure she could find a use for them somewhere.

"So Rikku-chan, I was thinking lunch first after we drop this off at Keepsie's and then we can go to Bullseye. And maybe another thrift store if there's one nearby?"

[pickinurpockets]

Rikku nodded, coming back from helping to carry out smaller things. "Yeah! And then we can decorate and have this thing ready by Valentine's if not New Years!"

[ttlynotjapanese]

Bumblebee sits down on the tailgate of the truck once they finish putting the couch on there. "Don't you two hurt yourselves carrying those." He teased.

[hinderingkoala]

Hokuto had found a lamp covered in what looked like some sort of furry knitted scarf and that went in the back of the truck with everything else. "Well of course, it wouldn't be right for us to hurt ourselves when we have two big strong capable men to take care of it for us!" With a chuckle and a nod Jim finished bringing the coffee table out and loaded it onto the truck.

"Thank you Jim-san!" Hokuto turned to her two partners in crime "Now, who wants some lunch?"