Room 205, Saturday Morning

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There was a dance tonight, so Rhys was trying to decide between one skinny tie or the other. Because he liked skinny ties, okay? They were his signature look along with not having a sleeve on one side so he could show off his awesome robotic arm.

The important thing was that he believed those were the case, really

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Since the fiasco in the common room, Xanthippe had faked being sick over Valentine's Day. (And, by the way, find you know how hard it was to so that over social media? Because it was.) But there'd been a lot of passive pressure since then. Somehow, her NYC friends were managing to milk the holiday for all that it was worth.

Xanthippe was not at all good at holding up under pressure.

Which explained the way she unceremoniously stormed in with a suit and other things over one arm. "Oh my God, what are you doing? Skinny ties, seriously?"

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"What's wrong with skinny ties?" They were long enough that even this giraffe looking noodle could tuck them him into his pants.

RHYS, WHY?

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"They look dumb," Xanthippe told him, bluntly. "They make you look uncool and you can't look uncool because I'm being ridiculed enough as it is."

No one was actually ridiculing her outright, but she knew. It was in the emojis!

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"What?!" No, seriously. What?!

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They were still talking about the ties, right?

"They look dumb, I don't know how else to say it."

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"No one is making fun of my ties!" Yes they were. "Anymore. Have you been talking to Loaderbot?"

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Xanthipe squinted at him. "Is that like a new app or...?"

So, no.

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Rhys just gave her a suspicious look right on back.

"No."

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"Oh thank God, I thought I'd missed something." A beat. "Not that you'd be likely to know about something before me."

Great job with the vague insults, Xan.

"Anyway, your skinny ties aren't gonna go with this suit."

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"Um, I'm from space. I know plenty that you don't," Rhys replied snidely. "And I like my ties."

He would.

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"Well they suck." So there. "I brought options that are like, way better."

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"You brought me tie options." What even.

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"Uh huh," she replied, because maybe he needed some encouragement with this clearly troubling time of having to repeat what she'd just said. "To go with this suit."

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"You brought me a suit?" Rhys was on the incredulous repeating portion of this conversation. "My suit is fine."

It was colorful and managed to fit his way long limbs.

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"Yeah, you'd think that."

She held the suit out for him. It was worth more than anything he owned, probably.

"This one's better than fine."

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Well, he at least knew quality when he saw it. "This is for me?" he asked, reaching out to touch the fabric.