Time away from the island had done wonders for Ringo's emotional equilibrium. Funnily enough, it had never occurred to her to not come back to Fandom, and that meant that she had to actually return at some point ( Read more... )

Ringo had done what she'd suggested to Dante she would do and left the island Friday afternoon to go back to Tokyo for a bit. Her sisters had been surprised, she hadn't warned them she was coming, but glad to see her, and Rika had made hotpot to celebrate ( Read more... )

Dante had found them a great bar. Dingy, grimy, and cheap. In what Ringo was pretty sure was one of the worse parts of town. Despite the time of day, they weren't the only one's there. There were also the sorts of people you might expect to be in a sketchy bar on a Friday afternoon ( Read more... )

Ow. OwRingo's head was pounding when she blearily opened her eyes. She usually didn't sleep that late, but the sunlight coming in her window suggested that she had. And also made her snap her eyes closed and groan. Stupid sunlight ( Read more... )

This week had been a tense one to start off with, but the past few days had been worse. Way worse.

Kissing Kathy was something that had, in some form or another, been floating around the back of Ringo's head for months, but not like that. Not, well, not when it didn't mean anything. When it wasn't about her. And while she knew she was lucky ( Read more... )

Portalocity was weird. Ringo hadn't really traveled with them much, so this was something of a revelation for her. Somehow booking a reasonable late-morning departure from Fandom resulted in a just-after-dawn arrival in a small park a couple of miles from the apartment she shared with her sisters. Of course, despite that, all three of them were ( Read more... )

It wasn't even going to be for a whole week, but Ringo found herself having trouble packing for a trip back home. She'd mostly managed to get over the sense of paranoia that the island was just waiting to ambush her with something terrible at any moment, but she still had little moments where she fell back into being Crazy Apple. Cold, practical ( Read more... )

Ringo had never been great at dealing with her emotions at the best of times. Before Fandom she'd mostly just suppressed them, so she hadn't had a lot of practice. The nightmares that had been waking her up in the middle of the night hadn't done much for her mood, and whatever it was that had happened yesterday had pretty much shredded what ( Read more... )

Ringo hadn't been to a club before. Prior to Fandom, she'd never really had the opportunity. She wasn't even sure if she was super-excited about it now that she did have the opportunity, but she did have to admit that she was curious.

And a bit competitive.

Which meant that her first time at a club had to be impressive. But it was hard to be ( Read more... )

Ringo had been using the weekends for longer, more aggressive runs around Baltimore, or the warehouses on island. This weekend she'd been working on a series of pretty intricate rooftop-to-rooftop spinning flip transitions, and she'd come down at just the wrong angle. Not quite enough to sprain her ankle, but it was definitely sore ( Read more... )