An Ice Creamery, Baltimore, Early Sunday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

Friday had been pretty spectacularly bad, and the less said about it the better. Saturday, Kate had just laid low and recuperated. And today, today was just one of those days she had to get off the island. It was just a necessity, being outside in the normal world. Not getting yelled at by vampires, not singing things that were better kept silent.

So she'd come here, to this ice cream place. She'd been happy here once, months and months ago, flirting and drawing out some of the very first of those blushes she'd later come to love so much. This was a good, non-crazy place to be spending a Sunday afternoon in.

She had a big bowl of ice cream and her laptop in front of her, and was currently busying herself with following some of Knatasha Knightblade's advice from a few weeks ago by setting up an Amoozoo wishlist for Princess Valhalla Hawkwind.

Picking out things she wanted was like therapy. She'd be here a while.

[ooc: NFB due to being off-island, but open for calls/texts/randomly finding her here.]

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[vanillajello]

Kate snorted at that message, and didn't send a reply because that would've been pointless.

Instead, she went back to finishing off her ice cream and adding a few more things to her wishlist. Eventually, though, she shut off her laptop and put it back into her bag.

And then she just sat back and waited, occasionally glancing towards the door.

[therewaslife]

It didn't take Bod that long to get there considering he walked briskly and amazingly remembered the way. He slipped inside the ice cream shoppe and immediately smiled when he saw her.

He walked over, hands in the pockets of his jeans.

[vanillajello]

Kate returned the smile as soon as she spotted him approaching. "Hey," she said. "Didn't get lost."

[therewaslife]

"I didn't. I'm surprised that I remembered but I didn't," he said, leaning down to kiss her cheek before sliding into the booth across from her. "Hullo, Kate."

[vanillajello]

"Hullo, Bod." That was getting to be a habit, borrowing his accent for that single word. Like a private joke. "Good to see you."

[therewaslife]

"I figured I should get up at some point today," he said, leaning back against the booth and stretching his legs out. "Getting out was a good idea today. It's chilly but nice."

[vanillajello]

"It's pretty good," she agreed, glancing in the direction of the nearest window. "I like days like this."

For various reasons, even.

[therewaslife]

"I like you," he said, smiling across at her. "And ice cream. I like you more, though."

[vanillajello]

"That's good," she replied, smirking at him. "'Cause I'm currently all out of ice cream."

[therewaslife]

"I see that. I think I'm going to get some for myself. Would you like anymore?" Bod asked, getting to his feet to do just that.

[vanillajello]

"You have to ask?" Kate teased. "Of course I want more. And, ohhh, get cherry and lemon. I wanna try them together."

Seemed like a good day to be trying to recreate her Squishy flavor in ice cream form.

[therewaslife]

"All right," Bod said, heading over to order her a dish of strawberry and lemon ice cream. For himself, he got three different kinds of chocolate because that's what he was feeling.

It wasn't long before he was coming back over and settling her dish in front of her before retaking his seat. "Good?"

[vanillajello]

"Mmhmm," Kate nodded, then glanced over at his dish. "Is that several kinds of chocolate?"

Because she could see these kinds of things.

[therewaslife]

"It is," he said, reaching for a spoon so he could dig in. "I'm still in the Halloween spirit, I think. Chocolate is rather tasty and it looked good while I was up there."

[vanillajello]

"And here I was thinking you were just PMSing," she joked, picking up her own spoon again. "That would've been weird."

[therewaslife]

"What?" Bod asked, shaking his head. "I don't know what that is."

Bod, bless him, hadn't really read up on that sort of thing.

[vanillajello]

"Then I'm not gonna tell you," she decided, raising her eyebrows. "You're better off not knowing."

[therewaslife]

"You won't tell me even if I ask to know?" Bod asked, frowning. "Why not?"

[vanillajello]

"Are you going to ask to know?" Kate wondered.

[therewaslife]

"Yes," he said, nodding. "What is it?"

[vanillajello]

"It's really nothing all that interesting," she replied, poking at the cherry ice cream with the tip of her spoon. "Just the way some girls go kinda insane before they go on the rag. Mood swings and stuff. Might require chocolate for comfort."

[therewaslife]

"They go on the..." Bod thought he knew what she was talking about but still, the slang was difficult. "That sounds painful."

[vanillajello]

"Eh, it can be." This was fortunately mostly theoretical for her. Her life may have been occasionally kind of unmanageable, but her body was fairly low maintenance. "For the people around said chick, too."

[therewaslife]

"I've never felt that way." It had been painful to be around her for other reasons but he didn't think it was anything biological.

[vanillajello]

"I don't really get PMS," she said, shrugging a shoulder. "I'm bitchy for other reasons."