for Jag - valentine's day
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Coby hadn't given much thought to Valentine's day other than knowing it was coming up – hard to miss when Caroline had exploded hearts and gold cherubs over every available surface – until he'd had to explain the holiday to Kash and his friend. It wasn't as though any of the people he was sleeping with would expect anything of him. As far as he knew, some of them weren't from worlds where Valentine's day was a thing, and even the ones who were knew he wasn't the exclusive type. He'd rather show them how he felt when he was with them anyway, because he felt it, not because some calendar told him too.
Valentine's day was just a day.
When that day came, though, being caught between happy couples happily coupling, unhappy singles who couldn't look forward to half-price chocolate, and fat foil babies with wings that felt creepier than the description, it all felt like a terrible way to spend the day. He'd gone down long enough to throw together things to eat, because he wasn't sad sack moping, but he didn't stick around. At least he'd been here long enough he'd learned to ignore the Valentine's pink of his hearts and romance room. It was as good a place as any to work on this song that was refusing to come together the way he knew it could. He sat at his keyboard, trying the melody over and over with slight tweaks, leaning over to make notes on a, yes pink, notepad he'd picked up at the gift shop, then sticking the pencil behind his ear to try another variation.
Valentine's day was just a day.
When that day came, though, being caught between happy couples happily coupling, unhappy singles who couldn't look forward to half-price chocolate, and fat foil babies with wings that felt creepier than the description, it all felt like a terrible way to spend the day. He'd gone down long enough to throw together things to eat, because he wasn't sad sack moping, but he didn't stick around. At least he'd been here long enough he'd learned to ignore the Valentine's pink of his hearts and romance room. It was as good a place as any to work on this song that was refusing to come together the way he knew it could. He sat at his keyboard, trying the melody over and over with slight tweaks, leaning over to make notes on a, yes pink, notepad he'd picked up at the gift shop, then sticking the pencil behind his ear to try another variation.
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Date: 2018-02-13 11:01 pm (UTC)That explained why he knocked, first, and then only opened the door. He found Coby behind the keyboard, and brandished the bottle of Kraken victoriously. "Wanna?"
He had no idea how terrible today might or might not be for Coby, but if he'd been in love with the angel of love, he reckoned Valentine's Day might be a tough one. So here he was, just in case, ready to take 'piss off' for an answer. It wasn't as if Em and he had ever celebrated it, so he was there all for Coby. It was the least he could do, really. And it was the very least he wanted to do, when he owed Coby so much.
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Date: 2018-02-16 07:43 pm (UTC)"Avoiding the bar tonight?"
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Date: 2018-02-19 08:23 pm (UTC)"Mostly. It still makes me miss the church sometimes." Yeah. Sure. That was because of all the pink.
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Date: 2018-02-19 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-19 08:33 pm (UTC)"But it really wasn't that bad. Other than freaking people out when they came over the first time." He'd been half convinced Jag wasn't going to come in at all. But they'd had a lot of surprises already that night.
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Date: 2018-02-19 08:35 pm (UTC)He did not even mean in the grand scheme of things, but simply in terms of interior design.
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Date: 2018-02-19 08:49 pm (UTC)"Way better than here, though. I'm not sure anybody wants to live full time in a Barbie's dream house/no-tell motel 'romantic' room. If I can't get this song to come together, I'm gonna blame it on the decor."
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Date: 2018-02-19 11:56 pm (UTC)Played, but never felt satisfied with what he was coming up with. It wasn't too long really before he pushed away from the keyboard and turned it off. "Time to admit it's not coming tonight. I don't know where my head is, but it's not on the music."
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Date: 2018-02-21 08:03 pm (UTC)"What kind of cake?" He'd seen the sign for Valentine's orders, and there were always good things coming out of the bakery.
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Date: 2018-02-21 11:50 pm (UTC)Right then, he got out of his seat to go grab the box of cakes and bring it over.
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Date: 2018-02-22 12:15 am (UTC)Coby looked at the options, settled on a cookie-brownie mix and broke off a piece. Yeah, his tolerance was good, but with homemade goodies, it was best to start slow. "I can't remember the last time I had edibles instead of smoking."
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Date: 2018-02-22 12:21 am (UTC)Bonus, it would go great with rum.
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Date: 2018-02-22 12:50 am (UTC)"You should've been here the other night," he began after a moment and another swig of rum. "I wound up giving lessons on how to do Valentine's day to Kash and one of his buddies." Come on, that was funny. Once they got past a couple of unexpected landmines Coby still wasn't sure what they were.
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Date: 2018-02-22 12:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-22 12:58 am (UTC)Anael was different. He never asked for anything from Coby but his love, and Coby gave that every chance he got, whenever they were together.
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Date: 2018-02-22 01:04 am (UTC)"Val was a total romantic," he remembered, scratching at his jaw. "Probably the most romantic person I've ever been with, in the - traditional sense." Emma was, as well, but in a different way. A way that worked so much better for Jag. A way that didn't involve V-Day, and he pushed the thoughts aside. "Now he'd have been brilliant at giving that class."
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