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couple days after the greenhouse makeout-

[lotusflower]

[You ever get so fixated on the way a man kisses you and talks to you that it rewrites your entire brain chemistry? That's been Kanda for the last few days. He's like.

Not sure what's going on in his brain right now. Suddenly he's too distracted to think right, which is real helpful when he's trying to turn his brain off and meditate. When did he get to the point where he can barely do that much. What is happening. (Babe you're in love you're pining it's not that weird.)

Should they. Go on a date.

???????

does Allen like dates. How do you date. Does he pay for dinner? He doesn't have enough shells to pay for dinner. Should he make something??? Is beating each other up at the dojo a date?

??? should he just make out with Allen again will that fix him

How do you romance.

...anyway Allen is going to walk into the bedroom and just see Kanda staring out the window looking absolutely clueless for Several Minutes so uh.]

[godsfavourite]

[ Allen comes up to the bedroom with a basket of clean clothes that have all been folded already. Sort of. They’re not folded well, they’re just kind of put together. It’s fine. Allen did his best. He does just set the basket down on the chest at the edge of his bed when he sees Kanda just zoned the fuck out, though.

He walks over and immediately bumps his shoulder to him as he also looks outside. ] Something wrong??

[lotusflower]

[Kanda jolts in a way that is So unlike him. What's wrong with him. Why is he fucking diseased. Does he have fucking rabies or—]

Go on a date with me.

[godsfavourite]

[ Allen stares out the window for a while, and it almost seems like Allen didn’t hear him for as long as it takes him to respond. Eventually, though, he does look at Kanda, confused. Genuinely… had he heard right? ]

…Huh?

[lotusflower]

[...head in hands. Ugh.]

Nevermind, don't talk to me. [Kanda please. Please work with your emotions, not against them.]

[godsfavourite]

Wha-! No!! Hey!!

[ Allen turns to Kanda, reaching up to take his hands and attempt to pull them from his face. How does he make Kanda realize he’s not teasing him… ]

You said… a date? You really want to? I was just surprised that… [ …No that doesn’t matter. He clears his throat. ] I’d love to!

[lotusflower]

[...great. Well. He didn't get far enough to plan this and he fucking blurted it out, so here he is with his hands being held and his face red and his brain completely empty. Chat is it normal to love your boyfriend????]

...I don't have anything planned. [Is what he eventually settles on, however awkward and lame that makes him sound.] I don't actually know how any of this works. It was just something I was thinking about.

[godsfavourite]

[ Kanda… it’s so strange. Allen would never have assumed “cute” would describe a man like Kanda. And yet, here he is, thinking “Kanda is so cute”. He wants to… go on a date? With Allen? “Why?” is his first thought, but he supposes that is what partners do. It just didn’t seem like something Kanda would want…?

…

He supposes, though, he doesn’t really know this side of Kanda that well. The side he intentionally hides from everyone under thick concrete walls. And Allen… desperately wants to know more about it. So he squeezes Kanda’s hands. ]

That’s alright. This place certainly limits our options, but… we can still figure it out together. I don’t really know what I’m doing, either, but the thought of doing anything with you sounds exciting!

Maybe… we could go on a picnic or… um… I’d say “play board games” but I’m sure you’re aware I’m prone to cheating with those at times…

[lotusflower]

[At the end of the day, he thinks he wants to just Do Something With Allen, but he's held up in the thoughts of "this is how things are Properly done and you're a Man so you have to do them RIGHT" as if they're not literally breaking societal norms every fucking day. But he supposes the weather is nice enough for a picnic, and that's probably easier than going to one of the three entire restaurants here.

He leans a little into Allen, brushing their shoulders together, and then looks off outside again.]

I know you cheat. [And Kanda himself isn't all that good at strategy.] We have to make food for a picnic, right? I haven't gone on one.

[buddy that is So fucking sad]

[godsfavourite]

Yes, but it’s proper easy stuff, like sandwiches and salads and the like. I went on one once, it was me and Timcanpy, and I wanted to celebrate my birthday with him. It was a little cold, though, so it really wasn’t my best idea…

But it’s getting warmer out. All we really need is a blanket and a basket and food! That’s all easy stuff.

[lotusflower]

Sure. We have blankets. I can buy a basket and ingredients at the store.

[That should be easy. Then they can stand around in the kitchen making ten thousand sandwiches because he knows Allen and Allen will want ten thousand sandwiches. But the more pressing question is an awkwardly-asked:]

When... do you want to go?

[godsfavourite]

…W-well! We need to look nice, don’t we? It’s our first date…! I don’t have really nice clothes [ And Ain still scares him a little bit— ] but I wanna shower and style my hair!

So… um give me like… an hour?

[lotusflower]

Right, yeah.

[He also didn't get this far, can you tell— ugh, and he doesn't think he has anything nice either. Should he wear his hair ponytailed but down? Or— ugh fuck he can't think of this he needs to shop. This is so awkward and he knows it's his entire fault for being awkward but this is so awkwarddddd.]

I'll shop while you do that. [Thankfully he took a shower already but??? help does he need a second one.] It shouldn't take me long.

Pre-camp

[godsfavourite]

[ Allen has a toothbrush hanging out of his mouth as he suddenly pokes his head out of the shared bathroom to the bedroom, where the other two are getting ready for bed. He has sudden inspiration in his eyes. ]

We should push our beds together!!! All of them! That way I'm not swapping who I'm sleeping with on different days!

[lotusflower]

[Kanda, who's midway through combing his hair out, just sort of. Looks up at Allen and his toothbrush.]

...now?

[missinglink]

[Link, meanwhile, is sitting on the edge of one of said beds waiting his turn to go brush his teeth. He could just shoulder his way alongside Allen, but he is a polite boy.

He has Tim in his lap while he waits, occupying himself by holding the Golem gently on his knees on his back as he pokes his legs into his body one by one, watching them stay like that for a few seconds before they plop back out again like a slow-rise squishy.

Fascinating.]

When else, if not now?

[godsfavourite]

Yeah! Oh- wait no. Hold on.

[ He disappears into the bathroom, and you hear him spit the toothpaste into the sink and put the toothbrush away before coming back into the room. ]

Yeah!!!!!!!! Right now!

[lotusflower]

[Scrubbing his face. Guess they're doing this.]

Right, okay.

[Allen wants to be the littlest spoon, he gets it. Who is he to stop this, truly. He'll abandon his hairbrush for now, set it on his nightstand... realise his nightstand is in the way, huff, and pick it up to move it.]

We're keeping Beansprout's bed in the middle, I assume? Or are we pushing them all against one of the side walls and trapping someone in the corner?

[missinglink]

If we're doing that, it sounds like you're volunteering to be the corner person.

[Link smiles as he says that, standing up and letting Tim go like he's releasing a pigeon. Go, be free.]

[godsfavourite]

[ Be free... right onto Link's head. Tim is comfortable here, thanks. ]

I was thinking keeping my bed in the middle, yeah. I don't think anyone should be in the corner. Kanda is up the earliest, and Li, you're close behind, so... the best person to be in the corner is me. And... uhh... I feel like that's a proper bad idea, haha~!

[ He scoots over to start moving the nightstand next to his bed. ]

[lotusflower]

[Were it not for the nightstand in his hands he would've killed you in one shot, bird boy—

Kanda is rolling his eyes at Link, about to say that it was a fucking question and not a claim before Allen steps in to answer. Thank God, someone who can answer fucking questions!]

Right.

[No problem, time to shuffle stuff around. When the nighstands are moved, Kanda will start to pull his own bed over, piling up the pillows and blankets on top of it to make the connection as seamless as it's gonna get.]

...you know, [he starts, in that Tone that means he thinks he's funny,] you'd better not get lodged between the beds, Beansprout.

[missinglink]

[Do it bitch kill him you won’t.

Link will do his part making sure his own bed is on the other side as well, trying to make sure the mattresses are flush.]

That should be avoidable if we keep a blanket underneath to sleep on top of, right?

[godsfavourite]

[ Link, your autism... ]

Oi. I'll kick you off the bed entirely if you keep that up. Also, I'll be in the damn middle, so that doesn't even make sense, you bellend.

[lotusflower]

With the way you sleep? You're going to push one of us to the side and get sandwiched between the frames.

[Keeping it up—]

[missinglink]

[Pat patting the sheets down.]

I think it’s more likely he ends up sprawled across us both.