♕ |[57]| she smoothes her hair with automatic hand

[had_not_lived]

[Accidental Video]

[There is a girl on your screen. She's not doing anything particularly interesting. With her chin propped up on a hand, she's reading a book, looking a little bit cross. She's wearing a collared white shirt, too big in some places and too small in others, the wrinkled sleeves rolled up to the elbow. And she's sitting at a counter in a dim space in what's probably a store, judging by the vague shapes of shelves in the background.

Those who frequent it might recognize the shop as a certain second-hand bookstore. Whether that's enough information to work out why the young lady looks so annoyed, though, is a different matter...]


[ooc; backdated to earlier today, replies from girls_at_welton ♥ open to action in the store, too!]

Comments

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

You know, those lips of yours are too pretty to be frowning.

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

I... [oh god.] That's really not.. necessary... but thank you.

[He winces, very slightly, because ouch how do you politely turn down awkward compliments?]

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

[Sucks to be you, Neil. Flynn doesn't really know how to take a hint.]

I don't think I've seen you around before; I'd remember a face like yours. You been here long?

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

Are you cursed?

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

Only with oodles of charm and excessive good looks.

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

[Somehow Neil resists the urge to hide his face in his hands. He can't help just staring. In vague disbelief, it is not the good kind of staring.]

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

[All staring is good staring when a pretty girl is doing it. Flynn waggles his eyebrows.]

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

Please don't do that.

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

Fine! I can see you are a lady of discriminating taste. A woman of distinction, as it were.

So. You like books?

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

I'm not a lady.

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

What are you then?

[beat]

You're not 15, are you? Because then this conversation would be really awkward.

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

I'm cursed.

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it; it happens to everybody. Well, not me yet, but I've heard that it happens to everybody and it'll all be over at midnight.

[He puts on his best reassuring smile.]

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

Midnight, or tomorrow at midnight. These sometimes last the weekend.

[It's a good change of topic, Neil likes this changing the topic thing.

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

So what kind of curse is it?

[Yes, it's true. He still has not connected the dots.]

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

[Aaaawwwwkwaaaaaard...]

...I'm not a girl.

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

Then what are you?

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

[How clueless can you be?]

A boy.

Re: [video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

Oh. Right. Of course. A boy.

[long, long silence]

Wait WHAT?!?!

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

You heard me.

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

Wha....bu...

[silence]

Well this is awkward.

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

You started it.

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't -- You know what? There is no way to end this conversation gracefully.

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

Well maybe you should think twice about how you approach strangers in the future.

[Only a little sulky.]

[video]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

If you were actually a girl, it wouldn't have been a problem!

...there aren't many more people like you, are there?