♕ |[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]

[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?

[video]

[girls-at-welton.livejournal.com]

[Neil can't quite decide if he wants to go bloodlessly pale or flush, but his eyes widen and the incredulous, indignant look on his face is... well, it's something to see, that's for sure.]

What the hell kinda question is that?