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James Griffin ([personal profile] onebetter) wrote in [community profile] daybreakacademy2019-08-14 12:11 am

A Birthday Boy

Who: James, Keith and the people invited to James' birthday party (Toki, Ana, Adelaide, Nana, Ruby, Nadia, Allura & Yuya!)
When: August 13th (Keith part), August 18th (Party)
What: James' birthday (spent at home in Arizona) & James' Soleil birthday party, spent at a Café de la Lune in Soleil.
Warnings: None for party, mentions of NSFW in Keith & James', though anything explicit will be moved off-comm.

[ All people listed above will have received a text message on August 15th. ]

Hey there!
I'm currently out of the country, but my birthday passed recently and I'd like to celebrate with my friends a little once I return home. Are you free on August 18th? I'd love to get a group together and go down to Café de la Lune for the afternoon. It'll be my treat.

No worries if you're not free that day, but I'd love to see you there!


[ On the actual day of, everyone will find that James has reserved the biggest table in the café so everyone can fit comfortably. He's already ordered a few pastries for everyone and is more than willing to order more. James is pretty much beaming. Also his toad is here. Just sitting on his shoulder. Occasionally being fed bits of cake from a special toad-reserved spoon. ]

Thank you all for coming! If I'm honest, I actually had a bit of trouble making friends when I came here. That was new to me. I'm all the more happy to have met all of you. You made me look forward to coming back to France after vacation.

((Feel free to post open top levels and just chit-chat with one another / interrupt conversations, as it tends to happen at group tables. Also no pressure to tag in, anyone who doesn't will just be seen as having been busy that day and not as having skipped his party, haha.))
marmoron: marmoron (chilled out with the fam)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-28 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Keith joins him on the porch, though he simply takes a seat on the steps. Cosmo lingers out by the desert for a moment to give himself a good shake to get the sand out of his fur before trotting on over to sit next to Keith. Idly his hand reaches over to start brushing through soft fur for any leftover sand particles while he watches the sun.]

]You really wanted to turn 19 out in the middle of nowhere?

[There's a faint smile as he teases, but this is easier to talk about. He's... glad to have come back to his hometown, but it doesn't come without a sense of melancholy.]
marmoron: marmoron (commiserating kinda)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-28 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Keith turns a little to face James. He's no longer smiling, but his expression is soft as he watches James leaning on the rail.]

Wish the toad was here, too.

[The whole family would be here, then. But that's a thought Keith keeps to himself because fuck that's a lot of sentimentality for no good reason.]

Don't think the view would impress him much... heh.

[He turns back to look out at the horizon as the sky turns shades of indigo at the points furthest from the sun.]

So who are you now?

[Itr's a flippant question, though not for a lack of genuine curiosity. The last time Keith had asked, James had replied that he didn't know. That he was still finding his way.]
marmoron: marmoron (skys falling time to go home)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-28 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Keith glances across for another moment. It's weird sitting on the porch in a space that used to just belong to him and his dad. Now he's here picking sand out of the world's best wolf friend and talking about life with his boyfriend. It's weird to think just how much he disliked the guy not that long ago and now he can't help fucking admiring as the sun bathes James' silhouette in warm light. He looks away, feeling like something's tugging at his heart.

Presumably this is what people say being in love is like.

But it just makes Keith want to scrub at his face and hang his head.
]

Okay, warrior. Come here a sec?
Edited 2019-08-28 23:14 (UTC)
marmoron: by request of the icon creator, pls do not take (kiss kiss fall in love)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-28 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[No sooner than James takes a seat, Keith reaches up to pull at the other boy's collar and press their lips together. It's maybe a little sloppy, and hils lips end up half on James' cheek, half on his mouth, but that doesn't faze Keith for right now.

He draws back a little, then adding a little sheepishly:
]

Just wanted to do that.
marmoron: marmoron (radiance)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-29 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Keith chuckles a little to himself.]

Is it weird to say that you look really pretty in the sunset?
marmoron: marmoron (buh?)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-29 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
[That, in turn, gets Keith to blink.]

Thought you said I look like a thug.

[The words come out of his mouth before Keith can think to censor himself there. It wasn't James' wording exactly back when he'd informed Keith that the entire school basically had bets going on about his alleged street fighting and/or drug problem, but that'd been the gist of it.]
marmoron: marmoron (hell child)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-29 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
...oh.

[his expression clears a little, though he isn't sure if that description makes him want to laugh or go look at himself in the mirror. In the end, he does neither and instead ducks his head a little as he lets the words sink in.]

You've always been such a rules guy. [Keith looks back up, a sly smile forming on his lips.] But you're into wild things deep down, huh.
marmoron: marmoron (dodging eye contact)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-29 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Only a little bit, huh.

[On a different occasion, he'd tease James over that. But not too long ago James was sitting with him in the infirmary looking stressed and worried. Not too long ago they were all losing a nasty fight with a powerful necromancer. The teasing dies in his mouth, the smile fading as he looks back towards the sunset.]

.... well it's your birthday so I guess you get whatever you want.
marmoron: by request of the icon creator, pls do not take (pleasant)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-29 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Contented, Keith smiles softly as James rubs his shoulder, then resumes idly stroking the space wolf's fur when the doggo decides he also wants family time. Watching the sunset together is nicer than he imagined it would be, but after it gets dark James' suggestion is a welcome one.]

Mhm. Let's do that.

[He scoops Cosmo up into his arms. The pup licks at his hands, and Keith carries him inside the cabin like he's holding a baby. The interior is a bit of a mess -- like something you'd see out of a post-apocalyptic world what with the creative use of cinderblocks and wood planks to serve as furniture, but it's clearly an organized sort of chaos.

Still carrying the doggo in his arms, he motions towards the futon and the kitchenette a little further indoors.
]

Help yourself to anything.

[The plastic bags from earlier are still set out on the counter.]
marmoron: marmoron (mildly confused)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-29 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[The yelp has both Keith and Cosmo looking over at James immediately.]

Is everything okay?

[Keith sets the doggo down, then starts heading towards the kitchenette. He didn't think there were any scorpions or other critters around, but may very well just be wrong about that.]
marmoron: marmoron (blushu)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-29 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Exactly none of that is reassuring and Keith rushes over to come take a look at whatever's got James acting all.... not scared, but flustered? Keith comes to a dead stop right as he reaches the end of the counter. A lightbulb's finally gone off as the realization that he never put the incriminating stuff away before going back outside hits him like a brick over the head.]

Oh I....

[SHIT. Ducking his head immediately because his cheeks are burning violently, he quickly grabs the nearest bag.]

here. Just have this.

[What's even inside this one? He doesn't know. All he knows is that it's not The Problem bag.]

I'll just... take that one.

[Maybe if he tries to yank the bag away from James and it's out of sight, maybe it'll be like the last two seconds never happened.]
marmoron: marmoron (gy broke this boy)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-08-29 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Keith doesn't dare look James in the eye as holds the incriminating bag in his hands. Mortified because James apparently thinks the idea is worth yelping about, he chews the bottom of his lip.]

Look. I-- just forget about it, ok? I'm putting this away. We don't have to talk about it.

[And before James can object, he starts walking very quickly towards one of the rooms furher into the cabin.]
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