fh_trips | Copacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday

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spring break 2012: rio de janeiro

Copacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday - Evening

The night is for terrible things, not the day, silly ~~narrative~~ revelers. Especially when the night is clear, warm, and filled with the sizzling sounds of sssssamba! It might be Lent now, but it's still Rio, and it's still Friday. Time for dancing on the sand, in the clubs, and if you think there's no dancing in the streets anymore, you must be walking down the wrong street. Turn left by the man with the saxophone; drop a tip in his hat and he'll tell you where to go from there.

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[OCD: Rooms / Cipriani Restaurant / Pool / Bar do Copa / Platforma Samba / Restaurants and Clubs / Elsewhere / Daytime / OOC / My mom ]

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Ben reminded himself that it was a good thing that people cared about his well-being and took the pillow off of his head. "Nothing," he said. "But people generally work up to asking people about how they are if they mean it in more than a small-talk-y way."

"Oh!" See, he could do that! Or he could try, anyway. "Um... can I start over?"

Topher. Topher.

Ben grinned. "Sure. You don't have to knock again or anything, though."

"'Kay," Topher decided. He was going to build right back up to it, though, Ben. FYI. "So... did you and Ender like the party?"

"It had its moments," Ben said with a smile, "but it's not really how we're planning on spending every weekend from now on. How about you? Did you have fun?"

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"But at least you didn't text anyone!" Topher pointed out optimistically.

"I didn't!" Ben said proudly. "Most of you were there anyway..."

"Not that that usually stops you," Topher pointed out, grinning.

Ben wrinkled his nose up at him. "Yeah, yeah. I told Ender I wouldn't."

Other than Jaina, but that was family.

"You have a lot of self-restraint," Topher decided. A beat. "...even when you're sad!"

TOPHER.

"What makes you think I'm sad?" Ben asked.

Topher paused. "Ender said there was bad stuff," he settled on.

"There's always bad stuff back home," Ben said with a little frown. "We're kind of war-torn."

If you looked carefully, this was Ben opening up. Sort of.

Topher squinted. "You specifically?"

Well, he'd said 'we.'

"We the galaxy," Ben clarified. "But Jedi tend to get rather specifically torn up, since we're kind of on the front line of whatever the war of the year is."

"One time you said you were tortured," Topher blurted out.

"It happens," Ben said with a little shrug.

Just because it had happened to every member of your family didn't make it normal, Ben.

"Not... really that much?" Topher said, shrugging a little. "You're not... I mean, you're upset, right?"

"There's not a lot being upset about it would do for me," Ben replied. "I'd rather just move on."

In Ben's world "move on" and "ignore it forever" were kind of the same thing.

"By talking." No, Topher. Not by talking.

"Not my preference, no," Ben said with a slightly wry smile.

"You could try?" Topher encouraged hopefully.

"You really don't want to hear this," Ben warned quietly.

Topher looked a little uncomfortable for a moment, and wondered if he might've made a bad call, but then steadied. "No, 's okay," he said. "Go ahead."

Edited 2012-02-25 20:23 (UTC)

Ben took a deep breath. "This is just between us, okay? Not Tony or Ender or Peter or Billy or anyone else."

With Topher, Ben had learned it was best to clarify.

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