Bali Hai, Friday evening: up the volcano!

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

In the late afternoon, a rickety old bus carried the Fandomites as far up the right-hand side volcano as they could go. After that, it was only a short hike up an easy, winding trail, then a quick trip over the rope bridge to the peak.

[ooc: Field trip up early for SP! Open to all, and assume handwavy IC knowledge.

Wait for the OCD

Aaaaand we have OCD!]

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Re: It can be food time now!

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"I don't mind at all," she said, agreeing. "Aside from the volcano, the beaches are gorgeous, the weather perfect; who would not want to live here?"

Amber smiled. "If I didn't take a picture to prove it, ma would hardly believe that I saw a volcano myself."

Re: It can be food time now!

[withoutverona]

"I just wish we would stay here," Romeo had to agree. "Home is warm, and there's a beach, but even Verona is not quite this fair." And it took a lot for him to admit that. "I should send photos home, too. I rarely remember to do that. things here feel so separate, somehow."

Re: It can be food time now!

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Entirely seperate," she replied, looking forward as she sipped her drink. "I mean, Mount Rose, I guess it's just your average small town and the knowin' everyone is kind of nice, but... I don't care to go back. Ma's there... Loretta of course, but," she shrugged a little. "No one ever amounts to anythin'. They grow old drinkin' and smokin' and have nothin' but a trailer and lung cancer to show for it."

Amber cast him a wry grin. "Not that I'm bitter or anythin'."

Re: It can be food time now!

[withoutverona]

Romeo grimaced. "It does not sound like the kind of home one dreams of. Though the lung cancer, I fear that's the same where I'm from. I still haven't entirely quit smoking."

Not that he tried that hard.

Re: It can be food time now!

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"I've never tried it... much," she replied. "Ma's a chain smoker so of course I tried it. Coughed up a lung so I never tried again. I've never understood the purpose actually. Drinkin' however," she chuckled with a shake of her head. "Sometimes? I can totally get."

Re: It can be food time now!

[withoutverona]

"I don't think it has a purpose," Romeo admitted. "It keeps your hands busy, it looks cool, and it's terribly hard to stop once you start."

"Drinking, though, drinking is better."

Re: It can be food time now!

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Trust me, if you saw my ma? The coolness would definitely fall short of being anythin' but cool."

Amber wrapped her arms around her knees. "I don't drink much at all, I just get it when it happens." Yeah, she was weird.

Re: It can be food time now!

[withoutverona]

There was no way to reply to Amber's comment about her mother without seeming indelicate, if not rude, so Romeo shrugged it off. He knew he should stop smoking, even if he did still rather like the way it maked him look.

He gave her a tiny smile instead. "Sometimes you need to escape, and you find it in a bottle," he suggested.

Re: It can be food time now!

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Yah, perhaps," replied Amber thoughtfully. "Or even just to experiment," she added with a little chuckle.

Re: It can be food time now!

[withoutverona]

"See, from the way you were talking I thought you meant serious reasons, drinking your sorrows away and all of that," Romeo said, with a little laugh. "Nothing so frivilous as boredom and a bottle of butterscotch schnapps."

Which had featured in a rather memorable afternoon with Benvolio, yes.

Re: It can be food time now!

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"I bought a bottle of wine because the bottle was pretty; what's that tell you for seriousness?" she laughed. "Serious reasons are few and far between for me, I'm afraid. I'm more inclined towards silliness I guess."

Butterscotch schnapps did sound very good. Amber would have to remember that.

Re: It can be food time now!

[withoutverona]

Romeo considered this deeply.

And finally asked, "What did the bottle look like?" Because that, clearly, made all the diference.

Re: It can be food time now!

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Well, it was French, obviously, considerin' where the island was last. And I will admit it was cheap," she said, her cheeks turning pink with her own amusement. "But it was pretty. Blue with flowers handpainted all over it. I was goin' to use it as a vase..."