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Atsuko 'Akko' Kagari ([personal profile] wordsearch) wrote2022-08-26 11:40 pm
headhooligan: (04B facepalm but make it funny)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)

Hey, cutie! This is the chick who sucked on your face at the Christmas party. I think it’d be great if wysncnvx vc
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[A Few Minutes Lateur]
i am so sorry

headhooligan: (04B did i leave the oven on)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)

friend grabbed my phone

ignore that you got this let’s never talk again goodbye!!!

headhooligan: (00B talking.)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)

i can. watch

[See? Doing such a good job already!]

[ . . . ]

but uhh
seriously
sorry about that
i’m gonna crawl in a hole now

headhooligan: (03A irritated)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)

no!!!!

i mean
not that you’re /not/, like

for starters

[Pause again. She’s losing custody of her phone forever if she keeps stalling, so:]

actions have consequences

[There! That explains everything!!1!]

headhooligan: (03B o_<)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)

[She sure feels like she’s being held hostage!]

ok fine
for the sake of my friends who are not toads and like to not be toads
although they are picking on me——

they may have found out about like
the mistletoe
and stuff

[Y’know, actions. Like getting really into a kiss with a totally platonic pal! In public!]

and now they’re convinced i’m like madly in love with y]dg ': \

headhooligan: (02C I guess.)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)

[“oh”… Why does that disappoint her? What kind of reaction was Aubrey expecting here? Well, no, actually, she thought Akko would immediately jump on it and tease her or someth— multiple times oh ok nvm there it is. Maybe. Is it?

[Tone over text is so annoying.]

i have
-tried-
to tell them about the part where we were stuck but they’re not having it

[Everything after the first one was totally forced. Yup. Completely. They simply had no choice.

[Part of Aubrey knows she’s not fooling anyone including herself.]

anyway uh
you do that?
with your friends?
a lot?

[Asking for a friend.]

headhooligan: (02B headtilt)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)

[“No way”? “First and only”?! Be still, Aubrey’s stupid sentimental little heart. That’s what this is, right? Sentiment? They even joked about it before they started so it doesn’t have to be “weird” right right haha oh god she really can’t just be normal about any of this—

[ … ]

yeah

[ . . . ]

[She hits call.]

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[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)

—Hi! [Her voice cracks on the word like a pubescent boy. Clearing her throat!] Hi. No, uh. Hey. This is Aubrey. They lef— well, they’re not, over my shoulder or anything.

[If it’s any consolation to Akko, Aubrey’s forced sputtering indicates a similar amount of panic.] I mean. Sorry, tone is— Sorry. Is it a bad time?

headhooligan: (00B talking.)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)

What? No, I’m fi— [Aubrey. Be serious.]

I mean, I’m embarrassed. [“Mortified” comes to mind, but she doesn’t want Akko to worry even more.] Just, like. By everything. [Geez, “make time” does not sound at all like “yeah, I’m available, this isn’t intruding on whatever I might’ve been doing before the world’s weirdest cold text ever.”] But it’s fine. I’ll get over it.

How… are you?

headhooligan: (00B :u)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)

Wait, really?

[Oh, forget everything else. Including that Aubrey has, on occasion, messed with Akko herself. That was in good fun, and also her, so it’s fine. But!] Like, what kind of “mess with”?

headhooligan: (00B downshot side-eye)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)

[Sabotaging? Embarrassing in front of a whole class?! Cool, Aubrey does not have a crumb of ability to turn strangers into toads never mind over the phone, but she is now dead certain she’d go to bat for Akko in a heartbeat.

[That said, she is not allowed to keep dodging the topic for long.]

Gah, no! No, I didn’t— They weren’t even supposed to know. It was like, some ‘heard it from a friend of a friend’ thing…

…and, uh. I might’ve mentioned you here and there. In general. [Cough, cough.] Ko…nichiwa, Akko-san. By the way.

[There! That was what she wanted to say when they talked again! Before she got cold feet and had to have her phone physically wrung from her hands! She’s so good at this!!]

headhooligan: (08A etc)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)

[The Japanese reply and pause immediately make Aubrey want to crawl back under that hole and stay there. But… it doesn’t sound like Akko is making fun? She is, in fact, entirely correct!] L-look, I— one of my friends is really into Japanese stuff [the word “weeaboo” would be relevant if Aubrey knew it], I was just—!

[Aubrey’s sputtering, yeah, but it’s… substantially more lighthearted? Akko is right! And her laugh is stupid cute! Aubrey is trying not to melt! Why deny it? Her friends were playing matchmaker like a bad romcom for a reason.

[Aubrey sighs, defeated but not particularly upset about it.]

Yeah, yeah. You got me. That’s all I know so far, but… I mean, I said I wanted to get to know you, too. We don’t all have truth potions.

headhooligan: (07B to be used whenever the planets alig)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)

[Has Aubrey looked into umeboshi since it came up? Perhaps. Is she prepared to taste it for herself? Not at all. Ah, but the things she’s willing to put herself through for her very good friend who she has totally normal and platonic feelings about.]

[She won’t even protest being called adorable and sweet. For now. Aubrey is too busy having her brain melted by the mere idea of personalized lessons. She’ll worry about looking Akko in the face again later.] Akko-…chan. Hah, isn’t that supposed to be an extra cutesy one—?

[Wait.] We’re close?

headhooligan: (01A skill issue)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)

[Akko’s got a point. Aubrey sure as hell came out of that party feeling different about Akko than when she went in, even if it takes her a second to catch up with the entirely reasonable conclusion that they are in fact closer for it. God, but the offer of a full night? The singsong “Aubrey-chan”?]

You’re killing me again, Akko. …-chan. [She’s too giddy to sound at all annoyed, even teasingly—or to catch herself on the “again.” When was the last time Aubrey felt like an excited little kid like this? It only barely registers that Akko’s effectively proposing a date night.

[Barely. But not not at all.] Heh, do all your friends get sleepovers like that?

headhooligan: (00B downshot side-eye)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-11 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)

[Oh, that… That spikes Aubrey’s excitement in a distinctly non-childlike way. Maybe it’s silly, considering how the call started and all, but… well, Akko’s tone sure shifted. Or at least it sounds that way to Aubrey, with the preceding pause and all.

[There’s a pause on her end, too. This means they don’t have to awkwardly dance around the subject all night, right? Aubrey liked the kiss, for all the grief it’s given her in the aftermath. (And even that has been worth it, considering.) Apparently, so did Akko. Enough to prepare.]

You did, huh? [She answers late, the way she’s been doing with Akko a lot. Weird…] Well, I haven’t found any umeboshi, but if you have it…

[A quick glance over her shoulder, to make sure her friends aren’t listening. Which isn’t necessary, probably, but, um. Where was she going with that, again?]

…I’ll… make sure, uh. you.. enjoy it. The same way. You know.

[And the #1 Smoothness award goes to…!]

I’m glad you remembered that’s all.

headhooligan: (02B headtilt)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-12 12:10 am (UTC)(link)

You sure make it sound normal. [Ha. Haha. Nervous laugh…? It’s still a good kind of nervous, though; mainly, Aubrey’s glad that absolute trainwreck of a line, whatever it was supposed to be, didn’t blow up everything.]

I mean, geez. We’re just gonna hang out and… have snacks and learn and stuff. [They are having the exact same extremely normal thought.] With nooo witnesses. Ha…

[Aubrey feels like she’s in the danger zone again. One particular line comes to mind, a better one, but she’s not gonna risk it with people in the other room. Like that stopped anything before!]

Uh… Where… are you, anyway?

headhooligan: (00D - _  -)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-12 01:05 am (UTC)(link)

[it’s fiiine, for the purposes of crosscanon shenanigans magic is already real so what’s a little geography-smushing. unless magic is specifically concentrated in Great Britain???]

Oh. Cool.

[And it doesn’t sound like she has roommates. No supervision, no gods, no masters. Not a soul as witness, guaranteed…!]

Just… wasn’t sure if this was at your house or something. [Right. Yes. They are so close that Aubrey was not fully cognizant of Akko living on-campus.] Your dorm is totally cool with guests and everything, right?

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[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-12 01:35 am (UTC)(link)

[It is a miracle above miracles that Akko still thinks of Aubrey as a tough and cool badgirl—but incidentally, she’s right! About the rulebreaking, that is. Akko can’t see it, but talk like that earns a mischievous little grin from Aubrey.]

You know what? [The tease in her voice is back, though!] Tempting as it is to get turned into a bunny [ostensibly a joke], yeah, I’ll climb your window.

But I’ll probably need some magical help. [Her tone implies a plan. She does not have one.] Think you’ll be ready?

headhooligan: (01C u wanna fkn go m8)

1/2

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-12 02:12 am (UTC)(link)

[Not a chance.]

Hell yeah. You free this weekend?

[It is so much easier to be confident when it’s just a little mischief-making. Like, stupid easy. So very easy that, barely noticing Akko’s response (or even if there is one), Aubrey blurts out] Can’t wait to snack on you.

headhooligan: (04B o_o)

2/2

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-12 02:12 am (UTC)(link)

[She immediately hangs up.]

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[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-01-12 02:36 am (UTC)(link)

[She did! She’s so! smooth! and normal! about! all of this!!!!1!!]

 

 

 

 

 

cool

[Lip gloss is going to be the death of her.]