vanillajello | Random Coffee Shop, Mainland, Early Monday Afternoon

As soon as Kate had woken up all normal and seventeen again, she'd taken off.

No, she wasn't particularly proud of that, but it had felt necessary at that particular moment. She'd needed to feel like a borderline adult again, and that meant doing shit on her own because she could. Not that her weetiny seven-year-old self hadn't done quite a bit of that as well, since her parents hadn't been around and Bod wasn't quite enough of an authority figure. But this was different, this was her reasserting control over herself and her life. She loved going out on her own and answering to no one, just like she loved living out here, away from Kansas, away from a daily life full of alters and minor instability. Right? Right.

Except right now, she missed her family like crazy. She didn't know what to do with that feeling.

She'd found a café that looked nice enough and settled at a table by the window with her gigantic cup of coffee and an equally oversized muffin. She'd just... sit here and eat and drink and think, for a while.

[ooc: Yes, post be open for calls, texts, randomly dropping by, whathaveyou. ETA: Aaand of course this was always NFB due to being off-island.]

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"Yeah, he pretty much said we should keep on being obnoxiously cute together or whatever." And that he'd gladly slash Zach's tires. Kate was keeping that to herself. "Of course, he also told me not to repeat that, but as if I care."

"Are we obnoxiously cute?" Bod asked, amused. "I promise I won't tell him that you told me."

Maybe he'd keep that promise.

Not that Kate would care if he did. It was bound to be amusing. "I don't know, I've never had the opportunity to look at us like that," she shrugged, smiling. "Maybe we are."

"I don't know if I know what obnoxiously cute would even mean," Bod admitted. "I think it would mean different things to different people. I just enjoy doing what feels good."

"And I enjoy what you enjoy doing," Kate supplied. "I think public displays of affection can make us obnoxiously cute, though. Or just plain obnoxious."

"Well then, it's a good thing I stopped, isn't it?" Bod said, thinking himself very sage for that.

Kate snorted. "From everyone else's point of view, maybe," she allowed.

"But not from yours?" Bod asked, lifting an eyebrow.

Kate shook her head. "Well, we've never been obnoxious from my point of view."

"I'd like to think I've never been obnoxious either but I also think you have a bias," Bod pointed out with a slight smile.

"And if you tell me that's not allowed again, I will pinch your nose," Kate joked. "Yes, I'm biased. I don't care."

"That's not allowed," Bod said and immediately clapped a hand over his nose just to see what she'd do.

Wasn't it good that Kate was always quick to change the rules she made up? She thought so, at least: it meant she could reach out and try to smack the back of his head instead.

"Ow!" Bod yelped, voice muffled by his hand. "That was my head. I think you've given me a concussion. I've been rendered incapacitated for the day."

"Well, sucks to be you, I guess," Kate shrugged with a smirk. "Maybe I'll just leave you here and go on my merry way."

"I thought I was your boyfriend, though," he said, sticking his lower lip out at her and frowning. "I thought you liked me."

"Sorry, that was before I found out how easily you get incapacitated," she replied, shaking her head. "I think my boyfriend out to be made of slightly sturdier stuff."

Bod sniffed a bit and pretended to wipe his eyes before he got up and turned towards the bathrooms. "I think I need to go deal with this in private. If you'll excuse me."

And with that bit of acting, he headed towards the bathroom, wiping fake tears the entire way.

"I also don't date crybabies," Kate informed his back lightly before drinking down the very last of her coffee. She slouched in her seat, watching him go with a look of idle amusement.

"Then, I guess we're not dating anymore!" Bod called before disappearing into the bathroom to do...something. He didn't know.

Yeah, Kate figured he had no clue, and she was kind of intrigued about how this would end up going. She intended to wait a while, getting comfortable in her little booth.

The barrista gave her a weird look after Bod's statement, so she smirked and winked at him, and then laughed once he shook his head and went back to doing what he'd been doing.

Well, since Bod was in the restroom he figured he could use it for what it was intended. After that was done and he'd washed up, he pulled out his phone and started a game of snake since it was there and he was fairly good at it.

No, he didn't want to give up and go out there first. If that happened, he'd deal with it but he didn't want to immediately give in.

Kate wasn't eaxctly intending to give in too soon, either. She looked out the window, quietly amused that this seemed to happen with them quite a lot. She didn't mind it, it was just one of those weird things she'd missed.

And it was helping make some of the differently weird feeling she'd had since waking up go away a bit.

Bod didn't mind hanging out in the bathroom for a bit either. It was clean and it was quiet. It wasn't too different from how his room felt to him sometimes. And the game on his phone was getting intense so time passed and he didn't emerge from the bathroom just yet.

Kate didn't have a game.

Well, actually, she would have had one if she'd bothered to dig her phone out again but she hadn't, which meant that she had nothing making time pass quicker for her. Which meant she was starting to dart glances at the bathroom door.

But she so didn't want to lose.

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