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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"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.

Bod was also looking at the bathroom door, wondering if Kate was on the other side of it and if she was going to push the door open. He didn't want to lose either. He started another game and sighed, figuring he'd be giving up soon enough.

The barista had to be confused.

He probably was, though mostly he didn't seem to even be interested. Kate wondered whether they had a lot of weirdo kids coming through this joint.

After another minute or so, she pushed up from her seat and nonchalantly wandered towards the bathroom.

Bod finally pocketed his phone and stared at the door, wondering if she'd laugh at him if he pushed the door open now and emerged. He didn't do it, not quite yet but he had nothing else to do in the bathroom so...

...he had to do something, he supposed.

Meanwhile, Kate stopped right outside the door and just sort of hovered there. She wondered whether her standing there would still count as losing even if he pushed the door open now.

Had she already lost by coming this close? Hmm.

It seemed they were both hovering by the door then. Bod even had a light hand on it, ready to pull it open but not quite there yet. He was trying to listen to sounds from the other side but couldn't hear anything clearly.

He thought about ringing her but then that would make him the loser, wouldn't it?

Kate thought the same thing. Calling was losing, and even a pretty lame way to lose at that.

Right. With a sharp intake of breath, Kate pushed the door. She could be the loser sometimes; it beat being bored.

Bod hadn't expected that and with his hand on the door, ended up stumbling backwards and nearly falling into one of the walls of a stall. He made a sound of surprise and tried to keep himself on his feet.

Kate slipped into the bathroom and laughed, trying to reach out a hand to steady him, or something.

"So is it a tie if I manage to startle you into almost falling over?"

"I didn't realize you were right there," Bod admitted, grabbing her hand and getting his feet more firmly underneath him. "But yes, I think we can call it a draw. We both won."

"We both lost," Kate replied, ever the pessimist. "Feel more steady now?"

"We both won," Bod argued, shaking his head. "And yes, I do. Thank you. I no longer think I'm going to end up on the floor."

"I could always push you over?" Kate offered, giving his hand a little squeeze. "That'd be a total win for me."

"Do you have a particular desire to see me on the floor?" Bod wondered, raising an eyebrow.

"No," she snickered. "Though if I remember correctly, you used to have a habit of ending up there a lot anyway."

"True," he agreed with a laugh. "If you'd let me walk you back to the island, we can find a floor to lay on."

"Mm, I am sure there are many to choose from," she agreed, nodding as she leaned in to steal just the tiniest little kiss. "We should do that."

"We should," he said, returning that kiss. "Shall we go, then?"

"Mmhmm, let's," Kate nodded, then turned to pull the door open and tug him with her out of the bathroom again. "Islandward, dear boyfriend."

That sounded just fine to him. Following her out of the bathroom, he turned them islandward as requested. They'd go find a floor to lay on and relax. That sounded like a perfect way to spend the rest of the day to Bod.

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