[Day: Saturday, Februray 1st. Time: 9:00 p.m.] [Weather: Snowy and cold. Fortunately, the dance is being held in a nice, big, heated room.] [A few hours ago, Kyoko showed up and a buncha mini-Kyons briefly ran around shouting 'wai'. Then Kirby ate the world. No, that last part didn't really happen. The GM only wishes it did so he wouldn't have to run this dance.] [The group happens to get there at the same time, meeting under a temporary awning next to the school's gym's doors.] * Katie walks over with Taro, presumably. She's wearing the knee-length black and silver dress she bought back during the shopping trip, along with black sandals (cold!) and a small black purse. Her hair isn't done any differently than it normally is. * Satoshi is just standing there, dressed in the blue shirt and gray pants he bought in the shopping trip, long ago. His hands are jammed into his pockets and he looks like he'd rather be anywhere but there. [Taro is there, so Katie's presumption is true.] * Chikako smiles. She's wearing the dress she got at the mall, and comes over with Kyon. "Hi everyone! This is gonna be so cool!" * Meimi walks up, dressed in a nice, fairly conservative black dress with what appear to be little sparkling stars all over it. * Meimi looks around for Jiro. * Taro looks youthful, but mostly average. He's wearing appropriate but non-descript clothes. He scratches behind his head when Chikako says that. "Y- Yeah..." * Katie grins at Taro. * Taro blushes a bit and grins back. Jiro's not here yet? * Meimi looks rather disappointed. * Satoshi looks around. "Ah, he'll probably show up." Just wait for him, Meimi. He'll show. * Kyon stands next to Chikako, wearing the dark red shirt and black pants covered with hooks and pockets along with dark red boots. He looks past the group towards the school. "He will. No one's going to miss this." * Jiro jogs up to where the others are waiting, wearing an appropriate outfit. No, really. * Katie waves at Jiro. "See, there he is!" * Kyon looks Jiro over with a practiced eye, raises an eyebrow, and looks back down at Chikako. * Satoshi leans back against the wall again. "Yeah. If he didn't show up, I was about ready to bring him here myself." * Meimi looks Jiro over. * Meimi smiles brightly. "Hi, Jiro!" * Chikako grins. "See? He came! It's so cool!" * Jiro grins back at Meimi. "Hi, Meimi!" * Chikako grins. "So, let's go! It'll be so cool!" * Kyon looks over the group, and nods tersely. "Yeah. Looks like the little band's all together." * Katie laughs. "All right." She walks over and, in a shocking display of reverse chivalry, holds the door open. "After you." * Meimi grins and offers her arm to Jiro. * Jiro looks confused for a moment before nodding to himself and taking Meimi's arm. * Satoshi trails behind the group. Alone. Woe is him. ;p * Katie grins at Meimi and Jiro. * Kyon walks forward, waiting for Chikako to match his stride. He looks back over his shoulder at Satoshi, and smirks. "C'mon. You don't need someone to come in." [That's what he thinks. Just as you start heading in, a girl in a Chinese dress with obviously dyed blond hair (with a French-curl style), bounds up and wraps her hands around his arm. "Whew! Sorry I'm late!"] * Satoshi channels Jiro. "Huh?" * Satoshi looks at the girl. "Um, excuse me... I think you have the wrong person." * Katie blinks at the girl. * BlondGirl looks at Satoshi in confusion. "Why? Got a date?" No... but don't you? She does now. ^_^ * BlondGirl giggles. "Right!" * Satoshi looks at the others, a "help me" expression plainly written on his face. * Jiro blinks. * Meimi gives Sato a thumbs up with her free arm. Go for it, Satoshi. * Katie just grins. "C'mon in, Satoshi and... what's your name?" [And so they head into the dance room. It's big. With lotsa people. There's tables and food to one side, a place to, well, dance, and a band. Is it THE band? I dunno. But it's there, either way.] * Kyon narrows his eyes at the girl, then shrugs, taking Chikako's arm and heading inside. * BlondGirl lets go of Satoshi's arm and bows, grinning. "My name is Nami Daidoji! I'm 14 years old, a freshman. I do modelling. My hobbies are horseback riding, polo, and looking pretty. Nice to meet you!" * Katie waits for everyone else to enter, then grabs Taro by the arm and pulls him inside. * Chikako is pulled inside ^_^ * Taro is pulled inside @_@ * Satoshi looks extremely nervous. "Uh, yeah... it's nice to meet you too, Nami." * Satoshi attempts to recover a bit of his composure. "Shall we?" * Katie smiles at Taro and blushes slightly. "Don't be so nervous. It's just a dance." * Meimi pulls Jiro along gently. * Nami grabs Satoshi's arm again and nods. "Let's!" * Jiro walks alongside Meimi. Yeah, just relax and have a good time. ^_^ * Kyon moves nimbly through the crowd towards the middle of the dance floor, keeping a hand back on Chikako's arm to make sure she doesn't get lost. It's not like... * Meimi trails off. Nevermind. I don't want to jinx it. * Meimi pulls Jiro out onto the dance floor. * Taro chuckles a bit. "Y-You're right. Sorry..." * Jiro is pulled onto the dance floor. * Katie squeezes Taro's hand. "And don't be sorry!" She blinks at what she was doing, then blushes some more. * Satoshi leads Nami onto the dance floor. * Chikako is tugged to the middle of the dance floor, not even realizing it as she looks around at the pretty multi-colored lights on the ceiling. "This is so cool!" * Taro blushes too, nodding nervously. * Katie lightly pulls Taro to the dance floor. * Taro is pulled to the dance floor X.x * Kyon smirks down at her. "I put a lot of effort in. So of course it's cool." * Jiro manages not to look nervous, despite being aware that he has no idea how to dance. * Chikako nodnods. "Uh huh!" * Katie tugs Taro into a dancing position. "Okay, don't... be so tense. This isn't kendo." * Kyon gives Chikako a cool smile, and starts dancing. He's pretty good at it. * Meimi starts dancing, smiling happily up at Jiro. * Chikako dances too. She might be good. It's hard to tell. She keeps switching rythms, or something. * Jiro tries to dance along and not step on Meimi's feet. * Taro nods. "Okay." * Nami drags Satoshi to the dance floor. "Yay!" * Satoshi gives a "what the hell" shrug. * Satoshi starts dancing. Surprisingly (or perhaps not), he's good. He's got style, he's got rhythm... you'd actually want to call him pretty graceful. * Katie smiles and starts dancing. She's decently good; she has a sense of rhythm, thank goodness. * Kyon watches Chikako, rolls his eyes, and then locks them on hers. "Follow my lead, Chikako." * Nami dances too. She's good at it. Perfect, even. * Chikako grins. "Cool!" And for a while, she does. * Taro dances too. He's very... average. * Meimi tries to maintain the illusion that Jiro is leading. * Meimi is a pretty good dancer, luckily, and so can probably help Jiro out a fair bit. * Satoshi can't help but grin as he realizes he's got a good partner. "Hey, you're a really good dancer, Nami." * Kyon watches Chikako, smiles more warmly, and starts dancing a bit more complicatedly. I know. I had to learn for the commercials. * Jiro has no idea what leading would refer to in this case, but on the other hand Meimi's good at maintaining illusions. Say, how about we get some punch? Just relax and let it happen, Jiro. You'll pick it up in no time. * Satoshi blinks. "You were in commercials? And sure, punch would be good." * Nami leads Satoshi towards the punch. "Yeah. Even had a small role on a TV program, once. But it didn't catch on too well." * Jiro nods, relaxes, and lets it happen. And he just might be picking it up, too. * Katie starts dancing a bit more fluidly as she gradually gets into the music. * Taro does his best to keep up. * Taro might be good at this if he didn't feel so silly doing it. * Katie notices his hesitation and leans over and whispers, "Don't worry. Everyone else looks silly, too." * Taro smiles and nods. * Kyon changes his dance style, and keeps his eyes on Chikako to see if she follows along. * Chikako follows Kyon along.... for a while. She always seems to wind up doing her own thing, though. * Katie keeps it simple and fluid. She doesn't want Taro to get *too* embarrassed... or herself, for that matter. * Kyon shrugs, and just dances his own way. He keeps watching Chikako, though. * Jiro dances along with Meimi. He's catching on! Sort of. * Meimi just keeps her eyes on Jiro and dances happily, oblivious to Jiro's jealous followers, which are probably plotting to kill her. *_* * Jiro is is also oblivious to his jealous followers, but then, he's oblivious to lots of things. [Someone bumps into Katie! *bump!*] * Katie blinks and looks behind her. [The bumper turns to the bumpee. "Oh! I'm sorry abou-" He stops when he sees who it is. "Oh, it's you."] [It's Ken. Of course it's rude.] * Katie eyes Ken. "Yeah, it's me. Thanks for the almost apology." [Ken humphs and makes his way to another side of the dance floor with his Floozy Of The Night.] * Katie smirks and goes back to dancing, considerably happier with herself. * Taro dances too. * Kyon motions to Chikako to follow him, and makes his way towards the stage and the band. * Chikako follows Kyon, grinning all the time. "This is so cool." * Kyon gets to the front of the stage, and looks over the band as the play. [The band consists of four people, not too much older than yourselves.] * Kyon starts dancing again, keeping an eye on them and waiting for a break. * Taro dances averagely. Lookit him go, folks! * Katie does lookit Taro dance, thank you very much. :P [Eventually, the music begins to slow.] ( Slow as in the tempo, or slow as in, the band is getting tired and needs a break? ) [That kinda slow, since it's the one Kyon's waiting for.] * Katie takes a break, too. "Want to get some punch?" * Kyon leans up, and tries to get the attention of one of the band members. Sure. [One of the band members leans down after the song ends] * Katie leads Taro to the food/drink table, where Satoshi and Nami are, probably. She pours a cup of punch and hands it to Taro. C'mon, Jiro. Let's grab some punch, it looks like Kyon's up to something. * Meimi pulls Jiro lightly over to the snacks, because dancing is tiring. * Kyon speaks in a low tone, and looks sidewise at Chikako in the middle. * Chikako remains blissfully oblivious. "So cool! It's so cool!" * Chikako looks in another direction. "And that's cool too!" * Jiro follows Meimi over to the snacks! * Satoshi notices the others approaching, and waves to them. * Jiro eats a few snacks, too, and has some punch. * Katie sips her punch and watches Kyon and Chikako. "Hum. I guess this isn't so bad." * Katie blinks. Oh, hey Satoshi. [Satoshi and Nami are at the table already, getting food. Well, Satoshi's getting food. Nami's playing with one of those tongs you use to get the heated food from the pans.] * Meimi has a little punch. Having fun, Katie? Err... Nami? I think other people might want to use those. * Nami blinks and looks at the newcomers. She looks visabily disappointed. "All right." * Nami puts the tongs back on the pan. * Katie grins at Meimi. "Yeah, I am, actually. You?" Yeah. Jiro learns fast. * Katie nods. She taps one finger against the table as she continues to sip her drink. Any idea what Kyon's up to with the band? * Kyon leans back off the stage, and smirks at Chikako, waiting. * Taro gets some punch. * Chikako grins. "What's next?" * Satoshi gets some more food, eyeing Nami as he does so. * Nami hums to herself. "When do we start eating?" * Kyon shakes his head quickly, and shrugs. "Wait and see." I think we can eat as we go. Really? Yay! * Nami picks up the piece of chicken on her plate with her fingers, and procedes to devour it. * Katie laughs a little, then turns to Taro. "Are you having fun? Or at least not being bored?" * Jiro finds the tongs, picks them up, and begins playing with them. A model that doesn't get fat at the sight of food? * Taro nods. "Yeah! It's really fun." Amazing! * Katie grins. "I'm glad. I was worried that I wasn't being fun enough or something." Oh! No, you're being great! Well, chicken's not that bad for you. I think. I, uh... Guess I'm just not good at this. * Katie laughs. Well, maybe we can practice, right? It isn't? Wow! Then I can eat more! * Nami picks up a piece of chicken (using the tongs). She grabs it and devours it. Right. * Satoshi watches her and blinks. And blinks some more. And then turns to Meimi and whispers. "Meimi, is she one of yours?" I don't think so, Satoshi. ^_^; Ah. Now I am officially scared. * Katie watches Taro not catch on and mentally shrugs. Men. * Chikako looks around. "Hey! Everyone's over there!" She tugs on Kyon's arm. "C'mon! Let's go say hi! It'll be so cool!" * Kyon looks down from where he's been leaning on the stage, and shrugs disinterestedly. "Right." He pushes himself off, and heads over on Chikako's arm. [Meanwhile, the band is getting ready to start up again.] * Meimi perks up. Looks like the band is ready to play some more. * Katie grins. "Yup." You wanna dance some more after you're done eating, Nami? * Jiro looks up. "Huh?" * Nami looks at Satoshi, speaking around her fifth piece of chicken. "Sure!" You up for more dancing, Jiro? * Katie chuckles. "I wish I had a... hrm." * Kyon slows his walk down as he hears the band getting together again, but still heads towards the group. Just slowly. Uh.... I guess? [The band starts playing!] * Chikako follows Kyon! * Katie watches Kyon. "He's taking his time." * Meimi pulls Jiro back out onto the dance floor, then. ^_^ * Jiro is pulled back out on to the dance floor. * Satoshi waits for Nami to finish eating before heading back to the dance floor. * Nami finishes! * Katie tugs on Taro's arm. "Come on." ^^ Had a what, Katie? * Kyon stops on the dance floor where he was, and starts dancing again, quite quickly and skillfully. It's the song he requested, after all. O...Ok. A... I'm trying to think of the Japanese word for it. And I really can't. * Katie looks rather embarrassed. * Satoshi leads Nami back to the dance floor. * Nami looks over to Katie as she follows Satoshi. "A house? A hat? A herring?" No, no, no. * Taro chuckles a bit. * Katie starts heading to the dance floor with Taro. "A... um. What's the word." * Jiro resumes dancing with Meimi! * Chikako blinks at Kyon, then shrugs and starts dancing. She does very well for the first 20 seconds, before going off on her own. A rubber ducky! * Katie sweatdrops. "No, not a rubber ducky." * Kyon doesn't really notice, this time. He's very wrapped up in it. An iron ducky? Not a ducky. Not even a thing, really. * Nami thinks about that. An imaginary trombone? * Satoshi, meanwhile, is dancing, and dancing well. Though his "date" isn't right next to him, he doesn't appear to have noticed. Or maybe he has, and doesn't mind. * Katie shakes her head a little sheepishly. Never mind. It's not important. * Nami is too busy trying to solve this mystery. "An unimportant, imaginary trombone?" * Katie laughs. "No." * Satoshi yells over to Katie and Nami. "A camera?" * Katie calls back, "No!" * Satoshi yells back. "Okay!" A spring loaded fork with brass bells and flowers? ... That's interesting, but no. A tugboat! * Katie giggles. * Satoshi half-listens to the conversation while he continues to dance, not missing a beat. * Chikako looks over to where Katie's dancing. "You want a tugboat? That's so cool!" * Katie starts dancing. "No, Nami just thinks I want a tugboat!" * Kyon dances more quietly, once they're off his song. He looks around the room quickly, just to check out how things are doing. You don't? But you just said you wanted a tugboat! No, you guessed a tugboat, and I laughed. That's different! You didn't say no! I didn't say yes, either! * Satoshi dances over to where Katie and Nami are talking. "Hey, Nami, let's not worry about tugboats and let's dance." [Kyon spots Ken in one corner, and Riko in another. And Remi Mizuki, the Kyudo team captain, is somewhere in the middle.] * Nami goes over to Satoshi. "Okay!" * Satoshi grins apologetically at Katie, then resumes dancing, with Nami this time. * Nami turns to face Katie. "But I'll get it yet!" Then she dances with Satoshi. * Kyon turns his attention back to Chikako, trying to match her motions for a bit this time. * Katie laughs and calls back, "You just keep trying!" 2d6 * Meimi is totally lost in her own thoughts. It's not really hard to tell what she's thinking, either, given the way she's looking at Jiro as she dances. *_* 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (2d6) and gets 4. [Amazingly, Kyon manages to keep up with Chikako.] * Kyon smiles coolly at Chikako, and follows along. * Taro dances. "Fun... isn't it?" * Jiro has a harder time getting lost in his thoughts, but doesn't seem to notice much of anything outside of his dance with Meimi. [Meanwhile...] [Time passes, and the dance floor clears a bit as people start getting hungry.] [Ken bumps into Katie again!] * Katie eyes Ken. Do you mind? [He smiles slyly. "Oh, sorry." Doesn't sound like he means it. His floosy for the night giggles.] * Kyon heads over towards the food, trying to make sure Chikako's in tow. * Katie frowns slightly. "Okay." She glances at Taro. * Meimi smiles up at Jiro. "Jiro, would you mind getting me some punch, please?" * Taro looks a bit upset, but nonconfrontational. * Chikako follows Kyon! Huh? Oh, sure. * Jiro goes and gets some punch for Meimi, and brings it to her. * Katie shakes her head and tries to ignore Ken. She goes back to dancing with Taro. Thank you, Jiro. ^_^ * Meimi sips a little at the punch, but leaves it mostly untouched as she stands near the edge of the dance floor, keeping an eye on certain people. * Jiro just kinda' stands near Meimi and looks around. * Kyon ends up near the others to get food. He nods to them tersely, then turns to Chikako. "Need anything?" Nah. I'm cool. * Kyon shrugs, then gets himself something small to eat and drink. * Nami dances with Satoshi somewhere away from everyone else. * Floozy accidently spills punch on Katie. "Oops!" * Katie yelps and stares down at her dress. "" * Meimi scowls. C'mon, Jiro. Let's dance. * Floozy frowns apologetically. "Sorry." She goes onto the dance floor and dances with Ken. * Meimi holds her hand out to Jiro. * Katie looks at her poor, *expensive* dress with the stupid punch on it, then looks up at the couple. She sighs. * Kyon rolls his eyes, and looks at the stain. "There's some seltzer back behind the tables." * Taro frowns. I'll go talk to him. * Katie blinks. * Taro heads towards Ken! But Ta- uh oh. * Katie runs to get the seltzer, then run back to find out what's going on. This is going to take some running. [They start talking. Calmly at first. The floozy shrugs, and Ken says something. Then they start arguing in louder voices.] * Meimi steps up in front of Taro. * Katie grabs the seltzer as the louder arguing starts, and heads quickly over. Hey, there's no need to fight, people. It was just an accident. * Chikako grins. "Seltzer? That's so cool!" Fight? I wouldn't dream of it. There's no need to argue, either. * Meimi gives Taro a significant look. * Taro scowls. Mr. Nishizaka is the one doing the arguing. Tell him that. Taro, go help Katie. * Jiro frowns and follows Meimi, not getting into the croud of arguers, but not staying far from her, either. * Taro grumbles and mutters, but does that. * Katie waits for Taro. When he gets near, she murmurs, "Thanks. I mean that." I'd like to hurt that guy. Me too, really. * Katie starts cleaning herself up, but she's having an awkward time of it. * Taro tries to help as much as he can, without doing anything embaressing. * Chikako comes over and pouts. "That wasn't very cool." * Meimi heads back over to Katie and Taro. * Kyon finishes eating, and looks back and forth from Taro to Ken. "Yeah. I don't need any fights ruining the dance." Don't worry about it, guys. Everything will work out. * Jiro follows Meimi again! * Katie gets more or less cleaned off, though the stain's still there, just faded. "This bill is going to suck. Ah well." * Kyon shrugs. "Least it'll come out now. I knew ordering those would be useful." * Chikako grins. "It was a cool idea!" Maybe we should just leave. Well, someone _always_ gets drenched in punch at a dance. It's like a law. It's getting kind of late, and we don't need to deal with him. No, don't worry about it, Taro. Don't let him spoil your night. * Katie tsks. "And let Ken win?" She leads Taro into a dance again. * Taro is led into a dance @_@ [The band plays the Hamsterdance music, on request.] * Katie stops. * Katie listens to the music. * Meimi takes Jiro's hand and pulls him out onto the dance floor, keeping carefully between Katie and Ken. * Katie facepalms. * Chikako grins. "This song is so cool!" * Jiro follows Meimi out onto the dance floor again. And dances, since that's what you do on the dance floor when there's music playing. Yeah. * Kyon shakes his head wearily, and looks at Chikako. "Right. I think my request was more fitting, though." * Chikako nods. "That was cool, too!" * Kyon smirks, and shakes his head. "Anything they could play that wouldn't be?" * Katie waits for the next song (that *isn't* hamsterdance) and gives Taro a quick peck on the cheek, blushing furiously. "I did mean it when I said thanks, you know." * Chikako thinks. "There's a very uncool American style.... Katie would know!" * Katie blinks at Chikako. "Hm?" * Chikako bounds over to Katie. "Katie, what's the name of that uncool American style of music where people spit a lot?" Spit a lot? Isn't that what they do? It's not very cool, either way. What's it sound like? * Kyon shakes his head again, and watches the two of them talk. * Chikako thinks. "Um... Like people spitting a lot and scratching chalkboards with fingernails, and uncool stuff like that..." Punk? Death metal? ( Mmmm. Scratching chalkboards. z.z ) (EEEEEEEEEE! *twitch*) I dunno. Is it uncool? * Katie smiles slightly. "Depends on what you like, I guess. Hard punk can be tough to swallow." ( And death metal is *damn* funny.) ( *snickers* ) * Katie looks over to see if Taro snapped out of his stupor since she kissed him. * Taro has evidently gone into a coma standing up. * Katie waves her hand in front of his face. "Taro. Oh Taroooo o/~" Huh? Oh! Sorry! * smiles. "It's okay. You were kind of out of it for a while." * Taro blushes. "Ehee..." [Session End]