Sharon - November 19
Nov. 15th, 2012 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theycallmecapSteve is very aware that Sharon would probably have hated him for this, even if he hadn't done it on his birthday. But he's been toying with the idea for days, because it's been a few weeks since they last talked about this, and there's giving her space and then there's just letting nothing happen. So for once, he's thankful for something about the Proserpina: the fact that they are now getting warned for people's birthdays.
It's the trigger he's been waiting for to put his plan in motion. Well, plan. It's a big word for it, when all it is really is mostly a hope that Sharon won't stalk right out of the schoolroom, but still. He spends a lot of time in front of the replicator in his room, until he has decent popcorn. He spends even longer in the schoolroom, until he's loaded a decent movie on the computer that's on the wall. The decent movie, in this case, is better than decent; it's Casablanca.
And then finally, when it's time and he figures she's had dinner already (popcorn is no proper meal), he goes and warms up the popcorn in the kitchen, sends everybody but Sharon an e-mail that he rereads three times to make sure the phone's auto-correction feature isn't messing with him, asking people to stay out of this schoolroom tonight, and then only rereads the text he's about to send Sharon. This one he actually rereads five times, just in case. Thinking fo the coke debacle still makes him blush.
The text just says, "Level 3 schoolroom. Emergency."
He's hoping that she won't stop to think about the fact that if this were an emergency, the last thing he would do is take the time to text anyone.
It's the trigger he's been waiting for to put his plan in motion. Well, plan. It's a big word for it, when all it is really is mostly a hope that Sharon won't stalk right out of the schoolroom, but still. He spends a lot of time in front of the replicator in his room, until he has decent popcorn. He spends even longer in the schoolroom, until he's loaded a decent movie on the computer that's on the wall. The decent movie, in this case, is better than decent; it's Casablanca.
And then finally, when it's time and he figures she's had dinner already (popcorn is no proper meal), he goes and warms up the popcorn in the kitchen, sends everybody but Sharon an e-mail that he rereads three times to make sure the phone's auto-correction feature isn't messing with him, asking people to stay out of this schoolroom tonight, and then only rereads the text he's about to send Sharon. This one he actually rereads five times, just in case. Thinking fo the coke debacle still makes him blush.
The text just says, "Level 3 schoolroom. Emergency."
He's hoping that she won't stop to think about the fact that if this were an emergency, the last thing he would do is take the time to text anyone.
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Date: 2012-11-15 11:30 pm (UTC)"You've got popcorn." She repeats dumbly. "You lured me up here...to eat popcorn?"
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Date: 2012-11-15 11:35 pm (UTC)And Steve looks uncharacteristically nervous, as he puts the popcorn bowl down, just in case she decides to punch him after all, given what he's about to say. "I thought... it could be a date."
He doesn't quite wince as he says that, but close enough. He really does expect to get hit.