::Open RP : Spring Specials at the Little Green Apple::

[lady-thujone.livejournal.com]

Spring is here, spring, is here...

And to celebrate, there was a new special at the Little Green Apple.

Chalked on the blackboard:

Fruit Lambics are in!
Kriek
Framboise
Cassis
Aardbei
Druit
Pêche
and of course,
Pomme!

Try a cold one!

Comments

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

'They have french music,' was one of L's big selling points.

"If I am not mistaken, Aardbei has strawberries in it."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Eh, I think I'll stick to JD." He grins.

French music wasn't so much a factor for Matt as, well, booze.

"Dunno about you guys, but I've had an awesome day." After the nightmares and everything.

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"I'd gathered," Near murmurs, trying not to sound sullen. After all, why shouldn't Matt go out joyriding with his oldest friend?

Except for the part where he'd slept with Mello, and thought Near being involved with him was a bad idea.

Near was doing his best to ignore the paranoia he'd been raised to cultivate and give them the benefit of the doubt. But just because he was acting out of trust didn't mean he could turn off the suspicious way his mind worked.

Oh, what the hell. He'd try one of those fruit beers. But only one.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

L rolls his eyes at Near, and climbs on to a bar stool.

"Near, please avoid smoking anything, even if the proprietess tells you it is not a drug."

He speaks from experience, here.

"I take it you were not sabotaged or run over, Matt?"

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Unless you want to smoke it. Which is a totally valid choice."

Matt pulls himself up onto the bar counter. He notices Near's tone, but... well, there's not really much he can do about it, is there? It's not like he's done anything wrong. Except in a strictly legal sense.

"Nope, no casualties on our part. It was great. You should have seen the bikes we got."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"Valid choice? Let me guess. Whatever they have to smoke here, you want company indulging in it." He smirks slightly.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"... well, it'd be sort of lame if I was the only one."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"Peer pressure, Matt?" Near's raised eyebrow stays raised. "I didn't think you were the sort to do things just because everyone else was or wasn't doing it."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Matt shrugs. "Nah, it's not that - there's no fun if only one person's stoned, that's all. They just annoy the hell out of everyone else. I'm not going to be devastated if we're just drinking."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"Just because I'm having one beer, don't assume I'm 'drinking'. I don't intend to get drunk. I disliked being hung over."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"If we're just hanging out, then," Matt amends, slowly. Did Near think something had happened while he and Mello were in London?

He rubs his head, trying to think of a non-awkward way to explain that nothing had.

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"If you want to get drunk, go right ahead." The amusement in his tone is clear. "I just don't want to. I've had the experience, I don't need to again."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

... okay, that sounds a bit more encouraging. He still feels a little awkward, though.

"I did warn you about the shots," Matt reminds him. "You insisted."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"But then I would have been the only one not." And Matt and Mello bonding over something and excluding him would not have been tolerable. Watching Matt and L get drunk together? Not an issue.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Well... yeah, okay, I guess I get that. Peer pressure, though," he says, grinning lightly. "I didn't think you were the sort."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

Well, he did have a point. And Near really wasn't about to explain the full motivation behind his having those shots. If Matt couldn't figure it out on his own...

"It only made sense to try it at least once. It is a common human activity, after all. Having experienced it might help me understand people's actions better. Professionally useful."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Uh-huh," Matt snickers. "Dude, you're twenty-three. It's okay to get drunk sometimes. But if you don't like it, fair enough."

He hasn't really examined Near's reasons for taking the shots, to be honest. It's something he probably would have done. Just to see.

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

Of course, it hadn't been so much the getting drunk he'd minded as much as the morning after, both the hangover and Matt flipping out.

"If I thought it was worth the after-effects, I would."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"... I won't always be yelling at you in the morning-after," Matt says, looking a little embarrassed. "Did I, uh, apologise for that?"

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"I don't think you did," Near tells him softly. "But thank you."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"I hadn't had any cigarettes," he explains. "And, you know. I woke up with you two in my bed."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"Because you ordered us there," Near points out. "And nothing happened."

Probably.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"I don't remember ordering any such thing. Therefore, it totally didn't happen."

This is one of Matt's favourite Drunken-Night-Out rules.

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"How convenient."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"How alarming," mutters L, into his drink. "You two get up to strange things."