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[mikangirl]

Who: Anyone attending Nami's birthday party. /o/
What: ...Nami's birthday party. 8|
When: Evening on the 4th July.
Where: The mikan orchard.
Summary: An impromptu last minute stubborn celebration of something that's fun.
Rating: ...P for pinwheels? 8|a


[Tis a mingling post. Mingle!  Seriously. The orchard's lit up, there is alcohol, there are snacks, there are mikan. There's also piles of coloured paper for much later, but that's another story. 

Backtag to your heart's content. We apologise for contributing to the glut of birthday posts that is early July. |D Popular month!]

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[markofthewise]

Yeah. [He gives her a look over. And frowns.] I don't think she's ever mentioned you, though. [Except she probably did and he's just being a jerk cuz she's a jerk.]

[failazure]

[...yeah, really. The way he speaks to her is starting to make her feel a bit uncomfortable.] N-No... I don't think she's mentioned you, either. [...] My name is Noel. What's yours?

[markofthewise]

[Well EXCUSE ME NOEL. What are you gonna do, brutally murder him and the village?]

I'm Sokka. [And... okay, Noel sounds vaguely familiar maybe.] I run the smithy.

[failazure]

[Just let her get tempered AGAIN and sure, maybe. B|]

Oh! Really...? That name sounds familiar. [Must be why he runs the smithy.] A-Actually, um...

[... ... ...]

I... met you at the grocery store a few weeks ago, didn't I?

[markofthewise]

Yeah. I hope I wasn't too much of a bother.

[He says with his arms crossed, looking particularly sour.]

[failazure]

You weren't! [Interjecting rather quickly, because she knows that first impressions are hard to break and IF SHE EXPLAINS QUICKLY THEN ALL OF THIS CAN BE RESOLVED.]

I'm really, really sorry for acting the way I did back there. The person I acted like-- I'm not that type of person, I promise. That experiment was happening that week, and all sorts of other things were going on at the same time, so... I, uh...

...sorry.

[markofthewise]

Oh. [There's a moment as he processes that and- you know what, he has a grand niece now. This isn't even a thing he can really bat an eye at.]

You should have said so earlier.

[failazure]

I'm sorry.

[There was the initial embarrassment. And then everything went to hell and so she completely forgot about that experiment.

But she won't talk about that.]

... I didn't know how to word it, I guess.

[markofthewise]

"Oops, that experiment made me a jerk." [He shrugs. It's kind of a neutral criticism at this point.] But don't worry about it.

[failazure]

[Well, there's Noel. Worrier extraordinaire. Want her to say those words? She could! ...but okay, he's dropping it, it seems.]

Okay. I'll try. [...] Still, friends for that long... there's still a lot I don't know about Nami. You'd think that in those two years, I would have already seen you.

[markofthewise]

Yeah. [A pause as he studies her for a moment. HMMMMM.] I guess you must not get out much.

[failazure]

[!!!!]

How did you know?

[markofthewise]

... lucky guess.

[failazure]

[.....oh.

---djfhdkjgfjdsgl]

I-I still get out! Maybe not as much as some people, but I do!

[markofthewise]

[Whatever, Noel. Whatever. Be a hermit.]

Well, you should do it more. Especially after two years.

[failazure]

I'm here now, aren't I? [WHAT NOWWWW.]

[markofthewise]

Yeah, but this is the middle of a forest. Orchard. Thing. It doesn't really count.

[failazure]

Why wouldn't it count? It's a party, right? [...] A-And besides, you say that like this whole village isn't surrounded by a forest!

[markofthewise]

Because! If I wasn't Nami's friend, I wouldn't have seen you. I wouldn't have a reason to be out here otherwise.

[failazure]

[...sob.]

There's always, uh... other opportunities?

[markofthewise]

Yeah. [A pause.] Tomorrow is my sister's birthday. It's on the beach. Which is a little more social than this. You should come to that.

[failazure]

[The sad thing is that SHE WON'T because REASONS or maybe she will we'll see]

Your sister? [...] Your sister is here, too, Sokka?

[markofthewise]

[YOU BETTER!!]

Yeah. Katara. She and Nami are really close.

1/2

[failazure]

Katara... that's another name I haven't heard. [To think he has family here, too!! It kind of makes her reminisce on her family. Somehow.]

...okay! Tomorrow at the beach, right? [It's one way to get her mind off things.]

[failazure]

--Oh! But... [herp] Are you sure it's okay? I don't even know her...