02 | Video; Morning of the 21st

[takeitslow]

I ended up getting a lot of stuff this time around.

[The video is trained on a box, Peter's using his other hand to pull out what looks like a bulletin board.]

And when I saw this, I thought it wasn't meant for me. Bad delivery, you know? Particularly when I saw all these old pictures of my friend on it.

[The video pans over a few of the photographs, all of the resident cafe barista, Allison. It stops on the one of Allison in her Sailor Moon costume.]

But then I saw this and knew someone out there was giving me the perfect thing to share with the rest of you. Really help your day get started before that first cup of coffee; give you something other than that girl behind the counter to smile at. God bless that stupid machine, right?

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[takeitslow]

[Oh Nihlus, if only Peter would take your advice. Or any advice, ever.]

Come on. You're not going to say anything about the pictures?

[beautifulspaceraptor]

[OOooooohhh boy. Nihlus pinched the bridge of his weird alien nose and squints his eyes shut.]

Buddy, I am going to be obligated to smack you if this ends up the way I think it's going to end up and I am usually, unfortunately, very right about these things.

Don't tell me I didn't try to warn you.

[takeitslow]

Don't you think you should introduce yourself before hitting me? And waving a lot isn't a warning. There's nothing here to warn about.

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Okay, so, when you start getting that slow, creeping feeling that maybe you did something kind of not nice, I'm Nihlus and you can usually find me near the Ingress if you need someone to smack you.

[Peeling his hand away from his face, Nihlus looks at Peter with something weirdly like sympathy, silent for a beat.]

Just try to be nicer to her after this, would you?

[takeitslow]

Dude, I'm not going to ask you to smack me. That's, like, third date material. Not the kind of thing you just let anyone do.

[And here's the issue. This guy clearly just doesn't get how Peter and Allison work.]

I'm always nice to her. Come on. She's going to think this is hilarious. She'll just yell a little and screw up my drinks for a while and then we'll look back at it to laugh.

[beautifulspaceraptor]

[Peter, you are, like, seventeen. Nihlus isn't even going to acknowledge that innuendo.]

For her sake, I hope you're right.

[There's a big difference between friendly ribbing and dragging dusty things out from someone's past, though. Even if the thing's cute and covered in ribbons.]

Good luck.

[The feed cuts out.]

[takeitslow]

[He's pretty used to all the older and age appropriate people on board ignore his "flirting" so tha'ts nothing new. But getting hung up on, that's... still not new. But he doesn't like it.][Shouting at a cut feed is so super mature. As is sticking his tongue out. Clearly.]