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Stalking them savings, amirite
Date of Scene: 01 April 2020
Location: Burger Joint
Synopsis: Josh comes to Burger Joint for Burgers, not joints, and then he and Jubilee go smoochie face on swings.
Cast of Characters: Joshua Foley, Jubilation Lee




Joshua Foley has posed:
It is a school night. Also school is real wierd at Xaviers.

But the folks over there seem to trust that Josh isn't going to run away back down to his parents who disowned him or the Reavers who would probably kill him so he doesn't need a hallpass to leave the grounds and sneak into Salems Center after classes are done.

Which is how he finds himself in front of the Burger Joint after hitting a couple of shops to spend the small stipend he has from Xaviers on some additional small supplies. Man he was really disowned.

Also yes maybe he is hoping to catch Jubilee at work or getting off work soon, by any measure he peers through the window then slinks inside looking around.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
Might as well get it out of the way early.

Burger Joint is a ghost town at this hour. Most people are either over in the Burger Time parking lot or back home eating dinner with the fam, so Jubilee is sitting on the counter with her Heeley shoes dangling and a ukulele clutched up against her chest. Gently plucking at the strings in a three cord progression.

"~We got burgers, but lack the joints,
We're not a dispensary!
The Burger Joint motto now,
Is up sale eveeerrything.

Plinkity plunkity

~So for every Happy Mealery
And large frosty you buy
You get a toy inside
And an extra, small fry~"

Plink plink plink

"Plus Steve has student loans."

Lucas and Steve are doing the lions share of the breakdown in the back. Cleaning the grills and fry cages, while Jubes, as per freakin' usual, goofs off out at the counter.

Joshua Foley has posed:
Josh grins at the new jingle and lets the door shut behind him now shaking his head as he walks further inside. "Poor Steve." he notes with a sad shake of his head, a mournful note in his voice. "You would probably sell ore combos if you did have a small joint instead of a small fry... but then again the kid's parents may complain right?"

He glances up at the menu board then down to Jubilee when he gets to the counter. "That said, I do like the new jingle... it have more verses?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
Jubilee glances over towards the door opening and grins seeing whose come inside, "Heya Jimmy." She knows his name, she just willfully calls all men by the wrong name. Lorance (Logan) hates it. Still clutching her ukulele to her tummy, she snickers at the mention of a joint, "I would never, ever, engage in recreational marajuana usage while on the clock, Josh.." Cutting her eyes this... cutting her eyes that way. "Now once I'm off the clock..."

Plink plink absently, still holding the same tune. She's getting better.

"This one goes out to Jimmy."

"~Burger Joints meat don't come prerolled
And we're not selling dirty lettuce
We've got a 97 Michelin score
Corporate just wont let'us.

If every joint we talked about
Was case of grade A beef
Our frosty's would be thrown about
Our fries as thick as spliffs~"

Joshua Foley has posed:
"Hey Jubes." because well if he is Jimmy she can be called by a nicname too it seems. Least it is nearly her name right. "Yeah wouldn't want to get in trouble with Steve." he leans and waves to Steve back there with Lucas.

Then well he looks back to the bardess of burger time jingles with her ukulele. "Okay. I appreciate that one because it stuck to theme and was dedicated just for me." he puts his hand to his heart. "It is precious." pause "The one I came in on though was probably a little better though." harsh, probably fair, and wow he layered it on with amused thickness, but harsh.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"You're a hard man to please, Jimmy." Jubes says with her ukulele laid up against the register. Steve leans down, Jubilee, get your butt off the counter and help that customer... "Steve, I'm over here upselling." My name is Curtis, Jubilee... "For now."

Her legs turn and she hops off the counter behind the register, "Okay, sir. Welcome to Burger Joint, where we definitely don't sell joints. Can I interest you in a frosty and fries? Maybe a burger or one of our world famous tacos." We don't have tacos "For now."

Joshua Foley has posed:
Josh was honestly about to ask when they started carrying tacos, his mouth was opening, then Steve beats him to it, and Jubilee's clap back makes him laugh. He shakes his head eyes flicking up from her to the menu once more and then back down to her. "Sure though it looks like you guys are closing up shortly?"

He pauses a beat. "but if you are still open for an order... someone did get me addicted to Frosty and Fries and I could use a burger... if you're off after this order want to join me for some fries and frosty.. or is that wrong.. does it need to be frosty and fries instead?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Technically we don't close for another twenty minutes and corperate rules are we serve up until the last thirty seconds, which STEVE-" Jubes says over her shoulder, "-reminds me everytime I try to leave work fifteen minutes early. So if you factor in my five minute break period thirty minutes before my shift ends, that still gives you a whole three minutes to order." It is a well known fact that Jubilation Lee is terrible at math.

But her logic is sound.

"Frosty, fries, and a burger with everything." Lucas gets to it, careful to use a part of the grill that hasn't been cleaned yet and one of the unwashed fry baskets. "I'm off in two minutes and fifteen seconds." From the back, Or twenty minutes. "Details."

Joshua Foley has posed:
Josh leanns against the counter and digs out his walleet and fishes out a bil big enough to cover what he ordered and offers it over to Jubilee. "That seems harsh but fair." he notes nodding solemnly" Very serious about her math and explanation. Okay maybe mock serious and amused but it is a solemn nod.

"This job is definitely better tha Guthrie's pizza delivery job. More people like Steve to tor...entertain." yeah he almost said torment. He glances at his watch. "One minute, twenty five seconds."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
Jubilee looks at one of the six plastic watches in six different neon colors around her wrist and takes Josh's money, giving him back his change. Which she knows only because the register tells her. "Hey Steve, my shift is over." Turning to grab Josh's food and slide it over the counter to him, she hops right over that same counter and throws her apron back against the stainless steel drink rack. "I'll see you tomorrow!" Jubilee, your sh- "You know I didn't take a break, Steve.. I'm legally allowed a thirty minute break, but because I love my job so much, I'm just going to take a fifteen minute break instead.. right now.."

Jubilee it doesn't w- "Legally allowed, Steve." Her usual yellow coat is grabbed and thrown on and she's rolling on her heels towards the exit with the Ukulele dangling at her side. "Come on, let's get out of here before he changes his mind." I never said you could leave! "He's trying to change his mind! RUN!"

Joshua Foley has posed:
Thank christ his food is in a to go bag at this point. Which is probably props to poor Lucas who definitely didn't want to deal with them closing late because two teens were loitering and eating frosty fries.

Josh is actually a bit caught off guard by the whole heading towards the exit. To be fair, to be fair, he was honestly enjoying the back and forth exchange between Steve and Jubilee. It is like some really inexpensive comedy show where there is only a frosty fry minimum not two drinks.

"Oh.. shit." he exclaims when reality catches up with him that they are running and he books it after her out the door now.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
Steve doesn't chance them, he's use to Jubilee by now. She's here every night, literally every single weeknight. While he grumbles, maybe even curses her name, he does so realizing that she'll be in to work the next day without complaint. Weathering the sinking ship that is Burger Joint with a smile and a song.

Jubilee runs a few steps, then turns her feet up to roll on her heels. Spinning near a divider wall towards Josh, barely even breathing hard. "Do you think he saw which way we went?" Peeking around all conspiracy like, crouched low like some kind of movie ninja.

Joshua Foley has posed:
Okay honestly Josh nearly runs into her when she doesn't really run very far. He is still trying to get a bead on the enigma that is Jubilee and is still failing nearly every time.

He hopes he will get a C at least on this test.

Managing to not lose his frosty and fries and burger in it's bag he dodges to the side and then looks back before glancing at Jubilee. "I think we lost him during the firefight in the housing projects... probably clear of the red zone now."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
Jubilee puts her hands out to stop Josh from running into her, then moves them to straighten his shirt, turn his collar down, all that jazz. "Good... you did good..." And still his frosty, "Now our bounty." She holds said delicious chocolate treat up in one hand and butt turns over the divider wall into the field next to the Burger Joint. "Come on, there's some swings over here." She calls back, wiggling his frosty over her shoulder like a human tempting their dog to follow with a bone.

"Come on.. you can do it... come on boy.." She's grinning though, skip walking backwards with a little turn in his direction. "There might be Snipers, though.. so be on your Ps and Qs."

Joshua Foley has posed:
Josh blinks and is suitably distracted while she is straightening his shirt and collar and then suddenly has his frosty. Like any good conman.. girl... is conman gendered... hmm.... "Hey" pops out of his mouth before a laugh follows.

"Woof." he notes wryly and then swings himself up over the wall and follows her and his frosty. "If there is a sniper I'll just do my best to heal you... hopefully it is superficial tho cause that is like all they have let me do so far since they say I don't know Jack about anatomy..."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
At the swings, Jubilee holds out Josh's frosty and turns to drop down into one of the hard plastic seats. Feet in the gravel, gently rocking herself back and forth with her toes. A hand runs up either side along the linked chains, grinning up at the other mutant as if nothing at all in this world could possibly bring her down off her permanent high on life. "So you heal people, huh? That's a really dope power." Honesty. Slipping one hand into a pocket on her jacket to grab a stick of gum from inside to unwrap and chew into the back of her mouth, immediately blowing out a fruity smelling bubble. "I just make colors... and I don't know dick about the anatomy either."

Joshua Foley has posed:
Josh reclaims the most holy of prizes, the vaunted frosty to go with his fries and carefully because now both of his hands are full drops down to sit in the swing by Jubilee. Hmm how to balance this whole affair is suddenly a very good question. Sack on lap. Lid on Frosty though. He is distracted by the logistics.

He does blink and look up. "Well so far it is like scrapes and bruises and small cuts... it is super odd whne I feel someone though because I feel like all of them when I concentrate." okay that may not be a good thing to say. He looks like a rabbit for a moment wide eyed then huries along before that can be dwelled on. "It isn't anything cool like blowing stuff up or flying or anything..." yeah he doesn't seem to really get the potential.

"What kind of colors?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"You just start feeling on them huh?" Jubilee says with a sideway smirk, extending and bending her legs to swing her in a slow, controlled way. The protest of the chain loud against the otherwise quiet playground. "That's still really cool. Except kind of rapey." Ribbing him with a grin, she leans over to grab a three finger clutch of fries which she deftly dunks into his frosty once he's gotten the lid off.

"The boring kind." What kind of colors. Her wrist leans against the chain, snapping her thumb across her index fingers knuckle and a series of snapping colorful bursts errupt across the small clearing near the monkey bars. Flashes like when you're dizzy all in vibrant greens, blues, reds, and yellows. "They say I can do more with it... and I understand how, just don't have the control yet. I'm getting there though." Because that's a class Jubilee DOES love.

Joshua Foley has posed:
"It is nothing of the sort." he pauses "Okay it is kind of cool but it isn't rapey.. brat." he finally gets the frosty open and manages to fish out a fry and dip it in before popping the fry into his mouth there.

Though she beat him too it, but he considers it his victory all the same.

Those are kind of dizzying.. like your own personal rave machinee..." he blinks clearing the after burst from his eyes with some blinking. "They are cool looking." he grins and dips another fry. "They don't really know how to teach me to control mine... because I mean how would that even work.. not like they have a steady supply of injuries to test me on.. and the few that I have run into that isn't a scrape they get all worried I might mess it up or .. I don't know heal them an extra arm.. fuck if I know. So yeah no idea how to do what I do.. but man if you need help in case of falling off rollerskates and skinning your knee. shit I am so your guy then."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"You'd be surprised how effective Mr. Summers can be at teaching people how to use their powers." Jubilee resumes swinging, just a gentle rocking of her feet from toe to heel, leaning sideways towards Josh with her cheek pressed against the cool chain in the brisk night air. "Well, if I ever skin my knee doing advanced level parkour moves, I know whose dorm to come to." She muses absently, a little glance sideways at Josh with a grin.

Joshua Foley has posed:
"He is the one who keeps telling me I don't now what I'm doing lets not risk it on this or that small injury. To be fair one was his kinda idiot but nice brother Alex." he smirks.

He keeps dipping fries and then blinks at those words. "It is the totally Kando'd non-decorated one, you really can't miss it." smiling back then he shifts and offers up the fries and frosty for her pleasure. "So how big can you make those things?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Mines the one with the christmas lights strung across it reading thunder dome." Jubes waves her hand in the same way as a marque, grinning as she retakes the chain, even while Josh is bad mouthing her favorite teacher. "Scott is like that... but he means well.. just doesn't always know how to talk to people."

Such is life.

She raises a brow and shrugs, "uhhh I can do as big as the 4th of July fireworks right now, but not the big ones over in Time Square... more like what we do at Xavier's. So... sorta big, but not very big.. and not a lot of them. More concentrated sparkles and I can actually blow stuff off of tables with them."

She demonstrates, pointing a finger at a swing further down and making a gun snap with her thumb. The bright blue burst actually sets the swing rocking on its chain.

Joshua Foley has posed:
"Okay I definitely won't miss that room."

"I'm sure they just haven't figured out the best way to teach me yet... I meean I didn't even know I could do the whole healing thing until a couple of weeks ago. I did heal crushed ribs that time though in a panic... I hope I did it right." he sighs and eats another dipped fry.

Watching the explosion in blue he grins "Okay it actually is like.. a boom then. That has a lot of potential for blowing stuff up... with extreme style I bet once you get the hang of it though?" encouraging. He carefully sets the frosty and bag between them so he can move onto the burger.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"It's not actually an explosion..." Jubilee says with hand scratching the back of her neck after her cheek leans back up against the chain beside her. "It's more like displaced force, kinetic energy.. or something. Scott said it's like dropping a pebble in a pond..." Wiggling her fingers like ripples.

Which doesn't mean she's not listening to Josh explain his powers.

"I feel like there's only one way to teach someone how to do something nobody else can do.. by doing it. You should really talk to Professor or Jean, though... maybe Ms. Ororo. She's got a handle on that stuff too and she's just really great anyways." As for her room, she grins. "Wait til you see my Amibo collection."

Joshua Foley has posed:
"I'll ask them... maybe they can sneakily assign me to work shifts in the wellness room.. bam no headache... I mean unless I give someone an stroke... guh.. smell toast.." he twitches a bit all mock style then smriks.

"I can not wait." he notes solemnly as he takes another bite of the burger. Once he is done swallowing he grimaces a little.

"At least I still have my account but my switch and all my stuff is at my house still.. no animal crossing for me for like ever."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"I can't believe I'm going to say this, Jimmy." Jubes says with a teasing smirk, "But I'll let you make an account on my switch.." Which she leaves in the rec room. She bought it with her Burger Joint money, but only gets to play it for thirty minutes a day. So she leaves it downstairs for the other students who can't actually afford stuff and aren't willing to risk getting a job around humans.... or the ones who just can't.

"Unless you get your icky boy germs on it... the first time my switch smells like a fart or jock strap, you're losing your previlages, MISTER..." Reaching out to yoink a couple more fires, scooping frosty into her mouth with just a single long thread of it running down her chin. Most she gets with her tongue, but there's still some she didn't and doesn't seem to realize.

Joshua Foley has posed:
Of course in a movie someone would do something about that like lean in and kiss it off or something and then sappy music would play or some shit. In real life without warning you might just end up punched in the eye or tangled in swing chains.

Instead Josh reaches over and swipes his finger on her chin snagging the line of frosty "Missed a spot." safer really but still amusing. "Also I'm pretty sure if that happens it would be Julien's fault. Though stupid animal crossing, the game is bound to each switch not to each account.. so stupid. I wish I could just get all my stuff from home."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
Jubilee crosses her eyes to see Josh's fingers, but mostly for comedic effect since she more or less knows what he's doing, "I'm not sucking that off your thumb." She warns him, playfully though, because it doesn't appear like he intended for her too. This aint a romantic comedy.

Even if it could be.

"Julien.. oh, Hellion.. yeah, he's a troll. If he weren't amusing, I'd hate him." She says with an easy smirk, turning her head to look upwards where the chains connect to the bar above them. "Huh... well then I regret telling Marie she could make an account on my switch for Animal Crossing... the plot thickens."

Joshua Foley has posed:
This is like second frosty and fries encounter and first psuedo on a swing set date and none of that is even official. There is a good while before romantic comedy problems set in. He does clean it off his own finger though all dramatically before getting another fry to dunk, burger long gone. Teenage boy metabolism a go.

"Is he amusing.. I haven't been able to tell.. he seems a bit rich.. entitled.. and god he is so mad that Alex is dating Emma Frost ad not him... he was seething when Emma sent us all cupcakes for Alex's birthday."

"Also obviously Marie must now pay for her crimes."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Yeah, I know." Jubes says with a spreading grin at the mention of Julian being furious about something, "Aint that shit amusing?" So clearly her definition of amusement is at his expense rather than because of his antics. Laughing at him, not with him. "That's because he /is/ rich and entitled.. That guy has super villain written all over him, mark my words."

Mostly said in lark.

Moving her legs with a little more go to send her swinging backwards, tucking her feet as she swings across and extending them forward to build momentum. Nothing crazy, just a steady increase.

"Clearly." Grinning like a cat at the notion of punishing Marie for soemthing she may have not even done.

Joshua Foley has posed:
"Well he picked the callsign Hellion... I mean he may as well be begging for an invite to that Hellfire club someone was talking about." super eye roll there. "Definitely supervillain material." also on a lark, he enjoys the snarking.

The food mostly finished Josh just watches Jubilee swing and be evil, or at least feline in her whimsy then pushes back and starts to swing with her. "So where are you from?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"It's kind of a dumb name." Jubilee is without the ability to pull punches with her snark, but she does so in the best possibly intensioned way. At least the least ill intentioned. She grins over at Josh with a dramatic sigh, leaning back to push her feet upwards into a higher swing, "California!" She says as she comes back down, "Beverly Hills to be precise... my dad was a big shot until he got killed a few years ago."

Joshua Foley has posed:
"Yeah I need a good callsign .. I definitely need to be punched if I pick something like Hellion." amused as he keeps on swinging though he misses beat there when she says her dad died.

"That sucks, sorry to hear that." he means it to, that does suck. He also doesn't bring up his whole being disowned, because sucky family situations aren't a contest. "So you ended up out here afterwards... did they like recruit you?"

'Jubilation Lee has posed:
"How about .... red herb... no... Health Potion..." Jubilee says with a little
hmmmm tapping her fingers along her chin thoughtfully as she slows her swing with the tips of her toes dragging through the gravel until she's stationary beside Josh. "I don't know, we'll think of something... or you will.. maybe.. just don't pick anything stupid."

She tries not to dwell. Not on her parents, leaving home, or coming here. "Yeah, it does... you know, it's kind of funny, but not really funny? Like, the officers told me they were killed by some gang or whatever, but the intended target was the neighbors.. also Chinese. Also named Lee... so my parents were killed by racism because all Asians look alike. How fucked is that?" Why is she grinning. "Yeah, they recruited me.. I was hiding in a mall for a week or something and they found me when the cops tried to get me out. Brought me here rather than letting me get put in the foster system again."

Joshua Foley has posed:
"Casual and institutional racism strikes again.... surprising no one in America..." he says it without the usual verve of snark. He actually has a good more empathy about this whole messed up situation since turning into a mutant and having it all turnedo n him.

Some would say he deserves it. Honestly though most people thankfully don't know about it.

"Well I'm glad you here and I am glad this school is here... not sure what I'd do.. well I mean probably be dead.. but not sure what I'd do without it." pause "So what is your callsign.. Sparklers?" teasing, very lightly.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"uhhh no." Jubilee says of her callsign, accepting the empathy with a grin, but not mentioning it further. Seriously, she couldn't be knocked off her optomism horse with an earthquake. Twisting in her seat to coil the chain slightly and send her in a side to side jerk when it unfurrow. "My callsign is Jubilee. When I have one, anyways. I don't believe in hiding. I'm more of an up front, in your face with my shit, because I'm awesome and if people don't think so they can lick the the dirty part of my ass."

Joshua Foley has posed:
"That.. is some metaphor." amused though about it not grossed out, or at least not overly grossed out it seems. Keep on swinging. Keep on swinging.

"That is cool, though to be fair Jubilee means party and your power is fireworks... so yeah it does kind of fit. I'm pretty sure If I proudly declare myself Josh while fighting crime with my wild powers to heal ... people will just be confused." he laughs. "Of course I'm not likely to be doing any of that. Medpak..."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Twas Pirelli's Miracle Elixir
That's what did the trick, sir
True, sir, true.
Was it quick, Sir?
Did it in a tick, sir,
Just like an Elixir
Ought to do!"

Jubilee sings in a thick cockney accented voice. Grinning over at Josh, "I don't know... I could se you jumping out of surprise screaming: I'M JOSH! like a power ranger. If you learned how to do cartwheels?" She snap points with both hands, "You'd be golden."

Joshua Foley has posed:
"Weren't all those miracle Elixir's snakeoils and some of them toxic?" he laughs shaking his head there. He keeps swinging.

"No offense Jubes but out of all that.. Elixir is probably the best part." he actually sounds thoughtful about it. "No cartwheels and no ... I'm JOSH like some demented powerr ranger wanna be..." he kicks a swing motion again. "When you do the snap points you should have fireworks pop out."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
Jubilee reloads her fingerguns by pulling her thumbs back with the other hand and drops them into another shot, this time there's a little snap flash of light firing off the tip towards Josh that dissipates before it actually touches him. "Elixir.. huh.. yeah that's pretty cool. I mean, I'm taking a quarter everytime someone says it, though.. Ya know, because royalties and finders fee."

Joshua Foley has posed:
"You know.. that is only fair. When there are Elixir lunch boxes and action figures with his manic healing powers you get a quarter every time."

"Because Royalties."

He grins "Also .. yeah perfect fingerguns."

"So other than swinging with boys, what do you do for fun around here?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Hah, yeah, your accessory can be a real bandaid." Jubilee jokes at Josh, slowing her twisting swing with her foot pressing into the gravel, "So they can market it to the medical crowd too, ya see. More royalties for me."

Winking over at Josh's compliment of her fingerguns. "Tons of practice watching westerns."

To the question, however, she shrugs. "I do free running... uhh video games.. I work a lot.. because I like to shop.. and I go on /tons/ of tender dates. Like Marie... Rogue Marie.. Marie she got ahold of my phone while I was poopin' and swiped right on like eighty seven guys before I finally got it back. That bitch."

Joshua Foley has posed:
He laughs "Oh yes.. I can have my own fleet of branded ambulances... be the spokesman for a hospital. The money will just roll on in.... well that or they will try to put me in a juicing machine in some pharmacutical company and sell my essence as a miracle Elixir...."

"You had me at video games.. free running is awesome though I have no idea how to do that. I've been skateboarding with Rogue Marie though a bunch... "

He snickers a bit. "Wow okay that has to be a very varied dating life then... was it totally random... and if so why are you going with all of them?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Again, finders fee. Quarter per ride." Jubilee says with a teasing grin and foot kicking out towards Josh's foot. Real playful, "Free running is just a less lame ass way of saying parkour. I took gymnastics for like twelve years.. my mom was on the Chinese Olympic team in the 90s... and I was slated to be, probably." Still could if she really wanted, but mutant.

She just doesn't want.

That was her moms gig and it reminds her of her too much.

"Ehhhh why not? Most of them are hose beasts, but they're sweet enough. Plus I get a free dinner out of it. Not like anyone else is asking me out. I'm like three shades lighter hot than every other student at Xaviers. If it weren't for my personality being the absolute /best/ of everyone, I don't think anyone would know who I am, except Rogue."

Joshua Foley has posed:
Josh swings his foot back defensely at her foot now. "You just want to milk me like some cash cow." he pauses "Okay that metaphor was just... awful... sorry." he is laughing though.

"Maybe you could teach me some free running and I could teach you to board with us." still swinging there.

"That can't possible be true. You look amazing and you're right about the best personality." he looks sidelong "Want to go out sometime?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
CIVIL WAR

Jubilee's foot brushes back up against Josh's, not hard, just letting him see she's willing to establish some dominance over here! You can't push my footsies around, oh no you can't.

"You just wanted to work a joke in there about me milking you. Perv." No punches pulled.

Grinning all the while.

"I don't know, JOSH-" Stressing his name as if it's a battle cry, "-I'm a cruel taskmaster when it comes to teaching PARKOUR-" Same thing, "-Are you ready to learn PARKOUR-" Yup. "-From a true master of the craft of PARKOUR?" Has this joke run its course?

Then he stuns her a little... blinking big brown eyes at him. See? Not every asian has slanted eyes, ya racists. Chinese eyes are ROUND (ISH). "Pssssh.. you don't have to be nice, Josh, I've got like fifty two dates this weekend, I'm doing fine..." Side glancing at him, was he serious?

Joshua Foley has posed:
He keeps fencing his foot with hers and then laughs and notes "Like I am going to take it easy on you skateboarding... I will even make you wear ... safety equipment!" he pronounce it like it is some sort of doom that will befall her. DOOOM. Also a lack of a concussion.

"Well.. admittedly that many competing dates is a bit daunting. But I was being serious Jubes." yup seems he was being quite serious. "Though I am nice sometimes to people I like."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
The fencing continues because Jubilee for sure will not be relenting victory to another, not with so much at stake. The pride of her entire tribe.. the honor of her people. She moves her foot out and accidentally brushes her ankle across Josh's rather than his foot.

Oopsy.

But he doesn't back off the notion of dating... and she blinks at him holding to his guns. "... I mean.. if y- you sure?" Furrowing her brow at him, chin tucking down creating that second chin thingy across the bottom of her jaw. "You see this face? This is me without makeup... you sure you want this being seen with you in a dating sitch?"

Joshua Foley has posed:
He takes advantage of her tctical error and incredulity to tangle his leg into her leg though it does swing the swings around so they are ackwardly facing each other.

"Not sure why you are fighting this so hard.. it isn't like you devour your dates like you are a preying mantis or something are you.... I mean that would be a real bad vibe..." he grins. "Yeah I'm sure... I mean do you even want to go on a date with the broke new kid with hateful relatives?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
Now facing Josh, Jubes tilts her head. Using her leg against his knee to keep them facing that direction, the other forward to brace him and keep him from spinning away under the pressure of her weight against him.

"Okay..." She says finally, quietly, even awkwardly maybe... this isn't some tinder date she can blow off... Dammit Josh is trying to be her non NPC date?! She grins over at him, "I mean, you're not doing a very good job selling it with that poor kid shit, but... you /are/ cute.. and I /do/ like a charity case..." All quite playful.

Cheeks pink, maybe, it's dark.. she'll deny it. Jubes glances down, "Okay, yeah.. I'll go out with you.."

Joshua Foley has posed:
It is kind of fun to tangle up in the swings like this to be honest. As long as a sentinel or something doesn't come stomping into the playground right now. Or the cops hassling teenagers.

So far so good.

"Well be sure to write it off on your taxes or something.... that or count it against your community service I guess." pause then gravely serious. "You only get to pick one of those though, no double dipping Jubes."

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Jubes would definitely dislike all of those options, "I just want to point out that if this were a horror movie... this moment is where the monster shows up.. and if one does.." Her mouth quirks, her head tilts, her eyes fix.. "I'm /for sure/ going to trip you. I don't have to be faster than the monster, Josh, I have to be faster than you."

She reaches out a hand for his knee to keep her from twisting, but it breaks the touch barrier. See, this is what Hitch (Will Smith movie, came out when they were TWO, think about that, would call a classical move. Established touch without being weird.

"You're being unfair now. We could be raking in the dollars here, you could get your cut of my illegally gotten gains. Why would you screw yourself out of money?"

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"You know, valid." he nods about his fate. "Maybe it will be a werewolf and maul me and I'll get cool powers to turn into a wolf and claws like the wolverine cubs." he seems amused at the thought. "Or maybe a slasher and after it leaves me for dead to chase you I'll just heal myself.. man you know what I could totally be a lake camp slasher with my power if I was a psycho..."

Okay odd tangents but she started it.

Touch established. To bad they are super weird.

"We can revisit he illegally gotten gains and the plans for the real hiest after the first date."

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Jubilee snorts at the idea, rolls her eyes, and slaps Josh on the side of the knee. "You're a dork." Twisting a little, back and forth, but keeping herself facing him on the other swing. "If I was going to get monster powers, I'd definitely want to be one of the zombies from Return of the Living Dead... higher brain function, just have to eat a brain every once in a while to keep the hunger in check? Pffffff... count me tee eff in."

They're both weird. Very weird.

She has a date. With a real boy who isn't an NPC? Jubilee grins like an idiot. "Does this count?" Looking around at the playground, "I don't know a whole lot about how these things work.. Logan only ever teaches me to fight.. he gets all fidgety when I ask him about dating."

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He almost twists when she slaps him on the knee, there is a lot of tension in those chains twisted above them. Instead he tightens the the tangle of his leg with hers.

"I am a dork." pause "Sometimes. Also zombies.. come on... vampires.. werewolves.. dopplegangers... lots of options that isn't sort of you know.. rotting." he wrinkles his nose. "You'd be a cute vampire." he says with a laugh.

"As for ... well..actually probably by most standards now that the topic has been broached. Without the whole asking out though it is just friends hanging out unless the boy is a creeper who has no guts to ask the girl. But I asked so sure... want to go out on another date then?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
So meta of you Josh.

"Bitch, I'd be a cute /anything/." She jokes, holding onto his leg, right behind his kneecap, with her hand tightening slightly. Only long enough to keep her from twisting away or them from disentangling.

This whole thing took a dramatic turn, she'd realize later, but she'd seen Josh coming by building up his courage. Jubes is an observant one... "How many times did you come by /before/ you actually asked me, though? Hmmm?"

Leaning forward slightly, one hand up on the chain that's coiled near her shoulder. "A /second/ date? Gosh..." Glancing down, making a show out of thinking about it, chewing her lip.. worrying it between her teeth. "I /guess/..." She murmurs, rolling her eyes, "Whatever..." Grinning. "Where are going to go on our second date, Mister JOSH." Battlecry.

Joshua Foley has posed:
You left it open to the meta.

"Hey now. In the end I asked you out and that is what counts. It isn't some random swiping from Anne Marie stealing your phone. I had to make sure you were that talented with your Ukulele."

He leans in locking eyes with her. "Well first date was a fancy swingset you picked. I will really have to do a lot of hard work to figure out how to top this.... ask your friends what you like to do.. stalk your social media.. though if I ask Anne Marie she will lie..."

Conndrums.

"How about a movie then ice cream and finish it breaking curfew on a long walk back to the mansion?"

They are leaned awfully close now.

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A little too close.

Jubilee leans a little closer, bracing on Josh's knee. "I should be totally creeped out by you." She says matter of fact playful, half grinning. "You're like a white jesus. Since everyone knows Jesus is Asian." She still has her Ukulele, too.. Leaning up against the angled bar beside her swing, which she's not swinging in, but turned to face the other young mutant.

"Don't ask Marie.. she'll definitely tell you I like cow tipping because she's a weirdo southerner-" Who was raised in a hippie commune. "-God I love her.. you can't get jealous of mine and Rogue's love, Josh..." Said as if he's somehow in a position where jealousy is a thing he can be where it pretains to her.

"Are you going to kiss me or just stare at my nose? Because I don't know how else to open the door for you."

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Josh notes with quite the serious tone. "I will be very respectful of your and Rogue's love. Very respectful." pause "Also how on earth am I the one who should be creeping anyone out.. you just compared me to white jesus.... "

Then she sort of cuts him off at the knees and he blink blinks for a moment.

Oh Right.

He tilts his head and kisses her. Also yes this is not the first kiss the seventeen year old has done, he has a vague understanding of what he is doing.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
White Jesus is apt! He heals people, he's white.

Jubilee is over here pursing her lips when Josh actually looks, doing his best not to think too deeply about Rogue and Jubes no doubt! How couldn't he be? Their love is eternal. Like the Ember Flame.

And a careful distraction.

Jubilee has been on something like thirty dates now, but nobody has gotten to this point! That said, she's from Beverely Hills and it's certainly not her first kiss. She knows how it works!

1. Kiss.
2. Kiss again, but gentler.
3. Grin like you're embarassed, give vague compliment.

"It was a little lippy..." She heard it on a movie. She's not a professional okay. "You'll have to practice on a coke bottle."

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"Brat." he notes with a laugh as he leans back and gets critiqued on it. He doesn't seem defensive he is just grinning. He leans way back holding the chain still and then leans back forward to look at her.

"How about we just do that second date and I practice kissing you instead of making you jealous of the coke bottle?"

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Jubilee bobs her head from side to side, eyes rolled upwards, "mmmmmmmmmmm" Lips pressed tight together with the bottom tuckled just so beneath the upper, "mmmmmm..."

She opens her eyes, all wide, staring at Josh leaning way back, and sticks her tongue out suddenly at him.

"Okay, JOSH-" Battlecry, "-It's a date." All grins, cheeks flushing even if she doesn't really look embarrassed. "I cannot believe I'm going out with a blonde haired blue eyed Gweilo..." She jokes, squeezing his knee. "Ugh, and he's cute."

"This is what my life's become."

Joshua Foley has posed:
Sticks his tongue back out, two can be mature here.

He wobbles on the swing. "I have this feeling I won't be happy when I google whatever you just said later... but I will count the Ugn and he is cute as a victory."

He leans in, steals a quick peck giving you just enough time to not fall off the swing when he does "Want to trudge back to the prison camp, we do have 9am whippings tomorrow to be awake for."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
Jubilee rolls her eyes at the stolen peck kiss, but she returned it so what's that say about her?

Then she's pulling herself up from the swing and letting it uncoil around with a protest of metal rubbing against metal, "Are you going to hold my hand like a /complete/ dork?" She wonders, sliding her foot up against Josh's.

Then offering her hand out to him.

"Hah, my whippings begin promptly at seven fourty five.. Which is why one day I'll be your boss." Teasing, grinning, hip bumping. Her Ukulele tucks beneath her arm.

Joshua Foley has posed:
Josh totally takes the hand u out of the swing since she got out of it before him, then doesn't let go. "I'm pretty sure we already established that I am a dork earlier.. may as well go for complete dork. It is like pokemon evolutions I think."

He does lean to grab the trash up in his free hand before walking and pulling Jubilee towards the playground trash can. "Seven Forty Five. Oh you are in the whipping session where they use leather.. .the nine o-clock session uses barbwire. It's cause I can heal it without leaving marks.. no one believes me."

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"Oh you." Jubilee actually laughs, snapping through her wit armor, if only a tiny little crack from wince bubbling humor doth surface, "Yeah, but at 8 O'Clock I have to do pushups on broken glass.." Walking back towards the sidewalk holding hands, which she totally said she'd never do.

God damned charming white boys.

"You just wait until I tell Marie that you kissed me before you got her approval.. she's going to flagrate you with burning pitch.. so you're about to get a first class lesson in healing powers, Cleric."

Joshua Foley has posed:
"Oh... now you are going on about the 2pm session. Burning Pitch." he shakes his head "They really do try hard to motivate us in the prison camp.... Burning pitch really makes me long for when they lock us in the box at night..."

He is on a roll here, a very strange dorky roll, but still he is holding her hand and walking back to the mansion.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Just be careful you don't talk about prison camps around Ellie... or compliment her hair. I made that mistake and I'm pretty sure she killed a cat. She has crazy people eyes." Jubes says with... well she's not sure yet. She's holding hands with him, so he's basically her boyfriend? Who knows, she's seventeen, she could wake up tomorrow and an astronaut for all hormones have to say about things.

Poor Steve and Lucas are just leaving Burger Joint when they come up to the street, Jubilee waving at the former with the hand locked in Josh's, "G'night Steve! Hope the fry trays were spotless, I'd hate to have to write you up."

The trip back to the mansion will definitely continue like this.

But at least she's smiling!