Room 511, Wednesday evening

[thatsamilkshake]

Hiding out in the safety of her room after yesterday's traumatizing events (among others)? Francine? Of course not.

God, it was so nice to be able to lie again.

Though at the moment most of her lying was happening on the bed with the window cracked open, a softly scented and unseasonably warm breeze wafting in from the direction of the park, and a book on adult literacy spread out before her as she sprawled. She really didn't have a clue how to help somebody learn to read, no matter how many picture books she checked out of the library, so she figured she might as well try to find out.

[OOC: Open as open is, though expecting one with ears the size of small saucers at worst, whose thread be chronoschmoogically last! ...Also it always said evening.]

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[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"...there are goats on the island?" Merlin shook his head. That wasn't important right now. "Would you like to--" He shrugged a little. "--go out with me?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"...Maybe?" Francine said, since she couldn't remember if she'd seen any, but God knows there was everything else on the island and wait. "...Yes?" Assuming she'd heard what she thought she heard because there seemed to be a pattern involving that problem with them.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Really?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"Which one, the goats or the going out?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"...the going out." Merlin gave her a confused look. "Would you prefer the goats?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"No!" She shook her head rapidly. "They were the maybe!"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"You wouldn't be missing much with goats," Merlin assured her. "They smell a bit. And chew on everything,"

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine raised both eyebrows. "Have you been on lots of dates with goats?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"What? No! I haven't been on lots of dates at all," Merlin said quickly, so she wouldn't get the wrong idea.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Me neither," she replied almost as quickly. Possibly a little less truthfully, but a few sweaty uncomfortable school dances at Puncture High didn't count as lots, really. Heck, given the way some of those guys had behaved, they didn't count as dates. "...Definitely not with goats," she added, which was completely truthful.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin nodded slowly, going to sit down on her bed without thinking about it much. "So, what do you do on dates?"

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine tilted her head at him and plopped down on the corner of Alice's bed. "You asked me to go do something with you when you didn't even know what it was?" The tone wasn't sarcastic - just half befuddled and half amused. She grinned. "I could totally tell you anything, couldn't I?"

Well no, because you suck at lying and that would have been an exceptionally sucky lead-off if you were going to try it, Francine.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Well, I know about going to get ice cream, but it's my sworn duty to protect you from it," Merlin pointed out with a grin.

[thatsamilkshake]

"That doesn't necessarily mean keeping me away from it," Francine pointed out. Because wow could that whole 'protect me from snacks' thing backfire on her if she wasn't careful.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"So... ice cream?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"There's that," she agreed. "Or sometimes people go to movies. Or to eat dinner someplace."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Do you want to do those things?" Because he knew about those things in a sort of abstract form, he was certain. He'd seen the restaurants in town, but... never gone in.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Well, we don't have to do all of them!" Which is not to say that you couldn't. "But sure. I like movies. And dinners." Because that wasn't obvious.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"We can always go out more than once," Merlin pointed out. "Unless you didn't want to space it out. Or we managed to keep hitting each other in the head and decided to stop for the safety of all around us in case it spreads."

He was so good at this.

"We should do the dinner and movie thing then!"

[thatsamilkshake]

More than once? More than once had a nice sound.

Well, a sound like 'Maybe Francine won't do something really stupid involving explosions, alcohol, and/or accidental nudity.'

"I'll try to stop hitting you in the head if you will," she said hopefully.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"You have my word I won't do that on purpose," Merlin promised.

[thatsamilkshake]

"See, that right there would eliminate...um. Zero percent of our headsmacking so far!"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps if we wore helmets?" And now he was trying not to laugh at THAT image.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Being in the same room, the new extreme sport? I dunno. That sounds a little dangerous for a first date." She grinned, then asked, "...Speaking of which..."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"We'll have to be very careful." Merlin gave her a curious look, waiting for more of that sentence.