[OPEN/MINGLE LOG] New Year's Eve at the Youth Center!

[cuteshit]

Who: Kanji Tatsumi, Coraline Jones & you!
Where: The youth center!
When: Evening of 12/31 (forward-dated).
Rating: PG
Summary: The adults are celebrating New Year's Even in their own way, but what about the younger crowd?
The Story:

[The idea had actually been Coraline's, way back around Halloween. New Year's was pretty important back home, and in the wake of Wonderland's most recent event, Kanji was missing home more than usual. This would be the first New Year's he'd be spending without his mom. There was no shrine to visit here, and while he could still go around and offer New Year's greetings to his friends, he still felt like there should be something more.

Coraline's idea for a sundae bar seems like a pretty good solution. A lot of the adults in Wonderland will be ringing in the new year with alcohol, but that didn't mean the younger crowd had to miss out entirely. It's nothing like the traditions he would have observed back home, but-- since he wasn't at home, maybe doing something totally different was the way to go.

He has to ask Coraline for her expertise, not exactly knowing what goes into putting together a sundae bar, but he helps with the legwork and the lifting. By the time evening rolls around, the youth center has been turned into an ice cream buffet with an extensive toppings bar, including candy that had been inspired by some of the treats that Dustin had handed out to people for Christmas. Once everything is set up, he sends a text out across the network to grab people's attention-- can't have a party without people!]

Yo, Wonderland! Too young to drink? Youth center's got all the ice cream you can eat, come ring in the New Year right!

[Or, you know. By sending yourself into sugar shock.]

Comments

[uncoils]

And then you catch hell for it, and there's usually some sort of grounding and all that, right?

[cuteshit]

Yep, and then she's gotta tell me she's disappointed in me and she knows I'll do better.

[He grimaces. That's always the worst part.]

[uncoils]

Right. And then you feel like shit because she's disappointed, but you know it's gonna happen again, and it's just a mess. A complete fucking mess.

[Life really sucks sometimes.]

[cuteshit]

[Yep. That sure as hell sounds familiar.]

She's really why I wanna be better. I wanna-- be a son she can be proud of, not some mess that's always dragging trouble home.

[uncoils]

Me too.

[Actually, wait.]

Except in my case, daughter, not son.

[Jolyne there was no need to clarify that, why did you even?]

[cuteshit]

[It's exactly the same clarification Kanji would think to make, anyway. They're two peas in a delinquent pod, after all.]

Well-- maybe we can help each other out with that.

[He already has a lot of support from Souji, but it helps to know that there's someone else struggling with the same kind of change.]

Not the kinda change that happens overnight, right?

[uncoils]

Yeah, we'll figure it out. Or we'll both completely fuck up. Either way, we're in this together.