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Post by Joshua on May 20, 2004 22:25:08 GMT -5
(After 'Fist Date (The Activity)' )
"Well that was fun," I commented with a dry laugh as I held the door open to the Spot for Mai as we both walked in.
"Actually, it kind of was," she said with a smile. I smiled back and pretty soon we were laughing about it.
We grabbed a booth, out of the way from the main flow of traffic and even grabbed some menus. "So, despite having two picnics, I'm actually still kinda hungry, you?" I asked as we sat down in one of our favorite, and secluded, booths. After the night we'd been having so far, we both needed the rest.
I caught a brief glimpse of a smile on her lips before she turned to look intently at the menus left there in the booth for anyone to use. "Yeah," she agreed, "I'm always hungry after a good slay and rescuing three couples from being sacrificed by over a dozen demons works the apetite. But this time you pick."
"How about we both pick what we want and I'll pay?" I offered with a laughing grin.
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Post by Maya on Jun 23, 2004 10:55:53 GMT -5
"Fine with me." I replied with a smile. "But just to warn you- i'm hungry." I laughed.
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Post by Joshua on Jun 24, 2004 6:35:49 GMT -5
In response I just grinned and held up one of the few true miracles Humanity has come up with in the past ten years. A credit card.
"Really cool thing about Time wizarding, other than being able to pull any treasure from the past and pawning it off to museums or collectors, is I also get to play the stock game, so for the moment I have unlimited credit on this thing. So, not to sound conceeded or anything, if you wanted to I could buy the whole Spot. But I think we'll settle for filling you up on dinner."
Glowering slightly, Mai went ahead and picked what she wanted from the menu, probably every thing on there that isn't sushi, and then seemed to be arguing with herself over something. Knowing her like I do, she's probably debating on whether or not to bite my head off for flashing my credit card around and risk ruining the date.
What I'm actually hoping is that we'll get so heated from our argument that we'll spend the rest of the night making out. Not that I can guarantee that, grumbling to myself as I remembered that I had already used up the last of my future knowledge with the stopping of the demon uprising.
Oh well.
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Post by Maya on Jun 24, 2004 11:03:18 GMT -5
((I like sushi.  lol)) No need to get angry, I told myself. So he boasts about being able to buy anything... so what? He's buying ME dinner. So... no yelling, ok? I heard part of me order. I forced the rest of me to agree, and smiled at him. There was a long moment where neither of us knew what to say. Its a major flaw in the human dating world- stick two people who like each other in a room, they talk a little, and then fall into awkard silence... How thrilling. I refused to let that happen. No way. "So... you know any good jokes?" I asked. |
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Post by Joshua on Jun 25, 2004 11:05:55 GMT -5
"Yes and no," I immediately responded, glad for something to talk about. "Yes, I know good jokes, but you wouldn't find them funny in an instance like this, and what you would find funny, probably wouldn't be a joke."
Instantly we're back to awkward silence, so I strive for a topic which we would both contribute to. Of course the first thing my mind latches onto has got to be one of the stupidest things it could come up with. But it worked.
"So, it was kinda cool how all the demons just dissolved in their own fluids after we killed'em, huh?"
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Post by Maya on Jun 26, 2004 12:17:09 GMT -5
"A little gross." I replied, "But way useful. How irritating is it when you actually have to clear up after a battle? I mean, you save a loada people rom horrible death... and then you have to spent the rest of your night clearing up the bodies so some granny doesnt have a heart attack on her morning walk- it sucks!"
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Post by Joshua on Jun 27, 2004 9:52:41 GMT -5
"Yeah tell me about it," I agreed with her, becoming a little more enthusiastic in my speech. "There was this one time, I got attacked by a bunch of Fyarl demons lead by this insane vampire who just wanted me dead because I happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they attacked in the middle of a School presentation!"
"No way!" Maya suddenly grinned.
"Way! It was at night, sort of a Parent/Teacher deal, but where the students are the hosts and everything. Anyway, there were only about nine casualties, broken bones most of them, but with some quick thinking, and a little time paradox, I managed to beat them all and dust the vampire. Problem came when . . ."
"Fyarls don't disappear after you vanquish them, even if you use silver," Maya finished for me.
I nodded. "So, freezing time, I spent what should have been about ten hours dragging the dead demon carcasses down the basement to the incenerator, and burning them one at a time, and then going back upstairs and cleaning up the slime trail and whatever other mess my killing of them did. That was not exaclty a fun night. But there was one upside."
"Oh, and what's that?" Mai asked, grinning widely.
"I got to see the look on my high school rival's face when time restarted and all of her carefully planned decorations were in tattered ruins." We spent a few good minutes laughing over that story.
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Post by Maya on Jun 27, 2004 13:08:16 GMT -5
"Yeah... fyarls are a bitch. Huge buggers and all." I said nodding. "I never had a sitch that big... my worst was probably when a load of chaos demons followed me home." I shook my head, "You've seen them, right? antler, slime... urgh. It was before i was even the slayer- witchy stuff. I think they were assassins actually- goddess knows why they used chaos demons... but anyway, long story short, i took them down in the back garden, and my mum came out asking what all the noise was."
"Oh god." Joshua said grinning.
"I swear, slayer speed or no, i have never moved that fast before or since. i told her that a bunch of stray cats had been at the dustbins and shoved her back inside... she thought i was mad."
Joshua laughed.
"Then..." I added, "I spent the best part of an hour getting rid of the bodies, cos they are resistant to magic... when i finally got inside, my mum asked how it took me an hour to walk in the back door... ugh, not a fun night!"
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Post by Joshua on Jun 30, 2004 14:10:27 GMT -5
"Yeah, I can imagine that. Thankfully I haven't had to deal too much with Chaos demons. You never know what to expect of them. I actually, briefly, met one that swore he wasn't evil and just wanted to go on selling ice cream. He had an actual *job* selling ice cream as an ice cream truck man. I just didn't have the heart to actually kill him."
"Why not?" she asked, sounding surprised.
I smiled, "Because he was selling ice cream to Russians in Northern Siberia," I answered in a deadpan.
Five seconds later we were on the verge of laughing ourselves off our seats and onto rolling on the floors.
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Post by Maya on Jun 30, 2004 14:48:25 GMT -5
"Ow, ow." I laughed, "Stomach...hurting...ow..." And it only made me laugh harder. I kicked Josh under the table, "Stop it!" I ordered.
"Me!?"
"Yes!"
He grinned widely, managing to stem his laughter, and i soon followed. I smiled, as neither of us spoke for several moments. Eventually, i said,
"Tonight... tonight is probably the best date i've ever had."
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Post by Joshua on Jun 30, 2004 16:17:15 GMT -5
"That's good to know," I said as I slowly came off the high of too much laughter. In that moment of clarity between absolute joy and absolute sobriety, I realized something, and it left my mouth before I could stop it.
"You are beautiful, I hope you know that."
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Post by Maya on Jun 30, 2004 16:28:02 GMT -5
Part of me wanted to giggle- Joshua really was the king of cheese. But part of me was still caught in his eyes, and i knew that he was completely serious. I reached across the table, taking his hand, and mentally saying,
[thank you.] for verbal words just couldn't convey meaning and feeling in the same way... for some reason, the fact that Joshua thought this of me made my heart sing a song i had never heard before- a song that made me feel terribly confused and blissfully happy all at the same time... i had a wierd feeling that it was a song only Joshua would truly understand...
((anyone who's read the nightworld, you know what i mean! -not that Maya will manage to admit it for quite a while!))
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Post by Jessy Jackson on Jul 1, 2004 7:00:45 GMT -5
[glow=green,9,300](((AWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!)))[/glow]
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Post by Joshua on Jul 2, 2004 1:35:28 GMT -5
(((OK, just want to clear one thing up real quick for any newbies reading the 'Date' threads: THIS IS FICTION! "Joshua the Time Wizard" and "Maya the wicked Vampire Slaying Witch" are CHARACTERS in a story that Maya the author and I are mutually writing for the fun of it. THIS IS NOT ONLINE DATING. Just wanted to clear that up.)))
(((PS: Don't scare me like that Jessy, my whole reasoning for posting such a message.)))
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Post by Joshua on Jul 2, 2004 1:37:39 GMT -5
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lol))
;D 
