The garage, Monday evening

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Jaina wasn't the most romantic girl in the universe by a long shot, but she was actually trying today. After all, today was John's eighteenth birthday (and she could stop committing felonies in all the states), and she'd figured that the best way to celebrate was to do something nice.

So she had the blanket laid out, and the Chinese food and candles, the big details she could remember from that one date. Which, by the way, she could remember that, but had to keep reminding herself of when their anniversary was. That hardly seemed right.

Once she had everything set up, there was nothing else to do but wait for her date to show.


[For the birthday boy, and up early for SP. And yes, it's a public place, but you're gonna pick now to come down here finally? Really?]

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"I had no idea," John admitted. "But seriously, that's just not right."

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"Did you try reason? Like the fact that we're eighteen and nineteen and still in school?" Not that those were Jaina's reasons, but whatever.

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"Yeah, apparently something I said along those lines meant I didn't love you. Sorry?" John stretched out, not wanting his feet to fall asleep.

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She studied him and said, "In that case, definitely a good thing you went the apology route rather than the other."

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"Sometimes I make good choices," John smirked.

"He seemed pretty sure that if I was into you, we should be getting married. That's one screwed up dating system."

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"Who needs to wait till people are actually ready?" she said, picking up one of the cartons of food to see what it was.

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"Maybe just the relatively sane among us," John replied, following suit picking at some sort of chicken thing. "I gotta say, I'm amazed by your food ordering skills here."

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"I take that to mean I did well?" she asked, still going for the utensils rather than chopsticks because she was pretty sure those things were evil.

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John was a pro with the chopsticks even where rice was concerned. It was sort of sick. "Yup. No complaints here."

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"I'm going to have to remember that," Jaina said. "I still feel like a novice there so I just picked whatever sounded good."

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"It's not like you've been on this planet all the long," he pointed out. "Local cuisine's not exactly priority one, but I'd say you do good enough." He'd always give her credit.

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"Thank you," she smiled, not hating credit. "But it's been like a year and a half. I have no excuse."

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"Is a year and a half really all that long?" He wasn't sure it felt like any time at all.

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"Feels like it sometimes," Jaina said. "Though I've spent a good deal of it going up and back in time, so I think that's to blame."

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"I've got no good comparison, but I'm thinkin' this school's to blame," John replied.

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"Yeah, all those tedious classes all day every day of the week really messes up your sense of time."

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"And you know, for my last semester, I tried to do the whole Friday classes only thing and ended up in some Tuesday class about kids." He was not pleased about this at all.

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Jaina tried not to smile. "Think I can crash it?"

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John raised a questioning eyebrow. "You wanna take my spot?"

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"No, I just think you're cute with kids."

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"I am not!"

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"Yes, you are," she said. "I've seen you with Ben, and a certain pair of twins who seem to make you twitch if I bring them up, and you sing to baby Ewoks. You are."

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"I don't twitch," he argued, trying not to twitch. "They were nice kids, obviously because they were partly me, but still, this does not make me cute at all."

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"Trust me, it's cute," she assured him. "And you don't have to get twitchy about it, I'm just saying."

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"Hey, if I end up with a plastic kid to take care of in this class, you calling me cute has just volunteered you as my helper," John decided.