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A store on the mainland- Tuesday

There were very few people who Jaina would actually invite dress shopping, let's put it that way. But the fact was, it was Jaina's last prom, she had a not-boyfriend coming in, and those two things combined meant that her usual shopping method of walking into a store and picking the first thing in a color she didn't find horrible might not work so well. She trusted Rose's judgment.

Still, as she flipped through one of the racks, Jaina found herself saying, "I can't wait till I never have to do this again," even though she knew full well that she was probably never going to escape this sort of thing.

[For Rose! Also it amuses me far too much that I used an icon of Sophia shopping in appropriate context for the first time ever.]

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"Aww, come on," Rose teased, pulling out a bright pink dress to tease Jaina with. "You know you love it. You'll be sad when there's no more high school dances to go to ad mock."

"I don't mock, I mingle and dance and try not to die in heels," Jaina said, making a face at the dress. "And when I get away from the high school dances, it's on to banquets where I can at least get away with my robes."

"Are you looking forward to wearing a uniform for the rest of forever?" Rose asked, snicking at Jaina's face as she put the dress back. Not that she had a purpose for asking the question.

"I've been wearing one for years now, what's the rest of a lifetime?" she shrugged, looking back to the dresses. "It helps that the uniforms are comfortable, at least. Well, not the military uniform, but the flightsuit."

"Cause sometimes it's fun to change it up and wear cute stuff," Rose suggested. She pulled out a blue one and held it up to herself but made a face and put it right back.

"I've always gone for pretty simple," Jaina shrugged, finding a white dress she'd like in any other color, after last week's voicemail. "Are you going to get to change it up at all when you go pro?"

"I like that one," Rose commented. "It's a little wedding dress though, yeah." She shrugged, pulling out a black dress and scowling at it a little. "Yeah, Guardians wear black. Good thing I look awesome in it."

"I'm not allowed anything that looks like a wedding dress," she warned. "At least there's a lot you can do with black?" Maybe. She had no idea, but it sounded good.

She pulled a dress from the rack and held it out to Rose. "You should go with something not black." Yes, she was teasing.

"Gotta wear a suit," she replied. "And all the female guardians cut their hair." Her hand was protectively running down hers. So not going to happen.

Rose stared at the dress and then pulled out the first thing to hand. "I will if you wear this."

"If it had pockets, I'd bet John wouldn't mind seeing me in that," Jaina said, remembering a couple of his choices from previous shopping excursions.

Seriously, that was how much she didn't care what she wore usually: she'd let her teenage boyfriend pick without knowing his taste first.

"Is the hair-cutting a rule?" she wondered.

"...John has a thing for pockets?" Rose asked. The things you learned about a person. "Do I even want to know?"

She sorted through a rack of dresses before realising they were so the wrong size. "Nah, people just like to show off their tattoos. I'm not cutting mine."

"...I don't know." She'd never considered it. Now she had to wonder. Or ask.

"And good for you," she said, picking up a possibility. "Though you're talking to the girl who shaved hers off, so my judgment on hair might not be trustworthy."

"Okay, if you find out and it's not seriously disturbing, I wanna know," she decided.

"I like that one," Rose pointed out. "The color's a little weird, but the whole idea is pretty." She made a face, completely unable to imagine this. "Why did you cut off you hair?"

If it sounded a little like "why did you cut off your arm," well...yeah.

"Well, I was thinking about cutting it just because it got stupid when I was spending all my time flying, and then I didn't get the chance, and then there was decontamination and I walked around bald for a few weeks," she said, and frowned. "If it hadn't been winter, it would have been fine."

But then she had an awesome boy who bought her hats. Aww.

"Except for not having hair," Rose replied. The whole decontamination thing didn't sound so very good though. "Winter here or there?"

"Here. It wasn't bad until it started growing back, and then everything itched," she admitted, pausing as she totally found the dress and held it up for inspection.

"So not too cold at least," she said, tilting her head as Jaina pulled out the dress.

"That's like - it shouldn't be pretty, but it so is. You need to try it on."

There'd be some skin showing without being scary, there was texture... Jaina thought it passed. "I think I will," she said. Meaning if it fit, she'd probably buy it right off. "Now we have to find you one."

"You should find some others to try on too," Rose pointed out. "Cause stuff looks different on the hanger." She frowned a little, scuffing through the racks. "I know I said no black, but this one could be perfect."

It reminded her of a very different shopping expedition with Lissa.

"That's very you," Jaina said immediately. She herself couldn't get away with it, but Rose, yes. She found another dress she could maybe pull off, anyway. "Definitely worth trying."

She laughed at Jaina's comment. "You mean totally slutty but I could pull it off anyway? At least my mom won't drag me out of the party this time." She pulled another dress off the rack and studied it. If only her legs were like bruised all to hell.

"Not slutty. You," Jaina insisted. "I like that one. Are you going with anyone, by the way?" She had to wonder.

Rose was still totally amused anyway. "I think I'll try these two for now." Hmm, question. "Nah, I figure I'll bestow my awesomeness on the dance all by myself."

"Well, it is a lot of awesomeness, a date might not be able to handle it," Jaina grinned, taking one last look around the rack to see if there was anything else she liked... "Another whi- What's with all the white?"

Figured, one drunken voicemail and the stupid color had to be in style.

"Hell yes," she agreed. Plus it was weird and she hadn't even brought it up to Dimitri because that would involve Talking About It. "I wouldn't want anyone to suffer all night knowing they couldn't match up."

So much bravado.

She shrugged a little, scowling. "They're trying to upsell to the wedding package? I dunno, it's just annoying. Especially since we both would totally look good in it. But yeah, not wearing white."

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