[Intro/OTA]

[dj_esebel]

Audrey's not entirely sure how she's managed it, but she fell asleep on the beach last night. It was just meant to be a breather, dipping her toes in the frigid water just long enough to wake herself up for the short drive back to her trailer park. Only the water had been extremely fucking cold, so cold she'd rippled up in orange scales and had to warm up the siren way just to get back to the sleeping bag she'd spread out to take a seat.

The plan had been to sit, warm up, wake up.

Which, in a manner of speaking, she's accomplished. After all she's very warm in her deep chill sleeping bag and she's mostly awake with the cold, gray morning light. "The fuck..." Audrey sits up and drags a hand down her face. "Well that sure is the fucking ocean..."

Good thing she's awake before high tide. That would have been more trouble than she'd been prepared to deal with.

Grumbling, she unzips the sleeping bag and carefully wills the orange scales away.

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[lesparker]

Les shakes his head. "Okay, for one thing, Corry and I were best friends when were eight years old. We were not having sex up and down the coast." When she asks if Corry is cute though, he does his best not to fidget or blush. "But yeah, I guess she's cute." Which is the deflective answer that would've made sense a couple weeks ago...had he not realize he was completely in love with her. It's just hard to turn off that part of his brain that only sees Corry as his best friend. He isn't used to talking about her as someone he's into yet. It's just a little strange and...maybe embarrassing.

[dj_esebel]

"You guess?" she teases, moving to stand in front of him with hands on her hips. The diner is looming in the middle distance but she can put her hunger aside to torment Les.

"You should have decided and swept her off her feet before she got married."

[lesparker]

"I mean. I dunno," he says, sensing that evil tormenting look on her face but he just shrugs. "I like her hair."

He's always had a thing for red heads, and he's actively not thinking about why that's true considering Corry's the first girl in his life 'cos that seems like a chicken or the egg question. "She eloped. It's not like I knew she was going to marry that guy." And it's not like he knew his own feelings enough to care when Corry came back a three months ago married to Will Cabot.

"You asked me if she was cute. I said she was cute," he defends poorly.

[dj_esebel]

"Okay but there's cute and then there's cute." Audrey ruffles his hair. "Like there's my cute and then there's your cute, like I could just eat you up cute."

Elopement sounds...well it sounds like the kind of thing she and Les might do in a fit of drunken pique, so she's not actually in a position to judge, but still.

[lesparker]

He laughs when she ruffles his hair trying to knock her hand away. "Cute. You know, like, I've never thought about making out with you until about two weeks ago cute," he says looking at her. He sighs a little. "Maybe she and I have just been friends too long for all of this. When people get together doesn't it ruin the friendship?"

[dj_esebel]

"...are you really posing this question to me?" Audrey teases. God knows that sums up half of their friendship, hooking up and doing things that would ruin weaker friendships.

"Anyway, I've never really been in love. Except you."

[lesparker]

Les rolls his eyes, but she has a point. But it was different with Audrey. He met her when he was twenty-three...of course he wanted to hook up with her. She's hot and his friend, and sex was fun.

"I just don't want to mess anything up. You know me I'm a disaster," he says.

[dj_esebel]

"And I'm right there with you," she says, reaching up to ruffle his hair once more. "But you're trying, I know that."

[lesparker]

They finally come up to the familiar diner, and he pulls open the door. "Atleast you're a disaster with a band. But...I guess I did find you asleep in the snow this morning, Ess," he says laughing.

[dj_esebel]

"It's a good thing we're...sturdy." Magic. She means magic, but this town has always seemed so cagey about explicitly stating it that it's become a habit for her to go with euphemisms.

[lesparker]

"We are so...sturdy," Les snorts in amusement at her wording. "I get really sturdy down in my basement. You should come check it out."

[dj_esebel]

"Oh I've gotten you sturdy in the basement," she says, switching meanings on herself. "I love it when you're sturdy."

[lesparker]

"You have definitely gotten me sturdy a few times," Les says laughing at her. What was even wrong with them sometimes, he didn't even know. "Of course, you love it when I'm sturdy. I'm the best at being sturdy. That's why."

[dj_esebel]

So many things. There are so many things wrong with them. "Of course I do. You're the only one who treats me right."

She nudges him gently, smiling. "I mean it."

[lesparker]

"And I'm going to treat you to the best breakfast of all time," he says, wrapping his arms around her shoulders and pulling her into a brief hug. "Look at us. We're finally doing alright." As he takes a seat at one of the empty tables at their diner he thinks over his comment then tacks on, "Sort of."