[Date: October 24, 2003. Time: 7:00 PM.] [It's a quiet Friday night in Meguro! Kyon is returning to the Soratandrews residence after a surprisingly eventful day. Who knows what the evening will hold?] [Session start!] 01 (Soratandrews! That's kind of cute.) (Started an OOC thing, if you want. ^_~) 01 (*moves to #arcanaooc!) 06* Kyon opens the door and moves into the genkan! He calls out, "Hey Katie," as he starts taking off his shoes. 06* Katie is sitting on the living room floor, in jeans and a t-shirt (and socks), working on a charcoal drawing for class. There's music playing - a mix from the 90's in English, turned way down low but certainly loud enough for Katie to hear it. She doesn't start at Kyon's entrance, saying, "Welcome home." 06* Kyon takes off his jacket, hangs it up, and heads into the apartment, taking off his sunglasses and hat now, as well. "Tadaima. What're you doing?" 06* Katie turns from her position on the floor and looks at Kyon, grinning a little. "" She switches back to Japanese: "I'm drawing my favorite model for class." 06* Kyon smirks, and bends down a little. "Yeah? You far into it?" 01 Yeah, I've been at it for a couple of hours now. And he hasn't moved? 06* Katie points out a Kumaguro lazily stretched out on the couch. "A little, but he's been sleepy today." 06* Kyon nods curtly. "He'll wake up more later." He rolls his shoulders, and looks towards the kitchen. "Eat yet? 06* Katie shakes her head. Want to? 06* Katie looks over her picture, eraser in hand. "Sure. Have something in mind?" 06* Kyon shrugs quickly. "Quick stirfry?" 06* Katie looks at Kyon again. "Are you cooking?" My turn, right? 01 Yup! Just reminding you without reminding you. 06* Kyon snorts. "Plus some Korean mochi? Sound good?" 06* Katie just grins at Kyon's snort. "Yes, please." Right. 06* Kyon heads back into the kitchen, puts down his hat and glasses, and starts washing up. 06* Katie goes back to drawing Kumaguro. The amount of time he'll cooperate is limited, after all. 06* Kyon sets about chopping and slicing and frying and ricing! He does his cooking efficiently and quietly, and notifies Katie of its readiness in about 40 minutes. 06* Katie makes a noise that indicates she heard him, but she's in artland right now and doesn't stop what she's doing. It's another ten minutes - food may be starting to get cold at this point - before she stands, stretching a bit. She picks up her supplies and drawing and goes to her room to put them somewhere safe. 06* Kyon has arrayed the stirfry, the mochi with onions and spicy sauce, two smaller containers of pickles and kinpira, bowls of rice, tea, and chopsticks on the table appropriately. He's starting to look rather impatient when she gets to the table. "You set?" 06* Katie nods, having the decency to be a little embarrassed. "Sorry that took so long. I was in the middle of shading." She takes in the food. "This looks really good." 06* Kyon inclines his head a little to the compliment, and picks up his chopsticks. "Right. Itadakimasu." He helps himself to some stirfry. "Finished the drawing?" 06* Katie sits down and picks up her chopsticks, not going with the traditional greeting because she's a barbarian. She gets some stirfry and sauce, placing it on her rice. "I'm almost done, but I think I can live without my model now. I'm not really used to charcoal yet." 06* Kyon takes some kinpira, too! "How's it different?" 01 There's only one color, and it's really easy to smudge... which you have to do, but it can get out of control pretty fast. 06* Katie checks her free hand. "Plus, I got it all over my hands. I washed most of it off, but..." 06* Kyon nods, and smirks, pointing at her cheek. "Not just your hands." 06* Katie blinks, and she reaches up and rubs at her cheek with the back of her hand, pulling it away to see a faded smudge. "Aww... Thanks for pointing that out." She doesn't sound very thankful. 06* Kyon smirks a bit more sharply. "Sure." He tries some of the mochi! It is pleasantly spicy. 06* Katie sticks her tongue out at Kyon before having some stirfry of her own. "So, how'd things go today?" Mostly normal. Soft pitch, ice, video, trainer's room. 06* Katie winces a touch. "Make sure you watch that shoulder." 06* Kyon nods curtly. "Not worse than usual. Just takes a day." 06* Katie nods, but she still looks a little concerned. Got a call today, though. While I was icing. 06* Katie nabs some kinpira and a pickle. "Yeah? Is that why you went out?" 06* Kyon nods quickly. "It was Kaede. Went to Easy Epoque." He looks down at the kinpira, but half keeping an eye on her reaction. 06* Katie blinks at Kyon. "Really? Why?" She puts her chopsticks down. "Is he okay?" Yeah, he's fine. Wanted to talk. 01 ... Okay? 06* Katie is watching Kyon, almost warily. Her fingers toy with the ends of the chopsticks, but she doesn't move to pick them up again. 06* Kyon smirks, and eats some more mochi, chewing it up. "You want to know what about." 06* Katie snorts. "Is it that obvious?" Not even eating now. You like it? 06* Katie eyes Kyon. He's enjoying this too much. "It's all right." She picks up her chopsticks again, having a bite. 06* Kyon drinks some tea. "Right." He pauses, and says, "Wanted to talk about the party. And about us. Me and him." 06* Katie relaxes slightly, but visibly, at those words. "Mmm," she says, thinking, and she has another bite of food, chewing and swallowing. "What's there to say?" Mostly? Just to thaw more. After the party. Put us on better terms. 06* Katie nods, setting her chin on her hand as she thinks (and getting charcoal on her chin). "You did fight to keep him there," she says, a little reluctantly. "And he called you by your first name after. It makes sense." 06* Kyon nods quickly. "Yeah. Just wanted to consolidate. And ask why, too." 06* Katie tilts her head. "Why?" 06* Kyon shrugs quickly, and winces slightly. He grabs a broccoli from the stirfry to cover. "Still on his mind?" 06* Katie caught that, and her expression says so, but she doesn't comment. Instead, she says, "No, I meant, why did you stand up for him? I noticed it, too. Was it just because it was my birthday?" Mostly. You deserved to have him here, if you wanted him. And you did. 06* Katie laughs softly, dropping her hand and looking down at her bowl. "That's funny, since I was the one chasing him out." 06* Katie picks some food out and pops it into her mouth before going for the tea. 06* Kyon smirks. "Sure. That's part of knowing you. When you don't really mean the chasing." 06* Katie blushes a touch and has a sip of tea. "You'd know." 01 I'm glad you did it. Thank you. 06* Kyon waves his free hand dismissively. "Just wanted you to have the right kind of birthday. And that includes Kaede." 06* Katie grins. "So, what about you two? Are you on a first name basis now?" 06* Kyon pauses a beat, then snags a mochi. "Seems like it." 01 Really? You're going to call him by name? 06* Katie sounds skeptical, and probably for good reason. 06* Kyon smirks back at her. "On an as-needed basis." 06* Katie snerks. "Right." 01 So, how'd you thaw? Okay. Good enough. 06* Kyon eats up some rice. 06* Katie rolls her eyes and goes back to eating, herself. 06* Kyon eats more, too, then, and asks after whether she's got weekend plans yet. 06* Katie shakes her head. "Why, do you have something in mind?" 06* Kyon thinks for a beat. "Park? Could just go write and draw. Or stay here for that." 06* Katie smiles. "Sure. What are you going to write? Another one of those novels?" 06* Kyon inclines his head. "Got some ideas, yeah. Gonna try to put one together over the offseason." 06* Katie nods, thinking for a bit, then asks, "Don't you think you're spreading yourself kind of thin sometimes, Kyon?" 06* Kyon cocks his head and looks at her questioningly. 01 I mean... 06* Katie gestures with her chopsticks. "With the brewery, baseball, and writing. And school and... hell, and me... and trying to be successful at all of it, aren't you ever worried that you're trying to do too much?" 06* Kyon picks up a pickle, and thinks for a beat. "Yeah, sometimes. But I don't do it all at once. So it's okay. Like now. Haven't written really in months. And I don't do much with the brewery during the season, either." 06* Katie nods, not quite buying it. "I know. I know that you've got a handle on things, and you're not going crazy from stress. Or at least not obviously crazy." 01 But I think about it sometimes. You'd be so much better if you just, I don't know, focused a little more. 06* Katie sighs and pokes at her food. "Anyway. Let's go to the park. Sunday?" 06* Kyon points out, "But I'm already a pro. I'm in the playoffs. Can't get much further than that without going across to the major leagues." He considers her for a beat. "Sure, Sunday." 06* Katie snorts. "Yeah?" 01 Are people still scoring on you? 06* Kyon raises an eyebrow. "Okay, probably could. More control. But it's still the body. I throw more in practice, and then I don't have my best stuff for the game." 06* Katie nods. "Yeah, but I'm just saying that there's still room. And," she snaps her chopsticks at him, "you'd be less distracted by other stuff." Some of that's good distraction. Need to work my mind some, too. 06* Katie shrugs. "If you say so. You know more about baseball than I do. I was just thinking about it." 06* Kyon looks at her for a beat. "Right. I'll think about it," he says levelly. 06* Katie pokes at her food again, not particularly hungry anymore. 06* Kyon eats a bit more, and sets down the chopsticks. "Still want to go to the park, though?" 01 Yes. I think it's a great idea, and I *love* going to the park. 06* Katie smiles at Kyon. "And you can write. I don't want you to think I don't want you to, or something. I just... I wanted to mention it to you. That's all." She stands. "Are you done?" 06* Kyon looks up at her for a beat, then smiles a little and nods curtly. "Yeah, I'm done." 06* Katie starts consolidating bowls, then... and brushes Kyon's cheek with the back of her left hand in the process. "Oops," she says with a mischievous grin, as he is now charcoal-smudged. 06* Kyon scowls at her. "You just wanted us to match," he says accusingly. 06* Katie laughs. "We don't match." She smears his chin with the back of her hand. "*Now* we match." 06* Kyon snorts a laugh. "Right. Good work." 01 Thank you. I try to please. 06* Katie picks up another bowl and takes them to the kitchen for great dishwashing. [And thus, dinner ended for another night at the Soratandrews!] [Session end.]