smash_logs | Blind Dates: B TABLES.

What: BLIND DATES! Round 2.
Who: Anyone who was sent a note with the letter-number combination B#.
Where: Off-campus restaurant. AND BEYOND!
When: November 30th, eveningtimes.
Warnings: ???
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[The second group has been told to find some place somewhat out of the way. It's at the other end of the city, and maybe a little harder to find than the others. The dining room is bigger than it looks from the outside, though, and it's actually rather nice. There's quiet music playing overhead. There seems to be a little of everything on the menu, but it all does seem a little fancy. It's expensive, but it's not like you're paying, right?

It might have been smart to dress nice- but not too nice- for your date. At least that's what Gold suggested!

There's a candle at every table. Beside each candle, there is a card. On each card, there is a different letter-number combination.

Find your table!

And feel free to leave at any time, with or without your date.]

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Noel heard word of the dates going around, but she had no idea she would be taking part in any of them. Who signed her up for this? She didn't bother to track down the person signing people up because she didn't expect to be anyway. She'd never ever been on a date before. She was nervous about it, but not showing up at all would be rude!

Opting to keep her long hair loose and wearing a nice dress she conveniently had, Noel searched the room for table B10, where this mystery person may or may not be there. After passing a few familiar faces, she made her way toward the table and spotted Ishimaru already waiting.

Nerves suddenly slammed her, but she couldn't let that get to her! Okay, you can do this, Noel. She took a deep breath, then approached their table.

"Um, H-Hello. This is the correct table, right? B10?" Noel had to make double sure.

While Noel might have been a bundle of nerves, Ishimaru seemed confident enough about the whole situation, judging from the way he stood at attention and saluted like it was the most natural thing to do.

"That is correct! So, you are the one who sent that note telling me to come here?"

Had he seen her in the halls before? Or someone who looked similar? He wasn't entirely certain. Come to think of it, there were a handful of people here he did recognize for sure. It must be a really good restaurant for them to come all this way.

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Wow, he seemed to disciplined. Was he part of the military as well? At any rate, Noel took comfort in the fact that at least ONE of them seemed to have experience with this. She shook her head in response to Ishimaru's question.

"Oh, n-no, that wasn't me. I just got a note to come here with this table number on it." She said. "I think someone else signed me up for this..."

Noel didn't ask for this, okay?

"Um. I-It's good to meet you though. I'm Noel Vermillion." So much awkward.

He only wished...

Well, Noel already seemed to be more well behaved than... a whole lot of other people at the school. He only hoped he could be making an equally good first impression.

"Yes, it is very nice to meet you as well! My name is Kiyotaka Ishimaru! But... what do you mean you were signed up? Just what is this about, then?"

Wait a second, a boy and a girl signed up for something... And the only something there had been to sign up for lately was...

...Surely nothing that had anything to do with the both of them being here today! Ha, ha. Yeah, it was definitely something else.

Ishimaru's face when Noel is a Lieutenant? But she won't bring up titles in this, it's not necessary. He must have been signed up without knowing as well. Did he not know about those blind dates coming up? Maybe he wasn't around.

"Did you get signed up for this without knowing too?" As if this weren't awkward enough. She's never been on a date before, let alone a blind date where neither of them really wanted to be signed up for them.

"It does seem to be the case..." Who the heck signs other people up for things against their own will? Why was that even allowed? No, it was definitely not allowed, and Ishimaru planned to figure out something to do about it as soon as he got back to the school!

His perpetual frown only deepened as he mulled this over. It was prooobably rude to just up and leave to go investigate just yet. Wasn't it? He was still kind of figuring out this whole normal socialization thing.

"So... What should we do about this? I am willing to hear your suggestions!"

What should they do indeed. She thought about it for a bit. Noel spent a lot of time preparing herself for this date, mentally and physically. Not only that, but the set up seemed really nice. Whoever had the bright idea to host these things seemed to go through a lot of trouble, she would feel terrible if she just left.

"I don't think it would be nice to leave. After all, someone already payed for all this, right?"

"Is that so?! To waste the money that was so generously spent on this would be absolutely shameful!"

He'd had it ingrained in him since birth to make every penny count. Or yen, as it was growing up, but the principle was exactly the same. He couldn't help but feel bad about the entire restaurant being too frivolous for him in the first place...

"Why would anybody put so much money into our meeting, anyway?"

STILL NOT GETTING IT.

Noel knew as well about making every penny count. Her family was having a pretty hard time after their good name was blacklisted. Not only that, but it was only polite.

"I guess whoever prepared these dates really wanted to go all out..." Yes, she said dates.

Boom.

"...Dates?"

Hold on. Brain catching up to the situation... That really was the only thing there had been signups for after all, wasn't it?!

"So... you are saying that... we are on a date right at this moment?"

"Y-Yes, I think so..." Noel said, shuffling with her dress. The reality of it hit her like a ton of bricks, suddenly she was looking everywhere else but at Ishimaru. Wow, those were some nice tiles, oh look how nice the weather is, is that Sonic and Hilda at the other table? Hello there Sonic and Hilda.

No, no, she had to do this... but she couldn't bring herself to look directly at him when she quietly admitted this.

"I-I've never actually been on a date before..."

"I have never been on one, either... no! We still don't have to be! After all, if we were both signed up for this without our knowledge, there's not way that counts! Isn't that right!?"

Who would even do such a thing? Someone in his position could never do something like dating. And Noel... Well, if she'd never been on a date either, then she was obviously a good woman too.

"So... This is probably some kind of terrible prank, right?"

[ DINNER IS SERVED. A GIANT FISH SLAMS ON YOUR TABLE. HOORAH! IT'S SUSHI. ]

Blind Dates: B TABLES.

god help these two indeed

They're pretty much beyond help.

but that makes for amusing things for us

Does that mean we're bad people?

nahhhh, not at all.... okay maybe a little.

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