Don’t worry about the future.

[mansionstaff]

Who: EV ERY ONE
What: Graduation. Prom.
When: The evening of May 31st.
Where: The Stadium.
Warnings: WHO KNOWS

It's a beautiful spring evening at Smash Academy, the barest hints of summer just beginning to touch the stadium floor, which had been rearranged into a platform overlooking neat rows of chairs meant to seat the gathered crowd of faculty and students. Towards the other end of the complex was the arrangement for the prom that was to follow. Food and drink, chairs and tables, each with a floral centerpiece, and, of course, a dance floor.



Before everyone could get their party on, however, there was the main event of the evening. From his place at the podium, Master Hand watched students and staff alike find their way into the stadium. With the recent shadow bug invasion, there seemed to be tensions in need of dispelling. If the Headmaster knew one thing, however, it was that some silly antics were not going to ruin this esteemed event. Not tonight. Not if he could help it.

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HEY DUDES! Here's how stuff is going to work. We kick off the log with GRADUATION. This part of the log will be divided into separate threads. I'll post them all at once, so feel free to hop around, mingle, post whenever, wherever.

HOWEVER, once the PROM starts, it will be up to you guys to post your own threads. Please check out last year's log if you'd like an idea of how this works. Everything after the thread titled "DISMISSAL" (I will post that in a bit, so don't post prom threads until I have that up!) will be considered prom, though don't let that stop you from continuing to post in the graduation section.

Please label all your threads appropriately! (Examples: "SHENANIGANS AT THE FOOD TABLE", "DANCE-OFF", "THE PUNCH IS SPIKED", "BOTHER X" In general, a location + what is going on in the thread is the way to go. Obviously, more than one thread can take place at the same location. 

Linking back and forth when and if you thread hop is very much appreciated. If things start to look a bit laggy, we'll bump to the next page. Most importantly, TAG YOUR DUDES, HAVE FUN, and let a mod know about any problems or concerns you might have!

Comments

[glazedandconfused]

Aoi very much lived in the present--though it was certainly awkward to be standing around with Mondo when her mind kept creeping back to the events of February, she was perfectly fine making conversation and pretending that it never happened.

So when he brought it up, of all things, she couldn't help but maybe want to roll her eyes a little. Internally. There was also a large part of her that just kind of wanted to crawl under the covers and never come out of bed. That was how much she didn't want to think about last February.

"What...about it?" She asked, trying to sound as innocuous as possible. Clearly the best solution in this scenario was just to shove as many profiteroles into her face as possible.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Why... was this so difficult? All he needed to say was sorry, right? There was a whole traffic jam full of the things he could possibly say cluttering up his head.

"I... Look, I never got the chance, so I'm gonna go for it now!" he declared, a little too loudly for comfort. His loudness only made him feel even more on edge, but his volume and intensity was one of the hardest things for him to control when he was so nervous like this- something else that should be simple to do but wasn't for him. "I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am! I seriously don't know what got into me back then..."

Poor Mondo didn't even know about the cupid bots. He still thought it was all on him to this day.

[glazedandconfused]

Aoi stared. For a few moments. As if carefully weighing the direction in which she was going to take the conversation. Perhaps, potentially gauging the least awkward of awkward answers.

"It's okay," she said, shrugging a little and trying to look less embarrassed than she actually was. "It wasn't your fault."

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

He remembered that she had been the one to initiate the kiss, but his feelings for her at the time were so overpowering that it was hard not to feel responsible in some way. After all, he sure did kiss back.

"I dunno. It just sort of... freaks me out. That I did that out of nowhere. It kind of felt unnatural," he confessed. He was sore on himself for his loose grip on self-control in some situations, so having that happen on top of his insecurities dug him deeper. Still, he couldn't understand what happened back then. It was like the urge just came out of thin air.

[glazedandconfused]

"No, I mean, it...really wasn't your fault."

Aoi, being of slightly limited intelligence, was trying to make sense of it herself, but what she did understand was that there was some kind of outside influence at play.

"I think there was something that day that was just...causing everyone to fall in love with each other."

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Mondo raised his brow and widened his eyes some. "Ya think so?" God, he hoped so. It never really occurred to him that an outside force was at play, but when he took into consideration the same forces that had the capacity to turn him into a chick...

Yeah, it was possible.

"So... like a curse or some shit?" He'd think the chocolate was probably drugged, but he didn't get any chocolate prior to the hot rush. "Damn, this school is fucking nuts. Why do I still put up with this crap?"