This is the time to remember, though they will not last forever...

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Who: Everybody! Yeeaaah!
What: Graduation and Prom!
When: The evening of June 8th.
Where: The Stadium.
Warnings: Everything. Everyone. You know who you are. You Know Who You Are.

Whether you've been here every year for what seems like eternity, or this is your first time, nothing quite compares to the feeling of Graduation Day.



The Stadium was decked out in school colors and the lights were bright. The stage was simple, classy and bereft of decoration barring the happy, smiling faces of your Headmasters and Teachers. (Those of them who do smile, at any rate.) Congratulations on your impending steps forward, those of you who made it through the school year! Hope your gowns are clean and your hats are appropriately be-tassled!

Of course, such pomp and circumstance can't go on forever. Once all the formalities and diplomas and congratulatory Hand shakes are out of the way, we have Prom! There's tables and chairs set up at the other end of the Stadium, and a huge table covered in all manner of finger foods guaranteed not to dribble or splatter on your rental tux or beautiful dress - so long as you're careful, anyway. And don't forget the dance floor and the plethora of music picked just for all of you to dance to! Tonight should be a night to remember!

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[[OOC: Hey there, Smashies! You know the drill, right? It's Graduation! Here's last year's if you need a refresher on how this works. The basics go like this - Graduatiuon itself is broken into several parts. Once the last part, Dismissal, is posted up, that's your cue to make your own top-level threads for Prom! But please don't hesitate to continue tagging Graduation stuff.

If you have any problems, don't hesitate to ping a Mod!]]

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"I'd love to help you work on it when you're ready to try again," Rock told her, leaning back against her and sliding an arm around her middle. "I'm really interested in learning how it all works, and I can't think of a better teacher for it than you!"

It may as well have been, for how nerdy the pair was. He looked into her eyes as she smirked. "S-swimming? We're dressed for prom, we don't have bathing suits," he said to the sneaky girl.

[tempus_fixit]

"That's kind of the point." She murmurs, slipping off his jacket and giving it back to him as she stands so close to him. She then drops her bag and reaches for the zipper on her back with a small wriggle.

"I was GONNA push you in, but since that suit came from home, I don't think you wanna get it all wet."

Lucca in her skivvies is nothing he hasn't seen before, only that time she was coming OUT of the water, not going into it.

However, she hadn't been stripping right in front of him either...

[megabuster]

Rock dropped the jacket as soon as he realized what Lucca was doing. He'd seen her in her underwear before, but that was unintentional. She hadn't purposely done that in front of him before. His processors started to run hot, and he could feel it. It wasn't her heat this time, it was his mechanical heart racing. Thoughts processed at a mile a minute. She wanted to take their relationship to the next level. He said he would be happy to. And he was, he knew that already. He loved Lucca. He couldn't get nervous or shy about this, not when she wanted to be so bold for him.

He couldn't back down. He took a deep breath and gulped, a reaction that as a robot he didn't really need to do, and steadied himself. If she was going to be proactive, he had to at least try...

He quickly picked up the suit jacket and threw it over a tree branch to keep it off the ground, and stepped behind Lucca. "H-here... Let me help," he said. His hand brushed Lucca's aside, and he took hold of her dress zipper, drawing it down for her, then gently sliding the straps of her dress off of her shoulders. Part of being a helper robot meant helping people get dressed, not necessarily undressed. But it was close enough to him that he felt like he could keep his nerves steady. His hands may not have been trembling on the outside, but on the inside, it was like everything was vibrating.

[tempus_fixit]

If she'd known he had a vibration setting, she would have done this sooner.

She had kind of expected him to stand and watch in amazement. Hell, she could barely believe she was doing it herself. What she hadn't expected was for him to reach out and begin undressing her instead. Her breath catches when she feels his hands on her shoulder, and she turns her head and nods mutely.

As soon as she threads her arms out of the straps and let the dress pool around her waist, she turns in his arms. There's no mistaking the flush of fire magic on her skin and her quiet, hard breaths as she starts to work on the buttons of Rock's shirt.

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[megabuster]

He was equipped with multiple useful devices and programmed with multiple techniques.

Rock felt himself warm internally, and it wasn't just from Lucca's ambient temperature. The thought that this was really happening made his processors feel like they were being overclocked a mile a minute. When she opened his shirt, she could see the faint seam of his chest access port in a square shape, almost indistinguishable in the moonlight. He could feel the heat radiating off of Lucca, and she was warm to the touch. His hands carefully slid down her arms from her shoulders, and he could feel the warmth all over her skin. It was such a new feeling. Not damaging or injuring, just... warm to him.

He brought his hands to her hips, and carefully eased the dress down over her hips until it fell to the grass about Lucca's feet. He shrugged his shoulders to help get the shirt off, and smiled at her, trying to look more confident than he really felt.

"You're so beautiful," was all he could get out, saying the words dreamily.

[tempus_fixit]

Lucca finds herself stopping to run her fingers along that little seam, the one that grants access to the profoundly beautiful gizmo that is his heart. It was cycling fast in there; she could feel it. Was she really that nervous? Actually so was she, she'd just been doing a good job of keeping it to herself.

She knew it had to be her to make the first move. He wouldn't; It just wasn't something he'd do. However, it made her wonder if he really wanted to try anything after all--

Then, his words reach her, and she looks back up into his eyes. A wide smile spreads across her face as three words quash a mountain of doubt. She throws her arms around him for a strain of long kisses, as she finally aquatints herself with the feeling of his skin against hers.

[megabuster]

He wrapped his arm around her middle, kissing her right back. It was such a warm, pleasant feeling that he didn't want to let go of. Processes ran in the background of his consciousness, calculating the precise pressure he needed to apply to her lips, feeling her breath against him and holding her tightly. He ran his fingers up her back, testing just what he could do to please her, hopefully.

To say the least, this was doing wonders for his confidence. He felt like he could take on the world.

[tempus_fixit]

"Mmm!" She replies with a giggle at the touch along her back, and the air around them climbs a couple of degrees. Gods, yes. More of that. Her fingers lace in his hair as she continues the kiss, falling to her urges and deepening it further into a clumsy (but eager) snog.

[megabuster]

Rock only parted lips with hers when he thought she might need to come up for air, looking at her with red cheeks and a smiling face. The heat was on, but he could endure it. He remembered that moment in the ferris wheel earlier, when she accidentally incinerated his shirt. Fortunately that didn't look like it was going to happen this time.

...Buuuut he reached down to unbuckle his belt. He'd look pretty weird heading back to campus with only some shorts on.

[tempus_fixit]

Don't be so sure, Rock. Judging by the subtle smell of burnt grass at their feet, you may want to check the hem of your trousers for scorch marks tomorrow... She takes a moment to pull off her boots, wobbling and hopping a little as she does so.

"C'mon." She adds with a sideways smile, slipping off her glasses and tucking them in one boot. "Let's go heat up that lake."

And she takes off in a run and leaps in!

[megabuster]

Rock definitely would be checking his suit later to make sure things were okay. Not to mention working on getting grass stains out. But that was for another time. Right now, he had more important things to deal with, shedding his trousers and kicking off his shoes.

"Wait for me!" he called out, running for the water after her, laughing all the way.