kido doesn't do festive holiday music

[blindfoldcode]

Who: Kido and OPEN to her friends/people she thinks she owes.
What: The bestowing of gifts
When: IDK whenever the bestowing of gifts should occur.
Where: System Crash's Penthouse, Pride HQ, and quiet places she can meet up with her Virgo friends.
Warnings: Kido and Celty are gonna get pelted with crackers but otherwise...

[Kido's on a fucking mission to act like she's okay. She's like. Still all sorts of messed up, but she's trying to act like she's gonna make it.

A
And during the holidays that means a s h i t t o n of baking. She has been pretty busy in the System Crash penthouse the last day or two making like a trillion cake rolls. Oh god why is she doing this cookies would be easier, but cookies are also something everyone's going to be making.

Every even slightly imperfect cake is going to get shoved onto her bandmates. She can't give something imperfect. Someone might think she actually made it. And like she doesn't want herself associated with baking it fucks with the rebel image. But there she is in the kitchen, long sleeved tee shirt with rolled up sleeves, slippers and an apron, super concentrated like this is her life.

Don't judge her.

B
And like now she has to give them out. It's easier to do in HQ. She's not being tailed here. She's knocking on the doors of any friends (and anyone who she feels she owes a favor to), super casually like she's. Totally not been baking for the last too many hours straight.]

Hey. ... You like sweets right?

[THAT'S EXACTLY HOW YOU GIVE A GIFT.

B.2
Except for Junkyard Carnival. At some point, they're gonna find themselves dealing with cracker pentagrams all over their goddamn wall.

And a cheese platter, mostly because she's terrified of Luci, with a nice little card, written in red, promising it's not poisoned and also "PS: Fuck you, Xanxus."

How she got in there? A fucking mystery.

C

And of course there's Virgo to worry about. Most of her friends are Virgo. So there's going to be texts, to friends and, again, people she feels she owes a favor to.

Are you free? Think you could meet me at the music store on [street]?

Yup. That's not threatening and absolutely cannot get her in trouble if Lesedi reads it.

She's feeling pretty good about this all in all.

It's a great distraction from the glowing yellow eyes in her dreams that keep startling her awake.]

Comments

[blindfoldcode]

Yeah, I wish I could agree with you. [But she can't because people who die on August 15th...]

Which gets to the point, I guess.

[stylistic_disloyalty]

[Luci raises her eyebrow but shrugs eventually. Whatever, no skin off her nose if the kid wants to believe she's possessed by an apparently benevolent-whatever that let her do whatever she wanted and gave her fun eyes.]

Yeah? I've been wondering what the point is.

[blindfoldcode]

Xanxus saw me at the party before I knew what was going on. He was trying to blackmail me with the tabloids.

[She takes a deep, long, steadying breath to keep her eyes from acting up.]

I think he might tell Lesedi.

[stylistic_disloyalty]

...Tell Lesedi.

[Luci stares openly, she even has to stop walking.] You're kidding, right? This is a joke?

[blindfoldcode]

I let it slip that I was scared of her. [And honestly, if the situation was reversed... what better way to get on Lesedi's good side than ratting out an enemy.]

[stylistic_disloyalty]

Yeah, but she hates Xanxus. Assuming he even made it into her office without getting fucking flayed, you really think she'll take his word on anything?

[blindfoldcode]

You really think I'm willing to risk my goddamn life over the assumption Xanxus gives one shit about that and Lesedi Santiago isn't fucking crazy enough to believe him once in a while?

Look, I know it sounds really fucking stupid, but I'm serious. I can't let it get back to her. If I do, I'm dead.

[A beat. That's starting to seem less and less dangerous as she brushes with it over and over again.]

Again. Dead again.

[stylistic_disloyalty]

Yeah? I'm pretty sure that if Xanxus goes back to her, he's dead. He nearly died at that fucking party, I had to get down on my knees and beg Santiago to save him. You think that's somebody who gives a shit about what Xanxus says? Besides, I have no clue what you want me to do about it, even if you weren't talking unicorns riding purple dolphins through cotton candy clouds.

[blindfoldcode]

[Kido's never felt like more of an idiot than she has in this moment. She ducks her head, pulling on her hood as if to pull it further down over her eyes--an action she hasn't picked up until very recently, but feels very familiar.]

Fuck if I know, anymore. Nothing makes sense. [She's desperate.] It was stupid.