Seating

Date/Timing: 29 October 2005
Setting: Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Edan stops short, rocks back a step, grinning as he takes in the contents of the shop window. "Hold up a moment!"
"We'll miss the bus, Gingersnap," sighs Rhys.
"We'll get the next one. C'mon." 
"I'll wait here."
Edan shrugs, ducks into the shop.
A few quid later, Edan rejoins Rhys on the pavement clutching a large, /shushing thing to his chest. "Tahdah~!"
"It's a bean bag."
"Indeed~!"
Rhys hunches his shoulders, trudges for the bus stop. "The Hell'd you buy a bean bag?"
"We need another seat." Edan matches step, sticking close.
"And you're too cheap to buy an actual chair."
"And I'm too /poor to buy an actual chair. There's a very important difference."
"Whatever you say." Side-eyes Edan. "Why an orange one?"
"The rest were boring."
A few quiet paces.
"You're a strange one, even for a Scot."
"Pfft! I'm /eccentric."
"'Eccentric' is for thems who're posh. You only qualify for 'weird'."
"Then I'll be weird and /comfy."
Rhy stops at the bus shelter, yoinks Edan to a halt by his collar.
Edan coughs, tugs his jacket back where it belongs, gets a fresh grip on his prize, and rocks on his heels.
"Mad," drawls Rhys.
"Happy~!"
Rhys rolls his eyes. "Why do we need another seat anyway?"
"So Hermann can use one of the desk chairs."
"Of course. Why didn't I realize sooner?"
"Wha?"
"You'd only debase yourself like this for your little German."
Edan hides his face in the cushion. "He's not /my anything."
""Yet, you hope.""
Edan lets himself sink in deeper.
""You should, you know, actually /tell him you're heels over head for him.""
"I don't wanna scare him off."
""You'd rather just confuse and leave him hanging, then.""
Edan whines.
""You can make up your mind to saddle yourself with a bloody ugly orange bean bag, but you can't breathe a word to the bloke you're mooning over.""
"'s'not ugly."
""Missing the point, Gingersnap.""
Edan drags his head up, mumbles, "I don't want to scare him off."
The rumble of a big engine comes closer.
"Well, you do have a more immediate concern."
"What would that be?"
"How you're going to get that atrocious thing onto the bus."
Edan blinks at his armful of rustling thing. "/Shit."
"It's a pleasant day for a stroll, ay, Gingersnap?"
"Get fucked, Swansea."
"Since I'll have the room to myself for a bit, I may do just that."
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