Cyber Sweets

While the last wisps of daylight die out in Lavish’s bedroom, they lay on their stomach atop their bed. The blue light of their cell is the only thing illuminating them as they thumb through their apps. The room is filled with the sound of pattering rain and the occasional impish giggle, and the smell of petrichor filters in through the air conditioning.

Lavish’s legs kick up as they start texting people on Biscord. They’re making an effort to socialize with the new team, even through the rampant multitasking. After a couple hours of casual chat on main, they end up in Elena’s DMs.

“Hey cutie. You’re the girl from Sappho’s Sweets, right?”

Elena was laying on her side on the couch, she was more or less feeling used to using  the internet, Maria had suggested she just start using it on the phone since it was easier and then work her way down to desktops. So she was laying on her side on the phone, on this wonderful net that she enjoyed so much. Using it she could even be a TV star, anyone could be how cool!!

Elena had been enjoying talking to the team on her phone while Maria worked on her guitar and EliZe was experimenting with weird things they had brought back for her to poke at. Their little haunted house was so cozy even if at first it was a bit spooky.

“Oh totally am, you’ve seen my videos?! That is so cool!”

It suddenly hit her,  she knew this person from the internet as well, the site where people lip sing mostly.

“Wait, you're Lavish, like the Lavish that’s like all over the internet? I like your music video things.! You’re a real heart stopper.”

A satisfied grin curls its way over Lavish’s face at the news of another fan in the big team. Their legs swing like pendulums behind them as they type.

“Well, I think of myself as being more of a heart thief than a heart stopper,” Lavish sighs in amusement at the cheesy flirt, “I didn’t take you for a fan.”

Elena says out loud to her besties “Hey, gonna flirt with a cute non binary person!”

Maria slides over to her side and grins “Oh, let me watch.”

Elena grabs Maria’s hand and they fuse again “I’m in control though, still Elena.”

The girl texts back excitedly, Lavish was stunning, she totally admired their boldness  “Well it seems our fandom is a two way street so we’re at least avoiding a one sided thing.”

Elena lays upside down on the couch, her long now purple hair reaching the floor going for a new flirt “So, your stylish and cute, I’d love to know what you think of my outfits on the show, I try my best but I am new to this time.”

The girl figured saying she was from the past wouldn’t be a big deal, from their research it seemed like that wasn’t totally rare and some people were also from the future, the big team seemed very weird if she was being totally honest.

Lavish isn’t too surprised that Elena’s one of those innocent types. They’re used to time being a little bullshit here. Though, they do wonder aloud to themself whether Elena might have an evil adult self running around. After a pause, they shake the thought from their mind and focus back in on the conversation.

“Honestly, hun, I don’t see enough of the retro gay look, and you kill it on that camera. So really I wouldn’t even bother modernizing or whatever if you’ve got a vibe that works,” their face scrunches a little as they think of how to drive it home, “Besides, the cutest part of the show is the look on your face after you’ve tasted the pastry you just made.”

Elena popped herself back up heading over to their main bedroom, Maria’s weapons on display, a bookshelf with cook books and comics they collected, the creme dela creme the huge ass bed fit for a polycule Maria won off a villain in a contest.  She hops onto it and starts to giddy get back to texting the cutie.

“Awww, that’s so  sweet. I think your look is just the bee’s knees too. ”

She decided not to focus too hard on going modern since apparently this star was into what she was cooking up naturally.  Elena decided to go for the big play and ask her out, maybe it was a bit more of the boldness bleeding out from being Fearless but she liked it.

“We should go out some time? We got this cherry ride I love taking around, I am down to go wherever in the city you think is nifty.”

“I--” Lavish starts typing, before deleting. *‘Wait, what?’* they murmur to themself as they tilt their head at the phrase ‘cherry ride’. There’s a pause in the conversation at the worst spot as they have to Boogle what it means. They don’t get any solid answers.

Oh wait, damn, damn, might have messed up a bit, Maria told her the way she talked in reality isn’t what people think of as retro, it’s what was in movies from a year later about the time that people think of the slang. It was only some words that would have lasted. Oh did she just make a big ol mess thinking she could be really hot by being retro?  Well Elena took a breath, she was Fearless, no fear, worst case is this doesn’t work out, back to square one, no problem.

After a few minutes of obstinately trying to force the answer out of the search engine, Lavish just curtly sighs and swipes away their browser before returning to Elena’s DMs. They were just going to assume it meant ‘car’ and improvise if needed.

“Oh, I’d love to, darling. Where were you thinking?” Lavish rolls over in their bed as they type.

Elena rubs her head, darn, she wasn’t exactly sure where to ask them out to. She had almost no idea what to do. After all Elena just got here from the 50’s like 3 months ago. Her hair rolling in her fingers, she wondered how Maria handled having such short hair? What else would you nervously fidget with?  Sock hops weren’t an option, soda bars not really a thing either, real bars, nope she didn’t drink. Elena rubbed her forehead trying to think of the best way to impress Lavish.

Elena paces thinking to herself  *“Okay so they are cute, they do music, they are an artist type but they are cool so they probably know all the scene. So it had to be outside of that,  there is nor reason to flip  my lid, I got this.”*

Maria buts in “Do something you feel comfortable doing on your own, you want to go unfused right, if they won’t like it then like it might just not be meant to be,”

The girl quickly texts “Do y’all have anywhere where you can skate?”

Lavish’s face scrunches into a quizzical pout. Usually it’s movies or coffee, or park walks they suppose. They’ve accrued many skills over the years, but skating wasn’t one of them. As they thought about it, it did seem pretty cute. Plus if they get good at it they might be able to impress the next hottie to ask them to a skating rink. The pout bleeds into a smile as they think about it.

“Plenty, I’m sure. You’ll have to teach me, though. You might even have to hold me to keep me balanced.” Lavish chuckles to themself.

Elena grinned and exclaimed “they are more of a drama queen then I expected, I like it.”

The woman texts back after taking that second “Shucks, I’d be glad to teach you.”

She leaned back, alright date is now a thing, it shouldn’t be too hard, although she felt weird taking such a firm leading role here, she would have to give Lavish a chance to sweep her off her feet too. Maybe a second date if they worked out? No reason to overthink it for now one good date sounded great.

*‘Shucks, she says,’* Lavish giggles, *‘Well, this one is certainly an adorable little sweet.’* The lipstick on their growing smile glitters in their phone’s backlight.

“See you tomorrow, cutie ;)”

Lavish hops up from their bed and stands before their massive closet. Time to pick out their outfit.

Fearless splits up, Elena back in her own body typing back “Looking forward to it, hottie.”

Then she turned to Maria “Time to get baking, I gotta make something that will rock their socks off, best way to someone’s heart is through their belly after all.”

Maria teases “I am pretty sure there are better ways like a sword but… your point stands.”

The girl runs over to the kitchen and Maria heads back over to check on EliZe and make sure she was doing okay.