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'Italics w/ commas' - Sign Language
Italics w/ Underline - Text Message
"Regular Speech"
-Thursday Afternoon-
YANG
Yang returned the house she shared with her sister after work. She had a rough day keeping the gym in order with the sheer amount of crap that her boss kept giving her. Today alone she dealt with complaint after complaint from gym members who didn't understand simple policies about classes and one-on-one trainers. With a sigh, she pulled into her drive-way and got off her motorcycle. She walked it into the garage and gave it a look of pride before she went closed the garage door and went inside. She spent all of high school saving up for it and keeping it in top condition. She had fights with her dad about ownership of the bike during her sophomore year, which ended in her having complete responsibility over it. She had even paid for the gas and insurance herself.
Upon entering through the mud room connecting the garage to the rest of the house, she heard giggles and sounds of kissing coming from the main living room. With a smirk, Yang silently creeped through the house and arrived in the living room to see her Ruby cuddling with her girlfriend. When Yang had met Velvet for the first time, she had been more than a bit protective, but overtime they came to be close friends. Which is why Yang had no second thoughts when she sneaked behind the couch then jumped up screaming,
"What are you doing?!" The looks on the couple's faces were so priceless that Yang couldn't hold her laughter when they jumped out of surprise. She spent a few moments chuckling then finally calmed down and saw two faces glaring at her.
"Aw, did I ruin a moment?" She asked in a teasing tone. Velvet sighed and lightly punched the blonde in the arm.
"Shut up, Yang… So how was work." The brunette asked. Yang groaned as she walked to the kitchen. "That bad?"
"Like you wouldn't believe… I swear your ex is only hard on me because your dating my sister now." Yang muttered. Velvet let out a weak laugh as she remembered how the two broke up. Coco had a history of treating her ex's and their friends like crap.
Meanwhile, Ruby had gotten up and grabbed a couple small tickets from the coffee table, "By the way, I got those tickets for you Yang." Ruby walked to her sister and handed her two tickets to a movie, Yang in turn smiled and gave her sister a big hug.
"Thanks sis! It wasn't too much of a hassle, was it?" She asked her sibling. Ruby shook her head with a smile, "Not really, and Velvet and I used the opportunity to see it ourselves today. It's good, you should enjoy it."
Velvet grinned, "So should your date~" she called from the living room. Yang blushed at the comment as the other two laughed at her expense. "You'll be fine Yang, I'm sure you won't be as bad as Ruby was when we went out on our first date." Ruby of course groaned her complaints as her girlfriend chuckled at her behavior. However, Yang was distracted by her thoughts.
I really hope Neo enjoys tomorrow night…
NEO
"Goodbye Sensei Neo!"
Neo smiled and waved at her students as they left the building. She was the last one in the dojo, and she just finished cleaning and closing. Upon locking the door, she received a text message. She pulled out her phone and unlocked it to look at the message, which was from her father.
Roman: Hey pumpkin, got your message. So you got another date tomorrow?
Neo: Yea, ran into her yesterday during my jog. Thank you for that by the way.
Roman: Glad to help, so what is she like?
Neo: Tall, long blonde hair, strong, thoughtful, and she loves puns.
Roman: …
Neo: I know, she can't hang around Emerald's boyfriend Mercury.
Roman: Damn right. I wouldn't be able to handle the PUNishment.
Neo: … I'm disowning you.
Roman: Hi Disowning You, I'm Dad.
Neo: That's it. I'm done. Nope.
Roman: See you later pumpkin. Love ya.
Neo: Love you too Dad.
Neo smiled as she put her phone away and began to walk to her white and pink Prius. As she turned the key she smiled as she wondered what she and Yang would do after coffee tomorrow morning.
-Friday Morning-
Neo was at her favorite café, she loved it because it was always open. Vale was a vast city with different "mini-cities" in it. She mostly stayed in Beacon due to a lot of shops and restaurants being open early or late. It made her life convenient most of the time, with the exception of college when she took two jobs to pay off her loans, which her father helped her with. Neo sighed with relief that she wasn't living that schedule anymore, as she hated the sleepless nights that were common with working two waitress jobs on top of studying to keep her grades up.
She sipped her Café Mocha, with extra chocolate and whip-cream of course, to fill her with more energy. As she nursed the cup of life giving nectar in her hands, a tall and blonde Amazon of a woman walked inside and walked up to the counter. She ordered a strawberry lemonade and turned to see Neo at her little corner table. The two waved to each other and as soon as Yang received her beverage, she sat with the shorter woman.
'So how are you doing, Goldilocks?' Asked Neo.
"Doing great, but Goldilocks?" Yang responded, tilting her head.
'You know, because you're just right.' Neo grinned, she had been working on that one since Yang asked for her number. Yang paused for a moment, then chuckled.
"Oh my gosh, that was clever. But I have to wonder about what the 'too small' version of you is if you are just right." She grinned playfully, causing Neo to silently grumbled as her comment was turned against her height. "Haha, I'm kidding. You're not small, just fun sized."
Neo smirked as an idea came to her head.
'Does that make you jumbo sized?' Her gaze lowering, as she tactically took a sip of her drink as the blonde blushed.
The next few moments went on like this. Playful comment here, comedic retort there, misplaced pun over yonder… Both women enjoyed the other's company. They talked about the previous day, offering consoling when needed and interested in how the other was doing. Eventually after about an hour of conversation, Yang brought up her plans for the day.
"So I was thinking about what we could do today," Yang held up the movie tickets. "We could go around town, do some shopping, walk through the park, maybe get a bite to eat along the way, then go see a movie. You game?"
Neo put on a overly ponderous look, as if she was deciding between the plans offered to her or some nonexistent schedule she had. Then she smiled,
'Sounds like fun. Lead the way beautiful.' Yang blushed slightly at the compliment, but saved face. She was excited for the events to come, and she didn't want today to go bad. She had a feeling about this girl and she wanted to make it work.
The first placed they visited was a mall by the park where they had met. Beacon Hills was a very well kept area that had a lot of diversity in both shoppers and stores. Yang and Neo walked around admiring the different locations inside, going from store to store looking at the available wares inside each one.
What they didn't know was that a certain couple was following them from a distance.
General
"You sure we should be doing this Ruby?" Asked Velvet, adjusting her fake glasses as she turned to her girlfriend.
"Totally, I wanna see how it goes. Plus Yang did the same thing for us when we went out." Replied the younger one of the couple, to which Velvet mocked surprise.
"Oh, how mistrusting. She knew of my clever ruse to take advantage of you in such a densely populated area!" She joked, ending her words with a peck on Ruby's cheek. Ruby smiled at her girlfriend's antics.
"Come on, they are heading to the next store." When Velvet didn't follow, Ruby turned to see that Velvet was looking at a gray-haired man and a green-haired woman watching the same couple as Ruby and Velvet.
"Any idea who they are?" Asked Velvet with concern. Ruby shook her head, pretending to check her phone as she snuck a picture of the two before they moved further down. They then both heard a voice behind them.
"So who are you two then?"
The two girls turned to see a tall red-headed man wearing a white and black suit with a bowler hat and cane. He looked suspicious of the girls and they weren't sure what to make of the situation.
"We're… watching over my sister and her date. Do you know those two?" Ruby asked the man.
"That would be my daughter and her boyfriend, watching over her sister and her date. Would your sister be a miss Xiao-Long?" Velvet was slightly nervous as the man talked, then jumped a bit as a hand laid upon her shoulder from behind. The same must of happened to Ruby as she yelped in surprise.
"Roman, please. You're being rude. Did you even share your name?" Asked a woman with black hair and orange eyes. She was wearing a red dress with fiery orange symbols on the sides, with a short coat and a white scarf around her neck.
"Cinder, I-" Roman sighed, "I'm sorry ladies, my name is Roman Torchwick. The woman who probably Facebook stalked you two is my wife Cinder." With a huff, Cinder pretended to be annoyed with her husband. She then turned to the younger couple. "We're Neo's parents. She isn't the best when it comes to dating so we followed her without her knowledge as a family to back her up if things get rough."
Ruby looked to the married couple and nodded, forming a smile. "Ruby Rose, I'm Yang's half-sister. This is my girlfriend, Velvet Scarletta." After formalities, and a quick text to Emerald and Mercury (As Roman later introduced the couples), the now bigger group had formed three groups that kept in touch via text message. They shared stories about the newer couple as they kept watch.
And to their soon-to-be dismay, they took plenty of videos and pictures of the awkwardness to follow.
Yang and Neo were having fun in the mall, since the movie wasn't until eight o'clock in the evening they took their time. It was barely nine that morning when they had already checked out half the stores in Beacon Hills. They had snacks from the food court and bought each other small gifts that each woman saw the other was interested in. Yang had gotten Neo a little stuff doll in the shape of an ice cream cone, while Neo got Yang a shirt that had a 'Ah!' In a box with several periodic table symbols in it and text underneath reading 'The Element of Surprise'.
Needless to say, both girls loved the small gifts.
At about ten o'clock, they made their way to the nearby park. They flirted occasionally, talked, joked, watched the park animals being cute, and at one point Neo had gotten a piggy back ride from Yang when her feet had gotten tired.
Several videos were taken to ensure much family teasing down the line, thanks to six close friends and families.
At around noon, the couple made way to a restaurant near the theater for a bite to eat. Unknown to them their loved ones had already prepared a large table for eight, and when the blonde and multi-hair colored girls walked in, they were lead to the large table with all six of their stalkers waving at them.
"I didn't know you gave rides Yang!" Called Ruby.
It was then that Yang and Neo begged for the sweet mercy of death.
