Doreen & Julian: Which Dress?!!?!?!?!!?111 (Backdated to Saturday)

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Doreen seeks out Julian for some Very Important Advice. ((Backdated due to my being a total flake >__> Saturday Night.))

Doreen held a bag in one hand and knocked on the door to Julian's suite with another. Monkey Joe looked bored from his perch on her shoulder. He wasn't really enjoying himself, but he didn't have to enjoy himself, Doreen reasoned.

"Julian? Are you in there?" she called out as she knocked again.

Upon hearing his friend, Julian quickly headed to the suite door and opened it widely, smiling. "Dori, what's up?" he paused and looked at Monkey Joe- swearing the squirrel actually looked bored- and then to the bag in her other hand. "What's in the bag?"

"Um... stuff," Doreen said, "Can I come in?"

He opened the door wider and gestured for her to enter, "Of course."

Doreen walked in. This was good. She didn't want anyone to see her in the hall with a bag with two dresses. Not that she had a reputation to worry about, it was just with her one dress was too much of an explanation, but picking out two because she couldn't decide was another thing entirely, "Thanks. Okay, I have to show you something and you have to answer honestly, okay?"

A little worried about what she was talking about, "Um...okay...." He took a seat on the couch, his other two suite-mates had headed off somewhere earlier so it was just the two of them.

Doreen turned around and pulled out the two dresses, biting her lip slightly when she turned around to face Julian, "Which one do you like better?" one was yellow, one sort of a russet color. Both were sundresses.

Julian blinked, pausing for a moment before he managed to get out a dumbfounded, "What?"

Doreen looked panicked, "Oh, I knew it, they're both horrible!"

"What, what, wait, no, that's not what I mean." Julian stood up and placed his hands on her shoulders, "Dori, what is going on?"

"I need to figure out which one looks better so I can have Miss Monet or Clarice tailor it for me," Doreen said, wide eyed. Because Vic had told her she'd look good in a sundress. "It's really, really important."

"Okay," Julian let go, "important for what?"

"Important for not tailoring the wrong one. I just... I mean... oh, I suck at this!" Doreen said, looking down at the dresses in her clawed hands.

"Dori, take a deep breath and just relax," Julian put his hands back on her shoulders and steered her to sit down on the couch.

Doreen sat down staring dumbly up at her friend, "I don't know what to do," she admitted.

Julian took the dresses from her hands and sat down next to her, "How to do what?"

She hoped they hadn't been torn anywhere by her claws, "This whole... stupid... thing," she started and then focused on Julian with singular clarity, "How do you ask someone out anyway?"

With a pause and a moment of silence, punctuated by blinking, Julian processed what she'd just said. "You're going to ask someone out?"

"I know, it's a really dumb idea, isn't it?"

"What?! No, no-no-no-no...nooooo," Julian put an arm around her, "I'm just surprised, you're interested in someone is all...I guess to me you're like a little sister, ya know?"

"Yeah, I know," Doreen said, "I've never been so nervous, I mean, I couldn't be interested in people back home, you know?"

"Well, you could have been, but..." she was very much in the right. "Okay, so who are you asking out?" He smiled, trying to remember that she was a big girl and could make her own choices.

"He doesn't even know yet," Doreen said, raising an eyebrow, "I don't want you scaring him. I just wanna know which dress looks better."

With a sigh, Julian accepted that his questions wouldn't yield results. "The yellow one, most definitely."

"Okay," Doreen said with a nod. She might have to return the other one, "And....um... how do you ask out a guy? I mean, you're a guy so you have to know how this works from your side of things."

"Uhhh...isn't this something you should ask Callie? I mean, she and Fred are dating and I'm fairly sure she asked him out." This topic of conversation was making him slightly uncomfortable.

"She says they're not really dating," Doreen said and sighed, "Nevermind. I didn't ask. Thanks for help with the dress though, now I know which one I should tailor. I really shouldn't have bugged you, but this is just... making me so nervous!"

"Dori," he gave her shoulders a firm shake, "chill. You're worrying too much. Anyone who didn't want to go out with you would have to be a douchebag of the highest order...or gay I guess."

She laughed, "I hope you don't apply that statement to yourself. Because I know you don't want to go out with me," she elbowed him, "Of course, we're like siblings or something. ...Really though, I've never had to do this before. Back home I couldn't have even thought of trying." She had to play this innocent perfect little girl and still she had gotten the bad kind of attention.

"Oh, well, actually," he feigned seriousness for a moment, before looking into her eyes, "I'm..." another pause. Unable to keep a straight face any longer, Julian cracked a smile and began to laugh, "...not believing you were falling for that. You should have seen your face."

The scrunched up 'ewww, what the hell!' look dissolved and she punched him playfully. Not too hard as she was pretty strong, "Ohmigosh, that was so wrong!"

"I couldn't resist," he said, falling back a little bit- wondering why every single girl who play punched him was so damn strong and why all of them hit the same damn spot. "You're a catch though, Green and definitely wear that one," he pointed at the option.

"I hope so," Doreen said, "Oh! You know, it's almost our friend-aversiery, our official one, you know when you started hanging out with me in public," she said, grinning.

He thought back to that day and sighed internally, keeping a happy exterior outside- he'd lost a lot in that day- "Oh wow, you're right."

"I'm sorry that everyone else started being mean to you, but maybe you shouldn't have put that bit about me in your speech," she wasn't in the class but she had heard it by overhearing parts of it from other students. And then she had hunted Julian down to see if it had all been true, "I mean, I'm glad we're friends, but what they all did was really mean. But since it's our friend-a-versiery we should totally do something!"

"Comic shop and Ice Cream this Tuesday?" he said with a bright smile.

"Yeah!" Doreen said happily, "But really... why did you put me in that speech?" she asked, looking up at him with her big brown eyes.

Julian's smile dimmed for a moment, he'd hoped they gotten beyond that particular topic of conversation. "Are you going to tell me who you're going to be asking out?"

Doreen reddened and her tail puffed out, "No!" she squeaked, "I won't do that! It's... a secret... or something."

"Well, once you let me know, I'll tell, until then..." Jules shrugged and leaned back on the couch.

"That's not fair at all"!