xp_logs | Kyle and Dori's date. Backdated to August 3rd

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Kyle and Dori's date, backdated to August 3rd. It is a date, they are way too cute for their own good. Kyle is, well, Kyle, and Dori is adorably awkward but trying hard to not show it.

The movie was okay. It wasn't as good as some of them, but it was about what she expected out of a Micheal Bay movie. There were lots of loud explosions. It was why she was taking out ear plugs as they exited the theater and dropping them into her bag. She had been pretty calm during the movie but afterwards the excitement of actually being out and about started getting to her and she was twitchy.

"So, what did you think?" she asked, trying not to bounce too much. She totally had to be dignified. Totally.

Kyle held up one hand, while he used a claw to dig some wax earplugs out of his ears. He could understand Dori, but it was muffled enough to be annoying, and he didn't like how the earplugs felt. "Seriously, I hear the last one was the loudest movie ever, but I think this one was. But hey, giant robots blowing stuff up, always fun." He answered, once his ears were clear and he'd popped them a few times. He mushed the earplugs together, and then dropped them into a trashcan.

"Yeah, and that's one thing that director is really good at. Blowing stuff up," Dori noted, "So, uh, dinner now, right?" she asked. She knew it was sort of dumb to be afraid of the idea of changing his mind before the actual 'date' part but a part of her was. She was really trying though not to freak out, but it was hard. She really, really liked him and she didn't want to mess it up.

Kyle's stomach answered for him. Despite having shared the largest bag of kettle corn they could get with Dori, Kyle was hungry. "Okay, so we have like, two options here. Because usually I'd be all for eating a burger the size of my head, but you're not a beefatarian. So I was wondering how you felt about just getting Chinese? Because there's a place Jubes swears is authentic and does organic and MSG-free and I bet we could both find something there."

"That sounds great!" Dori said happily, "I like Chinese food," because there was a lot of options for her to eat without getting too woozy, "How far is it? Not that I mind a walk. I really don't mind a walk."

"It's a couple blocks. Not far outta DX, which hey, I'm all for not getting harassed." Kyle said. He didn't get too much crap, not in the city, not if he had shoes on and hadn't cut his hair in a while but Dori had a tail, and like hell he was going to risk wrecking a date with crazy anti-mutant asshats. "Might be worth taking the subway back to the car though later."

"Sure, we can take the subway," Dori said, rocking a bit on her feet. Her tail also gave off signs of being overly happy, and a bit nervous. "I don't mind taking the subway, and DX is good, they have neat things there!"

Kyle laughed. "You just like it because they have that deli that lets you bring MJ in, admit it." The same places let people bring in dogs, as long as they stayed on the patio, and a patron with a very large parrot, and one with a ferret, and Kyle was pretty sure he'd seen a cat on a leash once. He wasn't doing that to Shamu though. His cat would throw a fit. But she was right, District X was chock full of interesting and weird places, both due to the mutant population and the just general weird side of society that tended to end up in places like District X.

"Yeah, well, they have good food too," Doreen pointed out, "And other stores and it's easier to find places that tailor jeans and stuff," she wasn't wearing jeans tonight though, it was a short skirt, but it also was tailored so her tail could go through, "And, well, you know."

"Damn straight." Kyle agreed. "Jay used to get stuff tailored by a guy out here, before he went and got cray-cray. Jay, I mean, not the guy." Kyle himself didn't need to get things tailored too often, but he had enough friends that did that he knew how hard it was.

It didn't take too long for them to get the few blocks over to the place that Jubilee had recommended to Kyle, and then get seats.

Dori wondered if it was the same guy, but sitting into the seat she figured it didn't matter. Because she had to try very hard not to mess this up because this was really important, "So, what are you getting? Because I'm totally getting rice and stuff because you know what's good? Water chestnuts are good. I really like those."

"Those are fun in tuna salad. They're crunchy like celery but don't get caught in my goddamn teeth." Kyle looked over the menu, and then set it aside. He tended to order a lot of the same thing over and over to be safe, even when he knew a place. "Chicken with cashews. Which is totally not me trying to butter you up by giving you half the cashews." He said, grinning.

"You can butter me up!" Dori said, and then realized how horrible that sounded and turned a bright shade of red, "I mean, I don't think you are - not that it's bad, but uh..."

"Wow, it's like your secret power is to turn everything I say into some kind of sex thing." Kyle said, chuckling. "Relax. I'm not going to run screaming down the street if you say something stupid. I say stupid stuff all the time." Had he been this nervous on his first date? Well, maybe the first date with Clarice. The relationship with Jay had been weird, so there was less nervous dating and more awkward making out. "Seriously, chill. What's the worst thing that's gonna happen."

Before Dori could answer, Kyle appended. "Besides space lasers, dinosaurs-men or crazy cultists invading the city.." Yeah, his life was never going to be normal.

In her mind the the worst thing that could happen was that she could totally embarrass herself. She really didn't want to embarrass herself like that. But maybe she already had? Had she?! She didn't know and spent the next second or so trying to back track to see if she really had.

"Dinosaurs what now?"

"Dude, I totally wrote up a report on that! Twice!" He'd even included a crayon drawing of Sauron, although that had probably not stayed in the files. "Dude who turned into... crap, one of those flying dinosaurs, I forget which kind, totally tried to mug Laurie and eat her, and then was all serial killer in the city?" Kyle explained. "I missed the Super Bowl from that guy, I still want to kick him in the eye."

"Oh! I remember that," Dori said. Yes, she was reading all that stuff, she just had been nine billion miles away, or way too close to him, she hadn't decided yet, "Yeah, dinosaur men, bad. Dinner good. I like food, do you like food? I mean, I know you like food too, so yeah..."

"Earth to Dori..." Kyle said, clacking a set of chopsticks at her. "Look, pretend this isn't a date, okay? I mean, okay, it's a date, sure, but you've been out to eat with me what like twenty times before." It was almost sweet that she was so nervous. "So, how's registering for classes going, Miss didn't tell anyone she was actually going to college?" He grinned. "Also if you're gonna keep that on the downlow, it's probably better if you don't leave your college course catalog in the locker room."

"Oh, well, uh, I don't know, I mean, I didn't know I needed to apply for all that aid stuff right away and then even though Mom and Dad are like finally divorced I need to put his income and stuff on the application so I really don't qualify for anything because I "have too much money,"" she said. She really didn't want to think about it, but there it was.

Kyle groaned. "Okay, if I tell you that I can walk you through student loans because I have a ton, and that the Professor has a fund to help, and you should probably maybe talk to Mr. Haller too since that's his job, will you do it? Because dude, -college-."

"Yeah, I know. I mean, I'm not going to stop I just didn't think I'd have to worry about it, you know?" Dori said, staring at her plate, "I mean, he doesn't even think I'm HIS kid anymore. I had...well, yeah... nevermind."

"Hey, whatever it is, it's okay. I mean, if you wanna talk or don't wanna talk, whatever. God knows I'm like, not gonna judge on crazy parents, mine didn't bother telling me that my dad wasn't my dad until I was like sixteen." Kyle said, and then proceeded to pick out a good dozen cashews from his plate and drop them carefully into Dori's rice. He liked them, but not as much as she did. "And I'll totally help with forms. Forms suck but I've done 'em once so I know the drill."

She popped one into her mouth. So tasty, "Yeah, I hate paperwork. I just, I mean if your Dad like totally disowns you you shouldn't have to include his buttload of money on any government forms. When I was out there... I had to get a paternity test done," she admitted.

"Seriously, your dad is epic levels of jackass." Kyle said. "Remind me the next time I complain about my folks to, you know, not do that anymore." He grinned. "Okay, so talk to the prof, do paperwork, register for classes, bring note signed by whichever doctor you like best to the people at your college so you can get the longer test time and whatever else you need, serious conversation time over, talk about how Michael Bay has a serious explosion fetish time now?"

Because there was only so much serious he could handle, for reals.

"Oh, he totally does," Dori noted, "But that's okay because explosions are awesome." She was more than happy with changing the subject here, even more so because whatever she was talking about she was still talking about with Kyle.

* * *

Dinner had been tasty. Which was good, but what really made the evening was the conversation and the company. She was always more than happy to spend time with Kyle and the officialness of the date just made it even more awesome. On the way back she was more than aware of the fact that she really, REALLY did not want the date to be over yet. "So, uh, would you want to hang out or anything for a bit?" Toplessly. She totally should have said that. Then again, she really was glad she didn't. But she should've. Because she totally thought that.

"I gotta get up at 4:30. I have like two weeks of Danger Room time to make up for, and our Fearless Leader was in town and I'm pretty sure even if all he did was sit by Doc Jean's bed the entire time, he came up with evil scenarios that involve me landing on my head." Kyle explained. "Not that I don't want to, but the last time I had the stupid o'clock slot and was half asleep, I got a concussion and they're not as fun as advertised."

"Oh, okay... well, um walk me back to my room?" Because it would take that much time to work up the courage to try to steal a REAL kiss.

"Because that's a whole fifty feet from mine." Kyle said, grinning. "But I can do that. You know, part of the actual date experience and all." He held the door between the garage and main building open for Dori, and let her duck under his arm. "... you don't have like, I dunno, Garrison hiding in your room so you can have someone large and scary be like "And where have you two been?" or something, right? Because that's a part of the date experience I think we can both skip."

Dori laughed, "No, I don't. And yeah, that's one thing we can totally do without, you know?" she said, sneaking in closer. Like a ninja! "So, I had a really good time."

Kyle grinned, a little self-consciously. "You know, I did too. I mean, I was kinda going with the like, idea of just giving you a good first date but that movie was fun and dinner was great. We should totally do this again." He liked Dori - once she was over her huge case of the nerves, she was fun and she -got- him, in the weird food choices and the hatred of shoes and that he was pretty much constantly eating, which was fine because she was too, and it didn't hurt that she had great legs and under the tail, a pretty goddamn nice ass. He'd been looking - the short skirt had been a distraction more than once.

"Yeah," she said, looking around quick to make sure they weren't right on top of anyone. She didn't hear anyone and it was hard to smell people coming and going in a place this crowded, but visual confirmation that they weren't right on top of anyone else was nice.

Standing on her toes she planted a quick kiss as near to his lips as she dared, and was an interesting shade of red right afterwards.

"Hey, come back here.." Kyle shook his head a few times, and did not laugh, even though he had to cover a grin. He had been planning on it anyway, and if Dori was gonna be bold, well, she should be encouraged. So he kissed her back.

Dori squeaked for a minute before really sinking into the kiss, though she was painfully aware of just where her two slightly oversized front teeth were. She really tried not to think about it, but it was hard not to.

It wasn't a really long kiss - Kyle was always perpetually aware of his own teeth issues, and kissing always just seemed to run the risk of biting and biting was only hot if you were doing it on purpose. "So next time you can just be not as nervous, cause it's not your first kiss anymore, right?" He said, grinning.

It was so better than nice, and she would've squeaked, or maybe she did. Either way it still seemed to be over to soon, "Wow."

"Hey, I've never gotten a "wow" just from a kiss before." Kyle said, grinning. "You keep buttering me up like that and I'll just have to go on more dates with you."

"Promise?" Dori asked, brightening up considerably.