smashacademy | [Private video to Voile.]

[It had been a little while since she'd gone. She'd told him she had 'stuff' she had to do and he had accepted that, while privately acknowledging how much he'd miss her. Still, he'd said goodbye with a grin and a hug and lots of 'Good luck!' and 'Dress warm!' and other things you said to a dear, dear friend when they were headed off to do things.

However, today he just happened to notice that her name appeared as Active in the student registry. He was excited.

Maybe that was an understatement.

He put on a nice clean shirt and tried to comb his hair into something like a normal person's hair style and spent a good thirty seconds clearing his throat before starting the video feed.]

Hi! Welcome back! I just wanted to say... uh. Hi! And welcome back! And that I hope your trip was nice and you got to do the things you wanted to do and enjoyed your trip.

If you wanted to meet up and do something that would be great! I mean... once you're settled in again and aren't tired from your trip and stuff. Or if you just want to talk on video or text or something that's fine too! Whatever you like!

[Sonny. You're waffling. Bring it on home and stick to the point.]

Um. It's great that your back and I'm looking forward to hearing from you! Bye!

[A little wave and then the feed is off.]

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[Sonny picked up his own watering can.]

I'd like to! But only if you would want to. I think it would be nice? But only if you want to!

We can if you'd like to. I don't mind. We should dance if you want to dance.

I would LOVE to dance with you!

[His eyes are shining. He is so excited. Like he literally can't wait. He'd probably dance with you in the greenhouse if it was suggested and they could find somewhere with space enough not to do irreparable damage to people's precious plants.]

[The tone of his voice was serious enough. Voile knew not to question and while she wasn't completely on the same level that he was, she wasn't particularly lacking in looking forward to it either. So she smiled as she leaned over to pay some special attention to her gracideas.]

So it would seem. You've never danced before, Sonny? Not at any of the dances the academy has had?

Not proper dancing. Me and Marie would listen to music and sometimes I'd dance to that. But it's not proper... You know. 'One two three, one two three, turn, point, turn, one two three' kind of dancing.

[Where had he even picked that up? He stuck his hand out and moved side to side as he said it, imitating what he thought a waltz might look like if he weren't standing in one place, holding a watering can roughly where his partner's hip might be and trying not to bruise people's petunias.]

Waltzing. You mean waltzing, Sonny.

[But she was smiling because trying to picture him and Marie dancing was almost impossible. Marie never seemed the sort who would dance. At least not so nonchalantly.]

So what kind of dancing did you two do?

Dancing to Justin Beiver! So... you know. Just regular dancing.

[He sort of... wiggled in place and waggled his arms and did the Oppa Gangnam Style horse riding bit.]

You know. Regular dancing.

[MTV what hath though wrought?]

[Regular dancing. She didn't even know how that was supposed to be defined and after many moments, she simply started laughing.]

Whatever you say. I'm not sure that's 'regular dancing,' but I don't think such a thing exists.

Maybe it doesn't. I don't know. But I'll learn proper dancing before the Prom. Prom-Ise!

[See what he did, there?

He got the hose and started filling up their watering cans.]

So! Did you do anything fun on your trip?

Anything fun? Mm. Well, aside from seeing Alcin and the others, I don't think there was much.

[She exchanged the cycle of wringing her hands together and unweaving them, only to repeat it a few times while she waited for her can to fill. And once it had, she slowly made her way to the line of gracideas and blue bells.]

I gave a proper goodbye to Professor Wright and promised I would come back and visit him frequently. I miss him, though. Did you do anything else while I was away?

[Sonny handed her the watering can and started filling up his own.]

I did TONS of stuff! Well, I already told you about saving Rhys from the Apple Pie Golems. I played more Ukulele, I know a couple of songs pretty well! Jolt and me bought like... a hundred pounds of super cheap candy and spent the afternoon eating it outside and then we made amazing cheeseburgers! I got poisoned by accidentally eating evil little purple bugs and Max had to take me to the Pokémon Center to get my stomach pumped. That was no fun! Then I was studying for my finals because this year I graduate!

[He was ticking each of these things off on his fingers until he realized his watering can was about to overflow.]

Tons of stuff!

You mean Jolt was eating something other than bacon? He took me out for bubble tea once and the only thing I remember him being real into was bacon.

[Which wasn't a bad thing. If anything, Voile thought it was a bit cute and Jolt's company was good when she was going through a rather rough time. Or one of those rough times because she had a way of seeing a few of them.]

You sure have been busy, though. Out of curiosity, how to accidentally eat a bug? Were you just... shoveling food into your mouth or something?

He eats lots of things that aren't bacon! That's just one of his favorite things. We put a LOT of bacon on our cheese burgers. But he likes gummy bears, Cadbury eggs, marshmallow peeps, candy corn. I don't think he told me any candies he didn't want to eat.

[Here we go, Sonny is watering plants! Drink up, little plants. He knows pretty well how to do this, considering the times he looked after Vinnie's potted rainforest.]

I should say I drank them. I was making my morning cocoa and I guess they got into my kettle. I was half asleep because it was in the morning and so when I poured hot water into my cup and it was all purple, I just thought 'grape flavored' and drank the cocoa. But it was actually bugs and they weren't very nice tasting at all. I got pretty sick!

[Private video to Voile.]

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