On a Run

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<sub>Crash's already wide grin went even wider when Thorn mentioned he was getting a present for a lady friend. Ooh a girlfriend, probably? The man tapped his shoes and then scooted over to Thorn, patting him on the back despite his height issues.

"Oooh, a girlfriend, eh?" He would glance over to Anita. Pssh, yeah he was going there. "You hear that? Who is she, huh?" Hey, he was curious. Maybe he'll spot her in the crowd some day!

As soon as Corina spoke up he would spin on his heels and then dip his head to the lady, looking up at her with his wild smile and wild hair.

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"Wait what?! N-Nonononononono! it's nothing like that!" his face was bright red now, why did everyone think Sarina was his girlfriend? Sure she was a girl, and one of his first friends but there was no way there was nothing between them...Right? Thorn was spazzing a bit shaking his hands at them. "S-She's not my girlfriend, s-sure she's a girl and a friend, one my first friends really but it's nothing like that! I-I mean I'm terrible when it comes to to the female counter part, I do like Sarina an all but...ahhg" He mentally face palmed when that came out of his mouth, it almost sounded like he was implying something else.

Thorn put his face in his hands. "I give up" Thorn said just shaking his head, trying to hid his embarrassment and just accepting defeat.

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Anita looked over at Crash to see that he was thinking exactly what she was thinking, and she grinned at him. Oh yeah, they were going there. Thorn was so easy to fluster, too. It was so cute!

"Really now~?" Anita smiled, staying quiet as Thorn began talking about the girl that he liked and how he'd met her. "Oh, so her name's Sarina, hm~?"

She giggled, patting him on the shoulder, and turned to Corina. "My name's Anita Mariga, and loverboy here is Thorn Amethyst."

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Corina had to bite her tongue from snickering too loud. This conversation...It always made Corina's day to witness an amusing conversation like this. She was very glad to meet this group of people.

"N-Nice to meet you all.~ My name is Corina Valiani," she said in midst of a bit of snickers.

Corina calmed herself down and nodded. "Well, like I said, I hope that you'll find something to your lady friend's (said that in a way where it could be taken either way) liking!"

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<sub>Crash snickered when Thorn got all defensive and adorable over it. Oh he sooo liked her! He would roll his neck and pop a sore joint before hopping up and down again, eager, his lips thinned into a silly grin.

"You totally like your lady friiiend~." He teased, but he would stop though. Anita got some action in and even Corina, who was how new best friend now (come on, who wasn't his best friend aside form the jerks in Dula)?

"I bet she'd love one of those pretty red studded necklaces~." Yeah, Crash is somehow giving beauty advice.</sub>

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"She's not my girlfriend.." he grumbled trying to hid his embarrassment. "Thank you lady Corina.." he continued showing his eyes slightly. He looked to his friends trying to calm down, half way between crying from embarrassment and frustration to just leaving the shop. "Crash stoooop please I don't think..ahgh" he stopped, rubbing his head frantically, messing his hair up.

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"Nice to meet you, Corina!" she said, smiling. Now that they all knew each other, things could get less awkward (or more awkward in poor Thorn's case).

Anita chuckled again as even Corina got in on the teasing, and Crash continued to tease him. She patted Thorn on the shoulder.

"Aw, they're just teasing you. What would she like, though?"

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Corina made a face that was a sort of half-smile and half-grin. Getting back to business, she wanted to please her customer however she could.

"Well, let us start on color. What's her favorite?"

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<sub>Crash grinned like a loon when Thorn was getting really embarrassed but that was probably enough for now. He would stop, yes. For now. Probably forget and pick it back up later, but they were looking for jewelry and he wondered how he could help.

Of course he was jewelry dumb and Meredith wasn't here to help so he'd just stand back and watch as the others went to look for jewelry, glancing at the shiny objects.

Shiiiinnnyyyyy....</sub>

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Thorn relaxed a bit when they let it go, thank goodness. What would she like? Favorite color? those where good questions though he didn't know both, he might be wrong if he guessed the pastel blue she was wearing but it was the best thing he had. He's have to talk to her more later about that, figure out how to ask without making it obvious what he'd be doing with that information if he found nothing here. "I think blues."

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Anita saw that grin on Corina's face, causing her own to grow much wider. It was way too funny teasing Thorn, but she didn't want to make the poor man die of embarrassment. Either way, she stepped back with Crash, looking at him as he stared at the shininess.

Hm.

"What about you, Crash? Any ladies caught your eye at some point?" Trololol.

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"All right, blue it is then!" Corina then reached under the desk to pull out jewelries with different shades of blue. Blue, indigo, sky, cerulean, etc.

"See anything she may like?"

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<sub>Well now it seems that Anita was teasing him, but he would totally play along. After all there was no shame in liking a lady! After Thorn spoke up about the lady's favorite color, he noted that was Meredith's favorite color too! How cool! He'd glance at the jewelry, then turned to Anita.

"Well now that depends on your definition of 'like.'" He teased back. "Meredith's still on my eyes, but I think she wants to stay platonic. Especially considering we kind of grew up together."

It was a good concept, though, staying platonic. Though it was an odd ideal to everyone, considering Crash said it out loud.</sub>

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Thorn was more then glad they took their attention of him for now, He looked to the jewelry wondering what Sarina would like. He started to look or the pale cyan blue she wore most of the time at the same time simple. "Not yet ma'dam." he smiled, he was new to this still, so worried he'd do something wrong. He glanced back hearing his friends chatting, he couldn't agree more with what Crash was saying, he mostly just wanted to say as friends with people, but if he knew his brother well enough he'd never quite pushing.

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Blue, eh? Blue seemed to be a popular color among that ladies. Anita was fond of blue as well, though people said that wearing green brought out her eyes more. She giggled a bit as Crash spoke up about that.

"Meredith, huh? Well, you'll see what happens, you can't rush into these things, after all. I don't have a boy showing interest in me yet-" Partly because she was rather young, and plus she was obviously part-Eastern. "-but maybe one day, in the future."

Crash and Thorn were much too old for her, after all, plus they seemed to have an interest in other girls named Sarina and Meredith already. Off-limits, then!