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Friendsgiving - 2015
#1
"You're cooking?"  

She's sitting on the edge of the counter, head tipped back against the upper cabinets, bare legs swinging this syncopated rhythm and she has a mug in hand, she's cradling it to warm herself.  It's cold outside, and the afternoon has a dark and tunneled feel to it, as if today were something simply to be gotten-through.

"Though I'd get the cranberry sauce done."  

"Uh, thought we were supposed to meet that real estate agent today.  We're gonna be laaaa-aaate.  And it's not gonna be my faaa-ault."  

"This takes five minutes, Sera.  Boil the berries with some sugar until they pop, let it cool.  Bam."

"Oh."  Mild skepticism in her voice.  She's eyeing the stove.  Looks complicated to her.  "Well.  Then.  Why d'ya have to make it early?"

"Makes me feel like I've got a leg up on holiday chaos.  You gonna change or are you wearing your pajamas out?"

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Holiday tradition, this: the Thanksgiving meal at Corona Street.  The invitation goes out by mass text and if Sera has ever had your character's number, they'll probably end up on that endless invite. Dan even reiterates it on Ginger, using Sera's phone to make the post.  
Anyone who likes is welcome to join, bring a dish if you like, but nothing's required.  Bring yourself, bring a friend, bring a neighbor.  There will be enough for anyone who shows up.  Invitation's open from 1 or 2 p.m. onward, but the turkey should be done by 6 p.m. or so.
But my heart is wild and my bones are steel
And I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free.

- Phosphorescent, Song for Zula
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#2
Grace doesn't like parties. The kinds of shindigs Sera throws are massive, with people crammed in together. Grace thinks (and she might be (probably is) wrong) that those strangers expect you to be of a type -- that if you're there, you must be there for everyone else. The extroverted horde doesn't understand all too much why the introvert wants to go find a nice quiet corner and read -- especially when there is such a throng as to be able to suffocate an elephant.

Grace didn't buy a box of cupcakes earlier for the privelege of being invited to some noisy press of human flesh. She decided to go because it's Sera doing the inviting.

She's not heard much about what's lately gone down for her friend. Maybe that's not the friendliest thing for her to do -- be ignorant like that. There's been mention, at the periphery, that things might not all have been perfect in Sera-land. Hints, like Mike having to go pick her up and such. For all Grace knows, Sera 'suffered' from an epic bender. She was a bit distracted at the time with the whole Nephandus thing. With the whole falling in love thing. With herself.

There are ways not to be such a stranger. Grace doesn't need to know everything, or anything at all. But just being there is worth it, right?

Well, hopefully, yes.

It is in such a frame of mind that Grace shows up to the house of Sera at around 2, large white bakery box in hand, having braved the temperatures by layering her red coat over her grey jacket over a black t-shirt (because why have different articles of clothing? It only makes deciding what to wear more difficult...)
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#3
The Verbana comes, of course. Kiara's solo this time, arrives with a little dish covered in foil that is later revealed to be pie, the filling and crust freshly baked by the brunette herself. She doesn't offer proclamations of it being some Woolfe family secret but - it's offered and set somewhere and Kiara does her best to mingle and smile.

Plays the part quite convincingly, sometimes - just another friend to Serafine and Dan.
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#4
Grace doesn't like parties and she thinks the crowd is full of extroverts: like Sera. People who pull all their energy from being around others. She's wrong. Sure: extroverts are probably slightly over-represented in the group of friends and lovers and acquaintances coming together over turkey-and-stuffing-and-pie at 719 Corona Street, but they aren't the only ones.

It's a meal, shared with whoever comes, and then: it's a party, sure, with the carcass of the meal still laid out for whomsoever wants a hot-turkey-sandwich or slice of pumpkin pie to go with their vodka tonic. People who couldn't get home for Thanksgiving, because of work or money-problems. People who couldn't get home for Thanksgiving, because home doesn't exist any more. Because they were kicked out, or disowned, because something went wrong that never should've. People who're saving up for the plane ticket at Christmas, and folks who cannot stand to hear Uncle Earl's ranting endorsement of Donald Trump one-more-time. Some come over before or after Thanksgiving-day shifts, and others pop in on the way to grandmother's house, or maybe on the way home from some family feast, to de-stress and de-compress in a place where they needn't listen to Aunt Edna boast about Cousin Michael's seventeenth superlative - just this year.

And if there was anything going on with Sera: well, there's no indication of it here. The guests seem to be under the impression that she just got back in town after a long trip somewhere, but the creature herself seems absolutely fine. She is wearing a costume that seems schoolgirlish and may be an absurdist stab at 'sexy' pilgrim, though one would be hard-pressed to see in it anything different from a get-up she might've chosen on her own, sexy or no.

She ruffles Grace's hair quite the same as ever, greets Kiara with a flickering glance and a smile and accepts and then hands off the pie, just as one might expect. Grace can stay as long or as briefly as she'd like. Hell, there are little Gladware containers by the buffet spread so that guests can pack leftovers for lunch tomorrow, or just take a plate home with them.

Does shots until her blood has been turned to fumes, to vapor, until her head is swimming beautifully, beatifically, makes out with a stranger who isn't a stranger, disappears upstairs with him. Reappears later, sneaks outside to get high, shivering in the bright and bitter chill - and on, and on, and on.

Does shots until her blood has been turned to fumes, to vapor, until her head is swimming beautifully, beatifically, makes out with a stranger who isn't a stranger, disappears upstairs with him. Reappears later, sneaks outside to get high, shivering in the bright and bitter chill - and on, and on, and on.
But my heart is wild and my bones are steel
And I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free.

- Phosphorescent, Song for Zula
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