A Quiet Corner of the Dorms Roof, Wednesday Night

[raspberryturk]

Reno really should have known better than to spend so much time with his co-host (the rum, not Jenny) after the radio broadcast last night. He'd felt like crap in the morning, and spent a good piece of the day continuing to feel as such. So he'd stood up Rikku, who he was supposed to spar with. And he'd avoided pretty much anyone else for the rest of the day because he was damn sure he'd be biting off someone's face if he didn't keep to himself.

Killing his roomie because of a rum-induced snit wasn't a good idea, he realized when evening rolled around. So he had found his way up to the roof before any interaction with Tamaki had occurred, too.

There was a sky out there, full of clouds though it might be, and he was perfectly content to sit on the roof and look up at it, letting the chill of the night air bite at his face. Reminded him that he was alive.

Good to be, after feeling like the bottom of someone's foot all day.

[[Shoved off in a wee corner of the roof so I'm not monopolizing it, as this post is for one person in particular. <3]]

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[the_merriest]

Rikku considered the question, and then laid back, staring up at the sky. "I hope not," she mused. "Sand, probably. There's a lot of it, just lying around, clogging up engines and causing sun glare, it'd be hard not to. Sand gets old pretty fast. But when the ground's all boring like that, you appreciate the sky more, I think."

[raspberryturk]

Reno nodded, glancing at her from the corner of his eye before turning his gaze back up to the clouds overhead. "Didn't used to get much sky where I was from. You never really bother to get all weepy about it, you know? Doesn't change anything. I didn't give a shit what it looked like when I couldn't look up to see it. But damn, when it's right there, you kinda gotta notice."

[the_merriest]

"We had sky," Rikku said, mulling it over. "But we probably didn't have some things you take for granted. Probably none as pretty. But I think it's all a trade-off, sometimes."

[raspberryturk]

"Can't argue with that," Reno decided. "Always somethin' standing on the sidelines to smack you around until you appreciate it, anyhow. Sometimes it just feels like it's gotta smack a little harder than others, I guess."
He snorted and sat up.
"When it does that, I just do my damnedest to be a bigger ass about it. Screw it, zoto. Not gonna stop me from livin', no matter how rotten it turns out to be."

[the_merriest]

Rikku stared for a long moment before she sat up, too.

"Is everything a competition with you?"

[raspberryturk]

"When wakin' up tomorrow depends on whether or not you were better than the rest today, everything had damn well better be," he replied bluntly, looking back at her with one eyebrow raised. "That so wrong?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku sighed and stood up, shaking her head. "No, I'm sure that's great. Have a ball with that. Enjoy your drinking, yoto. I'm gonna go see if I can get some sleep."

[raspberryturk]

He watched her stand up. He listened to her words. He only winced a little.

"Yeah. G'night, Rikku."

Maybe he'd just sit there until she left. And then maybe he'd lay down and watch the clouds some more.

He still had some tequila in his room. Maybe later.