Room 504, Thursday Early Evening

[intraspective]

A day spent doing absolutely nothing but training, going through her list to edit the questions and add more (yes, add more) and fussing with her plants did wonders for Ino's mood.

That was, after all, the point.

And besides, she had a date. Sure, he wasn't her type, and sure, she'd sort of tricked him into it, and sure she didn't actually know him well enough to fuss over the date part (though she had still wriggled into a cute dress and everything), but still—it was a date and she was determined to keep her side the winning side of this whole thing.

Ino idly reread her list of questions as she waited. The questions weren't for him, but that didn't make them any less interesting to go over.

[Locked to one, please. And up early for massive SP.]

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[weldedtomyspine]

"For the lady," Jaime declared with a gallant grin, holding out the orchid in its pot. Hopefully that'd give him an early advantage since the suit was most definitely offset by that dress.

[intraspective]

She blinked at him, automatically reaching for the orchid.

"For me?" Ino asked, a bit incredulously, then to the plant, "Hiiii, aren't you cute?"

[weldedtomyspine]

"For you," he agreed with a smile. And then her reaction only broadened the smile. He was totally going to count that as a point to his side.

[intraspective]

Points were important and maybe he'd won one now but she was totally going to get back at him.

But first, to find a place for her newest plant. "Where are we going to put you?" she asked, stepping back into her room with enough room for Jaime to step in if he wanted (and if he noticed her room was about... oh... seventy percent greenhouse, well...) as she wandered over to her shelf and considered the other plants on it.

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime made a mental note to thank Dinah for the live plant suggestion. Ino definitely wasn't a bouquet sort of girl. He didn't enter the room without an invitation, but he did lean forward slightly to look around. He might learn something that would save his butt later tonight...

"Glad you like it," he said with a smile.

[intraspective]

Ino fussed with setting it up with the rest of them, telling them all to behave and get along (shut up) and pinked up slightly at his words.

"Sorry," she laughed, flinging her jacket on and brushing by him in a mildly suggestive way, "guess I shouldn't ignore the real part of my evening, hmmm?"

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime managed, barely, not to blush as she moved past him like that. "Hey, I don't mind. It's cute."

He offered her his arm. His mom would be so proud.

[intraspective]

She looped her arm through his, just a tiiiny bit too close and smile up at him. "Shall we then?"

[weldedtomyspine]

"I think that's a wonderful suggestion," he grinned down at her. Jaime had even looked at a map to find the Thai place so he wouldn't get lost and look like an idiot.

Well, so he wouldn't get lost.

[intraspective]

"Of course it is," she said loftily. "It came from me, didn't it?"

And off they went.