The Picnic Before Practice

Fit

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Gosh when was the last time that he’d come all the way out to Alameda? A really long time, that was for sure.

He was pretty excited to try some new things out today though, especially with Ness and maybe get a clearer understanding of what all might have went down.

Practice with Misha gave him a few other ideas, but he definitely preferred to hear things directly instead of coming to his own conclusion.

Too much room for error.

Caught sight of the familiar man, and raised a hand in greeting from the picnic table that he’d grabbed. ”Hey Ness, long time no see.”

fit!

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The Picnic wasn't far from his place, that coupled with the sheer beauty of this cement sea of food trucks ensured at least a second visit. He wandered through the lot with all the trucks before heading towards the picnic tables.

There was Ronny, familiar and waving, Ness grinned and waved back.

"Whattup," he slid into the seat across from his friend, then went in for an across the table dap.

A light squeeze in the movement before Ronny was seating himself back down across from Ness, ”nothing much just normal routine lately.” He answered, brows raising as he returned the question.

”How you been?’ You know outside the texts convo that they’d recently had.

Normal routine, Ness filled that in with what he knew of Ronny. Probably taking care of the sister, barista-ing, hunting down new powers to steal. Being a social butterfly. That last one was and educated guess, it felt right based on vibes. He couldn't really imagine Ronny not getting along with anyone.

Ness grinned and nodded, dark bangs falling over his eyes before he shook his head. Elbows came up to rest on the table and he made himself comfortable.

"Yeah, good! You know, yeah. Good, just a lot you know," a shrug. He'd already told Ronny a little about his recent struggles so there was no point in lying, but he still wanted to have fun. Fuck a serious conversation.

A sympathetic nod as he looked from Ness towards the food trucks.

”Alright lets get some food then and see if we can figure out this aura power of ours.” Still wasn’t entirely sure if Ness could do it, but they’d find out today, and maybe it would offer the man a little peace of mind.

”My treat, so, what are feeling?”

That nod said he got it, of course Ronny got it. Ness smiled, relieved that they weren't starting with the harder topics. Food first, magic next, then maybe deep bro talk if they got around to it.

He'd been eying a taco truck on his way over, the smell that came out when they opened the sliding window was killer. Tortassss.

My treat though, Ness furrowed his brows and shook his head, "Nah man I can pay for mine don't worry about it." It was sweet but Ness got it! He didn't want Ronny paying for his food, teaching him shit, and listening to him ramble about vampire troubles. Dude did plenty for him already. He drummed his fingertips against the table, grinned again. "Taco truck?"