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[charring]

[The video feed will show Charlie sitting on a bench in the gardens, one arm across her stomach and the other propped on the armrest, hand over her eyes. Of all the curses the girl has been hit with, this one just pushed her too far out of her comfort zone.

What exactly had she been wearing? What had she been saying?! Her entire life has been spent trying to not stand out and while it's ridiculous for her to try to continue that habit here, she still liked her jeans and t-shirts and her black AllStar sneakers and the lack of make-up. It was all her. Corsets? Not her.

Anyway, she's in Xanadu, back in her jeans and t-shirts and still feeling highly uncomfortable, like she's still showing too much skin or something. She notices the video is running and switches to audio because no. Not right now.]

I feel like, after yesterday, I should bury myself under a mountain of blankets and hide for a while because that was really ridiculous. [Way too much attention for her liking. Way too much.]

Stephen? Do you mind if I borrow a sweatshirt or something?

[Her thinking is it's twice her size and therefor perfect to hide in.]

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[totallyinaband]

Bad curse memories, eh?

[charring]

It was all hideous. I ended up swaggering around town with a vampire who lives in my building and is the biggest asshole ever on my arm because he was also sexy and apparently I thought having him around made me even sexier.

Hideous, hideous day.

[totallyinaband]

Yeah... you didn't happen to go to our gig last night, did you? Because I think I might have been shirtless. And dancing. And someone was probably recording.

[charring]

I crashed another party. Because it sounded like something sexy people would do. No offense. I'd have been there otherwise.

[coyote_walking]

I'm never showing my face or any other part of myself again.

Ever.

[charring]

Me, either. And I currently am jobless until the sand fucks off so, this should be easy.

I looked like a tool yesterday.

[coyote_walking]

I got naked in front of this incredibly creepy guy.

Naked.

Oh damn. And sent a ton of naked and nearly naked photos to Jack.

Oh, I'm dead.

[socoolbrewster]

[Sees this. Watches for a moment. Doesn't realize he's got his own turned on. Looks...SUPER hungover despite the distinct lack of anything resembling booze that went into his system. But he's bundled up in his usual hoodie today so. *Progress* Realizes HE'S TRANSMITTING and kills the feed.]

[charring]

[She doesn't want to see you anyway! For millions of reasons. The biggest of which has her confused;

Spending time with him had been nice. And she's just going to blame the curse. Yep. If she didn't know any better, she'd think it had just been a normal evening, with some guy her age. But it was Ed. And she doesn't know how to feel about that.

She managed to catch the last two seconds of that, though, and is happy-ish to see him in his usual attire. While he did look pretty good yesterday, it really wasn't him.]

[socoolbrewster]

[ALL THE CURSE-BLAMING. Seriously. Because she's FOOD, you don't go out and have fun with dinner without at least eating it afterwards. And he didn't. Not even a frickin' nibble.

Even if she was a damn pretty dinner. Jerry would have been pleased if there weren't the whole NOT EATING thing after.

He's just...yesterday? Never happened. It makes things too weird if it did.]

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[asofwar]

I disagree.

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[charring]

You do?

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[asofwar]

You have no reasons to hide. If what people speak of curses is true, then it was not within your control, either way.

[A pause, and then a bit gently.] And you should not feel ridiculous for being pretty.

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[oceantrauma]

While I'm sure it was embarrassing for most affected - and for some of us that weren't - you shouldn't have to bury yourself away. I think all of these curses are a little ridiculous. Though that one was...definitely more than usual.

[So more ridiculous than usual he avoided it. Too young to appreciate it.]

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[charring]

It's just until my head stops spinning from everything. I said, wore and saw a lot of ridiculous and insane stuff yesterday.

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[oceantrauma]

Okay.... I would probably feel the same if I had been affected.

[team_sociopath]

Yup.

Curses.

[This is Tommy commiserating? To his credit he tried to tell you.

Sort of.]

[charring]

[She wouldn't have listened, anyway. She was convinced she was sexy and wouldn't hear otherwise.]

Hi, Tommy.

[team_sociopath]

Feeling better?

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[terrestrial]

[ there's a groan, followed by: ] You, too?

[ embarrassed and ashamed forever of her behavior last night. ]

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[charring]

Yep. And that vampire? He's still around, so if anyone you don't know comes over, don't invite them in.

Also, he and I may have gone to a party and danced while complimenting each others looks.

Can I just...drink this one out of my head? While hiding in a pillow-fort or something? Because damn.

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[terrestrial]

Really? [ another groan. ] Got it, no invites. Isn't there slayers in The City? Like, vampire slayers? Can't they take care of the vampire?

Only if I can have a drink, too. [ liz, you're only seventeen. ] My mother would kill me if she knew I went out dancing last night in something that revealing.

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[yourbestguysgun]

Feeling better?

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[charring]

Yeah. Sort of. Starting to, at least. Stephen is going to come over so we can play video games, so that should help.

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[yourbestguysgun]

Don't let it get t'you. Plenty of people were affected.