OPEN RP POST

[sparklemagpie.livejournal.com]

The sun in shining!

The waves are crashing!
The seagulls are taking your hotdogs like the cocky b*tches they are!



IT'S BEACH PARTY TIME!

There's volleyball, fire pits, surfing and sandcastles!

GO HAVE FUN ON YOUR SHORE LEAVE MEATSHIP DENZIENS! STACY LOVES YOU EXTRA TODAY!

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[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

Miku is in a two-piece, playing chicken with the waves; moving into the water like she wants to swim, but then backing up as quickly as she can. "Aaaah! It's cold!" she flails when a wave comes up on her a little too quickly and splashes against her knees.

[craaazyisland]

Sunburns. Sand up your ass. Being so pale you don't want to take two steps out into the sun for fear of blinding everybody on the beach.

Oh well. Girls in bikinis made the whole thing worthwhile.

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

There is a feeling that she's being watched, so Miku turns her head in the direction she can feel the stare coming from.

Oh.

A boy.

Well, at least it wasn't a ghost.

She waves shyly and goes back to playing chicken with the water.

[craaazyisland]

She waves.

Steve's eyes get very very wide. He reaches up a pale hand and waves back.

Then stares.

...damn.

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

After a little longer of playing in the waves, Miku decides she's a little lonely. Even if she's shy, it doesn't seem fair that the boy over there is apparently by himself, too.

So, she straightens her shoulders and cups her hands around her mouth, "Would you like to come over here, please?"

[craaazyisland]

Steve snapped to attention again (this time, he'd been lost in a long panic over what that girl probably thought of some pervy kid who kept staring at her from a distance away and oh god she'd probably tell people and then he'd be that creepy redheaded kid who kept staring at girls from-) "Huh?"

He watched her for a second and then realized she was talking to him. "Me? Uh... yeah, sure, hang on."

On second though, putting on four layers of SPF 40 sunscreen actually probably gave him SPF 160 ("Ginger Dosage"). So he was okay. He looked mildly terrified as he headed out from under his nice, safe, non-sunburny umbrella.

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

It's okay, Steve, she doesn't bite. And she's almost a foot shorter than you are.

But now that he's here, she's lost a little confidence and ducks her head in a quick, neat little bow. "I'm sorry if I disturbed you, ah, but you seemed kind of... by yourself." And that just didn't seem fair at all! Miku looks up at Steve through her bangs and smiles shyly.

[craaazyisland]

"Oh, no, you didn't disturb me. I just-" Sit alone a lot? Loser! God, shut up before you say something stupid! "I was just thinking. And staying out of the sun! I burn pretty good, you know," he said. Yeah, brag about your sunburning capabilities. You're an idiot, Steve!

"That's nice of you though." Okay. Better. Twit.

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

Miku held up her hands defensively, as if trying to ward away the compliment, "It wasn't that, it was," Miku floundered for a moment, trying to find the words. Now that she had the poor boy over, she didn't know what to say. Introductions! Introductions were in order!

"I'm Hinasaki! Hi-Hinasaki Miku." Miku bowed again, and her face reddened.

[craaazyisland]

Steve watched her bow rather cluelessly, and lost for anything better to do, he bowed back, very quickly. "Hi, Hinasaki. I'm Steve. Steve Burnside," he offered-- then presented her a hand to shake.

"So you, uh, you ever been to the beach before?"

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"Ishihama," Miku replied, and tucked a bit of hair behind her ear. "We went there to, um, see the cormorants fish... it was for work." Her cheeks reddened further, "Oh! I'm ah, I'm a photographer." Technically an assistant photographer, but lately... lately she'd been doing the bulk of the work. Still, better to be truthful, "Or at least, I will be." Two more years between university and studying under Rei, and she would officially.

Miku drooped slightly, "Though, it isn't as if I have a camera here." A shame, really, because it was so pretty out.

[craaazyisland]

He looked impressed. "Oh cool... This is only my second time. I went to South Carolina on spring break once." With my parents. "

Steve reached up to brush his unruly red hair up out of his eyes and back across his head. "I guess there'd be a lot of stuff to take pictures of in a nice place like this." DURRR. Oh god, how much stupider can you get?

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"Ah, yes..." Miku nodded, and then felt the air flatline into awkward silence. She never had been good at this, this talking with perfect strangers. "But it's not just the scenery, it's the..." she motioned out to the people on the beach, their activities and expressions, "life on it."

That was the impressive part, otherwise, it would just be some sad, lonely, beautiful beach.

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Have a speedster running by in the surf and spraying water everywhere.

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

Well, she was mostly dry... Miku half-laughs, half-shrieks, and falls back onto the beach.

And then a wave bowls her over.

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Bart circles around back to her. "Uhhi!DidIgetyouwet?"

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

Miku coughs up a little saltwater and pushes her hair out of her eyes. "It's okay, it was my fault!" she laughs and bows awkwardly from her sitting position.

And another waves crashes over her, "Blub!" That would be, 'Help!', Impulse, in drowning Japanese girlspeak.

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

He's next to her in an instant, pulling her up.

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

So much for comporting herself in the way as a proper Japanese lady. She coughs up a little more water, and smiles at him in gratitude. "Ah, tha--ahem--thank you." She pushes back her hair from her face and laughs a little bit at herself.

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Bart doesn't care how proper she is. "You're welcome." He grins. "I'm Ba--Impulse. I'm Impulse!"

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"My name is Hinasaki Miku. It's nice to meet you, Impulse-san." She straightens the strap of her bikini top. "How... how did you move so quickly?"

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meetyou too, Hinasaki!" For a non speaker, his accent's pretty good. He did get to hear her say it over what felt like hours. Relative speed. It's useful. "I was bornlikethis. T'me it's like all of you are moving slow."

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

Miku gasps, because this concept is sort of familiar to her. "But that sounds like you would run into problems, if you're moving faster than everyone else."

Impulse, consider your new, wet friend intrigued. "At home, I have a camera that slows things down, but not one that speeds things up," ...because, if you could imagine faster ghosts, Miku would probably drop dead from fright.

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

Bart shrugs. "I'm used to it. The worst part is sitting through school. Besides that I'mpretty good at slowing down. Mostly"

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

Miku laughed a little bit, impressed with his honesty. "Mostly? Well, do your best, Impulse-san." That was all a person could do, really. She smiled a little wider at him, and reached behind her head to fix her hairpin. She was mostly sure it would be okay, but then again it was well over a hundred years old.

She tilted her head to the side to observe him. "...So, just how quickly do you go?"