A restaurant on the mainland- Saturday evening

[thatwaslucky]

One year ago today, Rey made one of her best decisions ever and sent a middle-of-the-night text to the hot pirate across the hall.

So tonight she and Silver were on what was maybe their second official date of their relationship, on the mainland, blending in among the locals in clothes any couple from Earth in 2021 might wear. (Rey had decided jeans weren't her favorite but they did look good.) She'd even made reservations for the first time ever, and after they'd gotten seated at a booth in the corner, she admitted, "This looked different on the website."

She would never say it was tacky. But it was maybe not the ambiance she'd intended for an anniversary.


[For the aforementioned hot pirate across the hall]

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[thatwaslucky]

"You do look good in them though," she had to say. She liked the piratewear, but she was happy with this for a night.

[long_memory]

"You do too," Silver said. "Very formfitting."

Of course he liked that.

[thatwaslucky]

Turns out she could still blush a little when he said things like that. "Your opinion might have been a factor when shopping."

There were like eight hundred kinds of jeans. Had to narrow it down somehow.

[long_memory]

"I just wanted to make sure you wouldn't be embarrassed by me when I picked out my clothes," he laughed.

[thatwaslucky]

"Not possible," Rey assured him. "I don't know that I'd know what an embarrassing outfit even was."

[long_memory]

"The stares might have given it away." Though a lot of people in here were wearing sweatpants and leggings, so.

[thatwaslucky]

"Then I still wouldn't have cared," she admitted.

[long_memory]

"I wouldn't have cared much either," he said with a smile. "Now, do I want the burger covered in three kinds of cheese or the one covered in onion rings?"

Food in this century was so excessive, it was great.

[thatwaslucky]

"I'll get one and you can get the other?"

Great relationships knew how to compromise.

[long_memory]

"See, this is why I love you." Burger sharing, of course.

[thatwaslucky]

"This specifically?" she teased.

[long_memory]

"Yep," he said. "Just because of the burger thing."

[thatwaslucky]

"That might mean trouble if we've never done this before," she told him.

[long_memory]

"Luckily ordering food and sharing it is what we're experts at," he said. "Is there a place in town we haven't ordered from?"

[thatwaslucky]

"No, but there aren't that many places, either," she pointed out. "We need to eat somehow."

[long_memory]

"Do you know there are some people who never order out?" Silver joked. "Makes no sense to me."

[thatwaslucky]

"It might be because they can actually cook..."

She could. There were just better things to do.

[long_memory]

"Well that's not fun," he said with a wave of his hand. "I also want to try these fried pickles."

Mostly because it sounded disgusting and he was curious.

[thatwaslucky]

"Why would anyone fry those?" Rey wondered.

This was not a no.

[long_memory]

"That's what we are are going to find out," he said. "The 'why' and the 'should we order more' of the matter."

[thatwaslucky]

"And this is why I love you," she laughed.

[long_memory]

"That's what an anniversary is about, right?" he asked. "Listing the reasons of why we love each other?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I wasn't aware that's what you did on anniversaries," she said.

[long_memory]

"Honestly, I'm just guessing too," he said. "Anniversaries on TV are not useful."

Usually it was a source for comedic misunderstandings or drama.

[thatwaslucky]

"The only time I've ever seen those addressed someone proposes or they get trapped in an elevator or something," Rey said.