Tea and Cakes [Twinsies, Dani]

[Misato Hazukashi]

Moe looked absolutely sugar puff cream pink icing bun adorable with his brown curly hair in pigtails as he silently spread a blanket over the sweet smelling summer grass. In the crook of his arm was a giant picnic basket, a brown fuzzy teddy sitting on top. Setting the basket down in the middle, he arranged the fuzzy bear to the side of the blanket, then began pulling out an almost unending amount of items from the wicker basket.

A tea set with a thermos keeping the boiled water hot. Delicate little plates stacked with sandwiches and cakes to make the mouth water. Dainty petis fours of the savoury and sweet kind, and three different types of tea. Oolong - to promote good digestion. Green for good health and sweet fruit tea to go with dessert. Anyone who came across this odd sight would think Moe was being a little immature, but for him this was the pinnacle of social correctness. Four cups and saucers were placed around the blanket, and two tiny hands continued to fish out goodies from within the picnic basket.

Eventually, when the large grey and red checkered blanket was heaving with goods, Moe set the picnic basket away and surveyed the day with a smile. A nice warm day, but not too warm, a small mild breeze and the pleasent peace and quiet Hammel offered during the summer holidays, when lessons dropped down to a minimum for a few weeks and the football team went off to be obnoxious elsewhere.

Dani had been difficult to convince to wear the correct items at this picnic - Lolita. But a few choice pleading words had got her willingly into a dress Moe thought she looked beautiful in. As for the twins, well, they were very dear when Moe had shown them the pictures of the sort of things boys wore to this sort of picnic. And now he was just waiting for them to arrive so they could talk and be civilised and sip tea and introduce their teddies.

Moe's teddy bear was Ichigo, and he was as old as Moe was. He sat stiffly with his bow tie and fastened on top hat, staring over the fields at something the tiny brunette was sure was fascinating.

He checked the time once more, then stared hopefully in the direction of the school.

[Danicca Waylan]

[D]A[N]I[C]C!?

Dani totally hated that her crush on MoeMoe's way of wording things and being totally cute could manipulate her like it did. As it was, Dani was doing something she said she wouldn't be caught dead ever doing. She was wearing (dramatic pause here) a dress. She just prayed that nobody recognized her (Especially not any of her roommates. God, that would be fracking awful). She was wearing a jacket over the upper part, but she still hoped some tragic accident happened before anybody did recognize her, to keep her from having to face that humiliation--or maybe it could just strip her clothes off. That would be so much better, so preferred to the torture of wearing the hideous dress.

Moe apparently had "The perfect thing" for Dani to wear when she tried to avoid the wearing of a dress by saying she didn't own one, and now that's where she is. Wearing a dress and trying not to die of mortification, glaring menacingly at anyone who she passed. They were talking about her, she knew it, and someone would recognize her soon if she wasn't careful. She had to go faster. Thank gods she was still wearing her own shoes, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to go at any speed. As it was, she could hardly go at the fast-walk-jog-type pace she was maintaining. Stupid skirt, stupid corset-lace-bodice-thing. She didn't know how Moe could do it all the time.

As she approached the picnic, Dani pulled her messenger bag from her shoulder and held it in front of her, sitting in a halfway ladylike manner that kept people from seeing her panties, at least. She pulled the worn bear from the bag and hid it behind the bag in her lap. "Hold on." She said, realizing something. "This is a lot for just us. Frack, you invited people, didn't you?" She wasn't mad, surprisingly. She just couldn't seem to get that way with the sugar puff. Instead, she was plain embarrassed. Of course Moe would invite other people to a picnic--it wasn't like it was a date--and of course Moe would see nothing wrong with that.

He was clueless as he was adorable.

[Gabriel & Uriel Raines]

Uriel far left, Gabriel second from the left (maroon bow), both in black low-top converses instead of boots.

They were going to a tea party - which was fine - and they were taking their favorite stuffed animals - also fine. But Moe had come over and picked out their outfits from clothes they owned, and taken pictures, and left them there for the twins to decide. All they were doing was sitting on Gabriel's bed, looking at the pictures.

"I.. I.. I want that one?" Gabriel nodded, grabbing another one of the picture options. "Yeah. Yeah I'll take this one." They both set to finding the clothes, getting dressed. They started plenty early enough to be there on time. Tucking their crosses into their shirts, looking at each other. "Mom'll want a picture.." Gabriel mumbled, grabbing a camera, and taking a picture of each other with their appropriate stuffed animals.

They left the room, walking with confidence, ease, and poise, carrying their stuff animals. It wasn't embarrassing - unless you let it be, and they didn't.

They kept their top hats off in the building, putting them back on once outside, and heading to the training fields - though they'd never been dressed like this when they were headed there.

As the arrived, they saw Dani and Moe, both looking beautiful. Gabriel bowed to Dani, kissing her hand, and introducing himself. "Hi, my names Gabriel." Before they switched, Uriel kissing Dani's hand and introducing himself as Gabriel kissed Moe's hand. They of course didn't need to introduce themselves to Moe, and so that 'hello' kiss was silent. They sat down, both revealing their old and tattered stuff animals.

Uriel had a stuffed koala, about the size of a normal teddy bear, Gabriel having a stuffed whale, light blue and about as long as a baby.

They'd picked them out themselves when they were two months old, and the appearance of the stuffies - clean, but obviously well loved - showed it.

"Afternoon, Dani, Moe. How are y'all?" "Afternoon Dani, Moe. How are y'all?" They asked in tandem, giving polite smiles to Dani and Moe.

[Misato Hazukashi]

Moe clapped his hands as his special guests arrived, and he waved delightedly as Dani first appeared. Smiling brightly, he gestured for her to come and sit down next to him. "Hiya Dani." He chirruped sweetly, instantly pouring out a cup of tea for her and nodding his head politely. "I invited the twins to tea too, they're ever so nice, you'll like them." He said earnestly, before pointing behind Dani and giving another wave.

"Here they are!" When the twins came over, he, again, poured tea and giggled delightedly with the kiss on the hand. "I'm very well thank you." He added softly, plating up a few sandwiches and gesturing round. "There's a large selection of sandwiches, cakes, small nibbles..." He smiled warmly and tilted his head. The picnic blanket was, indeed, covered with food and then the boy started, clasping his hands.

"I'm so sorry, I forgot to ask, who are our guests?" He gestured politely over at the stuffed animals, head tipping to one side. "This is Ichigo. He's the same age as me. He's ever so polite." He bowed his head, then offered the bear out for everyone to shake his hand. Once that formality was over and done with, Moe poured himself a mug of tea and sipped it.

Pulling his hair behind his ear, he cleared his throat, and chewed his lip. "Please dig in, the food is lovely and it's freshly made, with lots of homebaked items. I even made the bread." He paused, gesturing down at his outfit. "I'm glad you all wore what I picked out. You look beautiful." He clapped his hands happily.

[Danicca Waylan]

[D]A[N]I[C]C!?

Dani tried very hard not to glare, but her eyes narrowed anyway when the twins took her hand and kissed it, all chivalry and gentleman-ness. She was still half-busy trying not to look everywhere at once, feeling paranoid that someone would see her and report back to Jared or JayJay or Robbie. God, that would make her a total and complete laughing stock if anyone caught her in a dress, having a tea-time picnic. At least she thought it would, but in all honesty nobody would really recognize her, especially since her hair, which she thought really, really needed cut off again, was done up in curls and pinned just so. Thank god for the internet, after Moe's basic instruction on how-to-show-up-looking-like-a-female, which was halfway forgotten anyway by the time the door was closed behind the boy.

Dani promptly forgot about any of those worries, though, the instant Moe began speaking to her. She could throw snappy, witty, or plain bratty remarks at anyone else, but the instant it came to Moe talking to her, she was just a schoolgirl with a crush: unable to speak half the time, saying things that, to her at least, sounded incredibly stupid. Dani managed to avoid stammering when she told the gathering that the bear didn't like people knowing his whole name, so they could call him Mr. Ted for now, if they wanted to call him anything. "He was apparently what my biological mom left me with when she put me up for adoption, so I have no clue how old he is, but I like to think he's fifty. He's always... Honest. And brave." She actually was making none of this up, all of it being the character he tended to take on in her head whenever she needed him. Which was the reason she was able to sound so sincere about it.

Dani had a moment of that heart-melting cute-feeling when she heard Moe chirp that he had made all of what they were about to eat himself. Dani was just completely astonished. She could cook things that came in a package with instructions and not burn the house down, but that was pretty much the extent of her kitchen skills. It was incomprehensible, to her, for anyone to be able to have that kind of kitchen capability. And so Dani took a teacup and said something the nature of which she had only ever spoken in the presence of her parents before now: "Thank you for going to the trouble of setting all of this up, Moe."

[Gabriel & Uriel Raines]

They waited politely as everyone introduced their stuffies, grinning at Dani's story - that was adorable. As it reached their turn, they glanced at each other, trying to make sure they wouldn't talk at the same time.

It was decided - silently, that as Gabriel was the oldest, he would go first. "This is my whale, I got him the day we were born, and his name is Cloud." He introduced, with a smile, making Cloud's fin wave. Uriel then had his koala wave, as he was introduced. This is Eucky." Like eucalyptus, only with a 'ee' instead of 'alyptus.'

Eucky, of course, was also from their day of birth. Their family firmly believe in 'everything will fall into place,' and therefore, right after they were permitted to take their twins out of the hospital, they went to the store and bought everything for the baby room. Their family was.. special.

At the mention of food, the boys.. waited. "Ladies first, of course." They gestured - meaning, of course, Dani and Moe. They knew Moe wasn't a lady - but he might as well be in their book. Nothing offensive, naturally, but Moe was more a lady than more of the women they knew. Most of - not all of.

"Baked your own bread? I'm impressed, we did that once.. came out smelling sort of like plastic.." Tasted good, but still smelled like they'd mixed plastic into their bread. It had been strange.

At the thank you for wearing what Moe'd asked, Gabriel smirked. "Yes, well, it's certainly hard to say no to you, Moe dear." He said with a smile. The boys then said in unison, "Yes, thank you so much for getting all this ready." "Yes, thank you so much for getting all this ready. How'd you keep Vincent out of it?" Uriel finished with a smirk and a wink.

[Misato Hazukashi]

Moe very gracefully shook each of the stuffies hands, taking a paw, or a fin in between his thumb and finger, and nodding politely. "It's a pleasure to meet the three of you, I hope you enjoy the picnic too." He said softly, nursing his teacup and then turning to Ichigo. "Ichi is happy to be in the company of such lovely guests too." He added, tucking his hair behind his ear and offering over the plate of sandwiches.

"There's ham, cheese, smoked salmon, tuna, chicken salad and jam." He smiled, gesturing at the different fillings with a delicately manicured finger. Making sure his guests were served, he took a smoked salmon sandwich and nibbled it thoughtfully. "Sometimes when I bake it smells odd too." He admitted with a tiny shrug. "As long as it tastes good, that's the important thing." Vincent didn't seem to care too much if it didn't taste that great either, but he was a walking waste bin, and their newly acquired puppy wasn't much better either.

"Honestly, don't fret. I love making picnics for people." Moe giggled, running a hand through his hair, then looking up at the sky, eyes rolling. "Vinvin was distracted by a movie with loud explosions in. I managed to put a fake decoy picnic somewhere obvious and he ate that instead." Moe knew his man, and also where he didn't tend to look. Namely the third cupboard where the cleaning products were. It was adorable seeing his boyfriend tuck into a picnic at 4am thinking he'd found the secret hiding spot. He hadn't. He never would.

"I thought maybe we could plan a proper big picnic for everyone before the start of the new term." Moe said cheerily, helping himself to a piece of the chicken. "Like a big end of holidays picnic for everyone we know and like to say goodbye to summer, get lots of tables out along the lake and maybe organise some music and entertainment." Moe scratched his chin, frowning. "I don't know who would provide tables and chairs, or tablecloths, but I thought we could also invite some of the teachers? We can work all night cooking up stuff and making it nice."

He paused.

"Thoughts?"