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@ivorysonata

Hi, I'm Ilaria Harper! I play piano, and I have a pet bird that likes to say "basta" a lot. current status: none

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Party for Two

Lavi hummed, amused, as he repositioned his arm to wrap around her shoulders so she could lean a bit more comfortably against him. With his free hand, he popped the tab on his beer after some fair effort, and took a sip from it before letting out a content sigh and setting it back on the coffee table.

"Alright, Legs, whatever you say," he said, nudging one of his knees against her leg for emphasis, "I’ll have to take your word for it and hope these movies are as good as you say they are. I’m expecting intense gore and like— guts flying every where. If I don’t scream before the night is through, I won’t be satisfied."

“Well, I don’t recall any guts flying everywhere in this movie, we’ve got plenty of creepy doll puppet things.” Ilaria grinned at the nudge against her legs and took that as an invitation to attempt to get closer. “Gotta love creepy doll-puppets.”

The blonde-with-red-highlights finished off her first slice of pizza and sipped at her beer for a moment before reaching for another slice.

She looked thoughtful for a moment. “…I really am glad you came, Lavi.”

Perhaps the costume thing was a poorly planned idea. She was finding herself very cold.

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Party for Two

Lavi coughed into a fist when she winked at him, and he couldn’t help but stare as she walked away because jesus christ the costume had a tail, too. He damn near jumped when she spoke again. With a light dusting of pink on his cheeks, he quickly walked in after her, taking care to close and lock the door before hastily making his way to her couch.

"Glad to be able to keep you company, my dear," he responded, grinning as he seated himself. He gestured toward the tv with a wave of his hand, "What’s this then? A cheesy b horror movie?"

As he waited for her reply, he reached forward for a beer and a slice of pizza.

Ilaria padded quietly back over to the couch after putting the movie in and curled up close to Lavi for warmth (the costume wasn’t designed for warmth, after all). She settled comfortably and reached for her own beer and pizza.

“Nah, Red. None of that cheap shit. We’ve got quality tonight. Starting with Dead Silence.” Ilaria grinned, curling back up as she sipped her beer and took a bite out of her pizza.

This was gonna be the best night ever, she could tell.

(And she was secretly glad she remembered to shave her legs this morning.)

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Party for Two

Lavi ran his hand through his hair and readjusted his costume as he waited for the door to open. He plastered on a wide grin as it opened, and was ready to speak but could only find himself spluttering as he stared at Ilaria, gaping. It took him a moment before he cleared his throat, and tried to avert his gaze from anywhere that could earn him a slap or two.

Yes, of course, of all the costumes she could have picked, she chose this one. He’d been expecting something like the tacky witch bid that she did last year, not… this.

"Right. Ok. Yes," he finally managed, clearing his throat again, "Nice uh… Nice costume."

Gotcha.

Not that she’d planned on it. But Lavi had been right – the witch had been totally tacky. She figured this was a better upgrade.

At Lavi’s barely managed ‘nice costume’, Ilaria winked. “Glad you like it, Cap’n. Come on inside, pizza’s warm and beer’s cold.”

She opened the door wider and stepped aside to let Lavi in. She turned and sauntered her way into the rest of the tiny (rather cheap) apartment and set the coffee table with two plates of pizza and a beer each to start with, along with setting up the first movie – some ventriloquist puppet movie where the premise is that you scream, you die.

“Glad you came, babe. Was gonna be really lonely otherwise.”

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Party for Two

Driving over was fairly uneventful. He’d felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, but decidedly ignored it until he was at a stop light before pulling it out. He checked it quickly, smiling, before sliding his phone back into his pocket. The redhead was so ready for some pizza right now, and he was really glad that it wouldn’t be to long before he reached Ilaria’s apartment.

He quickly found a place to park and ran up the stairs, skipping a step with each bound upwards, before jogging to his lovely lady friend’s door, where he rang the door bell.

Ilaria bounced to her feet when her doorbell rang for the second time that night. Oh, this was going to be so much better than some socialite party. Pizza, beer, and horror movies with a best friend was eons better to some ritzy classy party. Now she was glad to have been off the invite list.

She grinned as she opened the door, leaning on the door jamb, one eyebrow arched with her little grin still in place. Her casino bunny costume made the image all the more tempting. Though the poor redhead couldn’t see the little fluffy bunny tail from the front, though.

Damn, Ilaria loved Halloween.

“You’re right on time, Cap’n Redhead. First round’s on me~.” Well, technically, all rounds were on her, until they ran out.

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Party for Two

It was all of a minute or so before he felt his phone buzz again— he’d barely had the time to put it back in his pocket before he had to pull it right back out. He let out an amused chuckle. Someone was a little eager, there. It would be awfully rude of him to keep her waiting, then, and he made a bee line upstairs to his room where he’d pulled out his costume the night before just in case he needed it.

It probably seemed pretty tacky or cheesy, but it was a pirate costume. One that he’d probably worn for probably the last two or so years. He probably needed a new costume, but it wasn’t like he could go buy or make one right that instant, so he tossed the clothes on before heading back down the stores, careful to turn off all the lights to signify there would be no candy available for anyone that came searching for it.

He realized belatedly that he hadn’t texted her back yet, and proceeded to do so.

[ 7:31 P.M. You can expect me in around fifteen or so minutes. I’ll be the doofy pirate that’s hobbling up your lawn. ]

And so, he was off. But not before grabbing a handful of candy. Can’t have Hallowen without candy, right? And he’d bought the good stuff, if he did say so himself.

So she was a little desperate for company, sue her. Besides, Lavi himself seemed eager enough for company, too. If you asked Ilaria, they were birds of a feather, really. Sometimes. When he wasn’t going on psychology rants. (He was cute when he ranted, but Ilaria couldn’t concentrate on that when the content of the rant made her head spin.)

While she waited for the pizza (and Lavi!) to arrive, she continued straightening up her meager apartment. It was small, cluttered with textbooks and music history books, as well as sheet music and her keyboard was propped against its stand against a corner while it wasn’t in use.

Thankfully, she managed to get it to look reasonably clean before the doorbell rang the first time.

Ah, yes. Pizza. Good. She retrieved that, paid for it, didn’t even care that she was in her bunny costume before shooing the delivery guy away (she did remember to tip, of course, because she did order like three pizzas).

[7:35 P.M. Pizza’s here~. Ready when you are, Captain Redhead~.]

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Party for Two

It was a bit of an anomaly for Lavi to be alone on a holiday. Especially Halloween. He wasn’t horribly popular or anything, but he always had a friend or two throwing a shindig somewhere. This year, however, he’d decided to just stay home and hand candy out to the kids that went about his neighborhood.

He hadn’t quite felt like going out and mingling among too many people this year. Midterms had taken all of the energy out of him and he wasn’t quite ready for the hustle and bustle of parties. Of course, they hadn’t been difficult for him, tests essentially never were, but just having to sit there for so long, being so bored, was so physically draining he didn’t have the energy to go out.

How cruel was it to have school on Halloween anyways? And tests on Halloween no less? Sure, he was technically too old for trick or treating, but hey, adults can have fun on Halloween, too. It’s Halloween? Who can’t have fun on Halloween? Weenies, that’s who.

As he waved off a couple of kids, he felt his phone vibrate in his back pocket. Lavi pulled it out as he bumped the front door closed with his hip. The message that blinked up at him made him raise a brow, but did bring a smile to his face.

He set the bowl down on the side table beside the door before texting back.

[7:08 P.M. Beer and pizza sounds fantastic. As long as there’s not a lot of people, you can plan on seeing me there within the next hour. ]

It was barely a second after her phone beeped to alert her of Lavi’s reply before she swiped it up to read it. (She really needed more friends, she thought.)

She smiled, though, when she read the text. Her thumbs flew over the touch screen again as she sent her reply in return.

[7:09 P.M. And horror movies. What’s Halloween without some slasher flicks? No people, though. Just us. See you in an hour, Red?]

Ilaria set the phone back on the arm of her couch and got up. She did a little bit of straightening up – there were a few college textbooks on the coffee table along with a notebook for her music major. She didn’t really want her best friend to see the messy state of her classwork. Even though his was probably worse. Though it was probably odd to see someone cleaning up while dressed in the casino-esque version of a playboy bunny.

She quickly put things into their proper places and called a pizza place for delivery so that it should be there before Lavi. Hopefully.

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Party for Two

There were few in the world that had the misfortune of spending their Halloweens alone with no friends, no family, no fun…

And, somehow, the effervescent and flighty Ilaria ended up as one of those lonesome souls. She was dressed in a bunny costume, ears, fluffy tail, skimpy (classy!) casino-esque attire, all ready and excited to go to a costume party only to receive a text that she hadn’t RSVP’d soon enough and the member slot had “sold out.”

So she was, in effect, all dolled up with nowhere to go. Dejectedly, she dropped onto her couch and pouted at the blank TV before scrolling through her phone to see if she could find someone that wasn’t averse to last-minute plans.

And, she found someone in her cell phone contact, and smiled. Red. Ah, yes. He would love to get together for some silliness. Wouldn’t he? She wasn’t sure. But it was worth a shot.

Quickly, she typed in a message to the friend in mind.

[7:06 P.M. Hey, Lavi. Y’busy? If not, get you’re nice ass over to my apartment. Wear a costume. I’m ordering pizza and I’ve got great beer in the fridge.]

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ivorysonata replied to your post: “Heeeeeeey!!”

"Nothin’ much, darlin’. Just popping in to check on my favorite redhead" Wink. "And you?"

Lavi snorted at her wink, though his smile didn’t falter, “Oh, y’know. Same ol’, same old. Just doing work and stuff.”

"Boooooooooring~~~" Ilaria puffed. "All work and no play~."

Playful grin.

unrulycuriosities

Since she doesn’t really mind who she talks to, she has trouble with telling when enough is enough.

Sometimes she’ll talk so much she forgets to breathe. And then she realizes that she needs to breathe, and sometimes she ends up laughing.

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Ilaria loves to make people smile. She loves to chat with them, play games with them, anything to make people smile.

She also loves to make them smile, laugh, frown, cry. This she does with her music, her piano.

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Ilaria will speak with anyone who is willing to listen to her rambling.

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On the topic of Italian accents and silent H’s, Ilaria also has a tendency to pronounce S’s like Z’s when before a consonant. Such as snowing, znowing; sleeping, zleeping, and so on.

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Ilaria’s “social filter” is kind of… Broken.

Occasionally she’ll say things like “Jesus you’re hot.” or “… Uh… Wow. You kind of look like shit today. Y’okay?”

She’s not at all afraid to tell someone they’re physically attractive.

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Ilaria’s Italian accent is pretty heavy. Because of this, a lot of her h’s are silent.

So words like ‘heavy’ would be ‘eavy’. Or ‘horror’ would be ‘orror’ (like the Italian word orribile)

The redhead snorted, waving his hand dismissively at her teasing, “Oh, please. I don’t say that to all of them. Just to the ones that are special.”

He flicked her forehead, though he didn’t put much force into it,”And you’re one of the one who are. Special, I mean.”

She tried really, really hard. She really, really tried not to. But she couldn't help it. At the flick on her forehead, she started giggling (as much as she tried not to, she wanted to look at least somewhat deflated). "That's very sweet of you."

Tucking a lock of dyed-red hair (stark contrast to the rest that's blonde) behind an ear, she smiled up at Lavi, shifting her weight from foot to foot (she really wanted to throw these heels off, why did she put them on anyways?). "So, Red, what have you been up to lately? Any daring adventures? Piracy? Questionable ventures down questionable city districts?" Says the piano player that will play literally anywhere, even in the middle of a mob lounge, as long as it pays.

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"Well now! There’s a face I haven’t seen in a long time!" Grin. Sort of bounces on her feet, but stops when she remembers she’s wearing heels and could fall. So she squirms like she wants to hug the stranger-not-stranger she hasn’t seen in forever.

Lavi laughed at Ilaria’s fidgeting before he took it upon himself and walked forward, hugging the girl tightly before pulling back with a fond smile,”Quite so, quite so! It’s good to see you, Ilaria! I missed seein’ your pretty face around.”

Ilaria returned the hug eagerly, and stealing a playful kiss to the cheek, before letting Lavi step back away from her.

"D'aw, I bet you say that to all the pretty girls, Lavi~." She teased playfully, waving her hand. "It's good to see you, too. I've missed you~."

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