HOLIDAY CHEER || ethan & charlotte [ office party au ]
@the-original-charley
Hey. Thank god you’re here. [[ Ethan gravitates to Charlotte’s side, as he always does and has done since they were children. He’s got a red plastic cup in hand, decorated with cartoon sprigs of holly, but judging by his expression he doesn’t relish the contents. ]] I was already pushing the ‘fashionably late,’ but you had to go and be even more fashionable, huh? [[ Truth be told, they’re both looking exceptionally fashionable in the literal sense; it’s the Williams way, or at least it is in their immediate family. Except maybe Owen.
Owen and his fucking cargo pants.
Not the point. Ethan’s just being cranky. They’re at the department VP’s home -- which department, Ethan doesn’t remember. That isn’t really important, either. What’s important is the fact that, even though they’re off-site at the man’s needlessly swanky D.C. penthouse, he’d fed them some line about it still being a ‘work function,’ so alcohol would be inappropriate. At a holiday party. ]]
Chad’s as cheap as we were worried he’d be. [[ --is Ethan’s assumption, anyway, swirling the punch in his cup and taking a drink. It’s not bad, but it’s way too sweet.
He’s about to say as much to Charlotte but pauses as he turns to her, finally taking a proper look at what she’s doing. ]] … are you spiking the punch?