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Jasmine had gone to sleep not long before Rhine arrived at the house, and if it weren't for how close the bathroom is to her bedroom, he may have been discovered. In the living room, Ecavi was still awake with Myze, the thule who's taken up almost nocturnal habits now that the days have become so long. Her diary lay on the floor by her bed, an indication, perhaps, of what she'd been doing before she went to sleep.

She twitches in her sleep when she hears her door close and lock, but it isn't enough to wake her up. When he takes a seat on her bed, however, her eyes flutter open. Still only partially awake, she doesn't realize what's going on until Rhine has kissed her gently, and pulled her onto his lap.

"Rhine," Jasmine murmurs sleepily, blinking a couple of times as she becomes more wakeful. She makes more of an effort to hold herself up without forcing Rhine to hold onto her.

"What are you doing here at this time of night?" she asks, her voice quiet but without concern, the tone comes more from just having woken up than from anything else.

As Jasmine really starts to wake up, she recalls what happened when they last met. They'd had a fight, or a kind of fight.. whatever it was, she wasn't happy with him, and she still isn't very happy with him now either.

"Oh," she mumbles, her tone not cheerful, though not angry. She makes a point of getting back onto just the bed and out of his arms, keeping the blanket with her. Her eyes fall on the box when he gave it to her, and she looks skeptically back to him just as he gets up and faces the wall.

Put this on? There must be something to wear in it. So with a sigh, she opens the box.

Jasmine yelps when she is swept off of her bed, and then reappears in Rhine's room. However mad she was before, it seems multiplied by that simple action- if only because it could be inconvenient to have to walk home, if she chose to do such a thing. She watches him go to the door, still not looking at her, and crosses her arms.

She opens her mouth to reply to what he says, but the sound of his crying keeps her silent- though not happily. Instead she settles for glaring at his back while he talks. Jasmine is again left without a chance to reply while he continues off on why she was brought here. She can't help but snort when he says he didn't want her mother to find him, thinking she would have done fine not getting them caught at home.

"Oh?" she manages to get a small word in this time when he pauses, and she looks to the box, which she now knows the contents of. She stays silent when next he pauses, and doesn't move again until he is gone from the room.

"Great idea, Rhine," Jasmine grumbles, getting up, though still holding the sheet over her pointlessly. She continues to make short, angry remarks as she opens the box and changes into the dress.

"Act now, think later.. do all the talking.. stupid.." She manages to get the dress on with little trouble, despite her wings, and then starts to look around the room for a brush. She takes her time while looking, continuing the berate Rhine to herself and trying to ignore the song coming from the living room.

She finds a brush within a minute or so, and combs out her hair- which she notices has been getting longer. Brushing her hair helps her to calm down, and all she really hears now is the sad song that he's playing. With a final frustrated groan, she puts the brush back where she found it and goes to the door. She opens it quietly, letting the calm settle in now that she's grumbled her anger away.. or grumbled it down for the time being.

Jasmine's eyes fall on Cassara when the young dragon comes into the house, and she raises an eyebrow at her when she knows that she has been spotted, but the red one doesn't say anything to her. She crosses her arms and leans quietly against the doorway, deciding to let them talk between themselves for now. Of course, she doesn't even consider leaving them so they can converse privately. If it mattered that much, the newcomer knows she's there and would have told her to leave.

So she listens.

She can't help but snort when Rhine does, not going to argue with that at the moment. Her ears turn when Cassara joins his playing, countering every note with it's opposite- the sound is certainly unique. She starts when Rhine admits what he did, and Cassara looks hurt for a couple seconds.

That definetely doesn't help his case. Judging by the diary confession, this red dragon must be one of his sisters, Cassara likely. Not only that, but apparently she likes, or liked, Renor.

She just listens and waits from there, not too optimistic of whatever Rhine may decide to say from here. Of course, when Cassara asks what Rhine likes about her, her ears perk back up and she looks interested. Hoping this will cheer her up a bit, she listens intently. Though she does make a mental note of how this is something Rhine needs to do a little more of.

Her expression softens when Rhine starts to explain what he likes about her, liking to here all these nice things, and enjoying them without sour thoughts for now. It's good to know that she means so much to him, but she'd known that before..

She stands up straight when Rhine is told to turn around, nodding when Rhine finally notices her and speaks to her. Her expression isn't angry anymore, and she is just shy of smiling. Jasmine lets him take her hand, but doesn't stay in a standing position. Instead she kneels down, sitting on her knees.

"Rhine," she says, "You have to listen to me. You said what you like about me, it's only fair I tell you what I like about you. Rhine, you were the first person to really be my friend. Tabby and I'd always fought, Tilia was confusing and then mean, and Renor was really shy."

She pauses.

"When I saw him, anyway," she smiles this time, then continues, "You told me to think of you whenever I was mad, to try to control my temper. You're fun, full of surprises, maybe a little obssessive.. but you love me, it would seem, and I love you."

There's another short pause, but she doesn't give him a chance to speak yet, and her smile softens, "You need to think a little more before you act. It's hard to argue with you if you just sweep me off my feet, or abduct me. I need a chance to say what I think too, otherwise it's just you talking to a statue. Does Renor know what you've said to me? Does he know it didn't mean anything, or that it won't happen again, as you've said?"

Her words are assuming quite a bit, but from all that she's heard of the situation it seems to her like it was Rhine that came on to Renor.

"You told me to think before I act shortly after we met," Jasmine repeats, smiling at him now, "Can't you try to do the same, now? I suppose it's hard when you're drunk, though. But that comes about by not thinking through how much you drink."

She smiles and edges herself closer to Rhine, giving him a hug.

"I don't know if my mom would have heard us," she says, laughing quietly, "But I suppose you have reason to want to avoid that situation. Let's hope she doesn't need to go to my room for anything."

She looks over to Cassara when she returns from the kitchen, then smiles back at Rhine when the red one points out that they're wasting time. Jasmine holds out a hand for Rhine to take, indicating that it's time to stand up. She doesn't say anything to the little conversation Cassara and Rhine have, just laughs quietly and waits for Rhine.

"If I can do it," Jasmine grins at Rhine, knowing they're much the same in that they act before the think things through most often, "you can do it." She smiles when he returns the hug, compliments her on the dress and picks her up.

"Well, thank you," she says with a quiet laugh, "It's a lovely dress."

Her eyes move to Cassara, and her smile fades a little at the odd introduction that the red dragon has. She raises an eyebrow and looks at Rhine for an explanation, which he promptly gives her and she nods.

"Ok," she nods.

When they reach the fountain and Jasmine is once again on her own two feet, she brushes off the dress before looking back at Rhine.

"So what's the plan?" she beams.

Jasmine smiles up at the sky, taking in the beauty of the night, and then she smiles back at Rhine. She lets him take the lead, placing his hand at her side, and her at his- for she has to trust that he knows how to dance, because she really doesn't have a clue. Her ear flickers when he leans in and explains what's up with Cassara.

She gives Rhine a funny look at the explanation, shaking her head a tiny bit. It only confirms what she'd guessed from their conversation, that Cassara likes Renor. It doesn't help her forget what happened, but she does push it out of her mind since she has, for now, forgiven him. Her eyes are bright, and she smiles at Rhine.

Jasmine is glad he takes the lead, and does it rather gracefully. Somehow she manages to follow along without stepping on his feet, though her dancing is far from perfect.

"How sweet," she murmurs to him in an amused voice, clearly joking with him, "Employing your little sister for music."