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Daphne's relief when her phone had exploded with the merry jingle signifying Kess wanted to make her thoughts known, was all-consuming. Her friends, what few of them she had these days, had gone out of their way to make her feel like she didn't have to be lonely on this most romantic of days. The bluenette had wisely kept to herself that she had a slight entanglement for most of the afternoon until it came time a cringe-inducing ritual. Singles' Awareness was not at all something that she wanted. Yes, she was technically single. Was she aware of it?

Every ******** day of her miserable life.

For her there was nothing to celebrate other than the destruction of something she'd once striven for with all her pathetic energy. That was not worth celebrating and so she had done the single most ridiculous thing she could think of when cornered. "I have a date!" It had blurted out almost in concert with her phone. "Ahaha, there they are now!" Fingers had furiously typed out the responding text, face red.

-Save me. Plz omg be my Lance.-

So the apartment had cleared as they prepared for their night of girly companionship, chatter, movies that celebrated that they were emotionally strong and needed no crutch. Personally, she was looking forward to spending time with one of her many emotional crutches. Especially when they showed up with an assortment of tightly-budded roses and a charmingly cocky grin.

The grin always sold her. Reaching out and snagging her by one sassy suspender Daphne pulled Kess into a laughingly grateful hug. "My hero, knight in leathery armor, with sexy steed. I owe you." The relief was palpable.

That was generally how this whole relationship worked for the pair of them. There were those rare, incredibly rare, times when Daphne was the one leading the way and dragging Kess. Most times though it was Kess taking her by the hand and leading the bluenette into yet another more than fun, slightly insane, adventure. Her favorites though were times hanging out at her house, or even what Kess swore up and down was a suitable apartment, trying to beat each other at video games. Watching movies. Talking about...everything.

Friendship had snuck up on her when she hadn't really been paying much attention. Yes they had this weirdly powerful attraction that tended to dissolve into things like laughing over bad movies turning into making out over bad movies, but it didn't ruin the fact that an even worse scene would come on and they'd be laughing like nothing had happened.

It wasn't complicated like so many things were in Daphne's life. For that she was endlessly grateful.

The flowers had been deposited for safekeeping to be retrieved later. Or tomorrow. It was getting late enough that odds were if they were 'going out to do something' they'd end up collapsed in a pile of tossed blankets and pillow fights with exhaustion somewhere in the middle of tomorrow morning. Plus she didn't want them to die, which was practical.

"You look good. Am I underdressed?" Traipsing out front wasn't a problem at all even though the cool February wind made her bare legs want to curl up and die somewhere. Skirt. Winter. Derp. "We should stop by my place after, I have something for you."