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[Tybalt & Zadie]

It was very difficult to decide who to ask about this. I settled on the both of you. Zadie has dated me before. Tybalt [...] has a way with men.

I need to ask someone to Homecoming. Publicly. Where other specific people will see.

What should I do. How do I do this.

Who are you two taking.

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~~Do you think I'm cha~~

Oh. ~~If you did that~~ It would work on me. Probably. I don't have a great deal of experience with being pursued. Or asked out unexpectedly.

Well that's a good place to start.
How would you want to be asked?

[................] I don't know.

Alone, perhaps.

In the greenhouse or the garden. After dark. Or through a letter.

But this isn't a romantic gesture. It's a social gesture. It isn't exactly comparable.

No, it's easier.
You just have to make it a bit of a show.

[...] Are you sure you want to ask this person? If it's just a social gesture?

I [...] was wondering that too. ~~You don't seem very ha~~

I like this person very much. I want to go with them. I [...] want to be impressive.

[...] Okay. ♥

So we need a script that's impressive and romantic but not too romantic? [...] How do you feel about poetry? ~~Lionel knows a lot of poetry and~~

I like it but I can't write it.

I don't think you have to write it. Reciting it is still considered romantic and is a gesture in itself. [...] Isn't it?

Reciting it out loud requires [...] charisma.

[...] Maybe just practice? I guess I'm not sure.

~~I'm sorry. I'm not very good at th~~

I think it just seems [...] too intimate. I would only read poetry to someone I [...]had a particular notion about.

LTZ

zadielovelace - 2019-10-19 04:07 (UTC) - Expand

I can make it a show. I think.

[...] Yes! Yes. I do. I [...] misspoke. It's not not romantic. But the asking in and of itself is a social gesture. That part is important. Do you understand?

Edited (laszlo ceases to make sense) 2019-10-19 03:32 (UTC)

You want it to be romantic, but you also want everyone in the room know it's romantic.
All right. That's easy.

You just [...] Take some of the components you'd genuinely like. Add a little more flourish than you would normally. Throw in a few real and touching sentiments, but nothing too personal, and just make sure you're in a crowded place when you say it.