Day 49: Late Afternoon - Pearl's Beauty Salon Hair and Nails

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Meche couldn't remember the last time she'd had her nails done, if ever--it definitely would have been a long while even before the last time she'd had nails. Today was turning into the day for those kinds of things, it seemed like.

The salon was only about a block from the bookstore, so luckily she managed to stay pretty dry on the run over. Meche closed the door firmly behind her and smiled at the woman who rushed from the back to meet her. "Hi, I'm meeting a friend here," she explained, and sat down in the nearest chair to wait.

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Yue rose to his feet again and straightened, drawing back slightly from the pair as he unbuttoned his coat. He had no intention of going back out into that mess until he absolutely had to -- and hopefully that would be before full dark. And clearly Touya didn't plan to leave soon, either, since he'd already put up both his and Sakura's coats.

As Touya rejoined them the guardian moved away, apparently uninterested in manicures and coupons for them, though as he set the dripping coat on the rack he did frown critically at his fingernails. That was another thing that should have remained unharmed through his magic, though he hadn't really given them much thought before now as they were a somewhat lesser concern. The cry from behind him drew his attention back to the others, though, and Yue turned around again with one brow slightly upraised. So they were starting that again, were they? Probably best that he stay out of it.

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Touya grinned as Sakura stomped on his toes, though her foot had considerably less bite when she wasn't wearing rollerblades. It stung a little, sure, but it was outweighed by how angry Sakura looked at being called a monster again. And... mostly her looking anything but sad or worried outweighed having his toes stepped on.

He looked back over his shoulder at Yue, wondering where he'd gotten to, and smiled lightly at his seemingly exasperated look. Clearly he hadn't been around Touya and Sakura in their natural modes of operation, and thus he was looking at them like they were both children. Though Touya couldn't help but feel that if Yue did less standing off to the side and more participating, he wouldn't feel so alone.

"Hey," Touya said, crouching down in front of Sakura and whispering to her conspiratorially. "I think Yue could use some cheering up. Why don't you pick a shade of nail polish for him while you're picking one for yourself?" Touya said with a grin, holding out his own coupon to Sakura.

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Sakura's face puffed up even more when her attack yielded a grin from Touya instead of a yelp in pain. Geez. When she grew older, she was going to become taller and stronger than her brother and then she'd be the one grinning! ... But for now, where were her roller blades when she needed them?

However, her expression quickly changed to a more serious face as Touya whispered to her. She glanced back at Yue who was facing the other direction before taking the coupon. "Okay," she responded with a wink, and with that she headed over to the nail polish section to figure out which colors would best suit them.