Test Drive Meme #1

[proximods]

The sun is shining and the weather is nice and toasty. Overly toasty one might argue, even. It's a great day to be laying around at the beach, so it's a good thing that that's where you've found yourself today, whether you'd made plans to be there or not. Bathing suit and sunscreen ready, you're going to get your tanning time on.

But with heat comes the expected side effects for a place like Proxima Gamma. While the cool water can sometimes slow the effects, the heated beaches and freshly popped flowers seem to have made getting close to someone else just seem like a really great idea. You can try to fight off the side effects much as you want, but the scientists like to believe everyone has a breaking point.

Comments

[brandedrose]

[Johnny, you don't have a monopoly on the flame fetish. She couldn't count on both hands the number of flame decals she saw in her time on Bodhum.]

Of course it's yours.

[She rolls her eyes, stepping around to get a look at him. And not at all admire the view. Nope, totally not ogling him.]

Aren't you going to overheat, considering you run at a higher temperature?

[burnwithawesome]

[It's not a flame fetish. Okay, he might be. But he doesn't see it as that way!]

I think you need to be worried about overheating. I mean, you are here next to Mr. Hotness. There is no way you won't have a heatstroke from getting too close.

[brandedrose]

[The ogling stops at that little comment, and her once almost admiring gaze turns into a scowl.]

...why do I even bother sometimes?

[She really doesn't know.]

I was born and bred on a beach. You couldn't give me heatstroke if you tried.

[burnwithawesome]

[She might have stopped ogling him, but he was still ogling her. He was pretty much always doing that to her.]

Oh? Don't get over confident, Lighting. That's my thing.

[brandedrose]

You don't have a monopoly on confidence, last I checked. Though you certainly try.

[And to prove her earlier point, she plops down next to him, close enough that she can feel the heat radiating off of him. She rests her head in her hand, propped up by her knee, looking not even mildly uncomfortable.]

[burnwithawesome]

Only because people like you are getting in my way. [He reaches over to the cooler and grabs a drink from it and hands it to her.]

I'll have it all one day, though. And if you play your cards right, I might share some with you.

[brandedrose]

Ha. [She takes the drink with a nod and cracks it open. At least he came prepared.] Or I could just keep what I have and not need any from you. I rather like that idea better.