We Tried (afterparty)

[outsidethecircle]

[A couple hours after the trial there may be a note slipped under your bedroom door reading simply in very formal handwriting (actually it's very amazingly neat for someone of her age you might think it's the other Anna)--

I made sandwiches. They're in the lounge if you want them.

-Anna

Anna herself will be found in the study after seeing everyone has enough sandwiches. Where she very sulkily is drawing a boat.]

Comments

[amadeusrockette]

[A-ha! Julia gives a small cheer and then groans as she realizes it's cooking wine and not regular wine.]

Of course an American house has this instead of real wine. Is this even drinkable?

[kindaruledatit]

[Wendy, a girl from the literal sticks, nods immediately. She comes out of the fridge with the ingredients of a sandwich.]

Oh yeah, it's drinkable. Dunno if the taste is any good though.

[amadeusrockette]

[She opens the bottle, takes a huge swig, and coughs. Americans.]

Ugh. Why would you put this in food? It won't taste better when you cook it.

[kindaruledatit]

[Wendy dumps her ingredients on the counter, takes the bottle from Julia's hand, and takes a small swig of it herself. She cringes, but only a little.]

Phew! I think I can definitely tell you that whatever's getting cooked with this stuff, it isn't for the flavor.

[amadeusrockette]

I've had cheap wine, but that is . . . something else. Maybe if we make a mulled wine?

[Julia looks over the spice rack to see if she can just. Make an attempt to mask the shittiness of this wine. It's probably not going to improve the wine much but she figures it's better than nothing.]

[kindaruledatit]

Hey, whatever makes it all easier to go down.

[She could care less about a little drinking. And if there was ever a time...

She looks over the stuff she set out on the counter, frowning deeply.]

Man, I'm not even hungry. This blows.

[amadeusrockette]

[Julia starts pulling spices off the rack, weirdly intent on reading all the labels.]

Sometimes you just have to eat, even if you don't want to. Especially if we're going to drink.

[kindaruledatit]

Oh, so you're inviting me too, huh?

[Wendy figured that this was going to be an "everyone drink for themselves" kind of party.]

[amadeusrockette]

American drinking laws are stupid and drinking alone is nobody's friend, so if you want to be invited then you are.

[Grabbing a coffee filter, Julia starts pouring the wine through it into a pot. Bruno swore up and down that filtering was the way to make cheap wine palatable so you know what? It can't hurt.]

[kindaruledatit]

Oh. Well amen to that. [It's never too early to start partying overseas, right?

She watches Julia mess around with the wine for a hot minute before she starts making something for herself. Something simple, ham and cheese and whatever else she thinks might actually give her an appetite. Or something she can wash down with alcohol.]

[amadeusrockette]

[Once the wine's filtered, Julia dumps in a bunch of spices and starts heating it. She's cooking it. That's what this wine is for, right?????]

. . . How are you holding up? [She's not doing so great, but. Also she wasn't flirting with someone who died so.] It's. I know you were close, with them.

[kindaruledatit]

[A rather unorthodox method to getting drunk, in Wendy's opinion. She likes it.]

Oh, I'm super. [Spoken with about as much dryness as the slices of bread she's laying out. Ham, cheese, maybe some pepper, depends if the ghosts chose to stock pickles.]

Close? What do you mean? Like, with Karolina?

[amadeusrockette]

You're wearing her bracelet.

[Julia says that like it's a whole explanation. Which, to her it is. When a girl you've only known for a little over a month sews you a dress, it means something. When you're wearing the Special Bracelet of a girl you've only known for two weeks, it also means something.]

[kindaruledatit]

Wha... oh. [Yeah, she was. On the same side Karolina would wear it on and everything. She had been focusing on it earlier, but had she really forgotten about it just now?]

...Well, yeah dude. It was Mike's idea that I take it after it didn't work, and... [She shrugs.] There wasn't anything happening, I mean, not yet. I never even asked.

[A whole lot of what-ifs and all that.] We already decided on her coming to visit Gravity Falls when we busted out of here.

[amadeusrockette]

[. . . dat's gay, Wendy. Good thing Julia is too shaken up to try and make a "meeting the parents", joke. Not that she's good at jokes anyway.]

Gravity Falls? Is that in, um. [Shoot. Wendy said, on that first day. It sounded like oheim. Oheimo? . . . Close enough.] Oheimo like Woodstick?

[kindaruledatit]

[It is!

God, she hasn't even thought about her meeting her family. One giant roadblock after another.]

What? Oheimo? [What are you... oh. Wendy snorts. God.] No, no, Oregon. Like, the United States. It's this little town the founder literally fell into.

[amadeusrockette]

[Aren't Ohio and Oregon the same one???? Is this like the Carolina thing????]

Why does America have so many states? [How do Americans even keep them all straight????] Is Oregon one of the ones in the middle? I didn't learn those ones very well.

[kindaruledatit]

[no!!!!!!! no!!!!!!]

Heck if I know. [They dont. Have you every asked someone where Carolina is?]

No, it's on the coast. You haven't been to America before, have you?