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Polka is dragging Lamy by the hand from rollercoaster to rollercoaster. She's smiling and jumping. It's when Botan and Nene catch up, she sees Lamys pale face; she moves to let Lamy sit down on a nearby bench.
Lamy lightly tugs Polka to join her, but she doesn't. She stands like a lighthouse for the others, she's waiting.
She waves them over, as soon as Nene sits down next to Lamy, her shoulder gets occupied.
Nene lets her fingers go through blue hair slowly, whispering quiet reassurances as a water bottle gets placed to her lips.
A small frown accomplished by a weak; 'thats not your lips'. Before drinking from the bottle slowly.
Polka knew Botan was looking at her, she couldn't look back. Her energy was roaring like a beast inside her, the park, the happy music and the rides; masking it down became harder.
Polka wants to run away, try the rides, but doing it alone seems lonely, but her lover doesn't have the stamina.
Lamy let's go of her hand, which causes her to lift her gaze, Lamy is looking at another ride. Her eyes are glazed over, it makes guilt fester in her stomach.
"I'll go try a ride! You guys can chill here or eat some ice cream!" Polka waves her hands, as she runs off. She doesn't hear protests, so she believes its the right choice.
She spends her day like that, there's loads of rides, loads of houses to go into; there's mirrors, sometimes there are people trying to scare you.
It's only after what would be hours she realized Lamy held her phone and wallet. Suddenly she remembered who she came here with, it was supposed to be a date.
She felt her tail slack against her body as her ears fell, the earlier guilt returning, as she recalled Lamys pale face.
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She's walking around the park, trying to see if she can find her girlfriends. She's getting hungry, and tired, she wants to go home; sleep on the couch and call it a day.
She sees Botan by a ride, waiting. She walks up slowly, and pokes her arm.
"Oh hey, I thought I saw you go on this one" Botan giggled as she ruffled Polkas hair.
"Where are the others?" Polka mumbled as she leaned against the lioness palm.
"Just at a café over here, are you okay?" Botan slowly let her arm rest around her shoulders, as they walked.
"...yeah, I just want to go home" Polka spoke quietly, averting her gaze.
Botan hummed response, rubbing her shoulder gently.
"Where's Lamy?" Botan asked as they arrived at the small café, botan gesturing to Polka to sit down; which she did without complaint.
Polka is staring at nothing particularly, but she notices the small cracks in the table in front of her, the plastic is worn from use. Overuse rings in her head, it makes her shiver.
She returns as she feels a jacket over her shoulders, it was hers, Lamy placed it with a smile curving her lips.
"Hi, welcome back" she said, as she let her hand take hold of Polkas.
"Shisiron said you wanted to go home?"
Polka just nodded slowly, the park had settled down, their energy would be matching now.
"Did you have fun? We saw you a few times, run about. Nene and Shisiron reached a few rides with you, but I don't think you noticed. You looked so happy" Lamy giggled, as Nene nodded exasperatedly.
"I don't think she was present, she looked to have a good time though" Nene talked as she ate the piece of cake in front of her.
The reply only made her deflate in the chair, as a frown appeared on her face.
"I wanna go home," she whispered quietly.
"We're just gonna try one more thing, then we can go home, okay?" Lamy squeezed her hands lightly, a smile ever so gentle.
Polka could only hum on agreement.
Polka glanced up as she leaned against Botan, it was a wheel, it was turning and you sat in boxes.
The realization of date hit her in the face again, causing her to hide her face in botans shoulder.
"Just one turn, Polka" Botan whispered as they walked to get into it, all four of them.
Polka sat idly looking out at the horizon.
"We didn't try a lot today, but that's okay. We had fun" botan smiles, as she lightly held Polkas.
"At least someone, tried all the rides" Nenes eyes glinted as she looked at Polka, who turned to face her.
"Didn't get all of them" polka muttered as heat rose to her face, "sorry, for ruining the date" polka murmured as she turned her gaze to the bottom of the container, Lamys shoes and her own entering her field of view.
"What do you mean?" Lamy asked, confused, the container tilting slightly as she moved forward, tabbing on Polkas legs.
"It's a date I spend my time just doing rides alone…"
"We reached a few with you, and dates are also about having fun, did you have fun?" Nene piped up.
"I did…" polka answered meekly.
"Then you didn't ruin anything" Lamy smiled widely, causing Polka to make one of her own.
"You had my wallet, so I didn't get any food, so we need to go by the supermarket-"
"You're telling me, I've had your wallet the whole day?"
"I didn't realize till I got hungry" polka's ears lowered, as the girls began laughing.
"Oh polka, you deserve more than food when we get home"