Open Keeping Watch and Keeping Time

[Caleb Thorne]

[Open after Kris posts with Rene]

Caleb knew he was doing a bad job at pretending he wasn't spending most of the night glancing over his shoulder at Louis and his date, but he was thankful that Rene wasn't likely going to say anything about it. Or at least that was what he hoped. It was embarrassing to care so much about what his friend was up to but there was a part of him that felt like he was being left behind. But coming to the ball with Rene was helping with that feeling and they could totally have fun together with out him. Maybe the other boy would feel left out for once and Caleb tried to put that to the test and laughed extra loud at something Rene said. "Do you want to dance?" he asked suddenly. "Or maybe look at the presents? Or maybe get something else to eat?" he rambled off without meaning to. He was feeling restless and wasn't sure what to do with himself.

 

[Rene Tofilau]

Despite not having a date-date tonight, René was still pretty keen to just hang out with Caleb. Louis was busy with yet another random date tonight and it wasn't often René got to hang out with Caleb one on one. It often felt like he was the third wheel to the other two but maybe tonight he could prove he was just as fun and cool as Louis to hang out with. Even if he didn't have some sort of weird French powers to get dates to everything like Louis.

So far, things were going pretty well and René preened as Caleb burst out laughing at his joke about the mistletoe. "Uh yeah, sure whatever you want to do?" René said when Caleb mentioned dancing. He wasn't the best dancer, not by a long shot, too many long limbs, but he'd join in if Caleb wanted to. "You reckon there's actually anything good under the tree though?" He said, eying the present pile speculatively.

 

[Caleb Thorne]

Caleb scrunched up his nose as Rene didn’t really have an opinion on what they should do next. He liked feeling in control of the evening but nothing really seemed to interest him. Usually he was always fighting Louis over who was in charge and he realized that he liked the challenge. He shrugged in response to his friend's question. "Probably not." he said. "Its mostly likely junk they got for sale in Brightstone." he said with a laugh. But Honeydukes was in Brightstone so at least some sweets wouldn't be a terrible surprise. "Let's check it out." he said finally and started to walk towards the front of the hall before nudging Rene and grinning. "Race ya'."