Steve just watched her for a moment, her quick, efficient movements getting the cooler open and the blanket ready. Taking the proffered side, he pulled it out and watched as it puffed up as they set it down and let it settle on the grass. "I haven't been on one since I was a kid," he responded. "Usually on holidays like this, or Decoration Day, Labor Day, things like that. We'd bring a blanket to the park, where a bandstand had been set up. Everyone would bring food, so it was sort of a potluck, and we'd sit around listening to the bands play."
Settling on the blanket, Steve took off his jacket, revealing a sky blue short sleeved shirt that had only been hinted at before. He'd foregone a tie (although he'd seriously debated about wearing one), and now he unbuttoned the top of his shirt, letting it hang loose and show the neck of his white undershirt beneath. Glancing up at the sky, he commented, "Not sure how long we'll want to stay out in this weather, though. I may be the perfect human specimen, but I don't know exactly what that means in terms of sunburns." Or freckles. He'd avoided looking like a Rorschach test when he was younger, just by virtue of always being sick and not being out in the sun too much.
[*Decoration Day - originally to commemorate soldiers who died during the Civil War, and then all soldiers who died in combat; after WWII it became called Memorial Day, and was instituted as a national holiday in 1967.]
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Settling on the blanket, Steve took off his jacket, revealing a sky blue short sleeved shirt that had only been hinted at before. He'd foregone a tie (although he'd seriously debated about wearing one), and now he unbuttoned the top of his shirt, letting it hang loose and show the neck of his white undershirt beneath. Glancing up at the sky, he commented, "Not sure how long we'll want to stay out in this weather, though. I may be the perfect human specimen, but I don't know exactly what that means in terms of sunburns." Or freckles. He'd avoided looking like a Rorschach test when he was younger, just by virtue of always being sick and not being out in the sun too much.
[*Decoration Day - originally to commemorate soldiers who died during the Civil War, and then all soldiers who died in combat; after WWII it became called Memorial Day, and was instituted as a national holiday in 1967.]