“I can do this sort of shop… this size looks about right.” As he held up the pants, she shook her head a little. He might have thought those jeans he wa holding up to himself were the right size but they would have fallen off of him at his first step. Way too big. “What do you think?” Percy asked her. Before she could comment, he spoke again.
"You might have to help with this one... otherwise I fear I will become even more of a laughing stock than I already am..” He stated. Tessa gave a soft chuckle. "Don't worry, I'll help you out." She told him, smiling. Her body became less tense as the pain medication started kicking in. She gave a silent thanks in her mind for her having not eaten much. Had she had a whole meal, it would have taken at least another five to ten minutes for her pain to start being relieved.
"Alright, I'm going to have to have you stand straight for a moment..." She told him before grabbing up a pair of jeans she thought would fit him. She had had plenty of practice eye-measuring outfits for herself so it wasn't too hard for her but there came the truth of the fact. It wasn't her measuring clothes for herself. She didn't know Percy nearly long enough to know his measurements and she definately hadn't been staring at him to get an idea of it either...
"Hold still or this will become a lot more awkward for the both of us." She stated, grinning a little in amusement. Tessa then stepped up close to Percy before bringing the jeans up in front of him then, acting as professional as she could, she moved the jeans up against him and moved her other hand to make sure that the crotch of them would not be too high or too low on him. Her hand came close to him but stopped about a milimeter from where it could have been wandering onto dangerous areas then as she was satisfied at how the pants would fit him, she stepped back to let him return to having some personal space.
"Well, looks like these are the ones for you. You might want to try them on just in case though. If they fit like I think they're going to, we can get to buying a few more pairs then going on to the shirts, socks, shoes, and draws..... Are you a boxer or brief person?" She asked him.
Re: a quiet walk around the city (open)"Don't worry, I'll help you out."
a wave of relief passed over percy as she offered to help, he was glad that he had met her today, she seemed to be a genuinely nice person that he would have to make sure he kept in contact with "Alright, I'm going to have to have you stand straight for a moment..." an eyebrow raised the inventor glanced nervously towards Tessa wondeing what it was that she was going to do... not that he had to wait long to find out
"Hold still or this will become a lot more awkward for the both of us." a look of worry crossed his face as she held the jeans up to his legs... breathing a sigh of relief when she finally stepped back. this was not an unusaly thing for percy to have a tailor measure him up... but his tailor was a man, and not a lady dressed in less than underwear from his time period. The blush soon dissapeared from his face though
as he began to talk about the sizes and how to go about making sure they were the right size.
"Are you a boxer or brief person?"
it caught the inventor by surprise as he eyed some of the other garments in the store "erm... i am not sure" boxers or breifs... yet more words he did not understand much, though was sure that it had something to do with underwear. William had said something about that in passing conversation, not to percy though, something he had said to Draven about his washing... though it was an incident that he could not recall properly
"what are these things? Boxers, briefs…” Out of curiosity the inventor began to very slowly wander towards the underwear section with an inquisitive air, his hadn gently adjusting the glasses which had slipped down his face slightly. He really should think about getting these contacts that everyone was talking about and not just because the glasses kept slipping, but also because they were not his… technically they still belonged to William until he could get his own repaired.
“Mine are a little bigger than those " The inventor motioned to the underwear department, it was the truth once more as his underwear was normal for the time he lived in, large and quite baggy though they were really warm in the winter, the converse of that was that they were really hot in the summer. “how exactly are these things supposed to keep you warm?” the inventor carefully picked up a packet with one hand and held it at arms length so as he could observe the contents and picture on the outside
“I mean… they are quite small for undergarments, though having seen some of the clothing I can understand why they would be small” he said with a slight laugh, referring to the sort of thing that Tessa was wearing at the moment, after all if her underwear was the size of that of the ladies in his time then it would be clearly visible as her clothing was a little revealing to say the least. After a couple more seconds deliberation and looking at the packets on the shelving Percy turned back “I’m not sure on these… which do you suggest?”
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Tessa chuckled a little over the underwear conversation that was fromming then spoke. "Well, the underwear aren't really there to keep you warm these days. They're to either cover you up or for fashion. For example, there's plenty of people running arounf in thongs, mainly women but some men too..... And if you're wondering what a thong is, it's one of these." Tessa told him, pulling her shorts down a little on one hip to reveal a thong strap. She pulled her shorts back up again after giving him the glimpse. "Then there's the g-strings which might as well be made out of dental-floss." She stated.
She looked over at the boxers then handed him a few pairs. "Those should do good for you since you're used to the baggier underwear. There are long jhons but they're kind of hard to find this time of the year. Usually they sell them in the dead of winter." She explained to him. "Ok... now how about those shirts? Unless you're an undershirt kind of guy too..." She looked at him and remembered who she was talkign to then gave a small grin and pointed over where the packages fo undershirts were hanging not too far form the socks and briefs.
"The undershirts are right over there. Mostly wife-beaters but there's t-shirts too." She told him. "With the wife-beaters, it's not really a shirt for people who beat their wives, it just got that pet name from the guys on the soap opras wearing them so much and such. Those kinds of shirts are also called under-armers or tank tops." She explained.
As her cellphone rang, she took a look at it then rolling her eyes shut it off, placig it back into her pocket. "That guy is such a nag!" She muttered. It had been Kaleb calling. Most likely because he couldn't find another DJ and because he wanted to yell wine, and curse at her and try to threaten her into coming back to the party and working. There was no chance in hell she was going to work for him again.
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The inventor was shuffling through packets again quietly observing the colours and designs his mind envisaging himself wearing them, and then wishing he could forget some of the things he was imagining "Well, the underwear aren't really there to keep you warm these days. They're to either cover you up or for fashion. For example, there's plenty of people running arounf in thongs, mainly women but some men too..... And if you're wondering what a thong is, it's one of these." Her answer to his previous question about warmth an size brought him a grateful relief from his mental picturing and his eyes wandered over to her.. then nearly popped out of his head in shock.
Had she just done that, Percy’s face turned a bright shade of red… was she trying to kill him of embarrassment. For his entire life the most flesh he had seen was the occasional glimpse of a girl ankle as she stepped from a carriage… and here he was with a rather attractive young lady wearing next to nothing, and she’s just displayed part of her underwear as if it were a perfectly normal thing to do..
"Those should do good for you since you're used to the baggier underwear. There are long jhons but they're kind of hard to find this time of the year. Usually they sell them in the dead of winter." As he took the boxers his movement was particularly limited as the poor guy was still recovering from the shock, where he would normally say something like thank you to her for passing the clothing he was speechless.
. "Ok... now how about those shirts? Unless you're an undershirt kind of guy too..." his eyes followed her line of pointing in the direction of the packets hanging up not too far away "The undershirts are right over there. Mostly wife-beaters but there's t-shirts too.""With the wife-beaters, it's not really a shirt for people who beat their wives, it just got that pet name from the guys on the soap opras wearing them so much and such. Those kinds of shirts are also called under-armers or tank tops."
Percy snapped himself out of his semi daze with a quick shake of his head “why thankyou, I’ll go have a look… but so far it has been quite warm and I’m not actually wearing one today” as if to mimic her the inventor reached to his collar, the top button undone and pulled it down a little so as she could see his chest and that he was indeed not wearing an undershirt, ignoring the fact that she was on the phone.
The inquisitive look he gave her quickly could have been easily missed, his mind intrigued with these mobile telephones still, and he was curious as to who it was on the phone… not that he would ask for fear of being rude. Instead he took a quick wander towards the undershirts, weighing up whether or not it was worth getting any as he only really wore them in the cold… and it had not been cold so far in his stay in this country, Plus if she could wander about in next to nothing all day then he could probably do without a vest for now at least.
“no I don’t think that I will be needing any just yet, the weather has been quite kind in comparison to London in my time, for one it has not yet rained properly. A little warm drizzle certainly but nothing to be worried about” he chuckled as he recalled a shopkeeper staring at him as if he were a nutter the last time it rained… he’d only been wandering in it as if nothing was going on.
“oh” he added before she could reply “before I forget perhaps it would not be too bold to offer you my phone number in case you should want to contact me at any point” . Well it was not his phone number really but the hotels was close enough as he did not have a personal phone “it might not be me answering but they will be able to give me a call or if I’m not there then you could leave a message” his free hand had reached into his pocket, removed a business card and was now offering it in her direction, rather hopeful that he was not being too forward in asking.
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“Why thankyou, I’ll go have a look… but so far it has been quite warm and I’m not actually wearing one today” Percy stated, showing her proof by opening his shirt a little to give her a view. That wasn't enough to keep her from catching the look he gave at her cell phone. But there was not much more before he wandered off in the direction she had pointed out tohave the under shirts at.
As he looked through the undershirts, Tessa reached into the cart to grab up another pain-reliever, the headache apparently starting to win over the battle of dominance between the pills and the pain. It was almost making her need to squint. “No I don’t think that I will be needing any just yet, the weather has been quite kind in comparison to London in my time, for one it has not yet rained properly. A little warm drizzle certainly but nothing to be worried about." She heard Percy state.
“Oh... before I forget perhaps it would not be too bold to offer you my phone number in case you should want to contact me at any point.” Usually she didn't take numbers from guys that she had just met but he wasn't trying to pick her up either so she ws more inclined to accept it. "It might not be me answering but they will be able to give me a call or if I’m not there then you could leave a message.” He told her as she accepted his card.
Tessa tucked it in her back pocket after looking at it for a moment then pulled out one of her own. "Here you can have mine too. It's got my celly number on it and right below, the house number... I don't usually stay in one apartment for too long so it's my friend's house but she'll be more than happy to give me a message if you leave one." She told him, smiling despite the discomfort she was feeling at the moment. "So.. should we go on to the shirts or did you want to stick arond in this department to see if you were interested in anythign else?" She asked.
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A smile passed Percy’s face and would probably stay there for a good long time as she accepted the card, the inventor had never given out his phone number to anyone before and so far it had gone well.. he’d have to try it again some time "Here you can have mine too. It's got my celly number on it and right below, the house number... I don't usually stay in one apartment for too long so it's my friend's house but she'll be more than happy to give me a message if you leave one." The plastered smile became cemented on the man’s face as he took the card from her hand carefully with his own.
Observing the card for a second or two he adjusted his glasses to make the image clearer realising that he did need to sort out a pair of glasses of his own, or maybe those ‘contact’ things that William had mentioned when they had first met. Still that was a consideration for the future and not just now "So.. Should we go on to the shirts or did you want to stick around in this department to see if you were interested in anything else?" carefully placing the card into his inside pocket of his coat as if it were a breakable object he glanced over the underwear department “I cant see anything else I would buy… though in fairness I would not but this sort of thing where I come from” the inventor looked over the items that had been selected so far.
The jeans looked rather nice he thought, the material did seem actually seem to be a lot softer now than when he had first felt them, much softer than his tweeds actually. “so what sort of shirt would i be looking at to go with these then” he asked, but now his brain had processed the fact that she had been taking more tablets from the bottle “surely there’s a limit to how many of those you can take…” he sounded concerned as he searched his mind to remember anything about headaches or how they dealt with them in this time period “perhaps we should make this quick then, you seem a little worse for wear”
Percy gave the young woman an inquisitive look, the smile reducing a little “I would offer you a cup of tea, but my place is a good hours walk from here and probably quite far out of your way, plus the others are a little overpowering sometimes when they are all together” he stated wishing the hotel was closer to the shops than it was, there was nothing like a good cup of hot tea to help with any form of ailments. Or that’s what the housekeeper had always told him, probably just to shut him up when he was not well.
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“I cant see anything else I would buy… though in fairness I would not buy this sort of thing where I come from... so what sort of shirt would i be looking at to go with these then?" He asked. "Well, Jeans go with almost everything except for somebusiness suits and such.... but I'd suggest a T-shirt. T-shirts are pretty good for this time of the year and everyone wears them.. Well, not everyone but nost people." Tessa told Percy with a small smile. "There's some T-shirts over on that rack over there." She stated, pointing in the direction of the Mens Shirts.
“surely there’s a limit to how many of those you can take…" Percy said winth concern in his tone. She didn't even have to see him looking at the bottle to know what he was talking about. “perhaps we should make this quick then, you seem a little worse for wear... I would offer you a cup of tea, but my place is a good hours walk from here and probably quite far out of your way, plus the others are a little overpowering sometimes when they are all together” He told her.
"Taking a couple extra headache pills won't do too mugh harm, don't worry. At most it'll have me sleeping for a few hours. But I am thikning about heading back to the apartment soon. After we're done here that is." She told him, not wanting him to feel like she was in bad shape or that she was trying to get rid of him. "I'll be fine until then. We don't have to rush or anything, it's just a headache." She told him. Tessa would make herself last that long at least but she knew that not too long after the shopping she would be crashing out back at her apartment and hoping that the headache will be gone when she woke.
Re: a quiet walk around the city (open)"Taking a couple extra headache pills won't do too mugh harm, don't worry. At most it'll have me sleeping for a few hours. But I am thikning about heading back to the apartment soon. After we're done here that is." the inventor gave her a rather worried look, quite unconvinced that she was not going to suffer any major side effects from the pills she was guzzling like there was no tomorrow. but then agian in his time there were not pills for easing pain, certainly there were herbs and remedies but nothing like a tablet that could just be taken.
percy glanced over to the shirts she had indicated a few seconds ago, William had a fair amount of black ones so if he chose te same it would prbably get rather confusing "I'll be fine until then. We don't have to rush or anything, it's just a headache." he looked back at her once more "well ok, but i do think that perhaps if your... i mean if you, you know..." he stopped short of mentioning powers in public, instead hoping that she would uderstand what he was on about "if they are causing you problems like this then surely there is someone you can see"
thinking over quickly he remembered william saying about the school having doctors and the suchlike "perhaps if you went to see someone who specialises in this sort of thing" he told her with concern still in his voice, carefully taking hold of a shirt from the racking, dark blue.... that would do surely, it was close to being the same as William's but not identical so as not to get too confused "Ok, well i think this should be enough right" the inventor held up the items in his hand as if to show her them all
"Now you are going to have to explain all this money to me, for i am not yet accustomed to it" his free hand reached inside the jacket he was wearing and produced a wad of notes. right now he felt a little silly for carrying around what seemed rather a lot of money on his person, for in his time it was not a good idea in case you got mugged... however he had no clue as to its worth and even now as his eyes glanced through his gold rimmed glasses he could not make much sense of it.
Re: a quiet walk around the city (open)"Well ok, but i do think that perhaps if your... i mean if you, you know... if they are causing you problems like this then surely there is someone you can see...perhaps if you went to see someone who specialises in this sort of thing." Percy stated in a concerned tone. Tessa didn't know of any place like that and wasn't sure if there would be one. After all, it wasn't like Mutants were all that popular in the world. The only Mutants that she knew lived underground in the sewers. They were part of this group called the Morlocks but she doubted that they had a specialist down there. Although... She never did ask.
"Ok, well i think this should be enough right?" She blinked as his words returned her from her thoughts. At seeing the selection Percy had collected, she nodded. "Now you are going to have to explain all this money to me, for i am not yet accustomed to it" Percy told her as he pulled out a wad fo bills.
Tessa shook her head quickly. "Hey Percy, one thing you should learn before the value of the dollar... You probably shouldn't pull it out like that. You might need to get a wallet or something. These days, you can get mugged doing what you just did." Tessa warned gently. "You never want to show anyone how much money you really have... especially in New York." She told him. Tessa then went on to giving an explaination on the value of modern money and even to telling him about how to tell if some money was counterfit or not.
((OOC- sorry it took so long, I thought I posted her a whiiiilleee back))
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