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[motherloving]

WHAT in person for maximum wish power
WHERE by the lake or anywhere
WHEN night of day 140
NOTES it's a tanabata post!

[ Bamboo trees line the shore of the lake tonight, trailing papers from their branches. Each one is inscribed with a wish mysteriously left by...someone. Some of them are generic, like "world peace," and others are kind of weird and random, like, "fishes with candy scales."

But if you touch one, the text on it might turn into one of your wishes. Maybe it's something innocuous, but maybe it's one of your deepest secrets.

Well, maybe you don't go to the lake tonight. In any case, the stars are luminously bright overhead, and looking at them instills you with a strange sense of nostalgia... ]

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[coldhand]

[leaning on him a little, huffing a sigh]

Too good to be real, you know?

[starspangledman]

[puts his arm around her]

Something like that.

[coldhand]

[also... um]

That reminds me. I had a question.

[starspangledman]

What's your question?

[coldhand]

[weird transition]

Just... I'm not real sure how you want to handle it if I'm kissing on your fiance.

[look. it happened. it's weird]

[starspangledman]

[flushes, squeezing at her shoulder]

Well, I think I encouraged him?

[coldhand]

[idk that he needed encouragement, Steve]

What'd you do?

[starspangledman]

I just told him I thought you two would get along? That I'd be happy if you were friends.

[coldhand]

You know we don't have to go out to be friends, right?

[starspangledman]

I know that. I know he's attracted to you too.

[coldhand]

So I noticed. The third or fourth time he brought it up.

[she was a little dense about that]

[starspangledman]

He can be persistent.

But he's been good for me. And I want you to feel comfortable around him. So I guess if you're not feeling left out, that's one way around it?

[coldhand]

You want us to make out so I don't feel left out?

[starspangledman]

[a pause, he flushes]

Maybe not making out, exactly. But yeah?

[coldhand]

Somehow, you're still not all that good with girls.

[sighing, pulling him in for a quick kiss. because he's also sweet and means well]

[starspangledman]

[kisses back! what!]

I haven't really done this kind of thing before, you know...

[coldhand]

No, guess you haven't.

It's not entirely fair of me to expect you to know what to do...

[starspangledman]

[shakes his head]

It's all right. We can figure it out together.

[coldhand]

You're really okay with it?

[starspangledman]

I am, really.

I'm happy for you two.

[coldhand]

For us?

[starspangledman]

You and Vasily.

[coldhand]

I knew who you were talking about. I'm just confused.

[starspangledman]

What's got you confused?

[coldhand]

Just... seems weird for you to be happy for us.