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[twicebonded]

WHAT In person or texting, I don't know, I'm not your boss
WHERE Wherever you'd be at night
WHEN Day 1, night
NOTES aj said i was allowed to make a new post

[So, you've survived your first—or fiftieth, or five-hundredth—day in Quiet Mounds. Tonight, it's raining—or, it's not. Maybe you're trying to get used to your new, quiet apartment. The electricity is buzzing in that way that's hard to ignore, a silence so loud it's deafening, in that poetic sort of way.]

[Or maybe you're one of the sad sacks still working at the 24/7 joints. Or their why-am-I-even-up-this-late customers. You're the reason why capitalism does this to people, you know.]

[☽ ☽ ☽]

Comments

[twicebonded]

She'd probably tell me to get inside and stop letting my head get soggy. As if my judgement wasn't impaired enough.

[abardacttofollow]

She sounds sensible. You should listen to her.

[twicebonded]

Is your roommate asleep?

It's Medren, isn't it?

[abardacttofollow]

Good call. He is. Both.

[twicebonded]

I see.

[vaguetexts like a pro]

[abardacttofollow]

What do you see?

[twicebonded]

It's fine. He's nice.

Are you just sitting awake?

[abardacttofollow]

He is nice. He's the one who set me aright when I first came to Bardic.

That's right. Willing sleep but not finding it.

[twicebonded]

I could play you a lullaby.

[abardacttofollow]

Over the phone?

[twicebonded]

Well. Probably. But.

Sorry. Never mind it.

[abardacttofollow]

Go on ;). That's a face someone showed me.

[twicebonded]

[his feet have found their way back to the apartments anyway, so he steps inside, shivering]

. . .

I'm sorry.

[abardacttofollow]

Why are you sorry?

[twicebonded]

I don't know how to talk to you.

[longer and longer pauses between replies]

[abardacttofollow]

I'm not... expecting anything. Sorry if I made this strange, texting out of nowhere.

[twicebonded]

No! I wanted it.

[abardacttofollow]

Then I don't think any harm is done. [a long pause] Is there anything I can do to make it easier?

[twicebonded]

It's nothing you're doing, or haven't done.

[abardacttofollow]

That's vague.

[twicebonded]

I mean, you're fine. You're great.

[abardacttofollow]

Don't take it on yourself that it's hard to know someone knows you and cares about you when it's—well, news to you.

[twicebonded]

That's hardly the issue.

[abardacttofollow]

[long pause]

Would you like to come over? Medren won't mind if I climb in with him tonight, if you want the spare room.

[twicebonded]

I don't want to impose.