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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

[abardacttofollow]

I want... I want not to hurt him. And I absolutely hate being hurt.

[mindinthegittern]

[a little wry]

That damned Empathy.

[abardacttofollow]

Oh, to lie more effectively. His Empathy's always had it out for me. Picks up whatever was convenient but never helped him figure out I was in love with him.

[mindinthegittern]

I can't even try to set you two up this time.

[abardacttofollow]

I'm sorry to take you out of your natural state.

[mindinthegittern]

What will I even do with myself!

[abardacttofollow]

I don't know. I half expect you to start matchmaking out of habit.

[mindinthegittern]

I won't! On my honour as a...

...well, anyway, if I slip, you may smack me. I don't want to make any of this harder on you, truly.

[abardacttofollow]

[soft laugh]

I know. I have the utmost faith in your intentions, as always.

[mindinthegittern]

Good.

[a gentle hair ruffle]

I don't blame you for being scared, dear. But... I'm hopeful for you, even with everything.

[abardacttofollow]

It just feels like all that was... lost?

[mindinthegittern]

Yeah...?

[abardacttofollow]

I don't know how to put it. Our history, I guess. That's better than him being lost entirely, at least there's a future...

[mindinthegittern]

But you're still grieving your love, and that doesn't go away just because he—this one—just because Smaller Uncle Van is here.

[abardacttofollow]

Yes, that. I can love him as he is but I still...went through the things he hasn't.

[mindinthegittern]

Which you want to protect him from, but also—yes.

[abardacttofollow]

Exactly.

[mindinthegittern]

I'm adding whatever the wrong equivalent of willowbark tea is to our ever expanding shopping list.

[abardacttofollow]

[l-laughs helplessly]

[mindinthegittern]

[huffs and knocks his forehead against Stefen's shoulder a couple times]

I mean, good grief.

[abardacttofollow]

Just give me a good knock in the head, that'll do me.

[mindinthegittern]

A versatile remedy if there ever was one.

[abardacttofollow]

But always. Let's get some sleep.

[except I'm gonna stay up and text vanyel until he comes over lol]

[mindinthegittern]

Not a bad idea. G'night, Stef.

[gonna get some sleep before that happens, at least]