forum "You DO like me!" "I don't think 'like' is the right word." "You tolerate me." "Maybe." one on one

Started January 29, 2021 by @cryptic-glitch

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"Sleep matters. A lot. You'd die if you didn't get enough."

"Yeah, yeah. Nothing much matters at this point." He shrugged again and looked out the window. "We have nothing to lose. No one would really miss me if I was gone anyway, so I've got nothing to worry about."

"I'd miss you if you left," Orion said softly. "I know you weren't talking about me. But still."

"I suppose. I'm sure you'd get over it, though. My family probably assumes I'm dead anyway."

"Lin, I'm trying to be all sappy here."

"Oh… sorry. Should I say… uh… thank you?"

"Probably. I don't know."

"Well, I'm not good at sappy stuff. I usually just try to say what I mean. Everything else is kinda confusing."

"Whatever. It's fine. I'm sure the sentiment is there."

Lin nodded a bit, looking back out the window. "I feel like I didn't learn much at school. I tried my best to pay attention, you know? But I just… forgot most of it."

“That’s alright. Mostly you just need to be able to do addition.”

"Mm. Well, I can do addition alright, so I should be okay. It's weird to think about the fact that I'm technically an adult."

"Yeah. Time is just a weird concept in general."

Lin nodded a bit. "Mhmm. It feels like only yesterday or something that I ran away from home, but it's been like… six years."

"Really? To me it's interesting that we've been alive longer than one and a half decades."

"Yeah, that too. I feel so old, but also like an overgrown, helpless baby. Is that normal?"

"I would say no. Probably not."

"Ah. I guess you don't feel that way, then?"

"More like an alien. Like people are clearly telling me what to do, and I just don't understand them."

"Mm. I guess that makes sense." He hummed softly to himself and looked over at Orion. "We can do whatever we want now, though. Our parents can't stop us."

"Been a long time coming if you ask me," Orion said blithely.

"Well, my parents haven't been able to stop me from doing anything since I was twelve, but y'know. Apparently most people's parents do that a lot."

"Ugh, you have no idea. It's the worst. I wasn't allowed to date anybody."

"Why not?" Lin asked, confused. "What do they care?"

"I don't know. They thought I was going to get pregnant or something."