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

tune

"Yes." She leaned back in the seat and let out a long breath. "I'm exhausted."

"We should probably find somewhere safe to park and then go to bed, yeah? Not sure I want to sleep outside a bar."

"Right, right." She sat forward and turned on the car, and drove down the street, parking in the abandoned lot with the warehouse they explored earlier. "Is here good?"

"Yeah, probably. I doubt anybody will bother us here." Lin yawned and stretched a bit. "Did you have fun?"

"I don't know." She turned away from Lin. "I don't know. I had something. There was a feeling. I just don't know what kind of feeling it was." Well, that was a lie. She knew what it was and she most definitely wasn't going to tell Lin.

"Maybe you were happy?" Lin shrugged a bit. "I wasn't watching you too closely, but did you… um… get to do what you wanted to do?"

"No. I didn't hook up with Edith. And I certainly wasn't happy." She pulled off her jacket and laid it over herself like a blanket.

"Oh… did she do something mean?" Lin asked, pulling a blanket out of his bag and huddling up under it.

"No. She was nice and all. I gave her my number, actually. Which I'm now regretting. Anyway. Whatever."

"Why are you regretting it if she was nice?" Lin asked, obviously bewildered. "Did something happen?"

"I don't like her like that." She looked out the window.

"Oh… well, maybe you can just be friends, then!" Lin smiled brightly. "You don't have to do anything you don't want to."

"I know. I guess. I'm going to sit outside for a while." She put her jacket back on and opened the door.

"Okay…" Lin watched Orion worriedly for a bit, but soon turned over so that he could go to sleep.

.

She sat on the ground, looking up at the stars, her thoughts racing. Eventually, she fell asleep.

(?)
Lin awoke early in the morning before Orion, combing through his hair with his fingers. He looked out the window at her, still worried.

She still slept, but during the night she had slumped over onto the ground.

Lin quietly got out of the car and nudged Orion. "Orion? Are you okay?"

"Huh?" She bolted upright. "What? What's wrong?"

"You're sleeping outside… are you okay?" Lin asked softly. "That's probably not very good for your back…"

❤️

Because every time you guys talk it gives me notification like I won’t go away and I don’t know if my bff is talking to me so I do that so I can go away