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[awooligan]

CLIFFORD NORMAN
UN: REDRIDINGHOODIE

STATUS: grade 11

ACCOLADES: n/a.

BIO: name's cliff. let me know if you'll buy cigarettes and shit for me, we can work something out.

© TESSISAMESS

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[kept_his_letters]

:(

[It shouldn't have but... she rather thinks that's her own fault.]

I think that's understandable.
It's hard just to think about.

[Harder still to be there.]

I don't know that I'd be very useful with all this.
I'd probably get in the way.
Even if I kind of wish I could be both places at once.
Or maybe just that you were my neighbour or something.

[awooligan]

I don't mean here for all this crap
obviously I'm glad you're away from it
I miss hanging out with you is all
being neighbors would be good
you'd be that cool girl next door

[kept_his_letters]

Haha, cool, sure.
I guess you just have to move to México then!
And you'll have to learn to speak Spanish.

[awooligan]

yo hablo un poco

[kept_his_letters]

¿Un poquito?
¿De Verdad?

[awooligan]

uhhh sí y ¿que?

[kept_his_letters]

It means you definitely have to visit me.
And I don't have to fumble with English as much!

[awooligan]

I don't think you fumble but it isn't fair to make you the one always using another language
I'll practice more so I don't embarrass you on your home turf

[kept_his_letters]

You won't embarrass me.
But it would still be cool.
So, thank you.

[awooligan]

sounds like a challenge

[kept_his_letters]

Pfff
Embarrassing me?
I don't know.
Could you do that without embarrassing yourself?

[awooligan]

could you at least pretend for once that I have any chance of winning against you?

[kept_his_letters]

Ah, Of course.
Please do not embarrass me, Cliff, and therefore win.
My poor old heart cannot take it.

[awooligan]

thank you
but I wouldn't wanp

[why must his fingers betray him when he's just trying to delete]

my bad, ignore that

[kept_his_letters]

???
What?

[awooligan]

if I tell you I was going to say something stupid are you going to make me say the stupid thing

[kept_his_letters]

Well, you kind of just told me it was something stupid, so all that's left is saying the stupid thing.

[awooligan]

or I pretend this never happened but then you're going to think it's a big deal or something

[Which...it wasn't. Obviously.]

I was going to say something about how I wouldn't want your heart ever getting hurt

[kept_his_letters]

Cliff
That's really sweet.
That's not stupid at all.

[awooligan]

[Embarrassing... Especially since suddenly it’s as if he can feel the heat of her lips on his cheek again and his heart thuds uncomfortably, though not in an entirely bad way.]

maybe
but it definitely feels weird to say

[kept_his_letters]

I guess it's easier when people don't think about it.

[Then again, she'd done that and it had gone very very stupidly.]

[awooligan]

oh yeah?

[Got experience in that, huh? Hmm.

Before he can betray himself by chickening out -- ]

I don't really get to run away when it's a text either

[kept_his_letters]

dfjh sorry!

I was just

embarrassed.

[awooligan]

yeah, don't worry about it

[He says, lowkey worrying about it. Mmmaybe highkey.]

but it wasn't bad
right?

[Or was it embarrassing because it was him...]

[kept_his_letters]

No!
No, it was nice.

It was really nice.

Was it
okay for you?