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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]

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?

[awooligan]

duh??

[kept_his_letters]

jdfh
you put question marks!!
What does that mean ?!?

[awooligan]

it means what kind of question is that!
of course it was okay!

[kept_his_letters]

well!
Okay!
Good!
Good.

[She's going to die here.]

[awooligan]

yeah

[Okay! So!

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what do people say now in situations like this because I don't have a clue

[kept_his_letters]

Um.
I don't know.

[Even Mamá gets flustered when Papá says things.]

I guess we just keep talking the way we have been.
Like friends.

We were talking about the herald, then you coming to visit me, and then you trying to embarrass me.
Which I think I managed on my own.
Has anything else been going on?

[awooligan]

[Wow, she expects him to be able to go back to normal? When he's all twisted up inside about something entirely different from what he was twisted up inside before?

...Also bringing up Teto stuff, which is one of the more interesting parts of his daily life, feels. weird. at this time.]

not really...
what about for you?

[kept_his_letters]

Um.
Well, our other family stuff is settling down.
We're all properly at home again and Mamá can relax, sort of.
Papá is still working on legal stuff, transfer I guess.
He says it's really dull so he puts it off whenever anyone's awake.
He hasn't been able to look living again but he's working on it.
I'm still very grounded and I'm going to have to do summer school because I missed a whole semester.
But it's good.
It's all really nice.

[awooligan]

that's good
except the summer school and being grounded, obviously

[And probably the legal and skeleton shit, he realizes two seconds too late. Oops.]

how's being a big sis, if that's still happening?

[kept_his_letters]

Oh, that's happening!
Kind of.
I mean, it's weird.
I'm not used to being a sister and it happened really suddenly.
And I kind of have two siblings but not at the same time.
And they're both kind of older than me and... not... at the same time...
But it's good!
My Tíos are staying with us too, to help out, so we're thinking we're going to have to renovate.
Especially since we can now.
I feel like I'm supposed to teach something, like some big sibling wisdom but
I don't think I have any big sibling wisdom.
Can anyone even give wisdom to a fae or is that kind of insulting?