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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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[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!

...

......

.........]

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?

[awooligan]

search me, dude, it's a surprise that I can even offer Kevin help with his homework and he's a regular kid
big sibling wisdom that's actually wise is honestly pretty rare anyway, I think
suddenly sibling is definitely an interesting experience, even the normal way
but I think you'll be a good sister
sorry your siblings aren't nearly as cool as mine

[Though aaaaugh they wound up (sort of) talking about Teto anyway, and thinking about him being her younger future dad from the past is giving him a headache...]

[kept_his_letters]

Hahaha wow!
We'll see about that!
I've got twice the siblings!
That's twice the power!

[awooligan]

no way
Kevin can't be defeated
best brother a guy could ask for

[kept_his_letters]

Is that so?
And what if I ask him!!!
I bet he'll have a different answer!!

[Because Cliff is a pretty great brother, she can see.]

[awooligan]

["Why would Kevin think someone else is a better brother than him, that's ridi -- oh."

She means him!! Doesn't he feel stupid, now.]

ha, he's the golden boy and he knows it
I'm a very close second

[kept_his_letters]

We~
Will~
See~

[awooligan]

good luck
what're you going to do?
you don't have his number