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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]

[Ah. Yeah. Kevin...]

I don't know. It can't be any other way, but that doesn't mean it's easy. I never would have thought, for all they argued... [Nora shakes her head regretfully. If Clifford had said something, she would have believed him of course, but since he hadn't...and if the sight wasn't stuck in her mind, it would never had occurred to her. Carl had always just been...protective, even when he fought with his rebellious teenager. Looking back, playing things over in her head, just thinking about what had seemed so obvious makes her feel sick.

Kevin was young, and didn't know a life without a father that had seemed nothing but fun and loving.] He knows what Carl did is inexcusable, and he loves Cliff...but he loved his dad, too. Loves. It shouldn't have to be complicated, but it will be. I can only hope he'll be okay, and talk to me when he isn't.

[kept_his_letters]

[She nods her head. That is about the best that can be asked for.]

He'll miss his dad. [That she's sure of.] But he won't forget the rest of his family. He won't forget they've been hurt. And I imagine he'd do a lot just to ease any pain.

[She says that, looking down at her notes.

She tells her mother she loves her every night. She has no problem with that. But she thinks, tonight, she'll make extra certain that it's known.]

You should talk to him too. I know parents don't like to, but we know anyway.

[awooligan]

[This is a very good and wise young woman, and she couldn't have asked for a better friend for Cliff to find so immediately after he left home. He knows he'll be well taken care of, even when she has to go back to Podunk with Kevin.]

Thank you, Coco. For looking out for all of us.

[kept_his_letters]

O-oh.

[She flushes and rubs a hand on her arm.]

Um. Thank you? Uh, de nada? Lo siento...

[Now she's embarassed.]

[awooligan]

[Good. Very cute. Nora wants to pinch her cheeks, but she'll spare her, for now, innocently spinning the chair and her attention back to the laptop. Gotta email those teachers of Kevin's. Figure out sleeping arrangements, maybe.]