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[abnormalizes]

So, um, hi!

[Evangeline seems more anxious than she normally does, but she's smiling, at least.]

Apparently, when you start dating someone, you're supposed to make some sort of announcement on the internet so all your friends know? At least that's what I hear. And I, definitely didn't do that! Three times over! So, um, oops?

I'm dating three people now! Fajra, Barghest, and Chipp. Um, things are going... well? They're going well.

[Honestly still not sure what she's doing but she's trying her best!!]

So, uh, yeah, that's it. ...Do you, like, open the floor to questions here or what...?

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[abnormalizes]

I can pick up more thread. What colors?

[sonic_wachowski]

White. Anything pastel, but white usually works since most of these colors are on the lighter side.

[abnormalizes]

White thread, got it, I’ll be over in twenty.

[And indeed, knock knock knock, here she is twenty minutes later.]

[sonic_wachowski]

The snacks will be prepared!

[And in twenty minutes, he'll be opening the door.]

Just in time. Come on in. [He's even cleared space on the couch for her to sit.]

[And the snacks.]

[...its...its a tray of sandwiches as tall as him.]

[He may or may not be Going Through Something.]

[abnormalizes]

Hi th- oh. Hi.

[Guess when she saw the stack of sandwiches.

Nevertheless, she’ll sit on the couch.]

Do you… normally make this much when you have guests?

[sonic_wachowski]

I kind of lost track.

Hands go on auto pilot and whoops, I kind of went through a few loaves of bread.

You don't have to eat all of them. I'll be able to eat a bunch and I know Big Blue can pack food away.

...this is why I don't normally cook, I lose track and then fire, but this is the worst that happens with sandwiches.

[abnormalizes]

Something on your mind?

[She picks up a sandwich to try.]

[sonic_wachowski]

I mean, things are always on my mind.

....but I did kind of ask you here with an ulterior motive.

Since my brain has been on fire since the Pride post because pattern recognition is sure a thing I was experiencing.

[abnormalizes]

…Asked people about feelings and they sounded like your feelings, I’m guessing?

[She knows how it is.]

[sonic_wachowski]

They sounded so much like my feelings and its a problem.

I thought I was being weird because I didn't have enough exposure to friendship.

But what if the pattern recognition?

[abnormalizes]

It's scary when you're still wrestling with how to handle friendship and then suddenly there's even bigger feelings you have to deal with.

[She reaches over to take his hand to squeeze.]

[sonic_wachowski]

[He will squeeze her hand back and let's his head thud against the table as he flops on the floor.]

Like! Friendship is already a lot and kind of scary, but its great and I love it and I want it, of course I do, but its also like throwing yourself off a cliff.

A crush is like...like off a cliff over the OCEAN.

[abnormalizes]

It is, I get it.

[She understands this feeling so well.]

If it helps, you don't have to actually do anything with it? You can just say 'okay, I have a crush, I'm going to take all the time I need to process that' without being pressured to... act.

[sonic_wachowski]

Oh no, I am definitely not going to act, I am already so much for him.

I don't even know what he knows about romance.

[Wait.]

[He gasps, sitting up.] Oh no, what if his only reference for romance is seventies movies?!

[abnormalizes]

[She shouldn't smile, she does her best not to, but...]

It could be worse? Rinku tried to get love advice from romance novels. Twice.

[sonic_wachowski]

....oh Rinku, even I know those are meant to be pure fantasy fodder, no woman wants a guy to rip her bodice out of nowhere in reality.

[Listen. When you're bored, you steal what books you can GET, he just learned what parts to skip.]

...I also can't discount he's read romance novels, he loves historical fiction.

[He groans and now he pushes back from the table.]

[Flops over more.]

[He is now a ball and rolling around the floor. THE FEELINGS.]

[abnormalizes]

[Oh no, the feelings...]

It could be worse? You and Shadow are at similar levels of inexperience with relationships of any kind, so it's not like he's going to judge you for not knowing what to do.

[Yeah she's just assuming it's Shadow.]

[sonic_wachowski]

[ROLL ROLL ROLL.]

[Then a roll turns into an unfurling on the floor.]

One, is what I said just know what makes you think its Shadow, or other factors?

Two, I could deal with inexperience, we muddle through a lot of things, I think I could deal with the muddle. I've already gone through so much 'I have no idea what I'm doing' awk with my familial relationships, that's just a fact of my life now.

[abnormalizes]

Oh, uh. I know this isn't helpful, but kind of... everything? How you talk about him, how you respond to nice stuff with 'can I use this to spoil Shadow', that kind of thing.

[sonic_wachowski]

[There's another whine and he just does a log roll on the floor to bury his face in spare fabric.]

He wanted a mattress on the floor, Eva. He wouldn't know how to spoil himself if you gave him a power point presentation!

[abnormalizes]

Chipp sleeps on a cot in a shed, so I think I know the feeling.

[sonic_wachowski]

....Chipp, please, its so much easier to enjoy things here.

I'm gonna get him something.

Still! Shadow needs to learn to indulge and it can be a lot, yeah, but we can make BANK here and he deserves nice things because military bases are not conductive for a hedgehog's childhood.

[abnormalizes]

I've been inviting Chipp to my place as much as I can get away with, I don't think he's caught on it's because I want him to sleep in a real bed.

[...And for other reasons, but a lot of it is the bed thing.]

I get growing up not having much and having to adjust to being able to spend money on whatever you want, but it's absolutely worth the effort.

[sonic_wachowski]

I just bought Shadow furniture. Hard to refuse if you show up with it.

It really is! The beauty of not needing to check blankets for mold cannot be matched.

[abnormalizes]

He doesn't have the space in his shed, he says.

[Mrrrr.]