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sunburned ([personal profile] sunburned) wrote2012-08-17 08:44 pm
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Suddenly, he's having a hard time sitting still. Concentration is impossible. He draws a lot. He doesn't finish anything. What he does do is draw Laurence a lot, lingering over the lines of his face. Some of the drawings are more successful than others. Sprawled on one of the chairs on the porch outside the hut they share, he all but growls at himself.

He tears the page out. He starts again.
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[personal profile] kissmehardy 2012-08-17 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Even though John doesn't live far away at all and home is perfectly nice with just Maddie and me, I rather miss having him around. Today, however, I suppose that it's probably just as well that he's littering all over his own porch instead of mine and looking all manner of out of sorts.

I pick up one of his discarded drawings and smooth out the crumpled paper to see what it is.

"Why are you throwing this out? It's lovely."
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[personal profile] kissmehardy 2012-08-17 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"I haven't seen all the others, so I can't really judge, can I?" I pick up a few more sheets of paper that he's deemed trash on my way to the other chair. I don't have much of a critical eye, but I would say he's being too hard on himself if the subject was anything else.

"I see why you're in such a state. This one is dreadful." I don't really think so, as it's much better than anything I could manage, but he seems determined to be in a bad mood and I can play along.
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[personal profile] kissmehardy 2012-08-17 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"It can be difficult to go back to a normal life when one has grown accustomed to living with mad girls," I say, as though of course his problem must be that he is missing sharing a house with Maddie and me. "But I'm here to help you manage."

I mean that part sincerely, whatever it is that's truly bothering him.
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[personal profile] kissmehardy 2012-08-18 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
I fold the pages I rescued from the ground neatly, just in case he might want them back, and curl up in the chair with my chin on my knees, straightening my skirt down over my legs as I settle myself comfortably. I find it more than a small honor that he likes to draw me, but that isn't something I would say to him out loud.

"Certainly easier now that I'm somewhat less of a wreck than I was the first time you did. Not nearly so much of a challenge to make me look half decent."
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[personal profile] kissmehardy 2012-08-18 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"if you're only trying for half, of course it's easy," I tease, more than happy to give him this distraction, even if I don't understand the entirety of what he's going through. I love Maddie beyond words, but it's completely different to being in love, regardless of any similarities.

"I once said that finding your best friend was like being in love. I never thought about it becoming more complicated than that."
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[personal profile] kissmehardy 2012-08-18 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure why he trusts me with his secrets and his feelings, when he knows how horribly I can use such things against people. Maybe because I've already done that to him and we came out closer on the other side of it. I do know that I take his trust very seriously and would do anything not to break it again.

"Easier, maybe, but was it better?" I am honestly curious. "At least now you don't have to waste time on... What? Pointless yearning? Not that you just sat around pining." I know him better than that.
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[personal profile] kissmehardy 2012-08-18 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"You have him, but you don't?" I'm not entirely certain I completely understand the situation as he's laying it out here. "I'd hoped you'd at least be happier."

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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-17 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey stranger," says Priestly, offering him a fresh-baked muffin from the bakery as a sort of...well, it's obviously not a peace offering. More of an excuse to drop by the place and see John's face, and feeling like he needs that excuse. "You look like you're keeping busy."
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-17 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"My mother always said don't swim for an hour after eating," says Priestly. "I don't think that's quite the same calibre of advice, but their hearts are in the same place, I think? Anyway. Hey." He has a muffin of his own in his other hand and starts picking at it, partly for something to do with his hands and partly because they really are delicious.
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-18 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah?" says Priestly, trying not to sound like he wasn't entirely sure he would be. He doesn't want to ask how things are going, in case John doesn't want to talk about it, but he doesn't want to not ask and have John think he doesn't care. "You're...good?"
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-18 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, sometimes they do that," says Priestly, only a little awkwardly, "especially since you're, uh. More experienced." He means that in the nicest and most honest way possible, and is not trying to suggest that John is slutty or something. He just definitely knows his way around. Priestly should know. "I mean...that's what you're talking about, right?"

He's going to be really embarrassed in a second if it's not.
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-18 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"It freaked me out a little too, at first," says Priestly. "I mean, probably not like him, because I was totally okay with it in theory before that, but still. You're into one thing and then you're into this whole other thing. You know? Or maybe you don't."
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-18 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"I was always with girls, before Yorick," says Priestly. "I guess I probably looked at guys, but I never thought about it. And then suddenly I was doing and wanting things I didn't expect, at an age where I thought I should've already known that about myself. So that's probably...I don't want to speak for him, because I don't know him very well, but that's probably a little bit of what Laurence is going through right now. So I guess be patient with him. I mean...not that you were asking for advice or anything."

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