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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] 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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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-18 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Priestly almost asks 'Really?' because he sort of imagined that John would've been in the position of being with people with little to no experience before, just because of the difficulties of openly finding someone, where he's from, but then he realises he means he's never been in the situation with someone he cares about enough to pursue. After that he has trouble saying anything for a few moments.

"I guess I should've brought a whole basket of muffins, huh?" he says finally, with a soft chuckle. "Do you mind if I...?" He gestures at one of the other chairs, still not entirely sure he's invited to join him.
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-18 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, no, it's not that," says Priestly, sitting down and putting his feet up and feeling a lot more comfortable for it. "We're friends now and you'd have to do something really horrible to get rid of me. Who else are you even going to ask?" The question is rhetorical, but just for a moment Priestly wonders, who else would he ask. "If my experience can help you, then I'm glad it's good for something."
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-18 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Are you getting anything?" Priestly asks him, except he asks it a bit too incredulously, he thinks, when he's not actually incredulous. He just knows John's average sexual appetite, so if he's not getting anything, well, Priestly can imagine he's a little on edge. "I mean. I know it just takes time. At least me and Yorick, we were idiots about it together. No one was trying to play catch-up or feeling stressed about it."
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-18 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"All right, here's what I'm going to do," says Priestly. "I am going to get you a shitload of dirty pictures and, like, videos and stuff, and you are going to take care of yourself. Several times. Because yeah, you need to be patient with him, but you've got needs. And when you're not, like, so focused on that, then it's easier to, you know, be patient. I bet Laurence worries that he's frustrating you. I know I would. I mean. I'm just saying...less stress is better, if he's freaking out?"
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-19 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sure, you can," says Priestly, "but are you? Or are you feeling like you need to be saving it for him and so you're being all noble and suffering and shit?"
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-19 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm just saying," says Priestly, and tries not to be amused that for all his worldliness John's still a bit too proper to talk about it casually. "If you're feeling a little pent-up and frustrated with him, maybe he's feeling that too. Does he ever, you know, come to you? Or do you always have to go to him?"
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[personal profile] renaissanceman 2012-08-19 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"What would happen if you waited for him?" Priestly asks him, quite sincerely. "What if you just waited for him to come to you, for once? He'd do it eventually, and maybe it'd change how he was feeling about it, if he touched you first."

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