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 Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:40 am
"Hey, nothing wrong with beer. It's all alcohol, right?" Avery leaned over the bar, nearly crawling right over it as he searched for something to drink. "Ahh, here we go... this'll do." He slid back down into his seat, clutching a bottle of coconut rum.
"Well, it's nice to meet you, Cass." As soon as Avery spoke her name, it clicked inside his head who she was. This must be Vasile's ex that he had told Avery about. How many snake girls could there be on the island, after all?
"So... how have you been holding up? I take it you've been here a while..?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:54 am
"Yeah, well." Cass counted, briefly. She had to suppose it was pretty obvious she was not new to the neighbourhood. "A little more than nine months. Too long." She shrugged vaguely, and took a drink; it seemed safest. "What about you? Couple months?"
This guy could almost pass for human, too. Geez, but that had been so long ago for her.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:11 pm
"I don't know..." Avery sighed a little, taking a sip from the bottle. "I've kinda lost track of the days. Over a month, I think... it was sometime during that time everyone was stuck out in the wilderness."
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:19 pm
Cass cringed, slightly. That whole affair had been unpleasant. She'd been afraid it would never end. "That could be... I dunno, as much as five months ago. Maybe only two or so." She shook her head. "I keep close track of the dates. There's no proper seasons here, so I'd have no idea, otherwise."
And for some reason, she found it important to keep track.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:39 pm
"I'd like to... then it might not feel so much as if all the days are just running together. But I asked for a calender from the, um... therapist person, Dr. Frost I think was her name. She said she'd get one for me, so hopefully I'll get that soon," Avery said.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:45 pm
"Good idea. I could use one myself." Cass turned the glass on the counter around in her hands. "I don't think I know any Dr. Frost. But I'm sure there's all sorts of staff who hardly have anything to do with us out here."
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:08 pm
"I think she's new, or something... I dunno." Avery shrugged. He glanced at her, and, curiosity getting the better of him, he asked, "so... er... you used to go out with Vasile? Is that right?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:17 pm
Cassidy froze, her fingers on the rim of her glass. She looked at Avery closely, her tongue flickering automatically, and said, in as calm a voice as she could muster, "Yes. That's right. I take it you know him?"
Was she imagining the waver in her own voice or not? She couldn't judge. Cass exhaled slowly and took a long, deliberate drink.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:49 pm
Avery winced, silently berating himself for opening his big mouth. Stupid, stupid, stupid. What were you thinking, you just met her, and you're bringing up this? Yeah, nice one, Avery.
"Yeah... I haven't really known him that long, but yeah. He just, talked about you a bit, that's all. Nothing bad about you, I mean. Just... um."
Shut up, just stop talking, right now.
"I'm sorry about... you know... what happened."
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:03 pm
"Don't worry about it. Really." Cassidy shook her head slightly, her shoulders hunched. "Not your fault. I guess these things happen."
The tip of her tail was twitching slightly, but her gaze was fixed somewhere in the bottom of her glass. Her forked tongue extended, touched the surface of the liquid, and retreated back into her mouth. "At least it's good to hear he's not bad-mouthing me," she joked, though with little humour.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:17 pm
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought it up," Avery mumbled, looking sheepish, and taking another sip of his drink before he continued talking. "But, yeah, he's not. I mean, I think he's really sorry about it... just can't help these kinds of things, yanno? And it can be really tough to come to terms with sometimes, when you realize it..."
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:28 pm
"What, him or me?" Cassidy looked carefully at Avery, trying to guess just how much he knew. She's already done the blurting-out-my-ex-is-gay thing, and is had occurred to her that it was probably a bad idea. "I'm trying. Believe me. I think I'm better than I was. I'm... I'm mostly not mad at him. Maybe just a little." She demonstrated this with two fingers about a centimetre apart. "But I'm trying."
She went back to turning her glass around. "Sounds like you've been talking to him a fair bit, anyway."
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:54 pm
"Both," Avery said. "I can see how it can be hard on you and Vasile. I mean... trying to get the nerve up to tell you he's gay... that's hard to do. But on the other hand, being told that... I can see how it would be hard to understand, and get used to."
He shrugged a little, concentrating on the bottle in his hands. "Yeah, we've been talking a bit."
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:06 pm
Ah. He did know.
"It just sort of came out of left field, if you get me." Cassidy waved an arm around vaguely. "I figured we were doing okay. I guess not. I mean, on the one hand, I'm really glad he's not in the closet and just pretending for some demented reason, but still. Ouch."
She sighed a little, and smiled vaguely. "If I start off on a rant, you should probably stop me. I'm sure everyone is just a little sick of hearing this."
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:16 pm
Avery chuckled, shaking his head. "Nah, it's alright. Good to get these things off your chest, yanno? Keep everything bottled up, and you'll just end up saying things you don't mean," he smiled at her.
"Maybe he'd been thinking about it a while? I mean... it took me a couple months to get up the nerve to tell my parents I was bi... turned out I didn't have anything to worry about, but still - I had no idea what they would think."
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