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 Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:10 pm
"You're dating someone who apparently doesn't know you're dating." He fired back, his tone frosting over. "Watch with the stone throwing." He growled, stopping just short of adding an actual insult to the pointed statement. Fairly impressive self control for Jaimie.
Figure she wouldn't know what it was like to stop talking to a twin, she was an only child, no siblings even.
"That's the only trait she and Cee have in common." He added, still frostilly, but had to admit. "But that still doesn't make it great. I mean you can't DATE someone just because..." He struggled with the concept.
"Cee's a b***h but not talking to her still feels like someone cut my left arm off. Dating someone to fill the blank isn't fair, or smart, and I can't prove that's not what's going on
... And seriously, most girls I've known would flip backward for a guy who wanted to go steady, not look like I just handed them a live, angry cobra. What the hell does that say about everything? I'm good enough to be a sex-bunny so she can tell all her girlfriends at U that she's not a virgin, but I'm not interesting enough to commit to."
This was probably an exaggeration, but the more he thought about it, the more he pictured the look on her face as not only uncertainty but a level of disgust and horror. This was still a sore point. She wore the ring, but...
It felt more like a favor. That especially hurt, since it had cost a good chunk of money he could have used toward something like an apartment. Maybe a SINGLE apartment, close to work and as close to DCU as possible. Wherever 'work' was going to be.
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:19 pm
"We're not dating!" Her words were a bit louder than she'd expected them to be, honestly not realizing just how much force she had put behind them out of frustration, either with herself or with Jaimie was currently up for debate. "We're not..." She murmured a bit softer this time, glancing down at the table. "I like him, okay, but we're not dating... We just. Hang out."
Patrolling together was a lot more than that, but it wasn't like she could explain that to Jaimie. He probably wouldn't understand what it was like anyways; how being put through those kind of situations could push you closer to someone whether you liked it or not.
She worried her lower lip for a moment as she reached into her tiny purse for her phone, flipping it open quickly to check and make sure she hadn't somehow missed anything before setting it idly down on the table, not giving much thought to whether or not it might mean anything even if the stupid phone had outed her once before.
"Maybe the two of you just need to talk. I'd hardly call you a sex-bunny, anyways. Kitten? Maybe." She managed a light smirk, trying to get him to loosen up a bit. "You could always start hanging out with me every now and then. I'm not nearly as bitchy as your sister, but I'm not your fanfic reading girlfriend either."
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:23 pm
Jaimie clapped a hand to his cheek and plastered a exaggerated smile on his face as he gasped.
"Hang out with you? GEE wizz that would be fantastic, I missed getting insulted regularly!" He faltered a bit in the exaggerated bit of acting as he glanced at her phone, blinked, then went back to looking serious, and a little puzzled, as he reached over and used two fingers to slide the cell phone out from under his coat.
It wasn't exactly Mission Impossible, but it was fairly subtle, since he continued without missing a second beat. "Hang out." He added, with a sort of 'there there, sure you are' tone. "I should talk to her but I'm not sure where the hell to start. Besides her dad has been waiting for an excuse to fold me into origami."
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:29 pm
Her eyes narrowed and in one fluid motion she brought her hand up to flip him the bird, not feeling that there were really any words necessary. He could imply that she and Oddy were off doing whatever with whatever tone he wanted to, and he could take that very same tone and shove it right up his...
"Like I'd want to hang out with you anyways. If I wanted to spend the day with a fashion impaired homo from Hillworth I'd just give Dem a call." She snorted softly as she reached over to lightly poke at one of his phone charms. "I mean... What kind of guy really puts these little, girly charms all over their... Phone."
... What a unique model.
Her brow furrowed for a moment as she eyed the phone before looking up at him, trying oh so hard to picture it. "... Don't tell me."
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:39 pm
"Instead you're 'hanging out' with Destiny City's human version of a bird of paradise." Jaimie pointed out, as Oddy's fashion sense was remarkably hard to miss. "Also I'm still not gay." He added, glowering, spinning the phone with his fingers just to make it spin. There wasn't any deeper point than that. "And fine, I won't tell you." He added, his voice still crisp and annoyed as he slid the phone off the table and pocketed it.
He dug into the sundae with a growl under his breath, eating it aggressively and with irritation until he hit his cold spot, and pressed the heel of his hand to his forehead with a hiss.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:03 am
"Just keep telling yourself that." She snorted as she leaned back, crossing her arms over her chest as she simply glared at him from her side of the table. He was such an a*****e. Why was she being nice to him anyways?
Cordelia watched him for a moment before snorting as she watched him palm his forehead, muttering the word 'idiot' as she uncrossed her arms before reaching for her own spoon once more. "Oddy's not that bad. He's just... Unique. And he makes me laugh, and smile... Which is more than I can say for a lot of things these days." She murmured, borderline sulking herself as she pushed her spoon past her lips.
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:50 pm
Jaimie glared back, with an impressive degree of intensity, tapping his spoon on the edge of the sundae bowl.
"Ok First, I'm STILL not gay, second... are we really so freaking immature that that's the insult of the week still... and third, if you do mean it that way, you're one of the only people I've heard use "Unique" as a positive." It sounded like he was one hell of a mixed bag, and that she wasn't entirely sure how to handle him, so he guessed maybe "unique" wasn't all positive.
"...Laughing is something." When the hell had he last really laughed with Tallulah? Of course now that he thought about it he couldn't really remember, and that just made him feel worse. There had been awkward laughs over his fan fiction, and laughs AT his alter ego. ((But really, it seemed reasonable to him to let people consider "KitsuneTrick" female. If you wrote slash fics as a girl it was "Romance". If you wrote them as a guy it was "Porn".))
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:00 pm
"Unique is positive. It means you're better than everyone else who's just boring and the same and you know what to do with your life and how to make the best of things when everything else is still falling apart. It means you're strong and brilliant and supportive, as well as being an all around great guy." It also apparently meant that you had a raven-haired friend who was hell-bent on defending you to some blonde jerk she just happened to be having a disagreement with over ice cream that she'd put on her daddy's credit card.
"Why is it that hanging out with you puts me in the mood to go beat the s**t out of something?" She huffed softly as she slumped back against the booth, brow furrowed.
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:04 pm
He almost demanded how the hell ANYTHING in HER life could be falling apart, but then he remembered the Senshi phone, and verbally reversed before the comment made it past his lips.
Being a Senshi pretty much meant everything normal fell apart, and then got sprayed with blood, gore, and dangerous political maneuverings, people from alternate dimensions, and ... well... just crack all around.
"Just doing my job. I mean I am one of those worthless no good Hillworth kids." He pointed out, with a smirk. "At least until I graduate. Then I'll be one of those worthless no good DCU kids."
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:12 pm
"My parents seem pretty set on sending me to Sovereign Heights. I... Really think it might be nice to go to DCU instead, honestly. Get away from the uniforms? Feel... I don't know. Feel normal for a little bit. Do you think that's even possible?" It was almost sad, the look she was giving him, caught somewhere between the knowledge that it wasn't possible for either of them to feel normal and that hopeful look that most children got when asking someone if Santa or the Easter Bunny were still real; like all she wanted was to be lied to if it was really for the best.
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:05 pm
"Probably only during class time." Jaimie suggested, giving her vague wave in the direction of the Easter Bunny. "Although really at this point, we've been wearing uniforms for so long it's going to feel weird going to class in jeans and NOT getting in trouble."
He wanted to pretend that things would get a little more normal when he had more 'real' responsibilities, but he was pretty sure it would just mean less sleep.
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 2:56 pm
"Nn... Touche." Her shoulders sagged and a trace of defeat lingered around her, but she didn't seem to let it last long, instead shoveling one more spoonful of ice cream past her lips before standing up, determination renewed.
"Well, Jaimie Leontyne, I'm not going to sit here stuffing my face and feeling sorry for myself all day... And if you know what's good and smart, neither will you. You'll stand up and go out there and do something incredible with the rest of your day... And to hell with whatever what's her name thinks."
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