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 Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 7:51 pm
"You didn't answer how you felt about me..."
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:08 pm
He breathed out. "I haven't been in a relationship this long in years. I sort of made it a policy of mine not to. I'm taxing on people, Rin. I don't want to wind up turning you mean and bitter and hating me."
His eyes glanced to the ring before looking up at her. "Do you really just accept how I am or are you going to try and fix me?"
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:12 pm
Rin laughed, "Fix you? Hell no, 'fixing' implies broken and you are no more broken than myself. All I guess I hope for is a bit of leniency for my own... things. Eventually. Not easy I know and probably won't happen, but eh, can't blame a gal for hoping."
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:16 pm
What she said meant more to Melvin than Rin would probably know, and he took a moment hoping that even though it was a truth now, it would change.
At her hint, he still felt a small sting. "Is that why Rep is better in bed then I am? Is that the only thing?" He had to ask after all. It hurt his pride immensely to think that maybe while she was with him, she was thinking of Rep in some distant way. It sucked on a lot of levels that a now gay guy was outdoing him.
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:28 pm
"Pretty much. He did things I liked and the things I didn't, well, he was good at finding ways to make them more enjoyable to me," She winked at Melvin before sighing. "Plus, you have to sort of consider the fact sex has always been a pretty major part of his life. Not just with guys either. And it comes through I guess. Sex is nicer when you know the person you're doing it with is so into it that they might not make it to a bedroom half the time. They simply can't wait that long to get at... oh, I'm sorry, was that too many details?"
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:35 pm
The more she talked, the more he felt even more emasculated and inadequate that by the time she asked, he just gestured weakly. "Yeah. You can just...stop now. I get the point." He was chump change in comparison to gold bars. Great. He was taking every hit from every corner today. Now his injury under his bandages wasn't the thing that hurt the most.
"You know, I do want to do those things with you. Sometimes I just want to touch you and drag you into the nearest vacant space, but..." He gave the same sort of weak gesture as before. A simple lift of his hands. A surrender to a factor in his life he had no control over. "...I'm sorry I can't give you want you need and you've had to just settle with.....this." He gestured between then and didn't even hide how bitter he was when he said it. The pain was twisting back to defensive again.
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:42 pm
"No one but you said anything about settling," Rin scolded softly before scooting closer. She placed her fingers on the ring and began to very carefully and very patiently rock it side to side up her finger. She was not concerned with getting it off quickly.
"As far as I'm concerned," The ring popped off her finger.
"I did not settle," It was up to Melvin whether or not he believed her as she finally sat the ring on the nearest table. "Can we go somewhere else entirely to talk? I'm not in a party mood any more."
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:43 pm
Somewhere during all of this Roland had obtained a drink, he took it in stride watching all the drama unfold, cringing at Jerry being a usual train wreck. Cringing even more as Jordan and Melvin went at each other suddenly with very little concern about what was being said.
That ring was one part amusing, and all in one terrifying.
Rep at one point received a few disgusted and shocked looks, Jordan, sympathy and pity.
When Candace was being bounced about by Tuck he was also guilty of watching the show. It was Candace after all, who wouldn't watch? Well maybe not any of the trio but everyone else was fair game to enjoy it.
Melvin of course got nothing but a grim stare, he felt somewhat sorry, he knew what it was like to be alone, but their stories where likely two very different tales. He drank a fair bit during that to wash away the knot in his gut.
"We need better party games that don't involve ancient artifacts...." His eyes focused on the ring sitting on the table as Melvin and Rin readied to leave.
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:53 pm
It was a bit sad to be on even ground again, not knowing for sure without a magic ring, but he was pretty tired for now of that artifact and watched Rin put it aside. "Yeah, I'd like to go now." He didn't feel exactly welcomed after souring the atmosphere.
He did smile weakly as he lifted up the bottle. "Did manage to grab a bottle. Grab one on your way out." Free booze was free booze." Rising, he gestured for her to follow. "I was actually on my way to my room." Before he heard the commotion and stopped in.
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:54 pm
There were approximately a million and a half things that Mimsy was more interested in than sexual encounters, and when the conversation took a turn for there, she wasted no time in distracting herself by testing a few of the other liquors that were still lying around. After working her way through the bottles of lighter-colored liquids and into the darker alcohol, she'd begun to feel out of sorts again, a lopsided smile on her face by the time she settled on some kind of whiskey.
Cup in hand, she turned with the intention of telling Lucky about her revisions to several of the foundational equations that were applied to create stability within a closed timelike curve. Instead, she saw the ring on the table and something clicked.
Maybe that was what he'd been looking for this whole time!
She stepped towards the table and plucked up the ring, squinting to inspect it. It didn't look particularly special, and she didn't feel any odd effect when she held it -- nor did she when she slipped it onto her finger.
"I am not sure this is what you were hoping for, Lucky," she admitted, glancing over her shoulder at him. "I feel no different."
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 9:11 pm
"Hey is that the tell the truth ring?" Dakota had woken from his small nap, completely missing the going ons. Which sucked because man, He would give a thumbs up to Tuck for carrying off Candace.
Or should he be jealous?
Well the Alcohol was pretty much a buzz and he smiled dopely at Mimsy like a puppy.
"Tell me how attracted you really are Mimsy...To me at least." Wink nnudge, this was a horrible statement or question Dakota....
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 9:11 pm
Roland watched as Mismy took up the mantle of the One Ring. He sipped his cup again slowly.
"You don't feel different? Okay well.... who do you think is attractive on the island?" He looked at Dakota, "Well, he might already be answered for in a moment."
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 9:38 pm
The 'tell the truth' ring? That wasn't just some idiotic party game they had concocted? Mimsy held her hand out and curiously stared at the ring, wondering what she might have missed about it. Had they used up all of the effect?
A pained expression crossed her face and she felt like she might be sick. Dakota had just asked her something, and an instant after his words registered, she opened her mouth to tactfully respond.
"I don't personally consider you a--" She stepped wrong and almost fell again, opting to sit on the table where the ring had been placed instead of walking anywhere while she spoke. "...attractive, but I think that, objectively, you probably should be categorized as such. I have put thought into why there is a physical response to you touching me, if what I mentioned previously is true, but..." She shrugged, not wanting to admit that she didn't know, and spilled a bit of her drink on the table. "I don't know."
That was certainly more than she ever wanted to say about any of that. She turned to frown at Lucky, wondering why he didn't give her a heads-up on its effects. She was honest as a standard, but there was honest and there was too honest, and this was the 'tell the too much truth' ring, apparently. Thanks.
"No; a little unwell now, perhaps." She'd begun to address the next question before even looking at the person who had asked it, and there was a brief pause as she considered the verity of her answer. Nope, a little unwell was pretty close. "Nobody. Nobody on the island meets the criteria that dictates that I am 'attracted'."
With a sigh, she set her drink aside and leaned forward, propping her chin up in her hands.
"Sometimes I feel a sensation of...loss, I think, when I think about all of the things that I know about the...the..." She moved one hand to wave it upward. "Whole universe. Because all that most everyone takes interest in when we talk, for reasons beyond me, is me."
As highly as she thought about herself, she still considered focusing on her to be a colossal waste of time. There were much more magnificent things to be learned - humans were so boring in comparison.
Svensyl let out a snort of huge disappointment.
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 9:53 pm
"Oh that's a pretty thoughtful answer." Dakota smiled at her, tipping his drink back down his throat and waited for her to take her seat. "So what you are saying that by rights, While I am a attractive male, what I lack is the attractive intellect of a male for you. Probably from lack of life experiences and continuous study in a field of what most people on the Island are in, Sciences."
He cocked his head, "However, I do stimulate a physical response which could contribute to the fact that while your mind is not attracted, your body is. In that case, it would prove the end theory that attraction can come in two forms. A chemical response from various pheromones of the body, which you and I experience. Or it could come from a meeting of ideologies, hypothesis of minds and infinite curiosity between the two minds. Regardless, while your mind is not attracted to me, your body is which constitutes that perhaps your body finds me a suitable male specimen for it."
He waited...
"So how much Galaxy clothing do you really own?"
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 10:06 pm
Mimsy narrowed her eyes at Dakota and mirrored his action, taking another large sip of her drink.
"Dakota," she began, followed by another sip. "Why are you not always inebriated, if this is the kind of conversation that we can have?"
She took the silence as an opportunity to consider what he'd said, weighing the validity of his statements with that she knew and didn't know (and tried not to think about) about situations where touches that exceeded the platonic relationship level were involved. There wasn't much time to linger on the topic when another question was directed towards her, because the answer came almost as a compulsion.
"Five pieces of clothing, consisting mostly of leggings, and three accessories, if the artifact is included." She leaned forward and briefly tipped the table up onto two legs, elaborating on her answer with a slow, slurred whisper. "It looks like space and makes minipets talk."
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