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 Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:35 am
"Some. Why are you asking me these questions?" Shun grunted. It was mildly distracting while he was effectively beating the crap out of this bag.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:36 am
"To get-" And now she started punching the bag too. "To know-" Another jarring punch. "You."
She was probably hitting the bag too hard and exerting too much energy, but that seemed like the kind of thing you were supposed to do to these punching bags. "Since we're-" Punch. "Friends-" Punch. "I oughta know."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:39 am
"Friends?"
Shun now wondered if she somehow thought she was talking to someone else right now.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:40 am
"Friends," she repeated back at him. The word was not stuttered.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:41 am
"What gave you that idea?"
There was no malice in his voice. It remained neutral.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:43 am
Chel stopped punching for a second and actually gave a small laugh between some heavy breathing. "Figure f'I say it enough times it'll just be true." Worked well enough with other things for people. Love, power. Why not friendship too?
"M'workin' on it."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:45 am
Now that confused him. Enough that there was actually a very brief pause in his strikes.
"Why?"
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:47 am
Now it was Chel's turned to be stalled by a why question.
"Y'know. I don't know." And Chel was perfectly fine with that as an answer. She could go into all the psychological feelings and notions about how she needed to be on some semblance of "friend" level with everyone, or maybe that she saw Shun as a challenge or maybe that she was really just that nice or MAYBE even that it really did just have to do with sleeping with him ...
but "I don't know" was a lot faster.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:55 am
Another scoff escaped Shun. Well that made little sense to him. He was well aware that he hadn't been all that nice to her. In general, he knew he was not the most approachable person in the world. Something he preferred too. People didn't typically try to make friends with him for long.
"That makes no sense,"he commented.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:58 am
"S'okay f'it doesn't. Maybe fifty years from now when we're lookin' back we'll laugh at it." Chel shrugged and punched the bag a few more times.
She was just the kind of person who kept trying things until they worked, even when they weren't working. Sort of like the punching bag, which was just swinging aimlessly from the chain now.
"But y'didn't say no."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:59 am
"Somehow I feel like that would not have stopped you."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 1:07 am
Chel let out a bark of a laugh. "Yer not wrong."
She resumed punching her bag for a moment before the motion dropped again. "I got bad habits I guess."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 9:20 am
Shun shook his head at that, striking the bag a few more times before he gave any sort of verbal response.
"You are a strange one. Me? I am not exactly seeking friendship."
He didn't really feel the need to have all that many.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 9:28 am
"I am not seeking friendship," Chel mimicked back to him in a low, gruff voice. "Who even says that?"
She let out another laugh and said, "Well too bad 'cause it found you. Y'need at least one."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 9:32 am
"Me. I just said it," Shun huffed, "And I do have friends. Just not in this town."
Sort of. Even then, he didn't have all that many in the first place. He didn't connect with people much outside of work. It's always been that way.
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