Vincent (to Poppy): Balanced breakfast? R U feeling OK?
Poppy (to Vincent): I had an Irish coffee, so I feel great. Honey, what are you doing up so early on a Sunday?
Vincent (to Poppy): Don't I wish I knew. It's not even noon yet. Disgusting.
Poppy (to Vincent): The only reason I'm awake is I had to run another stupid errand for work... sometimes, it sucks being a personal assistant. All I wanted to do was lounge in bed until 1 or 2 & then have breakfast/lunch... but, oh no, it sadly was not meant to be.
Vincent (to Poppy): Working? On a Sunday? That's terrible!
Poppy (to Vincent): So honey, what's troubling you? I'm serious, I promise no tricks, no perv, you can tell me.
Vincent (to Poppy): What? U assume just b/c I'm up at this ungodly hour something must B wrong? Ur more perceptive than U let on, fine lady. ;}
Poppy (to Vincent): Thank you, honey, I just happen to like to hide to my true depth behind a wall of drunkenness & hostility. So, spill...
Vincent (to Poppy): I'll hope U'll forgive the fact that I'm not going 2 B my usual charming, erudite self.
Poppy (to Vincent): Of course.
Vincent (to Poppy): I do NOT know how other people function this early...
Poppy (to Vincent): It's terrible, I know...
Vincent (to Poppy): It's DREADFUL. And this is more difficult than I feel like it shld B... Well, it's kind of abt us, sweetness. I've been thinking a lot abt it. I can't shake the feeling that the times we've discussed our relationship, that ur just going along w/ what I want or maybe more accurately, what I think I want.
Poppy (to Vincent): Oh... I don't know what to say, honey. I didn't think I was doing that, but you confuse me a bit. You say you don't want to be with me, but then by your actions you seem like you do. It's enough to make a girls head spin.
Vincent (to Poppy): I honestly wasn't trying 2 confuse U, sweet. I do like U, quite a lot, & I enjoy spending time w/ U (4 more than just pervy reasons). But, I'm not sure if I'm ready 2 date any1 exclusively or seriously. And the past few months haven't done much 2 bolster my confidence in myself. I seem 2 B a fickle thing... This may come as a shock, but obvs I'm not vry experienced w/ all of this. Mostly, I'm worried that I'm leading U on, or I may hurt U. I would never want 2 do anything of the sort!
Poppy (to Vincent): Aww honey, that is sweet. But, I have no idea what I'm doing in this thing either... I just know that I like being with you. I think you're wonderful, but I also know that neither of us is ready for anything too terribly serious. We're too much alike.
Vincent (to Poppy): I don't know if I shld be grateful for that or terrified. ;}
Poppy (to Vincent): Besides, how could one relationship contain this much fabulousness? It may cause civilization to collapse.
Vincent (to Poppy): It truly wouldn't B fair 2 the rest of the humanity.
Poppy (to Vincent): But, I do have to admit that the idea of you being with anyone else, bothers me & I'm trying to get over it. Sharing is one thing, but actually dating is something completely different.
Vincent (to Poppy): I wish I knew what 2 say.
Poppy (to Vincent): I know. This whole honesty thing isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Vincent (to Poppy): Amen. Want 2 go back 2 being unrepentant perverts and braggarts?
Poppy (to Vincent): It certainly is a lot easier. But, I'd like to ask you one thing before we return to our regularly scheduled perviness... if it's ok with you?
Vincent (to Poppy): Of course.
Poppy (to Vincent): So, you say you like me & I like you... why can't we be together in a very loose sense of the word? I mean, a relationship with no pressure, no expectations. Because, clearly we're both not ready for that. Maybe, it's naive & foolish of me to even suggest it, but we're being honest.
Vincent (to Poppy): U & me only?
Poppy (to Vincent): Yes... unless, there's someone else you'd like to join us.
Vincent (to Poppy): Ha ha. Oh no. Just verifying. Well, I'm certainly willing 2 try if U R...
Poppy (to Vincent): Oh... I'm sorry. I'm a bit in shock, I was half expecting you to say no.
Vincent (to Poppy): So R we an item then? R we abt 2 break the hearts of poor unfortunates everywhere?
Poppy (to Vincent): Honey, just think how much hotter it will be, if those poor unfortunates know you're spoken for... Plus, I'm not against the whole you making out with hot people... as long as I'm allowed to, too.
Vincent (to Poppy): Oh my. U sure do know how 2 sweet talk a lad.
Poppy (to Vincent): I'm guessing this means, I need to be nicer to Eep & Mouse, huh?
Vincent (to Poppy): I'm afraid so, darling.
Poppy (to Vincent): Oh well, it's a cross I'm willing to bear for you.
Vincent (to Poppy): Well I'm glad U think I'm worth the effort.
Poppy (to Vincent): I actually like those two gloomsters, but it's so fun to mess with them, I just can't help myself.
Vincent (to Poppy): I know. They rlly shldn't get so flustered so easily. It's just 2 much temptation! & don't worry. I won't tell them that U secretly like them. ;}
Poppy (to Vincent): Oh honey, they probably wouldn't believe you, anyway.
Vincent (to Poppy): Vry true.
Poppy (to Vincent): So, does this mean, I don't need to book us 2 hotel rooms for the NYE party?
Vincent (to Poppy): Well, I'd prefer if U didn't.
Poppy (to Vincent): Well, that's good, because I was really dreading my dress I picked out for the party going to waste. ;-)
Vincent (to Poppy): Oh my. I hope I can put together something suitably equally as smashing 4 U.
Poppy (to Vincent): Honey, you would look fabulous in anything.
Vincent (to Poppy): 2 true. Of course, I don't mind being reminded.
Poppy (to Vincent): Oh and I'll email you the details for the Christmas ski trip shortly.
Vincent (to Poppy): Sounds faboo. I can't wait 2 see U. Especially now that I don't have 2 try behave myself. ;}
Poppy (to Vincent): Oh my...
Vincent (to Poppy): 2 much perv 2 soon? Or not soon enough?
Poppy (to Vincent): I had just missed it. :-) Now, I have some very pleasant images to tide me over until I see you next weekend...
Vincent (to Poppy): Give me a few hours alone w/ a camera, & I could make SURE U have some nice images 2 tide U ovr.
Poppy (to Vincent): It would be like xmas had come early this year. ;-)
A couple hours later:
Mouse: Spent the last 4 hours helping Eep pack up his room. It was amazing how much stuff was hiding in there.
Eep (to Mouse): Thanks for your help today. And, um, sorry. I know it was... Uh. Yeah.
Mouse (to Eep): I honestly didn't mind... I was just surprised that I didn't find a whole new civilization in the back of your closet or the doorway to Narnia. :-P
Eep (to Mouse): Heh. After seeing all that horror, you still sure you wanna keep dating me?
Mouse (to Eep): Yeah, I think my love for you outweighs the fact that you're a packrat... but the fact that I think you're hot helps. :-P
Eep (to Mouse): Oh, um. Well, then I'm glad your questionable taste blinds you to my character flaws.
Mouse (to Eep): Well, love is blindness. :-) So, since it's going to be just the two of us for Giftmas... any thoughts to what you might want to do? Traditionally, Vincent & I did the present thing first & then it's movies, booze & food until we pass out.
Eep (to Mouse): Heh. That sounds good to me. Traditionally, I brood and smoke too much.
Mouse (to Eep): How is that any different from any other day? :-P
Eep (to Mouse): Ha ha. Very funny.
Mouse (to Eep): Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Eep (to Mouse): It's OK. Love is blindness, after all.
Mouse (to Eep): Touché, mon petit chou.
Eep (to Mouse): Estar en guardia, cariño.
Mouse (to Eep): That certainly looks pretty, but I have no idea what you said... I should probably learn Spanish, at some point.
Eep (to Mouse): Oh. Um, keeping on the fencing theme, I told you to be on your guard, and called you cariño. Which is kinda like, um, sweetie.
Mouse (to Eep): Oh, I just realized what I want for Giftmas... You to read my book of Pablo Neruda poems in Spanish to me. I've always suspected they sound better that way. :-)
Eep (to Mouse): Oh, um, sure. I mean, I can try. Of course, if I totally screw up the words, you won't know. :p
Mouse (to Eep): Heehee, I actually have a copy that has the Spanish & English translation in it, so you should be fine. :-)
Eep (to Mouse): And you'll know if I'm fucking it up. Shit!
Mouse (to Eep): Oh well, nevermind... I just thought that listening to you read it in Spanish to me would be kinda hot.
Eep (to Mouse): No. No! I'll read it to you. I'm just... My Spanish isn't the best. Um, nor is my poetry reading, so I guess I'm a little... Um, you really think it would be hot?
Mouse (to Eep): Hell yes, you could just read any old thing to me.
Eep (to Mouse): Stereo equipment directions it is, then!
Mouse (to Eep): You're such a romantic! :-P
Eep (to Mouse): Aren't I, though?
Mouse (to Eep): Ummm, you win. I can't think of anything to say. You may not be good at perv chicken, but you're a master of awkward chicken. :-)
Eep (to Mouse): I've got to be good at something.
Mouse (to Eep): I can think of at least one other thing you're good at. ;-)
Eep (to Mouse): Oh. Um, wow. If you, um, mean what I think you mean, you just made me almost spit coffee all over the computer.
Mouse (to Eep): Oops... sorry about that. You know, I actually remember a time when my default setting wasn't perv...
Eep (to Mouse): Heh. Well, I'm used to your brother.
Mouse (to Eep): True, but that's no excuse for me doing it to you all the time. And by it, I mean being pervy...
Eep (to Mouse): I, um, I assumed.
Mouse (to Eep): Speaking of my brother, have you seen or heard from him today? (to Vincent) Hey, I tried calling you & your phone went to voicemail. Everything ok?
Eep (to Mouse): Nope. Not since last night.
An hour later:
Vincent (to Mouse): Srry, darling! I killed my battery this afternoon.
Mouse (to Vincent): Speak of the devil... I was just asking Eep, if he had seen you.
Vincent (to Mouse): If he's lucky, I cld make sure he sees A LOT more of me & send him some of my self portraits I took this afternoon.
Mouse (to Vincent): Oh god, why on earth did you do that?
Vincent (to Mouse): I haven't done it yet! Don't get ur knickers in a knot.
Mouse (to Vincent): Hasn't he been traumatized enough? Sorry, I was remembering something else that happened... involving phones...
Vincent (to Mouse): Oh? What R *U* talking abt? Did U do something untoward with a phone, sister dearest? And perhaps a phone camera?
Mouse (to Vincent): Ummm, sort of?
Vincent (to Mouse): I'm so proud!
Mouse (to Vincent): Well, you be proud... I was embarrassed.
Vincent (to Mouse): Yes. I'm sure U traumatized the hell out of ur b/f by sending him naughty cell phn pics. I'm sure he'll never B the same. :-p
Mouse (to Vincent); I know I didn't traumatize him... I just didn't realize that drunken inner me is an exhibitionist.
Vincent (to Mouse): What's wrong w/ wanting 2 give ur significant other a little thrill & feel sexy in the process? Nothing!
Mouse (to Vincent): Wait a minute. I'm sensing this has something to do with why you were taking pictures of yourself... what's going on?
Vincent (to Mouse): Maybe I'm just trying 2 traumatize Eep...
Mouse (to Vincent): Really?
Vincent (to Mouse): No, not rlly. Tho it would B funny. Poppy & I had a long conversation this afternoon. Or this morning. I'm not sure. It was FAR too early whatever time it was.
Mouse (to Vincent): And?
Vincent (to Mouse): Hmmmm? And what, darling?
Mouse (to Vincent): Don't play coy with me? Clearly, something happened.
Vincent (to Mouse): Oh alright! U know I can't resist teasing U.
Mouse (to Vincent): I know you can't resist...
Vincent (to Mouse): Poppy & I R going 2 try dating. Exclusively. Well, sort of.
Mouse (to Vincent): Really? Wait... What do you mean sort of?
Vincent (to Mouse): Make outs with cuties R still socially acceptable.
Mouse (to Vincent): Oh god, now I know why I sensed a disturbance in the force... you've gone over to the dark side.
Vincent (to Mouse): And every1 wonders where I get my love of scifi. And what do U mean, "The Dark Side?"
Mouse (to Vincent): Oh come on, when I first met Poppy at the club, she seemed nice enough but after awhile she got snarly. I mean, she's nice to you & that's all that matters, I suppose.
Vincent (to Mouse): Oh, she's just snarly w/ U b/c she's intimidated by U. She's actually quite insecure In a way.
Mouse (to Vincent): Besides, you two have been acting retarded for each other ever since you started talking. So, I'm happy for you.
Vincent (to Mouse): What? We have not!
Mouse (to Vincent): Oh my god, you have too! All the perv chicken, gossiping, hanging out, & the unmentionable bits. It was a bit obvious, even Eep noticed & you know how oblivious he is to that stuff.
Vincent (to Mouse): Well we KNEW we liked 1 another. We weren't sure if we wanted 2 date. Well, I wasn't sure I wanted 2 date any1, that is...
Mouse (to Vincent): Really? Because I can remember a certain someone being a tad upset about Poppy having a date a couple of week ago.
Vincent (to Mouse): I wasn't upset!
Mouse (to Vincent): Ok... you weren't upset. You just sulked around my apartment all evening feeling sorry for yourself for no reason.
Vincent (to Mouse): Oh alright. Maybe I was a little upset. Honestly, I wasn't sure that I was ready 2 exclusively date any1. ESP after the whole Asher fiasco.
Mouse (to Vincent): Well, that's normal. I think if anyone starts into a relationship completely sure of it, there's probably something wrong. Oh god... I think I just figured out the photo thing. I think I need to scrub my brain.
Vincent (to Mouse): I cld send U copies of some of the better shots...
Mouse (to Vincent): Dear god, don't you dare! I wouldn't be able to look you in the eye ever again.
Vincent (to Mouse): Oh, ur no fun! Oh like U've never seen me in various states of undress. We DID live 2gether for yrs, U know. When did U become such a prude? ;}
Mouse (to Vincent): Shush you!
Vincent (to Mouse): I ought 2 send U 1 of the more mild photos just 2 teach U a lesson.
Mouse (to Vincent): And, what exactly would that lesson be?
Vincent (to Mouse): 2 lighten UP! Ur being so PROPER lately. It's disconcerting. Don't worry. I won't RLLY send U anything. I don't think Poppy wld appreciate me sending sexy pics I took 4 her to my sister.
Mouse (to Vincent): Well, I am already quite aware of what a handsome creature you are... I don't need photographic evidence and, I certainly don't want Poppy to have another reason to be mean to me.
Vincent (to Mouse): Awwww. Ur such a sweetie! & Poppy has promised 2 try 2 be nicer 2 U and Eep. I think she has prolly has a soft spot 4 U 2. I don't think she'd bother U so much if she didn't.
Mouse (to Vincent): Really? She has an awfully funny way of showing it.
Vincent (to Mouse): She's just not vry good w/ ppl. I can't imagine Y I seem 2 have such a thing for grumpy, anti-social types. :p
Mouse (to Vincent): Hey, I'm not nearly as anti-social as I used to be.
Vincent (to Mouse): It's very true. In another 10 yrs U might almost be a fully functional person! I'm just teasing U, BTW. I'm actually vry proud of U, big sister. It wasn't that long ago U'd sworn off all human contact. Ppl didn't even KNOW I had a sister.
Mouse (to Vincent): Well, I'm glad you talked me out of hiding... most of the time, anyway. :-P
Vincent (to Mouse): It's been a hell of a year, hasn't it, sister dearest?
Mouse (to Vincent): Yes, it has... hell, it's been a crazy 4 months.
Vincent (to Mouse): Crazy, terrible AND amazing. In equal parts of each, I think.
Two hours later:
Poppy (to Vincent): Honey, those pictures made me misty in all the right places...
Vincent (to Poppy): Glad 2 hear it. I'd love 2 recreated them 4 U, IRL.
Poppy (to Vincent): The weekend cannot get here fast enough... Oh, check your inbox. Tit for tat. ;-)
Vincent (to Poppy): Oh. Oh MY. & here I thought it wld B impossible 4 me 2 look 4ward 2 the holidays more than I already am.
Poppy (to Vincent): Perhaps, I should see about taking off early for the holiday & head down there...
Vincent (to Poppy): Well, I certainly wouldn't mind seeing U early.
Poppy (to Vincent): I will most definitely see if I can make an early escape then, honey.
Vincent (to Poppy): I'll keep my fingers crossed.
