the strongest return

[frogsicles]

[Hello, Mayfield! It's 6 in the morning, and what better rude awakening is there than an exceptionally loud phone call?]

DAMMIT, NOT THIS STUPID PLACE AGAIN!

[Cirno slams the phone down, but she picks it up again about fifteen seconds later.]

HEY EVERYBODY, WANNA HEAR ABOUT HOW AWESOME I AM?! I BEAT MARISA! TRUE STORY!

Comments

[glowbrighter]

[Any happiness she feels at hearing that familiar voice is immediately swallowed up by petty hurt and anger.]

Whatever, Cirno.

[frogsicles]

...Huh?

[glowbrighter]

Y-You heard me! Nobody cares! I don't care! Even though you left me right when I was gonna-

[PATHETIC SNIFFLING god such a crybaby]

1/3

[frogsicles]

What?! YOU'RE the one who -

2/3

[frogsicles]

Oh.

[frogsicles]

...I didn't mean to leave like that. I didn't want to, I promise.

[glowbrighter]

Yeah, s-sure.

[in a quiet, wounded voice:]

I threw that damn flower away an' then when I went t'see ya you were droned an' I thought I lost y'forever. There.

[frogsicles]

But that's not my fault! I didn't tell 'em, "oh hey I wanna go home now!" an' even if I did they wouldn'ta listened to me.

Anyway, I'm back now!

[glowbrighter]

Wh-Whatever.

[DELICIOUS PA BULLSHIT, YO]

[frogsicles]

...Um...I-I'm real sorry 'bout leaving, 'kay? But I'm back now, an' I don't wanna leave again, not without you, so, um...is there anything I can do to make it up to ya?

[glowbrighter]

.....it doesn't mean much if I just tell ya. I don't even know, myself. You think of somethin'.

[frogsicles]

[But she doesn't know what to do if she's not told. Why doesn't Wriggle understand that?]

Um...um...h-hey, what day is it today?

[glowbrighter]

[It's called "terrible communication skills".]

It's the first of....of October, yeah.

[frogsicles]

Oh, then I didn't miss it - ! D'you wanna go to that homecoming thing with me?