6.) [text.]

[illgrowoutofit]

I hate the frakking friend zone, you know? No girl ever seems to see me as anything besides... I don't know, a kid. Or any guy, for that matter, but I'm so afraid of my own bicuriosity that I don't even want to admit it to myself. I'm not that young

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[mghtbconcussed]

You're not going to end up alone.

[illgrowoutofit]

How do you know?

[mghtbconcussed]

Because I'm a girl and I know that your awesome and someone will see that one of these days.

[illgrowoutofit]

...Really? You... think I'm awesome?

[totallyinaband]

[Stephen read it, alright. But he's not entirely sure what to do when your best friend spills his guts about relationships over a public network. In true Stills fashion he's going to ignore it completely, and never bring it up again. He's also making Neil's favourite food for dinner.]

[illgrowoutofit]

[Neil would expect nothing less, and appreciates it. He isn't sure why he's telling anyone about this anyway, and is pretty sure he doesn't actually want to discuss it. Awesome food is so much less awkward than some touchy heart-to-heart.]

[totallyinaband]

[Not talking about feelings is what we do in the Stills-Nordegraf household. Clearly it work out for them great.]

[illgrowoutofit]

[Clearly. No one here is in any way ill-adjusted or emotionally stunted.]

[risetwice]

[There's quiet on the air for a moment]

Sometimes ulterior motives is what we get.

[illgrowoutofit]

Sure. Doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

[risetwice]

It does.

[illgrowoutofit]

[Oh. Solidarity. That's... actually comforting.]

Yeah, seriously. I just don't get-- [he hesitates] --some people.

[adamantined]

How old are you?

[illgrowoutofit]

Uh... twenty-one-ish, I guess. I'm not really sure how stuff works here. Like, if I should count my birthdays based on the City's time stream, or if I should base it on what it'd be back home. But yeah, basically twenty-one.

[adamantined]

I count it based on the City's time stream. You're living here, so why not? And I'm never getting older, so what does it matter?

But anyway, you shouldn't let bad experiences make you think that you're going to end up alone. It's easy to get bogged down in them, but you're twenty-one, and you're a guy. I think by the rules of life you aren't even supposed to be thinking about forever at this point.

[illgrowoutofit]

Yeah, that's a good point. That'd probably be easiest.

...I guess, but it's kind of a pattern or whatever. I don't think it's gonna change any time soon.

[waitedforyears]

How old are you, though?

[illgrowoutofit]

Twenty-one, I guess. It's kind of weird since time is different here than it was at home when I left, but I think I'll stick with this place's calendar for now.

[waitedforyears]

S'ppose that makes sense, yeah. Since we're here now.