The moral of the story is: Don't piss Cissie off.
bernardnotbernie: You! Person sharing half my gene pool!
bernardnotbernie: How are you, dear sister?
MissCiss28: Hi! Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii am not bad! how is my brother?
bernardnotbernie: Overworked, underfed, and not sleeping enough.
bernardnotbernie: But it's all okay!
bernardnotbernie: Because it's...the weekend.
MissCiss28: hehe, it is!
bernardnotbernie: I'm so drained, Ciss.
MissCiss28: awwww!
bernardnotbernie: Like, run down.
bernardnotbernie: It sucks.
bernardnotbernie: *whine*
MissCiss28: awwww ::Pats::
bernardnotbernie: One of the babies brought the flu home (not the swine flu thank god!), and Henry got sick.
bernardnotbernie: I got to be on flu-watch.
MissCiss28: eeew
bernardnotbernie: Apart from the having to stay awake and share close quarters with a sick person, it was awful.
bernardnotbernie: He kept talking about dying and his mother and his little siblings? I'm not really sure, because he was feverish, but it really freaked me out.
bernardnotbernie: And then I remembered that if he's from the late 1700s, the flu could kill you, and...yeah.
MissCiss28: yeeeah, point
bernardnotbernie: Aaaaaand, to top it all off, almost all my classes decided that this week would be a great week for a test, so I've been trying to study as well as go look after the disease-ridden and plan for prom.
MissCiss28: eeeew
bernardnotbernie: I need to find a date.
MissCiss28: I'm sorry
bernardnotbernie: *siiiiiiiiiiigh*
bernardnotbernie: At least I don't have to worry about sending out a bagillion invites for graduation, right?
bernardnotbernie: Heh.
MissCiss28: hey--Arrows. you are related now.
bernardnotbernie: Okay, that's, what? You, Roy and Lian (and probably Dick, too).
bernardnotbernie: I can handle calling three people.
bernardnotbernie: Also, you'll probably be graduating the same weekend as me.
MissCiss28: maybe, maybe not
bernardnotbernie: I think we walk the 12th.
MissCiss28: I have no idea
bernardnotbernie: Hah.
bernardnotbernie: So how've you been?
bernardnotbernie: I haven't talked to you in forever.
bernardnotbernie: (I haven't talked to any of you in forever.)
MissCiss28: I know stupid stalker situation.
bernardnotbernie: Laaaaame.
MissCiss28: mmmmmhmm
MissCiss28: :P
MissCiss28: Jason is going nuts.
bernardnotbernie: From being forced to sit around and watch a teenage girl, or just from being Jason?
MissCiss28: from not being able to figure this out probably also from sitting around in an all girls' school
bernardnotbernie: Heh. Poor kid.
bernardnotbernie: TIM HAD THE CLENCH AND NEVER TOLD ME?
MissCiss28: ....a long time ago?
bernardnotbernie: Yeah, I know it was a while ago, just...
bernardnotbernie: Sometimes I get reminded that the boy I thought was my best friend when we went to school together was almost a complete stranger. It's better now, but...sometimes it's weird.
MissCiss28: I didn't know about it until after either, if that helps at all.
MissCiss28: He was still your best friend, Bernard.
bernardnotbernie: How can you be best friends with someone you don't even know, Cissie?
MissCiss28: That's. Bernard. You knew him as much as anyone could.
bernardnotbernie: Which wasn't a lot.
MissCiss28: You're being ridiculous.
MissCiss28: It KILLS HIM to have to lie about it. But he never had a choice. And he still feels bad about it. Do you know I didn't know his real name until almost a year after I met him? Does it change the fact that he COULDN'T tell us? He wasn't even allowed to TAKE HIS MASK OFF with us. And he hated that, too.
bernardnotbernie: I know. You don't have to yell.
MissCiss28: are you sure? because it sounds like you're still angsting about something that was never in his control and that still hurts him.
bernardnotbernie: It's nothing.
MissCiss28: it's clearly not.
bernardnotbernie: It clearly is.
MissCiss28: oh, give me a break, Bernard.
bernardnotbernie: Look, I'm shutting up about it. What else do you want?
MissCiss28: right. shutting up is what I want.
bernardnotbernie: Don't do that sarcasm thing with me.
MissCiss28: don't do the avoiding thing with me!
bernardnotbernie: I'm not avoiding.
MissCiss28: deflecting, then.
bernardnotbernie: Not deflecting.
bernardnotbernie: I realized I was overreacting, and stopped. You're the one who started yelling.
MissCiss28: fine. sorry.
bernardnotbernie: So, um...are you still mad at me?
MissCiss28: ::sigh:: I'm not mad. I just wish you knew how much it would hurt Tim if he knew you felt like you weren't really friends then.
bernardnotbernie: We're friends now.
MissCiss28: You were friends then, too.
bernardnotbernie: Not quite the same.
MissCiss28: ::sigh::
bernardnotbernie: It's true, though.
bernardnotbernie: So even though you totally are still mad at me, no matter what you say, could you do me a favor?
bernardnotbernie: Tell Tim he's my best friend, hands down, no matter what.
MissCiss28: ...Why don't you tell him? Why do you NEED me to tell him that?
bernardnotbernie: Because he's not around, and I have to go to bed now, I'm dying here.
bernardnotbernie: And I never said I needed it.
bernardnotbernie: But you know it never hurts to give positive reinforcement.
MissCiss28: yeah but why did it come up?
bernardnotbernie: Because you're mad at me beause I thought that maybe I thought Tim was a closer friend than he was?
MissCiss28: ....you lost me a little.
MissCiss28: ...Did you TELL him this?
bernardnotbernie: No I didn't tell him, I'm not stupid.
MissCiss28: I'm just confused as to why you feel like Tim needs to hear that, if you haven't said anything to him
bernardnotbernie: Well, I dunno.
bernardnotbernie: (But it's true, so you can stop glaring at the screen and pretending I can see you.)
MissCiss28: Bernard! What *did* you say to Tim?
bernardnotbernie: Pretty much nothing, actually.
MissCiss28: Pretty much nothing?
bernardnotbernie: Oh don't say it like that.
bernardnotbernie: I said you were mad at me because I said that I realzed that I didn't know Tim as well as I thought, and was feeling sorry for myself.
bernardnotbernie: He was totally fine with it.
bernardnotbernie: I never mentioned friendship.
MissCiss28: ....
bernardnotbernie: Nnnngh.
bernardnotbernie: Disapprove at me tomorrow.
MissCiss28: Fine.
bernardnotbernie: I need to sleep so I don't barf everything up over my homework.
MissCiss28: Feel better. Sleep well.
MissCiss28: Night
bernardnotbernie: Night