14 - the days I live without you
I'm so very sorry for the lateness of the new post. But this is the first time LJ is working for me again. I wrote a sonnet for you but is now forever lost in the glitches :(
So no funny business here, I know you want to get back to the usual game ASAP.
There is a substitute on dreamwidth in case LJ is having trouble again.
The usual things:
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So no funny business here, I know you want to get back to the usual game ASAP.
There is a substitute on dreamwidth in case LJ is having trouble again.
The usual things:
1) All ( Read more... )
George went to push past but David blocked his way, his face tight. "And don't ask me to move because I'm not going to until I've said what I'm here to say."
George shot him a look that could have curdled milk.
David steeled himself, opened his mouth and then all his calm, reasonable thoughts just disintegrated in the face of his self-appointed judge and jury. "You see it's like this. I could accept this crap from a Labourite, I could accept it from a member of the public but classism doesn't have to be against those at the bottom of the food chain and I would have thought you'd have known that. I respect you even less for it since you are one of us no matter how much you pretend not to be.
"Prejudice, no matter who it's directed at, is still prejudice and I thought better of you, I really did. Everything I'd heard about you had prepared me for a warm, friendly, hard working, ambitious and politically serious man that I had particularly wanted to get to know. However, it seems that what you are is far too quick to come to a judgement about someone based on no evidence. You'd never spoken to me before and yet you'd decided you didn't like me, that was obvious from our first few words together. I don't know what your problem is. Embarrassment that you're privileged? Maybe I remind you of that but I really haven't a clue. However, I also don't much care. If you are willing to treat someone you know nothing about with such disdain, than I want nothing more to do with you. You have permission to sneer at me all you like, it's water off a duck's back now. I only bother what people think of me if they are worth bothering about. Clearly I made a mistake because I thought you were. As it turns out, you blatantly aren't. You wouldn't go to dinner with me if I was the last man on earth? Good, the sentiment is far more than returned."
And with that, he walked away.
George wasn't sure if he'd ever felt quite so utterly humiliated. Even at Oxford, they had never... no one had ever spoken to him in such a manner. Hot tears prickled at the backs of his eyes and he looked around, terrified that someone had overheard his dressing down. That would have been an embarrassment too far but there was no one, only the now empty corridor and George leaned back against the wall with his hands over his face as he realised with a sinking feeling like a great weight, weighing down on his chest, that David was actually well within his rights to take such offense.
David, marched around the corridor and then stood there, his heart racing. That... it had come out all wrong. He hadn't meant... and it had just burst from him, from all his indignation and disappointment and hurt.
Yes, hurt. David had thought himself fairly likable. That George had decided he wasn't worth the effort of getting to know... He shook his head. Well, that was the end of that. George probably wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire after that little tirade and all he'd actually wanted to say was, give me a chance. Get to know me... I think we could be good together... I think we could be friends.
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Although maybe the shock of it will have knocked some sense into George about the paranoia and prejudice of his actions.
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Loving the way you describe their characters- particularly David being baffled at someone not liking him for once. Rings very true.
But now will George change his mind or will he feel he can't do anything now David has let rip at him?
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