RP: It's That Time Again

[shoshana_wise]

Date: August 30th, 2011
Characters: Rori Milburn, Shoshana Wise
Location: Iron Hollow Farm
Status: Private
Summary: Shosh thinks it's about time to bug the hell out of Rori again.
Completion: Complete

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[shoshana_wise]

"You're favorite thorn, huh?" Shosh joked, smirking slightly. "Maybe I should have that printed on a shirt or some shit like that, prove that I've got a least one person who enjoys my thorniness." Okay so she had more than just Rori who put up with her, but Rori had been doing it the longest. "God, y'know there's some days I wonder if he's got my little girl under some kind of spell." It had been like this from day one, Sloane had always had a fondness for Cody that Shosh just didn't understand.

"Fuck, Rori, that's horrible." Shosh breathed, frowning. "Holy hell, you mean that's why you turned into a mute on everyone?" She remembered those six months, and now it made so much sense. "I'm not going to say you should have told me, but y'know if you had I would have kicked her fucking ass for you." Because this was Rori, and nobody was allowed to fuck with her best friend like that, and Shosh had never backed down from a fight.

"You have, but it's not exactly like you can choose who you love, right?" She countered, kind of aware that love didn't exactly give you a choice. Though she was rather fond of who love had picked out for her, even if he wasn't who everyone else thought she'd end up with. "Hey, I've got a fucking mouth on me, but I don't break promises or tell secrets that aren't mine to tell." Shosh knew Rori was mostly just ribbing her. "I won't, and I can't say I would have ever pegged you as shy." She answered, and she kind of thought it wasn't exactly true, Rori just had a complicated love life that she wasn't exactly keen on talking about.

"Eh, you got me all figured out, I've always had a secret love for football players." Shosh quipped, smirking slightly. "Truly though, you might not get it but there's just something about Jase." And Shosh had to think that Rori would understand that sometimes the person you ended up with didn't always make sense.

[rori_milburn]

Rori laughed. "T-shirt, fuck. That would be hilarious," she said. "We would have to get matching ones--the Thorny girls or some such shit." The thought was amusing at the very least. "Fuck, I know, right? It's magic, that."

Rori shrugged uncomfortably. "Sort of, yeah. Couldn't say nothin', y'know? And it hurt, and it was stupid. And I thought she might tell." There was still that chance. It was terrifying, but not quite as much so as it used to be. Exposure to it lessened her fear somewhat, though it was by no means small yet. "I know. I didn't even really tell Cody. Just threw myself into riding." It'd gotten her some trophies and prizes that year.

"No, we can't. Kinda glad I can't at this point." Or she'd never have met someone as awesome as Ava. "Shit, yeah, I know that. You'd never say anything." Shosh might have a mouth, but she trusted her absolutely. She wouldn't distrust that, ever. She grinned, knowing shy wasn't quite the right term, but also knowing that Shosh probably understood what she meant.

"Sports nut," she teased. "Yeah, I know that feeling, at least. Just something about Ava that..." She shrugged, unable to find the words to put to it.

[shoshana_wise]

Shosh smirked. "So fucking hilarious." she agreed. "Hell, course we'd have to have matching ones." It was nice to get back to a lighter topic, Shosh was glad Rori had told her, but she was also happy to see her smiling again and not so worried. "God, something like that. One day I half expect to find out he's gone and brainwashed her or some shit like that."

She wished there was something she could do for Rori, something to make this all less uncomfortable. "God, I hate to sound like a broken record, and I know you had your reasons. But I wish you would have said something, y'know." She wasn't trying to make Rori feel guilty and this was all in the past, but it didn't stop Shosh from wishing she could have supported her friend while she went through this. "Thank god for riding, sometimes it saves us from ourselves." Granted Shosh had pulled away from riding right after her Dad's death, but she had still worked with her horses, hell, she had spent most her days out in the barn with them.

"Good, because you shouldn't fucking wish to change yourself." Shosh wanted to make it 100% certain that she accepted Rori exactly the way she was, and wouldn't want her friend to change anything about herself. "I'd die before I said anything." And she wouldn't, this wasn't her secret to tell and anyway she was protective as hell of Rori.

"Yeah well, Dad was a staunch Cowboy's fan." She countered, smirking slightly. Her Dad really had been a football fan, so Shosh had seen her fair share of games. "Hard to put your finger on, yeah?" Shosh felt the same way about Jase. He was amazing, caring, put up with her unpleasant ass most days and never complained.

[rori_milburn]

Rori shrugged. "I should've, I know. But I was still on the damn circuit and I was scared. Every time I ran into her it was that all over again, with her stupid smirk and all that shit. Hid out with the horses and Cody." She still hated to see her, hear her name. "It really does, yeah. Dunno what I woulda done without it." In that way at least she had been lucky.

It was reassuring to hear Shosh saying she would support her again. Though she had always known her friend was pretty open minded in her head, her emotions weren't exactly as rational. "I know you would. You're the best," she with a grin. She really did trust her friend. None of her secrets had ever left Shosh that she knew of, unlike a lot of the other women on the circuit who would backstab if they thought it would get them ahead.

"Exactly. Don't really know what she sees in me, but I'm glad she sees something she likes," Rori agreed. She was very lucky to have found anyone at all, considering her lifestyle.

[shoshana_wise]

Shosh nodded. "Hey, hey. Can't change the fucking past, right? So I won't dwell on it and you shouldn't either." She replied, the past ten months had sort of come to prove that to her. "And let her fucking smirk, she's just another one of those girls we despised growing up, right?" They had always had their own little clique and avoided the backstabbing and gossip of the circuit. "Exactly, thank god for horses."

She couldn't blame Rori for being worried as to how she would react to all of this, but she wasn't bothered by the fact that Rori was clearly into women. She was still Rori and still Shosh's oldest friend and had been her partner in crime for too many years to let something like this change that; and anyway it didn't change anything. "Yes well you've always known I'm the best, this is just reiterating that." She smiled brightly, trying to lighten the mood a bit.

"I know that feeling." Shosh laughed. "Not sure what Jase sees in me, but he obviously sees something he likes so I'm not complaining." And she wasn't, she couldn't figure out why Jase put up with her most days, but she wasn't going to try and change that - because she was pretty sure she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him; that was if she didn't turn into her Mom and flake out on him.

[rori_milburn]

"Yeah, she was, basically," Rori admitted. Which was embarrassing to admit, but when you're on the road all the time and around the same set of people, you did have to interact and form relationships--even if they blew up in your face upon occasion. "It was a shitty decision on my part, I'll tell you that." But you couldn't help it, like they'd said.

Rori grinned. "Yes, you are the best," she had to agree, because especially with how she was dealing with this news just confirmed it for her. She flung her arms around Shosh again and squeezed, pecking her on the cheek in a very not-gay way just to prove that she really was the bestest in the friend category right now. She had been incredibly lucky to compete against Shosh all those years ago and end up getting a best friend outside of her brother.

"Well, you're the bestest, so that's what he sees," she teased with a grin. "Seriously, girl, you're better than good for him. He said you bring out the best in him." Which honestly Rori could believe, though it wasn't completely her fault that she didn't always trust men or people of a different social class than her--she'd been burned before. But Jase had seemed sincere, and if he wasn't, well... she'd be there for Shosh to kick some ass. She just hoped that never had to happen.

[shoshana_wise]

Shosh wrinkled her nose, and avoided mentioning the one and only crush she had ever formed while competing. And she would take that information to the grave, because there wasn't a chance in hell she'd ever let it get back to him. "Well when we see 'em day in and day out it's bound to happen, right?" She remarked, shrugging slightly. "And maybe it was, but like I said, can't change the fucking past, no matter how much you wish you could."

She smirked. "Damn straight I am." she remarked, jokingly puffing out her chest in a show of pride. Shosh didn't hesitate to wrap her arms around Rori when she flung her arms around her, because hell, she wasn't worried that Rori was going to pull anything with her, Shosh was pretty damn sure she wasn't Rori's type - not if Ava was her current girl. "Seriously though, you and I, we've been through way to much to let something like this be an issue, which I'm going to reiterate that it's not." And it wasn't and would never be.

"Don't know, think you're all crazy honestly." she quipped, shaking her head slightly. She gapped at Rori's next words, shocked that Jase had not only said that, but said that to Rori. "Ooooh." Wow, intelligent response, but she couldn't believe she brought out the best in anyone, it just wasn't in her, or at least she didn't think it was. "He said that?"

[rori_milburn]

"It is, yes," Rori admitted. She just hated that it had happened--it had really made her clam up and retreat back into herself for awhile, at least when it came to relationships. She was lucky when she'd met Ava, and that so far they'd managed to work things out.

Shosh wasn't her type, if she had a type. She really didn't know. Shosh was her best friend, and simply 'got' her in a way most people never could. "Amen to that." She was so relieved that Shosh was okay with things, it wasn't even funny.

Rori snickered at Shosh's reaction. "Yes, he said that. And I hope it's true." She'd seen enough men that good looking to know most of them not only knew their looks, but used them shamelessly. She didn't trust it, but she wasn't about to put a damper on Shosh's ardor... yet.

[shoshana_wise]

"Thank god those crushes usually only last for a little while." Shosh remarked. At least in her case they did, usually after days or months spent around the same people the rose colored glasses are lifted and she would come to realize all the little things she found cute in the beginning were insanely annoying.

She laughed, and flashed a bright grin. "You're stuck with me forever." Shosh said, although she kind of thought Rori didn't mind that so much, they were almost like family.

Shosh screwed up her face. "Honestly, don't know why he thinks that." She could say something like that to Rori and feel okay about it. She didn't know why Jase would think that, they hadn't even been seeing each other for longer than two months, and although Shosh hated it, she still had her own worries about relationships.