22. Flowers

[blue_shields]

[There are several half-formed words at the top of the entry, before he finally begins to write, carefully.]

Bubbles, I very much appreciate your gift of flowers.

I, too, hope this awful cloud of anger I always carry with me breaks someday.

In fact, I already feel it lifting.

Comments

[kanin_gitarist]

Someones sent you flowers?

Oh, Bubbles. Alexi likes her.

[blue_shields]

They're bright and cheerful and have a pretty ribbon.

[kanin_gitarist]

Oh-kays...

Doesn't sounds like your kinds of thing.

[blue_shields]

They remind me of spring, at least.

[lemonshine]

Sourpuss, cheer up!

[draws a flower with a happy face in it.]

[blue_shields]

I AM cheerful!

[lemonshine]

Yes! You're the epitome of cheerfulness!

[blue_shields]

I am a veritable fountain of it.

[pinkhairedchild]

Some lady got you flowers and that makes you feel less angry?

That sounds lame.

[blue_shields]

You think so? I don't know, I think it suits me!

[pinkhairedchild]

I think mine is better!

[blue_shields]

Definitely.

[redrobinhood]

Flowers? You got an admirer, buddy?

[blue_shields]

No, just some newly-hatched woman who thinks I have an anger management problem.

[redrobinhood]

...Wow dude. You sure now how to pick 'em.

[blue_shields]

Oh yes, it's WONDERFUL having someone else think I'm a cranky jerk.

[felinemystique]

Flowers, huh?

[blue_shields]

It was a sweet gesture. I'm not denying that. But it's also coming from someone who thinks I'm perpetually angry.

[felinemystique]

You've never struck me as that type.

[blue_shields]

... Thank you for saying that.

I know I can be a bit of a jerk sometimes, but good grief...