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@samuel.drake

[withmeinparadise]

[ okay, so. he gets asked on a date and promptly panics and ignores the message for the rest of his shift working the casino bar, like a cool guy who knows exactly what he's doing. (if anyone asks, they got a birthday party in around 11:30 that night. they did not actually get a birthday party in.) and he's been dancing around it for the last six hours, thinking about it and then deciding not to think about it, off and on, but by the time he hangs up his stupid vest and leaves, he doesn't have a better answer than he did when kyna sent over that screed.

so, promptly at 5:30 in the morning, he shoots a text off to his baby brother. ]

hey nathan, you awake?

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i am now

what's up?

[withmeinparadise]

rise and shine. got a hypothetical for you.

[ is he dragging this out? maybe. ]

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great, you want to stop dancing around it like a salsa champion or what?

[withmeinparadise]

i'm not dancing around it

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he says, executing a perfect croqueta complicada

[withmeinparadise]

where'd you learn to salsa?

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sully, obviously

[withmeinparadise]

victor's full of surprises.
say someone asks you out.

[ look, he's too tired to be as sneaky about this as he'd like to be. ]

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[ All right, now he's awake, because the timing of this is a little too on the nose to not feel pointed and intentional. ]

okay, i'm imagining it

[ Vividly. ]

[withmeinparadise]

okay.

[ he doesn't actually have to formulate a question, does he? please don't make him ask ]

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am i supposed to be doing something with this mental picture or not?

[withmeinparadise]

depends on what would you do with it

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right now i'd really like to shelve it and get 2 more hours of sleep

are you asking me what i would do in this hypothetical scenario where i get asked on a date?

[withmeinparadise]

[ drag it out of him, why don't you. S I G H. ]

after someone said they didn't want a relationship and got mad that you figured they meant it.

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oh

okay well
let me see if i'm getting this
hypothetically someone i liked said they weren't looking for anything
and then hypothetically i backed off to respect that
if they hypothetically got mad after that i guess it could be that they were
i don't know
playing hard to get? or were just confused?

what would they hypothetically be mad about?

[withmeinparadise]

confused maybe. let's say confused.
hell if i know what there is to be mad about.

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hypothetically, do i still like this person and would i consider going out with them?

[withmeinparadise]

eh, you aren't really the dating type. hypothetically.

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so i'm hypothetically only looking for something casual

[withmeinparadise]

sounds like it.

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well, there's casual dating. dating isn't always a lock-it-in formal thing.

but if i were only interested in something casual, i'd just say so up front
or say so and also say i'd like to go on this date, because i might actually enjoy myself
and if i don't, then it is what it is.

[withmeinparadise]

eh, might work.
you know. if it ever comes up.

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right. hypothetically.

i'd just be up front. it sucks but at least then i'm not guessing, you know?

[withmeinparadise]

[ which is all fair and right about when sam falls asleep. and then he wakes up again, looks at That Message again, and all the ask if this is something casual or not goes out the window. ]

if anyone asks, you don't know anything about this.

[ but. ]

you ever wanted to be steve martin in roxanne?