𝚁𝚄𝙱𝙸 𝙸𝙽𝙱𝙾𝚇;

[dadyl]

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Daryl Dixon, 53

It's Daryl, say what you gotta say.

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[dadyl]

Oh. [ Hm, shit. ]

Do I say sorry?

[ He's certainly feeling sorry for himself, now that whatever he'd been doing with Jesse is over. ]

[oomfies]

you can ig
but im pretty much over it

[ (She isn't. Sort of.) ]

theyre doing their thing and im doing my thing
the end

[dadyl]

[ Good, well. He already said it once, technically. ]

What's your thing?

[oomfies]

being the only 🔥🔥🔥 person in the room

[dadyl]

[ ✓ read. ]

[ So much for flirting. ]

[oomfies]

[ Oh? He left her on Mind Read?

Don't mind her as she blows a kiss his way. You know, just to normally grab his attention again. ]

[dadyl]

[ Okay, somehow that gets a smirk out of him, but he tilts his mask slightly so she can't see it. ]

So why don't you feel like an audience this time?

[ Maybe if he makes her uncomfortable she'll stop making him uncomfortable? ]

[oomfies]

[ Two can play at this game!! ]

why? sad you can't watch? 😘

[dadyl]

I don't like being teased.

[oomfies]

you don't? really??

[dadyl]

[ He does. ]

No.

Last time was a fluke.

[oomfies]

a fluke for a whole evening.. sounds suspish

[dadyl]

I wasn't staring at you all night.

[oomfies]

so you WEREN'T eyeing up the sexy as hell bday girl at her birthday party? i'm appalled and shocked tbh

[dadyl]

Why don't you just come over here and talk to me like a normal person?

[oomfies]

i can..

do you want me to?

[dadyl]

Not really.

[ Not if he has to say it. ]

Free food's gonna run out soon anyway. Since that's all you're here for.

[oomfies]

[ A beat. ]

i'm only asking bc i dont want to bother you
or like feel like im forcing my company

i WOULD like to hang but
you are moping
and i dont even know WHY still

[dadyl]

[ He's about to tell her she'd be incapable of forcing anything on him when she forces him into dumb silence for a few more seconds. ]

Just come sit.

[ He waits until she does before he gives her what she wants, still just a flicker between their minds because for some reason it feels way easier to talk about it this way. Silently, only the outsides of their thighs pressed together on the bench as the rest of the room ruts and moans in front of them. ]

Jesse broke it off.

[oomfies]

[ Oh. Oh. Lottie almost wishes she didn't sit down at all if it meant this. But it's Daryl, so she's willing to try— even if it means pushing through the awkward she feels at this, her inexperience and frank inability to sympathize with people. The topic makes it easier, at least. Lottie went through a break up, too.

She leans back into her seat, spreads her legs until her knees are fully knocking his. ]

damn
sorry..

was it like
recently??

[dadyl]

[ He doesn't move away from her. Even if he hadn't been loaded up with the orgy's finest samplers, the connection between them helps make the conversation bearable. He might have even let her sit that close if he was sober.

Even though he'd never be dishing to her then. He drains the cup he'd only been toying with when she'd been across the room. ]

When we all got back from the void.
Said it was better this way.

[ In so many words. Daryl doesn't exactly want to relive the specifics of the night. ]

[oomfies]

[ Wow. Yikes.. She refrains from hissing air through her teeth, fully aware of the fact they both have a reason for doing this as privately as they are. Lottie has only ever talked about her own relationships telepathically— less emotion for there to trickle out. Less questions when you change the subject. The fact Daryl is letting them sit so long on the details of it means a lot.

There's a tilt of her head up to the barn roof, nose sniffling because germs. Animal fur. Residual fuck fluids in the air. She's not speaking fully, but her tone is gentle. Almost wry, ]

you know
my first boyfriend didn't even break up w/ me properly
he said we should go on a break
& then he started dating my stalker

[dadyl]

[ He can't help it, that makes him turn to sneak a look at her and he very narrowly avoids snorting out loud. ]

No shit?

[ He schools his expression again and turns back to face the room, his knee nudging hers in apology for what she said, for breaking their silence, all of it. They're supposed to not be obviously talking, right?

Totally normal behaviour. ]

That's insane. Fuck that guy.
Who the hell would break up with you?

[ He knows how most guys think and he can see Lottie, after all. ]

[oomfies]

[ She's happy he looks away first because she's liable to snort, and this conversation is supposed to happen in secret, after all (total normal behavior). She nudges his back softly in turn, to let him know it's okay and right?? Lottie thought the same thing when it all first happened. That, and her life was over. ]

sunny is okay
his only crime was being beefy and dumb

[ And maybe a subpar boyfriend, but before coming here Lottie only had the one. She isn't sure if her time with John or House would technically compare or be on the list (she does know there was something, enough to be exes). She'd be a terrible judge regardless— she doesn't know what a good partner really looks like. ]

we were dating for a long time anyway

[dadyl]

Sunny?

[ That time he does snort. Even shakes his head because that's fucking hilarious. ]

Sorry. That explains it.
How long's long?

[ Wait, how the hell had they started talking about her? Oh well. ]