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[windeity]

JOHN EGBERT | BLUE | #0715CD
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[parodeity]

Maybe I want to keep you all to myself for a while? [ dave pulls a slice off and puts it on his own plate, because he figures he should Eat at the dinner portion of the date.

like...

that's common sense, right. ]

So, this is the part where we get to know one another. Want to play twenty questions, or want to admit we already know most shit? I mean, there is some important stuff I don't know.

[windeity]

You've always had me to yourself whenever you want. [Just saying. But he's also nabbing a slice of pizza, taking a bite before setting the rest down on a plate. He's actually glad the potion works but he also thinks maybe this would have been fine enough.]

What things do you actually not know? It's been six years.

[parodeity]

Well... [ a deep breath, like he's about to ask something important. ] If you had to eat slugs or worms for the rest of your life and nothing else, which of the two would you pick?

[windeity]

Dude, gross! [He's picking off a piece of pepperoni to throw at Dave????] Also slugs, duh. People eat snails so it can maybe be the same thing.

[parodeity]

[ didnt john want him to lighten up? dave starts laughing. ] Okay, okay. What about cake or scorpions?

[windeity]

That should be no contest. It's scorpions. You could probably fry them and make them okay.

[parodeity]

Cake or tar? [ yeah he's just teasing john now ]

[windeity]

Still tar? [He makes another face.] Mud or rotten apples?

[parodeity]

Rotten apples, definitely. [ he takes a bite of pizza. ] Ghostbusters or National Treasure, if you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life?

[windeity]

As much as it pains me to say knowing I would never get to see a Nic Cage movie again? Ghostbusters, definitely. What abouttt...violin or your beat machine?

[parodeity]

[ has john figured out the playlist thing yet ] Violin here but beat machine anyplace with electricity. Leaning second date or not?

[ look ]

[windeity]

[Sooort of.] You could have just asked me that in the first place. [Another bite of his pizza stalls him from answering for a moment.] You have not scared me off yet if that is what you are worried about.

[parodeity]

The slug question was important. Anyway that's good to know since it would suck if you left before dessert.

[windeity]

There is nothing important about slugs, you dork. You have dessert planned, too?

[parodeity]

Dinner, dessert, and a show.

[windeity]

Wow. I am impressed. But what's the rush? [He's enjoying his pizza here.] We have all kinds of time today, right? I did not make other plans.

[parodeity]

There ain't one, really. The date can last as long as you want? Just, like. Let me know if you get bored and we can switch it up.

[windeity]

When have I ever gotten bored when we're hanging out, dude? [He's finishing his first slice and grabbing a second.] Even if it weren't a date I think we'd find a way to not be bored.

[parodeity]

Well. [ maybe when dave was sleeping? who knows. ] You're my favorite person to hang out with, you know that.

[windeity]

I definitely know that. And that is why I don't get what you're so nervous about. [He takes another sip of his juice instead.]

[parodeity]

First date jitters? Which you are apparently immune to, asshole. [ it's good one of them can pretend calm? ] ...No I don't know. Like. I'm nervous but I'm also not? It's just you, so it's okay, but it's also just you. You know?

[windeity]

[A light smile. He's nervous in his own way but it's also just Dave and he has pizza so who cares. It's like hanging out with his best bro, as usual.]

I guess. I do not entirely understand it since like I said, I think dates are just like hanging out with people you like a lot so in that way we have sort of been on dates? But maybe it's different.

[parodeity]

I think the difference is intent? [ dave's gotten through like half his slice of pizza, slow as fuck because he just. keeps. talking. ] Like. We're not hanging out just to hang out, which describes all of our interactions to date, even when we were makin' out. So it just feels a little different but at the same time it does not feel different? I don't know. I've only had the jitters like once before and they were slapped out of me. Like, hand to my back, not hand to my face.

[windeity]

I am assuming you mean Terezi. [But okay.] So the difference is the intent of making this romantic instead of just hanging out and doing our usual thing. Is that what you mean?

[parodeity]

Yes, although admittedly maybe I shouldn't go off of that experience since it ended with her hate-dating a vent-dwelling juggalo behind my back? I am pretty certain that can't happen with you because you aren't into vent-dwelling juggalos, but who knows? Maybe my last rap about Obama was the straw that broke our relationship's back.

[ he's joking. he knows it was just the whole alien incompatibility thing, and also terezi's bizarre need to hate-date gamzee. ]

I guess it's a little nerve-wracking because I halfway can't believe it's happening but also, I don't want it to stop happening. It's like - okay, Christmas morning with your Dad. You'd get up as early as you could, right, and run downstairs, and it was a good kind of nerves but also you knew eventually you'd hit the end of the presents? ...no, that's not right either.

[ he's failing metaphor school ]