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[windeity]

JOHN EGBERT | BLUE | #0715CD
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The slug question was important. Anyway that's good to know since it would suck if you left before dessert.

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

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Dinner, dessert, and a show.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.]

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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?

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[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.

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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.

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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?

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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 ]

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[There's a snort because wow that's a mess but he's not getting into trollmance right now. This is about him and Dave and not...juggalo trolls. Weird.]

...you probably could have stuck with a roller coaster metaphor and made it work, but I get it. I think. It's kind of like waiting for the other shoe to drop because it is a new and different thing that you did not think was possible.

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Yeah, basically. You can be the metaphor king today. [ ... ] Anyway, I'll be honest: I'm not totally sure what one does on dates besides chill and talk. I mean, movies and what have you would have you believe that dates pretty much always end with interruptions from love triangle points or like, natural disaster, or so on and so forth?

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Sweet. [He's laughing to himself, but yeah, Dave has a point.] I am pretty sure we're not due for a natural disaster anytime soon, and none of our friends are here to interrupt so....I'm fine with just chilling and talking with romantic intent.

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I mean, what about the skeleton army? I consider them my friends.

[ ...............he may or may not be joking? it's hard to tell ]

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Is our date going to wind up with skeletal date-crashers? I'm surprised you got them to back off long enough.

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I maybe spent some time shooing them off?

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[...he just starts laughing.] My hero.

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I feel bad fighting them? They're so bad at it.

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They're kind of funny. Do you think we can keep some of them and befriend them instead?

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I suggested it and Natalie shot me down? So did like, three other people. No one likes my skeleton plan except you.

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To be fair, we're also the ones who kept fire-breathing geese so maybe everybody else has a point.

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They don't burn us THAT often. [ but they burn them sometimes??? guys????? ] ...also everyone gives me weird looks when I say we kept some.