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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 18:42:15 GMT -5
"I never met any of his friends," Jory said as he walked alongside her. "I only ever saw him like...twice, and the first time I tried to turn him away. I had another man I was...friends with," friends didn't really cover Eros and him, "and I got to be a taste of being a VIP. I don't think I could ever be one myself, though. You're lucky."
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 18:51:05 GMT -5
Danica sighed softly. "I guess," she said. "Well, I am. But not because of this." The stairs weren't too long and at the top was a glowing bar with a single man talking to the bartender. A bit farther on was a dance floor, full without being overcrowded. "Let's get our drinks first," she suggested.
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 18:55:03 GMT -5
Jory nodded and headed to the bar with Danica. "I was never really a drinker, just at parties and...special occasions," he said. "I think tonight is a night for at least a drink, though." For just a moment, he fell into silence, but then he continued quietly. "I never thought I'd do what I did." And did he even have any right to try to get her to make him feel better when she was technically somehow attached to Jai?
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 19:09:44 GMT -5
"Jai is... he's easy to like," Danica said. She glanced over at Jory, then forward again. "It's easy to get caught up in everything, I know. I haven't been onstage much, but even being in the crowd there's a lot of energy, right? It's easy to get carried away. I can't imagine not getting carried away." They reached the bar and she ordered her drink, eying the bartender carefully as he made it.
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 19:14:13 GMT -5
Jory gave a wistful, heavy sigh as he settled onto a barstool, and only responded when his forearms rested on the bar itself and his hands awaited his drink. "It felt so good to be up there. Center of attention, everyone screaming like you're one of the most important people in the world...I've had people treat me like that before, but never a group, and it never ended well." A glistening glass slid into his hands, and he took a long drink before he looked back at her. "Will you be okay with all this?" The last thing he wanted or needed was to be worrying about ruining another life.
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 19:27:29 GMT -5
Danica nodded. "Mhm," she hummed. "Our relationship is kind of... open." Was that okay to say? "Like I said, we're mostly just friends." They weren't really friends, even. She was Jai's arm-candy and they had a relationship that was only dramatic when it needed to be so that he looked more balanced than he was. It suited her just fine.
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 19:29:27 GMT -5
Jory wasn't sure what to say. He'd had relationships with mostly just friends and they had always ended horribly, but maybe that was just because he was kind of stupid a lot of the time and made so many wrong decisions. "I started out as just friends with Indigo," he said, "and it took forever for us to get into the whole being a couple thing."
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 19:31:56 GMT -5
Danica nodded politely as she took her glass, then murmured thanks to the bartender. She was quiet a moment longer after he walked away. "I don't want more," she said softly. If she said it quietly enough Dismas would forgive her, right? Maybe if it was just an accident?
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 19:36:45 GMT -5
Jory looked aside at Danica, dumbfounded for just a moment. "Really? I always wanted...oh god, it sounds so lame. I've always wanted what my parents have. And now I pretty much have it, and...then I kissed Jai anyway. But, anyway, it's so much better than friends. You don't spend your life with friends and cuddle up with them at night." And he'd started rambling again. He went silent and instead focused on his drink.
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 19:40:14 GMT -5
Danica gave her drink a watery smile before sipping it. "I like Jai," she said. He's safe. "I need to learn to live for myself before someone else, right?" she asked. She looked aside at Jory. "That's what you're supposed to do, isn't it?" She wasn't any closer to figuring things out than she'd been a year ago.
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 19:47:00 GMT -5
"I lived on my own for a couple years, but it was mostly because I was afraid rather than because I was trying to learn to live for me." Jory didn't continue. Instead, he stared into his own now-half-empty glass, and he thought. He'd been so focused on a relationship that he had never really tried to grow into his own person. What did he have in common with any of the guys he'd dated? Some of them had piercings and stuff, but that was about it. Every time he and Indigo had a problem he always ended up begging for forgiveness, but that was normal in his relationships. "Why do you live for someone else?"
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 19:51:01 GMT -5
Danica's face heated and she looked back down. "I... I don't, really," she said. "But running from things is kind of the same isn't it? Or hiding from them?" She wasn't sure which she was doing. "Part of me wants to just disappear and part of me wants to be... like Jai, you know? Always having fun, always happy, not afraid of what anyone else thinks."
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 20:17:46 GMT -5
"I know the feeling," Jory said. "I used to be like that, like Jai, back when I was a whole lot younger. I didn't think I could ever feel that way again. Indigo makes me feel amazing. There are problems, but all couples have little stupid problems, don't they?" And theirs were stupid and little, like Astra going somewhere she shouldn't go.
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 20:40:32 GMT -5
"I guess," Danica said. "I don't really know. My father died when I was little so it's been mostly me and my mother." Her mother had a lot of extended family, but she didn't think she knew anything about couple relationships from them. She took a sip from her drink, then turned away from the bar and gestured toward the railing that looked over the club. From there they could watch people dance, watch them mingle, or even watch the rest of the concert.
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 20:49:00 GMT -5
"I'm sorry," Jory said. Rather than immediately following her, he gestured for a refill first. Apparently, being with Danica meant immediate service, so even with the delay it was only a minute or so. "I've got my parents and a little brother, I think I grew up lucky." He didn't like to think of it. If he'd had such a good upbringing, then why had things turned out so badly?
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