MBONE .. 002

[chemveil]

Since everyone won't shut up about the kissing booth and I want some amusement, who was everyone's first kiss? Spare no details about what a loser they were.

Oh, and if your first kiss is about to be at the kissing booth, I need to know for non-making-fun-of-you reasons.

DOM.
Ughhhh I'm apologizing to Adri, kill me now.

ADRI.
I would like to apologize for the other day, I was out of line.

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[reidings]

It was a cabin! A tent would’ve been nice too.

[jaxsons]

Sliding a hand along his sleeping bag...

[reidings]

Sounds like you have experience with this particular situation

[jaxsons]

Oh, I wasn't touching anybody at summer camp. Just felt like that'd be the right move in a tent, long as you weren't sharing with another person.

[reidings]

Well neither was I. I was a little too timid at the time. Plus sleeping bags are noisy.

[jaxsons]

And God forbid you hit the side of the noisier tent.

Timid you is a cute mental image. With the glasses and everything?

[reidings]

At that age? I didn’t want to attract any attention.

I am glad I grew out of it, it was cute as a kid but I think it’d be less cute now. My glasses have been with me since I was young, yes.

[jaxsons]

You might’ve anyway depending how adorable you were.

Hard to imagine you as too timid now, but I would've shoved friendship onto you even if you hadn't grown out of it.

[reidings]

I kept an album of photos my parents put together when they were still. I can show you sometime.

I think becoming friends with you would've pushed me out of it. But I’m glad you would’ve still befriended me, I don’t like thinking about a possibility where you hadn’t.

[jaxsons]

How have you not shown me in all these years? I need to stop talking about myself.

I'd hate that timeline. Whose glasses would I steal?

[reidings]

I like hearing you talk about yourself though. And the timing hasn’t been right to show you them.

I would hate it too. You’d have to find someone else’s glasses. I’m sure you would.

[jaxsons]

Well, now I wanna see sometime.

Adri wears them once in a while, but mostly for reading. When I reach for Dom's, he slaps my hand away. So basically I'd perish.

[reidings]

I’d love to show you. Just no making fun of how bad my ears were as a kid.

I can’t let you perish. So I think I have to stick around and make sure you have a consistent supply of my glasses to wear.

[jaxsons]

J, I would never.

You're too good to me.

[reidings]

You might tease me.

I think you deserve it, so.

[jaxsons]

Only because I think they're a charming part of you. I don't have any pictures of young me, but I can paint you mental pictures if you want.

I do deserve glasses that make my eyes hurt.

[reidings]

None? That’s disappointing. I guess a mental image is as good as I’ll get then.

Not what I meant and you know it.

[jaxsons]

I was a scrawny kid until I hit puberty, and then I mainly got taller. You remember that middle part hair of the 90s? Imagine that up until my early twenties.

Yeah, I know what you meant.

JAMESON.
— but our friends are gonna start asking questions if it's too obvious.

[reidings]

Of course I remember it. I’m sure it looked good on you.

JAMESON
I know. But sometimes I can’t help but flirt with you? I can try to reel it in.

[loculus]

It's almost as though I need them to see. Remember your manners, Jaxson.

[jaxsons]

I was raised in a cave with no manners to be seen.

[loculus]

What an uncharitable way to describe hollers.

[jaxsons]

I used to have manners, but they got washed away with the rain when I left Lexington.

[loculus]

Lexington! Then I take back the holler comment, city boy.

[jaxsons]

The only time I ever went down to the hollers was to shoot bottles. My dad used to get real mad at me for it.