texts } for charming and felicity

[graveflowers]

[Sometime between her night with Luthir and the funeral -- maybe she is still in bed, maybe she is at the church, maybe she is just sitting eating her cereal, who knows, use your imagination -- her two closest friends at the castle get the following, very different, text messages:]

text to charming

Is there a less high school word for boyfriend that isn't... manfriend?

text to felicity

ADFGHJKLLOJH. I caught my great white whale!!

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[uncease]

You holding up okay? Been worried about you.

[graveflowers]

I'm not that okay. But I am really good at distracting myself so I don't know if it hasn't hit yet or it hit already and I didn't notice or what. I'm kind of just waiting to crash.

[uncease]

Call me if you do? Unless your perfect elf has it under control. Then call me after.

[graveflowers]

[That is so sweet. And she is never going to do it because she doesn't ever want to worry her first friend. She already worries too many people.]

I will. So that necklace you gave me? I might have given it away. For Jade, so she would be buried with something that held happiness and love. I'm sorry, I should have asked first.

[uncease]

You don't have to apologize for that. That was really thoughtful of you to do for her.

[graveflowers]

It made me happy wearing it, I figured she deserved that too. We'll have to pick out a replacement when I come home.

[uncease]

You got it. It'll give me an excuse to get out of here for a bit anyway.

[graveflowers]

All cooped up? No adventures for Prince Charming?

[uncease]

It's not that. It's Amara.

[Amara, who he forgot he never mentioned. Whoops.]

[graveflowers]

You know that explains nothing, right? Nothing with a side of more questions. Who is Amara?

[uncease]

Sorry. Things have been crazy and I didn't know how to explain it. She was this sorceress we came across on the mission. Her people have this curse on them, and I guess it means she thinks she loves mes now.

[graveflowers]

So she... loves you because a curse made her? Wow.

[uncease]

I don't know what to do about it. I feel bad ignoring her. What if she remembers that once we fix it?

[Only Prince Charming focuses on manners at a time like this.]

[graveflowers]

No, don't ignore her, that would be cruel. Especially if she can't help herself, imagine how horrible she would feel. Just be you. You're kind of sweet and loveable without trying, sweetie. She couldn't have snagged anyone better.

[uncease]

But I don't love her.

[Remember how bad he is at lying? How can he fake the greatest human emotion???]

[graveflowers]

Oh honey. You don't have to. Put yourself in her shoes -- if you were hideously in love with someone and they didn't love you back, what would the second best thing be? Friendship. Unrequited love sucks, she needs a friend. And, talk to her. Ask her if that is okay with her, give her the choices that she had taken away from her.

[uncease]

I really don't want to hurt her. It's not her fault that this happened. She was cursed and can't control it. I just keep thinking about it and I just wish I could find something to break the curse.

[graveflowers]

You will. You are one of my best friends, okay, and I don't pick losers for besties. You'll figure it out, I know you will.

[uncease]

Thanks Vi :-) I'll let you know how it goes.

[Have you ever noticed that parent types are the only ones who put noses on their smilies? Shit is ingrained.]

[graveflowers]

Good. Anything else weird or distressing going down on the homefront? Give me castle gossip for distraction purposes, please. I feel like I've been gone forever.

[uncease]

It feels like you've been gone forever. [someone misses you gurl] Everything else is pretty much the same. I feel like the average squire age has dropped significantly lately. I'm starting to feel really old.

[graveflowers]

You're not even thirty, don't start that. Wynn is recruiting babies?

[uncease]

Babies I could handle. Teenagers are another story.

[graveflowers]

You might want to refrain from waxing poetic about babies when Amara is around. Just saying.

[uncease]

Cute