text ♔ to alex

[bittersweeter]

[ a couple of weeks after alex's birthday, after sending her apology card, lila texts alex like thirty pictures from their aquarium adventure and SHARKS and also, ]

I was an asshole. You were saying no and it made me feel bad so idk I wanted to make you feel bad too and I was a bitch. It was a genuinely mean thing to do. I'm sorry.

[ and then she jams her phone in the couch and climbs into the shower so she doesn't have to dwell on whether or not he answers. a+ coping. ]

Comments

[ambitionist]

[he barks a laugh at that.] Yeah, or rip out his Cruella Deville bleach strip.

[bittersweeter]

I don't get it! It's not even cute!

[ambitionist]

Eh, kids today. [<- so fuckin old lmao. ignores that it was a few years ago. gunnar's only like what 25 or something today; he was a baby when it aired ok.]

[bittersweeter]

Oh yeah, I forgot that you're so old and worldy.

[ambitionist]

I did just have a birthday.

[bittersweeter]

Oh yeah, thirty is just ancient.

[ambitionist]

Thirty-two, but thanks.

[bittersweeter]

Whatever, I was rounding down. Still not that old.

[ambitionist]

You're just saying that because you're not old yet.

[bittersweeter]

My fiance is and you both still kind of act like you're my age.

[ambitionist]

That's because boys mature slower. I mean ... case in point, look at Gunnar.

[bittersweeter]

I'm pretty sure boys never mature, actually.

[ambitionist]

I'm definitely more mature than I was at your age. Which isn't to say that I'm mature now, but.

[bittersweeter]

That's a terrifying picture of twenty year old you.

[ambitionist]

I was an angry little sociopath.

[bittersweeter]

Mmm, gimme all the sordid details.

[ambitionist]

I dunno if you could handle them ... there's a lot of torture and shit.

[bittersweeter]

Ooh, no, do tell.

[ambitionist]

That's what I was good at in the mob, when I was coming up. Eventually I made it to middle management, so I didn't have to do it so much, but ... yeah, when I was around your age, that's when I was a torture Picasso. Most of the guys would just break bones. That shit's boring to me.

[bittersweeter]

Torture Picasso. [ she sighs happily, tucking her head against his shoulder. ] That sounds beautiful.

[ambitionist]

Yeah. Ran me ragged, but it was a good time.

[bittersweeter]

[ she pats his arm fondly. ] I'm glad you're less torture-y now.

[ambitionist]

Yeah, me too. I did blow out a guy's eardrums in Russia, though. Poor schmuck.

[bittersweeter]

Aww, that sounds painful. [ also awesome, just saying. her words say painful, her tone says awesome. ]

[ambitionist]

It was incredibly painful from the way he was carrying on. But, I mean, he could've had it worse. The ones that don't scream because there's too much pain to do anything are usually worse off than the ones who do.