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[desmodusdraculae]

You've reached Kirk Langstrom. I'll call you back later.

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[desmodusdraculae]

For you, I might respond to demands.

At the Ren Faire. She mentioned you first.

[the_horror]

Daww, Kirk, that's incredibly sweet of you. I'll have to remember that for the future.

She did?
She mentioned me?
Did you know she's a mermaid?
It's kind of amazing
like on the level of you being batman sort of amazing

[desmodusdraculae]

You tell anyone and I'll deny it

She called you "cute" and "sweet" and a "nice guy" in a nonironic way, and I might have suggested you two should go on a lazer tag date

In not so many words; I'm not a total idiot

She kept smiling whenever she talked about you

Somehow the topic of her being a mermaid never came up

But now you've collected a vampire and a mermaid

Still waiting on Frankenstein's monster

[the_horror]

Too late. Told everyone.

[there is a delay as he reads all this, scarlet faced he stumbles with a reply about four of five times before settling on:]

Huh.

[eloquent. Right? He tries again, better this time]

I mean, okay I don't know what I mean but that's cool. Maybe I can bring up lazer tag and see how she feels about it. We actually just started self defense training for her. She's picking it up well.
and swimming on fridays...

[desmodusdraculae]

[It's a nice change of pace for someone else to be tongue-tied for once.]

It doesn't hurt to ask.

[Also, he has so many questions about the dead guy who didn't believe in protective clothing until a few months ago teaching the self-defense classes, but Kirk wisely keeps that to himself.]

Let me guess, in the pool she's the teacher? ;)

[the_horror]

[yes, but it's stupid to be tongue tied in TEXT. But he's just throwing words out as they come.]

It doesn't. Guess i will.

And yes, actually. She's teaching me to swim better. I've actually been doing pretty good, thanks for asking.

[desmodusdraculae]

Are you actually in the pool to learn how to swim, though?

[the_horror]

The OCEAN thank you very much.

[If there was more to that statement, Ben missed it.]

[desmodusdraculae]

Man, I thought that I was the dense one.

[the_horror]

[seen at 4:54]

[7 minutes later...]

Hey... it's just swimming. And some training. And talking. And... okay, maybe i'm being a bit dense.

[desmodusdraculae]

A bit?

[He had no idea how much fun it was to be on the other side of this.]

[the_horror]

[YOU HAVE HIM THINKING!]

[It's going to take him a moment. Thanks.]

She's just a good friend. I wouldn't want to ruin things.

[Which was the same logic he had about Kirk for a bit there. Don't ruin it.]

[desmodusdraculae]

She called you cute. To a stranger.

[That's not a friend thing.]

[the_horror]

Maybe she was just being nice.

Okay so.... sure. Okay.
christ...
How do you not ruin things?
I can't--
this is stupid, Kirk. I'm not
So... what then?
jesus I'm feeling the younger age today.
You think it's something more then a friend thing huh?