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	INSIDE THE BUILDING goosemods 2016-11-11 11:14 am UTC (link)
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	Cameron, seeking smooches. gonnabefamous 2016-11-11 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	After the official bottle games have dissolved, Cameron wanders inside to seek new partners. Anyone up for ~round two~, or anyone he hasn't smooched want to give it a try? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Cameron, seeking smooches. caritasmitis 2016-11-12 06:36 am UTC (link)
	I can volunteer Joanna if you want even more OMG WHY ARE HEATHER'S FEMALE CHARACTERS SO SHORT lols XD (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Cameron, seeking smooches. gonnabefamous 2016-11-12 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	Cameron is up for smooching Joanna! He's probably just carrying around the box with him for short ladies at this point, haha. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Cameron, seeking smooches. fillefidele 2016-11-13 04:38 am UTC (link)
	Lbr Joanna probably just told him to sit the fuck down, lol 😆 (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Cameron, Joanna gonnabefamous 2016-11-13 07:51 pm UTC (link)
	He will accept that! XD Look, as long as someone is making out with him, he's flexible. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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	gonnabefamous 2016-11-13 08:39 pm UTC (link)
	Hello~~~~ Etta! Cue tossing the box over his shoulder. Etta is one of the best kissers around and his knees don't hurt from kneeling afterwards! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	unregrettable 2016-11-13 03:37 am UTC (link)
	Etta is always up for smooches! And she's tall enough that no step stools will be needed~ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gonnabefamous 2016-11-13 09:05 pm UTC (link)
	Hello~~~~ Etta! Cue tossing the box over his shoulder. Etta is one of the best kissers around and his knees don't hurt from kneeling afterwards! (Reply to this) (Parent)

Chris and Cecil, before his adventure in the woods doyouevenlift 2016-11-12 12:06 am UTC (link)

Chris isn't sure how late it is, but he does know that he's had plenty of time to poison himself with alcohol and he has failed. Mostly because he's totally forgotten his objective here. He'ss just lying around inside the building, relaxing for the moment, just enjoying this nice blanket of calm. He doesn't notice Cecil approaching until Cecil is nearly right in front of him. Chris hastily sits up, and proceeds to hastily - and clumsily, cartoonishly - search for that bottle of water he'd been given at some point. Apparently he'd also lost it at some point, because it is literally nowhere to be found. He decides to abandon the search when he nearly topples over, which also looks a little cartoonish, given that he's still sitting down. Gravity should be on his side, that devious little bastard. "Heeeey Sicily, fancy meeting you here," he greets, as if he hadn't just devoted a solid minute to searching for something that is definitely not here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

choneychurch 2016-11-12 12:56 am UTC (link)

In need of a little quiet and a little warmth, Cecil had decided to go inside for a while. Once there, though, he notices the immensely drunk Chris almost immediately and decides to check on him. He doesn't hesitate and heads over to him, watching with patience as the Coppertale notices him, flails around (looking for something?), and eventually greets him. "Hey Chris," he returns evenly, not reacting to how blatantly intoxicated the other boy is and sitting beside him with his back against the wall. This way, at least, if Chris starts to topple again, he'll have something to lean on. Then he smiles, not yet concerned enough to make it look too fake. After all, there's a lot drinking going on tonight. "Well. It's a small Grotto. How's it going?" Without missing a beat, he also pulls a small 8 oz bottle of water from his coat pocket and offers it to Chris. It's not Chris' bottle of water, of course, but it's a bottle of water just the same. And the boy looks like he could use it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

doyouevenlift 2016-11-12 01:05 am UTC (link)

Chris smiles at Cecil. Cecil's a good guy - he's so calm and shit. It's almost soothing. Chris gasps when Cecil pulls the water bottle out of his coat. "What?" He exclaims, reaching for it. "How did it get there? I swear I put it right beside me - you're like a fucking wizard!" Chris is not too drunk that he does not notice the hilarious joke he just made. It's okay Cecil - Chris is gonna laugh at it enough for the both of you. He opens the bottle, takes a healthy long drink before recapping it and laying back down. He props his head up on Cecil's lap because is that not why Cecil chose to sit here? So Chris could have a convenient pillow? "It's going great," he tells Cecil, clasping his fingers over his chest. "How's it going for you? You enjoying yourself? You're kinda sober, and outside of all of -" he waved his hand vaguely, "-this. You probably got a lotta pressures going on - how do you manage that without turning to alcohol?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

stop being so cute chris ♥ (but don't) choneychurch 2016-11-12 03:59 am UTC (link)

Apparently...water is what Chris had been looking for. Cecil laughs softly despite himself at the boy's excitement and confusion and unintentional joke, but is quietly relieved to see him accept the bottle and take a drink. He blinks when the Coppertale puts his head in his lap, but doesn't jolt or move away or do anything else that might show his surprise. If he needs a pillow for a bit, Cecil can be a pillow. "Good. I'm glad," he answers honestly, continuing the conversation instead of acknowledging the unexpected position he's found himself in, "And it's...going great for me too." Automatically, he thinks of Levi and everything that's gone on this evening and blushes. But that's not anything Chris needs to hear about. Or anyone, really. The question, though, that gives him some pause. "Everyone's got pressures to deal with," he says finally and shrugs, "I don't know. I stay busy so I can feel like I'm doing something. I try to keep everything in perspective and focus on the people and the things that matter to me instead of the other stuff." Then he laughs, softly and briefly and sheepishly. "And I rely on my friends. Maybe more than I should." He pauses, frowning as he dwells on the implications and what the question seems to imply about Chris' drinking habits and coping mechanisms alike. Then he brushes the boy's hair back gently like he might do when comforting one of his younger sisters. "Things have...been hard lately, right? I'm sorry." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Cecil is a way better therapist than Rosy, don't tell Rosy (this comment is so long idk) doyouevenlift 2016-11-12 04:58 am UTC (link)

Chris is completely oblivious of the unexpected position, and also Cecil's blushing, even though Chris is peering up at Cecil while Cecil speaks. Chris has a half response formed when Cecil starts brushing his hair back. Which doesn't happen a great deal on account of him being seventeen, and also crabby. Chris smiles and closes his eyes and makes a contented sound. "s'not your fault," he says. "Just a bad year. Probably should've seen it coming, since last year was a good year. Usually how things work." They're three months into the school year; he hadn't expected things to go to shit so fast, but what could you do? "Oh, you mean because you're falling in love with Levi and he's falling in love with you, and that complicates things for me, right? It's fine," he repeats, and he kind of even sounds like he means it. Chris is the opposite kind of drunk than Diego is. Emotions and feelings and all that inconvenient crap tends to be a lot farther away when he got drunk. "I don't think it's the love thing that bothers me, because I don't really look for that, right? It feels weird to me. I don't trust that shit. I think I'm just lonely. I guess I didn't realize how much time I spent with Levi before I stopped spending time with him," he elaborates. "Guess I didn't expect everything to change so fast. Didn't really expect to care, but I fucked around and got attached." Chris opened his eyes to peer up at Cecil. He had the openness of detached inebriation. "But you don't have to be sorry, you didn't do anything. You're just over here, being calm and emoting and shit. You're doing fine. You look like a real adult, it's kinda weird. But you're a way better therapist than my therapist. Though she kisses pretty good for a virgin. Her lips are soft," he said emphatically, like that was his sincerest attempt to reassure Cecil that he was doing fine. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

choneychurch 2016-11-19 02:09 am UTC (link)

Because the contact seems to do Chris some good, Cecil keeps stroking his hair gently while they talk. Everyone needs a little comfort sometimes, even if he's an odd choice to be giving it. All things considered. He's about to answer when the casual assertion that he and Levi are falling in love silences him, making his cheeks burn and prompting his dark eyes to turn momentarily away. It is true, though. At least...on his side, it is. He takes a breath, then looks back at Chris. "Yeah. I guess that's what I mean. Neither of us meant to hurt you, but we did. And even if there's no one at fault, I am sorry it happened." He shakes his head slowly. "But it won't be a bad year. Change is hard, but things'll get better again, even if they're different from before. And Levi will always be your friend. Because he cares about you too. It's not bad to care or to get attached, even if it hurts sometimes." His hand stills against the smaller boy's hair and he adds after a moment, "And I don't know whether you believe that or not, but I trust love and I know you'll find someone that'll help you trust it too. Even if you aren't looking for it." He smiles sheepishly, knowing how this sounds, and adds in a gently teasing voice, "Feel free to roll your eyes any time, here, but I do mean that." He doesn't ask who Chris' "therapist" is; if the boy wanted him to know he would've said her name. Instead of pressing, he smiles softly again, "And. I'm not a therapist. But if you ever need to talk, even when you're sober, I'm here to help, you know? As your friend, if you want. Or just as the Head Boy." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

doyouevenlift 2016-11-19 02:54 am UTC (link)

There Cecil goes again, sounding like a calm, rational person. Chris doesn't roll his eyes. He's watching Cecil speak very seriously, and he feels distantly that maybe he finally gets what Levi probably always got about Cecil. To him, Levi's crush on Cecil was as real as Levi's crush on Reid. It felt like a hobby to him before. But now he's starting realize that maybe Cecil's an actual person, with actual opinions and perceptions, and maybe Levi had always noticed that - living with him and all. "It's okay, I didn't mean for you to hurt me either," Chris acknowledges, as if he'd had completely control over any of that. He usually does. He closes his eyes again. "Go back to petting my hair," he adds, because at some point, Cecil had paused, and Chris had noticed, and Chris has opinions on that. "I'm gonna be honest with you. I feel you, and I appreciate that you're so understanding and you listen and shit - that's real nice, you don't have to do that, but you're a good person, so you do it anyway. But there's probably no way in hell sober me is gonna take advantage of that because like right now I get that you're an awesome dude, but sober me's not really sure how I feel about you because he gets that you're an awesome dude too and it makes him uncomfortable. Not that you're like competition or anything, I already told you I don't view it like that right? This romance shit isn't a competition, either you have someone or you don't, and you can't steal someone that doesn't already belong to you - that's what my mom told me when she found out her husband cheated on her - it's not stealing when he makes a conscious decision to leave you - not that this is cheating, it's not, but it's similar guidelines, ya'know? A conscious decision was made, and I make peace with that. Sober me does too. But sober me's not a real fan of heart to hearts anyway - that talk I had with Levi a couple weeks ago was bad enough, because we were both sober and there were too many emotions, not enough alcohol. It was bad. Just between you and me, there were tears." Chris is rambling just a little bit, and he's fully aware that he's rambling just a little bit, but he wants to make this very clear that he doesn't view this as a competition, he's not over here pining away for Levi while cursing Cecil for fucking everything up. That's not how any of this has ever worked. "Anyway. back to what I was getting at," he continues as if something aside from his own confession has derailed his original point. From the lack of concern on his face, it's very obvious that he probably hasn't yet realized that he's just admitted to Cecil that he'd cried during that talk. "You're an awesome friend. And if you ever need to talk, I can do that for you too. Even sober. I probably won't admit it because I have an act to keep up. But I can help too. In case you wanna talk about something you don't wanna talk about with Levi or Diego. I don't know if you get like that, but I get like that. Sometimes it's just easier to talk about stuff with people you don't live with, ya know?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

choneychurch 2016-11-19 03:51 am UTC (link)

Cecil doesn't argue or even acknowledge the request, but he does resume brushing back Chris' hair as he listens. He feels his chest tighten with sympathy as the other boy says far more than he'd ever expected to hear; about how he sees himself, about the situation the three of them had become tangled up in, about his family, and about that awful conversation that he'd had with Levi after...everything. He hates to think of Chris crying. "Yeah," he reassures him quietly, focusing on the point that the Coppertale seems to need him to understand, "You told me that. And you're right. It's not a competition; it doesn't work like that. And...I'm glad we're all right." What comes next renders him momentarily silent; the words are almost overwhelmingly kind, especially given the source. This time, though, his fingers keep up the steady, soothing stroking of Chris' hair and the pause doesn't stretch on quiet as long before he smiles a softly down at him. "Sometimes I get like that too. And...thank you, Chris. Really. That means a lot to me." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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