Who: Jacen Allen and Annie Tibbits What: AIM Convo of first steps When: Friday Night Rating: Oddly PG
SingAlongAnnie is Available Ever get that feeling someone is holding a gom jabbar to your neck waiting to see how much more pain you can take?
UsulMuadDib is Available I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. It is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
UsulMuadDib: Hey SingAlongAnnie: Hi UsulMuadDib: How are you? SingAlongAnnie:Ecstatic. It's just been a wonderful week. Bored. Oddly there is only so much reading a person can do before they remember they'll be out of summer reading material if they keep it up. UsulMuadDib: You finally know what a gom jabbar is then? SingAlongAnnie: Yes. Though that got started near the end of spring break. I was trying to have it finished by Prom. UsulMuadDib:Yours or mine? Sorry bad que Any close to finishing it up? SingAlongAnnie: Done. Kind of disappointed with the ending, but I know there's sequels. UsulMuadDib: Are you upset about Princess Irulan too? SingAlongAnnie: Wrong girl. UsulMuadDib: Alia then? I think it must be exceedingly difficult to be in her shoes. Or... stillsuit. SingAlongAnnie: Well I just meant that I'm not Emily here... Which is why I'm kind of glad you're not majorly creeped out right now. SingAlongAnnie: I liked Alia though. UsulMuadDib: Why would I be creeped out by you? UsulMuadDib: Alia gets scary later on. SingAlongAnnie: That I'm going to go get a dog and name it Chani and see how well it likes Princess Irulan. SingAlongAnnie: Dune Messiah is waiting until school is out though. UsulMuadDib: Only if it's a rottweiler. UsulMuadDib: That's probably a good idea. SingAlongAnnie: I don't think my cat would appreciate that. Rhyming not intended. UsulMuadDib: I always thought of Chani more as the daring type and Princess Irulan more of the sophisticated type. And then there's Jessica, which has just the right amount of charisma, spunk, intelligence and fearlessness. UsulMuadDib: How is your cat? And everyone at home? Is your brother going to kill me yet? SingAlongAnnie: And Leto, the egg. SingAlongAnnie: Everyone else is just fine though. UsulMuadDib: And there were two too UsulMuadDib: That's good UsulMuadDib: You hate me, don't you? SingAlongAnnie: Three I thought? SingAlongAnnie: And aren't we straight forward tonight? UsulMuadDib: I'm losing my memory. That's not a good sign. I can't figure out why. UsulMuadDib: A little I guess. UsulMuadDib: If it makes you feel better, I kind of hate myself. SingAlongAnnie: Duke Leto, Dead-baby Leto and the one who has yet to appear. SingAlongAnnie: Well you were the one who blew me off. If there's a Jewish evil eye, it's also on you so you might want to see a rabbi about that. UsulMuadDib: Oh, I meant the eggs. UsulMuadDib: There were only two of them, weren't there? UsulMuadDib: And yeah I know. She won't talk to me either. SingAlongAnnie: ... Three. Alfie ate her Friday morning and Calvin dropped the replacement. SingAlongAnnie: I figured. Didn't know for sure with no lunch here lately. UsulMuadDib: Oh right right. I guess the Jewish evil eye has it out for me then. UsulMuadDib: Yeah, about that..... I'd like to see you sometime if that's okay. Somehow apologizing over this thing doesn't feel like much of a punishment to me SingAlongAnnie: Might want to see about that before the frogs and locusts start showing up. UsulMuadDib: Though I'd really hate for Mrs. B's sinks to get clogged up with blood. SingAlongAnnie: Yeah... I'm working tomorrow afternoon though, so you'd have to come before or after or risk Katie listening in on everything. Possibly Calvin too. UsulMuadDib: Or maybe after you get out? SingAlongAnnie: I can do that. Nothing else planned. UsulMuadDib: And perhaps we can talk about lifting the Jewish curse? Or coming to the Baileys for Easter? Danielle asked me to invite you. SingAlongAnnie: I'll talk to Penny. See if she won't do it as an act of Good Friday Faith. SingAlongAnnie: I'll have to see what Mom has planned. UsulMuadDib: Thanks. UsulMuadDib: Does she know? Your mom? I swear she's been looking at me weird during class. SingAlongAnnie: Should I bring shampoo? For you that is. SingAlongAnnie: Not as far as I know really. SingAlongAnnie: Well... Other than the chocolate cake got auctioned off to everyone else. UsulMuadDib: I bought shampoo. UsulMuadDib:I'm an idiot. I'm sorry. SingAlongAnnie: Well hopefully you won't look like... I don't even know what to call that. SingAlongAnnie: I am too. UsulMuadDib: That wasn't my fault though. UsulMuadDib: You don't have to be. You auctioned off cake because of me. SingAlongAnnie: Well Mia's? Really? Ben doesn't have shampoo? SingAlongAnnie: It seemed better than tossing it in the garbage. UsulMuadDib: Yeah Ben has shampoo, but I was in the shower and it was the first one I picked up. Plus I think Ben showers in the other bathroom. Anyway, do you think I wanted my hair to look like that? SingAlongAnnie: After the week we were already having..? UsulMuadDib: You honestly think I purposely made my hair look like that? SingAlongAnnie: Possibly? UsulMuadDib: What? Seriously? SingAlongAnnie: I think it is possible that you might have been mad enough at me to use shampoo that did that to you to see if it would make me jealous. SingAlongAnnie: It's been a sucky fortnight all around though. And I'm tired. And still not happy over Mia Bailey having her hands all over you, but Penny's already talked me down from the idea that you'd actually do something. UsulMuadDib: You have to be kidding. I can't even follow that kind of logic. I hate going out in PUBLIC, let alone feeling like I have a raccoon nesting on my head. And I don't know what you may think, but I don't play games like that, Annie. UsulMuadDib: Mia is my friend and that's it. She was never all over me, save for that one time that she got scared by a spider in the hallway. Regardless, I would never do anything like that to you. I would rather break up with you first than go behind your back and mess around with another girl. I am NOT like that. UsulMuadDib: And frankly, I'm upset you would think that of me seeing as how I don't think I've ever given you reason to believe I'm like that. You nor Penny. SingAlongAnnie: I told you Penny was the one who talked me out of it and told me I was being crazy and needed to stop letting the excessive hormones get to me. But you have no idea how it looks when you have super-skinny gorgeous Mia Bailey in her short skirted cheerleading outfit clinging onto your boyfriend like her life depended on it. SingAlongAnnie: I'm jealous, OKAY? Someone else might have figured out that you're rather fabulous even though you don't always see it yourself... And I admit I kind of miss being the one you meet up with on your birthday because you feel like someone finally gets you. It was this nice little exclusive club, and I'm glad to see you getting some normalcy in your life and I need to get past my own insecurities, but in the meantime I'm going to have my flairs of jealousy. SingAlongAnnie: And I'm also tired so feel free to tell me to just shut up. UsulMuadDib: I'm not going to tell you to shut up. UsulMuadDib: I am going to say this though, and you can choose to believe me or not. UsulMuadDib: I am not cheating on you, nor will I ever cheat on you with anyone. Sure, Mia's my friend, and I happen to live at her house, but that's it. I don't tell her what I tell you. I don't tell anyone what I tell you. UsulMuadDib: You don't have to be jealous of anyone. Not now, not ever. Especially not when it comes to me. SingAlongAnnie:I'd probably tell me to shut up actually...Likely mostly when it comes to you. I've lived with the former goddess for 17 years. There's been and will likely continue to be jealousy there. UsulMuadDib: What do you want me to do, Annie? SingAlongAnnie: Nothing there. I'm just saying in general. UsulMuadDib: Well I guess I can't help whether you choose to trust me or not. SingAlongAnnie: I trust you. I just don't trust her. Or Lexie. UsulMuadDib: You don't have to convince me. SingAlongAnnie: Just felt like I did. UsulMuadDib: You said you were tired. Maybe you should get some rest. SingAlongAnnie: Probably. I haven't been sleeping well. Can't be sleeping at work or I'll never make "youngest manager of Frou Frou". UsulMuadDib: Yeah. Good luck with that. UsulMuadDib: I'll see you tomorrow SingAlongAnnie: Okay. Don't stay up too late yourself. UsulMuadDib: I'll do my best. Not that it'll work SingAlongAnnie: Good. Sleep tight. UsulMuadDib: You too. Night. SingAlongAnnie: Good night. I lov