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_touchless_ (_touchless_) wrote in tensor,
@ 2011-02-15 17:26:00

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kevin_ford, santo_vacarro

Santo (backdated to Saturday early AM in their room)
Kevin was lying there in the first faint light of a wintery dawn, eyes still shut and grinning like an idiot as he tried to process the fact that he wasn't just back in the same time zone with Josh, he was in the same damn building. And, oh yeah, they'd spent the entire afternoon and evening and part of the night together yesterday and they'd probably be able to spend pretty much the whole damned day together today.

As soon as he managed to not be an asshole to his roommate. Who he'd definitely been a total asshole to yesterday. Which was kind of not okay, and he definitely felt bad for, given he'd pretty much run in, dropped his stuff on what he'd assumed was his bed, said 'hi' and 'bye' almost in one breath and bolted back out the door to find Josh. He'd talked with the guy a little bit - and rock dude, how seriously cool was that? - when he'd come back in, significantly after curfew and lucky not to have been caught, but he'd been giddy and wiped and had crashed pretty quick. So now it was probably well past time to try to convince the guy he wasn't a complete douche.

Really.

As soon as he stopped lying there grinning like a loon. Yep. He totally had this whole not being an asshole thing covered. He kicked off his sheets and rolled out of bed, tugging his gloves and sleeves back into place out of habit as he did so.

"So. Hey." He smiled a bit sheepishly and waved at the guy. "I promise I'm not usually a total douche?"

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	rockem_sockem 2011-02-20 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	Santo nodded. He'd figured it was something important and, well, a boyfriend you hadn't seen in ages? That sounded important. Not that he'd know personally. "It's cool," he assured Kevin. "So he's around here?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-20 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, he's across the hall and down at the end. Josh Foley?" he added, aware that he was still grinning like an idiot but not really able to stop. Because he'd honest to god just told someone Josh lived down the hall. "He's a healer." Which was probably unnecessary information, given the guys had lived down the hall from each other probably all year so far. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 04:28 am UTC (link)
	"Oh yeah! I know him. We had US History together last semester. He's cool." Santo nodded and sat back. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 04:35 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, he is." And time to move on, because obsessing was an annoying pain in the ass...as he'd been told many times by many people the last few years. "So-" He looked around for something to talk about other than his boyfriend, and grinned as he caught sight of all the rocks. "You collect rocks?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 04:42 am UTC (link)
	Santo looked over at his collection and nodded. "Yup. Seemed, you know, like an idea. They've got names." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 04:51 am UTC (link)
	"Seriously? That's kind of awesome." He hopped up off the edge of his bed and headed over. "Mind if I look?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 04:53 am UTC (link)
	"Go for it. They're all solid rock. Nick there is a piece of petrified wood, but that's still rock." Santo got up and looked though the collection. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 04:59 am UTC (link)
	Kevin laughed and reached out to carefully pick up 'Nick' for closer inspection. "My folks keep talking about going to the Grand Canyon and hitting the painted desert and petrified forest while we're at it, but there never ends up being time." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 05:13 am UTC (link)
	"Oh man, that would be so cool. You should totally try to do it." Santo picked up a piece of quartz, then put it down again. "Maybe I should make them nametags. What do you think?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_touchless_
2011-02-21 05:21 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, it really would. If I'd still been in SF at the end of the year they were going to drive out to get me after graduation and then take the scenic route home. Guess that's not on the agenda now, though." He shrugged and put the petrified wood back.

"Oh man, you could make them stands or something, with the names on them?" He sort of hand an idea for one for the quarts Santo had just been handling.

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	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 06:08 am UTC (link)
	"Ooh, yeah. That would be cool. Then people would see them and ask why they have names and I could say they're my pets," Santo said, nudging a few of them around a bit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 06:34 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, speaking of pets." Kevin turned away from the shelf of rocks. "You don't have a problem with snakes, do you?" Midas was supposed to show up on Monday, and it would kind of suck if Santo was creeped out by snakes...which Kevin wouldn't rule out as a possibility, even if the dude was made of rock. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rockem_sockem
2011-02-21 06:41 am UTC (link)

"Nah, I'm cool with snakes. Way I figure it, they can't hurt me and I probably make a good heat source once I'm warmed up, right?" And no way was he admitting that he'd had a thing about snakes when he was a kid. It was all well in the past. Yup.

"It's staying in a tank, right? Cause, you know, if it slithered into my bed I might have words, but in a tank, I'm cool."

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	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 06:43 am UTC (link)
	"No. I mean, yeah, he totally lives in a tank. I get him out sometimes, but he's never escaped from it. He's nice and slow, y'know? Don't have to worry about him jumping at me and getting ashed." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 07:03 am UTC (link)
	"Well that's good to know. I'm fine with a snake then. If you had a rat we'd have to talk. Hate those damn things," Santo muttered. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 07:08 am UTC (link)
	Kevin laughed. "Aw, I kind of like them, but-" He shrugged again. "Really not a good pet choice with my powers. I used to have a turtle but he got too big for his aquarium, so he lives in my folks' yard now and Midas got the tank." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 07:11 am UTC (link)
	"I'm totally down with turtles too," Santo told him. "They're tough. I like that in a reptile." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 07:43 am UTC (link)
	"Oh yeah, turtles are totally badass," Kevin agreed. "And slow. Slow is very important." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	"You know those huge tortoises? I heard they can live for like, a hundred years or something. Isn't that cool? Maybe it's cause they're so slow. Taking their time, relaxing. That's the way to live!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	"I dunno, man. Seems like just creeping around eating lettuce would get awfully boring pretty quick," Kevin pointed out. Not that he wouldn't love to be able to eat lettuce, but that was beside the point. "Not sure if I'd really want a hundred years or more of that." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	"I think it'd be relaxing," Santo said. "But then, I'm made of rock, so maybe I move a bit slower in general." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	"So maybe we need to get you a really big heat lamp and just set you up in here?" Kevin suggested, smile widening to a grin again. "You and Midas can toast and bond." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	"That would be awesome. You know, it's weird. I can tell when stuff is warm and cold and the cold doesn't really bug me, but oh man, I like being warm." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	Kevin considered that for a moment, head cocked slightly to one side. "So...do you feel other things, then? Like, just touching things? Or, y'know, tell me if it's none of my business," he added quickly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	"Sort of," Santo said, running his hand over the edge of his bookshelf. "I feel like, pressure. Some things I get, some things I don't. But like, if I bump into someone, I know it even if they move away. And my mom always gives me the biggest hug when I go home and I definitely feel that. So, that's cool." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)