haganenomore

Ed's currently perched on a barstool, not wanting the comfort of one of the armchairs scattered about the Nexus. For awhile, he's perfectly content to watch people pass by as he mulls over what he wants to ask and how to word it. Eventually, he gives up on trying to word things delicately and decides to go with blunt.

"Okay. Suppose you and a friend had apparently been flirting with each other without even knowing you were doing it until someone else points it out. Possibly embarrassing yes, but not a problem, right? Wrong. Because said friend is already involved with someone else. That someone happening to be an alt." He sighs. "There's also the problem that we're probably better friends than we should be, and I, at least, have been trying to put a little distance back into things. Not terribly much--just enough to try to get things back to the proper levels or something."

Now he rubs at the back of his neck. "It doesn't help that we've already found out relatively soon after we first met that we were interested in each other in the 'more than friends' sense although a certain amount of that could have been brought on by personal stuff we've both been going through at the time that I don't feel like going into. Anyway, she recently realized that she's still interested in me. And before someone suggests the polygamy thing, the alt and I don't like each other and would probably spend entirely too much time sniping at each other or getting into outright fights if we had to live in the same apartment together."

Now he smiles weakly. "I guess my question is: thoughts on this?"

haganenomore

"Am I the only one who thinks this is a particularly sucky time of year to deliberately LOL people?" A freshly two-inch tall Ed sits sulkily on a chair arm, where he climbed to avoid being stepped or sat on.

"For those who don't care about the previous question, I guess I should ask something else. Um, what do you like about winter?"

((It's three in the morning. Will respond to tags after I sleep. Back.))