[003] - Voice: Excuse Me.

[mysicksadlife]

[She's been putting this off. Actually, she's managed to put it off for a very long time now. But as slow as she may be, she knows when there's something she needs to say.]

Look, this probably isn't how you're supposed to do this sort of thing, but I'd rather get it out there up front and over with. I'm sorry for any... strange things I may have said or done while I wasn't quite feeling like myself.

That goes for Valentine's Day, and more recently. Though I have to admit recently wasn't that bad. In fact, if it was always like that here, I could probably get used to it. Eventually. Enough to hold my complaining down to a dull roar, anyway.

So I was wondering, too, about these filial spirits. If magic is really something here, it probably behooves me to try to see it at work. Anyone willing to volunteer to let me? I'm not saying I'm going to try it out myself, or anything like that. I just want to see it.

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[mysicksadlife]

I hate to say it, but the most we can do to keep his stress down is not to upset him ourselves.

[i.e. no more fun at his expense, no more tricking him, no more purposely pushing his buttons...]

[voice]

[cuteisawayoflife]

I guess...maybe from now on I should tell him about my dates in advance.

[voice]

[mysicksadlife]

Or at least only show him the presentable ones.

[voice]

[cuteisawayoflife]

No more guys with earrings or hair longer than mine.

[voice]

[mysicksadlife]

[Considering Trent...

Well, alright, he's a great guy but she's not sure Jake would have liked him dating a daughter anyway. Still...]

I think Dad can handle those if the guy knows how to treat you right.

[voice]

[cuteisawayoflife]

That'll be the day. Boys are so immature!

[voice] and now i dash for class T_T moar later!

[mysicksadlife]

And yet you seemed to enjoy them quite a bit back home.

Okay!

[cuteisawayoflife]

Well, they liked doing stuff for me, how could I not?

[mysicksadlife]

There's your first sign you found the right one: You don't want to use him like that.

[She's pretty sure he's going to be doomed to following Quinn's every whim anyway; but maybe by the time she grows up, she'll be nicer about it.]

[cuteisawayoflife]

You think so?

[mysicksadlife]

[She's screwed up a couple relationships, so she's not sure she's the best to be giving advice here, but she is sure on this particular point.]

Yeah. I don't know a lot about dating, but I know you're supposed to be able to like and respect each other.

[cuteisawayoflife]

I guess I'll have to take your word for it, then.

and class beckons again /waves! i've been loving all these though <3

[mysicksadlife]

Shouldn't you be the one saying these things? You have more experience.

ME TOO <3333

[cuteisawayoflife]

Well...you're the only one who's kept a boyfriend for more than two days. [much as she hates to admit she's been....wrong.]

[mysicksadlife]

[That hadn't exactly gone well in some ways...]

I'll tell you a secret if you promise not to share it. I'm pretty sure I messed up a few things with Tom, too.

[cuteisawayoflife]

Um...okay. Not sure who I'd tell, but...what happened?

[mysicksadlife]

I'm not comfortable with all the gory details, but we could start with all the mess with Jane it caused.

[cuteisawayoflife]

Oh yeah, I sort of remember that. At least that something was going on during the finals of the Blush-A-Thon.

[mysicksadlife]

The blush-a-thon?

... Nevermind. [She has a quick mental image of blushing girls, but she knows perfectly well Quinn means the makeup.]

[cuteisawayoflife]

Uh-huh. So anyway, something happened between you and Tom and Jane?

[mysicksadlife]

You didn't think I was going out with him while she was, did you?

[Daria has no grounds for her faint irritation. It had... definitely looked that way for awhile.]

[cuteisawayoflife]

No, not like that! Well...maybe? I dunno, it's a little confusing, I just remember Tom coming over to talk to you and then you came back in all freaked out.

[mysicksadlife]

[How did she ever end up having this conversation with Quinn of all people?

Right. Luceti. There's not exactly anyone else to talk about these things with. And as much as therapy was never her thing, she should probably... talk. Bad things happen when she only talks to herself.]

Jane said she didn't mind if I ended up going out with him, but she was pretty upset when we did. And I was sort of pissed off because she said it was fine.

[Quinn probably could have told her right away that of course it wasn't fine.]

[cuteisawayoflife]

Well, that was rude. She should've just said what she meant instead of giving you some stupid backhanded encouragement and being a jerk about it later! [Quinn doesn't know how THAT feels, not at all.]

[mysicksadlife]

I'm pretty sure I was a jerk, too. I wasn't thinking about the fact they'd been going out all that time, or how it looked, or what Jane must have been thinking.