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[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

[Locked from anyone in Angel Investigations]

So there's awkward moments, and then there's... awkward moments.

Have any of you ever lived in the same city as an ex? Like not just an ex ex, but like a really... serious sort of ex, with the heartbreak and the horrible crushing sense of starcrossed-ed-ness, and the Hell dimensions and...

Ok, not necessarily the Hell dimensions part.



But how do you deal with it? How do you deal with going to the store and just running into them in the middle of the street? I mean you can't just pretend you don't see them and keep walking, and then when you don't, it quickly turns into awkward small talk and fake smiles and not knowing what to do with your hands, and looking for excuses to leave without ever really wanting to leave....


And then what if they do leave? All... abrupt... y.  And not like they were just uncomfortable too, because that would make sense, but like something was honestly off.  

I guess asking for a normal old Yuletide is packing the wish list a little too tight, huh?

Should've stuck with asking for a pony.

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[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

Leave.

Or kill them. Depending on what my mood is.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

[She stares at this answer in horror for a moment, but... suppresses her judgement because, really, who the hell is she to talk]

Yeah, I'm ruling out option two here.




Sort of been there, done that.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

Option two never works, anyway. I killed her and here she was on the network a few months later. Nothing lasts forever, I guess.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

[Funny, that's what happened to Buffy too...]

Which leaves... leaving. Which I can't do either.


Trust me, tried that one too.

1/2

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

Leaving doesn't work either, in the long run. At least not for me. There's always something pulling me back again. I guess that means there is no solution. You just have to keep trying one or the other until something sticks.

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[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

Try sharing a community like this with a man who self-immolated at your suggestion. 'Awkward' does not even begin to cover it.

The best thing to do seems to be avoidance and repression, but I'll admit it hasn't worked to well for me.

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[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Uh, wow. How exactly is he able to use the internet if that's the case?

[Locked]

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

The man that connects to this place is from a hundred years before his suicide.

[Locked]

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's... nice. Way to go, community.

Pretty sure it does these things on purpose to mock us.

[darklycharming.livejournal.com]

My 'ex', as you call it, is around this community - however, he's 90 years into my future.

But yours sounds like a different sort of issue.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Not so much a time travel problem as a ... proximity problem, yeah.

[darklycharming.livejournal.com]

There are spells to make you forget, if you want that.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

That seems a little with the extreme.

[rudolphofvamps.livejournal.com]

There is no dealing with it. Love like that boils your insides, and there's nothing to do but feel it.

Not sure I want to see a Hellpony, luv. Maybe you ought to stick to your first wish, even if it is a tall order.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

[Ew, another speech from Spike on love. NOT WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED. Oh so flatly:] Yeah, yeah, love is blood screaming inside you to do its thing, I remember the monologue.

... And why would it have to be a Hellpony? What's wrong with a non-demon pony?

[rudolphofvamps.livejournal.com]

[s-so oblivious to Buffy's linefais.] Oh, I already said that? Pretty brilliant speech if I do say so myself. Glad some of it stuck.

You're on a Hellmouth. How couldn't it be a Hellpony.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Like a bad disco tune.

Hey, we have things that are not ... so... evil, too. There are puppies.

[pinball-baby.livejournal.com]

Try still going to the same school as your ex.

Are you guys still friends? Or was it not one of those break ups? 'cause maybe you should talk to him, if you think something's off.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

At least he's well past school age... [very very well past]



It's erm, it's a little weirder than that. The reasons we couldn't be together were kind of um, unique.

[pinball-baby.livejournal.com]

Well past?

Unique how?

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Erm [weakly] he's in... college...





I'm not sure exactly how much you've heard about me on here, Finn. [Her and Faith don't exactly keep the vampire slaying on a low profile on the network.]

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[fearsomeinpink.livejournal.com]

Smalltalk is the worst with an ex, totally. I haven't had an ex like that in a long time but when I did I always made sure I had my friends with me so that I could make up an excuse about leaving! Or I'd say I was busy and on my way somewhere. It works really well.

Then again, some guys you can just uninvite from your home and never worry about them again...

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't really plan to run into him, so it wasn't like I had a chance to call up some back-up. Um.

And I know I probably should've said that, but then it gets hard to remember why I want to send him away. Aside from the awkwardness.

[fearsomeinpink.livejournal.com]

Yeah, good point. That was more like a preemptive measure in case he did show up, anyway.

Ohhh, he's one of those exes. Ouch. )-:

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

He sort of defines 'that' ex. Except for the... bizarre parts that hopefully aren't in anyone else's definitions...