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[willtolove]

[Will is trying on some winter jackets, looking clearly pissed off.]

So, question: There's a boy you like, but there's also a snobby exchange girl who likes him too, so you decide that the best way to settle things is a ski competition. Winner gets to sit with him.

And you don't know how to ski.

So, can I learn how to ski in just a couple of days, or do I have to figure out some way to cheat? 'Cause failure is NOT an option.

Comments

[twobloomsup]

Well, look at it like this. You still have some time, right?

[willtolove]

Yeah, but it's not enough! I've never been on a mountain before, and Sondra's from Switzerland, and she's probably skiied tons of mountains before and Matt's totally gonna like her better than me.

[Yes, this is all in one breath.]

I like the implications of Stanley giving relationship advice.

[twobloomsup]

[Stanley can't help but chuckle.]

Maybe Sondra's out of practice! Besides, it might come to a draw. That's better than losing, right?

[Oh dear.]

Re: I like the implications of Stanley giving relationship advice.

[willtolove]

Not when it comes to Matt.

[twobloomsup]

[Stanley scratches his chin.]

Then all I can say is to do your best to win. You'd better start practicing.

[willtolove]

But how do I get practice in without her seeing?

[twobloomsup]

[Pause.]

...don't tell her that you are going to practice? She doesn't ski all the time, does she?

[willtolove]

I don't know. All I can get out of her is how much better everything is in Switzerland and how backwards Heatherfield is.

[twobloomsup]

She's probably exaggerating!

[willtolove]

Hopefully.

[twobloomsup]

Try to practice! It'd be better than doing nothing.

[willtolove]

The problem with that is there's nowhere close enough for practice. Mt. Heatherfield is outside the city.

[twobloomsup]

[Isn't this a conundrum.]

Does it have to be a mountain?

[willtolove]

Pretty much.

[twobloomsup]

[Stanley rubs his chin.]

Then, I suppose you need to be very fast.

Or make your own mountain.

[It hasn't occurred to Stanley that he could help with either, and this mun would have him do so if not for the Veil. Oh well.]

[willtolove]

I guess I can ask Cornelia to use her powers to see if she can make, I don't know, a hill or something...

...Wait. Powers--that's it!

[twobloomsup]

Hee hee!

[Stanley is glad to have helped and is blissfully ignorant!]

[notmynature]

Why don'tcha just tell him and he can sit with you if he likes you?

[willtolove]

But then Sondra's going to make an excuse to sit by him to, and I want her to know no matter how pretty or foreign she is, she's not just pushing her way in and taking what she wants.

[Yeah, Reason and Will aren't exactly on speaking terms.]

[notmynature]

But...[Excuse Ellie as she's new to this.] If he's with you, it doesn't matter, right? If she can sit beside him and win, screw him.

[willtolove]

Yeah, but still...

[notmynature]

Just makes sense to me.

[willtolove]

Why do people have to make sense?

[sulksulk]

[notmynature]

If it doesn't make sense, it's usually a lot harder and it usually sucks.

[willtolove]

Yeah, like math.

[notmynature]

[Ellie snorts in laughter.] That's not what I meant but I usually hated math, too.

[willtolove]

Good. Because between my mom and one of my friends, I'm feeling like I'm the crazy one for hating it.

[notmynature]

Dude, anybody saying they like math is fucking with you.

[willtolove]

The most evil thing ever created, I swear.

[notmynature]

Nah, there's worse, like assholes guards who take your stuff and won't give it back.

[willtolove]

Oh yeah. At least they didn't throw you into a hole.

[notmynature]

No, they just had dreams about it.

Yours did?

[willtolove]

Well, they were bad guy guards. So yeah.

[notmynature]

Yeah, mine were more assholes than monsters. To us. They were kind of bad guys to other people.

[willtolove]

[pause as she thinks about it]

Yeah, we just have Caleb for that. Asshole half the time, but he knows how to use a sword, so we kind of need him.

[notmynature]

I have Joel and a gun, now. I can handle myself but a lot of people in the city couldn't.

Friend's do kinda rock.

[willtolove]

Well, that's good to know.

[notmynature]

Yeah. [She laughs at herself.] And rainbows and shit, huh?

[willtolove]

Pretty much.