punchtheflowers | 4th bloom

4th bloom

[Vinnie had been spending a lot of time on his own outside, watching the flower buds peek through the snow. Had he been actively avoiding certain people? Hell yes. But he was privately trying to console himself with the slow return of spring.

It was getting warmer. Greener. All his hopes for the future lay in the coming month.

All are welcome to bug him as he mopes in the melting snow.]

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I wanna get back into training again. At least doing something. I'm sick of waiting around and feeling like this. I've been getting into fights anyway, so... I should've told you about those.

I know I've been pulling stupid shit lately. You can lay it on me for that.

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...Sorry for being such an asshole.

There's a girl that likes me. I don't know what the fuck t'do.

So if you guys have any ideas on how I should stop fucking up my life, I'm all ears.

By the way, Smoe: those nose things work really well. Thanks.

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Sure enough. Can't fly all that well in the snow anyway.

[He sat down next to him, conveniently next to one of the few tulips that happened to be growing lately. He didn't pick it, but he did poke at it.]

Besides... the heat's kinda more my thing. I ain't good with cold.

[He glanced over at Vinnie, looking for any more traces of disappointment. He really didn't seem all that happy. How to go about it? Should he just directly question it?]

Doesn't look like you are either. [Well, that was a very roundabout way to start.]

[Vinnie shrugged in response. This guy had the decency not to pluck the flower out of the ground, which he appreciated. A roundabout statement got a roundabout answer.]

I'm pretty used t'snow. At least, about as used t'snow as a Grass Type can be. [Damned Type weaknesses.] S'just been a pretty shitty winter.

[So something was up. Dang, he was getting a little better at reading emotions now. ~~Though he was still kind of bad at reading or displaying his own.~~ This was a start. Goose questioned that further.

He had no idea that this was the guy who broke Dana's heart.]

Eh? Why's that?

[~~HA HA YEAH THIS IS THE GUY WHO BROKE DANA'S HEART don't hurt me~~

Vinnie debated on how much this guy really needed to know about his personal life.]

Valentine's... stirred up a whole lot of shit I don't need. Not really sure what t'do with myself right now, cuz it's all gone too screwed up for me to fix without pissing someone off.

Cupid bots?

[Goose was quick to assume that. That seemed to mess up a lot of peoples' Valentine's Days, and after being here for about three years, he definitely knew what this was by now.]

[Great, so the phenomenon had name. He was definitely going to skip town next year then.] ...S'that what it was?

Yeah, it was a can a'worms. Wasn't until after that it went t'hell though.

I really hurt a friend'a mine... especially since I didn't know she wanted t'be more than friends. My sister hates her now cuz've it too.

If it was an arrow prickin' you in the behind or something, that's sure what it is.

[Goose shrugged.] Plus they're around every year, so you should probably look out for 'em next time. They've given me hell before, too, and...

[Wait. Wait a minute. This situation sounds kind of familiar. Uh. Uhhhhh.]

... That friend of yours. Kind of a shot in the dark here, but her name ain't Dana, ain't she?

[Pause. Vinnie stared at him for a second, brain going tick tick tick registering what the guy just said. How the what. Why did. Huh.

Oh shiitttttt.]

May... be?

You a friend of hers...?

[Well, now this was getting extremely awkward with the idea that this guy was probably that guy. Well, it looked like he was feeling really bad about it, too, so he wasn't going to judge, but... wow.

And here this was the guy that he told Dana he'd punch in the dick or something. Uhm.]

Kinda, yeah. Told me she was feeling bad over a guy and all that after Valentine's, and... yeah. Just kinda made me think of... yeah.

[Awkward shuffle. Shuffleshuffleshuffle.]

[Oh. Well. ~~Fair warning that if there is dick-punching going on, you are getting a serving of poison sludge.~~

But basically the awkwardness was deadly contagious. What was going to happen next, Vinnie didn't know - but he wasn't looking forward to it. If he were in Goose's shoes though, punchings would probably've been involved.]

Oh. Guess that might've been... yeah.

Y-Yeah...

[Hmmm. Maybe not, actually. Considering this was an incident of cupid bots, Goose couldn't say he entirely blamed the guy. He still seemed so guilty, too, and...]

Hey, it's okay. Or somethin'. Cupid bots fucked my shit up too anyway. Not this year, but... right. It's just still kinda... yeah.

[That uneasy feeling? Yeah, it was so thick in the air that not even a Scyther's slashes could possibly slice it.]

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4th bloom

oh goodness

why would you do this to me

because... because it tickles me.

I will tickle you from beyond the grave

oh god ANYTHING BUT THAT NOOOoooo

YOU DESERVE ALL OF THIS

DO I. DO I REALLY.

YES ABSOLUTELY

MAYBE... MAYBE NOT... /roll

COME BACK DAMMAT

/FLEEEEeeeeeee