[ somarium ] voicemail

[selfmotivations]

Hey, it's Alvin. Just leave a message and I'll get right back to you.

[ooc: Just label any IC/OOC stuff in the subect line o/]

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[makesitbetter]

Hey, I didn't sign you up for anything. I just told them I'd ask if you would help.

[he just kind of expected Alvin to say yes. Which he did, so... no problem, right??]

[selfmotivations]

One of these days, I'm going to have to teach you how to do a few of these things yourself.

But yeah, I got it.

[makesitbetter]

I wouldn't mind learning.

[If Alvin meant that as a joke, it failed, because Jude's considering it seriously. ...And for entirely the wrong reasons.] I'd love to be able to take some of the machines we have here apart and see how they work, but right now I wouldn't be able to put them back together again.

[selfmotivations]

[he meant it, but more in the "I'm not the only man around the house and I won't be around forever" type deals. so he's not surprised by the first response. the latter however...]

Huh, I never would have pegged you as the type who liked to work with gadgets.

[makesitbetter]

It's not really gadgets in particular. [Although cool technology has its appeal. Those flying ships the Elympion Army has, man.] I just like understanding how things fit together. After all, the human body is the most complex machine we know about, and a doctor can't do very much good without knowing how it runs.

[selfmotivations]

I suppose that's one way to put it. But start small. I don't need to walk in one morning with the stove in pieces.

[makesitbetter]

I don't really want that either. Which is why it'd help if you taught me.

[and then maybe he'd have an actual manly hobby for once?]

[selfmotivations]

[awright, gonna get some awesome bro times.]

Looks like I've acquired a new student. If you want, you could come with me to their place so you can see what to do. Besides I might need an extra hand, and no offense to guy, but that Break fellow looks like he might end up living up to his name if he so much as touched it.

[makesitbetter]

Should I call you 'Professor Alvin'? You might start to live up to that Halloween costume if you aren't careful.

[teasing aside, though.] But sure, I'll come along. Sharon wanted to invite us and Milla for tea, too, but that's probably better for another time.

[As manly as Milla is, she probably falls under the same category as Break when it comes to machinery and it'd be better to leave her out of the repair party.]

[selfmotivations]

Probably. Maybe after we've taken care of the radiator.

Speaking of Milla, though.

[too bad they aren't in person. although he hasn't done it in a while, Alvin would have totally slung his arm around Jude's shoulder for this.]

I think there's something you haven't told me.

[makesitbetter]

[He can feel the arm-over-shoulder maneuver in his heart.]

"Something?" What do you mean?

[He genuinely doesn't understand what Alvin's getting at... yet.]

[selfmotivations]

Oh, something that happened last week. Involving a certain little plant.

[makesitbetter]

[......]

I already told you I was stuck with Milla.

[no he didn't in so many words, but in Jude's mind he did. Milla and mistletoe were in the same sentence okay...]

[selfmotivations]

Yeah, but you didn't tell me you two actually kissed!

1/2

[makesitbetter]

...Huh?

[makesitbetter]

[Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Why is he saying it like that? Is he just trying to get a rise out of him (as usual?) Or does he actually think...]

We did but - on the cheek, Alvin! That doesn't even count for anything.

[never mind that Alvin making it apparently a big deal makes him wonder if that's really true...]

[selfmotivations]

[what. aw, now he's disappointed. MAN all he's been getting about this are misunderstandings. but still there is that grin because still.]

Kiss on the cheek with the person you like? Might not be much, but it's still something. Especially since she gave you not one, but two. [even if it was with a spirit's urging, but details.]

Milla seems to think it meant something at least.

[makesitbetter]

...She does?

[Alvin don't say vague stuff like that, now he has no idea what to think.]

[selfmotivations]

[but saying vague stuff is what he does best. though. he does have to debate on whether telling the kid everything or be mean and have him misunderstand until he asks about himself. he gets the feeling while as funny as the latter would be, it wouldn't be that helpful.

so we'll just go halvsies.]

Well I did ask if it had been her first kiss, and it was.

[makesitbetter]

But it still wasn't because it wasn't a real kiss.

[But does Milla think that too?? Did she mean for that kiss to mean more than he thought? Or is she actually just oblivious to all the implications? He can never tell what she's really thinking when she does these kinds of things.]

[selfmotivations]

But she might not have kissed anyone in any kind of way before.

[makesitbetter]

That's...



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That's... probably true.

[selfmotivations]

You better take responsibility, Jude.

[makesitbetter]

Now you just sound like Teepo.

[selfmotivations]

[laughs.]

Hah, that's right! And I thought I was a player.