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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER

consider this your warning about stairs. itll just keep happening bro. im telling you man

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[windeity]

I don't really know how investments work? And I have a bunch in my savings so whatever. But I'm just thinking for the future and next year and stuff.

[parodeity]

I can help you out with ‘em if you ever want. [ he kind of wants to know what john thinks is “a bunch” but THATS NOSY so he doesn’t ask. ] So what’s your future entail? A fixed car door?

[windeity]

Maybe. I'll let you know, but it couldn't hurt. [Dave doesn't ask and he doesn't tell.] A fixed car door is maybe in the future, but I was thinking more...house rental.

[parodeity]

Oh? When were you thinkin' of moving out?

[windeity]

Summer, obviously. Once the semester is over we can move out, but I would like to have something in place before then.

[parodeity]

[ okay, so it's apparently still we. ]

Then you only need half the funds.

[windeity]

[He perks up.]

You're still up for coming with me then? Our two-story house with rooftops and a study and a garden?

[parodeity]

...You said "we"?

[windeity]

Yeah! Yeah, I know, but...I wasn't sure if you still would want to because of everything?

[parodeity]

[ he raises his eyebrows. ]

Everything bein'?

[windeity]

Nothing bad! Just like...living together as a roommate and as a boyfriend. That's all.

[parodeity]

What do you call what we’re doing now?

[windeity]

...well yeah, okay, it is also that but it didn't start that way? So it's more like being roomed together by someone else instead of us picking on our own will to be together...? [Ah.] Never mind, I am just glad that hasn't changed.

[Is this about limits? Is this about kissing in bed? Who the fuck knows.]

[parodeity]

If either of us really wanted to ditch we could deal with the rooming department.

[windeity]

After the arguments I had with them in the first place? I feel like that is probably not as easy as you make it sound but I get your point. I would prefer not to do that all the same though. Ditch, I mean.

...anyway. [He'll go back to eating.] Natalie and I were talking about the pros and cons of dorms. That is why it came up.

[parodeity]

[ dave does not go back to eating, but goes back to watching john. ]

So what are the pros and cons?

[windeity]

Natalie's pros were not living with her family and having freedom to do stuff whenever and I kind of agree. My pros are living with a bunch of cool people. The cons are that we have zero space, our floormates can be kind of loud sometimes, and we can't have a digital piano or a darkroom.

[This answers pretty much nothing.]

[parodeity]

Dirk actually anticipated me not likin’ it.

[windeity]

Was he right?

[parodeity]

It hasn’t come up yet, exactly. [ a faint frown. ] Not since October.

[windeity]

October was a huge mess for both of us and a lot of other people, I think. [A bit guilty, but.]

[parodeity]

...anyway, no, he wasn’t entirely wrong. Just...maybe not the way you’d think.

[windeity]

Yeah...[He moves then, lightly kicking Dave's foot under the table almost-playfully.] Subject change?

[parodeity]

[ he hooks his foot around john’s ankle and tugs. ]

Usually you have to actually suggest a subject change if you want one. As in, offer one up?

[windeity]

[He jerks forward a little bit he braces himself so he doesn't fall into his food. Thanks Dave.] Did you know apple trees can take up to four years to actually produce fruit?