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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]

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?

[parodeity]

[ an unrepentant innocent look. ] That’s a dumb amount of time to wait.

[windeity]

I know right? What if we don't like the house after four years? We'd have to uproot the dumb thing and take it with us.

[parodeity]

[ wait what ]

You want an apple tree? [ wait ] Four years?

[windeity]

[Welcome to the conversation, Dave.]

I think it could be nice? Just a small one in the yard and stuff.

[parodeity]

[ what!!!! ]

You want to live with me four years from now??

[windeity]

Maybe! I mean yes, in theory, I would like to, but a lot can happen in four years. [Like the end of the world?] But it wouldn't be out of disinterest.

[parodeity]

Unless one of the things to happen in four years was disinterest, anyway.

[windeity]

Give me a little credit, huh? I like to think your personality won't change much in those four years.