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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]

[He just leans into him anyway. The skates are probably carefully bumping against Dave's shoulders.]

Yeah. [It'll make Dave happy and he kind of finds himself excited about it.] Full permission. Gonna be hard to do it in our dorm but we can figure it out.

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I can figure out a location. [ he kisses...the tip of john's nose, then snags the skates and pulls away so he can change into them. ]

Thanks.

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[Rude. But he's grinning like a total idiot anyway and he moves to pull on his own skates.]

Thirty-two days, babe.

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I remember. See, now, you have two things to look forward to. Or more than two? Lots of things.

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You say that like I don't look forward to most things involving you and our friends. But yeah...it's a little exciting.

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D'you have anything you want for your birthday in particular, btw?

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I haven't really thought of specific presents if that's what you mean. I think you know my tastes by now though.

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I hope they do a couple skate. [ RANDOMLY. ]

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Why do you think I brought you here? [Wry. Dave plz. It's a mirror ball and neon lights and cheesy music and couple skates.]

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Because this is entirely your jam, and you can't tell me otherwise? [ hope john has his skates on because dave does and he's ready to go?? ] And you're pretty much the best boyfriend. In the boyfriend olympics I would be willin' to bet you'd take the gold medal.

[windeity]

[Another laugh. Yeah okay he super can't tell him otherwise. John has his skates and their in tuxes and heading out to the rink.]

You don't understand baseball but you understand how the Olympics work. Consider me swooning. [He holds out a hand.] Ready?

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Well, yeah, because it's like gold-silver-bronze. That's it, right? Or is there some kind of extra trophy?? [ but he slides his hand into john's. ] Ready.

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That's how that goes, yeah. [Let's not talk about the Olympics. He pulls on Dave's hand and to the multicolored rink they go. SKATING!!]

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Do you want to have a boyfriend olympics?? [ no what if we combine both activities ]

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Who would we even enter in said-boyfriend olympics? [Why the fuck does he humor Dave all the time. Why? At least it's easy to skate in circles and have a stupid conversation.]

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...Ummm. I'm sure there are sports. Made up sports. What are some boyfriend activities, go.

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Making out? [No.] Uh. Dates, obviously. Flowers?

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[ ...okay he's kind of. laughing. ] I like how makin' out is literally the first thing out of your mouth. Trying to tell me something?

[ he is laughing at john, yes ]

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That we did a lot of boyfriend kind of stuff before we were even dating? [A hipcheck because wow, don't laugh!!] And also I like making out with you or whatever.

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Well. At least we didn't decide to date other people while basically datin', I guess? [ this time around or whatever WHATEVER and dave just hipchecks john back.

his is less effective probably. ]

And yeah maybe I like makin' out with you, too, but somehow I think we'd just end up useless if we tried a scoring system?

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Yeah, thanks for that. [He shakes his head and he sort of spins them in a circle.] ...you know this just means I really want to try a scoring system now right?

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If you want to write up a scoring system with points or whatever I will selflessly commit part of a day to testing it out with you.

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I do have a whiteboard I'm not really using. I bet we could figure it out and test it on one of our Saturdays. It'd be fun. [And stupid. But fun.]

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But we'd have to decide on a grand prize?

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Besides something over-the-top like an all-expenses-paid trip to Disneyland?