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[givesyouaboner]

Roxy gave me the most orange kitten ever. She's really cute and fluffy.
I named her Orangina.
Last night she slept on my pillow by Lil' Cal. When school starts, she's coming with me too.

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poor kid

[givesyouaboner]

That'd be really sweet. I can share my markers with you too.
The orange one is my favourite.

Where do you live?
You can totally bunk at our place for a night or two if you need to.
I know Uncle Dirk and Dave really won't care.

he'll get used to it

[spangledplan]

I think I could tell.

I live in Belfast, with my grandparents. I wouldn't want to impose on your family.

eventually

[givesyouaboner]

Are you sure? Because I can always do this.
Though I don't know; Dave might get mad if I use all his ink.

Ireland? I can see how that'd be a bit inconvenient. Clearly that means you should come visit for a few days to make your trip to London worth it.

[spangledplan]

He's capable of losing his cool?

Yeah, and my grandparents aren't really fond of magic things. I might take you up on the offer, if your uncle says it's okay.

[givesyouaboner]

Probably.
To be honest I don't think he'd care, because it's not like it's irreplaceable, and I'd share my markers if he wanted to use them.

I'll ask him later, but go ahead and plan on being able to stay here, broski.

[spangledplan]

He seems to want everyone to believe otherwise. But I suppose that's Dave for you.

Thank you, Dirk.

[givesyouaboner]

I don't know how he tries to come off as to others, but I can assure you that he's always been the coolest person I've known.

No problem.

[spangledplan]

I guess he can be pretty cool. Sometimes he seems more like a huge nerd.

You're a good kid.

[givesyouaboner]

Whaaat?
Like when?
Who says being a nerd is bad, anyway? It just connotates that you like learning.

_{[Have some ink splatter.}
I'm just me.

[spangledplan]

Like pretty much all the time. And it's not a bad thing, but when you call yourself an ironic cool kid don't you think a nerd is the opposite?


You happen to be a good kid, from what I've seen.

[givesyouaboner]

Dave is definitely more coolkid than nerd. It's statistically impossible for it to be any other thing.

I'm at a loss of words.

[spangledplan]

Your statistics might not be true.

Is that a bad thing?

[givesyouaboner]

My statistics are flawless.


I'm not sure.

[spangledplan]

How many tests have you run?

Oh. I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable.

[givesyouaboner]

Enough to know that my research is conclusive. Even factoring in a margin for error, statistics show with 98% accuracy that there is no one cooler than Dave Strider.

It's fine. I'm simply not accustomed to compliments from people outside of family.

[spangledplan]

Not even yourself? You could be cooler than him.

Well you are pretty young. I don't think you get out much, do you?

[givesyouaboner]

No, I don't think so.

I haven't had much of a reason to.

[spangledplan]

You never know that.

Well now you'll be at school and have plenty of reason.

[givesyouaboner]

I would never want to be cooler than him.
I couldn't handle it.

There's that, yes. Even when I was going to school prior to this, that was pretty much it.

[spangledplan]

Are you sure? I think you could.

A Muggle school? They're so different from Hogwarts, but still so similar.

[givesyouaboner]

I'm pretty sure he handles people a lot better than I do.

Yeah. I'm hoping the courses at Hogwarts are more challenging than the ones I've already taken.

[spangledplan]

Well you're a lot younger than he is. You have time.

They can be. Magic can be rather finicky unlike other sciences.

[givesyouaboner]

Maybe. I can't predict the future.

That works. In the end I just stopped going to school during the last month.
It wasn't much of a loss because it was boring anyway.

[spangledplan]

You could take divination classes in third year.

Let's hope magic proves more interesting.

[givesyouaboner]

What.

Seriously. Otherwise I might have to just quit life.